Here are several different views of the protein.
This first view is called a "cartoon" view, which shows the secondary structures. There are a lot of beta sheets, apparently, in nueraminadase.
The next view shows each one of the elements as spheres. The protein has horns!
This is called the "mesh" view. Stretchy looking!
This view is colored by element. There are a lot of carbons (green) and some hydrogens (blue).
Awesome; hope you had fun exploring different views of neuraminadase with me!
That looks like an interesting protein, Lauren. I believe the "horns" are lipids that were co-crystallized w/ the structure.
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