September 2006

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September 2006

A unit of Protemist DT, CFS’s desktop protein synthesizer, has been installed at the laboratory of Professor Masayuki Murata of the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Being capable of producing and purifying proteins of interest overnight, the unit is to supply proteins to the screening system built by Professor Murata.
Designed for the functional analysis of proteins, Professor Murata’s screening system uses semi-intact cells in combination with visualization by an optical microscope. For this system, Protemist DT was selected as the best available protein synthesizer, with high credit given to its purification capability integrated into the fully automatic protein synthesis.

September 2006

A unique workshop for hands-on experience in wheat germ and other cell-free protein production systems will be held from 3 p.m. on October 18th to noon on October 21st at Yokohama City University and RIKEN Yokohama Institute. It is organized by Professor Yaeta Endo ( Ehime University ) and Project Director Shigeyuki Yokoyama ( RIKEN ) as one of the satellite workshops of the International Conference on Structural Genomics (ICSG) 2006.
CellFree Sciences, Co., Ltd. supports this workshop.
For more detail, please go to http://stone.gsc.riken.jp/icsg2006/index.html

August 2006

Wheat Germ Cell-Free Protein Production Workshop in University of Wisconsin ended successfully.
Please see the following URL for hot news of the workshop.
http://www.uwstructuralgenomics.org/cellfree_workshop.htm

July 2006

University of Wisconsin-Madison to hold Wheat Germ Cell-Free Protein Production Workshop

The Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics (CESG) and the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (NMRFAM) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are holding the 2006 Wheat Germ Cell-Free Protein Production Workshop from July 30 through August 5, 2006. This unique workshop gives the participants hands-on experience in the wheat germ cell-free production of their own target proteins on a microgram and milligram scale. Seminars on related subjects are also held. Participants, representing major structural biology centers, academic institutes, and private companies, will come from US, Europe and Asia. The CellFree Sciences Co, Ltd. Japan, Promega Corporation, USA and Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, USA co-sponsor the workshop. The CESG at University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the leading structural biology centers supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Protein Structure Initiative, ultimately aiming at making the three-dimensional atomic-level structures of most proteins easily obtainable from knowledge of their corresponding DNA sequences.

Prof. John Markley and Dr. Dmitriy Vinarov at the CESG in collaboration with Professor Yaeta Endo, Ehime University, and the CellFree Sciences, Co., Ltd have developed high throughput Wheat Germ Cell-Free Protein Production Platform for NMR, to breakthrough the bottleneck of high throughput labeled protein production. CESG has successfully determined 3-D structure of not less than 90 proteins, which have subsequently been registered at Protein Data Bank.

January 2006

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), one of the nine national laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy, employed the CFS automatic protein synthesizer GenDecoder1000.

PNNL will use it to synthesize proteins required for Genomes to Life (GTL) program, whose focus is on the molecular machines of DOE-relevant microbes and their networking in living cells and microbial communities. GenDecoder1000 is capable of transcription and translation of 384 samples in an overnight campaign.