Metal Ion Transport by the Cation Diffusion Facilitator Family

我们正在申请资金，以支持本科生研究员在夏季 2022年的几个月特别是，Charlene Manipon是生物化学专业的本科生， 她是纽约大学的一个项目，最近她加入了斯托克斯实验室， 适合她的学士学位相关的荣誉论文。她目前正在学习 关于这个项目的背景以及我们用来分析的生物物理工具 YiP的结构和功能，这是父母补助金的主要目标。虽然她只有 在学年中能够工作有限的时间，这种补充将使她能够全职工作 在这个项目上花了很多时间此外，她还将参加方案活动， 与本科生研究人员暑期项目有关，该项目每年由 维尔切克生物分子科学研究所，包括职业建设研讨会， 社会活动和出席领导联盟全国研讨会，她将 介绍她的工作。作为斯托克斯实验室的一员，她还将参加小组会议， 与我们的生物化学研究生课程相关的正在进行的研讨会， 分子生物物理学以及免疫学中的离子通道和转运蛋白。的 该项目将侧重于通过阳离子扩散促进剂YiiP对锌转运的变构控制， 这与父母补助金的目的是一致的。特别是，她将使用分析 方法如微尺度热泳、原子吸收光谱、固体支持的 膜电生理学和荧光测定法评估锌结合和转运活性 变种人。这些研究旨在了解三种不同的锌 结合位点，或者稳定同二聚体的结构，或者引发变构变化 与交通有关。

We are requesting funds to support an undergraduate student researcher during the summer months of 2022. In particular, Charlene Manipon is an undergraduate in the Biochemistry program at New York University and she has recently joined the Stokes lab to pursue a project suitable for an honors thesis associated with her Bachelor's degree. She is currently learning about the background of the project and about the biophysical tools that we use to analyze structure and function of YiiP, which is the main target of the parent grant. Although she is only able to work limited hours during the school year, this supplement will allow her to work full time on this project over the summer. In addition, she will participate in programmatic activities associated with the Summer Program for Undergraduate Researchers, which is run annually by the Vilcek Graduate Institute of Biomolecular Sciences, including career-building seminars, social events and attendance of the Leadership Alliance National Symposium where she will present her work. As a member of the Stokes lab, she will also attend group meetings and Work-in-Progress seminars associated with our graduate program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics as well as with the Ion Channels and Transporters in Immunology. The project will focus on allosteric control of zinc transport by the cation diffusion facilitator YiiP, which is consistent with the aims of the parent grant. In particular, she will use analytical methods such as microscale thermophoresis, atomic absorption spectroscopy, solid supported membrane electrophysiology and fluorimetry to assess zinc binding and transport activity of a variety of mutants. These studies will be designed to understand roles of the three distinct zinc binding sites either in stabilizing the structure of the homodimer or in eliciting allosteric changes associated with transport.