Melanie Laederich

UC San Diego
Melanie Laederich
Melanie has a PhD from Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine. She is a Post Doctoral Fellow at UC San Diego, studying the signal integration and crosstalk between G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs and G-proteins) and Receptor Tyrosine Kinases (RTKs) in cancer and in diseases of the central nervous system.

Articles by Melanie Laederich

How to Make a Custom Affinity Medium for Protein Purification

Is your goal to purify a substantial amount of a specific protein? Do you have a quantity of a molecule that binds your protein of interest? If so, generating a custom affinity matrix may be just the trick you need to purify your protein of interest by affinity chromatography. Customizing your affinity chromatography is an…

Keeping Your Proteins Happy with Chemical Chaperones

Keeping Your Proteins Happy with Chemical Chaperones

Chemical chaperones are necessary in protein experiments. From buffers to storage solutions, chemical chaperones silently make proteins happy and soluble. Read this article to appreciate the love that chemical chaperones bathe on your proteins and learn when to use them! A chemical chaperone is a molecule that promotes the favorable interaction of protein with water…

Overview of Protein Turnover using 35S: how to prevent trashy data and uh-oh moments

Overview of Protein Turnover using 35S: how to prevent trashy data and uh-oh moments

The half-life of a protein is an important factor in many molecular biology studies. If your thesis has anything to do with proteins then your graduate advisory committee will ask about half-life, so start planning your 35S experiment today. To help you here is my overview of the major steps of 35S labeling complete with…

The Five X-Factors in Bacterial Protein Production and Purification

The Five X-Factors in Bacterial Protein Production and Purification

Every protein is unique and thus every protein has its own set of production and purification challenges – many of which cannot be predicted. Therefore to successfully produce and purify your favorite protein you need to know and understand these five unpredictable protocol variables (X factors). Tweaking these X factors just might be the difference…