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For this question, we're going to consider a hypothetical drug.
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Well, i'd say it's this red capsule right here.
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And we're going to think about why pharmaceutical companies might put charge groups on it.
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Let's say something, structure with a negative charge or positive charge, or on the other hand, they could add a non -charge non -polar group, like a methyl group, which has the formula of ch3.
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And you seem kind of pointless that they don't, in fact, impact the drug's performance, but they do have an important structural function.
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So we need to remember that our body has proteins and receptors that receive these drugs.
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That's how they're brought into our bloodstream and into our system.
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And these proteins are coded by a list of amino acids.
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Let's just say it's a random list of amino acids.
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And that is folded to a complex shape...