These are images produced by the current and former members of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group. Select a category, or see all images below.
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Atomic model of the immature retroviral lattice of Rous Sarcoma Virus - Boon Chong Goh, 2014 (request)

HIV Virion - Thomas Splettstoesser, 2014 (request)

Lentiviral Capsid Prairie - Juan Perilla, 2014 (request)

Ribosome in Violet - Rezvan Shahoei, 2014 (request)

HIV Capsid - Juan Perilla, 2014 (request)

Maturation of Nudaurelia capensis omega Virus Capsid - Boon Chong Goh, 2014 (request)

Poliovirus-Receptor Complex - Ross Bodnar, 2014 (request)

Ribosome Decoding the Genetic Message - Eduard Schreiner (request)

Ribosomes - Kwok Yan Chan, 2014 (request)

RNA Exosome Under Water - Lela Vukovic, 2014 (request)

phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase - Yanxin Liu and Hang Yu, 2014 (request)

Tower of Babel in Neuron - Synaptotagmin - Zhe Wu, 2014 (request)

Chromatophore in Stained Glass - Melih Sener, 2014 (request)

Quantum Snowflakes: Orbitals in the bc1 Complex - Angela Barragan, 2014 (request)

bc1 Complex - Angela Barragan and Ilia Solov'yov, 2014 (request)

Chromatophore from Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria - Melih Sener, 2014 (request)

Springtime Polymers - Joao Ribeiro, 2014 (request)

Roadmap For Protein Folding - Wei Han, 2014 (request)

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: the Proteasome - Till Rudack, 2014 (request)

Cellulosome Forest - Rafael Bernardi, 2014 (request)

Amyloid Plaque from Alzheimer’s Brain - Wei Han, 2014 (request)

Chemotactic Sensory Array - Keith Cassidy, 2014 (request)

Biofuels polymer - Joao Ribeiro, 2014 (request)

Structure of Fibril Formed by Amyloid-beta Proteins - Wei Han, 2014 (request)

Cellulosomes - Rafael Bernardi, 2014 (request)

Bacterial Chemoreceptor Array from Thermotoga maritima - Keith Cassidy, 2014 (request)

Electron Transfer in Cryptochrome - Ilia Solov'yov, 2014 (request)

Ions Diffusing Through a Discretized MscS - Ivan Teo, 2014 (request)

Hexameric Helicases Loading Onto mRNA - Wen Ma(request)

Hexameric Helicase - Wen Ma, 2014 (request)

Membrane capturing coagulation protein domain - Taras V. Pogorelov, Y. Zenmei Ohkubo, 2014 (request)

Poliovirus - Ross Bodnar, 2013 (request)

HIV-1 capsid 'in vitro' and 'in silico' - Juan R. Perilla, Gongpu Zhao, Angela Gronenborn and Peijun Zhang, 2013 (request)

Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus capsid - Yanxin Liu, 2013 (request)

HIV Capsid - Juan Perilla, 2013 (request)

HIV capsid in glass envelope - Juan Perilla, 2013 (request)

HIV capsid in glass envelope - Juan Perilla, 2013 (request)

Antibiotics and bacterial ribosome - Kwok-Yan Chan, 2013 (request)

Nascent peptide chain diffusion around SecY channel - Ivan Teo, 2013 (request)

Protein binding to methylated DNA - Ilia Solov'yov and Chris Chipot, 2013 (request)

Formation of end-to-end DNA filaments - Christopher Maffeo, 2013 (request)

Membrane Tubulation - Hang Yu, 2013 (request)

Photosynthetic Chromatophore - Melih Sener, 2013 (request)

Photosynthetic Chromatophore - Melih Sener, 2013 (request)

Artistic visualization of analyzing a protein with the Timeline plugin - Barry Isralewitz, 2013 (request)

Magnetoreceptor protein cryptochrome - Ilia Solov'yov, 2013 (request)

Multiple folding pathways of protein - Wei Han, 2013 (request)

Lung surfactant protein, an influenza virus inhibitor - Boon Chong Goh, 2013 (request)

