The emerging role of histone deacetylases (HDACs) in UPR regulation.

abstract：:The development of sensors that mimic the natural smell sensing mechanism and selectively recognizes the odorants remains highly challenging. Electrochemical based sensing approaches aiming at monitoring molecular recognition events between surface receptors and analytes in solution or in the gas phase, are one possib...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Szunerits S,Boukherroub R,Vasilescu A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Omega class of cytosolic glutathione transferases was initially recognized by bioinformatic analysis of human sequence databases, and orthologous sequences were subsequently discovered in mouse, rat, pig, Caenorhabditis elegans, Schistosoma mansoni, and Drosophila melanogaster. In humans and mice, two GSTO genes h...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Whitbread AK,Masoumi A,Tetlow N,Schmuck E,Coggan M,Board PG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmoregulation is the active control of the cellular water balance and encompasses homeostatic mechanisms crucial for life. The osmoregulatory system in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is particularly well understood. Key to yeast osmoregulation is the production and accumulation of the compatible solute glycerol, ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hohmann S,Krantz M,Nordlander B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The findings in this article illustrate the complexity residing in the regulation of reversible S-glutathionylation of proteins, such as GAPDH. This is clearly reflected in the design of suitable experimental approaches designed to cope with the interaction of several redox-dependent factors. Clear interactions are de...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Cotgreave IA,Gerdes R,Schuppe-Koistinen I,Lind C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex RNA structures regulate many biological processes but are often too large for structure determination by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods. We determined the solution structure of domain II of the hepatitis C viral internal ribosome entry site (HCV IRES), a 25-kDa RNA, using a novel NMR approach. Conven...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Lukavsky PJ,Puglisi JD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Undiluted cytoplasmic extract prepared from unfertilized Xenopus laevis eggs by low-speed centrifugation (CSF extracts) is useful for reconstitution of egg microtubule dynamics and meiosis-II spindle organization, but it suffers limitations for biochemical analysis due to abundant particulates. Here, we describe prepa...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Groen AC,Ngyuen PA,Field CM,Ishihara K,Mitchison TJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is a selective type of autophagy responsible for the lysosomal degradation of soluble cytosolic proteins. In contrast to other forms of autophagy where cargo is sequestered and delivered to lysosomes through membrane fusion/excision, CMA substrates reach the lysosomal lumen after dir...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kaushik S,Cuervo AM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epitope tagging approach offers advantages of economy, universality, and precision over the use of antibodies raised directly against a protein of interest. The latter strategy promises a potentially greater diversity of reagents and obviates the need to modify the protein, but it may not yield sufficiently high-a...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kolodziej PA,Young RA

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Mdm2 is a negative regulator of p53 activity and functions as an E3 ubiquitin ligase of p53. Inhibition of mdm2 E3 ligase activity will block ubiquitination and subsequent proteasome-mediated degradation of p53, resulting in the stabilization of p53 protein that could lead to the restoration of its tumor-suppressor ac...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Auger KR,Copeland RA,Lai Z

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

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：:The number of genetically modified mouse lines has been increasing exponentially in the past few decades. In order to safeguard them from accidental loss and genetic drifting, to reduce animal housing cost, and to efficiently distribute them around the world, it is important to cryopreserve these valuable genetic reso...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Takahashi H,Liu C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monte Carlo simulations of neighbor exclusion models have been used to demonstrate the importance of collecting and fitting data over a wide range of saturation. Low saturation data are important for good estimates of the affinity K of a drug or protein for the lattice site. High saturation data are important for dist...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Correia JJ,Chaires JB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone acetylation is a dynamic epigenetic modification that functions in the regulation of DNA-templated reactions, such as transcription. This lysine modification is reversibly controlled by histone (lysine) acetyltransferases and deacetylases. Here, we present methods employing isotopic labeling and mass spectrome...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Fan J,Baeza J,Denu JM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing numbers of compounds, previously classified as antagonists, were shown to inhibit this spontaneous or constitutive receptor activity, instead of leave it unaffected as expected for a formal antagonist. In addition, some other antagonists did not have any effect by themselves, but prevented the inhibition of...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Taira CA,Monczor F,Höcht C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin plays a vital role in regulating cellular processes that occur on the DNA. Modulation of chromatin structure is conducted through interactions with binding factors that direct critical actions such as posttranslational modifications, nucleosome remodeling, and incorporation of histone variants. Specific fact...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Winkler DD,Luger K,Hieb AR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of catalysis by MnSOD using direct observation of the UV absorbance of superoxide allows determination of steady-state catalytic constants. Stabilizing superoxide in aprotic solvents such as dimethyl sulfoxide permits the use of stopped-flow spectrophotometry, although significant information is lost in th...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Silverman DN,Nick HS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of all arginine catabolic enzymes, the arginases and nitric oxide (NO) synthases are the ones that are of greatest interest to many investigators. Mammalian arginases catalyze the hydrolysis of arginine to ornithine and urea and are composed of two distinct isozymes: arginase I, located within the cytosol, and arginas...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kepka-Lenhart D,Ash DE,Morris SM

