CELINE JOY
DELA CRUZ

Science Communicator & Designer
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Virus-Host Interactions
Bio Architecture
The Visible Human Project

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Membrane Protein Complex

2024

6WW7 is a membrane protein complex of multiple proteins that functions as a “guide” for other proteins to find locations within the lipid bilayer of a human cell. In addition, these protein complexes make the lipid bilayer more accessible by thinning the local area using positive charges to weaken the bilayer and allow for easier insertion.

The following protein complex was founded by Pleiner, T., et al, 2020.

Published journal: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb5008

Software: Blender, ChimeraX, RCSB PD, MemProtMD, Affinity Designer 2
Skills: 3D modeling, data visualization, information visualization, biomedical visualization

6WW7 membrane complex

Lipid bilayer of human cell

Behind the scenes: visualization of 6WW7 structure from RCSB PD database (left) and location of 6WW7 in lipid bilayer from MemProtMD (right)

The data of 6WW7’s structure was uploaded onto ChimeraX for editing and creating a 3D model, which was exported and used to make the final visualization in Blender

CELINE JOY DELA CRUZ

Membrane Protein Complex

CELINE JOY
DELA CRUZ