Using Computational Design in Proteins



This website was designed by the students of Group 17 in Honors Biology 181 for the Fall
2006 semester. We will be discussing a paper entitled "Computational Design of a Biologically
Active Enzyme" by Mary A. Dwyer, Loren L. Looger, and Homme W. Heliinga.



Introduction

Background

What is computational design?

Experiment

Results

Discussion

Links

References

Group Biography

Example of a Triose phosphate isomerase (TIM) with DHAP.
Image adapted from protein code 1NEY of the Protein Data Bank (www.pdb.org)