A little Molecular Cell Bio - help

[Playdope]

I'm doing a bioinformatics protein presentation of bacteriorhodopsin, and I was hoping I could ask you guys for some help finding something online....

This is the most general one I have yet to find...

http://www.biochem.mpg.de/oesterhelt/ph ... gy/br.html

After looking for sometime now, I am finding that I keep coming up with all kinds of variations of the 3d structure of bacteriorhodopsin. Anyone here know where I can find a few good general 3d pictures of the protein - so that I can point out different layers of protein structure - alpha helices, beta sheets, the aspect of the protein that makes it "retinal", etc... I need to come up with a few visual pictures to point out the major aspects of the protein. Many thanks for anything you find.

 

[wade1]

You would be much more likely to find information in some of the biochemistry textbooks... especially bacterial biochem. Otherwise, if you want more current and up-to-date information, drop your words into the database search for pubmed (it pops up on google).

Wade

 

[Anonymous]

You might be best off making your own figures. I would recommend getting ahold of the free software program PyMol. It runs on MacOSX, Linux, Windoze, and pretty much any unix system you can think of. I find it is really nice for making figures.

http://pymol.sourceforge.net/

Here is an example of a figure I made recently:

http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/sars/



You can get the pdb file here:

http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/molecules/pdb27_1.html

Hudel (Hartmut Luecke) has done some particularly elegant time-resolved crystallographic analyses:

http://bass.bio.uci.edu/hudel/br/