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<StructureSection load='1mbo' size='500' side='right' caption='Structure of Myoglobin (PDB entry [[1mbo]])' scene='User:Michael_Roberts/BIOL115_Myo/Start/1'> | <StructureSection load='1mbo' size='500' side='right' caption='Structure of Myoglobin (PDB entry [[1mbo]])' scene='User:Michael_Roberts/BIOL115_Myo/Start/1'> | ||
'''MOLECULAR MODEL:''' | '''MOLECULAR MODEL:''' | ||
The initial view here is a ball-and-stick representation of the molecular structure of myoglobin. | The initial view here is a ball-and-stick representation of the molecular structure of myoglobin. | ||
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'''SECONDARY STRUCTURE''': | '''SECONDARY STRUCTURE''': | ||
This next view simplifies things, and just shows a cartoon representation of the secondary structure of the | This next view simplifies things, and just shows a <scene name='User:Michael_Roberts/BIOL115_Myo/Secondary_structure/1'>cartoon representation </scene>of the secondary structure of the protein. | ||
'''THE GLOBIN FOLD''': | |||
In this next view, the eight <scene name='User:Michael_Roberts/BIOL115_Myo/Secondary_structure/2'>individual alpha-helices </scene>are each coloured differently. This gives you an impression of the classic globion fold. The helices pack together tightly, and there is very little space in the centre of the protein. | |||
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Revision as of 17:09, 12 April 2013
The heme group and oxygen binding in myoglobin.
Myoglobin is a protein whose function is to store oxygen in muscle tissues. Like heamoglobin, it is red in colour, and it is myoglobin that gives muscle its strong red colour.
Myoglobin was the first globular protein for which the 3-dimensional structure was solved, back in the late 1950s. It gives its name to the 'globin fold', a common alpha domain motif. An alpha domain is a structural region composed entirley of alpha-helix.
Click on the 'green links' in the text in the scrollable section below to examine this molecule in more detail.
MOLECULAR MODEL: The initial view here is a ball-and-stick representation of the molecular structure of myoglobin.
SECONDARY STRUCTURE: This next view simplifies things, and just shows a of the secondary structure of the protein. THE GLOBIN FOLD: In this next view, the eight are each coloured differently. This gives you an impression of the classic globion fold. The helices pack together tightly, and there is very little space in the centre of the protein.
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