Files
Download Full Text (33.8 MB)
Description
Ig domain #2CKN. This particular domain is named for the first protein in which it was found, the immunoglobulin. An immunoglobulin is a antibody. Antibodies are generated by our immune system to recognize the specific size, shape and charge of pathogens. This domain is also found on the extracellular portion of many receptors including the interleukin-1 family of receptors.
Publication Date
1-23-2013
Keywords
biochemistry, protein, teaching
Disciplines
Biochemistry | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology | Bioinformatics | Life Sciences | Molecular Biology
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Find in Thingiverse
Recommended Citation
Hall, David J., "Ig Domain" (2013). Protein Domains. 6.
https://lux.lawrence.edu/chem_proteindomain/6
Instructions
Students learn in many different ways. One important way to learn is tactile. Some people learn best by actually touching three-dimensional models. In biochemistry classes, students usually visualize protein structures using programs such as pymol, rasmol etc. For teaching protein structure and function, I have paired 3D printed models with pymol visualization in an iPad.
There are over 40 different protein domains. The three dimensional structure of proteins and their domains is determined by x-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The 3D coordinates of each atom in a domain is determined and provided in a protein database (PDB) format. The PDB files for every protein structure ever determined are freely available at PDB.org. Below is an explanation of how to take a PDB file and convert it to an STL file.
Convert pdb to stl file
Select structure from pdb.org
open VMD 1.9.1 (ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/)
Load pdb file →file “new molecule”
“graphics” → representations → drawing method “tube”
Radius 1.5
Resolution 10
Display →axes → off
File→ render → “enter file name” → STL → render
Open in replicator G
Scale to appropriate size (many times very small and unseeable!)
Upload to cloud.nettfabb.com to fix stl
Slice and print!