Messenger Gallery

Metabolic enzyme, artwork

Metabolic enzyme. Computer artwork of aconitase (blue), in complex with ferritin messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA, red). Aconitase is involved in the citric acid cycle but here it is performing a secondary function as an iron regulatory protein (IRP). It does this by binding to ferritin mRNA, which prevents translation into the protein product (ferritin). Ferritin acts like a sponge and helps to protect cells from the toxic effects of excess iron

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Ambassadors Sent by Agamemnon to Urge Achilles to Fight, 1801 (oil on canvas)

XIR128674 Ambassadors Sent by Agamemnon to Urge Achilles to Fight, 1801 (oil on canvas) by Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867); Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France; (add.info.: Ambassadeurs envoyes a Achille par Agamemnon pour l'engager a combattre; persuade him to take up arms; Achilles refused to fight until she had been returned;); French, out of copyright

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German court messenger and old man, 15th century

German male fashions of the late 15th century. Costume of a court messenger with brooch and lance, from painting of the life of St. Sigismund. And old man with stick and sandals from a painting of the Bavarian school in the Bavarian National Museum. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by I.M. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher

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