Category Archives: Molecular structures

Walking the cellular highways

We know for some time, how the cellular transporters directed towards the periphery (kinesins, the red ones in the animation below) are walking their (microtubule) cellular highways… Continue reading

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Molecular Cages

The molecular cages visualized below have been described by Liu et al in Science, volume 322, page 436… Continue reading

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RNA-Quadruplex – the dance of the guanines

RNA-molecules form a variety of different structures and here is one of the more unusual ones: a quadruplex formed by the interaction of guanines form four different stretches of the molecule… Continue reading

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Hydrophobic core

Proteins soluble in water in general contain hydrophobic amino acids in the internal, core regions and… Continue reading

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Substrate binding

This post will focus on the substrate binding pocket of the cellulase introduced recently… Continue reading

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The true nature of proteins

In the following postings I will explore some possibilities of the raytracing program Pov-ray to visualize protein structures… Continue reading

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