Sentences with phrase «protein chemist»
A protein chemist is a scientist who studies and focuses on proteins, which are important molecules found in living organisms. They understand how proteins are structured, how they function, and how they interact with other molecules. They use this knowledge to develop new medicines, study diseases, and improve our overall understanding of how living organisms work. Full definition
The department has approximately 40 staff, including immunologists, molecular biologists and protein chemists with access to state - of - the - art animal facilities.
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While cell - free protein expression done today enables protein chemists to quickly produce small amounts of proteins when screening DNA libraries, there is a need for higher protein expression yields.
Protein chemist Michael Way, cell biologist Sally Cudmore, and their colleagues at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris have found that vaccinia — a virus used in smallpox vaccines — surfs through cells on piles of actin, one of the basic structural proteins in the cellular skeleton.
A team led by protein chemist Franz Schmid of the University of Bayreuth in Germany simplified the problem.
This finding, along with a few other papers last year, emphasizes the importance of electrostatic interactions for protein stability, he says, and will enable protein chemists to create more stable protein - based drugs.
I tried recruiting a protein chemist with very marketable experience out of a California biotech firm and into a major pharmaceutical company.
«The greatest demand is for cell biologists, molecular biologists, and protein chemists.
South African researchers working on an antivenom asked Bruce Hammock, a protein chemist who studies insects at the University of California, Davis, to analyze the animal's venom.
This fact is used in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's,» explains Stefan Becker, a protein chemist and Max Planck researcher who works next door to Zweckstetter.
Generally, biotech companies are looking for three types of people: protein chemists, molecular biologists and cellular biologists, says Lynn Lester, a senior vice-president at biotech company Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT).
«These findings suggest that the ability of proteins to aggregate into amyloid fibrils can be considered a more general property of proteins than previously believed,» says Massimo Stefani, a protein chemist at the University of Florence in Italy who co-led the project.
«I guess I was hired mainly because of my background as a biochemist / protein chemist and the relevant experience I had gained during my PhD study,» she suggests.
«We identified additional key components to PSII involved in assembly and function,» said Dr. Jon Jacobs, a protein chemist at PNNL.
In attempting this, protein chemists can search for a minimum - energy chain conformation (in hope that the protein assumes not a local but a global minimum - energy conformation)(6) or can attempt to follow the chain - folding mechanism to find the final conformation (7).
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