As I have noted in class earlier, I wanted to do something microbiology related mainly because I took MB 230H last term. After flipping through some pages from my textbook, a familiar section caught my attention in the virus chapter: prions. These are not viruses, but they can cause diseases. The interesting thing about prions is that they are essentially free-floating proteins.
According to Wikipedia, that’s the normal prion protein in humans. There are many variations in the protein data bank, but I haven’t chosen one yet.
Yay, I’m making progress!
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=education_discussion/molecule_of_the_month/pdb101_1.html
http://www.ibioseminars.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164&Itemid=153