Conditional genome engineering in Toxoplasma gondii uncovers alternative invasion mechanisms.

abstract：:We describe Trans-ABySS, a de novo short-read transcriptome assembly and analysis pipeline that addresses variation in local read densities by assembling read substrings with varying stringencies and then merging the resulting contigs before analysis. Analyzing 7.4 gigabases of 50-base-pair paired-end Illumina reads f...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Robertson G,Schein J,Chiu R,Corbett R,Field M,Jackman SD,Mungall K,Lee S,Okada HM,Qian JQ,Griffith M,Raymond A,Thiessen N,Cezard T,Butterfield YS,Newsome R,Chan SK,She R,Varhol R,Kamoh B,Prabhu AL,Tam A,Zhao Y

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massively parallel single-cell and single-nucleus RNA sequencing has opened the way to systematic tissue atlases in health and disease, but as the scale of data generation is growing, so is the need for computational pipelines for scaled analysis. Here we developed Cumulus-a cloud-based framework for analyzing large-s...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Li B,Gould J,Yang Y,Sarkizova S,Tabaka M,Ashenberg O,Rosen Y,Slyper M,Kowalczyk MS,Villani AC,Tickle T,Hacohen N,Rozenblatt-Rosen O,Regev A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamic stability is fundamental to the biology of proteins. Information on protein stability is essential for studying protein structure and folding and can also be used indirectly to monitor protein-ligand or protein-protein interactions. While clearly valuable, the experimental determination of a protein's st...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Park C,Marqusee S

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present general means to greatly increase the sensitivity of antibody-based assays. Augmentation relies on a 'tadpole' protein-DNA chimera whose protein moiety binds most classes of mammalian antibodies but not avian immunoglobulin Y (IgY). We used this tadpole in affinity capture assays followed by real-time PCR t...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Burbulis I,Yamaguchi K,Yu R,Resnekov O,Brent R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commonly used, monomeric EYFP enabled imaging of intracellular protein structures beyond the optical resolution limit ('super-resolution' imaging) in living cells. By combining photoinduced activation of single EYFP fusions and time-lapse imaging, we obtained sub-40 nm resolution images of the filamentous superstr...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Biteen JS,Thompson MA,Tselentis NK,Bowman GR,Shapiro L,Moerner WE

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarrays have been widely used for the analysis of gene expression, but the issue of reproducibility across platforms has yet to be fully resolved. To address this apparent problem, we compared gene expression between two microarray platforms: the short oligonucleotide Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2.0 GeneChip and a...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Larkin JE,Frank BC,Gavras H,Sultana R,Quackenbush J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current extracellular multisite recordings suffer from low signal-to-noise ratio, limiting the monitoring to action potentials, and preclude detection of subthreshold synaptic potentials. Here we report an approach to induce Aplysia californica neurons to actively engulf protruding microelectrodes, providing 'in-cell ...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Hai A,Shappir J,Spira ME

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epistasis analysis, which reports on the extent to which the function of one gene depends on the presence of a second, is a powerful tool for studying the functional organization of the cell. Systematic genome-wide studies of epistasis, however, have been limited, with the majority of data being collected in the buddi...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Roguev A,Wiren M,Weissman JS,Krogan NJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied pulse-shape analysis (PulSA) to monitor protein localization changes in mammalian cells by flow cytometry. PulSA enabled high-throughput tracking of protein aggregation, translocation from the cytoplasm to the nucleus and trafficking from the plasma membrane to the Golgi as well as stress-granule formation....

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Ramdzan YM,Polling S,Chia CP,Ng IH,Ormsby AR,Croft NP,Purcell AW,Bogoyevitch MA,Ng DC,Gleeson PA,Hatters DM

更新日期：2012-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An uncharged CoA precursor that can enter the cell is used for covalent, site-specific labeling of proteins inside living cells. ...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Kaganman I

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an engineered family of highly antigenic molecules based on GFP-like fluorescent proteins. These molecules contain numerous copies of peptide epitopes and simultaneously bind IgG antibodies at each location. These 'spaghetti monster' fluorescent proteins (smFPs) distributed well in neurons, notably into sm...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Viswanathan S,Williams ME,Bloss EB,Stasevich TJ,Speer CM,Nern A,Pfeiffer BD,Hooks BM,Li WP,English BP,Tian T,Henry GL,Macklin JJ,Patel R,Gerfen CR,Zhuang X,Wang Y,Rubin GM,Looger LL

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers show that to reliably establish protein interaction networks from microarray data it is necessary to measure saturation binding curves for each arrayed protein and its potential binding partners. ...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Rusk N

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) produced from back-spliced exons are widely expressed, but individual circRNA functions remain poorly understood owing to the lack of adequate methods for distinguishing circRNAs from cognate messenger RNAs with overlapping exons. Here, we report that CRISPR-RfxCas13d can effectively discrimin...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Li S,Li X,Xue W,Zhang L,Yang LZ,Cao SM,Lei YN,Liu CX,Guo SK,Shan L,Wu M,Tao X,Zhang JL,Gao X,Zhang J,Wei J,Li J,Yang L,Chen LL

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent proteins have become extremely popular tools for in vivo imaging and especially for the study of localization, motility and interaction of proteins in living cells. Here we report TagRFP, a monomeric red fluorescent protein, which is characterized by high brightness, complete chromophore maturation, prolon...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Merzlyak EM,Goedhart J,Shcherbo D,Bulina ME,Shcheglov AS,Fradkov AF,Gaintzeva A,Lukyanov KA,Lukyanov S,Gadella TW,Chudakov DM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-initiating cells with stem cell properties are believed to sustain the growth of gliomas, but proposed markers such as CD133 cannot be used to identify these cells with sufficient specificity. We report an alternative isolation method purely based on phenotypic qualities of glioma-initiating cells (GICs), avoidi...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Clément V,Marino D,Cudalbu C,Hamou MF,Mlynarik V,de Tribolet N,Dietrich PY,Gruetter R,Hegi ME,Radovanovic I

