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Polypeptide chain, precursor to protein. The chain of amino acid itself is not enough to be a functional protein, so it must go through additional changes before it can be functional. The chain may be cut into pieces (proteolysis), have carbohydrates attached to it (glycosylation) or have phosphate groups attached to it (phosphorylation).

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