Protein Letters

Dear Friend: whom we walk the same path

Protein…

Protein, in the common sense, refers to food. It’s an essential part of our diet. It was a confusing term for scientists for quite sometime that rumor has it a committee was formed to settle what “protein” means once and for all.

From that committee came the modern day definition of the word. Apparently committee considered gelatose a protein too.

Blue cheese, a great source of protein
Wind turbines standing on a grassy plain, against a blue sky.
Thomas Splettstoesser (www.scistyle.com) – (rendered with Cinema 4D)
Molecular surface of several proteins showing their comparitive sizes. From left to right are: Immunoglobulin (IgG) (PDB 1IGY), Hemoglobin (PDB 2DHB), Insulin (PDB 4INS), Adenylate Kinase (PDB 1ZIN), Glutamine Synthetase (PDB 1FPY).

…Letters

The sun shining over a ridge leading down into the shore. In the distance, a car drives down a road.
Letters by Suzy Hazelwood

Undoubtedly, if a committee was required to define what a protein was back then when we knew so little about them, even a larger comittee is required now to make sense of all the information we have gathered. There are of course many scientists out there but it takes to find your own community to naviage the world of proteins or science in general.

Thus was born Protein Letters. A place where we build our community, hear and be heard.