The structural variations that can happen in a protein after translation to make it function appropriately are:
• Folding – In the cytoplasm it partakes chaperonin protein that will aid to fold the protein into a purposeful shape. The hydrogen bonds will form to create secondary protein and disulfide bonds will form tertiary structure and hydrogen bonds.
• Cleavage – The activation into a purposeful protein over cleavage of certain amino acid sequences in which the amino acid order can fold to form the secondary or tertiary structure.
• Chemical Modification – A method of chemically responding a protein or nucleic acid with chemical components.
• Elaboration – In particulars of folding, chaperones, kinds of bonds, the role of Golgi, combination into current molecular arrays. Etc.