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| We are an RNA lab involved in studying RNA/Protein interactions as well as RNA/Au interactions.
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| We have two major goals.
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| 1) Understanding splicing of RNA.
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| One aspect is to study various proteins involved in the splicing of the 5' or 3'end of introns and looking at the mechanisms involved in<br>
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| binding and recognition. We use footprinting, GST-pulldowns, binding gels, in vitro and in vivo splicing, northerns, westerns and x-ray<br> crystallography in order to achieve our goals.<br><br>
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| Another aspect is to study particular proteins involved in disease associated with alternative splicing. In particular we study MBNL that <br>is involved in myotonic dystrophy. We also study particular genetic sequences believed to be involved in alternative or disease related <br>splicing. As a side project we are investigating competitive binders to CUG repeats to block MBNL from binding.<br><br>
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| A third aspect is that we do computational analysis of entire genomes of particular species looking for conservation of sequence<br> elements within introns associated with both constitutive and alternative splicing. Information from these analyses can be used to study both <br>in vivo and in vitro effects of these splicing elements.<br><br>
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| 2) Nanoparticles
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| We have teamed up with a material sciences group here at the University of Oregon to study the production of specificially shaped <br>and sized gold nanoparticles using RNA as the reaction driver/director.
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Latest revision as of 10:59, 31 January 2012
