Date posted | Title | Structure | Author |
15/05 | Pass the Electron – The First Membrane Protein Structure Shows How Purple Bacteria Get Energy from Light | Rhodopseudomonas viridis photosynthetic reaction centre | Anton Le Brun |
15/07 | Caffeine hit: Adenosine A2A receptor | Adenosine A2A receptor | Róisín McMahon |
16/01 | Kick-starting Adrenaline | Adrenaline | Julia Archbold |
19/02 | Breaking down the drink – Alcohol Dehydrogenase | Alcohol dehydrogenase | Julia Archbold |
24/07 | Cone snail toxins as painkillers – The structure of an alpha-conopeptide | Alpha-conotoxin (PnIB) | Julia Archbold |
28/07 | A Crystal Structure for Stopping Germ Warfare | Anthrax protective antigen | Anton Le Brun |
01/04 | Cold as Ice… with 'Maxi' sacrifice | Antifreeze protein Maxi | Julia Archbold |
09/01 | Biology on the edge – Adaptor Protein complex 2 | AP2 complex | Brett Collins |
25/12 | Why does a lobster change colour on cooking? | Apocrustacyanin | John Helliwell |
21/05 | Protein crystals naturally occurring in a cellular membrane: Bacteriorhodopsin | Bacteriorhodopsin | Katy Wood |
31/10 | Bak: The Face of Death | Bak | Jason Brouwer |
02/12 | I'm pretty, but don't touch me as I'm deadly | Batrachotoxin A | Anton Le Brun |
30/06 | A different type of donut – beta-sliding clamp | Beta Sliding Clamp | Amy McGrath |
17/04 | Botox: Toxic medicine | Botox | Róisín McMahon |
20/12 | Factor IX: Christmas Factor | Christmas factor | Anton Le Brun |
12/08 | Chymotrypsin — the first protease structure | Chymotrypsin | Stephen Curry |
15/04 | Collagen: Triple strength | Collagen | Róisín McMahon |
13/10 | Celebrating Laue – comprehensive protein structures | Concanavalin A | John Helliwell |
10/03 | Feeling Stressed? Understanding Anxiety and Depression | Corticotropin releasing factor | Julia Archbold |
26/12 | Give me a resin | Cytochrome P450 2B enzyme | Róisín McMahon |
05/01 | Brace yourself! The structure of DiSulfide Bond proteins (DSBs) | DiSulfide Bond proteins (DSBs) | Róisín McMahon |
25/07 | DNA: Life's blueprint | DNA | Katy Wood |
24/11 | DNA Polymerase in Celebration of Evolution Day | DNA polymerase | Anton Le Brun |
18/08 | A Crystal Structure That Was Only Possible With the Help of an Ebola Survivor | Ebola glycoprotein | Anton Le Brun |
24/12 | A little helper – Elf3 | Elf3 | Róisín McMahon |
07/01 | The Fight or Flight Receptor | G-protein–coupled receptors | Julia Archbold |
21/06 | How Sweet! The structure of the Glucose Transporter 1 | Glucose transporter 1 | Julia Archbold |
03/05 | From crystallography, to running the country | Gramicidin S | Helen Maynard-Casely |
19/05 | Haemoglobin: Bloody protein! | Haemoglobin | Róisín McMahon |
02/01 | HLA Molecules – How the body detects infected cells | Human leukocyte antigen (HLA-A2) | Julia Archbold |
16/09 | Cop this! The protein 'cop' (Cop9) with multiple tasks | Human signalosome complex | Julia Archbold |
13/01 | Impressive Insulin | Insulin | Julia Archbold |
20/11 | From crystal to structure in 84 years | Jack bean urease | Róisín McMahon |
19/11 | Crystallising enzymes from beans – celebrating Sumner | Jack bean urease | John Helliwell |
18/11 | What was Philae looking for on 67P? L-Glutamic acid | L-Glutamic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
26/06 | 'Roll out the Barrel': Structure of the LptD-LptE translocon complex from bacteria | LptD-LptE translocon complex | Julia Archbold |
03/02 | Lysozyme: Not to be sniffed at | Lysozyme | Róisín McMahon |
14/07 | Melatonin: Are you feeling sleepy? | Melatonin | Róisín McMahon |
03/12 | Munc18: No Munc-eying around with our molecular transport machinery! | Munc18 | Julia Archbold |
24/03 | Myoglobin: (Don't) hold your breath! | Myoglobin | Róisín McMahon |
03/07 | 'Let's talk about Sex' hormones – Part 1: The Oestrogen Receptor | Oestrogen | Julia Archbold |
11/03 | A Protein Swiss Army Knife | Outer membrane protein A (OmpA) | Anton Le Brun |
27/05 | A protein structure that is a β-barrel of laughs | Outer membrane protein F | Anton Le Brun |
14/02 | Roses are red, violets are blue. Oxytocin in my brain makes me only want to be with you… | Oxytocin | Róisín McMahon |
18/06 | P-glycoprotein: It's as simple as ABC | P-glycoprotein | Julia Archbold |
20/06 | A Crystal Structure for the Perfect Steak: Papain | Papain | Anton Le Brun |
24/10 | Superbug superpowers | Penicillin binding protein variant (PBP2a) | Róisín McMahon |
14/11 | Whoop whoop: pertussis toxin | Pertussis toxin | Anton Le Brun |
23/02 | The beginning of the end for Polio | Polio virus | Helen Maynard-Casely |
01/08 | The Good and Bad of Prions: Proteins that cause Mad Cow disease | Prion proteins | Julia Archbold |
01/12 | A tree bark suspension and a Nobel Prize later … We wonder less about the structural basis of the action of aspirin | Prostaglandin H synthase | Lawrence Norris |
03/04 | The machine of life – the structure of the Ribosome | Ribosome | Brett Collins |
25/08 | Possibly the Deadliest Crystal Structure Known: Ricin | Ricin | Anton Le Brun |
01/03 | Cutting up the genes – the structure of a spliceosome | Spliceosome | Brett Collins |
04/07 | 'Let's talk about Sex' hormones – Part 2: The Androgen Receptor and Testosterone | Testosterone | Julia Archbold |
23/07 | Ion Channels and Chronic Pain – Structure of the Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel | Voltage-gated sodium channel | Julia Archbold |
17/06 | The Start of Digestion: Salivary α-Amylase | α-Amylase | Anton Le Brun |
23/09 | From Toxin to Technology: α-Haemolysin | α-Haemolysin | Anton Le Brun |
15/09 | Bacteria: How do they resist? | β-Lactamase | Róisín McMahon |
22/12 | Oh, deer... | β-Lactoglobulin | Róisín McMahon |