Welcome to Laprotox
Headed by Celia Carlini as the principal investigator, the Laprotox - Laboratory of Toxic Proteins, is part of the Department of Biophysics and of the Center of Biotechnology, at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. At Laprotox we are dedicated to studies of toxic proteins at the physicochemical and biological levels.
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Research Lines
Ureases are multifunctional toxic proteins. At Laprotox we apply cellular, molecular and biophysical approaches to study the structural and biological properties of ureases from bacteria, fungi and plants. We aim to understand how ureases exert their many roles (enzyme, defense, virulence factor, communication) in the source organisms and in those affected by their actions.
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Laprotox Team
The Laprotox team is composed of researchers of different units of UFRGS and of other institutions in Brazil and abroad. A fundamental part of our team is represented by graduate students at the Ph.D. and M.Sc. levels, as well as undergraduated students and administrative and technical staff.
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    Laprotox hosts Samantha Dyer, a Biology student at the Ohio State University, for an exchange program (Aug-Dec 2011) financed by a CAPES-FIPSE grant. Samantha is attending disciplines at UFRGS and develops her B.Sc. monography supervised by Marina Defferrari.
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