Biology Inspired Engineering - Part Two
Thursday, October 11th, 2007I have to fix an error I wrote in the previous post. The single-atom difference between human and bacteria ribosome does not refer to the entire structure, but only to the protein exit channel (which is the part important to antibiotics). There are some other differences, though all the active sites are amazingly identical, presumably universal in all life forms as we know them. Prof. Ada Yonath corrected my understanding over dinner, in the evening of the last day of ISBIE.
