Cytokinesis-block micronucleus cytome assay.

abstract：:The small ubiquitin-like modifiers (SUMOs) are posttranslationally conjugated to eukaryotic cellular proteins with generally unpredictable consequences. SUMO substrates are found in many cellular systems, and functional analysis has revealed that substrate SUMOylation often has an important role in their regulation. H...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Tatham MH,Rodriguez MS,Xirodimas DP,Hay RT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A viruses (IAVs) cause epidemics and pandemics that result in considerable financial burden and loss of human life. To manage annual IAV epidemics and prepare for future pandemics, an improved understanding of how IAVs emerge, transmit, cause disease and acquire pandemic potential is urgently needed. Fundame...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Eisfeld AJ,Neumann G,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitophagy is a cellular process that selectively removes damaged, old or dysfunctional mitochondria. Defective mitophagy is thought to contribute to normal aging and to various neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases. Previous methods used to detect mitophagy in vivo were cumbersome, insensitive and difficult to...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Sun N,Malide D,Liu J,Rovira II,Combs CA,Finkel T

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) enables label-free spatial mapping of hundreds of biomolecules in tissue sections. This capability provides valuable information on tissue heterogeneity that is difficult to obtain using population-averaged assays. Despite substantial developments in both instrumentation and methodology...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Yin R,Burnum-Johnson KE,Sun X,Dey SK,Laskin J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding chemical reactivity through the use of state-of-the-art computational techniques enables chemists to both predict reactivity and rationally design novel reactions. This protocol aims to provide chemists with the tools to implement a powerful and robust method for analyzing and understanding any chemical ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Vermeeren P,van der Lubbe SCC,Fonseca Guerra C,Bickelhaupt FM,Hamlin TA

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges for modern neuroscience is to understand the rules of concerted neuronal function in vivo. This question can be addressed using noninvasive high-resolution imaging techniques like two-photon microscopy. This protocol describes a versatile approach for in vivo two-photon calcium imaging of neural ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Garaschuk O,Milos RI,Konnerth A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Adult' or 'somatic' stem cells harbor an intrinsic ability to regenerate tissues. Heterogeneity of such stem cells along the gastrointestinal tract yields the known segmental specificity of this organ and may contribute to the pathology of certain enteric conditions. Here we detail technology for the generation of 'l...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Duleba M,Yamamoto Y,Neupane R,Rao W,Xie J,Qi Y,Liew AA,Niroula S,Zhang Y,Mahalingam R,Wang S,Goller K,Ajani JA,Vincent M,Ho KY,Hou JK,Hyams JS,Sylvester FA,Crum CP,McKeon F,Xian W

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, Drosophila has emerged as an ideal model organism for studying the genetic components of sleep as well as its regulation and functions. In fruit flies, sleep can be conveniently estimated by measuring the locomotor activity of the flies using techniques and instruments adapted from the field of cir...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Gilestro GF

更新日期：2012-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe a protocol for advanced CUBIC (Clear, Unobstructed Brain/Body Imaging Cocktails and Computational analysis). The CUBIC protocol enables simple and efficient organ clearing, rapid imaging by light-sheet microscopy and quantitative imaging analysis of multiple samples. The organ or body is cleared by im...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Susaki EA,Tainaka K,Perrin D,Yukinaga H,Kuno A,Ueda HR

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed protocol for the synthesis of core/shell semiconductor nanocrystal, their encapsulation into phospholipid micelles, their purification and their coupling to a controlled number of small molecules is given. The protocol for the core/shell quantum dot (QD) CdSe/CdZnS synthesis has been specifically designed w...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Carion O,Mahler B,Pons T,Dubertret B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we describe the development of a standardized three-dimensional (3D) system of the human oral mucosa based on an immortalized human oral keratinocyte cell line (OKF6/TERT-2). The procedure takes approximately 2-3 weeks to complete and includes three main stages: preparation of collagen-embedded fibrobla...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Dongari-Bagtzoglou A,Kashleva H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence indicates that RNA G-quadruplexes have important roles in various processes such as transcription, translation, regulation of telomere length, and formation of telomeric heterochromatin. Investigation of RNA G-quadruplex structures associated with biological events is therefore essential to understand...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Bao HL,Xu Y

