Use of recombinant iron-superoxide dismutase as a marker of nitrative stress.

abstract：:We have described procedures for collecting, processing, and analyzing kinetic data obtained by photobleaching microscopy of GFP-tagged chromatin proteins in nuclei of cultured living cells. These procedures are useful for characterizing the in vivo binding of chromatin proteins to their natural template--unperturbed,...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Phair RD,Gorski SA,Misteli T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase C (PKC) family of isoenzymes may be a crucial player in transducing H2O2-induced signaling in a wide variety of physiological and pathophysiological processes. PKCs contain unique structural features that make them highly susceptible to oxidative modification. Depending on the site of oxidation and ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Gopalakrishna R,McNeill TH,Elhiani AA,Gundimeda U

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When isolating ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes by an affinity selection approach, tagging the RNA component can prove to be strategically important. This is especially true for purifying single types of snoRNPs, because in most cases the snoRNA is thought to be the only unique component. Here, we present a general s...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Piekna-Przybylska D,Liu B,Fournier MJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Fragment-based drug discovery has emerged over the past 15 years as an effective lead discovery paradigm that is complementary to traditional high-throughput screening. The starting point for fragment-based drug discovery is the identification of low-molecular weight, typically low-affinity compounds that bind to a ta...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Desjarlais RL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In budding yeast and higher eukaryotic genomes, there are, respectively, 50 and up to 400 or more distinct genes that encode for ubiquitin-ligases, and approximately 15-90 genes that encode for ubiquitin isopeptidases (TM and RJD, Semple et al., 2003). This puts ubiquitylation on par with phosphorylation as the most c...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Mayor T,Deshaies RJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This protocol describes Coomassie brilliant blue staining, one of the most common methods of detecting proteins in polyacrylamide gels (PAGE). ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Brunelle JL,Green R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors for Ras family GTPases have been developed that permit spatiotemporal analysis of the activation of these signaling molecules in living cells. We describe here the use of the simplest of these probes, the Ras binding domain (RBD) of selected effectors fused with green...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Bivona TG,Quatela S,Philips MR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once the appropriate site has been selected for the attachment of GFP to the sarcomeric protein, it is quite remarkable that the large size of the GFP molecule does not appear to interfere with the localization of the fluorescent sarcomeric proteins into the sarcomeric regions of the myofibrils. A similar approach usi...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Dabiri GA,Ayoob JC,Turnacioglu KK,Sanger JM,Sanger JW

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraquat (PQ) is a prototypical redox cycling agent commonly used experimentally to generate reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress. Recently, PQ has also come under investigation as a potential environmental neurotoxin associated with increased risk for neurodegenerative disease developing after chronic exposur...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Drechsel DA,Patel M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of synthetic peptides using Edman chemistry can be very useful for the elucidation of certain types of synthetic problems, such as residue deletions and the presence of common stable derivatives, and for following the progress of the synthesis itself. However, it can also be a relatively poor techniq...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Grant GA,Crankshaw MW,Gorka J

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:In this chapter, we describe a set of complementary techniques that we use to study the activation of rhodopsin, a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), and its functional interactions with G protein and arrestin. The protein reagents used for these studies come from native disc membranes or heterologous expression, and ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Sommer ME,Elgeti M,Hildebrand PW,Szczepek M,Hofmann KP,Scheerer P

