A simple, versatile and efficient method to genetically modify human monocyte-derived dendritic cells with HIV-1-derived lentiviral vectors.

abstract：:Neurons in cortical sensory regions receive modality-specific information through synapses that are located on their dendrites. Recently, the use of two-photon microscopy combined with whole-cell recordings has helped to identify visually evoked dendritic calcium signals in mouse visual cortical neurons in vivo. The c...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Jia H,Rochefort NL,Chen X,Konnerth A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase H-dependent PCR-enabled T-cell receptor sequencing (rhTCRseq) can be used to determine paired alpha/beta T-cell receptor (TCR) clonotypes in single cells or perform alpha and beta TCR repertoire analysis in bulk RNA samples. With the enhanced specificity of RNase H-dependent PCR (rhPCR), it achieves TCR-specific...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Li S,Sun J,Allesøe R,Datta K,Bao Y,Oliveira G,Forman J,Jin R,Olsen LR,Keskin DB,Shukla SA,Wu CJ,Livak KJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we describe a protocol that uses hollow-fiber flow field-flow fractionation (FFF) coupled with multiangle light scattering (MALS) for hydrodynamic size-based separation and characterization of complex protein aggregates. The fractionation method, which requires 1.5 h to run, was successfully modified from the a...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Tanase M,Zolla V,Clement CC,Borghi F,Urbanska AM,Rodriguez-Navarro JA,Roda B,Zattoni A,Reschiglian P,Cuervo AM,Santambrogio L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene tagging with fluorescent proteins is essential for investigations of the dynamic properties of cellular proteins. CRISPR-Cas9 technology is a powerful tool for inserting fluorescent markers into all alleles of the gene of interest (GOI) and allows functionality and physiological expression of the fusion protein. ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Koch B,Nijmeijer B,Kueblbeck M,Cai Y,Walther N,Ellenberg J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most organisms, one crossover (CO) event inhibits the chances of another nearby event. The term used to describe this phenomenon is 'CO interference'. Here, we describe a protocol for quickly generating large data sets that are amenable to CO interference analysis in the flowering plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. We em...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Berchowitz LE,Copenhaver GP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontal disease (PD) is a common dental disease associated with the interaction between dysbiotic oral microbiota and host immunity. It is a prevalent disease, resulting in loss of gingival tissue, periodontal ligament, cementum and alveolar bone. PD is a major form of tooth loss in the adult population. Experimen...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Marchesan J,Girnary MS,Jing L,Miao MZ,Zhang S,Sun L,Morelli T,Schoenfisch MH,Inohara N,Offenbacher S,Jiao Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:High-throughput ballistic injection nanorheology is a method for the quantitative study of cell mechanics. Cell mechanics are measured by ballistic injection of submicron particles into the cytoplasm of living cells and tracking the spontaneous displacement of the particles at high spatial resolution. The trajectories...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Wu PH,Hale CM,Chen WC,Lee JS,Tseng Y,Wirtz D

更新日期：2012-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Discovery of biomarker patterns using proteomic techniques requires examination of large numbers of patient and control samples, followed by data mining of the molecular read-outs (e.g., mass spectra). Adequate signal processing and statistical analysis are critical for successful extraction of markers from these data...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Villanueva J,Philip J,DeNoyer L,Tempst P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult stem cell-based organoid technology is a versatile tool for the generation and long-term maintenance of near-native 3D epithelial tissues in vitro. The generation of cancer organoids from primary patient material enables a range of therapeutic agents to be tested in the resulting organoid cultures. Patient-deriv...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Driehuis E,Kretzschmar K,Clevers H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are continually produced and degraded, to avoid the accumulation of old or damaged molecules and to maintain the efficiency of physiological processes. Despite its importance, protein turnover has been difficult to measure in vivo. Previous approaches to evaluating turnover in vivo have required custom labeli...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Alevra M,Mandad S,Ischebeck T,Urlaub H,Rizzoli SO,Fornasiero EF

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This transformation procedure generates, with high efficiency (70-90%), hairy roots in cultivars, landraces and accessions of Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean) and other Phaseolus spp. Hairy roots rapidly develop after wounding young plantlets with Agrobacterium rhizogenes, at the cotyledon node, and keeping the plants...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Estrada-Navarrete G,Alvarado-Affantranger X,Olivares JE,Guillén G,Díaz-Camino C,Campos F,Quinto C,Gresshoff PM,Sanchez F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ErmineJ is software for the analysis of functionally interesting patterns in large gene lists drawn from gene expression profiling data or other high-throughput genomics studies. It can be used by biologists with no bioinformatics background to conduct sophisticated analyses of gene sets with multiple methods. It allo...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Gillis J,Mistry M,Pavlidis P

