Metal Ion Transport by the Cation Diffusion Facilitator Family

我们正在申请资金，在暑假期间资助一名本科生研究员。 2022年的月份。特别是，Charlene Manipon是一名生物化学专业的本科生 她最近加入了斯托克斯实验室，从事一个项目 适合与她的学士学位相关的荣誉论文。她目前正在学习 关于该项目的背景以及我们用来分析的生物物理工具 YIIP的结构和功能，这是母公司赠款的主要目标。尽管她只是个 能够在学年中工作有限的时间，这项补充将允许她全职工作 整个夏天都在做这个项目。此外，她还将参加方案活动 与本科生研究人员暑期计划有关，该计划每年由 维尔切克生物分子科学研究所，包括职业发展研讨会， 社交活动和出席领导力联盟全国研讨会，她将在那里 展示她的作品。作为斯托克斯实验室的成员，她还将参加小组会议和 与我们的生物化学和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。这个 该项目将专注于阳离子扩散促进剂YIIP对锌运输的变构控制， 这与父母赠款的目标是一致的。特别是，她将使用分析性的 微尺度热电泳法、原子吸收光谱法、固体支撑法等 膜电生理学和荧光法评价锌的结合和转运活性 各种各样的变种人。这些研究将旨在了解三种不同的锌的作用 稳定同源二聚体结构或引起变构变化的结合部位 与运输相关的。

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.