Posted on 11/16/2008 9:56:07 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Proteins need a protected space to fold, and the cell provides it: the GroEL-GroES chaperone (see 05/05/2003, 06/07/2006, and 02/13/2007). More details keep coming in about this “protein dressing room” as scientists continue to probe its secrets. Two new papers in PNAS by a team at University of Maryland and College Park reveal that this is no passive cavity. The system acts like a two-stroke engine with two timers...
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Cool. My Vespa is making DNA!
Your Vespa has two timers!?!?!
I’m off to church. Will not be fielding questions/challenges until my return. God Bless!
saved for later reading, sounds fascinating. The cell machinery keeps getting looked at and ‘exposed’ as tiny machines.
Somebody’s gonna have some damn noisy cells.
I’ll be in the shower. Let me know if anything happens.
How did this system arise? One of the papers began with an oblique reference to evolution that raises more questions than it answers: “As with many other cellular machines, the chaperonin nanomachine has evolved to operate at variable speed in response to biological demand.” This puzzling statement seems to imply teleology – a sin in the world of Darwinian explanations. In neither paper, however, did the authors speculate on how a blind, purposeless process could have produced an optimized system as functionally efficient and complicated as the GroEL-GroES chaperone. Quite the contrary. The quote above used the word Design twice.
What these folks can't seem to understand is that these papers are describing simple feedback mechanisms. Nothing complicated about it!
You would think that folks would have grown wary of the god-in-the-gaps arguments by now, but they keep right on using them. I guess that's creation "science" for you, eh?
Two-stroke machine. Vespa.
I am aware Vespas run on two stroke engines. I was merely noting how surprising it would be if I were to find out that Vespa developed a second timing system to time the first!
But they did. All you need is a couple of square feet of tinfoil to discover it.
No doubt that is how you became such an authority on the subject.
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