Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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Enhancing Cell Penetration to Improve Drug Delivery

The utility of many biologic drugs is limited by inefficient cellular delivery. There is a particular need for methods and reagents that facilitate delivery of peptides and proteins into the interior ...
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Ronald Raines, Kristen Andersen | P150031US02

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New Disulfide-Bond Reducing Agent

Disulfide bonds between cysteine residues are the most common crosslinking agents in proteins. Reducing these bonds is an ordinary procedure in biochemistry and biotechnology. The most commonly used r...
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Ronald Raines, John Lukesh | P140284US01

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Bioreversible Protein Esterification

Proteins contain carboxyl groups. These charged groups make it difficult for any protein to enter a human (or other eukaryotic) cell. Modifying proteins to enter cells could revolutionize medicine, e....
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Ronald Raines, Nicholas McGrath | P130148US02

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Protecting Groups for Boronic Acids

Boronic acids (i.e., compounds that have a single boron-carbon bond) are one of the most useful functional groups in organic chemistry and chemical biology. They have applications in polymer sciences,...
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Ronald Raines, Brett VanVeller, Matthew Aronoff | P130142US02

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Reagents for Bioreversible Protein Esterification

Chemoselective transformations are of key importance in modern chemical biology. Protein esterification can, for example, be employed for labeling, enhanced cellular uptake and other useful protein mo...
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Ronald Raines, Kalie Mix | P150262US03

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Cell-Permeable Green Fluorescent Protein

The green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria is an extremely useful tool in biochemistry, molecular biology and diagnostics. This protein has been used to study gene expres...
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Ronald Raines, Stephen Fuchs | P06084US

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Cytotoxic Ribonuclease Variants

Ribonucleases are enzymes that catalyze the degradation of RNA. Levels of RNase activity are controlled in vivo by a ribonuclease inhibitor (RI), which binds strongly to an RNase to completely inhibit...
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Ronald Raines, George Phillips, R. Jeremy Johnson, Jason McCoy | P05341US

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Nuclease Inhibitors and Methods for Their Use

Biochemical research and biotechnology rely on nucleic acids; however, nucleic acids frequently encounter nucleases that can negatively affect experiments. Although nuclease inhibitors are often used ...
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Ronald Raines, Bryan Smith, David Lynn, Matthew Soellner | P05096US

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Cytotoxic Ribonuclease Variants

Ribonucleases are enzymes that catalyze the degradation of RNA. Levels of RNase activity are controlled in vivo by a ribonuclease inhibitor (RI), which binds strongly to an RNase to completely inhibit...
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Ronald Raines, Julie Mitchell, Thomas Rutkoski | P04427US

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Hyperstable Collagen Mimics

Collagen, the most abundant protein in vertebrates, serves as the fundamental structural protein for vertebrate tissues. Collagen is a fibrous protein consisting of three polypeptide chains that fold ...
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Ronald Raines, Jonathan Hodges | P03226US

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Stable Collagen Mimics

Collagen, the most abundant protein in vertebrates, provides structure for tissues and plays a key role in wound healing. In connective tissue, individual collagen molecules are wound together in tigh...
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Ronald Raines, Matthew Shoulders, Jonathan Hodges | P06406US

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Improving Drug Delivery with Boronic Acids

The utility of many biologic drugs is limited by inefficient delivery into cells. Strategies to overcome this limitation have included enhancing the attraction between positively charged drug agents a...
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Ronald Raines, Gregory Ellis, Michael Palte | P110315US02

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Improved Disulfide-Bond Reducing Agents

Disulfide bonds between cysteine residues are the most common crosslinking agents in proteins. Reducing these bonds is an ordinary procedure in biochemistry and biotechnology. The most commonly used r...
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Ronald Raines, John Lukesh | P110330US02

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