That doesn’t seem like the right analogy. The bonds are forced to fold over themselves because electrons repel each other and don’t want to touch. So the natural structures are mostly tetrahedral structures. Think of the vertices of a tetrahedron having edges that shoot towards and meet at the centre and you will see that these form 109° angles. When you imagine a bunch of these connected, you will see that they all start folding over themselves and will need to take up the same space which, is not possible because the electrons will repel. So you get distortions and all kinds of stuff to push them away and then it’s all complicated by a bunch of weak forces. The primary thing giving structure is this long string of covalent bonds.
Also, “forces in the lipid layer surrounding cells” are not proteins
Remmelt, if you wish, I’m happy to operationalize a bet. I think you’re wrong.