Enzyme-linked immunospot assay to monitor antigen-specific cellular immune responses in mouse tumor models.

abstract：:The Escherichia coli fumarate and nitrate reductase (FNR) regulator protein is an important transcriptional regulator that controls the expression of a large regulon of more than 100 genes in response to changes in oxygen availability. FNR is active when it acquires a [4Fe-4S](2+) cluster under anaerobic conditions. T...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Crack JC,Le Brun NE,Thomson AJ,Green J,Jervis AJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia and inflammation are coincidental events in an array of diseased tissues, including chronically inflamed sites (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis), growing tumors, myocardial infarcts, atherosclerotic plaques, healing wounds, and sites of bacterial infection (Murdoch et al., 2005). An unde...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Cummins EP,Comerford KM,Scholz C,Bruning U,Taylor CT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to examine gene regulation in living cells has been greatly enabled by the development of chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) methodology. ChIP captures a snapshot of protein-DNA interactions in vivo and has been used to study interactions in bacteria, yeast, and mammalian cell culture. ChIP conditions va...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Davis SE,Mooney RA,Kanin EI,Grass J,Landick R,Ansari AZ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concomitant with the rapid development in biomedical knowledge, including the methods of molecular biology and proteomics, and the manufacture of ever more precise optical instruments, powerful lasers, and sophisticated microcomputing hardware and software, laser microdissection systems have emerged which are now ente...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Willenberg HS,Walters R,Bornstein SR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to the development of 3D reconstruction, images were interpreted in terms of models made from simple units like ping-pong balls. Generally, people eye-balled the images and with other knowledge about its structure, such as the number of subunits, proposed models to account for the images. How was one to know if ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Derosier D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on circadian biology over the past decade has paid increasing attention to the photoreceptor mechanisms that align the molecular clock to the 24-h light/dark cycle, and some of the results to emerge are surprising. For example, the rods and cones within the mammalian eye are not required for entrainment. A po...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Peirson SN,Thompson S,Hankins MW,Foster RG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem (ES) cells are cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst stage embryo. These self-renewing multipotent cells are able to differentiate to the three embryonic germ layers, the endoderm, ectoderm, and mesoderm, and are thus able to produce virtually all cell types. The ES cell capacity to gen...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Goldberg-Cohen I,Beck G,Ziskind A,Itskovitz-Eldor J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitination is a prevalent protein modification catalyzed by E1, E2, and E3 enzymes that activate, conjugate, and ligate, respectively, the ubiquitin protein to substrate protein. In order to establish a mutualistic or parasitic relationship with their eukaryotic hosts, many microorganisms hijack different aspects ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Qiu J,Luo ZQ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidized phospholipids play an important role in execution of the mitochondrial stage of apoptosis and clearance of apoptotic cells by macrophages. Therefore, the identification and quantification of oxidized phospholipids generated during apoptosis are very important. These can be achieved successfully by a newly dev...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Tyurin VA,Tyurina YY,Kochanek PM,Hamilton R,DeKosky ST,Greenberger JS,Bayir H,Kagan VE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In polarized epithelial cells, the tight junction has been ascribed several functions including the regulation of the paracellular permeability, an impediment to the diffusion of molecules between the apical and basolateral domains, a site of delivery of transport vesicles for basolateral proteins, and a scaffold for ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Luton F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady technical advances of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) over the past decades enabled a significant increase in the molecular size of protein particles that can be subjected to a structural and functional characterization in solution. The larger molecular weight of such proteins is accompanied with an increa...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Michel E,Allain FH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of the three-dimensional structures of the globins led to the problem of determining how the ligands bound to the heme. In many of these structures there was no clear path from the solvent to the ligand-binding site. Even in those structures that appeared to have one or more tunnels from the exterior to ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Golden SD,Olsen KW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid aggregates are associated with a number of mammalian neurodegenerative diseases. Infectious aggregates of the mammalian prion protein PrP(sc) are hallmarks of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in humans and cattle (Griffith, 1967; Legname et al., 2004; Prusiner, 1982; Silveira et al., 2004). Likewise, ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Bagriantsev SN,Kushnirov VV,Liebman SW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that Rab34/Rah participates in the promotion of macropinosome formation. Here we describe procedures for the analyses of intracellular localization and some functional properties of Rab34. Rab34 lacks a consensus sequence of the fourth motif for GTP/GDP binding and GTPase activities. Indeed, GTPase assay...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Sun P,Endo T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its major launch into academia in the mid-1990s, spotted DNA microarray technology has expanded and matured into an important mainstream tool for genomic-scale gene expression studies across many species with many applications. Based on the principles of enzymatic nucleic acid labeling and DNA hybridization, the...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hager J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is the major cellular process of degradation and is modulated by several signaling pathways. Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PtdIns3K) class III (Vps34) and PtdIns3K class I regulate the autophagy pathway positively and negatively, respectively. Both classes of PtdIns3K participate in the synthesis of phospha...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Yakhine-Diop SM,Martínez-Chacón G,González-Polo RA,Fuentes JM,Niso-Santano M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In principle, the long emission lifetimes of lanthanide chelates should enable their ultrasensitive detection in biological systems by time-resolved optical microscopy. However, most lanthanide-imaging systems cannot achieve sensitivities that exceed those of conventional fluorescence microscopes, since they are limit...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Ciepla P,Cho U,Chen JK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mapping and characterization of the vasculature using proteomics offers the opportunity to better understand the steps and molecular mechanisms involved in vascular development, and angiogenesis in particular. Proteomics has many key advantages over genomics, especially in directly determining protein expression. ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Griffin NM,Schnitzer JE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to obtain large amounts of genomic sequence for organisms and high throughput technology has led to a change in the thrust of research at the level of chromosomes in animals. In the past chromosomal analysis of animals was focused on gross changes such as inversions, translocations, and deletions for both ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： DeSalle R,Gregory TR,Johnston JS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in functional genomics have enabled genome-wide genetic studies in mammalian cells. These include the establishment of high-throughput transfection and viral propagation methodologies, the production of large-scale cDNA and siRNA libraries, and the development of sensitive assay detection processes and...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Rines DR,Tu B,Miraglia L,Welch GL,Zhang J,Hull MV,Orth AP,Chanda SK

