Saturday, April 21, 2007

Study of the effects of trans-acting factors encoded by viruses

The proteins encoded by viruses can affect the cell in more ways than one. Thus, it would be interesting to study the long term effects of trans-acting factors encoded by the viruses on cells. One approach may be to integrate the virus's genome into that of the cell's like how a normal virus would infect a cell. The problem is that the virus may integrate in a location within genome whereby the integrated viral DNA element may affect the function and expression of neighbouring genes. In the end, our observations may be affected. I was wondering if it is possible to introduce an artifical chromosome with an integrated viral element instead. It would allow us to study the effects of trans-acting elements encoded by the virus on cells' functions and the long term effect on the cell.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey Dr. Dee,

Do you know what are the limits of pH and ionic concentration(conductivity) for both Human Serum Albumin and Human Immunoglobulin G before they are denatured?

Need it for something.

Cheers,
Ray

Socrates_Reincarnate said...

Dear Ray:

You can check this link for human serum albumin http://www.abcam.com/index.html?datasheet=8033. However, they are optimum conditions for storage.

Yours sincerely,
Dr Dee

Socrates_Reincarnate said...

For the antibodies, I would advise you to check out the company producing it. I would show you one example. You can check this link http://www.researchd.com/miscabs/trk4t24.htm

Yours sincerely,
Dr Dee