Here we report that this picture does not hold generally: a hydrogen bond network involving two ... while the remainder of the polypeptide chain is largely unstructured. Comparison with data ...

Figure 1: The crystal structure of the wild type metastable intertwined dimer (Cα trace, one polypeptide chain green ... designed to form an ionic bond with Arg 87 from the opposite domain ...

After translation, the polypeptide is finally folded into the correct shape and becomes a protein. Peptide bonds form between the adjacent amino acids to finalise the structure.