School of Biotechnology
Proteomics
Achievements

  Key scientific achievements
Research groups
Summary
Human protein atlas
Mycoplasma mycoides
Antibody proteomics
Alkali stabilization
Tree genomics
Pyrosequencing
Single cell analysis
Affibodies
Biosensor (DNA)
Bioautomation
Surface display
Protein folding
In vivo stabilization
Solid phase methods
Protein G
Protein A
Affinity tags


Year Research field Description Key reference
2005 Human Protein Atlas A publicly available database with 400,000 images (www.proteinatlas.org) Uhlén et al (2005) Mol Cell Proteomics in press (e publ)
2004 Whole genome sequencing The complete genome of Mycoplasma mycoides was determined and annotated Westberg et al (2004) Genome Research 14(2), 221-227
2003 Antibody Proteomics The first description of high-throughput antibody-based tissue profiling Agaton et al (2003) Mol. Cell. Prot. 2: p. 405-414
2001 Tree genome discovery A transcriptional roadmap to wood formation by microarray analysis (collaboration with UmU/SLU) Hertzberg et al. (2001) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98, 14732-37
2000 Stabilization of proteins Recombinant proteins can be engineered to tolerate pH above 13 Gulich et al (2000) J Biotech 80: 169-178
1998 Pyrosequencing A new DNA sequencing method (collaboration with P. Nyren) Ronaghi et al (1998) Science 281: 363-365
1997 Analysis of single cells First report on DNA sequence analysis of micro dissected single cancer cells Ponten et al (1997) Mutat Res 1: 45-55
1997 Affibodies Robust affinity reagents selected from combinatorial libraries Nord et al (1997) Nature Biotechno-logy 15: 772-777
1995 Biosensor analysis of DNA manipulations The first report on real-time biosensor analysis of DNA manipulations Nilsson et al (1995) Anal Biochem 224: 400-408
1992 Bioautomation of magnetic separations Robotics for sample preparation based on magnetic handling Uhlen et al (1992) Trends in Biotechnol. 10: 52-55
1992 Gram+ bacterial surface display The first report on the use of Gram positive bacteria for surface expression of recombinat proteins Hansson et al (1992) J. Bacteriol. 174: 4239-4245
1991 Affinity-based folding and purification First report on the use of affinity principles to facilitate in vivo folding of recombinant proteins Samuelsson et al (1991) Nature Biotechn 9: 363-366
1991 In vivo stabilization of recombinant proteins The half-life of recombinant proteins in circulation can be increased by fusion to an albumin-binding domain Nygren et al (1991) Vaccines 91: 363-368
1988 Solid phase sequencing and DNA diagnostics The first publication on solid phase sequencing and the use of streptavidin coated magnetic beads Stahl et al (1988) Nucl Acids Res 16: 3025-3038
1986 Recombinant protein G Protein G is used for purification of antibodies, antibody fragments and human serum albumin Guss et al. (1986) EMBO J 5: 1567-1575
1984 Recombinant protein A Protein A is used extensively as affinity ligand for purification of antibodies Uhlen et al. (1984) J Biol Chem 259: 1695-1702
1983 Gene fusions for affinity purification of proteins The protein A gene fusion system was the first published report for the use of affinity tags for purification Uhlen et al (1983) Gene 23: 369-378
Last updated: 2010-12-22