# pdb geneoftheweek pdbekb 12genesofchristmas sicklecell sugartax nationalwatermelonday

This week's release unveils 242 new structures into the including 58 new sequences and 40 new ligands! One of the sweetest is this vanillic acid decarboxylase (7AE5) determined by X-ray crystallography. Find all new entries at: https://t.co/54E03LeH5m

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2021-08-26

Ectodysplasin-A is recognised by EDAR, 's and involved in signalling cell death. There are 2 structures in the PDB, representing 2 isoforms - binding to either EDAR or EDA2R. View the structures at https://t.co/JIS2po2O5u https://t.co/dgU0HbmMGr

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2020-01-28

Happy birthday to Thomas Cech, who won the Nobel prize for his discovery of catalytic RNA. He has 17 entries in the PDB, including this structure of the Tetrahymena ribozyme. View the structure using Mol* at https://t.co/V8gRdHZYle

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2019-12-08

The 10th of 's is ACE! A selection of drugs inhibit it, several of which are in the PDB, best explored in our Compounds tab
https://t.co/U2D0fduWiP

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2018-12-22

disease is caused by a glutamate to valine mutation at position 6 in the beta globin chain.
There are several structures of the sickle cell variant in the PDB, including https://t.co/Mbv89TCW8m

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2018-06-19

The comes into force today here in the UK. We've many sugars here in the PDB, all completely tax free!

https://t.co/z2cY7mzdRh

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2018-04-06

In the US, it's There's only 1 watermelon protein in the PDB, published in 2005 https://t.co/ZBQaf7OXTY

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2017-08-03