Translation and Protein

Questions & instructions from the lab

SurfaceViewer: Amino acid 'feels'

Go_Opsin

Codes, origins, errors

Hemoglobin pages (from the lab exercise)

FirstGlance How-to movie (or as .swf)

Molecule of the Month featuring hemoglobin (several web pages on different aspects)

Walk-thru of hemoglobin conformational change

A nice codon table showing amino acid structures, properties as well (source: wikipedia; contr. Jen Terpstra)

HHMI movies on translation

Better machines through better folding

Making better (antibody) drugs by analyzing their hydrophobic surfaces

Scientists on the trail of synthetic spider silk

Spider silk: It's in the H-bonds

Only 3000 years required for evolution of better O2 usage in Tibetans

Mole hemoglobin deletes DPG binding site as underground adaptation

NIH site on sickle cell anemia

Switch controlling fetal => adult beta-globin identified

Artificial hemoglobin

Malaria--historical scourge; efforts to eradicate

Dominant genetic diseases

tRNA structure in 3D (JMOL by Frieda Reichsman)

Human-designed enzymes

An RNA capable of the aa-tRNA joining reaction

Proteopedia

Single nucleotide change causes flu virus resistance to tamiflu (with 3D structures)