2. Find a protein using PDB explorer–describe your protein, including what disease state or other real-world application it has.

The protein that I chose was the HUMAN OBESITY PROTEIN, LEPTIN. This gene is found in humans and has maintained a lot of interest over the years with obesity, and questioning if it can normalize body weight. However, the mutant form of this human obesity protein. When the mutant form is present the serum has the inability to transport to the central nervous system.

This gene could help cure obesity in the United States and other countries, if we could just understand it a little more.

I found this website very interesting and enjoyed browsing through some of the proteins. I also was very surprised to see how many proteins there were inside the human body. I would have never guessed that we had that many.