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本帖最后由 feynord 于 2012-6-18 02:35 编辑
Jun 10, 2012
Journal post from David Baker
Many common materials such as silk and wool are made out of regular repeating arrays of proteins, and symmetric protein arrays make up the coats of viruses and many other assemblies inside cells. The ability to robustly design self assembling materials made out of proteins would have huge numbers of applications-the naturally occurring assemblies are useful, but imagine if we could make custom materials for 21st century problems. In this weeks Science magazine, we describe the use of Rosetta to design self assembling protein nano structures with very high accuracy. We are now attempting to create many different types of symmetric materials, and you will be seeing more symmetric calculations on your rosetta@home screen server. Thank you for making possible this completely new approach to nanotechnology!
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翻译:
像丝绸或者羊毛,许多日常的材料实际上是由蛋白质有规律排列而成的。类似地,规律排列的蛋白质也构成了病毒的外壳以及其他细胞内结构。因此,如果我们能够设计由蛋白质组成的自组装材料,将会有很大的应用前景,可以让我们利用大自然的创造来解决新世纪的问题。在这一期的《科学》杂志上,我们发表了利用Rosetta算法设计能够准确进行自我组装的蛋白质纳米结构的文章。现在我们正在尝试设计其他的有规律材料,并把这些任务放在了Rosetta@Home服务器上。感谢志愿者们帮助我们开发未来的蛋白质纳米技术!
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