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What is a polypeptide?

What is a polypeptide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) Any polymer of (same or different) amino acids joined via peptide bonds.
  2. (biochemistry) Any such polymer that is not folded into a secondary structure of a protein.
  3. (biochemistry) A small protein containing up to 100 amino acids; see also oligopeptide.
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Almost 50 years ago, the author noted that the rotatory dispersion of unfolded polypeptide chains depends on the concentration of denaturants.
The first separation is achieved by isoelectric focusing that separates protein polypeptide chains according to amino acid composition.
One such intervention involves the intravenous injection of secretin, a gastrointestinal polypeptide.
It is a basic protein with a single polypeptide chain and acts on cellular and model lipid membranes.
The LDL receptor is a polypeptide of 839 amino acids that spans the plasma membrane.
Vertebrate hemoglobins are tetrameric molecules comprised of two distinct polypeptide chains.

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