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The protein gamma-interferon solved in this laboratory was taken in its current state of refinement. This picture and a paper were submitted to "Science". (Didn't make it as the cover picture, but article has some good images. see Ealick etal, 1991, Science, 252:698-702.)

The image inspired the creation of a large sculpture commissioned Schering-Plough for their Research Institute in Kenilworth, NJ, created in wood by the Alabama artist Craig Nutt.

The active molecule is a dimer, the tetramer is an artifact of crystallization. Four *.pdb files were prepared. A secondary structure assignment was made: interferon is all helical with coils between the helices.

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The model was displayed with default settings on the Ribbon Panel for everything except:
Ribbon Style = "Circle'

The Wavefront files were saved from the Ribbon Panel.

The rendering was done with the Personal Visualizer.


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