Thermal proteome profiling for unbiased identification of direct and indirect drug targets using multiplexed quantitative mass spectrometry.

abstract：:Overexpression screens can be used to explore gene function in Drosophila melanogaster, but to demonstrate their full potential, comprehensive and systematic collections of fly strains are required. Here we provide a protocol for high-throughput cloning of Drosophila open-reading frames (ORFs) that are regulated by up...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Bischof J,Sheils EM,Björklund M,Basler K

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:By determining protein-protein interactions in normal, diseased and infected cells, we can improve our understanding of cellular systems and their reaction to various perturbations. In this protocol, we discuss how to use data obtained in affinity purification-mass spectrometry (AP-MS) experiments to generate meaningf...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Morris JH,Knudsen GM,Verschueren E,Johnson JR,Cimermancic P,Greninger AL,Pico AR

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods development in chromatography is a time-consuming, trial-and-error process that requires laborious experimentation. We describe a high-throughput screening (HTS) protocol for the rapid identification of chromatographic steps for protein purification from cell-free expression broths. Broths containing the prote...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Rege K,Heng M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although lung transplant is a life-saving therapy for some patients, primary graft dysfunction (PGD) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity soon after a transplant. Ischemia reperfusion injury is known to be one of the most critical factors in PGD development. PGD is by definition an acute lung injury syndrome ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Mariscal A,Caldarone L,Tikkanen J,Nakajima D,Chen M,Yeung J,Cypel M,Liu M,Keshavjee S

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:Boronic acids and esters have critical roles in the areas of synthetic organic chemistry, molecular sensors, materials science, drug discovery, and catalysis. Many of the current applications of boronic acids and esters require materials with very low levels of transition metal contamination. Most of the current metho...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Mfuh AM,Schneider BD,Cruces W,Larionov OV

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:The immune system operates at the scale of the whole organism in mammals. We currently lack experimental approaches to systematically track and study organism-wide molecular processes in mice. Here we describe an integrated toolkit for measuring gene expression in whole tissues, 3-prime mRNA extension sequencing, that...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Pandey S,Takahama M,Gruenbaum A,Zewde M,Cheronis K,Chevrier N

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol describes a cell-free system for studying vertebrate centromere and kinetochore formation. We reconstitute tandem arrays of centromere protein A (CENP-A) nucleosomes as a substrate for centromere and kinetochore assembly. These chromatin substrates are immobilized on magnetic beads and then incubated in ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Guse A,Fuller CJ,Straight AF

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed biochemical analysis of unmanipulated germinal center (GC) B cells has not been achieved. Previously, we designed and used a simple, economical and new magnetic bead separation scheme for the purification of 'untouched' mature GC and non-GC B cells from the spleens of immunized mice and reported the first bio...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Cato MH,Yau IW,Rickert RC

更新日期：2011-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In this protocol, we describe cryoimmunolabeling methods for the subcellular localization of proteins and certain lipids. The methods start with chemical fixation of cells and tissue in formaldehyde (FA) and/or glutaraldehyde (GA), sometimes supplemented with acrolein. Cell and tissue blocks are then immersed in 2.3 M...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Slot JW,Geuze HJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol describes a method combining phase-contrast and fluorescence microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and optical tweezers to characterize the germination of single bacterial spores. The characterization consists of the following steps: (i) loading heat-activated dormant spores into a temperature-controlled micros...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Kong L,Zhang P,Wang G,Yu J,Setlow P,Li YQ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput transcriptional analysis has unveiled a myriad of novel RNAs. However, technical constraints in RNA sequencing library preparation and platform performance hamper the identification of rare transcripts contained within the RNA repertoire. Herein we present targeted-RNA directional sequencing (TARDIS), ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Portal MM,Pavet V,Erb C,Gronemeyer H

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive computing is revolutionizing the way big data are processed and integrated, with artificial intelligence (AI) natural language processing (NLP) platforms helping researchers to efficiently search and digest the vast scientific literature. Most available platforms have been developed for biomedical researcher...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Majumder EL,Billings EM,Benton HP,Martin RL,Palermo A,Guijas C,Rinschen MM,Domingo-Almenara X,Montenegro-Burke JR,Tagtow BA,Plumb RS,Siuzdak G

