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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

The Levinthal Paradox 3

Finally, I would like to probe a little deeper into the Levinthal Paradox .
Here is a little bit more information about proteins.

"A typical protein contains 200–300 amino acids but some are much smaller (the smallest are often called peptides) and some much larger (the largest to date is titin a protein found in skeletal and cardiac muscle; it contains 26,926 amino acids in a single chain!)."
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Proteins.html

According to this author "typical" proteins are 2 to 3 times larger than the 100 amino acid protein mentioned in our first post. It seems this would make them "typically" at least 2 or 3 times harder to assemble.

But most amazingly, the largest protein known to man contains 26,926 amino acids in a single chain!! If a 100 amino acid chain is so difficult to form...what are the "chances" that 26,926 amino acids are going to spontaneously arrange themselves.

There aren't enough monkeys or typewriters in the universe to create anything that huge. (see previous posts)

As I said before many times, the more you dig into this subject the more you find you are not being told the truth...

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