alt Hacker NewsHelical proteins are quite ubiquitous in biology, that part of the discovery seems inconsequential.
Seems to me that #3 is the whole story. That was the key insight, the thing that was never known before. The secret to how life replicates.
Helical proteins are quite ubiquitous in biology, that part of the discovery seems inconsequential.
Seems to me that #3 is the whole story. That was the key insight, the thing that was never known before. The secret to how life replicates.
Specifically the antiparallel base matching was the important bit, agreed, but minor nitpick. The first alpha helix wasn't solved until 1951, so one year earlier. Their ubiquity was very novel.