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Methods And Methods Of Mouse Proteins

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Methods and Materials
Mouse PrP would be used for this study since it is known that mouse PrP share a number of structural and biochemical characters with mammalian PrP (Harreist et al. 1991; Gabriel et al. 1992). The materials and methods to be used are similar to those used by Agnes Lau et al. (2015)
Mutant PrP plasmid constructs
To create new alleles in the PrP which would be equivalent to the copied peptides, to be examined by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy– also called electron spin resonance (ESR), a technique used to study chemical species with unpaired electrons. EPR spectroscopy plays an important role in the understanding of organic and inorganic radicals, transition metal complexes, and some biomolecules –the sequences that encode the N-terminal portion of prion and part of the 5’ untranslated region will be synthesized by GenScript Inc. This will eliminate novice mistakes on my part. KpnI (from New England Biolabs), a restriction endonuclease enzyme will be used to remove the encoding sequence of concern. T4, a DNA ligase will be used to anneal (recombine DNA into a double-stranded form following separation) the full-length prion sequences into an already existing pCDNA3 mammalian expression plasmid with the CMV promoter and a neomycin-resistance marker (New England Biolabs), and correct full-length prion sequences will be excised into another vector pBud egfp (Addgene) by digestion with XbaI and HindIII digestive enzymes (Promega Biolabs).

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