Fourier Deconvolution Methods for Resolution Enhancement in Continuous-Wave EPR Spectroscopy.

abstract：:Isotopic enrichment of biomacromolecules is a widely used technique that enables the investigation of the structural and dynamic properties to provide information not accessible with natural abundance isotopic composition. This study reports an approach for deuterium incorporation into bacterial cellulose. A media for...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： O'Neill H,Shah R,Evans BR,He J,Pingali SV,Chundawat SP,Jones AD,Langan P,Davison BH,Urban V

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate diagnosis of attentional disorders such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is imperative because there are multiple negative psychosocial sequelae related to undiagnosed and untreated ADHD. Early and accurate detection can lead to effective intervention and prevention of negative sequelae. Unf...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Robeva R,Penberthy JK

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron cryo-microscopy (cryoEM) has advanced dramatically to become a viable tool for high-resolution structural biology research. The ultimate outcome of a cryoEM study is an atomic model of a macromolecule or its complex with interacting partners. This chapter describes a variety of algorithms and software to buil...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： DiMaio F,Chiu W

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfatases hydrolyze sulfate esters on a variety of molecules including glycosaminoglycans, sulfoglycolipids, and cytosolic steroids. These enzymes are found in a wide range of organisms with their basic enzymatic mechanisms broadly conserved. In mammals, many of the sulfatases localize in the lysosome and exhibit enz...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Uchimura K,Morimoto-Tomita M,Rosen SD

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:The above methodology has been used to prepare a variety of PE-immunotoxins. These reagents are potent cytotoxic agents for cells in culture that bind the appropriate antibody and nontoxic when cells do not bind the antibody. PE-immunotoxins can be used to select for mutant cultured cells which lack the target of the ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： FitzGerald DJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarrays of defined glycans represent a high throughput approach to determining the specificity of lectins, or more generally glycan-binding proteins (GBPs). The utility of a glycan microarray is directly related to the number and variety of the glycans available on the printed surface for interrogation by GBPs. Th...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Smith DF,Song X,Cummings RD

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coat protein complex II (COPII) vesicle-mediated protein export from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) can be controlled by linear, independent motifs embedded within the cargo. ER export motifs directly interact with selective components of COPII vesicles and enhance cargo recruitment onto COPII vesicles. Moreover, ER e...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Wu G

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Receptor ensemble docking (RED) is an effective strategy to account for receptor flexibility in the course of a docking-based virtual screening campaign. Such an approach can be applied when multiple crystal structures of a receptor have been solved, but it can also be applied when only a single crystal structure is a...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Vilar S,Costanzi S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet photodissociation time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) is described as a method for determination of peptide ion primary structure. Monoisotopic selection and bond-specific activation, combined with the rapidity of TOF MS analysis, render this technique invaluable to the rapidly expanding field of p...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Morgan JW,Hettick JM,Russell DH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological samples of fungal associations pose particular challenges for nucleic acid extraction due to the presence of several genomes. Thorough examination of the samples prior to extraction is important to assess the risks of contamination. If manual separation of symbionts or their axenic cultivation is not feasib...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Grube M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylation is a complex form of protein modification occurring in the secretory pathway. The addition of N- and O-glycans affects intracellular processes like the folding and trafficking of most glycoproteins. To better understand the impact of glycosylation in protein folding and maturation, parameters like glycos...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hülsmeier AJ,Welti M,Hennet T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the methods and techniques used to produce mutagenized mice to conduct high-throughput forward genetic screens for circadian rhythm mutants in the mouse. In particular, we outline methods to safely prepare and administer the chemical mutagen N-nitroso-N-ethylurea (ENU) to mice. We also discuss t...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Siepka SM,Takahashi JS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PYP-phytochrome (Ppr) is a unique photoreceptor that contains a blue light-absorbing photoactive yellow protein (PYP) domain, a red light-absorbing phytochrome domain, and a histidine kinase domain. This chapter describes overexpression of Ppr in a strain of Escherichia coli that allows covalent attachment of substoic...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Chung YH,Masuda S,Bauer CE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholestatic syndromes are inborn or acquired disorders of bile formation. In recent years, several inherited cholestatic syndromes were characterized at the molecular level: progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) and benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis (BRIC). Both PFIC and BRIC were divided phenot...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kubitz R,Keitel V,Häussinger D

