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Figure 5
Iconic images of the biological atomic world: Image Vitae. (a) The B-DNA `atomic rose window'. The structure of DNA is undoubtedly one of the icons of the atomic description of the biological world in the 20th century. It has been presented and illustrated in multiple images and contexts. The suggestive `atomic rose window' or `electronic rose window' presented by Langridge and coworkers using early computer graphics (Langridge et al. 1981  ) is particularly relevant. From Langridge et al. (1981). Reprinted with permission from AAAS. (b) The 39-fold view of the vault structure. Going beyond what Gauss demonstrated to be possible geometrically, vaults present a cylindrical enclosure with 39 2 (D39) symmetry (Tanaka et al., 2009). The red tracings indicate one polypeptide chain that generates the enclosure by the close point-group symmetry; the perpendicular twofold repeats generate the top and bottom of the cylindrical enclosure. View along the higher symmetry axis. High-resolution image courtesy of Professor T. Tsukihara, H. Tanaka and colleagues. |
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