How our cells (nearly) perfected making nanobots

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  • @Nanorooms
    @Nanorooms  3 місяці тому +7

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    • @Ascintony
      @Ascintony 3 місяці тому +1

      Hey I have a question. If the hydrophobic regions of the proteins are on the inside, then how do membrane proteins have a hydrophobic outer region enabling them to be inserted in the lipid bilayer?

  • @enestaylan118
    @enestaylan118 3 місяці тому +114

    This is just a correction for sickle cell disease: the mutation is on the 6th amino acid of the beta chain of hemoglobin, which causes glutamic acid to be replaced by valine, not lysine.

    • @differentone_p
      @differentone_p 3 місяці тому +8

      🤓☝️

    • @kiuk_kiks
      @kiuk_kiks 3 місяці тому +1

      Great correction on a disease that evolved in (west) Africa and spread to the rest of Africa and a few places in Asia through black migrations there.

    • @yayforfood100
      @yayforfood100 3 місяці тому +18

      @@differentone_pur the one commenting on a video about protein folding, 🤓

    • @romainbourque
      @romainbourque 17 днів тому

      yup, or a charging cable that can last more than 2 months

  • @natsora6466
    @natsora6466 Місяць тому +4

    2:36 Wish you spent more time talking about the funnel shaped energy landscape, which is the true MVP in protein folding. Cyrus Levinthal once estimated that a protein has 10^300 different conformations, and that it would take MANY times longer than the AGE OF THE UNIVERSE to fold into the native state... but this ONLY holds true if we assume a FLAT energy landscape (such as for intrinsically disordered proteins). A funnel shaped landscape ensures that regardless of the starting conformation, unfolded proteins (almost) always fold into the correct conformation in a timely manner, just like how a ball rolls down a hill. The other things you mentioned (ribosome, chaperones, ubiquitin proteasome system) are indeed important, but the energy landscape comes first

  • @mrjesuschrist2u
    @mrjesuschrist2u 3 місяці тому +19

    10^30 possibility only takes millions of years? If you tried a new fold every second for 10^30 tries.....The protein folding problem is very interesting when it comes to origins of life on earth, time is a huge hurdle. For every 1 properly folded protein there are 10^77 non-functional(axe, 2010). Without DNA/RNA the possibility of folding into a functional protein is even worse. The math is not friendly if you appreciate the magnitude of the numbers.

    • @shannontaylor1849
      @shannontaylor1849 2 місяці тому +2

      This has been explained ad nauseum. These substances have no goal, but they do have a filtered funnel to select for advantages. It's like hitting from the tee every stroke until one finally goes in vs hitting the 2nd shot from where the first shot landed, etc.

    • @Akazon
      @Akazon 2 місяці тому +2

      Yeah but it even gets crazier that proteins somehow fold together in a specific way and RIGHT time to function
      What would be the odds?? I cant even wrap my mind around that

    • @shannontaylor1849
      @shannontaylor1849 2 місяці тому

      @@Akazon The odds are 1 in 1. This has already been explained.

    • @mrjesuschrist2u
      @mrjesuschrist2u 2 місяці тому +4

      @@shannontaylor1849 lmao where did you learn statistics? You tried to sound smart "explained ad nauseum" . Not only don't you understand the stats/maths but you don't understand the chem/bio complexity. Flipping a coins, rolling dice or shuffling a deck of cards, it doesn't have a goal and even if you got partially correct outcomes the products aren't stable so you don't get to keep the parts of the product you like and build off it. The protein problem and cellular development in general suffer from this irreducible complexity. You hit from the tee in new random direction Everytime. You role the 20 sided dice Everytime. You flip all 150 coins at once Everytime. That's just to make 1 protein and you need multiple proteins at once. The conditions on early earth were hostile, the swing, flip, or roll may be your only shot.
      Imagine golfing while drunk and blind folded. You can have as many swings as you want once you get out of the gold cart.
      You put a lot of faith in this "filtered funnel" lol

    • @mrjesuschrist2u
      @mrjesuschrist2u 2 місяці тому +1

      @@shannontaylor1849 1 in 1 is 100% .... You meant 1 to 1 (or 1:1) which is 50/50 lol. That's if you did one factor at a time and they only had 2 possibly outcomes, neither of which is accurate or useful in this scenario.

  • @amelieschreiber6502
    @amelieschreiber6502 3 місяці тому +14

    At about 2:45 you mention that there is only one correct conformation for any given protein. There are about 1%-4% of proteins with multiple metastable conformations. These are called metamorphic proteins, or sometimes "fold-switchers". This is why AI models like Distributional Graphormer exist, to sample the Boltzmann distribution.

