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As I suggested at Talk:Carboxy-Terminal Domain, I think these two articles should be merged. I would actually prefer the title C-terminus as main article as it appears to be the most common form out of the three in scientific literature on PubMed. Currently, it redirects here. There's potential for content expansion, e.g. there are C-terminal signals and mechanisms common to groups of proteins (ER retrieval signals (KDEL), GPI anchors and C-terminal prenylation for post-translational membrane insertion, for example). - tameeria03:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm suggesting to move this page to C-terminus. The reason for that is that C-terminus is the preferred term in textbooks and scientific literature. I did a PubMed search and came up with the following hits for C-terminus and its variations:
I think it would be useful to explain the structure of an amino acid and how that correlates with the N-terminus and C-terminus. All amino acids are comprised of an amino, carboxylic acid, hydrogen, alpha carbon and an R group. The N terminus is from the amino and C terminus is from the carboxylic acid. Maybe this would be useful to include? Xena741 (talk) 08:26, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Why would the image depicting an tetrapeptide be written from C-N-terminus?[edit]
In the introductory text it specifies that a peptide chain is most commonly written from the N-terminus too the C-terminus. Although the picture of the tetrapeptide is depicted and written from C-N?