Research Facilities for the Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology

自动蛋白质测序设备的使用， 在过去的几年里，肽合成变得至关重要， 生物科学许多领域的研究进展。 确定蛋白质的氨基酸序列通常是一个复杂的过程。 在隔离和随后的序列中所需的初始步骤 分析编码蛋白质的基因或DNA。 肽的合成通常是现代生物技术的重要步骤。 分析蛋白质的功能和结构方面， 基因的调控。 本次奖励提供的资金将用于购买 进行蛋白质纯化和合成的仪器 肽和蛋白质的自动测序。 的 设备将与现有的和其他新的 中央服务实验室的仪器，并将 致力于为大约50名研究人员提供服务， 俄勒冈州州立大学 研究人员的项目是 在提案中讨论的是活跃在动物，植物和 细菌病毒学，神经生物学，细胞生物化学， 酶学或生物物理学。

The use of equipment for automated protein sequencing and peptide synthesis has, in the last few years, become crucial to the progress of research in many areas of biological science. Determination of the amino acid sequence of a protein is often a required initial step in the isolation and subsequent sequence analysis of the gene, or DNA, that encodes the protein. Synthesis of peptides is often an important step for modern analysis of functional and structural aspects of proteins and of the regulation of genes. The funds provided by this award will be used to purchase instruments that perform purification of proteins and synthetic peptides, and the automated sequencing of proteins. The equipment will be housed with existing and other new instrumentation in the Central Service Laboratory, and will be devoted to providing service to approximately 50 researchers on the Oregon State campus. Researchers whose projects are discussed in the proposal are active in animal, plant and bacterial virology, neurobiology, cellular biochemistry, enzymology, or biophysics.