Jack is a postdoctoral researcher in the Taylor group. His background is in structural biophysics of viral RNA chaperone proteins. Since joining the group in Austin, he has worked on CRISPR-Cas systems, and other nucleoprotein complexes including the innate immune system DISARM, SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, and ribosome assembly. His primary research interests revolve aroundContinue reading “Jack Bravo, Ph. D.”
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SpCase9-MBP fusion protein purification
The homologous Cas9 was fused downstream of the Maltose binding protein and a TEV protease cleave site. For bacterial expression of the recombinant proteins Cas9, corresponding plasmid was transformed into BL21-Plys (DE3)- competent cells (Stratagene). Expression of the recombinant proteins was induced by subculturing 5 ml starter culture into 1000 ml LB, adding at OD600Continue reading “SpCase9-MBP fusion protein purification”
Group meeting schedule
Here’s the list (updated 5th May 2022 by JPKB): New updated schedule: Jamie Matt Isabel Caitie Delisa Jacquelyn Grace Roisin Jack Evan
SerialEM settings
View: bin 1, 0.2 s exposure Record: bin 1, 5s exposure Here’s how I set up SerialEM data collection on the Krios LMM.st Save navi Align to marker Go to 205x mag Close out of montage New montage – MMM Add squares Then check the MMM acquire script Acquire at items – MMM Find constrast-yContinue reading “SerialEM settings”
Converting cryosparc to relion
1 – run cryosparc2star in the directory of interest, with the .cs particle file. Make sure to use the —relion2 flag. csparc2star.py DrmABDNAcryosparc_P251_J73_008_particles.cs cryosparc-particles.star –relion2 2 – change .mrc to .mrcs within star file sed -i ‘s/.mrc/.mrcs/g’ p205_j279_particles.star 3 – Create new extract job directory corresponding to the one in the cryosparc-particles.star file (use viContinue reading “Converting cryosparc to relion”