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PDB Turns 48

10/20 

The PDB was announced on October 20, 1971 in Crystallography: Protein Data Bank Nature New Biology 233: 223 (1971) doi: 10.1038/newbio233223b0.

RCSB PDB News ImageThe October 2011 Molecule of the Month looks at the structures available in the archive's early days: myoglobin, hemoglobin, lysozyme, carboxypeptidase, subtilisin, chymotrypsin, papain, pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, lactate dehydrogenase, rubredoxin, and cytochrome b5.

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RCSB PDB News ImageUpdated from The Protein Data Bank at 40: Reflecting on the Past to Prepare for the Future (2012) Structure 20: 391–396.

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