Protein Production Facility

Protein Production is a necessary step for structural and other biologists who require functional proteins for their research. The NYSBC has the expertise and the automated instrumentation to produce 1,000 clones a week that are subsequently expressed and purified using high throughput techniques. This production capacity was developed as part of the NYSBC’s NIH-funded New York Consortium on Membrane Protein Structure (NYCOMPS), that focuses on expressing a very important class of proteins considered to be a major challenge in structural biology. Understanding membrane proteins remains an important biomedical goal. 

Under the direction of Dr. James Love, NYSBC’s high throughput protein production platform utilizes robotic methods to produce hundreds of functional, integral membrane proteins that can be used for research. NYSBC is planning on expanding this capacity to include non-membrane proteins and other high-value targets.

For more information on Protein Production, visit the  NYCOMPS facility page.