Placeholder image of a protein
Icon representing a puzzle

Easy Puzzle (<15): Killer Toxin

Closed since over 15 years ago

Beginner

Summary

Created
September 14, 2010
Expires
Max points
100
Description

Ustilago maydis is a fungal pathogen of maize, some strains of which secrete killer toxins. This is a short 79-residue protein for new players to try out after completing the Introductory Puzzles. The native is shown as a guide on this puzzle, so try using everything you have learned in the Intro levels to match the native fold. For players with fewer than 15 global points.

Top groups

  1. Avatar for Anthropic Dreams
    1. Anthropic Dreams
    100 pts. 10,243
  2. Avatar for Void Crushers 2. Void Crushers 85 pts. 9,993
  3. Avatar for xkcd 3. xkcd 72 pts. 9,975
  4. Avatar for SETI.Germany 4. SETI.Germany 61 pts. 9,828
  5. Avatar for Penny-Arcade 5. Penny-Arcade 51 pts. 9,793
  6. Avatar for Deleted group 6. Deleted group pts. 9,760
  7. Avatar for OMNABEK 7. OMNABEK 35 pts. 9,700
  8. Avatar for Rice Biochemistry 8. Rice Biochemistry 28 pts. 9,631
  9. Avatar for Richard Dawkins Foundation 9. Richard Dawkins Foundation 23 pts. 9,604
  10. Avatar for UCD2010 10. UCD2010 19 pts. 9,601
  1. Avatar for jeremyf1234 301. jeremyf1234 Lv 1 49 pts. 9,552
  2. Avatar for Nachtrot 302. Nachtrot Lv 1 49 pts. 9,551
  3. Avatar for hkilik 303. hkilik Lv 1 49 pts. 9,550
  4. Avatar for jyp1001 304. jyp1001 Lv 1 49 pts. 9,547
  5. Avatar for Chris Anderson 305. Chris Anderson Lv 1 49 pts. 9,547
  6. Avatar for octomime 306. octomime Lv 1 49 pts. 9,546
  7. Avatar for maiti 307. maiti Lv 1 49 pts. 9,545
  8. Avatar for ni_ko 308. ni_ko Lv 1 49 pts. 9,545
  9. Avatar for jfgarcia 309. jfgarcia Lv 1 48 pts. 9,544
  10. Avatar for biosci 310. biosci Lv 1 48 pts. 9,544

Comments