The researchers realized that the proteins have what they call "sacrificial" bonds that break before the entire molecule does.
The entire molecule has a net neutral charge and is a zwitterion.
To accomplish this, it was synthesized in eight separate parts and then joined together to form the entire molecule.
It might even fold the entire molecule up in knots.
Unlike linear molecules, circular chromosomes are able to replicate the entire molecule.
They believe the remaining five patients will also have flaws in the gene when the entire molecule is scrutinized.
The entire molecule is regulated by only one regulatory region which contains the origins of replication of both heavy and light strands.
Sequences are presented from the 5' to 3' end and determine the covalent structure of the entire molecule.
In 1881, they established that the absorption bands were associated with groups of atoms in the molecules rather than the entire molecule.
Fragments had been synthesized before, but even so, assembling the entire molecule was no simple feat.