Which statement about disulfide bridges is FALSE?
A) Disulfide bridges are found in the tertiary structure of a protein.
B) Disulfide bridges can occur between nonadjacent, and even distant, amino acids.
C) Disulfide bridges are covalent bonds.
D) Reducing a disulfide bridge gives two thiols.
E) A disulfide bridge is weaker than a hydrogen bond.

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Disulfide bridges are covalent bonds formed between the sulfur atoms of two cysteine amino acids, making them much stronger than hydrogen bonds, which are based on electrostatic attractions between molecules or within different parts of a molecule.

Which Statement About Disulfide Bridges Is FALSE