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[Claire Galibois]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:13:00  
 Tudorcook wrote:
>
>--- "Decker, Terry D." <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
>wrote: > Protein structures?  With an eye to gene
>splicing,
>> perchance?
>> 
>> Bear
>
>Bear
>Proteomics is really the study of the protein
>population of a cell or organism under a certain
>condition.  So I'm am not persay looking at the
>structure of the protein but what proteins are
>present.  Looking at the genome sequence doesn't
>actually tell you that much without studying the
>proteins along side, and that is what I do.  So often
>it enables you to match a protein with its
>theorectical sequence taken from the genome - make
>sense?

My 1st degree was in genetics...sounds cool. :)  I'm in micro now, though - Streptomyces.  For those who don't know, they're BACTERIA.  Yes, we get bugged about working on the wannabe fungus. *g*  Because they produce over 70% of the known antibiotics.  Just had to share. *s*

>
>In answer to your other question yes I can do gene
>spicing, but I'm not doing it at the moment, and have
>in my time done some pretty horific things to bacteria
>and viruses!

Bleach makes Azotobacter turn really cool colours - fluorescent orange and green.  How much more horrible for the bacteria, though?

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>Elizabeth
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:)
Genevieve
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