Biochemist. Transitioning from studying protein conformation in a tube @JNCASR to cells @TheCrick with @balchin_david using mass spectrometry.

Joined March 2014
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1 Nov 2024
Is there any report in literature on passivating beads using a Lys/Arg-free protein for pull-down or IP-MS? #TeamMassSpec @ItsBiniR @UCDProteomics @ProteomicsNews
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Sorry my question was not precise. I was wondering if coating the beads with a protein that lacks Lys/Arg to prevent non-specific binding is an idea that has been tested?
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17 Oct 2024
Starting with 2 ug of protein for S-trap digestion, I end up with 15 ug of tryptic peptides as reported by Thermo BCA colorimetric peptide assay. Where am I going wrong? #TeamMassSpec @ItsBiniR @UCDProteomics @ProteomicsNews
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“I'd also like to acknowledge my students (…) they've gone on to do many great things. I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman.“ 😳🫡
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New from our team @TheCrick, led by @GrantPellowe. Eukaryotes are very good at folding multidomain proteins. Here we give some insight into how the human ribosome helps with this, by tuning how nascent domains fold and dock. 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Our #FragPipe-Analyst manuscript is out! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…. Load FragPipe's TMT/ LFQ/DIA quant tables (peptide or protein quant) and get QC, Limma, PCA, volcano plots, heatmaps, do GO/pathway enrichment analysis, all with just a few clicks! Tutorials:fragpipe-analyst-doc.nesvila…
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I wish journals would require methods papers be reproducible by at least 3 labs before it can be published . Think of all the time and resources this would save !
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13 Aug 2024
Eric Schmidt says in the next year, AI models will unite three key pillars: very large context windows, agents and text-to-action, and no-one understands what the impact will be but it will involve everyone having a fleet of AI agents at their command
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29 Jun 2024
New analysis from the @royalsociety shows just how high UK visa costs for researchers are compared to upfront costs for similar visa routes in 13 other countries. Here, we take a look at how the UK compares to countries in the G7 included in the analysis 🔍⤵️ 1/5
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Proud to share our work on molecular chaperones, previously posted as @biorxivpreprint, now out in @MolecularCell @balchin_david @SarahMaz76 @funtoshs @GrantPellowe @SkehelJM @TheCrick sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Join us for a PhD! I am recruiting a student to explore uncharted space in protein biogenesis, together with an exceptional team in a fantastic research environment @TheCrick. Fully funded and open to any nationality crick.ac.uk/careers-study/va…

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Words of advice: Teaching macromolecular crystallography @ECA_social @ACAxtal @Whatsinacrystal @britcryst @CNC_Crystals @buildmodels @PDBeurope @ProteinMagnus @ASBMB @IUCr @BiochemSoc @BiophysicalSoc @crystallo_world @ccp4_mx Plz RT for greater outreach #XRAY #crystallography
I am delighted to present this Words of Advice article on Teaching macromolecular crystallography that talks about the difficulties inherent in teaching & learning of this subject & possible approaches to overcome them for a complete appreciation. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…
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Registration is open for the 33rd annual meeting of the UK Chaperone Club on 17 April 2023! Sessions will cover topics including the structure and folding of molecular chaperones and cellular stress responses. @Proteintech | @NEBiolabs crick.ac.uk/whats-on/uk-chap…
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3yr #postdocposition in Cambridge @AstraZeneca, split between their shiny new DISC & our lab @BabrahamInst. Help explore how cellular stresses shape #PROTAC efficacy, & vice-versa. Fundamental/translational relevance aplenty! Oh, some cool #proteomics too. careers.astrazeneca.com/job/…

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NH3 channeling enzymes typically form tight complexes, but the M jannaschii GMP synthetase subunits interact transiently. Balaram and colleagues @jncasr now present a mechanistic model explaining the various steps in this fascinating catalytic cycle. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
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13 Mar 2022
Consider designing a two-component (A, B) enzyme system where A and B catalyze distinct reactions, A binds the cognate substrates and activates B, the product of B in-turn tunnels intermolecularly to the active site of A, reacts with the product of A, generating the final product
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Irrespective of whether the design is tractable or not, thanks to evolution, such an enzyme complex exists. Here we dissect the functioning of an archaeal GMP synthetase using #Biochemistry #xraycrystallography and #XLMS. More on it here biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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My thanks and gratitude to all the co-authors in @jncasr namely Sanjeev Kumar (co-first author), @BellurAsutosh @SatyaDev2064 and my advisor Prof. Hemalatha Balaram.