Lamportin
Lamportin is a fictional biomolecule used in speculative discussions of protein design and synthetic biology. It is described as a small metalloprotein capable of reversible redox chemistry, often employed as a teaching example to illustrate structure–function relationships in proteins.
In common descriptions, lamportin comprises roughly 90 to 110 amino acids and adopts a compact fold that
Lamportin is not reported to occur in nature. In educational and research thought experiments, it is usually
Function and applications: as a hypothetical redox-active protein, lamportin serves to illustrate how metal coordination, active-site
See also: metalloprotein, protein engineering, synthetic biology.