A growing team of groundbreaking scientists around the world are now sharing their lab notebooks online
Hello everyone! This is my first post on the blog and I am going to give a brief summary of my main project as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at SGC-UNC. Protein phosphorylation is a quick and reversible mechanism with the aim to control biological functions. This mechanism involves structural conformational changes by adding a phosphate Read More …
Hello world! I think I should let you know about the two diseases my project covers before we get started: Firstly, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG for short) is a childhood brain tumour that grows in a part of the brainstem called the pons. The disease progresses rapidly and the fact that it grows within the brainstem, and invades into nearby Read More …
For the past few days, I have been working on optimizing a fluorescence polarization (FP) displacement assay for USP5 Zf-UBD. This assay will be used to test if small molecules can displace a fluorescence-labelled ubiquitin peptide from USP5. I started with screening different assay conditions with a small set of buffers. The method and data Read More …
Before I can begin characterizing the USP5 protein, I first needed to make some protein sample to work with. I expressed and purified the zinc-finger domain protein in bacteria and ended up with a high yield of a sample which is very pure. All of my methods and data from this experiment can be found Read More …
