Assays for ubiquitin-like protein ligation and proteasome function in archaea.

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：:Single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) is a versatile tool for studying biomolecules in a quantitative manner. Multiple conformations within and interactions between biomolecules can be detected and their kinetics can be determined. Thus, smFRET has become an essential tool in enzymology. Ordinary ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Götz M,Wortmann P,Schmid S,Hugel T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a great need for practicing scientists to volunteer their time and expertise in the K-12th grade science classroom. We have found that bioluminescence is a fun and exciting way to teach basic science concepts and is an excellent tool for the volunteering scientist. We have had very positive reactions from bot...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hammer M,Andrade JD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combined use of rotating-frame relaxation methods, temperature-dependent measurements of line shapes and magnetization transfer experiments allows in favorable cases the examination in some detail of exchange processes that occur on the millisecond time scale. It is possible to determine not only the rate constant...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Lane AN,Lefèvre JF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of fluorescence in biology and biochemistry for imaging and characterizing equilibrium and dynamic processes is growing exponentially. Much progress has been made in the last few years on the microscopic understanding of the underlying principles of what controls the wavelength and quenching of fluorescence in bio...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Callis PR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion channels open and close in response to diverse stimuli, and the molecular events underlying these processes are extensively modulated by ligands of both endogenous and exogenous origin. In the past decade, high-resolution structures of several channel types have been solved, providing unprecedented details of the ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Chakrapani S

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are long unbranched polysaccharides, most of which are linked to a core protein to form proteoglycans. Depending on the nature of their backbone, one can discern galactosaminoglycans (chondroitin sulfate [CS] and dermatan sulfate [DS]) and glucosaminoglycans (heparan sulfate [HS], heparin, hy...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Smits NC,Lensen JF,Wijnhoven TJ,Ten Dam GB,Jenniskens GJ,van Kuppevelt TH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reference standard materials (RSMs) exist for a variety of biologics including vaccines but are not readily available for gene therapy vectors. To date, a recombinant adeno-associated virus serotype 2 RSM (rAAV2 RSM) has been produced and characterized and was made available to the scientific community in 2010. In add...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Moullier P,Snyder RO

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:The current treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases is far beyond being satisfactory. In addition to highly complex disease mechanisms, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) also remains as a challenge by limiting the delivery of the majority of currently available therapeutics to the central nervous system. Severa...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Yemişci M,Gürsoy-Özdemir Y,Caban S,Bodur E,Capan Y,Dalkara T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks are present in most cells and are essential for maintenance of daily rhythms in physiology, mood, and cognition. Thus, not only neurons of the central circadian pacemaker but also many other peripheral tissues possess the same functional and self-sustained circadian clocks. Surprisingly, however, thei...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Gaspar L,Brown SA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As new organisms are being sequenced on a daily basis, new DNA glycosylases that recognize DNA damage can be easily identified in an effort to understand both their phylogenetics and substrate specificities. As a practical matter, existing bacterial and human homologs need to be readily available as laboratory reagent...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Bandaru V,Blaisdell JO,Wallace SS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial production of commodity, fine, and specialty chemicals is a driving force in biotechnology. An essential requirement is to introduce biosynthetic pathways to the target compound(s) into chassis organisms. First suitable enzymes must be selected and characterized, and then genetic pathways must be designe...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Robinson CJ,Dunstan MS,Swainston N,Titchmarsh J,Takano E,Scrutton NS,Jervis AJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular calcium (Ca2+) is involved in the regulation of a variety of biological functions in cancer cells, including growth inhibition, tumor invasiveness, and drug resistance. To gain insight into the possible role played by Ca2+ in the development of drug resistance in breast cancer, we performed a comparative...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： DeBernardi MA,Brooker G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas systems protect prokaryotic cells from invading phages and plasmids by recognizing and cleaving foreign nucleic acid sequences specified by CRISPR RNA spacer sequences. Several CRISPR-Cas systems have been widely used as tool for genetic engineering. In DNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas nucleoprotein effector comple...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Mekler V,Kuznedelov K,Minakhin L,Murugan K,Sashital DG,Severinov K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the basic principles for imaging frozen-hydrated specimens in a transmission electron microscope and provide a step-by-step guide to a new user, from starting up and aligning the microscope, to loading a cryo-grid into the specimen holder and inserting the holder into the microscope, to setting up the low ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Sun J,Li H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-arrestins (βarrs) are multifunctional proteins that interact with activated and phosphorylated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) to regulate their signaling and trafficking. Understanding the intricate details of GPCR-βarr interaction continues to be a key research area in the field of GPCR biology. Bimane fluores...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Srivastava A,Baidya M,Dwivedi-Agnihotri H,Shukla AK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PRA2 was found to interact with the ER-localized protein VAMP-associated protein of 33 kDa or VAP-33 by a yeast two-hybrid screen. We describe here the purification of PRA2 and VAP-33 as well as an in vitro pull-down procedure to verify the interaction. PRA2 was found to form a large sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-insol...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Gougeon PY,Ngsee JK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes are now well recognized as major drivers of the biogeochemical cycling that fuels the Earth, and their viruses (phages) are known to be abundant and important in microbial mortality, horizontal gene transfer, and modulating microbial metabolic output. Investigation of environmental phages has been frustrated ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Solonenko SA,Sullivan MB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter provides the methodologies employed to study the polymorphism of human apoE. These and other related studies have advanced our understanding of the structure and function of this protein as follows: The complex array of human apoE observed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis results from genetic variat...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Zannis VI

