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What is a peptide bond?

What is a peptide bond? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) An amide bond formed between the amino and carboxyl functional groups of separate amino acids.
  2. (biochemistry) The primary linkage of amino acids in proteins.
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Cyanogen bromide, on the other hand, cuts the peptide bond on the C-ter side of methionine.
Trypsin cleaves the peptide bond on the C-ter side of the amino acids lysine and arginine.
This partial double bond character of the peptide bond means that rotation around the C-N bond is not possible, and the CO and NH atoms will be in the same plane.
The peptide bond is very stable, its spontaneous hydrolysis is almost nil, but it can be hydrolysed by chemical or enzymatic.
The far-UV region CD spectrum reflects the circular dichroism of peptide bond.
This indicates extraordinary peptidase stability of the peptide bond in cyclic dipeptides.

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