Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 1 View

Plant research: Watering uniformity/consistency. How important is it?

Trying to gather insight from an unresolved discussion with a colleague here, and either the available literature surrounding this topic and/or my keywords in search of are lacking. Context:...

21 February 2021 6,389 3 View

How to get rough estimation of the concentrations of Oxygen and moisture inside the glove box?

Dear colleagues, I was just wondering if you can suggest a good method to get a rough estimation to the concentration of O2 and H2O inside the glove box as unfortunately, our glove box doesn't...

17 February 2021 1,012 3 View

Onset of Photo Oxidation in Polymers?

Hi! I am looking for some specific information in regards to the minimum amount of UV intensity required to begin the photo degradation process in polymers. I understand each polymer is...

15 February 2021 7,703 4 View

Are you looking for a quality online conference on teaching and learning technology?

This large international conference will be held online this year due to COVID. I am submitting a paper to the Technology Enhanced Language Learning track (8). It is about a topic I have never...

15 February 2021 1,975 15 View

How do you calculate a discrimination index for polytomous data?

Hello, I'm currently running a PCA on a polytomous data set (5 point Likert). I want to create a discrimination index to narrow down my items before running the PCA. After looking around, I'm...

13 February 2021 3,517 2 View

Regarding immunology, transmissivity, herd immunity and vaccines in Sars CoV-2?

This is a follow-up on an earlier question regarding mechanistics of vaccines: why current vaccines don't block transmission. In summary, they don't engage mucosal immune cells to produce IgA....

08 February 2021 8,321 3 View

Which tropical country is the most easy for obtaining research permit (for biological research)?

Dear all, High beurocracy hihly complicate field ecolocial and evolutionary research nowadays. Nearly all tropical countries (maybe all?) requires research permit for performitng research and in...

04 February 2021 3,672 6 View

Can I polymerize NIPPAm with PEGmethacrylate or only with PEGacrylate?

I want to perform the synthesis of a hydrogel and I want to know if I can polymerize NIPPAm with PEGmethacrylate or only with PEGacrylate?

02 February 2021 2,106 6 View

What is the maximum storage time for samples used in soil enzyme assays?

01 February 2021 4,616 3 View

How to calculate Ligand-active site distance in a ligand-protein complex from MD simulation?

I have run a MD simulation of a ligand-protein complex in GROMACS using CHARMM forcefield. Reviewer has asked me to calculate Ligand-activesite distance and binding free energy of ligand with...

27 February 2021 4,703 1 View

How long does it take to design and validate transition state analogue inhibitors?

Hi, I'm asking from the point of view of designing a research plan: How long (approximately) can it take to determine the transition state structure of an enzyme substrate using kinetic isotope...

14 February 2021 2,610 1 View

How to check if the PMF profile obtained from ABF simulation is correct?

I am doing ABF simulations to calculate ligand binding enegy. The PMF profile that I get using single long ABF simulation is attached as pmf_total.png. When I do this ABF calculation with 10...

10 February 2021 4,170 2 View

Ligands with 3,4,5-trihydroxyphenyl group?

Hi In the design of a bidentate ligand with imine group, is it okay to have a 3,4,5-trihydroxyphenyl group in the structure? In other words, does the 3,4,5-trihydroxyphenyl group compete with...

08 February 2021 4,977 7 View

Is there any difference between "SEP" as a non standard residue and phohophorylated serine?

I am trying to run a molecular dynamics simulation for a ligand that contains a "SEP" residue. also, I am preparing my files using Charmm-GUI using charmm36 ff, but it says that it will rename my...

31 January 2021 6,321 1 View

How do you get around this AutoDock Vina error?

I get the following error messages after running the simulation: Sorry, there are no Gasteiger parameters available for atom ligandx.ligand:A:lig1:O7 AutoDock Vina ligand docking initiated for...

26 January 2021 3,822 3 View

Best tool to build missing residues, minimize and validate a ligand model?

I am working on a ligand that is co-crystalized to parotein, but the ligand is missing some residues that makes it appear as if it was separated into two ligands! what I need is to connect them...

23 January 2021 3,975 7 View

Can anyone suggest me solution to fix the following problem?

i am working with MD simulations. i am facing error from CGenff server while predicting topology for my ligand file ligand_fix.mol2. error= "readmol2 warning: unrecognized element "Du"readmol2...

21 January 2021 8,290 7 View

Can anyone helps me with Autodock 4.2 scripts error ?

After opening the file, I operate command "Script" --> "Ligand Interactions" --> "Show Ligand Binding Site Atoms" and the warning appears as "This script displays ligands and surrounding...

15 January 2021 5,360 1 View

How to generate topology file for ligand for Gromacs?

Dear all, I converted a PDB file into Mol2 file using Openbabel (H added) and then fixed the bond order number using this command: perl sort_mol2_bonds.pl jz4.mol2 jz4_fix.mol2 When I try to...

22 December 2020 303 4 View