Thursday, 28 February 2013

Paper published - Adiponectin corrects high fat diet-induced disturbances in muscle metabolomic profile and whole body glucose homeostasis

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Great to finally see a paper that I was working on last year out in print…. Liu,Y., Turdi,S., Park,T., Morris,N.J., Deshaies,Y., Xu,A. ...
Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK3) and Glycogen Synthase (GS) - the phosphorylation equilibrium

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This one causes students problems every year - the relationship between Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK3) and Glycogen Synthase (GS), and th...
Saturday, 20 October 2012

Calculating Percentage Solutions

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For some reason, percentage solution calculations cause students some problems. However, hopefully, once you have read this blog post, you s...
Tuesday, 16 October 2012

3d Structure of the GDP G-protein alpha subunit

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The movie below shows the 3d structure of a guanosine diphosphate (GDP) bound G protein alpha-subunit. The small green molecule in the m...

Bovine Rhodopsin

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The structure of a G-protein coupled receptor is often shown as: However, the crystal structure of bovine rhodopsin shows that the seve...

3d Structure - β2AR-T4L

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The structure of a G-protein coupled receptor is often shown as: Which shows a receptor with the N-terminal outside the cell, seven tra...

⍺Gs and Adenylyl Cyclase

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The following animation shows αGs interacting with adenylyl cyclase. The animation is also available as a slightly larger video.... I...