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Amino acids
Author: hillmar
Text: What is the minimum number of amino acids it takes to form a
single protein?
Response #: 1 of 1
Author: Jim Murray
Text: There are natural dimers of amino acids. A protein is a chain of
amino acids of any length. Sometimes people would rather call short chains
"polypeptides", but length is relative. One amino acid would not really be
called a protein but single amino acids can have natural biological functions
as well; such as the neurotransmitters, glycine and glutamate.
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