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Nature Structural Biology  4, 424 - 427 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nsb0697-424

Nature's transitory covalent bond

Ronald T. Raines1

1Ronald T. Raines is with the Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1569 USA. e- mail: raines@biochem.wisc.edu

The chemistry of sulphur enables a disulphide bond to be transitory—guiding the proper folding of a protein, but not appearing in the native structure.

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