Chemical structure

Amino Acids
Proteins are build up by amino acids. Proteins consists of long chains of amino acids wich are connected with peptide bonds. This bond forms water, wich is essential when reversing the reaction. The general structure of amino acids is the same even though there are many different amino acids. The characteristics of the protein are dependent on the order of the amino acids in the chain and not the different types of amino acids. This way only few amino acids can create a lot of different proteins when only changing the order

Essential Amino Acids

Primary Structure

The linear bonding is called the primary structure, while the