Editing Alpha helix (section)

== In art ==
[[Image:AlphaHelixForLinusPauling.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Julian Voss-Andreae]]'s ''Alpha Helix for Linus Pauling'' (2004), powder coated steel, height {{cvt|10|ft|0}}. The sculpture stands in front of [[Linus Pauling|Pauling's]] childhood home on 3945 SE Hawthorne Boulevard in [[Portland, Oregon]], USA.]]

At least five artists have made explicit reference to the α-helix in their work: Julie Newdoll in painting and [[Julian Voss-Andreae]], [[Bathsheba Grossman]], Byron Rubin, and Mike Tyka in sculpture.

San Francisco area artist Julie Newdoll,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.brushwithscience.com/AboutContact.html|title=Julie Newdoll Scientifically Inspired Art, Music, Board Games|website=www.brushwithscience.com|access-date=2016-04-06}}</ref> who holds a degree in microbiology with a minor in art, has specialized in paintings inspired by microscopic images and molecules since 1990. Her painting "Rise of the Alpha Helix" (2003) features human figures arranged in an α helical arrangement. According to the artist, "the flowers reflect the various types of sidechains that each amino acid holds out to the world".<ref name=":0" /> This same metaphor is also echoed from the scientist's side: "β sheets do not show a stiff repetitious regularity but flow in graceful, twisting curves, and even the α-helix is regular more in the manner of a flower stem, whose branching nodes show the influence of environment, developmental history, and the evolution of each part to match its own idiosyncratic function."<ref name="Anatax"/>

[[Julian Voss-Andreae]] is a German-born sculptor with degrees in experimental physics and sculpture. Since 2001 Voss-Andreae creates "protein sculptures"<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Voss-Andreae J | s2cid = 57558522 | year = 2005 | title = Protein Sculptures: Life's Building Blocks Inspire Art | journal = Leonardo | volume = 38 | pages = 41&ndash;45 | doi = 10.1162/leon.2005.38.1.41}}</ref> based on protein structure with the α-helix being one of his preferred objects. Voss-Andreae has made α-helix sculptures from diverse materials including bamboo and whole trees. A monument Voss-Andreae created in 2004 to celebrate the memory of [[Linus Pauling]], the discoverer of the α-helix, is fashioned from a large steel beam rearranged in the structure of the α-helix. The {{convert|10|ft|m|0|adj=mid|-tall}}, bright-red sculpture stands in front of Pauling's childhood home in [[Portland, Oregon]].

[[Ribbon diagrams]] of α-helices are a prominent element in the laser-etched crystal sculptures of protein structures created by artist [[Bathsheba Grossman]], such as those of [[insulin]], [[hemoglobin]], and [[DNA polymerase]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bathsheba.com/artist/|website=Bathsheba Sculpture |title=About the Artist|last=Grossman|first=Bathsheba|access-date=2016-04-06}}</ref> Byron Rubin is a former protein crystallographer now professional sculptor in metal of proteins, nucleic acids, and drug molecules{{snd}} many of which featuring α-helices, such as [[subtilisin]], [[human growth hormone]], and [[phospholipase A2]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://02e06c9.netsolhost.com/wp/?page_id=21|title=About|website=molecularsculpture.com | access-date = 2016-04-06}}</ref>

Mike Tyka is a computational biochemist at the [[University of Washington]] working with [[David Baker (biochemist)|David Baker]]. Tyka has been making sculptures of protein molecules since 2010 from copper and steel, including [[ubiquitin]] and a [[potassium channel]] tetramer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.miketyka.com/#.about#.gallerypic|title=About|last=Tyka|first=Mike|website=www.miketyka.com|access-date=2016-04-06}}</ref>