What is the N-terminal end of a protein?

1 Answer

Answer :

In a protein, at one end there will be one free al-

pha amino group. This end is called the amino

terminal (N-terminal) end and the amino acid con-

tributing the ?-amino group is named as the first

amino acid.

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