Acquisition of Fermentation Equipment

加州理工学院的生物和化学系将购买一个自动发酵罐。该发酵罐将用于微生物的生长，以纯化稀有细胞蛋白或重组克隆中的蛋白。有待加强的项目包括酵母中参与RNA加工的可溶性和膜蛋白、细菌和酵母DNA复制蛋白、细菌膜蛋白、金属蛋白中的电子传递、酵母转录因子；酶和蓝铜蛋白的结构、动力学和折叠；参与信号转导的蛋白质和参与位点特异性重组的蛋白质。

A automated fermenter will be acquired by the Biology and Chemistry Departments of California Institute of Technology. The fermenter will be used in growing up microbes for purification of rare cellular proteins or proteins from recombinant clones. Among the projects to be enhanced are studies on soluble and membrane proteins involved in RNA processing in yeast, bacterial and yeast DNA replication proteins, bacterial membrane proteins, electron transport in metalloproteins; yeast transcription factors; structure, dynamics and folding of enzymes and blue copper proteins; and proteins involved in signal transduction and proteins involved in site specific recombination.