The structures that are being reported now are quite amazing!
I've just glanced at this week's Nature and we find:
- complex of fos and jun leucine zipper with DNA
- engineering of human haemoglobin to behave like crocodiles
- penicillin acylase; a serine protese with a single active residue.
(I was involved with this in the earlier stages).
So in ONE WEEK in ONE journal we have almost more than we can take in.
A suggestion, therefore, is that we might elect a 'protein of the week'!
Course members would put forward their ideas and we could select a protein
of the course at the end. In any case it would be useful to have a
brief "news and views" each week. Anyone interested? - we've got enough
people.
P.
Peter Murray-Rust (pmr1716@ggr.co.uk) Glaxo Research & Development, Greenford,UK
mbglx@seqnet.dl.ac.uk, http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/pmr.html (Thanks to AlanBleasby)