The main purpose of this blog is to create a full time forum to debate about one of the nature's most diverse and widespread gene family: the CYTOCHROMES P450, also known as CYPs! All and any topic involving CYP will be covered - ranging from CYP origins, evolution and diversification to involvement of CYPs in human diseases passing through CYP applications in biotechnology. Usually, I will use this forum to advertise and comment what I find to be the most outstanding up-to-date publications in the field.
As CYP publications are reaching absurd numbers per day, a huge percentage of the outstanding articles will not be discussed. However, I count on the YOU (the readers) to send comments not only discussing my current post but also linking to others excellent papers that might not be directly related to the current post. Senior CYP scientists will eventually be invited to write very brief reviews or about priority research on the field. Also, any CYP scientist/student are encouraged to write short posts and send it to me. These posts will be posted in the blog and credits will be given to the author(s).
Sure this blog is also a great place for high-school and undergraduate students to learn about these very interesting enzymes and all the metabolic and physiologic processes they are involved in. Despite CYP importance and the number of scientific papers published on it, this is (as far as I am aware) the first blog devoted entirely to the CYPs.
In sum, I hope CYP scientists can find here a forum to discuss all aspects of our favorite proteins: the CYPs. By doing it, we will be always in touch and not limit to few days each year during some of ours CYP meetings. More over, we will meet here CYP specialists that works on different parts of the CYP universe, which the odds to meet elsewhere are very low. This will expand our limited vision and can potentially help each of us to better understand the small part of this huge universe we are studying. Finally, it is meant to open the eyes of younger students to this amazingly diverse gene/protein/enzyme family.
WELCOME TO THE CYPblog!
Cheers,
Thiago Parente
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By the way, as the audience of this blog will be the scientific community and undergrad students interesting in CYPs it is essential to write it in english - which is not my native language. So, if you find some mispelled words or sentences that doesn't make a lot of sense, keep reading and please let me know! thanks.
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