Rad51 protein is a well known protagonist of homologous recombination in eukaryotic cells.
You need a protagonist as well as an antagonist.
A protagonist with the well-fed good looks and dimpled chin of a superhero is just what's called for here, and Mr. Affleck, who looks as if he was drawn by the comics artist John Romita, fits the bill.
Before the premiere of "Hung," the HBO comedy about a similarly well-endowed protagonist, they made a short film called "The Tale of RJ," which Mr. Katzenberg directed and Mr. Grahame-Smith produced.
On paper, a teen film reworking Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter sounds fairly disastrous but Stone pulled off her role as Easy A's protagonist rather well.
The title of the track is taken from a recurring line in the novel which simultaneously comments on the repressed "inner and outer parties" as well the protagonist's impending imprisonment by the thought police.
Moore himself, narrator as well as protagonist, is especially appealing: shrewd, observant, dedicated to his writing (the scenes in which we see him at work are unusually credible), tough, yet warmly interested in the people around him, and committed to fulfilling his obligations to those who have dealt honorably with him.
A fiend for the bean (the Eraserhead director claims to drink 10 cups of coffee a day), the show's well-caffeinated protagonist, Special Agent Dale Cooper, enjoys a similar relationship to coffee when chilling out at the local diner, cup of joe in hand.
Even the crime scene investigators are baffled by this esoteric occupation, which Simon Beckett, as well as his protagonist, studied for a time at the charmingly named Body Farm, a real-life training centre in Tennessee.
"Game," television's closest approximation of radical chic, allowed its well-meaning protagonists a swinging dilletantism, and each episode appeared to be a novel adventure in slumming for its stars.
