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An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry

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3 • Protein structure<br />

In order <strong>to</strong> understand how drugs interact with proteins, it is necessary <strong>to</strong> understand<br />

their structure.<br />

Proteins have four levels of structure—primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary.<br />

3.1 The primary structure of proteins

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