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About This Simulation
Assist in a biopsy on a cancer patient and learn how to prepare the sample for mass spectrometry by extracting its phosphopeptides. Will you be able to identify the cancer stage of the patient by looking at the phosphorylation pattern?
Learning Objectives
- Understand the correlation between phosphorylation and cancer
- Prepare a biopsy sample for mass spectrometry
About This Simulation
Lab Techniques
- Phosphopeptide enrichment
- Protein purification
- Enzymatic digestion
- Cell lysis
Related Standards
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Learn More About This Simulation
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Prepare the biopsy
Join doctors in the hospital and enter an immersive animation to see how we perform a colorectal cancer biopsy. Once back in the lab, your mission will be to extract proteins from the tumor sample. Find the equipment you need in the lab to lyse the tumor cells, denature the proteins, and perform phosphopeptide enrichment, in order to prepare the sample for mass spectrometry.
Explore the molecules
Use the holotable to observe detailed 3D models of the molecules involved in phosphorylation. Get an understanding of the molecular principles underlying the biopsy preparation and how the phosphorylation pattern relates to cancer.
Interpret your findings
In the end, you will analyze the results from the mass spectrometry on a graph. Will you be able to help guide the patient’s treatment by identifying their cancer stage?
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