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the double bond of the carbonyl oxygen moves to the oxygen. As a result, a tetrahedral intermediate is generated.
*The bond joining the nitrogen and the carbon in the peptide bond is now broken. The covalent electrons creating this bond move to attack the hydrogen of the histidine, breaking the connection. The electrons that previously moved from the carbonyl oxygen double bond move back from the negative oxygen to recreate the bond, generating

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