This greatly reduces errors in polypeptide chain elongation, and is therefore highly favored by natural selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Always finish what you start…] Reference

For awhile I was studying up on the presence of d-aa in polypeptide chains, with these peptides being produced biotically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Always finish what you start…] Reference

A larger number of these amino acids combined are called a polypeptide or protein, and these are chemically active in making a living being.    From Wordnik.com.  [DNA seen through the eyes of a coder « Isegoria] Reference

It is the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Note, this is the probability of any homochiral polypeptide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chirality of life: Another false positive? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Hershko, A. (1978) A heat-stable polypeptide component of an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further Reading - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004] Reference

Warburg's early researches with Fischer were in the polypeptide field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Otto Warburg - Biography] Reference

There are digestive juices that produce polypeptide hormones in the blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Our antibodies are made up of two sorts of polypeptide chains, short and long ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987 - Presentation Speech] Reference

The soluble protein/polypeptide ratio was found to be relatively constant after I month.    From Wordnik.com.  [17 Using Mixed Starter Cultures for Thai Nham] Reference

Another stem cell cream utilizes a polypeptide to stimulate stem cells into differentiating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference

The scientists are demonstrating amino acids and polypeptide chains created by natural means.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Primordial Soup' Ousted from the Origin of Life?!? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

It turned out, however, that the synthetic polypeptide was identical with the natural product.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 - Presentation Speech] Reference

But T-urf13 is more than a nondescript polypeptide that happens to affect male fertility in corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the evolution of Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Smith, a former blood bank technologist, replaced him and set about purifying the Rh polypeptide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Agre - Autobiography] Reference

None of them have been as well studied as secretin, but all are believed to be polypeptide in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

This means that the T-urf13 polypeptide must possess interfaces that mediate protein-protein interactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the evolution of Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

It has led you to many important discoveries and recently to the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 - Presentation Speech] Reference

If polypeptide hormones bring about the production of digestive juices, the compliment is, in a way, returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Where the number is more than a dozen or so but less than a hundred, the chain is a polypeptide ( "many-peptide" G).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

The molecule of insulin is a polypeptide, as are those of the gastrointestinal hormones, but it is more complicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

SRP dissociates from the receptor and the nascent polypeptide chain is translocated through the channel into the ER lumen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999] Reference

Katz-Etzion, R., and Hershko, A. (1981) "Activation of the heat-stable polypeptide of the ATP-dependent proteolytic system".    From Wordnik.com.  [Further Reading - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004] Reference

The ability of a polypeptide to function in specific ways depends on the linear sequence of amino acids of which it is formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molecular Genetics] Reference

It seems likely however from this and other unpublished evidence that the amino end of the polypeptide chain corresponds to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Francis Crick - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Dintzis4 that the amino acids are assembled into the polypeptide chain in a linear order, starting at the amino end of the chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Francis Crick - Nobel Lecture] Reference

One hypothesis suggested, that in this genome there exist one gene responsible for each type of polypeptide chain in the antibody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology or Medicine 1987 - Press Release] Reference

In 1978 the researchers reported that the active component of one fraction was a heat-stable polypeptide with a molecular weight of only.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 - Information for the Public] Reference

Its molecular weight, as it is formed, may be about 10,000; this would mean that its polypeptide chain could contain nearly a hundred amino acids.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

With a complex molecule, say a complex saccharide, polypeptide, or DNA the electrons are arranged in what I can only describe in more “artistic” systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask] Reference

And finally, a recent development from the translational field is that a ribosome can manage to translate two different messenger RNAs into one single polypeptide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gene] Reference

The small fragments are polypeptide hormones capable of stimulating the contraction of smooth muscle under some conditions and its relaxation under other conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

“Gene” is the process (i.e., the course of events) that binds together DNA and all other relevant non-DNA entities in the production of a particular polypeptide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molecular Genetics] Reference

Having said that secretin is a polypeptide hormone, the next step, logically, would be to decide which amino acids are to be found in its molecule and how many of each.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

By 1953 glucagon had been prepared in pure crystalline form and was easily shown to be a polypeptide with a molecule made up of a single chain containing 29 amino acids.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

How do amino terminal and C-terminal ends of polypeptide chain provide info on the protein?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference