Monitoring gasdermin pore formation in vitro.

abstract：:Complex synthetic schemes catalyzed by multienzyme systems immobilized on solid materials are gaining momentum in chemical biomanufacturing. These systems harness the high chemo-, regio-, and stereoselectivity of the enzymes and the recyclability of the heterogeneous catalysts. Moreover, when the enzymes become part o...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： López-Gallego F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most eukaryotic mRNAs are degraded by exonucleases acting on either end of the molecule, a subset of mRNAs undergo endonuclease cleavage within the mRNA body. Endonuclease cleavage can be activated by cellular stress, extracellular signals, or by ribosome stalling, as might occur at a premature termination co...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Otsuka Y,Schoenberg DR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High hydrostatic pressure (HHP) modulates protein-protein and protein-solvent interactions through volume changes and thereby affects the equilibrium of protein conformational species between native and denatured forms as well as monomeric, oligomeric, and aggregated forms without the addition of chemicals or use of h...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kim YS,Randolph TW,Seefeldt MB,Carpenter JF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances have demonstrated the feasibility and robustness of chemical synthesis for the production of homogeneously glycosylated protein forms (glycoforms). By taking advantage of the unmatchable flexibility and precision provided by chemical synthesis, the quantitative effects of glycosylation were obtained us...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Li Y,Tran AH,Danishefsky SJ,Tan Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulator of G-protein signaling (RGS) domains bind directly to GTP-bound Galpha subunits and accelerate their intrinsic GTPase activity by up to several thousandfold. The selectivity of RGS proteins for individual Galpha subunits has been illustrated. Thus, the expression of RGS proteins can be used to inhibit signal...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hains MD,Siderovski DP,Harden TK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone variants and posttranslational modifications (PTMs) are essential for epigenetic regulation of transcriptional expression. Single and/or combinatorial PTMs of histones play important roles in development and disease formation. Mass spectrometry (MS) has been a powerful tool to study histone variants and PTMs, ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Lin S,Garcia BA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor (GDI) is a central regulator of Rab GTPase family members. GDI recycles Rab proteins from the membrane and sequesters the inactive GDP-bound form of Rab in the cytosol for use in multiple rounds of transport. The balance between the membrane-bound form of Rab and the cytosolic...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Chen CY,Sakisaka T,Balch WE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein (poly-)ubiquitination is a posttranslational modification that plays a key role in almost all cellular processes. It involves the installment of either single ubiquitin (Ub) moieties or one of eight different polyUb linkage types, each giving a distinct cellular outcome. Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) reverse...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Geurink PP,van der Heden van Noort GJ,Mulder MPC,Knaap RCM,Kikkert M,Ovaa H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is one of the three most popular analytical platforms for metabolomics and is largely employed for the study of oncometabolism. Large volumes of data are usually generated in a GC-MS experiment, and many analytical steps are required to extract biologically relevant informa...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Koo I,Wei X,Zhang X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-based strategies represent transformative approaches to fabricate functional inorganic materials under sustainable conditions by modeling the methods exploited in biology. In general, peptides with inorganic affinity and specificity have been isolated from organisms and through biocombinatorial selection techn...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Bedford NM,Munro CJ,Knecht MR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormone, hormone-like substances, and neuroendocrine peptides are natural constituents of milk, and they may have an important physiological and pharmacological role in neonate development. The concentration of these peptides in milk greatly exceeds those in serum and implies an active concentration mechanism in the m...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hazum E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an array-based whole-genome genotyping (WGG) assay (Infinium) using our BeadChip platform that effectively enables unlimited multiplexing and unconstrained single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) selection. A single tube whole-genome amplification reaction is used to amplify the genome, and loci of inte...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Gunderson KL,Steemers FJ,Ren H,Ng P,Zhou L,Tsan C,Chang W,Bullis D,Musmacker J,King C,Lebruska LL,Barker D,Oliphant A,Kuhn KM,Shen R

更新日期：2006-01-01 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 aminocoumarin antibiotics novobiocin, clorobiocin and coumermycin A(1) are formed by different Streptomyces strains and are potent inhibitors of bacterial gyrase. Their biosynthetic gene clusters have been analyzed in detail by genetic and biochemical investigations. Heterologous expression of these gene clusters ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Heide L