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Life cell imaging is a tool for cell biology that has provided invaluable insights into many dynamic processes such as cell division, morphogenesis, or endo- and exocytosis. While observing cells by time-lapse imaging is a standard procedure in many systems, this technique was until recently not available for blood st...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Grüring C,Spielmann T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rab7, a member of the Rab family of small G proteins, has been shown to regulate late endocytic traffic and lysosome biogenesis, but the exact roles and the mode of actions of Rab7 are still undetermined. Accumulating evidence suggests that each Rab protein has multiple target proteins and works together with them to ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Mizuno K,Sakane A,Sasaki T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome editing using the Cas9 endonuclease of Streptococcus pyogenes has demonstrated unprecedented efficacy and facility in a wide variety of biological systems. In zebrafish, specifically, studies have shown that Cas9 can be directed to user-defined genomic target sites via synthetic guide RNAs, enabling random or h...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Gonzales AP,Yeh JR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells in an isogenic population do not all display the same phenotypes. To study such variation within a population of cells, we need to perform measurements on each individual cell instead of measurements that average out the behavior of a cell over the entire population. Here, we provide the basic concepts and...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Youk H,Raj A,van Oudenaarden A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) repository at the National Center for Biotechnology Information archives and freely distributes high-throughput molecular abundance data, predominantly gene expression data generated by DNA microarray technology. The database has a flexible design that can handle diverse styles of bot...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Barrett T,Edgar R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many players of the DNA damage response and DNA repair have been identified in several systems their biochemical role is still poorly understood. The use of the Xenopus laevis egg extract cell-free system allowed biochemical dissection of DNA replication and cell cycle events in a complex biological context. ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Sannino V,Pezzimenti F,Bertora S,Costanzo V

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxiredoxins (Prdxs) are a family of proteins which catalyze the reduction of H2O2 through the interaction of active site cysteine residues. Conserved within all plant and animal kingdoms, the function of these proteins is related to protection from oxidation or participation of signaling through degradation of H2O2...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Ambruso DR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many DNA repair enzymes, including the human adenine glycosylase MUTYH, require iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster cofactors for DNA damage recognition and subsequent repair. MUTYH prokaryotic and eukaryotic homologs are a family of adenine (A) glycosylases that cleave A when mispaired with the oxidatively damaged guanine les...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Majumdar C,Nuñez NN,Raetz AG,Khuu C,David SS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkers play essential roles in the engineering of fusion proteins, and have been extensively demonstrated to affect protein properties such as expression level, solubility, and biological functions. For linker design and optimization, one of the key factors is the flexibility or rigidity of linkers, which describes t...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Huang Z,Zhang C,Xing XH

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient-derived xenografts are a useful tool in cancer immunology, as they allow researchers to study human cancers in vivo when starting with a relatively small amount of human tumor tissue. These models make it possible to study tumor cell-intrinsic changes that occur in response to external stimuli including cytoki...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Cardenas JJ,Robles-Oteiza C,Politi K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methods of computational chemistry and molecular modeling are becoming more and more accessible to biochemists with the advent of fast, inexpensive graphics workstations and well-tested computer programs. The state of the art in small molecules allows chemists to use these programs as "black boxes" and be confiden...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Wampler JE

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) sample structurally diverse ensembles. Characterizing the underlying distributions of conformations is a key step toward understanding the structural and functional properties of IDPs. One increasingly popular method for obtaining quantitative information on intramolecular dist...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Holmstrom ED,Holla A,Zheng W,Nettels D,Best RB,Schuler B

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure-based protein design is a powerful technique with great potential. Challenges in two areas limit performance: structure scoring and sequence-structure searching. Many of the functions used to describe the relationship between protein sequence and energy are computationally expensive to evaluate, and the spac...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Negron C,Keating AE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In structural proteomics, it is necessary to efficiently screen in a high-throughput manner for the presence of stable structures in proteins that can be subjected to subsequent structure determination by X-ray or NMR spectroscopy. Here we illustrate that the (1)H chemical distribution in a protein as detected by (1)H...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hoffmann B,Eichmüller C,Steinhauser O,Konrat R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy vectors based on murine retroviruses have now been in clinical trials for over 20 years. During that time, a variety of novel vector pseudotypes were developed in an effort to improve gene transfer. Lentiviral vectors are now in clinical trials and a similar evolution of vector technology is anticipated. ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Leath A,Cornetta K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous aspects of the immune system operate on the basis of complex regulatory networks that are amenable to mathematical and computational modeling. Several modeling frameworks have recently been applied to simulating the immune system, including systems of ordinary differential equations, delay differential equati...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kim PS,Levy D,Lee PP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00