Castor proteins mapped; difficult work ahead altering structure

Biodiesel Magazine

By University of Southern Denmark | December 02, 2013

 

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‘Zoomable’ Map of Poplar Proteins Offers New View of Bioenergy Crop


Jan. 29, 2013

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Researchers develop pathway to produce power from proteins

Biofuels Digest
Meghan Sapp
May 16, 2012

In the UK, researchers at the University of Leeds have developed an electrode capable of controlling the biochemical reactions needed for biofuel cells to produce large amounts of electricity and are now applying the same technique to a catalytic membrane. The hope is that the membrane may be capable of converting proteins into electricity by using the energy provided by light and hydrogen fuel.

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Protein Purification Process for BioEnergy Recognised on Front Cover of Microfluidics Journal

The paper is titled Rapid, continuous purification of proteins in a microfluidic device using genetically-engineered partition tags. Authored by Sandia/California’s Robert Meagher, Yooli Light, and Anup Singh, it describes a rapid, automated microscale process for isolating specific proteins from sub-microlitre volumes of E. coli cell lysate.

Sandia is a National Nuclear Security Administration laboratory.

“This novel approach addresses the need for high-throughput purification of minute amounts of native and recombinant proteins, which is currently necessary in drug discovery, enzyme engineering, and other life sciences”, says Sandia’s Robert Meagher, the lead author. High-throughput screening requires availability of large numbers of purified proteins, but current purification techniques are too slow, expensive, and hard to automate.

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