ribbon diagrams
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Ribbon diagrams and the art and graphic design used in them. First drawn by Jane Richardson.TRANSCRIPT
Ribbon DiagramsRibbon Diagrams
“I don’t see how you could possibly describe a protein
structure in a thousand words,” Jane Richardson says. “But you can come a lot closer with one
picture.”
http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/goodsell/mgs_art/richardson.html
This was one of Jane Richardson’s first hand-drawn and colored diagrams of a
protein.
The earlier drawings showed arrows indicating the direction of the protein ribbons. Today color and shading also
show direction.
http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v7/n8/fig_tab/nsb0800_624_F1.html
In this sequence of pictures you
can see Richardson
attempting to portray the
folding process as it might
apply to four main protein structures.
http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/teaching/anatax/html/anatax.4c.html
Shading and color add
dimension to the diagram. Colors
can show different strands or can be used to highlight an area
of interest.
http://sciencewomen.blogspot.com/2008/05/where-is-she-now-jane-richardson.html
http://www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/facultly/scotty/qproj.html
All these properties and
artistic additions to protein
diagrams can be useful with
something like this.
This complicated protein contains an enzymatic center, two MGD molecules, an Iron and Sulfur
cluster and more. Scientists are currently using this image and other research to explain the
mechanism of this enzyme.