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted quantification of DNA methylation allows for interrogation of the most informative loci across many samples quickly and cost-effectively. Here we report improved bisulfite padlock probes (BSPPs) with a design algorithm to generate efficient padlock probes, a library-free protocol that dramatically reduces sam...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Diep D,Plongthongkum N,Gore A,Fung HL,Shoemaker R,Zhang K

更新日期：2012-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Focused-ion-beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) has become an essential tool for studying neural tissue at resolutions below 10 nm × 10 nm × 10 nm, producing data sets optimized for automatic connectome tracing. We present a technical advance, ultrathick sectioning, which reliably subdivides embedded tissue sa...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Hayworth KJ,Xu CS,Lu Z,Knott GW,Fetter RD,Tapia JC,Lichtman JW,Hess HF

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein complexes are key macromolecular machines of the cell, but their description remains incomplete. We and others previously reported an experimental strategy for global characterization of native protein assemblies based on chromatographic fractionation of biological extracts coupled to precision mass spectromet...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Hu LZ,Goebels F,Tan JH,Wolf E,Kuzmanov U,Wan C,Phanse S,Xu C,Schertzberg M,Fraser AG,Bader GD,Emili A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shotgun sequencing enables the reconstruction of genomes from complex microbial communities, but because assembly does not reconstruct entire genomes, it is necessary to bin genome fragments. Here we present CONCOCT, a new algorithm that combines sequence composition and coverage across multiple samples, to automatica...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Alneberg J,Bjarnason BS,de Bruijn I,Schirmer M,Quick J,Ijaz UZ,Lahti L,Loman NJ,Andersson AF,Quince C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circuit mapping requires knowledge of both structural and functional connectivity between cells. Although optical tools have been made to assess either the morphology and projections of neurons or their activity and functional connections, few probes integrate this information. We have generated a family of photoactiv...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Berlin S,Carroll EC,Newman ZL,Okada HO,Quinn CM,Kallman B,Rockwell NC,Martin SS,Lagarias JC,Isacoff EY

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a protein quantification method called neutron encoding that exploits the subtle mass differences caused by nuclear binding energy variation in stable isotopes. These mass differences are synthetically encoded into amino acids and incorporated into yeast and mouse proteins via metabolic labeling. Mass spec...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Hebert AS,Merrill AE,Bailey DJ,Still AJ,Westphall MS,Strieter ER,Pagliarini DJ,Coon JJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent efforts in neuroscience research have been aimed at obtaining detailed anatomical neuronal wiring maps as well as information on how neurons in these networks engage in dynamic activities. Although the entire connectivity map of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans has been known for more than 25 years,...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Schrödel T,Prevedel R,Aumayr K,Zimmer M,Vaziri A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the Single-Cell Clustering Assessment Framework, a method for the automated identification of putative cell types from single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. By iteratively applying a machine learning approach to a given set of cells, we simultaneously identify distinct cell groups and a weighted list...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Miao Z,Moreno P,Huang N,Papatheodorou I,Brazma A,Teichmann SA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recording light-microscopy images of large, nontransparent specimens, such as developing multicellular organisms, is complicated by decreased contrast resulting from light scattering. Early zebrafish development can be captured by standard light-sheet microscopy, but new imaging strategies are required to obtain high-...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Keller PJ,Schmidt AD,Santella A,Khairy K,Bao Z,Wittbrodt J,Stelzer EH

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of cell-cycle state at a single-cell level is essential to understand fundamental three-dimensional (3D) biological processes such as tissue development and cancer. Analysis of 3D in vivo images, however, is very challenging. Today's best practice, manual annotation of select image events, generates arb...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Chittajallu DR,Florian S,Kohler RH,Iwamoto Y,Orth JD,Weissleder R,Danuser G,Mitchison TJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FLIRT (fast local infrared thermogenetics) is a microscopy-based technology to locally and reversibly manipulate protein function while simultaneously monitoring the effects in vivo. FLIRT locally inactivates fast-acting temperature-sensitive mutant proteins. We demonstrate that FLIRT can control temperature-sensitive...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Hirsch SM,Sundaramoorthy S,Davies T,Zhuravlev Y,Waters JC,Shirasu-Hiza M,Dumont J,Canman JC

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimism about biomedicine is challenged by the increasingly complex ethical, legal and social issues it raises. Reporting of scientific methods is no longer sufficient to address the complex relationship between science and society. To promote 'ethical reproducibility', we call for transparent reporting of research e...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Anderson JA,Eijkholt M,Illes J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Nature methods

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更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-guided Cas9 nucleases derived from clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas systems have dramatically transformed our ability to edit the genomes of diverse organisms. We believe tools and techniques based on Cas9, a single unifying factor capable of colocalizing RNA, DNA and protein,...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Mali P,Esvelt KM,Church GM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present Omni-ATAC, an improved ATAC-seq protocol for chromatin accessibility profiling that works across multiple applications with substantial improvement of signal-to-background ratio and information content. The Omni-ATAC protocol generates chromatin accessibility profiles from archival frozen tissue samples and...

journal_title：Nature methods

authors： Corces MR,Trevino AE,Hamilton EG,Greenside PG,Sinnott-Armstrong NA,Vesuna S,Satpathy AT,Rubin AJ,Montine KS,Wu B,Kathiria A,Cho SW,Mumbach MR,Carter AC,Kasowski M,Orloff LA,Risca VI,Kundaje A,Khavari PA,Montine TJ,

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00