Cardiac electrophysiology is a highly specialized field focused on the management of cardiac arrhythmias. Therefore, rigorous training is required for advanced practice providers (APPs) to competently practice independently within the specialty. An in-depth, 12-month training curriculum was created for electrophysiology in conjunction with a previously established APP Fellowship Program for the training of other complex subspecialties at an academic medical center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurological monogenic loss-of-function diseases are hereditary disorders resulting from gene mutations that decrease or abolish the normal function of the encoded protein. These conditions pose significant therapeutic challenges, which may be resolved through the development of innovative therapeutic strategies. RNA-based technologies, such as mRNA replacement therapy, have emerged as promising and increasingly viable treatments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProtein prenylation is one example of a broad class of post-translational modifications where proteins are covalently linked to various hydrophobic moieties. To globally identify and monitor levels of all prenylated proteins in a cell simultaneously, our laboratory and others have developed chemical proteomic approaches that rely on the metabolic incorporation of isoprenoid analogues bearing bio-orthogonal functionality followed by enrichment and subsequent quantitative proteomic analysis. Here, several improvements in the synthesis of the alkyne-containing isoprenoid analogue C15AlkOPP are reported to improve synthetic efficiency.
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