Certainly it's interesting, but I think your description is inaccurate.
"Endless linear polymers" - Each monomer is a polymer, but a collection
of monomers is called a multimer, not a polymer.
I don't suppose there are any knots? That would be really interesting.
On 06/18/12 09:49, anna anna wrote:
Hi all!
I'd like your opinion about a structure I solved.
Apart from protein structure itself, I think that my protein xtallized
in an odd way!
The biological unit is a dimer while the asymmetric unit is a tetramer
(red cartoon in the figure) resulting from domain swapping between two
dimers.
The strange thing is that swapping connects infinite monomers and,
rather than a xtal, my diffracting object seems a multilayer of
endless linear polymers, a kind of papyrus with greek fret-like
fibers. The figure shows the orientation of the polymers in each layer.
I'd like to know if some of you have already seen a similar pattern or
it is weird as I think!
I'm further racking my brain to figure out a biological implication of
this behaviour, I thought something like plaque formation but I can't
find support in literature.
All suggestions are welcome!!
Cheers,
Anna
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