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Development and Applications of Mass Spectrometric Methods for Proteome Analysis and Protein Sequence Characterization
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Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used in proteomic work for protein identification and characterization. A key to the success of MS for protein analysis is related to sample preparation. Current sample preparation methods do not meet all the needs of protein or proteome analysis. My thesis work...
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Development and Applications of Stable Isotope Labelling Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry for Quantitative Proteomics
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This thesis describes the characterization, automation, and applications of a stable isotope labelling method for quantitative proteomics by mass spectrometry. Known as 2MEGA, the method uses guanidinylation to convert peptide lysine residues to homoarginine followed by reductive methylation of...
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Fall 2012
The overall goal of this thesis research is to develop a spectral searching strategy capable of identifying peptide sequences from MS/MS spectra with high sensitivity and accuracy. First, a shotgun proteome analysis method was developed and successfully applied to the identification of proteins...
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Spring 2010
Interest in microfluidic platforms has surged as an alternative for sample preparation in the past two decades, with the potential for miniaturization, portability, automation, integration and parallelism driving this research. However, it is still very challenging to develop an integrated...
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Fall 2020
The Golgi complex resides at the center of the cellular trafficking pathway, where it functions in the modification, sorting, and trafficking of over one third of human proteins to their correct cellular destination. Initiation of vesicle formation at the Golgi requires activation of small...
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Fall 2021
Caspases are a family of enzymes that regulate biological processes, such as inflammation and programmed cell death, through proteolysis. For example, in the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis, cell death signaling involves cytochrome c release from the mitochondria, which leads to the activation of...
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Spring 2021
Vaccinia virus (VACV) has shown promise as an oncolytic agent for treating a variety of tumour types, with preliminary results suggesting that this strategy holds promise for treating breast cancer. Our lab has previously modified VACV by deleting virally-encoded enzymes responsible for dNTP...
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Investigating Radiation in Combination with Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus to Improve the Treatment of Glioblastoma
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Glioblastoma (GBM) is a malignant and immune-suppressed brain cancer that remains incurable despite the current standard of care. Radiotherapy is a mainstay of GBM treatment, however invasive cancer cells outside the irradiated field and radioresistance preclude complete eradication of GBM cells....
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Spring 2016
Poxviruses, such as vaccinia virus (VACV) and myxoma virus (MYXV), actively modulate various cellular structures and functions to ensure effective replication and transmission. In the contrary, cells use several restriction mechanisms to mitigate these viruses. This evolutionary relationship is...
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Measuring proteomic changes associated with viral infections and neurodegenerative diseases using mass spectrometry
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Viral infection and the resultant cellular stress can trigger significant changes to the cellular host proteome. Viral proteases essential to viral replication have been shown to cleave human host protein substrates as a mechanism of immune response evasion. The severe acute respiratory syndrome...