Rough ER, which is associated with ribosomes, functions in the synthesis and processing of secreted and membrane proteins

Smooth ER, which lacks ribosomes, functions in lipid synthesis.

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Disulfide bonds are believed to increase the stability of the native state by decreasing the conformational entropy of the unfolded state due to the conformational constraints imposed by cross-linking (i. e. decreasing the free energy of the unfolded state).  

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Most protein have "loops" introduced by disulfides of about 15 residues

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Guanidinium ion and urea are chaotropic agents which disrupts hydrophobic core of proteins.

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