MCB 121 Molecular Structures
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**Important** This page and all associated pages utilize a web browser plug-in called Chime (available from MDL Information Systems, Inc.) If you can't see the structure at right, you don't have the Chime plug-in.All campus computer labs have this plug-in installed (if you find some without the plug-in please contact Dr. Gasser so he can get it fixed.). To download Chime for your own Macintosh or Windows computer click here. It is recommended that you use Netscape Navigator (or Communicator) to view the pages. The structures work in Internet Explorer, but many of the buttons to control views are absent. |
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The structures on this page and associated pages are "live". That is, you can rotate the structures directly with the mouse, or change the view of the structure using a menu that can be brought up by mousing down on the "MDL" in the lower right corner of the images or by mousing down and holding anywhere on the image.
Some pages also have buttons which show special views of the structures (all of which can be manipulated).
PAGES AVAILABLE INCLUDE:
- DNA Compare the structures of B and Z DNA side-by-side!
- A DNA Structure tutorial designed by Professor Eric Martz of the Dept. of Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts is available here. Because this site is at U. Mass. it can load slowly.
- TATA-Binding Protein View the structure of TBP (or TBP and TFIIB) bound to DNA on this page.
Transcription Factors View large structures of a variety of transcription factors, or go to the comparison pages to compare two structures (or views of a structure) to each other.
Nucleosome structure View the structure of a single nucleosome to see the relationships between DNA and the histone octamer core.
As Biochemistry students you are responsible for knowing structures and properties of the twenty amino acids, and for basic knowledge of protein structure. Review information that can help refresh your memory of these topics is available on Dr. Gasser's BioSci102 Molecular Structures page.
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