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Acidic organelles and vesicles, such as endosomes, lysosomes, autophagosomes, trans-Golgi network, and synaptic vesicles, are known to play important roles in a broad range of cellular events. To facilitate studying these multifunctional systems, we describe here an acid-brightening fluorescent protein (abFP), which f...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Wang N,Wang L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Omics approaches have become popular in biology as powerful discovery tools, and currently gain in interest for diagnostic applications. Establishing the accurate genome sequence of any organism is easy, but the outcome of its annotation by means of automatic pipelines remains imprecise. Some protein-encoding genes ma...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Armengaud J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNA is extensively modified by the actions of a variety of enzymes. The radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine enzyme TYW1 modifies tRNAPhe forming the characteristic tricyclic ring via the condensation of carbons 2 and 3 of pyruvate. This chapter details methods that are required for studies of TYW1. ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Young AP,Bandarian V

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol describes a method for determining the concentration of a nucleic acid sample. ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kolitz S,Lorsch J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavoenzymes comprise a large class of proteins that carry out a diverse range of important redox chemistry. Although X-ray crystal structures of many flavoenzymes have been determined, there are still unresolved questions regarding the actual oxidation state of the flavin cofactors in these structures due to photored...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kerber T,Vrielink A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung is composed of two major anatomically distinct regions-the conducting airways and gas-exchanging airspaces. From a cell biology standpoint, the conducting airways can be further divided into two major compartments, the tracheobronchial and bronchiolar airways, while the alveolar regions of the lung make up th...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Liu X,Driskell RR,Engelhardt JF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the near future, computational tools and methods based on the mathematical modeling of biomedically relevant networks and pathways will be necessary for the design of therapeutic strategies that fight complex multifactorial diseases. Beyond the use of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic approaches, we propose here ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Marin-Sanguino A,Gupta SK,Voit EO,Vera J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human solid tumors are invariably less well-oxygenated than the normal tissues from which they arose. This so-called tumor hypoxia leads to resistance to radiotherapy and anticancer chemotherapy as well as predisposing for increased tumor metastases. In this chapter, we examine the resistance of tumors to radiotherapy...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Brown JM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (sFCS) is the generic term for a group of fluorescence correlation techniques where the measurement volume is moved across the sample in a defined way. The introduction of scanning is motivated by its ability to alleviate or remove several distinct problems often encounte...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Petrásek Z,Ries J,Schwille P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small GTPases of the Ras and Rho families are among the most studied signaling proteins and represent promising therapeutic targets for human neoplastic disease. Despite the high level of interest in these proteins, direct analysis of most aspects of Ras protein biology in living cells has not been possible, because m...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Westwick JK,Michnick SW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein matrix cavities and extended tunnels can effectively channel substrates and products to and from active sites in enzymes. Substrate and product channeling can enhance catalytic efficiency by reducing the intramolecular diffusion times to and from reaction centers. Moreover, protected transfer between sites may...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Pesce A,Milani M,Nardini M,Bolognesi M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methods described here concern the use specialized glassware to achieve accurate sub-micromolar to low-millimolar dioxygen concentrations specifically for the study of flavoproteins. Since the early 1960s, these methods have been passed through the lineage of flavin enzymologists almost exclusively as an oral trad...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Moran GR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rcs phosphorelay, consisting of a hybrid sensor kinase, a phosphotransferase, and a response regulator, regulates a large number of bacterial functions. These include capsule production, the target originally defined for these regulators, a small regulatory RNA, and a growing list of additional genes, many of unkn...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Majdalani N,Gottesman S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is an extremely dynamic process that mediates the rapid degradation of intracellular components in response to different stress conditions. The autophagic response is executed by specific protein complexes, whose function is regulated by posttranslational modifications and interactions with positive and nega...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Antonioli M,Ciccosanti F,Dengjel J,Fimia GM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endosomes are isolated from rat liver using high-speed centrifugation through sucrose density gradients. They are distinguishable from Golgi elements, with which they coisolate, by their capacity to concentrate internalized protein ligands (viz., insulin and epidermal growth factor (EGF)) in receptor-bound intact form...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Posner BI,Bergeron JJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00