Wow, that's very cool! Can you divulge what the function of the protein is? One thinks of some kind of mechanical spring...
JPK On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:49 AM, anna anna <marmottalb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all! > I'd like your opinion about a structure I solved. > Apart from protein structure itself, I think that my protein xtallized in an > odd way! > The biological unit is a dimer while the asymmetric unit is a tetramer (red > cartoon in the figure) resulting from domain swapping between two dimers. > The strange thing is that swapping connects infinite monomers and, rather > than a xtal, my diffracting object seems a multilayer of endless linear > polymers, a kind of papyrus with greek fret-like fibers. The figure shows > the orientation of the polymers in each layer. > I'd like to know if some of you have already seen a similar pattern or it is > weird as I think! > I'm further racking my brain to figure out a biological implication of this > behaviour, I thought something like plaque formation but I can't find > support in literature. > > All suggestions are welcome!! > > Cheers, > Anna > > -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu *******************************************
