Fold Drive
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All this flickrin' and photoshoppin' is bleedin' into my work world. Just for fun, here's a picture of a protein from an upcoming grant. Its a slice of Green Fluorescent Protein - first isolated from green glowing jellyfish, GFP has revolutionized biotech. You can label a protein or cell with this protein and see its expression through the microscope in a living organism.
The point of this figure is that the large GFP barrel (beige) drives the structure of the green segment - which is the part of the protein that makes the green color (makes sense, eh?). My collaborator calls this fold-drive. Anyways - thought I'd share. I got to play with orton and the ps dodge and burn tweaks. Now instead of spending two hours making one figure, I can spend double that! Yay productivity!
Comments
WOW, that is neat, thanks for the
explanation!
Posted 20 months ago.
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unfortunately I can't make much of exact
science
but this is a very interesting image.
thanks for sharing!
Posted 20 months ago.
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I am also in this kind of business though
collaborative work. See my Fav protein in JBC
279:23463, 2004. I have an artistic view of
the the same protein which I may post one of
these days.
I got to play with orton and the ps dodge and
burn tweaks.
What is that? Could me give me a reference?
Perhaps you could help me in my future work.
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I would love to see your rendering of Hsp 27.
Your figures are well crafted (much like
your fungi photos). Dodge and Tweak are two
tools in photoshop for darkening and
lightening areas of a picture. The structure
above was rendered in pymol (pymol.org). If
I use the depth cueing function, it sometimes
drops out details that I want to retain.
I've found a mix of automatic depth-cueing
from pymol with some modifications in
photoshop help me get the desired effect.
Orton is a photographic technique with a
digital analog. It gives a photo a softer,
painterly appearance. I've been goofing
around with it on various mushroom pictures,
but found it can be very nice on some protein
structure pictures as well. Here's a link on how to do it in photoshop which I found
very useful.
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Very cool and interesting!!!!
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This is very cool Vik. Your taking pictures
of Green Flourescent protein and I use sock
monkeys. I feel so mediocre : ) This
really is great stuff
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Simply genius and creative!
Posted 20 months ago.
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Very interesting creative work :-)
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Posted 20 months ago.
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GFP. What a great protein. Certainly very
important in my work (neuroimaging) - Great
job on the diagram, I hope the grant
reviewers liked it. You know Kaede?
Posted 20 months ago.
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Cant say I do. I assume he/she's the one
behind the Kaede-like chromophore of red GFP.
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is Kaede a coral or a person?
anyway, its a great little protein that you
can bleach and reactivate using UV and blue
light respectively.
besides your graphics, I very much enjoy
your photography. keep it up.
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Thanks. You're probably right, Kaede must be
the coral.
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