"Continental Classroom - A Course in Modern Chemistry" 1960. A production of the National Broadcasting Company and the Learning Resources Institute
in cooperation with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and
the American Chemical Society.
Folding Polypeptide Chains. (0:56)
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Linus Pauling: Even if we knew the nature of every amino acid in the polypeptide chains of hemoglobin,
we would not know the whole story about the hemoglobin molecule because the chains,
we know, are not loose jointed. They are not just wiggling around inside the red cell.
Instead, they are folded back-and-forth in a well-defined configuration which is retained
by the molecule until it is destroyed when the red cell is finally broken up after
it has lived its useful life of a few months. The question as to how the polypeptide
chains in proteins are folded is one that has interested me, especially, during the
last twenty-three years, twenty-four years, since 1937 when I first began work on
it.
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Creator: Linus Pauling Clip ID: 1960v.37-06
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Creator: Linus Pauling Associated: John F. Baxter, National Broadcasting Company
