For my molecule of the month research I looked at the catabolite activator protein and DNA ligase. I chose the catabolite activator protein because I thought it was really pretty. I liked the symmetry that it had and the variation between textures in the molecule. I chose DNA ligase because it was a familiar and important enzyme from my biology classes.
Protein artists
- 2010 Protein Portraits in the news
- Alissa Eckert
- Bathsheba Grossman
- Byron Rubin
- David Goodsell
- Drew Berry
- Gael McGill
- Irina Bezsonova
- Irving Geis
- Jane Richardson
- Janet Iwasa
- Jenny Langley
- Julian Voss-Andreae
- Mara Haseltine
- Mike Tyka
- PDBe Exhibits
- Protein art by May_k
- Roger Armen
- Steve Miller
- Wunderkammer crochet
Protein science
- AlphaFold
- AlphaFold: How to predict structures
- AlphaFold: Tutorial
- David Baker
- David Goodsell's Molecule of the Month
- DeepMind
- Domain classification: CATH
- Domain classification: SCOP
- Folding at home
- Foldit
- Jane Richardson modeling
- Perkins: History of Molecular Representation Part 2
- Protein Spotlight (SIB)
- Protein structure hierarchy
- RCSB PDB: Search the protein databank
- The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED)
Studio tricks and materials
Viral artistry
- 2015 Year of the Phage
- Ann Kiernan for The Washington Post
- Bad news wrapped in protein
- Corona virus mandala
- Goodsell CoV-2
- Illustration by Nicholas Konrad
- SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein- 2D illustration
- SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein-Macarroni models
- SARS-CoV-2 spike protein models, space filling, by David Veesler
- Sean McSorley, Virosphere illustration
- The Spiky Blob Seen Around the World
Weekly topics
Meta
These are great proteins, and what makes them so important is how they bind to DNA. Anyone in this Protein Portraits course should feel free to incorporate molecules other than proteins into their art work… DNA certainly has special guest status!