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SELF-RELIANT

​All about a protein (ophMA) that relies on no one else but itself to make and activate a small cyclic peptide, called omphalotin, that has very specific anti-nematode properties. What is more, the protein forms a very rare arrangement of two interlocked rings, known as a catenane. 

​THE WRESTLERS by Henri Gaudier Brzeska (1891-1915)