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I love this article: it starts out saying that proteins are great and I nodded my head, thinking, “oh yeah, that makes sense”. Read down a bit and my intuition
by gumby 2y ago
I love this article: it starts out saying that proteins are great and I nodded my head, thinking, “oh yeah, that makes sense”.
Read down a bit and my intuition as to why turns out to be bogus.
- gilleain 2y agoFor me the weird part is that they put in a gif of a researcher using a 'video wall' (apparently a projector combined with some gesture recognition?) to show one of these ice proteins... Except the one shown looks like it is some helix-rich structure with a haeme group. Even if that is an ice-forming protein, I would have shown one with a beta helix instead, which have the properties mentioned - large surface for nucleation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_helix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_helix
- flobosg 2y agoLooks like hemoglobin (good ol’ 4HHB[1]) to me. [1]: https://www.rcsb.org/structure/4HHB https://www.rcsb.org/structure/4HHB