Monthly Archives: May 2010

Protein: ATP Synthase Artist: Valerie Mullen Imagine those lazy summer days ahead of you – nothing to do in a day but sip lemonade and sit in the garden reading. It seems as if you are expending a minimum amount … Continue reading →

Protein: Pectin Lyase Artist: Karen Hoagland You reach into the fruit bowl and pick up a juicy, bright red apple. You take a huge bite….yuck! A big rotten chunk of fruity flesh just spoiled your treat. Blame no other than … Continue reading →

So I noticed as I was reading the summary for the show that we wrote down the wrong date (oh no!). Wednesday is actually June 2nd, and not June 3rd. I figure we can just ask whoever sends out the … Continue reading →

Protein: Ovalbumin Artist: Danika Kusuma The fluff of a marshmallow, the taste of a pretzel, the white of an egg omelet… To say that this egg protein is not all it’s cracked up to be would be something of an … Continue reading →

Protein: Harmonin Artist: Jason S. Lusk Of all the myriad functions of proteins, among the most crucial to our existence is the ability of certain proteins working in tandem to allow us to preceive our world.    Harmonin is one link in a chain of structures … Continue reading →

Just a few links to better understand pectin lyase! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EferhqiSy3E http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=1IDK

Vesicle Formation Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRslV6lrVxY Dynamin Animation: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/hmm/Dynamin/index.html

Protein: Clathrin Artist: Audrey Riesen You wouldn’t want to go out into the elements without the proper outerwear – and neither do the vesicles that carry cargo such as enzymes throughout the interior of the cell. These vesicles wear a … Continue reading →

Protein: Prion Artist: Dan Cheung What’s the difference between a prion and a mystery box? The box. Prion (pronounced pre-on) is a protein found throughout the body, but its function to the organism is still a mystery to the scientific … Continue reading →

Protein: Dronpa Artist: Thi Nguyen A careful balance between dark and light, dronpa can switch from a “bright” state and a “dark” state by switching the wavelength of light that is focused on it. It is named after a fusion … Continue reading →

I ran across these crazy kelp lamps created by artist Julia Lohmann when I was looking up images for an art project… pretty interesting. I don’t know if I would put it in my house, but still a cool idea. … Continue reading →

Protein: Dead Box Protein 5 Artist: Callia Palioca Like a hand carefully untangling precious jewelry, the Dead Box Protein 5 unravels RNA strands. Found in many organisms and performing many functions, it primarily serves as an RNA helicase that enables … Continue reading →

Protein: Ubiquitin Artist: Minhazur Sarker Garbage: it’s all around us, even in our body! Ubiquitin is a special protein that functions to eliminate the proteins we do not need anymore.  A link, via a covalent attachment,  joins ubiquitin proteins together … Continue reading →

Protein: Calcitonin Artist: Nathan Forster Bones are a surprisingly dynamic part of an organism’s body in that it is constantly being torn down and built back up by the combined efforts of osteoclasts and osteoblasts. Calcitonin, a molecule produced by … Continue reading →

So I inquired about the MU glass cases yesterday, and I found that not only do you have to rent them out (as in paying…) but they’re booked a year out. So…MU is out. However, the lovely woman I talked … Continue reading →

Remember how Pauling first modeled the alpha helix?  By discovering the optimum folding of a sheet of paper. Easy, if you know origami. Here’s a “when art meets science” video explanation from Robert Lang, a highly inventive sort of person… … Continue reading →

As agreed on Monday, let’s each post the labeling information for our portraits.  Try to have this done by Friday.  Here’s a template you can use, in italics: Protein:  Hemoglobin Artist:  Phil McFadden Take a breath… where did it go? … Continue reading →

The uncertainty and ambiguity of the structure of dystrophin has finally hit me as being impossibly hard to build. Abstract freedom with designing a protein that has yet to be fully figured out is scary. In conclusion, I decided to … Continue reading →

Hi guys, So I was thinking, do you all want me to bring snacks to class from next Monday and on? I have a lot of money to spend on my dining dollars and would be willing to bring in … Continue reading →

Alright guys! So I checked up on the Bubble Tea/Smoothie place on Monroe and 14th. It opens at 11:30am on Wednesdays….this is a problem for sure. If somehow we are able to meet this (would mean we would hang out … Continue reading →

Perryman, et al (2005) labeled the enzyme as if it were a bulldog.