Proteins Are Squishy Magnetic Legos: Flagella Evolution 06

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How do proteins really work and evolve? This video is where you'll find out!

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To see David Goodsell's interactive protein tour, go here: https://cdn.rcsb.org/pdb101/molecular-machinery/

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FURTHER READING:
Brownian Motion at the level of proteins: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000694

How Lysozymes work as "Brownian motors": https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4916960/

How Lac Repressor works: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC220206/

For protein surface charges I used PyMol. Surface charges were estimated and colored using APBS Electrostatics by:

Dolinsky TJ, Nielsen JE, McCammon JA, Baker NA.
PDB2PQR: an automated pipeline for the setup, execution, and analysis of Poisson-Boltzmann electrostatics calculations. Nucleic Acids Research 32 W665-W667 (2004).