Are enzymes tertiary proteins?
1 Answer
Jul 27, 2018
It would depend.
Explanation:
It would completely depend on the enzyme we're considering. Some are only monomeric (e.g. trypsin), some contain several subunits which interact to form a quaternary structure.
Proteins' tertiary structures are how amino acid sequences fold in three-dimensional space to a free-energy minimum.
In the case of trypsin, a serine protease, we could say the enzyme only has a tertiary structure. However, I would wager that there are more proteins with quaternary structures.
