Clathrin coats vesicles to form their spherical shape. Clathrin coats vesicles going from organelle to organelle as well as those entering or exiting the cell. The individual clathrin protein is shown in color next to a hemaglobin for scale as well as intertwined with other clathrin molecules to form a hollow sphere. I was unable to find any animations of clathrin molecules coming together that were not related to clathrin mediated endocytosis. While the clathrin protien itself is not dynamic one can imagine the dynamics of many clathrin proteins weaving together to form a spherical structure. If I were to make this structure I would cut these rings to make the three arms of clathrin then put them together. If you made lots, you could play with the dynamics of forming and deconstructing the spherical coat that clathrin forms.
Protein artists
- 2010 Protein Portraits in the news
- Alissa Eckert
- Bathsheba Grossman
- Byron Rubin
- David Goodsell
- Drew Berry
- Gael McGill
- Irving Geis
- Jane Richardson
- Janet Iwasa
- Jenny Langley
- Julian Voss-Andreae
- Mara Haseltine
- Maria Winners infectious art
- Mike Tyka
- Protein art by May_k
- Steve Miller
- Wunderkammer crochet
Protein science
- AlphaFold
- AlphaFold: How to predict structures
- AlphaFold: Tutorial
- David Goodsell's Molecule of the Month
- Domain classification: CATH
- Domain classification: SCOP
- Folding at home
- Foldit
- Jane Richardson modeling
- Perkins: History of Molecular Representation Part 2
- Protein Spotlight (SIB)
- RCSB PDB: Search the protein databank
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