  • @AlanZucconi
    @AlanZucconi 3 місяці тому +5

    Thank you for making this, I really enjoyed it! 🧬
    Can I ask which software did you use to render and animate the proteins?

  • @jpphoton
    @jpphoton 2 місяці тому

    Excellent presentation and synopsis - clear and no fluff. Tanks

  • @peterwhite8424
    @peterwhite8424 2 місяці тому +7

    Lego bricks arranged themselves more or less random and somehow our consciousness pops out in it

  • @Clockworkbio
    @Clockworkbio 3 місяці тому +6

    Such a sick setup for an AlphaFold video! Really excited to see what you’re building towards!

    • @danielnoon4032
      @danielnoon4032 Місяць тому +1

      yoo clockwork! I'm only on this video because your plant series kick-started an interest in molecular biochemistry. thank you for your efforts and I'm so excited for the rest of season 2!

    • @Clockworkbio
      @Clockworkbio Місяць тому

      @@danielnoon4032 really glad my videos catalyzed you enough to get to the big leagues in here! Nano is KILLER at helping folks understand the big math concepts in bio. MASTER THE CALC. RUB IT IN NEWTON'S FACE.

  • @kacemtoubal3580
    @kacemtoubal3580 3 місяці тому +14

    Hello everyone,
    It's been a long time since I've been on NanoRooms, I hope you are doing well, and I really hope to reveal the mystery of my question:
    How do our cells know that a specific protein has mutated?
    I appreciate your effort and time in making those videos, it is magnificent work. Thanks for everything!

    • @coldmossonarock7743
      @coldmossonarock7743 2 місяці тому +2

      If an aminoacid is replaced by an incorrect one during translation, even if on the catalytic site. The cell doesnt usually cares, for it makes hundreds of proteins per hour. It is always on the DNA level where it is always looking for and correcting missmatches and various types of mutations (even having different enzymes for different mutations types). As for how does the cell does that, it really depends on what caused the mutation and what effect it had on the DNA.

    • @ch1pnd413
      @ch1pnd413 Місяць тому

      The proteins that do the cell’s protein production has a double-check mechanism ensuring the code found in the dna matches up to the proper amino acid. In DNA, a set of 3 base pairs in the DNA codes for a specific amino acid or a start or a stop “codon” or encoding region.

  • @br3nto
    @br3nto 3 місяці тому +8

    Wow. It really does seem like a 3D version of a Turing machine at multiple scales. First at the DNA scale, then at the protein chain scale with the alphabet being the different forces. That’s pretty cool. Then at the level of the completed proteins, etc etc etc.

    • @johnnuaxon3
      @johnnuaxon3 3 місяці тому

      Holographic principle tells that information is encoded in 2d and 3d is a hologram

    • @IsaacMorton
      @IsaacMorton Місяць тому

      Makes me wonder why we aren't trying to harness it for computation

    • @br3nto
      @br3nto Місяць тому

      @@IsaacMorton I agree. I suspect no one who gets taught biology has made the connection. Or maybe they have but they can’t do anything useful with it. I doubt many biologists or geneticists would have also studied computer science and computational mathematics.

  • @OzGoober
    @OzGoober 3 місяці тому +1

    Great work!

  • @alsund1866
    @alsund1866 2 місяці тому

    I always thought that proteins each had only one way to fold but now hearing that they can accidently fold in so many other ways is really eye opening

  • @ShauryaAlapati
    @ShauryaAlapati 3 місяці тому +8

    ive been waiting for these to come out

  • @MusingsFromTheJohn00
    @MusingsFromTheJohn00 2 місяці тому +1

    The information for a human being or other multicellular animal is not only stored in the DNA. The DNA is one long term memory system within a cell but not the only one. One major point of this is that scientifically we know beyond a reasonable doubt that there is a swarm intelligence going on inside cells and between cells, but we only have a partial understanding of how this works and there are a number of aspects to it we completely do not know. On the other hand, we know enough to be able to see that it will be only a matter of time before we do fully understand this, whether it takes 10 years, 100 years, or a 1,000 years to gain such full understanding.

  • @Witcheridoo
    @Witcheridoo 3 місяці тому +6

    Your visuals always amaze me

  • @tcaDNAp
    @tcaDNAp 3 місяці тому +4

    Prof. Thibault Mayor has the coolest vibe and great production in this video 🙌

  • @zachreyhelmberger894
    @zachreyhelmberger894 Місяць тому

    Wow! great Stuff!

