oh also because I forgot - do you have a favourite protein?
this is a tough one! there's so many cool proteins, but some really cool ones are the bridge-like lipid transporters (BLTPs). i don't personally work with them, but i have a few friends who do, and they're super neat. basically, they connect two organelle membranes in a cell (and associate with some other proteins to help them function) and act like a bridge or a hose to rapidly move lots of phospholipids from one membrane to the other. imagine a huge tunnel that lots of phospholipids are being rapidly shuttled through. these proteins are also pretty highly conserved from yeast to humans, and mutations in these are associated with various neurological disorders.
(phospholipids are fat molecules and they make up all the membranes in cells. they look a little something like this: )
there's a very cool pre-print that came out recently where researchers found the structure of Vps13C, one of the human BLTPs:
Bridge-like lipid transfer proteins (BLTPs) play central roles in redistributing lipids from their primary site of synthesis in the endoplas
here's their structure:
Vps13C (blue) bound to calmodulin (red)
and here's your text:
letter sequence in this ask matching protein-coding amino acids:
halsecaseIfrgtdyhaveafavriteprtein
protein guy analysis:
unlike the absolutely gigantic Vps13, this one is pretty small. it did manage to form itself into a couple little helices. it looks pretty cute, and i don't really have any complaints about it
predicted protein structure:
I also took the liberty of putting the peptide generated from your ask next to the Vps13C structure
