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Many extra-cellular proteins exhibit an additional tertiary feature, the disulphide bond. This is a covalent linkage made during the folding process between sulphur atoms from cysteine residues which lie close in space[Freedman, 1995]. They are particularly common in proteins, such as snake and scorpion toxins, which are too small to have a well defined hydrophobic core, where they are important for stability.