GECCCCA

Genetic encoding and click chemistry with copper-chelating azides for super-resolution imaging of proteins

 Coordinatore MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 

 Organization address address: NORTH STAR AVENUE POLARIS HOUSE
city: SWINDON
postcode: SN2 1FL

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Samantha
Cognome: Skehel
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1223 402357

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 221˙606 €
 EC contributo 221˙606 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF
 Funding Scheme MC-IIF
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-03-01   -   2015-02-28

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

 Organization address address: NORTH STAR AVENUE POLARIS HOUSE
city: SWINDON
postcode: SN2 1FL

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Samantha
Cognome: Skehel
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1223 402357

UK (SWINDON) coordinator 221˙606.40

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biological    tagging    proteins    super    cell    genetic    chemistry    protein    labelling    orthogonal    expansion    vitro    imaging    resolution    evolution    code    bio    organic   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Super-resolution biological microscopy would benefit from a much smaller alternative to green fluorescent protein and enzyme-mediated labelling methods for imaging specific proteins in cells. To facilitate routine tagging of organic fluorophores to cellular proteins for super-resolution imaging, we aim to combine genetic code expansion (the most non-invasive tagging method) with cell-compatible CuAAC with copper-chelating azides (the fastest bio-orthogonal reaction) and extend the utilities of the method to labelling of specific proteins in different subcellular locales, including intracellular.

The proposed work here is highly interdisciplinary, combining techniques from synthetic organic chemistry, in vitro evolution of novel protein function, optimizations of protein and chemical functions in mammalian cell context, and super-resolution protein imaging. The work is designed to take advantage of the fellow’s experience in protein labelling, bio-orthogonal chemistry and super-resolution imaging, along with the European host’s proficiency in in vitro evolution and genetic code expansion. The goal is to maximise the mutual transfer of knowledge while obtaining new methodologies and molecular insight into biological systems.'

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