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There is a great degree of variability in the number of amino acids per protein. An answer to another question on WikiAnswers lists the shortest protein as 8 amino acids. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the longest protein found in a sequenced genome is a "parallel beta-helix repeat-containing protein" in the organism Chlorobium chlorochromatii, this protein is 36,805 amino acids long.

A protein may consist of as many as 5,000 amino acid molecules.

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