A Summary of Pirin
A Summary of Pirin I am not, as might become evidently clear a few sentences from now, a biologist. It is not my field of study and much of the nomenclature and visualizations go over my head. I am, however, extraordinarily fascinated by the field, and would be enthralled to be able to apply my mathematical and computational abilities to the area eventually. All this to say: I am still learning; a lot of the information in the databases I accessed were very heady for my understanding of biology, but hopefully I can manage to put together at least a few coherent strings of text with the help of the advanced biochemical technique known as “Right-click; search for definition”. On the most basic level Pirin is a nuclear protein encoded by the PIR gene (Wendler, Kremmer, Foerster, et al., 1997). That's all well and good, but what is the function of pirin? The answer to that question is, at the time, not so cut and dry. We currently know that Pirin, most likely, functions as an oxid...