tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post2558179857355786915..comments2024-03-25T09:11:17.877-07:00Comments on The Curious Wavefunction: Links...Wavefunctionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-42857479930993792572011-05-23T14:42:50.326-07:002011-05-23T14:42:50.326-07:00Hey. I have a question. Do you know of any good ch...Hey. I have a question. Do you know of any good chemistry experiments? I am writing an extended essay in chemistry and we have to choose something that is not to known or to easy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-6412495161923849502011-05-17T20:48:59.946-07:002011-05-17T20:48:59.946-07:00Perhaps it is, although I've always felt that ...Perhaps it is, although I've always felt that much like synthetic chemistry can serve as a test of our understanding of chemistry, perhaps one day synthetic biology will begin to approach such maturity and development. <br /><br />Also, I've occasionally felt more like an engineer than a scientist more than once, although I'm certain part of that is due to repairing far too many NMR probes.....MJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02796378432680640144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-56066911365457843902011-05-17T05:07:21.858-07:002011-05-17T05:07:21.858-07:00Indeed, exciting stuff, although it sounds much mo...Indeed, exciting stuff, although it sounds much more like engineering than science to me.Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-14971594048512777212011-05-14T07:57:58.059-07:002011-05-14T07:57:58.059-07:00Nice call on the Science paper - while I am sure I...Nice call on the <b>Science</b> paper - while I am sure I would have gotten around to noticing it, knowing my timeline, it would be November of this year. <br /><br />Disclaimer - I haven't picked through it just yet, I am starting my cycle of progressively more detailed skims. So if they mention this, well, I suppose I will be pleasantly surprised later on today.<br /><br />While the review focuses on eukaryotic systems, I see the same basic design principles in bacterial scaffolding proteins, one of which has become the object of my research affections. I think the point that the scaffolds themselves can be involved in the subsequent functionality is important - while they describe it in terms of serving as a coenzyme, one might also imagine situations where the scaffold propagates a conformational change from one protein to another. Another possibility is that it might be involved in recruiting additional complexes (or destabilizing a higher-order structure in which it is participating) to modulate a particular response.MJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02796378432680640144noreply@blogger.com