Imagine a cellular protein composed of 3000 amino acid residues in one continuous polypeptide chain. This protein is almost certainly …

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This large size is about ten times that of an average protein and about thirty times that of an average protein domain. Such a protein is extremely unlikely to constitute a single domain or have an overall globular shape. Although proteins have disordered regions, it is not likely that such a large protein is entirely disordered either. Many large multidomain proteins are mostly made up of β sheets.

Imagine a Cellular Protein Composed of 3000 Amino Acid Residues