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N- or C-terminal

The amino acids which form polypeptides are joined by peptide bonds between the amino group of one amino acid and the carboxy group of the next. Therefore each polypeptide has a free amino group at one end (N-terminal) and a free carboxy group at the other (C-terminal).
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