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol details a method for obtaining a considerable number of human mast cells from peripheral blood cells from normal donors without using stem cell mobilization treatment. By using the magnetic cell sorting system, 10(4)-10(5) cells are retrieved in the CD34+ fraction when 100 ml of blood is drawn from a hea...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Saito H,Kato A,Matsumoto K,Okayama Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PatternLab for proteomics is an integrated computational environment that unifies several previously published modules for the analysis of shotgun proteomic data. The contained modules allow for formatting of sequence databases, peptide spectrum matching, statistical filtering and data organization, extracting quantit...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Carvalho PC,Lima DB,Leprevost FV,Santos MD,Fischer JS,Aquino PF,Moresco JJ,Yates JR 3rd,Barbosa VC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on colonic cells in the lamina propria (LP) of mice are important for understanding the cellular and immune responses in the gut, especially in inflammatory bowel diseases (such as morbus crohn and colitis ulcerosa). This protocol details a method to isolate LP cells and characterize freshly isolated cells by ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Weigmann B,Tubbe I,Seidel D,Nicolaev A,Becker C,Neurath MF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol describes procedures for performing fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy analysis by three different methods: acceptor photobleaching, sensitized emission and spectral imaging. We also discuss anisotropy and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy-based FRET techniques. By using the ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Broussard JA,Rappaz B,Webb DJ,Brown CM

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions of proteins with DNA mediate many critical nuclear functions. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a robust technique for studying protein-DNA interactions. Current ChIP assays, however, either require large cell numbers, which prevent their application to rare cell samples or small-tissue biopsies, or...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Dahl JA,Collas P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated protoplasts serve as a transient expression system that is highly representative of stable transgenics in terms of transcriptome responses. They can also be used as a cellular system to study gene transactivation and nucleocytoplasmic protein trafficking. They are particularly useful for systems studies in wh...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Lin YC,Li W,Chen H,Li Q,Sun YH,Shi R,Lin CY,Wang JP,Chen HC,Chuang L,Qu GZ,Sederoff RR,Chiang VL

更新日期：2014-09-01 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

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：:The combination of ChIP-seq and transcriptome analysis is a compelling approach to unravel the regulation of gene expression. Several recently published methods combine transcription factor (TF) binding and gene expression for target prediction, but few of them provide an efficient software package for the community. ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Wang S,Sun H,Ma J,Zang C,Wang C,Wang J,Tang Q,Meyer CA,Zhang Y,Liu XS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brachypodium distachyon is emerging as a new model system for bridging research into temperate cereal crops, such as wheat and barley, and for promoting research in novel biomass grasses. Here, we provide an adapter ligation PCR protocol that allows the large-scale characterization of T-DNA insertions into the genome ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Thole V,Alves SC,Worland B,Bevan MW,Vain P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cap-analysis gene expression (CAGE) provides accurate high-throughput measurement of RNA expression. CAGE allows mapping of all the initiation sites of both capped coding and noncoding RNAs. In addition, transcriptional start sites within promoters are characterized at single-nucleotide resolution. The latter allows t...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Takahashi H,Lassmann T,Murata M,Carninci P

更新日期：2012-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol details a subset of assays developed within the touchscreen platform to measure various aspects of executive function in rodents. Three main procedures are included: extinction, measuring the rate and extent of curtailing a response that was previously, but is no longer, associated with reward; reversal ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Mar AC,Horner AE,Nilsson SR,Alsiö J,Kent BA,Kim CH,Holmes A,Saksida LM,Bussey TJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:Several noncanonical initial nucleotides (NCINs) have been found to cap RNAs and possibly regulate RNA stability, transcription and translation. NAD+ is one of the NCINs that has recently been discovered to cap RNAs in a wide range of species. Identification of the NAD+-capped RNAs (NAD-RNAs) could help to unveil the ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Shao X,Zhang H,Yang Z,Zhong H,Xia Y,Cai Z

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Protein digestion using a dedicated protease represents a key element in a typical mass spectrometry (MS)-based shotgun proteomics experiment. Up to now, digestion has been predominantly performed with trypsin, mainly because of its high specificity, widespread availability and ease of use. Lately, it has become appar...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Giansanti P,Tsiatsiani L,Low TY,Heck AJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00