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What does protein do for you?

Protein is necessary for the building and repair of body tissues. * It produces enzymes, hormones, and other substances the body uses. * It regulates body processes, such … (MORE)

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What is protein?

Protein consists of small molecules called amino acids, joined together into long molecules called polypeptides. Each polypeptide has a very specific sequence of amino aci… (MORE)

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What does proteins a do?

Proteins' main functions are: Growth, repair and maintenance of body structure and tissue. Maintain normal pH in body. Aid insulin production As a energy source in lack … (MORE)

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What is protein in?

Generally everything, but i suppose your question is more concerned with what has the greatest concentration of protein in. The general rule of thumb is that protein is biolog… (MORE)

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What does the protein do?

Protein we ingest is unfolded and broken down into its constituent amino acids. These amino acids are then used to make new protein that the body needs. This is why body… (MORE)

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What is a protein?

A protein is a nutrient that supplies the body with energy for building and repairing tissue and cells. From Wikipedia.com: Proteins are large organic compounds made of a…mino acids arranged in a linear chain and joined together by peptide bonds between the carboxyl and amino groups of adjacent amino acid residues. The sequence of amino acids in a protein is defined by a gene and encoded in the genetic code. Although this genetic code specifies 20 "standard" amino acids plus selenocysteine and - in certain archaea - pyrrolysine, the residues in a protein are sometimes chemically altered in post-translational modification. This can happen either before the protein is used in the cell, or as part of control mechanisms. Proteins can also work together to achieve a particular function, and they often associate to form stable complexes.[1] Like other biological macromolecules such as polysaccharides and nucleic acids, proteins are essential parts of organisms and participate in every process within cells. Many proteins are enzymes that catalyze biochemical reactions and are vital to metabolism. Proteins also have structural or mechanical functions, such as actin and myosin in muscle and the proteins in the cytoskeleton, which form a system of scaffolding that maintains cell shape. Other proteins are important in cell signaling, immune responses, cell adhesion, and the cell cycle. Proteins are also necessary in animals' diets, since animals cannot synthesize all the amino acids they need and must obtain essential amino acids from food. Through the process of digestion, animals break down ingested protein into free amino acids that are then used in metabolism. The word protein comes from the Greek word πρώτειος (proteios) "primary". Proteins were first described and named by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius in 1838. However, the central role of proteins in living organisms was not fully appreciated until 1926, when James B. Sumner showed that the enzyme urease was a protein.[2] The first protein to be sequenced was insulin, by Frederick Sanger, who won the Nobel Prize for this achievement in 1958. The first protein structures to be solved included hemoglobin and myoglobin, by Max Perutz and Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, respectively, in 1958.[3][4] The three-dimensional structures of both proteins were first determined by x-ray diffraction analysis; Perutz and Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for these discoveries "Protein." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 7 Dec 2008, 14:33 UTC. 8 Dec 2008 . Or large moleculesthat contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sometimes sulfur Proteins can be defined as a nitrogenous compound composed of one or long chains of amino acids. (MORE)

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Where do you get protein from?

We get protein from various foods like meat, fish, chicken , milk products, soya bean, eggs, salads etc.

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What do proteins do?

Proteins serve in two major roles. Some of them make up part of the structure of our bodies. Others are enzymes. An enzyme is a protein that works like a tool. It helps a part… (MORE)

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Where can you get protein?

You can get protein from meat and egg. Egg has the protein albumin in it.

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How do you get proteins?

Combination of amino acids made and connected in specific order by ribosomes. There are 20 amino acids, 8 necessary, and 12 unnecessary (body produces by itself). The only foo… (MORE)

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