  • @gleb7186
    @gleb7186 3 місяці тому +3

    Do we know why some misfolded proteins causing other proteins to do the same (like in mad cow disease)? At least a theory?

    • @cjdabes
      @cjdabes 3 місяці тому +6

      An example of this, as you mentioned with Mad Cow, are prions. Some misfolded proteins induce misfolding in other normally folded proteins because many proteins in cells homomultimerize to some extent - this refers to when multiple copies of the same protein interact with one another to form a multi-unit complex. An example of this would be the Spike on the surface of SARS-CoV-2, which is a homotrimer (3 copies of the Spike protein bound together). Proteins multimerize like this because certain amino acids on an interface of the protein are compatible with amino acids on the surface of other copies, enabling them to interact.
      In the case of the human prion protein (PrP), the normal fold has a series of alpha-helices formed by the amino acid series; however, when misfolded into a prion form, many of these helices become beta-strands that form a sort of solenoid structure. Both ends of this solenoid structure likely serve as points at which more proteins can be induced to misfold, ultimately leading to polymerization of proteins at these ends that form cytotoxic fibrils in neurons. Here is a short article about prion structures from Virology Blog, if you'd like to read more.
      virology.ws/2016/09/15/structure-of-an-infectious-prion/
      As to the exact mechanistic underpinnings of how the prion induces misfolding of normally folded proteins, I'm not sure that's been uncovered in detail yet. Hope that helps.

  • @No2AI
    @No2AI 3 місяці тому +2

    Advanced Chemistry machines …. That is all we are .

  • @ultrasoft5555
    @ultrasoft5555 3 місяці тому +2

    Would be worth to mention intrinsically disordered proteins

  • @grygoriyzolotarov3228
    @grygoriyzolotarov3228 3 місяці тому +4

    I love your channel

  • @Valgween
    @Valgween 3 місяці тому +1

    2:48 laughs in intrinsically disordered proteins.

  • @jorgearango6108
    @jorgearango6108 2 місяці тому

    Extraordinary

  • @charadremur333
    @charadremur333 3 місяці тому +7

    Finely another video! 25 minutes ago nonetheless. I would love a video on how some of these misfolded proteins cause others to misfold.

  • @NeidlichesSchwert
    @NeidlichesSchwert Місяць тому

    New narrator now!

  • @fnnnn5986
    @fnnnn5986 3 місяці тому +2

    Thank you DNA polymerase for keeping us alive

  • @cozumel5608
    @cozumel5608 3 місяці тому +3

    oh thanks

  • @Ousmanedembele811Tbos
    @Ousmanedembele811Tbos 2 місяці тому +1

    This information makes me feel fragile. 😂

  • @diabmourani9601
    @diabmourani9601 3 місяці тому +1

    that's so great i cannot wait until humanity will be able to defeat disease for ever

  • @bradhilton2283
    @bradhilton2283 2 місяці тому

    That is some very interesting stuff.

  • @pyropulseIXXI
    @pyropulseIXXI 3 місяці тому +3

    My major was physics but I took many major level biology courses because I was interested in it.
    It seems to me that protein folding and all this stuff is just a model that happens to explain things satisfactorily to a human mind.
    We have a disease that we say is caused by misfolded proteins. We have a drug that ‘treats’ this disease, so we say that the drug is helping the proteins to fold correctly.
    But how do we actually know all this? We don’t (since we cannot observe it, only pseudo-observe it); it is just a model we use, but this model may not have any relation to the actual truth of what is actually going on.
    Beyond that, it is likely not even possible to know for sure what is going on, so a model that gives sufficient explanatory power is all that we can hope for.
    But there are infinite models that could work on doing this job, so why did we pick the one we are correctly using?
    It is because that is the path humans happened to go down, and we build off prior work, so we keep building an ever increasingly complicated edifice.
    It is like this in physics, too, but many don’t like to admit it. They claim we are discovering actual truths rather than just constructing a model that happens to work, a model that is just one of many.
    But we cannot probe those other models because it takes the effort of thousands upon thousands of humans all building off each others work.
    For instance, we claim the higgs bosom was ‘discovered,’ but what was actually seen? Just a small blip/deviation on a graph that has nothing to do with any actual observations of particles (because such observations are impossible).
    With a complicated mathematical framework and statistics, we can say the model that uses higgs bosons ‘predicated’ such a blip would occur, therefore the higgs boson exists.
    But there are an infinite number of mathematical models that can generate such a blip, thereby ‘predicting’ whatever we want via the injection of an explanation that is attached to the predictive model.
    Science claims to be empirical, but it isn’t entirely (and isn’t mostly). It is far more in the depths of rationalism, using 1% of ‘observations’ to claim stuff exists we never observed, just because our rationalism-generated model has a blip, and we observe a blip, therefore this thing we never saw, but attached to the blip via our model, exists.
    It is like this in molecular biology. I can observe the projectile motion of a baseball; I cannot observe anything on a molecular scale.
    It is all just rationalism, where 99% of stuff we believe in isn’t ever observed. But we observe something that our model attaches to the thing we cannot observe, and then we claim the thing we cannot observe has been observed (via the model) and that it therefore exists.
    Same with these proteins and protein folding, and drug interactions.
    We cannot observe how drugs actually work, so it is just a story we tell ourselves of how it works.
    If we could actually observe such interactions, we’d know how all drugs work, just as easily as observing someone throwing a ball, or how a mechanical watch works (actually observe it, not pseudo-observe it).
    But since we can’t, we don’t know how anesthesia works…. until we create a model that explains it, then we claim to know how it works (when we don’t; we just know how the model works).
    The model is not reality, so don’t confuse the model for reality.

