Introduction - 2
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| Separately, John Kendrew and Max Perutz used this knowledge to solve for the three-dimentional structures of myoglobin (1958) and hemoglobin (1960), respectively. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Max Perutz (1914-2002) | |||||||||||||||||
| Kendrew's first model of myoglobin | |||||||||||||||||
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Kendrew said of his model: "Perhaps the most remarkable features of the molecule are its complexity and its lack of symmetry. The arrangement seems to be almost totally lacking in the kind of regularities which one instinctively anticipates and it is more complecated than has been predicted by any theory of protein structure." | |
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| The Protein Data Bank | |||||||||||||||||
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| A PDB Sampler -View some structures from the Protein Data Bank from over the ages. | |||||||||||||||||
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