126: Ethanolamine Utilization Puzzle

Closed since about 17 years ago

Summary

• Created: March 11, 2009
• Expires: February 20, 2009 at 23:00 UTC
• Max points: 100

Description

The goal of this puzzle is to build a high-quality model of the ethanolamine utilization protein from the bacteria Escherichia coli. This protein allows bacteria with this protein to metabolize ethanolamine and use it in constructing cell walls and cell membranes. The C-terminus of this protein is disordered in the starting model, but the rest of the protein is fairly close to the correct answer.

Top groups

• 1. Void Crushers 100 pts. 10,028
• 2. Richard Dawkins Foundation 88 pts. 10,011
• 3. Deleted group pts. 9,959
• 4. Russian team 67 pts. 9,842
• 5. Deleted group pts. 9,784
• 6. ExPitneyFolders 50 pts. 9,734
• 7. xkcd 43 pts. 9,701
• 8. L'Alliance Francophone 37 pts. 9,691
• 9. Deleted group pts. 9,622
• 10. SETI.Germany 26 pts. 9,615

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• 1. Simek 100 pts. 9,964
• 2. DisposableHeart 99 pts. 9,959
• 3. g_s 97 pts. 9,911
• 4. Milward 95 pts. 9,868
• 5. vakobo 94 pts. 9,842
• 6. dejerpha 92 pts. 9,815
• 7. justjustin 91 pts. 9,813
• 8. Dan Lim 89 pts. 9,804
• 9. BootsMcGraw 87 pts. 9,784
• 10. dubblofred 86 pts. 9,761