A cell-free system for functional centromere and kinetochore assembly.

abstract：:RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has been rapidly adopted for the profiling of transcriptomes in many areas of biology, including studies into gene regulation, development and disease. Of particular interest is the discovery of differentially expressed genes across different conditions (e.g., tissues, perturbations) while opt...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Anders S,McCarthy DJ,Chen Y,Okoniewski M,Smyth GK,Huber W,Robinson MD

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coimmunoprecipitation (co-IP) analysis is a useful method for studying protein-protein interactions. It currently involves electrophoresis and western blotting, which are not optimized for detecting weak and transient interactions. In this protocol we describe an advanced version of co-IP analysis that uses real-time,...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Lee HW,Ryu JY,Yoo J,Choi B,Kim K,Yoon TY

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freestanding plasmonic nanoparticle (NP) superlattice sheets are novel 2D nanomaterials with tailorable properties that enable their use for broad applications in sensing, anticounterfeit measures, ionic gating, nanophotonics and flat lenses. We recently developed a robust, yet general, two-step drying-mediated approa...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Dong D,Fu R,Shi Q,Cheng W

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type II (NF2) is a disease that lacks effective therapies. NF2 is characterized by bilateral vestibular schwannomas (VSs) that cause progressive and debilitating hearing loss, leading to social isolation and increased rates of depression. A major limitation in NF2 basic and translational research is ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Chen J,Landegger LD,Sun Y,Ren J,Maimon N,Wu L,Ng MR,Chen JW,Zhang N,Zhao Y,Gao X,Fujita T,Roberge S,Huang P,Jain RK,Plotkin SR,Stankovic KM,Xu L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser-mediated gene transfection into mammalian cells has recently emerged as a powerful alternative to more traditional transfection techniques. In particular, the use of a femtosecond-pulsed laser operating in the near-infrared (NIR) region has been proven to provide single-cell selectivity, localized delivery, low ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Antkowiak M,Torres-Mapa ML,Stevenson DJ,Dholakia K,Gunn-Moore FJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction of protein-protein interactions at the structural level on the proteome scale is important because it allows prediction of protein function, helps drug discovery and takes steps toward genome-wide structural systems biology. We provide a protocol (termed PRISM, protein interactions by structural matching) f...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Tuncbag N,Gursoy A,Nussinov R,Keskin O

更新日期：2011-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The research community is in a race to understand the molecular mechanisms of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, to repurpose currently available antiviral drugs and to develop new therapies and vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). One major challenge in achieving ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Gurumurthy CB,Quadros RM,Richardson GP,Poluektova LY,Mansour SL,Ohtsuka M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity. Various attempts have been made to replicate clinical TBI using animal models. The fluid-percussion model (FP) is one of the oldest and most commonly used models of experimentally induced TBI. Both central (CFP) and lateral (LFP) variations of t...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Kabadi SV,Hilton GD,Stoica BA,Zapple DN,Faden AI

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol describes an in vitro approach for measuring the kinetics and affinities of interactions between membrane-anchored proteins. This method is particularly established for dissecting the interaction dynamics of cytokines with their receptor subunits. For this purpose, the receptor subunits are tethered in a...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Gavutis M,Lata S,Piehler J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As proteins within cells are spatially organized according to their role, knowledge about protein localization gives insight into protein function. Here, we describe the LOPIT technique (localization of organelle proteins by isotope tagging) developed for the simultaneous and confident determination of the steady-stat...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Sadowski PG,Dunkley TP,Shadforth IP,Dupree P,Bessant C,Griffin JL,Lilley KS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New technologies have recently enabled saturation mutagenesis and functional analysis of nearly all possible variants of regulatory elements or proteins of interest in single experiments. Here we discuss the past, present, and future of such multiplexed (functional) assays for variant effects (MAVEs). MAVEs provide de...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Gasperini M,Starita L,Shendure J

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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：: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：:The dynamics of transcription can be studied genome wide by high-throughput sequencing of nascent and newly synthesized RNA. 4-thiouridine (4SU) labeling in vivo enables the specific capture of such new transcripts, with 4SU residues being tagged by biotin linkers and captured using streptavidin beads before library p...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Gregersen LH,Mitter R,Svejstrup JQ

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：: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：:Isolation of monoclonal antibodies is an important technique for understanding the specificities and characteristics of antibodies that underlie the humoral immune response to a given antigen. Here we describe a technique for isolating monoclonal antibodies from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The protocol i...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Huang J,Doria-Rose NA,Longo NS,Laub L,Lin CL,Turk E,Kang BH,Migueles SA,Bailer RT,Mascola JR,Connors M

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：: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：:Raman and Fourier transform IR (FTIR) microspectroscopic images of biological material (tissue sections) contain detailed information about their chemical composition. The challenge lies in identifying changes in chemical composition, as well as locating and assigning these changes to different conditions (pathology, ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Felten J,Hall H,Jaumot J,Tauler R,de Juan A,Gorzsás A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A big challenge in proteomics is the identification of cell-type-specific proteomes in vivo. This protocol describes how to label, purify and identify cell-type-specific proteomes in living mice. To make this possible, we created a Cre-recombinase-inducible mouse line expressing a mutant methionyl-tRNA synthetase (L27...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Alvarez-Castelao B,Schanzenbächer CT,Langer JD,Schuman EM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for installing natural and unnatural amino acids and their modifications into proteins in a benign and precise manner are highly sought-after in protein science. Here we describe a protocol for 'post-translational mutagenesis' that enables the programmed installation of protein side chains through the use of r...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Wright TH,Davis BG

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Buccal Micronucleus Cytome (BMCyt) assay is a minimally invasive method for studying DNA damage, chromosomal instability, cell death and the regenerative potential of human buccal mucosal tissue. This method is increasingly used in molecular epidemiological studies for investigating the impact of nutrition, lifest...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Thomas P,Holland N,Bolognesi C,Kirsch-Volders M,Bonassi S,Zeiger E,Knasmueller S,Fenech M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a high-throughput method for the modification of bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) that uses a novel two-plasmid approach. In this protocol, a vector modified in our laboratory to hold an R6Kγ origin of replication and a marker recombination cassette is inserted into a BAC in a single recombinatio...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Gong S,Kus L,Heintz N

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, about 21 nucleotides in length, noncoding, regulatory RNA molecules representing a new layer in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. Intensive miRNA research has necessitated the development of effective miRNA detection methods such as northern analyses, quantitative real-t...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Várallyay E,Burgyán J,Havelda Z

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because RNA-protein interactions have a central role in a wide array of biological processes, methods that enable a quantitative assessment of these interactions in a high-throughput manner are in great demand. Recently, we developed the high-throughput sequencing-RNA affinity profiling (HiTS-RAP) assay that couples s...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Ozer A,Tome JM,Friedman RC,Gheba D,Schroth GP,Lis JT

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:This protocol describes pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), a method developed for separation of large DNA molecules. Whereas standard DNA gel electrophoresis commonly resolves fragments up to approximately 50 kb in size, PFGE fractionates DNA molecules up to 10 Mb. The mechanism driving these separations exploit...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Herschleb J,Ananiev G,Schwartz DC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic labeling of glycans with a bioorthogonal chemical reporter such as the azide enables their visualization in cells and organisms as well as the enrichment of specific glycoprotein types for proteomic analysis. This process involves two steps. Azido sugars are fed to cells or organisms and integrated by the gl...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Laughlin ST,Bertozzi CR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00