These drawings, which first appeared in the journal Advances in Protein Chemistry in 1981, became known as ribbon diagrams. Richardson’s drawing style was quickly adopted. Structural biologists ...

This pair of 'ribbon diagram' images compares the three-dimensional structures of two closely related proteins, determined by X-ray crystallography: (L) the HAP2 protein from the single-celled ...

Very quickly her "ribbon diagrams" became everybody's favorite way of representing proteins. Her drawings appeared on the covers of scholarly journals; she got a promotion at Duke, then tenure ...

Figure 1: Sequence alignment and ribbon diagram of the BeF 3 − –CheY–N16-FliM complex. Structure of BeF 3 − –CheY–N16-FliM The BeF 3 −-CheY–N16-FliM crystals contained three ...

Figure 1: Ribbon diagram of human OSC. The high-resolution crystal structures of human OSC provide for the first time a clear picture of the molecular mechanism of substrate entry and ...

Jane Richardson never considered herself an artist. Then, in the late 1970s, the structural biologist found herself in need of some colored pencils, pastels and sketching paper. Richardson, a ...

This ribbon diagram shows two views of the structure of the enzyme Tps2 as it removes a phosphate from a sugar molecule (yellow, orange and red). The result of this process is a sugar called ...