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JEE Advanced · Chemistry · 29. Biomolecules

A tetrapeptide has -COOH group on alanine. This produces glycine (Gly), Valine (Val), Phenyl alanine (Phe) and Alanine (Ala) on complete hydrolysis. For this tetrapeptide, the number of possible sequences (primary structures) with -NH2 group attached to a chiral center is 

  1. A 2
  2. B 4
  3. C 6
  4. D 8
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(B) 4

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Following combinations are possible for tetrapeptide:
Val - Phe - Gly - Ala Val - Gly - Phe - Ala Phe - Gly - Val - Gly Phe - Val - Gly - Ala
In all above sequences, C-terminal is alanine.
Glycine is optically inactive amino acid,  it can not be N-terminal. Hence, only above combinations are possible.
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