page_title: List of biophysically important macromolecular crystal structures
section_title: Transfer RNA
hierarchical_section_title: List of biophysically important macromolecular crystal structures / Transfer RNA
caption_attribution_description: English: Ribbon schematic (hand drawn &amp; colored, in 1981) of the 3D structure of the protein triose phosphate isomerase. The barrel of 8 beta-strands is shown by green arrows and the 8 alpha-helices as brown spirals. By Jane Richardson.
context_page_description: Crystal structures of protein and nucleic acid molecules and their complexes are central to the practice of most parts of biophysics, and have shaped much of what we understand scientifically at the atomic-detail level of biology. Their importance is underlined by the United Nations declaring 2014 as the International Year of Crystallography, as the 100th anniversary of Max von Laue's 1914 Nobel prize for discovering the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. This chronological list of biophysically notable protein and nucleic acid structures is loosely based on a review in the Biophysical Journal. The list includes all the first dozen distinct structures, those that broke new ground in subject or method, and those that became model systems for work in future biophysical areas of research.
context_section_description: 1976 - Transfer RNA
caption: TIM ribbon drawing, PDB 1tim
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