Genome-wide measurement of protein-DNA binding dynamics using competition ChIP.

abstract：:Efforts to cure HIV are hampered by limited characterization of the cells supporting HIV replication in vivo and inadequate methods for quantifying the latent viral reservoir in individuals receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). We describe a protocol for flow cytometric identification of viral reservoirs, based on c...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Baxter AE,Niessl J,Fromentin R,Richard J,Porichis F,Massanella M,Brassard N,Alsahafi N,Routy JP,Finzi A,Chomont N,Kaufmann DE

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol outlines steps for optimizing the transfection of adherent primary mammalian cells using the readily available off-the-shelf cationic polymer, 25-kDa branched polyethylenimine (bPEI25). Transfection efficiency of cationic polymers varies among cell lines and is highly dependent on the conditions and envi...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Hsu CY,Uludağ H

更新日期：2012-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Limbal stem cells (LSCs) have an important role in the maintenance of the corneal surface epithelium, and autologous cultured limbal epithelial cell transplantations have contributed substantially to the treatment of the visually disabling condition known as LSC deficiency. In this protocol, we describe a method of es...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Mariappan I,Maddileti S,Savy S,Tiwari S,Gaddipati S,Fatima A,Sangwan VS,Balasubramanian D,Vemuganti GK

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:Forebrain γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) interneurons have crucial roles in high-order brain function via modulating network activities and plasticity, and they are implicated in many psychiatric disorders. Availability of enriched functional human forebrain GABA interneurons, especially those from people affected by GABA...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Liu Y,Liu H,Sauvey C,Yao L,Zarnowska ED,Zhang SC

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of stem cells to hepatocytes has industrial applications, as well as the potential to develop new therapeutic strategies for liver disease. The protocol described here, sequentially using cytokines that are known to have a role in liver embryonic development, efficiently differentiates rat multipotent ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Roelandt P,Sancho-Bru P,Pauwelyn K,Verfaillie C

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypochlorous acid (HOCl) is a critical member of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by immune cells to fight infections. On the other hand, HOCl in homeostasis causes oxidative damage to biomolecules and is linked to many diseases, including inflammatory, neurodegenerative, and cardiovascular diseases. Herein,...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Zhu H,Zhang Z,Long S,Du J,Fan J,Peng X

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world is on the cusp of a post-antibiotic era, but researchers and medical doctors have found a way forward-by looking back at how infections were treated before the advent of antibiotics, namely using phage therapy. Although bacteriophages (phages) continue to lack drug approval in Western medicine, an increasing...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Luong T,Salabarria AC,Edwards RA,Roach DR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike humans, mouse bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) cannot be easily harvested by adherence to plastic owing to the contamination of cultures by hematopoietic cells. The design of the protocol described here is based on the phenomenon that compact bones abound in MSCs and hematopoietic cells exist i...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Zhu H,Guo ZK,Jiang XX,Li H,Wang XY,Yao HY,Zhang Y,Mao N

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key challenge of modern biology is to uncover the functional role of the protein entities that compose cellular proteomes. To this end, the availability of reliable three-dimensional atomic models of proteins is often crucial. This protocol presents a community-wide web-based method using RaptorX (http://raptorx.uch...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Källberg M,Wang H,Wang S,Peng J,Wang Z,Lu H,Xu J

更新日期：2012-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:During biosynthesis on the ribosome, an elongating nascent polypeptide chain can begin to fold, in a process that is central to all living systems. Detailed structural studies of co-translational protein folding are now beginning to emerge; such studies were previously limited, at least in part, by the inherently dyna...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Cassaignau AM,Launay HM,Karyadi ME,Wang X,Waudby CA,Deckert A,Robertson AL,Christodoulou J,Cabrita LD

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of single-molecule switching (SMS) fluorescence microscopy (also called single-molecule localization microscopy) over the last decade has enabled researchers to image cell biological structures at unprecedented resolution. Using two opposing objectives in a so-called 4Pi geometry doubles the available ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Wang J,Allgeyer ES,Sirinakis G,Zhang Y,Hu K,Lessard MD,Li Y,Diekmann R,Phillips MA,Dobbie IM,Ries J,Booth MJ,Bewersdorf J

