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I was wondering about that too. It seems that peptide bonds are endothermic and hydrophobic as well, so the bonding process would require an input of energy. And if there was water present it would have been even more difficult... How many different amino acids need to assemble in the proper...

In nature, do right and left handed amino acids act like magnets in that right and left bind more readily than left + left or right + right? Do amino acids bind with each other, creating functional proteins without the help of other molecules/catalysts? At what temperatures/pressures does...