Post-translational protein modifications initiate, regulate, propagate and terminate a wide
variety of processes in cells, and in particular, ubiquitylation targets substrate proteins for …

… Phylogeny based on alignment of ~1280 bp; GTR model, invariant sites (I) and rate variation
amongst sites (G), using PhyML 3.1 with bootstrap support shown, alongside Bayesian …

Posttranslational modification of proteins by the addition of ubiquitin and related modifiers
has an essential role in cellular processes such as protein degradation and subcellular …

Women experience substantial, gender-specific barriers that can impede their advancement
in research careers. These include unconscious biases that negatively influence the …

The landscape of scientific research and funding is in flux as a result of tight budgets, evolving
models of both publishing and evaluation, and questions about training and workforce …

Careful, clean and controlled preparation of samples for mass spectrometry proteomics is
crucial to obtain reproducible and reliable data. This is especially important when carrying out …

… 8 μl of in vitro translated 35 S-methione-labeled protein was combined with 40 μl of high
speed interphase-activated egg extract, cleared of ribosomes by spinning at 107,400 × g for 40 …

… Competing interests: Gary S McDowell: Received financial compensation as the Executive
Director … McDowell GS. 2018. Early-career researchers and their involvement in peer review. …

Being successful in an academic environment places many demands on junior scientists.
Science communication currently may not be adequately valued and rewarded, and yet …

… recent survey of early career researchers (by co-authors GS and RL) revealed that formal,
evidenced-based instruction in peer review is rare (McDowell et al., 2019b). When 498 survey …