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scototaxis (dark/light preference) protocol is a behavioral model for fish that is being validated to assess the antianxiety effects of pharmacological agents and the behavioral effects of toxic substances, and to investigate the (epi)genetic bases of anxiety-related behavior. Briefly, a fish is placed in a centra...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Maximino C,Marques de Brito T,Dias CA,Gouveia A Jr,Morato S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant cell wall is a chemically complex structure composed mostly of polysaccharides. Detailed analyses of these cell wall polysaccharides are essential for our understanding of plant development and for our use of plant biomass (largely wall material) in the food, agriculture, fabric, timber, biofuel and biocompo...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Pettolino FA,Walsh C,Fincher GB,Bacic A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many techniques have been developed for studying inducible gene expression, but all of them are multicomponent systems consisting of cis-acting elements at the DNA or RNA level, trans-acting regulator proteins and/or small molecules as inducers. RNA thermometers are the only known single-component regulators of gene e...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Neupert J,Bock R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmembrane (TM) anchors of cell surface proteins have been one of the 'blind spots' in structural biology because they are generally very hydrophobic, sometimes dynamic, and thus difficult targets for structural characterization. A plethora of examples show these membrane anchors are not merely anchors but can ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Fu Q,Piai A,Chen W,Xia K,Chou JJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvement of cellular uptake and cellular localization is still one of the main obstacles to the development of antisense-antigene therapeutics, including peptide nucleic acid (PNA). Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) such as Tat peptide and polyarginine have been widely used to improve the cellular uptake of PNA and ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Shiraishi T,Nielsen PE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung epithelium is derived from the endodermal germ layer, which undergoes a complex series of endoderm-mesoderm-mediated signaling events to generate the final arborized network of conducting airways (bronchi, bronchioles) and gas-exchanging units (alveoli). These stages include endoderm induction, anterior-poste...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Miller AJ,Dye BR,Ferrer-Torres D,Hill DR,Overeem AW,Shea LD,Spence JR

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol and the accompanying software program called LEVER (lineage editing and validation) enable quantitative automated analysis of phase-contrast time-lapse images of cultured neural stem cells. Images are captured at 5-min intervals over a period of 5-15 d as the cells proliferate and differentiate. LEVER au...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Winter M,Wait E,Roysam B,Goderie SK,Ali RA,Kokovay E,Temple S,Cohen AR

更新日期：2011-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 20 years, the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis, a small estuarine animal, has emerged as a powerful model system for field and laboratory studies of development, evolution, genomics, molecular biology and toxicology. Here we describe how to collect Nematostella, culture it through its entire s...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Stefanik DJ,Friedman LE,Finnerty JR

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the version of this protocol originally published, the caption for Fig. 3 was erroneously placed with Fig. 4, and that for Fig. 4 was placed with Fig. 3. This error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the paper. ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Cruz-Acuña R,Quirós M,Huang S,Siuda D,Spence JR,Nusrat A,García AJ

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-translational modifications alter protein structure, affecting activity, stability, localization and/or binding partners. Antibodies that specifically recognize post-translationally modified proteins have a number of uses including immunocytochemistry and immunoprecipitation of the modified protein to purify prot...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Arur S,Schedl T

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important area of proteomics involves the need for quantification, whether relative or absolute. Many methods now exist for relative quantification, but to support biomarker proteomics and systems biology, absolute quantification rather than relative quantification is required. Absolute quantification usually invol...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Pratt JM,Simpson DM,Doherty MK,Rivers J,Gaskell SJ,Beynon RJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of an azobenzene amino acid (aa) for use as a photo-inducible conformational switch in polypeptides is described. The compound can be easily incorporated into an aa sequence by solid-phase peptide synthesis using standard 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl methods. A reversible conformational change of the pepti...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Aemissegger A,Hilvert D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partial reduction of electron-deficient pyrroles using either Birch (Li/NH(3)) or ammonia-free (Li/di-tert-butyl biphenyl) conditions allows formation of pyrroline compounds in good yield and, when combined with a reductive alkylation or similar approach, leads to highly functionalized, synthetically useful compou...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Donohoe TJ,Thomas RE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate analysis of DNA sequence variation in not only humans and animals but also other organisms has played a significant role in expanding our knowledge about genetic variety and diversity in a number of different biological areas. The search for an understanding of the causes of genetic variants and mutations has...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Ota M,Fukushima H,Kulski JK,Inoko H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the sequence and nature of protein N termini has many applications. Defining the termini of proteins for proteome annotation in the Human Proteome Project is of increasing importance. Terminomics analysis of protease cleavage sites in degradomics for substrate discovery is a key new application. Here we de...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Kleifeld O,Doucet A,Prudova A,auf dem Keller U,Gioia M,Kizhakkedathu JN,Overall CM

更新日期：2011-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol describes a method for direct labeling and detection of small RNAs present in total RNA by splinted ligation. The assay uses a small RNA-specific bridge oligonucleotide to form base pairs with the small RNA and a 5'-end-radiolabeled ligation oligonucleotide. The captured small RNA is directly labeled by ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Maroney PA,Chamnongpol S,Souret F,Nilsen TW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of anisotropic NMR data, such as residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) and residual chemical shift anisotropies (RCSAs), has emerged as a powerful technique for structural characterization of organic small molecules. RDCs typically report the relative orientations of different 1H-13C bonds; RCSAs report the relati...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Liu Y,Navarro-Vázquez A,Gil RR,Griesinger C,Martin GE,Williamson RT

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 400,000 people each year suffer adverse effects following bites from venomous snakes. However, snake venom is also a rich source of bioactive molecules with known or potential therapeutic applications. Manually 'milking' snakes is the most common method to obtain venom. Safer alternative methods to produce v...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Puschhof J,Post Y,Beumer J,Kerkkamp HM,Bittenbinder M,Vonk FJ,Casewell NR,Richardson MK,Clevers H

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00