Assays Summaries

Rational drug design using Boltzmann docking
Bowman, Gregory
T-016234

— Technology Description Researchers in Greg Bowman’s lab at Washington University have developed an improved method for rational drug and protein design called Boltzmann docking. This process better incorporates the dynamic structures of proteins to identify sites for binding that are not rev…

Simple, universal DNA motifs for modulating protein production
Djuranovic, Sergej
T-016819

— Technology Description Researchers in Prof. Sergej Djuranovic’s laboratory have discovered short DNA coding motifs that can increase or decrease expression of recombinant proteins by 3-4 orders of magnitude in a variety of organisms. Together, these universal tools can provide tightly contro…

Kinase toolkit for the production of phosphorylated proteins
Gale, Emily ; Naegle, Kristen ; Schaberg, Katherine ; Sloutsky, Roman ; Stoka, Kellie
T-014736

— Background: Abnormal phosphorylation of proteins is associated with a number of human diseases including cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, and diabetes. Due to their role as phosphorlyators, kinases are popular drug targets. However, the difficulty of selectively phosphorylating a desired substra…

ME1 Deficiency Primes for Ferroptosis
Kremer, Jeff ; Lange, Sara ; Van Tine, Brian
T-016416

— Background: Synovial sarcoma is a rare soft tissue sarcoma that most commonly affects young adults. Like many other cancers, there are currently no targeted chemotherapies for synovial sarcoma. Current treatment often consists of a combination of surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. The met…

Method for obtaining buoyant triacylglycerol-filled Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Goodenough, Ursula ; Goodson, Carrie
T-011504

— There is currently keen interest in cultivating eukaryotic algae as sources of triacylglycerides (TAGs) to be converted into diesel and jet transportation fuel. Recent studies from numerous labs have shown that when stressed by nitrogen (N)-starvation, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii produce TAGs that ca…

Single cell calling cards (scCC): Transposon system to simultaneously map transcription factors and quantify gene expression
Mitra, Robi ; Moudgil, Arnav ; Qi, Zongtai ; Wilkinson, Michael Nathaniel
T-018609

— Technology Description Researchers in Prof. Rob Mitra’s laboratory have developed single cell calling cards (“scCCs”), a robust and versatile self-reporting transposon system for high throughput analysis of protein-DNA binding with single cell resolution. This technology simulta…

Method to evaluate function of members of a gut microbiota
Gordon, Jeffrey ; Patnode, Michael
T-018760

— Technology Description Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a bead-based method to understand the functional states and metabolic capabilities of individual members of the human gut microbiota. The gut microbiota is increasingly linked to multiple aspects of human healt…

pTAT/pTAT-HA plasmids and protein purfication protocol (Vectors are on deposit with Addgene)
Dowdy, Steven
T-000717

— Technology Description: Researchers at Washington University have developed a method that allows the transduction of full-length proteins by utilizing the pTAT or pTAT-HA protein expression plasmids. A protein of choice can be fused to a HIV-TAT transduction domain under the expression system. Ba…

Single cell massively parallel reporter assays
Cohen, Barak ; Zhao, Siqi
T-019923

— Technology Description Researchers in Barak Cohen’s lab at Washington University have developed a method for single cell massively parallel reporter assay (scMPRA) to preserve cell type-specific information. This technology is scalable and sequencing platform agnostic. Massively parallel…

A Truly Tumor-Specific Epitope Carried by BG-A Antigen for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Xu, Mai
T-016998

— Background: In the US alone, 154,000 new cases of colorectal cancer (CRC) are diagnosed each year. Unfortunately, a third of those patients will die due to diagnosis at late stages – the 5-year survival rate is 11%, compared to 91% for those who are diagnosed with only localized CRC. A colonos…

Microfluidic device for high-throughput, multiplexed electrochemical analysis with live-cell imaging and spectrometry
Binkley, Michael ; Bose, Arpita ; Meacham, John ; Rengasamy, Karthikeyan
T-018839

— Technology Description An interdisciplinary team of Washington University researchers has developed a high-throughput microfluidic bioelectrochemical cell (μBEC) that collects electrochemical data and is compatible with live-cell microscopy and spectrometry. This device transcends the capabilit…