All those weeks we sat in class talking about how we would make our proteins… and there I was, thinking I had a good idea of how mine would work out.
Wrong! While making the protein I encountered a lot of unexpected problems, not the least of which was the fact that paint did not look great on paper mache and it was hard to paint something so bulky!
So… my protein underwent a makeover… and now it’s the strangest looking protein around, but I like it! I hope the unexpectedness of the new design will not offend anyone.
Haha I totally had a similar problem – I had been putting together the little triskelions to form the clathrin cage all throughout the class, but I finally got my “model” (a styrofoam head), and the cage was super-bulky and didn’t quite fit on the head… with a little improvisation I was able to create my own lattice pattern – thank goodness those triskelions are flexible little proteins! I’m excited to see all the proteins tomorrow!