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Proteins

"Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Linear POLYPEPTIDES that are synthesized on RIBOSOMES and may be further modified, crosslinked, cleaved, or assembled into complex proteins with several subunits. The specific sequence of AMINO ACIDS determines the shape the polypeptide will take, during PROTEIN FOLDING, and the function of the protein.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Proteins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Proteins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 599 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 38 publications in 2005
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