This may look like a tangle of squiggly lines, but you’re actually
looking at a molecular machine called a ribosome. Its job is to
translate DNA sequences into proteins, the workhorse compounds that
sustain you and all living things.
The image is also a milestone. It’s the first
time the atom-by-atom structure of the ribosome has been seen as it’s
attached to a molecule that controls its motion. That’s big news if
you’re a structural biologist.
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| Ribosome. (Credit: Image courtesy of DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) |
Credit: http://newscenter.lbl.gov