Lung surfactant protein fights influenza A virus - Xueqing Zou, 2013 (request)

Hexameric Helicase - Wen Ma, 2013 (request)

Membrane capturing coagulation protein domain - Taras V. Pogorelov, Y. Zenmei Ohkubo, 2013 (request)

DNA binds to single-walled nanotube - Xueqing Zou, 2013 (request)

Atomic model of kinase sensor - Eduardo Cruz-Chu, 2013 (request)

Cylindrical HIV capsid protein assembly - Juan Perilla, 2012 (request)

Mechanosensitive channel of small conductance (MscS) - Ramya Gamini and Chris Chipot, 2012 (request)

Creation of a Nascent Membrane Protein by the Ribosome - Bo Liu, 2012 (request)

DNA Methylation - Xueqing Zou, Philip Severin, 2012 (request)

SNARE-Mediated Membrane Fusion - Andrew Blanchard, 2012 (request)

Chromatophore from Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria - Johan Strumpfer, Melih Sener, 2012 (request)

The pigment-protein complexes of purple bacteria - LH1-RC and LH2s - Johan Strumpfer, 2012 (request)

LH1 monomer surrounded by LH2s (request)

Folding of λ-repressor - Yanxin Liu, 2012 (request)

Integrin αIIbβ3 Ectodomains in Bent Conformation - Keith Cassidy, 2012 (request)

Vision-based Avian Magnetoreception - Ilia A. Solov'yov, 2012 (request)

Symmetric Chaperone Mm-cpn - Kwok-Yan Chan, 2012 (request)

Ternary bilayer composed of 45% POPC, 35% POPS, and 20% POPE randomly distributed in both leaflets - Marc Arcario (request)

Micelle composed entirely of lyso-PC - Marc Arcario (request)

A 10 nm vesicle composed of randomly distributed POPC and POPS lipids - Marc Arcario (request)

DNA Translocation Through Graphene Nanopores - Chaitanya Sathe, Xueqing Zou, 2012 (request)

Determining of the mechanical stability of methylated DNA by molecular force assay measurements - Xueqing Zou, 2012 (request)

DNA translocating through a graphene nanopore - Chaitanya Sathe, 2012 (request)

Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus - John Stone, 2011 (request)

Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus - Johan Strumpfer, 2011 (request)

Electrostatic Potential of a Voltage-gated Potassium Channel - Fatemeh Khalili, 2011 (request)

Mechanosensitive channel of small conductance I - Ramya Gamini, 2011 (request)

Ribosome Decoding the Genetic Message - Eduard Schreiner, 2011 (request)

Creation of a Nascent Membrane Protein - James Gumbart, 2011 (request)

High Density Lipoprotein Transporting Cholesterol - Amy Shih, 2011 (request)

Chromatophore Vesicle in Purple Bacteria - Melih Sener, 2011 (request)

The Fenna-Matthews-Olson Trimer - Johan Strumpfer, 2011 (request)

GPIbα-VWF Complex - Xueqing Zou and Yanxin Liu, 2011 (request)

The Molecular Rubber Band in Muscle - Jen Hsin and Eric Lee, 2011 (request)

Helicase representation produced by the molecular dynamics flexible fitting method - Chris Harrison, 2011 (request)

Molecular Motor Protein Myosin VI - Jen Hsin and Yanxin Liu, 2011 (request)

Full structure of satellite tobacco mosaic virus, complete with protein, RNA, ions, and a small water box - Anton Arkhipov and Peter Freddolino, 2009 (request)

Voltage-gated Potassium Channel - Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi, 2009 (request)

Lactose permease (LacY) Conducting Sugar - Ying Yin, 2009 (request)

The ribosome binds to SecY in the membrane preceding protein translocation - James Gumbart, 2009 (request)

All-atom model of the T. thermophilus ribosome - Leonardo Trabuco, 2009 (request)

Capture of a large molecular machine by a small channel - James Gumbart, 2009 (request)

Anticodon-codon binding opens a gate in EF-Tu (request)

