Protein Function Quotes

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery.

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.

Inside of a living cell there are thousands of proteins that enable it to make more of itself and make your malaria drug, for instance. We don't understand those. We don't understand how they work together.

It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.

Lectins are plant proteins that protect the plant and its seeds from being eaten by basically hacking into the animal's immune system, causing the animal to have inflammation.

We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA.

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose.

That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.

Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.

Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved.

The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it.

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.