更新日期：2021-01-22 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

abstract：:Venous access catheters used in clinics are prone to biofilm contamination, contributing to chronic and nosocomial infections. Although several animal models for studying device-associated biofilms were previously described, only a few detailed protocols are currently available. Here we provide a protocol using totall...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Chauhan A,Ghigo JM,Beloin C

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transitivity Clustering is a method for the partitioning of biological data into groups of similar objects, such as genes, for instance. It provides integrated access to various functions addressing each step of a typical cluster analysis. To facilitate this, Transitivity Clustering is accessible online and offers thr...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Wittkop T,Emig D,Truss A,Albrecht M,Böcker S,Baumbach J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adeno-associated virus (AAV) is one of the most promising viral vectors for human gene therapy. As with any potential therapeutic system, a thorough understanding of it at the in vitro and in vivo levels is required. Over the years, numerous methods have been developed to better characterize AAV vectors. These met...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Grieger JC,Choi VW,Samulski RJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol for ester condensation between equimolar amounts of carboxylic acids and alcohols catalyzed by bulky diarylammonium pentafluorobenzenesulfonate is described. We also present procedures for the synthesis of N-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-N-mesitylammonium pentafluorobenzenesulfonate. The present ester condensatio...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Sakakura A,Nakagawa S,Ishihara K

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:Large-insert BAC (bacterial artificial chromosome) and BIBAC (binary BAC) libraries are essential for modern genomics research for all organisms. We helped pioneer the BAC and BIBAC technologies, and by using them we have constructed hundreds of BAC and BIBAC libraries for different species of plants, animals, marine ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Zhang HB,Scheuring CF,Zhang M,Zhang Y,Wu CC,Dong JJ,Li Y

更新日期：2012-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPylation (adenylylation) has been recognized as an important post-translational modification that is used by pathogens to regulate host cellular proteins and their associated signaling pathways. AMPylation has potential functions in various cellular processes, and it is widely conserved across both prokaryotes and e...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Yu X,LaBaer J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a protocol for the insertion of ultrashort single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to form nanopores in a Montal-Mueller lipid bilayer. The SWCNTs are designed to bind to a specific analyte of interest; binding will result in the reduction of current in single-channel recording experiments. The first stage...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Liu L,Xie J,Li T,Wu HC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokinesis-block micronucleus cytome assay is a comprehensive system for measuring DNA damage, cytostasis and cytotoxicity. DNA damage events are scored specifically in once-divided binucleated (BN) cells and include (a) micronuclei (MNi), a biomarker of chromosome breakage and/or whole chromosome loss, (b) nucle...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Fenech M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood circulating endothelial cells (CECs) and circulating hematopoietic progenitor cells (CPCs) represent two cell populations that are thought to play important roles in tissue vascularization. CECs and CPCs are currently studied as surrogate markers in patients for more than a dozen pathologies, including heart dis...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Duda DG,Cohen KS,Scadden DT,Jain RK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human stomach contains two primary domains: the corpus, which contains the fundic epithelium, and the antrum. Each of these domains has distinct cell types and functions, and therefore each presents with unique disease pathologies. Here, we detail two protocols to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs)...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Broda TR,McCracken KW,Wells JM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic instability of stem cells in culture, caused by their routine in vitro propagation or by their genetic manipulation, is deleterious both for their clinical application and for their use in basic research. Frequent evaluation of the genomic integrity of stem cells is thus required, and it is usually perform...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Ben-David U,Mayshar Y,Benvenisty N

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postembryonic development is an important process of organismal maturation after embryonic growth. Despite key progress in recent years in understanding embryonic development via fluorescence time-lapse microscopy, comparatively less live-cell imaging of postembryonic development has been done. Here we describe a prot...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Chai Y,Li W,Feng G,Yang Y,Wang X,Ou G

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00