by Joel Mackay | Dec 14, 2001 | Photo Gallery |
The Megalong Valley is in the Blue Mountains – two hours west of Sydney. Amazingly, we didn’t see a single other person the entire...
by Joel Mackay | Jul 14, 2001 | Photo Gallery |
The Great North Walk runs essentially from the centre of Sydney right up to Newcastle, some 300 km or so away. The 100 km or so that are within Sydney runs almost exclusively through National Parkland. We headed off with a few hardy lab members for a 2-day walk on...
by Joel Mackay | Jan 19, 2001 | Past Lab Members |
Hons student working in Joel’s lab on transcription factor PTMs – ably supervised by Ingrid and Kim.
by Joel Mackay | Jul 23, 2000 | Structure Gallery |
[ PDB file ] [ PubMed link ] USF9 has the same zinc ligation topology as USF1 but the two fingers share only 14% sequence identity outside of the zinc ligands (blue). However, USF9 adopts an almost identical fold to USF1, with a short β-hairpin (orange) and an...
by Joel Mackay | Jul 23, 2000 | Structure Gallery |
[ PDB file ] [ PubMed link ] U-shaped is a member of the FOG family of transcription factors, which interact with GATA proteins to control gene expression in various tissues. U-shaped has nine zinc fingers. The structure of the first finger of U-shaped (USF1) is very...