Sculpting of Cellular Membrane by BAR Proteins - Ying Yin and Anton Arkhipov, 2009 (request)

Lipoprotein Assembly - Amy Shih, 2009 (request)

Double-belt model discoidal high-density lipoproteins which can be used as platforms for embedding membrane proteins - Amy Shih, 2009 (request)

Mature spherical HDL circulates in the blood collecting cholesterol - Amy Shih, 2009 (request)

Chromatophore Capturing Sunlight - Melih Sener, Chris Harrison, and Jen Hsin, 2009 (request)

Tube of Light Harvesting Protein - Jen Hsin and Melih Sener (background photo courtesy of Sias van Schalkwyk), 2009 (request)

LH2 Proteins Induce Membrane Curvature - Danielle Chandler, 2009 (request)

Fibrinogen, the Protein Building Block of a Blood Clot - Eric Lee, 2009 (request)

Molecular Orbital of C60 Fullerene - Jan Saam (request)

All-atom model of the polivirus capsid with 60 receptors bound to the capsid (request)

Gas Molecules Commute Into Cell - Jordi Cohen, 2007 (request)

Multiple BAR domains work collectively to produce global membrane curvature - Ying Yin and Anton Arkhipov, 2007 (request)

All-atom vs coarse-grained model of a high-density lipoprotein - Amy Shih, 2007 (request)

Molecular Sushi Roll - Amy Shih, 2007 (request)

Mopping Up Lipids in the Blood: Assembly of discoidal HDL - Amy Shih, 2007 (request)

Modeling of the GB1 protein in its crystallopgraphically resolved symmetry, 2007 (request)

Crystal structure of the RNA from satellite tobacco mosaic virus, with an artificial nucleic acid sequence. Adenine residues are shown in yellow, and uracil in red (request)

Lactose permease (LacY) is an integral membrane protein that uses the cell membrane's proton gradient for import of lactose - Ying Yin, 2006 (request)

The open (yellow) and closed (green) state of the water channel SoPIP2;1 in spinach - Yi Wang, 2006 (request)

Estrogen receptor dimer - DNA complex, 2006 (request)

Holliday junction and endonuclease - Jin Yu, 2006 (request)

High density lipoprotein - Jim Phillips, 2006 (request)

Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) and the purple membrane - Emad Tajkhorshid, 2006 (request)

Molecular view of the Light, Oxygen, and Voltage domain of C. reinhardtii - Markus Dittrich, 2006 (request)

Titin Z1Z2-Telethonin Complex - Eric Lee, 2006 (request)

A prototype molecular motor translocating along ssDNA: PcrA helicase in complex with DNA and ATP - Jin Yu, 2006 (request)

Nano-meter size pore drilled into a metal oxide superconductor membrane - Eduardo Cruz-Chu, 2006 (request)

Ionic conduction through amorphous nano-meter size silica pore - Eduardo Cruz-Chu, 2006 (request)

Conformational model of the Holliday junction transition deduced from molecular dynamics simulations - Jin Yu, 2005 (request)

Aquaporin - Emad Tajkhorshid, 2004 (request)

Aquaporin - Emad Tajkhorshid, 2004 (request)

Lac Repressor Binding to DNA - Elizabeth Villa, 2004 (request)

Lac Repressor Binding to DNA - Elizabeth Villa, 2004 (request)

Lac Repressor Binding to DNA - Elizabeth Villa, 2004 (request)

Lac Repressor Binding to DNA - Elizabeth Villa, 2004 (request)

Trimeric cyanobacterial photosystem I - Melih Sener, 2004 (request)

Trimeric cyanobacterial photosystem I - Melih Sener, 2004 (request)

Single-file line of water molecules as they progress through the aquaporin channel - Emad Tajkhorshid, 2002 (request)

Excitation transfer in the bacterial photosynthetic unit - Xiche Hu, 1998 (request)

Arrangement of pigment-protein complexes in the modeled bacterial PSU of Rb. sphaeroides - Xiche Hu, 1998 (request)