Macromolecule Monday

Today's Macromolecule Monday has an Easter theme with delicious and useful Ovalbumin.

As usual, rendered in Pymol, Coordinates from the PDB courtesy of :

Crystal structure of uncleaved ovalbumin at 1.95 A resolution., Stein PE, Leslie AG, Finch JT, Carrell RW, J Mol Biol. 1991 Oct 5;221(3):941-59. PMID:1942038

Macromolecule Monday

BFF hemoglobin!!! (Deoxy conformation).

Uploaded to the PDB by Brucker, E.A.

Caption by (I really need to get out of the lab more, halp!)

And yes, I belatedly realized that last week's macromolecule is much more appropriate for today. Oh well. Happy St. Pats! Go drink something green.

MacroMolecule Monday

This is most college students' savior : Alcohol Dehydrogenase.

Please don't fire me for the bad pun in the post title.

Rendered in PyMol, caption by sleep deprivation.

Coordinates downloaded from the PDB, courtesy of :

Al-Karadaghi, S., Cedergren-Zeppezauer, E.S., Hovmoller, S. (1994) Refined crystal structure of liver alcohol dehydrogenase-NADH complex at 1.8 A resolution. Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.D 50: 793-807

The face of an obsession

Pretty, isn't she? This is my baby. My abusive love-hate relationship, my zen meditation, my object of worship. I rendered the image above in PyMOL, using the crystal coordinates provided by a previous graduate student. I like her best all goth-punked like this, but She Who Advises Me always insists on boring color schemes for posters and talks. So this image is my little act of rebellion. Showing her to the world in her goth-punk best. Like Spike unto Buffy in Season 5, I obsess for hours, but she beats the crap out of me on a regular basis. Why am I so scorned? Yet, I am the only one she really trusts... I have taken her places she has never been before.