Muntasir Alam

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What are the challenges during isolation of Candida spp from vaginal swab?

I am preparing a protocol on Isolation of Candida spp from vaginal swab. At this moment, we don't have differential CHROMagar Candida medium in hand. We have blood agar, chocolate agar, general...

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What is the most reliable commercial ELISA kit for detection of HIV-1 gp120?

I want to detect gp120 shedding from cell surface and virion. Therefore, I am looking for an reliable commercial ELISA kit. Please suggest.

08 August 2016 8,581 4 View

How to interpret Mesh surface for protein structure in Pymol?

I'm not sure whether my question is appropriate or not. Let me clarify below. I have found two mutations in HIV-1 gp41 interact with each other. So, I prepared a homology structure. Now, in Pymol...

03 March 2016 8,322 3 View

What is the best housekeeping gene for 293T cells in western blotting?

I'm studying expression of HIV-1 envelope gene in 293T cells. I want a control for which shows same amount of samples was loaded in each well. Which housekeeping gene should I select for using as...

09 September 2014 743 3 View

Site directed mutagenesis kit: Which one is most satisfactory?

I have a gene of interest (HIV-1 envelope) inserted into a plasmid. Now I want to insert specify nucleotide substitution in some point by site directed mutagenesis. Please suggest me some good...

08 August 2014 8,413 6 View

How to determine the prevalence of a specific mutation from the HIV-1 database?

I am working on some specific point mutations in HIV-1 gene. I want to know the prevalence of such mutations in the published sequences.

01 January 2014 466 2 View

Protein-peptide docking Software?

I have a PDB file for viral envelope and an inhibitor peptide. Now I want to see the binding of that peptide with viral envelope. Which software to use? Can anyone suggest something easier?

10 October 2013 3,428 5 View

How to show amino acid change in protein 3D structure/ribbon model?

I have to present HIV-1 envelope protein 3D structure /ribbon model showing a certain amino acid change. I am new to this field and want to know about how to generate protein structure from...

09 September 2013 6,962 2 View

Free sequence assembly software for Mac.

I am looking for free sequence assembly software for Mac. Until now I have worked on Windows but now I have to work in Macbook. Please suggest some free software to me.

04 April 2013 2,505 4 View

How to efficiently amplify the entire env gene (envelop gene) of HIV-1 clade B from a plasma sample?

I want to first amplify the HIV-1 env gene from a patient's plasma samples and then I want to clone it into a plasmid vector. I am using the QIAamp viral RNA mini kit for the extraction of HIV-1...

01 January 2013 6,192 13 View