What is protein folding?

Our special guest, Spencer, wonders what protein folding is, and Linh and Dimitri try their best to explain it… slowly…

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References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home
• https://foldingathome.org
• Community science program
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzcTgrxMzZk
• Motor Protein

Errata:

• Nucleotides used in RNA: C (cytosine), G (guanine), A (adenine), U (uracil)
• Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)