See below:

https://www.nature.com/articles/449144a

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Jonathan Davies, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, Stenmark Lab
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Stockholm University
Sweden







On 10 Apr 2019, at 16:29, Zachary A. Wood <z...@uga.edu<mailto:z...@uga.edu>> 
wrote:

Hello Fellow Structural Enthusiasts,

My apologies for the slightly off-topic question. I am trying to track down a 
higher resolution image of the jpg that I have attached. I use this photo of 
Max Perutz when I am teaching about protein folding, and have always wanted a 
better quality one. I believe it is credited to Nature, and I am trying to find 
out what issue, but I am hoping that one of you may have more information or 
perhaps even a better photo. Thanks for any help, and for those of you who may 
never have seen this photo before, I hope you enjoy it. I like to imagine that 
Perutz is considering the challenges associated with folding that chain after 
he determined the crystal structure. If you have never read the discussion in 
his famous Nature paper, I will leave you with a relevant quote of him 
referring to the structural similarity between horse hemoglobin and sperm whale 
myoglobin, in which he predicts the thermodynamic hypothesis (Anfinsen’s dogma):

“How does this arise? It is scarcely conceivable that a three-dimensional 
template forces the chain to take up this fold. More probably, the chain, once 
synthesized and provided with a haem group around which it can coil, takes up 
this configuration spontaneously, as the only one which satisfies the 
stereochemical requirements of its amino acid sequence.”

Thank you for any help you may be able to offer!

 Best regards,

Z

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