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2355: Revisiting Puzzle 96: Collagen

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Summary

Created
September 21, 2023
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Description

This is a throwback puzzle to the early days of Foldit. This small domain is a component of the collagen that forms the connective tissue beneath your skin! This protein contains six cysteines that oxidize to form three disulfide bonds. We are revisiting old Foldit puzzles so we can see how useful the recent additions to the game have been and to provide newer players with puzzles that are still scientifically relevant.

Sequence
TDICKLPKDEGTCRDFILKWYYDPNTKSCARFWYGGCGGNENKFGSQKECEKVCA

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Comments

Artoria2e5 Lv 1

This puzzle is interesting – if you just use the band pattern with ideal, flat sheets, you will find that a flip is needed to get the disulfides to connect. But the "correct" (as in PDB-deposited, biological) solution to this puzzle actually has a pair of twisted sheets! Have fun trying to build that.

(Or maybe the biological solution isn't the best-scoring… Do whatever.)