更新日期：2020-12-16 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：: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：: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 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：:Apoptosis is a critical factor in AIDS and other viral illnesses, cerebral and myocardial ischemia, autoimmune and neurodegenerative states, organ and bone marrow transplant rejection, and tumor response to chemotherapy and radiation. Improved methods to identify sites of apoptosis are increasing our understanding of ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Blankenberg FG,Vanderheyden JL,Strauss HW,Tait JF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we describe a two-step protocol for labeling of an affinity-purified antibody to biotin with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) using cyanuric chloride (CC) as a bridge. The enzyme was first modified with CC, and following chromatography on a PD-10 column, the activated HRP was incubated with the antibody to...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Abuknesha RA,Jeganathan F,Wu J,Baalawy Z

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:The forced swim test (FST) is one of the most commonly used animal models for assessing antidepressant-like behavior. This protocol details using the FST in rats, which takes place over 48 h and is followed by the video analysis of the behavior. The swim test involves the scoring of active (swimming and climbing) or p...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Slattery DA,Cryan JF

更新日期：2012-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe a simple protocol for the design and construction of a laser-guided direct writing (LGDW) system able to micropattern the self-assembly of liver sinusoid-like structures with micrometer resolution in vitro. To the best of our knowledge, LGDW is the only technique able to pattern cells "on the fly" wi...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Nahmias Y,Odde DJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An optimized procedure for the efficient preparation of 2-heptyl-3-hydroxy-4(1H)-quinolone (Pseudomonas quinolone signal or PQS) and a diverse range of structurally related 2-alkyl-4-quinolones with biological activity is presented. The two-step synthesis begins with the formation of α-chloro ketones by the coupling o...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Hodgkinson JT,Galloway WR,Welch M,Spring DR

更新日期：2012-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a simple and versatile scheme to prepare a series of poly(ethylene glycol)-based bidentate ligands that permit strong interactions with colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots, QDs) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) alike and promote their dispersion in aqueous solutions. These ligands are synthesi...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Mei BC,Susumu K,Medintz IL,Mattoussi H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol represents a novel enzyme-luminescence method to detect dopamine sensitively and rapidly with high temporal resolution. In principle, dopamine is first oxidized with tyramine oxidase to produce H(2)O(2), and then the produced H(2)O(2) reacts with luminol to generate chemiluminescence in the presence of h...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Shinohara H,Wang F,Hossain SM

更新日期：2008-01-01 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

abstract：:Spectroscopic techniques such as Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy are used to study interactions of light with biological materials. This interaction forms the basis of many analytical assays used in disease screening/diagnosis, microbiological studies, and forensic/environmental investigations. Advantag...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Morais CLM,Paraskevaidi M,Cui L,Fullwood NJ,Isabelle M,Lima KMG,Martin-Hirsch PL,Sreedhar H,Trevisan J,Walsh MJ,Zhang D,Zhu YG,Martin FL

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomic analysis is a powerful method for gaining a global, unbiased understanding of cellular signaling. Its accuracy and comprehensiveness stands or falls with the quality and choice of the applied phosphopeptide prefractionation strategy. This protocol covers a powerful but simple a...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Zarei M,Sprenger A,Rackiewicz M,Dengjel J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few decades, marine natural products bioprospecting has yielded a considerable number of drug candidates. Two marine natural products have recently been admitted as new drugs: Prialt (also known as ziconotide) as a potent analgesic for severe chronic pain and Yondelis (known also as trabectedin or E-743) a...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Ebada SS,Edrada RA,Lin W,Proksch P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface- and matrix-bound signals modulate stem cell fate in vivo and in vitro. This protocol enables the immobilization of a wide range of biomolecules that contain primary amino groups to different types of solid carriers, including glass substrates and standard polystyrene well plates. We describe how thin polymer ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Pompe T,Salchert K,Alberti K,Zandstra P,Werner C

更新日期：2010-06-01 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