    • @98danielray
      @98danielray 3 місяці тому +2

      good job rediscovering philosophy of science

  • @vincentcleaver1925
    @vincentcleaver1925 3 місяці тому +1

    Statistics! Or, as chemistry students used to joke, sadistics!

  • @ramanShariati
    @ramanShariati 3 місяці тому +2

    quality is LEGENDARY

  • @Jia-944
    @Jia-944 3 місяці тому

    just out of curiosity , type of protein (intrinsic disoriented proteins) does not have a specific shape, is it possible to predict its structure😢

  • @IB4UUB4ME
    @IB4UUB4ME 2 місяці тому

    I’m sure that there won’t be any argue I g here over who is right and who is not, right people? 😂 😂🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Unfortunately they were perfect at one time, and will be again.

  • @jIMwILLIAMS-im7kk
    @jIMwILLIAMS-im7kk 27 днів тому

    Clearly a cell swirled into functionality by a random lightning strike to a mud filled ditch and of course time! As we know massive stretches of time always increases functionality and vigor!!

  • @Ascintony
    @Ascintony 3 місяці тому +2

    Hey I have a question. If the hydrophobic regions of the proteins are on the inside, then how do membrane proteins have a hydrophobic outer region enabling then to be inserted in the lipid bilayer?

    • @SlavTiger
      @SlavTiger 2 місяці тому +1

      pretty sure the hydrophilic side is faced out and the hydrophobic side is faced inside the bilayer, making the two hydrophobic sides point at each other.

    • @Ascintony
      @Ascintony 2 місяці тому

      @@SlavTiger the membrane channel transport polar substances like ions and water because of it's inner hydrophilic parts. They are also inserted in the hydrophobic lipid bilayer due to it's outer hydrophobic parts. It's the opposite of the proteins inside the cell, whish has a hydrophilic outside and hydrophobic inside.
      My only confusion is how the membrane proteins are made.

    • @SlavTiger
      @SlavTiger 2 місяці тому

      @@Ascintony ohhhh i was confused on that bit, i wonder if the channel substances are attracted more strongly to the membrane than they are the water by some means, or if it's more mechanically fit in like an eyelet

    • @Ascintony
      @Ascintony 2 місяці тому

      @@SlavTiger I'm not really sure which is more attractive but the transport substances(ions and polar molecules) eventually move into the cell which is made up of water and are used for metabolic reactions

    • @Ascintony
      @Ascintony 2 місяці тому

      @@SlavTiger are you studying a course related to biology or something

  • @SlavTiger
    @SlavTiger 2 місяці тому +1

    can you make a video talking about prp and dopple?

  • @Khashayarissi-ob4yj
    @Khashayarissi-ob4yj 3 місяці тому

    With luck and more power of you.

  • @Jia-944
    @Jia-944 3 місяці тому

    Hi,I just want to say that your videos are soooooo amazing! ❤❤❤I am a high school student from china, I have long been wondering if using fundamental formulas like physic!!
    I really hope more people could know about this amazing topic therefore I am wondering if i could get your permission to share your videos on a Chinese video platform Bilibili, so more people would be able to access this amazing topic!!!😊❤

  • @jinanren2026
    @jinanren2026 3 місяці тому +1

    nanomachines son.

