Catabolite Gene Activator Protein and DNA

A three-dimensional computer model of a detail of a molecule of gene activator protein and a strand of DNA. The image was generated by Dr. Manuel C. Peitsch at the Glaxo Institute for Molecular Biology in Geneva, Switzerland. The images are derived from the coordinate entries of the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 11973-5000), generated with the program RIBBONS (Mike Carson, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Center for Macromolecular Cystallography, 252 BHS, 79 THT University Station Birmingham, AL 35294), and annotated with IRIS-ShowCase (Silicon Graphics Inc). It is an interpretation of the content of the Data Bank entries as deposited by the crystallographers. The goal of the image is to provide a static image of the molecule which summarizes a maximum of information contained in the Brookhaven data files (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)