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5. A protein has a molecular weight of 200 kD. On treatment with urea, two bands of 100kD and 50kD are obtained in SDS PAGE.

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Urea disrupts the non covalent bonds between different polypeptide chains and mercaptowthanol reduces disulfide linkages. So the above mentioned data reveals that the protein consists of four polypeptide chains two each of 50 KD and other two of 40 and 60 KD.

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