Contour maps of a ribosome
- ID-nummer
- 2017.014.001
- Titel
- Contour maps of a ribosome
- Objektkategori
- Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller
- Publik beskrivning
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This stack of contour maps represents the first clear three-dimensional image of the large subunit of the ribosome from the E. coli bacterium. Ribosomes are large molecules in the cells of all organisms. Their function is to make proteins by translating the genetic messages. The stack of maps was reconstructed in 1986 from many electron microscope images of individual large subunits lying in random orientations, using ideas and computer programs that Frank and his colleagues had developed over a period of 10 years. For a long time, these plastic maps lay around in Frank’s office until the husband of one of his postdoctoral students, a craftsman, offered to mount them in this wooden box for back-lit display.
Joachim Frank donated the contour maps to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2017. - Pristagare
- Joachim Frank
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