Transcript Hydrolysis of the peptide bond

Hydrolysis of the peptide bond
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The peptide bond holds two
amino acid ‘residues’ together.
It is a flat, rigid group
A water molecule reacts with
this group
The two amino acids form or, if
the peptide bond is somewhere
in a long peptide chain, two
smaller peptide molecules are
formed
R2
R1
H2O
NH
O
NH2
HO
O
R2
R1
OH
H2N
O
NH2
HO
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