Interactions between endosomal maturation and autophagy: analysis of ESCRT machinery during Caenorhabditis elegans development.

abstract：:An optimal tool to unravel the role of a specific player within a cellular network or process requires its spatiotemporally resolved perturbation. Chemically induced dimerization (CID) by the rapamycin system has proven useful to induce protein dimerization or translocation with high spatiotemporal precision. Recently...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Schifferer M,Feng S,Stein F,Schultz C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At least two discrete deoxyribonuclease activities can be detected during apoptotic death, one that generates 30- to 500-kilobase pair (kbp) domain-sized fragments and another that mediates internucleosomal DNA degradation. The latter nuclease has been identified as the caspase-activated deoxyribonuclease (CAD)/CPAN, ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kaufmann SH,Mesner PW Jr,Samejima K,Toné S,Earnshaw WC

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：:The circadian clock exists to synchronize inner physiology with the external world, allowing life to anticipate and adapt to the continual changes that occur in an organism's environment. The clock architecture is highly conserved, present in almost all major branches of life. Within eukaryotes, the filamentous fungus...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hurley J,Loros JJ,Dunlap JC

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Technical innovations in structural probing have drastically advanced the field of RNA structure analysis. These advances have led to parallel approaches developed in separate labs for analyzing RNA structure and dynamics. With the wealth of methodologies available, it can be difficult to determine which is best suite...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Adams RL,Huston NC,Tavares RCA,Pyle AM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the least-squares fitting of data, there is a unique answer to the question of how the data should be weighted: inversely as their variance. Any other weighting gives less than optimal efficiency and leads to unreliable estimates of the parameter uncertainties. In calibration, knowledge of the data variance permits...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Tellinghuisen J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) initiate signaling pathways via trimetric guanine nucleotide-binding proteins. GPCRs are classified based on their ligand-binding properties and molecular phylogenetic analyses. Nonetheless, these later analyses are in most case dependent on multiple sequence alignments, themselves ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Rehman ZU,Mirza MT,Khan A,Xhaard H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rarely is any solution simply solute and water. In vivo, solutes, such as proteins and nucleic acids, swim in a sea of water, salts, ions, small molecules, and lipids, not to mention other macromolecules. In vitro, virtually all solutions contain a mixture of aqueous solvents, or "cosolvents" [i.e., solvent(s) in addi...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Beck DA,Bennion BJ,Alonso DO,Daggett V

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramembrane-cleaving proteases (I-CLiPs) are a group of membrane-associated proteases with a unique feature: they are believed to cleave their substrate within the hydrophobic lipid bilayer, even though peptide bond hydrolysis requires a water molecule. Escherichia coli RseP, which belongs to the S2P zinc metallopro...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hizukuri Y,Akiyama K,Akiyama Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of PCR amplification and chemiluminescent detection of PCR products provides a highly sensitive system for the quantitation of DNA and RNA. The broad dynamic range of the chemiluminescent detection assay simplifies the selection of cycling and concentration parameters critical to harnessing the quantit...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Martin CS,Voyta JC,Bronstein I

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of biomolecular systems can be quantified by calculating the stochastic rate constants that govern the biomolecular state vs time trajectories (i.e., state trajectories) of individual biomolecules. To do so, the experimental signal vs time trajectories (i.e., signal trajectories) obtained from observing i...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kinz-Thompson CD,Bailey NA,Gonzalez RL Jr

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Retinoic acid (RA), the biologically active metabolite of vitamin A, regulates a vast spectrum of biological processes, such as cell differentiation, proliferation, apoptosis, and morphogenesis. microRNAs (miRNAs) play a crucial role in regulating gene expression by binding to messenger RNA (mRNA) which leads to mRNA ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Wang L,Rohatgi AP,Wan YY

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter deals with the use of functionalized carbon nanotubes (fCNTs) as supports for the development of nanobiocatalytic systems through the immobilization of enzymes. The surface characteristics, properties and production of carbon nanotubes are described, while an analysis in their biological applications is a...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Patila M,Chalmpes N,Dounousi E,Stamatis H,Gournis D

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 elucidation of structure-affinity relationships in EF-hand proteins requires a reliable assay of divalent ion affinity. In principle, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) should be capable of furnishing estimates for Ca2+- and Mg2+-binding constants in these systems. And because the method yields the binding ent...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Henzl MT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitration and oxidation of tyrosine, tryptophan, and methionine residues in proteins are potential markers of their interaction with peroxynitrite. This chapter describes the procedure for the detection of these nitro-oxidative modifications by tandem mass spectrometry. The peptide YGDLANWMIPGK, shown to contain a nit...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Rebrin I,Bregere C,Gallaher TK,Sohal RS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative structural conservation of "internal glycans" in the cell walls of pathogens suggests that they might as target epitopes less prone to variation and hence with greater potential universality as vaccine targets. Examples of such glycans include the inner core sugars of lipopolysaccharides in Gram-negative ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Lakshminarayanan A,Vijayakrishnan B,Bayley H,Davis BG

更新日期：2017-01-01 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

abstract：:Ras proteins are small GTPases that exhibit high-affinity binding to GDP and GTP and hydrolyze bound GTP to GDP. The intrinsic GTPase activity of Ras proteins is accelerated by GTPase activating proteins (GAPs), which act to attenuate GTPase signaling by accelerating the conversion of bound GTP to bound GDP. Tumor-ass...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Shutes A,Der CJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are small soluble proteins abundantly secreted in the olfactory mucus of many animal species, including humans. Vertebrate OBPs reversibly bind odorant molecules with micromolar range affinities. Although their physiological role is not clearly understood, OBPs are proposed t...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Brulé M,Glaz M,Belloir C,Poirier N,Moitrier L,Neiers F,Briand L

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Precise investigation and manipulation of gene function often require modulation in a controlled and dynamic manner. In this chapter, we describe the methods to apply HIT systems for drug inducible transcriptional activation or simultaneous activation and genome editing in human cells. Together with those for editing,...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Zhao C,Wei S,Wang Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular signaling and regulatory cascades often rely on post-translational modification of proteins, particularly phosphorylation, to quickly and effectively relay signals from a variety of inputs. Numerous kinases, the effectors of phosphorylation, and kinase networks have been implicated in human diseases. Until re...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Mohler K,Rinehart J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00