Is there any effect of different colours of light (white, red, yellow, blue etc.) on the rate of photosynthesis? If yes, why?

Light is inevitable for the process of photosynthesis reaction. Naturally sunlight plays the vital role for this process. Light may be of different colours like white, red, yellow, blue etc....

02 March 2021 7,890 2 View

What thickness need for ITO to use as conductive layer?

I want to do RF sputtering of ITO on glass substrate using magnetron sputtering. what thickness do i need to make it good conductive layer to use it for PSC. Moreover, whats about thickness of...

01 March 2021 395 3 View

What kind of food stuff increase the potentiality of human brain?

There are different kinds of food stuffs which we intake daily according to our requirements. Carbohydrate, protein, fat, mineral, vitamin, water are mainly working for the growth and development...

01 March 2021 831 2 View

How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 View

Why does intensity drops as concentration increases?

Is there any reason for decrease in fluorescence emission intensity of HSA,BSA when increase the concentration ?

28 February 2021 3,653 4 View

Recalcitrant seed short-mid storage method?

Dear peer scientists, Ultradry storage is not suitable for recalcitrant seeds. However, theoretically, if we can stabilize the structure of the subcellular membrane, as well as glassify the...

25 February 2021 2,442 1 View

Can a Golgi-stained dendritic spines picture processed by Image J be directly used for publication?

24 February 2021 3,348 2 View

Implementation of chance-constrained optimization problem via scenario approach?

23 February 2021 7,826 2 View

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23 February 2021 4,014 3 View

Build an orthogonal box in ASE?

Hello, I was wondering the best way to build an orthogonal box filled with a defined crystal structure in ASE. I know it could be easily done in LAMMPS, but I guess it is also doable in ASE. The...

21 February 2021 5,899 4 View

Any probe or assay for the detection of Cysteine in yeast invivo ?

Dear fellow researchers, I would like to detect the cysteine levels for yeast in vivo. I would really appreciate if anyone could suggest me any fluorescent probe or assay kit available. Currently...

11 February 2021 3,292 3 View

Is there any ingredient I an add into formula to slow down gas generation from Vitamin C?

I know Vitamin C is unstable and tends to be oxidized quickly. The problem here is I made a Vitamin C beverage at pH 4-5, and it starts to generate gas in the packaging, especially at high...

13 December 2020 6,055 1 View

Is RabGTPase prenylation reversible or not?

Hi all, I'm working on RAB10, which is a small RabGTPase and is geranylgeranylated at his c-terminal cysteine residues. This is important for membrane insertion. I'm wondering if this...

04 December 2020 4,026 1 View

I need help in peptide oxidation during deprotection group removal?

Hey! I need help on peptide (22 aa) oxidation.This peptide has no methionine, 1 tryptophan & 1 tyrosine. also has 4 cysteine so I used 2 protection groups (trt & acm). For ACM removal, I...

03 December 2020 3,225 2 View

How to reduce (which reducing agent) a disulfide bridge in a protein and how long does it remain reduced?

I want to reduce the disulfide bridge in my 7kDa protein. My protein has only 1 cysteine at the surface and thus makes a homodimer using a disulfide bridge. I want to reduce the disulfide bridge...

24 November 2020 3,211 5 View

What is the best method to check interaction between a drug and a protein ?

Hi, I would like to know the best method to check the interaction between a proteine (cruzipain, cysteine protease) and a drug. It has been purposed to our project to evaluate protein-drug...

30 October 2020 7,209 3 View

Can I alkylate (e.g. iodoacetamide) solvent exposed cysteines of a purified membrane protein??

I have purified a transporter membrane protein and want to perform a CPM assay to assess its melting temperature as apo- and with ligands. The melt scan results in steadily dropping curve while my...

26 September 2020 1,455 4 View

Does a sulfhydryl enzyme necessarily imply a catalytic cysteine?

Could an enzyme be sensitive to sulfhydryl specific inhibitors on account of cysteine(s) away from the catalytic pocket?

13 July 2020 4,165 6 View

Why there is a 11 kDa band showing in SDS-PAGE of my IgG1 digestion with Papain?

Hi guys, I am using the papain digestion system to abtain a Fab. Here is my recent result, I got thin bands around 55, 45; thick bands around 30, 25, which may indicate incomplete digestion, but...

27 June 2020 3,882 9 View

If I have an aqueous solution of ~20-amino acid peptide that contains a single terminal cysteine, will these form disulfide bonds?

I intend to use maleimide chemistry to attach a short peptide with a terminal cysteine to the N-terminal domain of another protein. Do I need to pretreat the short peptide with a reducing agent to...

22 January 2020 227 3 View