Thanks Bill.
No need to restrict it to proteins - nucleic acids are fine (old chestnut:
"DNA helicase unzips your genes!"), molecular machines are fine, even cellular
structure is in scope.
(If I still did crystallography, I could have gone with: "You don't have to
use MAD to work here, but it helps.")
--Gerard
On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, William G. Scott wrote:
After reflecting on this a bit, I rejected anything dealing with glide planes,
and although I initially thought I had something good involving a screw axis of
evil, I decided it, too, would probably be lost in translation, not to mention
a bit dated.
Perhaps something more current, involving electrons, would help to resolve this?
I'll give it some thought this morning as I bicyle up the worst hill in the region.
Unfortunately, it is still very early here, and I don't yet have the inspiration I
possessed for my crowning achievement during my postdoc, which was to place a small,
inconspicuous label on the outside door of the toilet facility that read "MRC
Lavoratory of Molecular Biology.” (I am flush with embarrassment every time I think
of that.)
Can this also involve nucleic acids? I’m afraid protein structure puns might
be a bit outside my domain.
— Bill
On Aug 15, 2019, at 4:42 AM, Gerard DVD Kleywegt <ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se> wrote:
Dear CCP4BB-ers,
Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a
side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related
sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached to a
life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)!
I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able to come up
with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I try to keep it
platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know.
Many thanks in advance!
--Gerard
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