Homework assignment #1: design a sequence of 10 amino acids which binds to the same sequence in the reverse order forming a plane 4.8 Angstroms thick.
Homework assignment #2 design a sequence of 60 amino acids which forms a similar plane 4.8 Angstroms thick, such that two 60 amino acid monomers bind to each other.
Feel free to use any computational or theoretical devices currently at our disposal, density functional theory, force fields, rosetta etc. etc.
Answers to follow shortly
Hint: hundreds to thousands of planes can stack on top of each other.
Also I’ve written about phase changes in the past — https://luysii.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/neuroscience-can-no-longer-ignore-phase-separation/
A superb review of the subject is available if you have a subscription to Neuron [ Neuron vol. 109 pp. 2663 – 2681 ’21 ]
Chemiotics II 