A molecular machine in action

From the protein crystallography beamline at Berkeley Labs Advanced Light Source: an action shapshot the Rho transcription factor from E. coli.

The orange spiral in the middle is a strand of RNA, and Rho is everything else.

 


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPQ0OnlfkkA)

(h/t Technology Review blog)

2 comments to A molecular machine in action

Leave a Reply

 

 

 

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>