Do you know anything interesting about proteins, user?
I know one:
>Nitrogenase has Calcium in its molecular structure, however Calcium is also used as an inhibitor of Nitrogenase
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Carson Torres
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Dylan Thompson
A single nucleotide polymorphism is the difference between regular heme and sickle cell heme.
Jordan Ward
Simple (small) proteins are not the fastest proteins to fold per se.
David Anderson
The common notion of proteins as rigid entities is wrong. They are in constant dynamic motion.
Jaxson Torres
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Kevin Cook
Too lazy to visualize other proteins, but here's a fact about this protein
>Myoglobin is related to Hemoglobin. However Hemoglobin has 4 hemes where as Myoglobin is only 1 heme.
>Myoglobin is about 24-25 times more effective than Hemoglobin because myoglobin stores oxygen, whereas hemoglobin carries it
Christian Thompson
Protein folding is a spontaneous process which begins in the ribosomal exit tunnel.
'Spontaneous' meaning that folding relies solely upon:
>amino acid sequence
>chemical environment of the ribosomal exit tunnel (during folding)
>chemical environment outside of the ribosomal exit tunnel (after folding)
There aren't any robots that put together proteins. They fold themselves!
Logan Johnson
Aren't there cofactors that "guide" the folding into a certain tertiary (or quartenary) structure?
Ian Morris
what are you using to visualize them?
Daniel Nguyen
Jmol, it's a neat and easy program to use. You need java to run it though. If you're looking for a specific protein to visualize use the official PDB (Protein Data Bank) website