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexameric helicases couple the energy of ATP hydrolysis to processive movement along nucleic acids and are critical components of cells and many viruses. Molecular motion derives from ATP hydrolysis at up to six distinct catalytic centers, which is coupled to the coordinated action of translocation loops in the center...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Thomsen ND,Berger JM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) coordinate post-transcriptional control of gene expression, often through sequence-specific recognition of primary transcripts or mature messenger RNAs. Hundreds of RBPs are encoded in the human genome, most with undefined or incompletely defined biological roles. Understanding the function...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Lambert NJ,Robertson AD,Burge CB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arc (anoxic redox control) two-component system (TCS) is a complex signal transduction system that plays an important role in regulating energy metabolism at the level of transcription in bacteria. This system comprises the ArcB protein, a hybrid membrane-associated sensor kinase, and the ArcA protein, a typical r...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Alvarez AF,Georgellis D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutases (SODs; EC 1.15.1.1) are a group of metalloenzymes which are essential to protect cells under aerobic conditions. In biological systems, it has been reported that SODs and other proteins are susceptible to be attacked by peroxynitrite (ONOO(-)) which can be originated from the reaction of nitric o...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Larrainzar E,Urarte E,Auzmendi I,Ariz I,Arrese-Igor C,González EM,Moran JF

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inositol phosphates (InsPs) are an important group of eukaryotic messengers and mediate a wide range of processes. To elucidate the biological functions of these molecules, robust techniques to characterize inositol phosphate metabolism at the cellular level are highly sought after. This chapter provides a detailed pr...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Puschmann R,Harmel RK,Fiedler D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nedd8 is a ubiquitin-like molecule that is highly conserved in eukaryotes. Similar to ubiquitin, Nedd8 attaches to target proteins through an enzymatic cascade composed of Nedd8-specific E1 (activating)- and E2 (conjugating)-enzymes. The E1 for Nedd8 is a heterodimer of APP-BP1 and Uba3, while the E2 is Ubc12. The mos...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Chiba T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence live-cell RNA imaging to monitor the intracellular localization and dynamics of the target RNA is a challenging subject. One of the difficulties to achieve this is to establish a precise method to enable a fluorescent labeling to the target RNA in living cells. Technologies to reduce the background fluore...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Yoshimura H,Ozawa T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin-like protein (Ubl) ligation is common to diverse archaea and targets many cellular pathways, including those associated with sulfur mobilization, and also tags proteins as substrates for degradation by the proteasome. Here we highlight protocols to assay proteasome function and Ubl ligation in archaea. A cha...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Fu X,Adams Z,Maupin-Furlow J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is activated by exon-junction complexes (EJCs) that are located downstream of the termination codon of the substrate mRNAs. This situation can be imitated by tethering components of the EJC to the 3' untranslated region (3' UTR) of a reporter mRNA. Here we describe the detailed use o...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Gehring NH,Hentze MW,Kulozik AE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are considered one of the main sources of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The overgeneration of ROS can evoke an intracellular state of oxidative stress, leading to permanent cell damage. Thus, the intracellular accumulation of ROS may not only disrupt the functions of specific tissues and organs but also ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Wojtala A,Bonora M,Malinska D,Pinton P,Duszynski J,Wieckowski MR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00