I took a look at all the proteins that had been isolated from the pea plant, and definitely liked 2WMC the most as well! It fit the idea that I originally had of using the pea plant to model a protein that operates on Mendelian genetics and it should be simple enough to make a nice sculpture.
I plan to make the pea pods and any leaves out of modeling clay, and any vines out of an easily malleable metal wire. This wire would be spray painted before being included in my model. I want to have flowers in my sculpture, so I would really like to represent the isolated molecule as a pair of flowers, also which would be made of modeling clay.
Because pictures are nice, here is a picture of a sculpture an artist did, that is really pretty and reminds me of a protein.
Way better than anything I could do =)