[Quantumcat (OP)]

Someone asked me, I've forgotten, I was sure there was a name for them when they're just a chain fresh out of a ribosome but not yet tangled into a protein. Is there really a name for it? Perhaps I am deluding myself? I am sure I remember there being a name ... hrm

[cuso4]

It's a polypeptide. The bonds between the amino acids are called peptide bonds.

[Quantumcat (OP)]

yay! that is exactly the word I was after ^_^