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) are essential regulators of the spatiotemporal conditions of small GTP-binding protein (SMG) activation. Their cellular activities combine the biochemical stimulation of GDP/GTP exchange, which leads to the active conformation of the SMG, to the detection of upstream signals ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Zeeh JC,Antonny B,Cherfils J,Zeghouf M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen sulfide is an endogenous gaseous mediator that plays important roles in many physiological processes in microbes, plants, and animals. This chapter focuses on the important roles of hydrogen sulfide in protecting tissues against injury, promoting the repair of damage, and downregulating the inflammatory respo...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Gemici B,Wallace JL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) form a superfamily of membrane proteins that play a crucial role in mediating physiological processes as well as pathogenesis of many critical diseases. They are one of the most successful drug targets, accounting for more than 30% of prescription drugs on the market today. Three-di...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Vaidehi N,Pease JE,Horuk R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks control daily rhythms in physiology and behavior across all phyla. These rhythms are intrinsic to individual cells that must synchronize to their environment and to each other to anticipate daily events. Recent advances in recording from large numbers of cells for many circadian cycles have enabled re...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Herzog ED,Kiss IZ,Mazuski C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons are probably the most highly polarized cell type and typically develop a single axon and several dendrites. The establishment of a polarized morphology and the functional specialization of axonal and dendritic compartments are essential steps in the differentiation of neurons. Primary cultures of dissociated h...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Schwamborn JC,Li Y,Püschel AW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of an accurate force field (FF) model that reproduces the free-energy landscape is a key prerequisite for the simulation of biomineralization. Here, the stages in the development of such a model are discussed including the quality of the water model, the thermodynamics of polymorphism, and the free energ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Raiteri P,Demichelis R,Gale JD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many methods have been developed for the cloning of PCR products. These methods include blunt-end cloning, TA cloning, and using restriction sites incorporated into the PCR primers. The restrictionless cloning technique allows efficient directional cloning of PCR products into any cloning site within a vector regardle...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Algire MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hsp70 chaperones and their obligatory J-protein cochaperones function together in many cellular processes. Via cycles of binding to short stretches of exposed amino acids on substrate proteins, Hsp70/J-protein chaperones not only facilitate protein folding but also drive intracellular protein transport, biogenesis of ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Dutkiewicz R,Nowak M,Craig EA,Marszalek J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among posttranslational modifications of proteins entailed with signal transduction, the redox transition is today brought to the focus as a major biochemical event accounting for the signaling functions of reactive oxygen species. Thermodynamic and kinetic criteria highlight hydroperoxides and protein disulfides as s...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Mauri P,Toppo S,De Palma A,Benazzi L,Maiorino M,Ursini F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00