freshphotons: As the largest known protein, titin also has the longest IUPAC name. The full chemical name, which starts methionyl… and ends …isoleucine, contains 189,819 letters and is sometimes stated to be the longest word in the English language, or any language. while interesting, this is probably the most misleading picture I’ve seen in my life. Length of titin: 34,350 amino acids Length of PDB id 1bpv (shown in picture): 112 amino acids That is, the picture is 0.3% of the protein.  Wikipedia should be ashamed of showing this picture.  It’s roughly equivalent to a picture of Maryland representing the US.

freshphotons:

As the largest known protein, titin also has the longest IUPAC name. The full chemical name, which starts methionyl… and ends …isoleucine, contains 189,819 letters and is sometimes stated to be the longest word in the English language, or any language.

while interesting, this is probably the most misleading picture I’ve seen in my life.

Length of titin: 34,350 amino acids

Length of PDB id 1bpv (shown in picture): 112 amino acids

That is, the picture is 0.3% of the protein.  Wikipedia should be ashamed of showing this picture.  It’s roughly equivalent to a picture of Maryland representing the US.