Folding Forum

I did a BLAST search for PPLPPP and it came up with 971 different matches, though not all contain a perfect match to to PPLPPP. I guess you could perform the search ur self and browse the list and see if any of these proteins containing a PPLPPP sound like they are related to whatever you suspect th...

looks like I sparked a bit of a debate, so I decided to do some research and settle it. I went on AccessMedicine and searched for Erythrocyte. In Harper's Illustraded Biochemistry, 27th Edition, Section VI, Chapter 51 in the section titled: "Reticulocytes Are Active in Protein Synthesis" (...

As far as I know, every cell in the human body (for that matter, every cell in every organism) is constantly generating thousands of protein molecules, What about Red Blood Cells? Aren't they just big bags of hemoglobin with no nucleus? No nucleus = no DNA = no transcription = no translation = no n...