During the operation he did not fail to utter comminations which , though broken , had a sense in them ; while stigmatizing me as the treacherous spawn of a perfidious country , he , in the same breath , anathematized Zoraide Reuter ; he termed her  femme sotte et vicieuse ,  who , in a fit of lewd caprice , had thrown herself away on an ...
The tertiary structure of a protein is a description of the complex and irregular folding of the peptide chain in three dimensions. It is essentially a picture of what the shape of the entire protein actually looks like. Examples are shown in the following ribbon figure of human growth hormone.
The tertiary structure is what controls the basic function of the protein. Quaternary structure: the structure formed by several protein molecules (polypeptide chains), usually called protein subunits in this context, which function as a single protein complex. Proteins are not entirely rigid molecules.