This site provides brief tours of the structures of 19 metalloproteins that are often the focus of bioinorganic chemistry university courses.

If your web browser is equipped with Java then you can immediately access the Guided Tours of Metalloproteins by clicking enter. If not, please install Java on your computer before continuing.

If your Windows web browser is equipped with the Chime plugin and you have used the Guided Tours of Metalloproteins before and are familiar with it, click here to access the tours. If not, then please read the information and do the tutorial here.

Notes:

We may be missing some citations to sources used to develop these web pages. Please let us know if there are other references to cite. For information on Jmol: an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D see http://www.jmol.org/. The principal architect of Chime is Tim Maffett and is currently distributed and further developed by MDL. Roger Sayle, who incorporated a number of features, which facilitate development of educational tutorials, developed RasMol.

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