I'm a protein biochemist and have experience with over ten different classes of enzymes and proteins. I have developed many enzyme activity assays and solved several x-ray protein crystal structures. I am excited to pass my knowledge by mentoring students and other researchers.
Adair L. Borges, Atanas Radkov, and Peter S. Thuy-Boun
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Published: Dec 19, 2022
This pub details a process for phage amplification and concentration, DNA extraction, and HPLC and MS analysis of phage nucleosides. We optimized the approach with model phages known to use non-canonical nucleosides in their DNA, but plan to apply it for other phages.
Prachee Avasthi, Cameron Dale MacQuarrie, and Atanas Radkov
PA
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Published: Mar 29, 2023
Treating P. tricornutum cells with serine endopeptidases or certain cytoskeletal inhibitors induces the formation of cell wall-free protoplasts and suggests a novel role for actin and myosin in preventing protoplast formation.
Adair L. Borges, Rachel J. Dutton, Elizabeth A. McDaniel, Atanas Radkov, Taylor Reiter, and Emily C.P. Weiss
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Published: Jul 19, 2023
We sampled cheese microbial communities to discover bacteriophages with unusual genome chemistries. We isolated 114 bacterial host strains and 17 phages, and identified one phage with a probable arabinose hypermodification of hydroxymethylcytosine.
Prachee Avasthi, Brae M. Bigge, Feridun Mert Celebi, Keith Cheveralls, Jase Gehring, Erin McGeever, Gilad Mishne, Atanas Radkov, and 1 more
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KC
RD
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Published: Sep 29, 2023
The ProteinCartography pipeline identifies proteins related to a query protein using sequence- and structure-based searches, compares all protein structures, and creates a navigable map that can be used to look at protein relationships and make hypotheses about function.