2-mercaptoethanol is a chemical agent used in denaturing proteins. Its primary method of denaturing involves separating disulfide bonds. Based on this method of denaturation, what is the lowest level of protein structure affected by 2-mercaptoethanol?

Formation of a disulfide bond is what type of reaction?

Which of the following is not a component of tertiary structure?

In a soluble protein that resides in the cytoplasm, where is the majority of the nonpolar amino acids found in its three-dimensional structure?

Which of the following does not stabilize the tertiary structure of a protein?

Which of the following statements are true about protein structure?

What is the overall folding of one protein subunit called?

Which of the following statements are true about protein domains?

I. Polypeptide chains longer than 200 amino acids in length have multiple domains.

II. Domains are tertiary structural components of proteins.

III. Different domains are encoded by different exons of a gene.

IV. Each domain in a protein has a specific function.