Today, I was working in Stone D with my lipids group on our exam question re-dos, when I saw three Wellesley students get up from their table holding hands and wind their way through the dining hall tables. Being tired and biochemistry-absorbed, my first thought was that their hands were like peptide bonds, and they were like a polypeptide moving in solution (air)! We thought this was funny.
(I’m isoglutamate. This will make more sense after you read Part II and III!)
Biochemistry has really infiltrated our daily lives! Even simple acts of holding other people hands has turned into bond formation. Relating to this (although not completely accurate, when we hold someone else’s hand, the way you have to rearrange your hands to the correct orientation, that kind reminds of the condensation process to form the bond through a sort of rearrangement (although we don’t lose any fingers in the process like we lose a water molecule)!