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：:Carbohydrate microarrays are becoming a standard tool for glycobiologists to screen large numbers of sugars and elucidate the role of carbohydrates in biological systems. This article describes detailed methods to prepare and use microarrays containing synthetic oligosaccharides as well as a summary of the biological ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： de Paz JL,Horlacher T,Seeberger PH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study designed, synthesized, and characterized a number of new heterobifunctional photocleavable cross-linking reagents that may be used to photomodulate the activity of proteins or to prepare caged fluorescent dyes. Biomolecules or fluorophores caged via a thiol group with the BNBASE reagent can be covalently li...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Marriott G,Ottl J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dicer is a multidomain ribonuclease that processes double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) to 21-nt small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) during RNA interference and excises microRNAs (miRNAs) from precursor hairpins. PAZ and PIWI domain (PPD) proteins, also involved in RNAi and miRNA function, are the best-characterized proteins kno...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kolb FA,Zhang H,Jaronczyk K,Tahbaz N,Hobman TC,Filipowicz W

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of CRISPR-Cas systems for nucleic acid targets is determined by a combination of binding and cleavage. Understanding the mechanisms by which Cas proteins specifically select their targets is critical for the development of CRISPR-Cas systems for biotechnology applications. Moreover, the specificity of ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Wade JT

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a shortened construct form of the CYP26A1 gene promoter, in a promoter-less vector with either luciferase (known as E4) or a red fluorescent protein, RFP (known as E4.2) as the reporter gene and examined their responses to retinoids in transfected HepG2 and HEK293T cells. The promoter responded linearly t...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Zolfaghari R,Mattie FJ,Wei CH,Chisholm DR,Whiting A,Ross AC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 19 years, we have developed a novel myxoma virus-derived anti-inflammatory serine protease inhibitor, termed a serpin, as a new class of immunomodulatory therapeutic. This review will describe the initial identification of viral serpins with anti-inflammatory potential, beginning with preclinical analysi...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Chen H,Zheng D,Davids J,Bartee MY,Dai E,Liu L,Petrov L,Macaulay C,Thoburn R,Sobel E,Moyer R,McFadden G,Lucas A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite markers are quickly becoming the molecular marker of choice for studies of parentage and kinship in animals. In this chapter, we review methods and give protocols for screening potential microsatellite markers, as well as protocols for genotyping individuals with useful markers once they have been ident...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Webster MS,Reichart L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus ribonuclease III (Sa-RNase III) belongs to the enzyme family known to process double-stranded RNAs consisting of two turns of the RNA helix. Although the enzyme is thought to play a role in ribosomal RNA processing and gene regulation, the deletion of the rnc gene in S. aureus does not affect cel...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Chevalier C,Huntzinger E,Fechter P,Boisset S,Vandenesch F,Romby P,Geissmann T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer has become the leading cause of death in the developed world and has remained one of the most difficult diseases to treat. One of the difficulties in treating cancer is that conventional chemotherapies often have unacceptable toxicities toward normal cells at the doses required to kill tumor cells. Thus, the de...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Cantor JR,Panayiotou V,Agnello G,Georgiou G,Stone EM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutral arachidonic acid derivatives N-arachidonoyl ethanolamine (anandamide or AEA), and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) have been identified as endogenous ligands for the cannabinoid receptors. Additionally, these compounds have been identified as substrates of the second isoform of the cyclooxygenase enzyme (COX-...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kingsley PJ,Marnett LJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00