Medical Definition of Disulphide bond
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The S S linkage. A linkage formed between the SH groups of two cysteine moieties either within or between peptide chains.
Each cysteine then becomes a half cystine residue. S S linkages stabilise, but do not determine, secondary structure in proteins. They are easily disrupted by SH groups in an exchange reaction and are not present in cytosolic proteins (cytosol has a high concentration of glutathione that has a free SH residue).
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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