Artistic analogy to the ROCK method (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Artistic analogy to the ROCK method

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This illustration is inspired by the Paleolithic rock painting in the Lascaux cave, signifying the acronym of our method, ROCK. Figuratively, the patterns of the rock art in the background (brown) are the 2D projections of the engineered dimeric construct of the Tetrahymena group I intron, while the main object in the front (blue) is the reconstructed 3D cryo-EM map of the dimer, with one monomer in focus and refined to the high resolution that allowed the collaborators to build an atomic model of the RNA.

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Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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