Monday's Molecule #88

 
For this week's quiz you need to identify the top molecule. The bottom one is a hint so you can get the correct molecule.

There's a connection between today's molecule and a Nobel Prize but the connection is indirect. I'm looking for the person who discovered the molecule. This person won the Nobel Prize for the discovery and for identifying the function but, as it turns out, the function was incorrect.

The first one to correctly identify the molecule and name the Nobel Laureate, wins a free lunch at the Faculty Club. Previous winners are ineligible for one month from the time they first collected the prize. There are three ineligible candidates for this week's reward. You know who you are.

THEME:

Nobel Laureates
Send your guess to Sandwalk (sandwalk (at) bioinfo.med.utoronto.ca) and I'll pick the first email message that correctly identifies the molecule and names the Nobel Laureate(s). Note that I'm not going to repeat Nobel Laureate(s) so you might want to check the list of previous Sandwalk postings by clicking on the link in the theme box.

Correct responses will be posted tomorrow. I reserve the right to select multiple winners if several people get it right.

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UPDATE: We have a winner! Dima Klenchin from the University of Wisconsin figured out that the molecule was cytochrome c from some organism. (It was tuna, Thunnus alalungo, PDB 5CYT.) The Nobel Laureate was difficult but Dima uses scientific reasoning to get the correct answer: Otto Warburg (1931). Congratulations Dima!

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