{"id":616,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:18:33","slug":"protein-peptide-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Protein Peptide Bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">An amino acid is a small molecule with an amine group (NH2) at one end and a carboxylic acid (COOH) group at the other end. The <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><a style=\"color: #ffd700;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peptide_bond\">peptide bonds<\/a><\/span> formed between these groups create chains, or polymers, of amino acids.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A peptide bond is a covalent bond that is formed between two molecules when the carboxyl group of one molecule reacts with the amino group of the another molecule, releasing a molecule of water. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This is a condensation reaction and usually occurs between amino acids. The resulting CO-NH bond is called a peptide bond, and the resulting molecule is an <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">amide<\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Proteins are complex chains of amino acids, <a href=\"?p=694\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">linked together by peptide bonds<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/peptide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=625\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amino acid is a small molecule with an amine group (NH2) at one end and a carboxylic acid (COOH) group at the other end. The peptide bonds formed between these groups create chains, or polymers, of amino acids.\u00a0 A peptide bond is a covalent bond that is formed between two molecules when the carboxyl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9835,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/9835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}