Francis Collins Interview

Protein folding

Predicting how a stretch of DNA will translate into the folds and function of a protein is no easy trick. In this 3-D computer model of the protein Acetylcholinesterase, the twisted blue ribbons are strings of amino acids that were encoded by DNA.
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