Monday, August 22nd: Attaching protein to gold
Today, I worked on reading articles, setting up a service to get our pipettes in lab calibrated, and incubated gold nanoparticles with my protein, to attach the protein to the gold. This batch of protein has two cysteine residues on the N-terminus, which can attach to gold view thiol-Au bond. Hopefully tomorrow I can do rudimentary experiments as to its activity.