how about greek-protomers-bands (aka GPB) :-) Nice picture, you can make decorative art with it and sell it.
Jürgen On Jun 18, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [...] of monomers is called a multimer, not a polymer. [...] shiver - what a terrible mixture of languages. 'multi-' has got latin origin, whereas both poly and mer have got greek origin, and I don't think one should mix these. Please!!! think of a different _GREEK_ syllable to express what you describe as 'multimer'. Cheers, Tim On 06/18/12 16:21, David Schuller wrote: 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 - -- - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFP3z51UxlJ7aRr7hoRAqviAKDJXxXkeOE3Z0M14+RT8dznQhpD3gCcDKEP o034eyZnadpwyQRGXI4FV9w= =Q5GJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Office: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-2926 http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/
