AlphaHelix-BetaSheet from Parerga by Pillars Of Cacophony

AlphaHelix-BetaSheet

Oxidoreductase
Transferase
Hydrolase
Lyase
Isomerase
Ligase
Translocase

Oxidation and reduction
Transfer of functional groups
Breaking bonds with the power of water
Cleaving bonds with force
Transforming
Covalent linkage
Molecule transport

Catalysts accelerate processes
To sustain life reaction rate
Increased by the lowering
Of activation energy

Too small to be seen
Yet so complex
An agglomerate
Of twisted helices

A creature that was born between ribosomal pleats
Bequeathing an enigma of mammoth proportion

Sheets upon sheets upon sheets
Helices, helices, helices
Alpha and beta, alpha and beta
Folds that form a three dimensional space
Machinery of life
Reason of being
Child of the maternal ribosome

Embedded in
Myriads of genes
Build from pricks
In codes of three

• Metal
• biochemistry
• black metal
• death metal
• science
• Graz