Using chemical-genetics to inhibit and characterise (undruggable) enzymes

ThisUsing chemical-genetics to inhibit and characterise (undruggable) enzymes project is offered at University of Dundee.

This Using chemical-genetics to inhibit and characterise (undruggable) enzymes project at University of Dundee will build on the strategy to develop a method to inhibit three phosphatase complexes with known substrate-binding motifs, and then potentially expand the system into other enzymes classes, all of which are currently undruggable.

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The student will

• use this system to characterise how these different enzymes work

• perform mass-spectrometry to identify the enzymes’ direct substrates

• use a range of cell biology techniques, including live and fixed cell microscopy, to characterise the processes that these enzymes control

• develop a technology that could transform many different fields of research, potentially revealing new avenues for disease treatment