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perhaps the most important contribution of FLN is that it provides an experimental approach to relate physical changes in the protein to predicted dynamical behavior. It is clear that the sample is inhomogeneously broadened in a continuous manner, consistent with the damped motion of proteins. At the same time configu...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Vanderkooi JM,Angiolillo PJ,Laberge M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In actively growing cells, the rate of translation initiation is relatively rapid. As a result, multiple ribosomes simultaneously engaged in translation become spaced along single mRNA molecules. These structures, termed polysomes, can be separated from ribosomal subunits and single ribosomes because they migrate fast...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Qin D,Fredrick K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gasdermin (GSDM) family consists of gasdermin A (GSDMA), B (GSDMB), C (GSDMC), D (GSDMD), E or DNFA5 (GSDME), and DFNB59 in human. Expressed in the skin, gastrointestinal tract, and various immune cells, GSDMs mediate homeostasis and inflammation upon activation by caspases and unknown proteases. In particular, GS...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Xia S,Ruan J,Wu H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter reviews basic concepts of nonlinear fluorescence upconversion, a technique whose temporal resolution is essentially limited only by the pulse width of the ultrafast laser. Design aspects for upconversion spectrophotofluorometers are discussed, and a recently developed system is described. We discuss appli...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Xu J,Knutson JR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-pulse spallation source of the European Spallation Source-a facility under construction in Lund, Sweden-is well suited for macromolecular crystallography experiments. We review briefly the particular properties of the long-pulse source and the associated high-brilliance moderators from the point of view of in...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Markó M,Nagy G,Aprigliano G,Oksanen E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal radiation therapy has the potential to generate systemic tumor-targeting immune responses so potent as to eradicate anatomically distant, non-irradiated malignant lesions, a phenomenon commonly referred to as "the abscopal response." In cancer patients, bona fide abscopal responses are rare, although the recent ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Rodriguez-Ruiz ME,Yamazaki T,Buqué A,Bloy N,Silva VAO,Stafford L,Sato A,Galluzzi L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classifications and characterizations of specific proteins, such as enzymes, not only allow us to understand biosynthetic and metabolic pathways but they also help to drive our understanding of protein structure and function. How those characterizations are evaluated, however, may change our interpretations and lead u...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Bradshaw HB,Leishman E

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:A central goal of biology is to understand how transcription factors target and regulate specific genes and networks to control cell fate and function. An equally important goal of synthetic biology, chemical biology, and personalized medicine is to devise molecules that can regulate genes and networks in a programmab...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Tietjen JR,Donato LJ,Bhimisaria D,Ansari AZ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-FOA is an extremely useful reagent for the selection of Ura- cells amid a population of Ura+ cells. The selection is effective in transformation and recombination studies where loss of URA3+ is desired. A new plasmid shuffling procedure based on the 5-FOAR selection permits the recovery of conditional lethal mutatio...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Boeke JD,Trueheart J,Natsoulis G,Fink GR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable isotope tracers are widely used to quantify metabolic rates, and yet a limited number of studies have considered the impact of analytical error on estimates of flux. For example, when estimating the contribution of de novo lipogenesis, one typically measures a minimum of four isotope ratios, i.e., the precursor...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Previs SF,Herath K,Castro-Perez J,Mahsut A,Zhou H,McLaren DG,Shah V,Rohm RJ,Stout SJ,Zhong W,Wang SP,Johns DG,Hubbard BK,Cleary MA,Roddy TP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous microbial processes transform nitrogen (N) but three anaerobic respiratory pathways remove fixed N from the environment: denitrification (nitrate conversion to N(2)), anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox; ammonium plus nitrite conversion to N(2)), and nitrite dependent methane oxidation (nitrite conversion t...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Song B,Tobias CR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes are the most abundant cell type in the brain and are a crucial part of solving its mysteries. Originally assumed to be passive supporting cells, astrocyte's functions are now recognized to include active modulation and information processing at the neural synapse. The full extent of the astrocyte contributi...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Preston AN,Cervasio DA,Laughlin ST

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleic acid aptamers find widespread use as targeting and sensing agents in nature and biotechnology. Their ability to bind an extensive range of molecular targets, including small molecules, proteins, and ions, with high affinity and specificity enables their use in diverse diagnostic, therapeutic, imaging, and gene...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Chang AL,McKeague M,Smolke CD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00