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What is quaternary structure of proteins?
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Answer
→Some of the proteins are compose of two or more polypeptide chains referred to as sub-units. The spatial arrangement of these subunits with respect to each other is known as quaternary structure.
→e.g. haemoglobin
→e.g. haemoglobin
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