What Determines the Function of a Protein Apex?
The Function of a Protein Determined by:
The shape determines the working of a protein.
The role of a protein is utterly dependent on its three-dimensional architecture (other than when it caters as food). This framework may be disturbed by a number of agents thereby denaturing the protein:
- Variations in the pH (between charged amino acids the electrostatic interactions are changed).
- difference in concentration of salt (does the same).
- temperature change (higher temperatures decrease the strength of hydrogen bonds).
- reduction agent presence (disruption of S-S bonds among cysteines).