  • @evgenigenev5958
    @evgenigenev5958 2 місяці тому

    What program do you use to make these animations

  • @empmachine
    @empmachine 3 місяці тому

    Hydrophobic VDWs eh? Sure you aren't buzzwording a bit?? ;p
    Great video!

  • @jdkingsley6543
    @jdkingsley6543 2 місяці тому

    It blows my mind that we can study something like this but cant solve some of humanities other issues. Like poverty- just amazing b

  • @LPesi-eh3qi
    @LPesi-eh3qi 2 місяці тому

    Great video! I really would want to know what kind of study you did to gain this knowlodge, im a software development student, i hope to hear from you

  • @kaba1996
    @kaba1996 3 місяці тому +1

    Let's goo!

  • @hobocraft0
    @hobocraft0 3 місяці тому +1

    😍

  • @bataalexander9703
    @bataalexander9703 3 місяці тому

    If a protein is prone to misfolding, then perhaps its primary structure is not optimal, there has to be a better one.

  • @SB-nd4yv
    @SB-nd4yv 3 місяці тому +1

    suberb!

  • @hamzaabu-zaid2596
    @hamzaabu-zaid2596 2 місяці тому

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUG

  • @franciscomendoza754
    @franciscomendoza754 3 місяці тому

    This is so cool, and so soooo interesting, but is too much for my little mind :c

  • @AmruMagdy
    @AmruMagdy 3 місяці тому

    ارتبط صوت اللواء فايز الدويري بنصر السابع من أكتوبر ربنا لا يحرمنا من صوتك

  • @htopherollem649
    @htopherollem649 3 місяці тому +11

    better vid title suggestion "biological protein folding and what can go wrong " because of the prevalence of "clickbait titling " I nearly disregarded your video about a subject that I would love to know more about.

    • @Valgween
      @Valgween 3 місяці тому

      there is a browser extension called DeArrow. which is a browser extension that removes clickbait by replacing it with a user sourced thumbnail and title.

    • @Alpha_GameDev-wq5cc
      @Alpha_GameDev-wq5cc 3 місяці тому

      What’s the clickbait? These are literally nanobots

    • @htopherollem649
      @htopherollem649 3 місяці тому

      @Alpha_GameDev-wq5cc I didn't label it clickbait, I nearly mistook the title for clickbait. the title doesn't give much of a hint as to the subject matter and if clearer may garner more views.

    • @earthbndmsfit
      @earthbndmsfit 3 місяці тому

      Bioweapon

  • @Dmadiroe
    @Dmadiroe 2 місяці тому

    Great video, thank you.

  • @sssssnake222
    @sssssnake222 3 місяці тому

    Atomic dimensional life designed us.

  • @noelbreitenbach8673
    @noelbreitenbach8673 3 місяці тому

    This channel is very awesome 😎

  • @hamzacasdasdasd
    @hamzacasdasdasd 3 місяці тому

    neture is the only think cleverly designed not by humans

  • @양익서-g8j
    @양익서-g8j 3 місяці тому

    Westworld

  • @EdT.-xt6yv
    @EdT.-xt6yv 3 місяці тому

    2:30

  • @vinniepeterss
    @vinniepeterss 3 місяці тому

    top notch

  • @vinniepeterss
    @vinniepeterss 3 місяці тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @gianpaulgraziosi6171
    @gianpaulgraziosi6171 3 місяці тому

    It’s called the immune system.

    • @peopleofearth6250
      @peopleofearth6250 3 місяці тому +3

      Protein folding is foundational to the immune system, not the other way around.

  • @tom-hy1kn
    @tom-hy1kn 3 місяці тому

    But who made our cells?

  • @123ghassan123
    @123ghassan123 3 місяці тому +2

    Science is the 20th century Gods Last Messenger.

  • @differentone_p
    @differentone_p 3 місяці тому

    good morning I hope you had a great day today love you too baby girl I love you too baby girl I love you too baby girl I love you too baby girl

  • @Alpha_GameDev-wq5cc
    @Alpha_GameDev-wq5cc 3 місяці тому

    8:28 Oh My God get this professor out of the video… he can’t F-ing use a marker without constantly creating that unbearable squeaky noise. Literally unwatchable, I had a physically painful experience… Jesus christ

  • @Duggleftforthemilk
    @Duggleftforthemilk 3 місяці тому +1

    This is proof of the Lord's Design.

  • @tausifnazim5048
    @tausifnazim5048 Місяць тому

    Thanks to Darwin.
    He made such evolution possible.