Timeline for How is it known that proteins are polymers of amino acids?
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| May 17 at 8:18 | comment | added | tomd | It wasn't always accepted that proteins are linear polymers of amino acids. A competing theory, the (now discredited) cyclol hypothesis due mainly to Dorothy Wrinch held (some) sway until the 1950s, Dorothy Hodgkin being a major debunker. | |
| May 3 at 14:14 | answer | added | matt_black | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 3 at 6:38 | answer | added | Buck Thorn♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 1 at 13:15 | comment | added | powerful_bob | To all: I know there is a difference between how this fact was discovered versus how it can be verified now. I don’t care how it was discovered, and I only went down this path because I don’t know X-ray or any other analysis. But if you have X-ray or NMR or other data that shows this I will be glad to look! | |
| May 1 at 10:50 | comment | added | matt_black | There is a difference between how we discovered that proteins are largely amino acid polymers and how we can now observe that this is what they are. You describe the process of discovery but we can now observe many complete protein structures from high resolution X-ray analysis of their crystal structures. | |
| May 1 at 7:21 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 1 at 1:21 | answer | added | Karsten♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 1 at 0:07 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 30 at 23:20 | history | asked | powerful_bob | CC BY-SA 4.0 |