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First 3D images of a giant molecule – EurekAlert

Capturing the structure of large molecular complexes with variable shape is an extremely difficult task. Scientists from Würzburg and Montpellier now have been…

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IMAGE: Model of the SMN complex, stained yeast cells can be seen in the background.
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Credit: Jyotishman Veepaschit / Team Fischer
SMN or in full Survival Motor Neuron: Professor Utz Fischer has been analyzing this protein and the large molecular complex of the same name, of which SMN is one of the building blocks, for many years. He holds the Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at the Julius-Maximilian’s University of Würzburg (JMU), and he first discovered the molecule during his…

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