Production of antipolyubiquitin monoclonal antibodies and their use for characterization and isolation of polyubiquitinated proteins.

abstract：:Two lymphoid cell-specific proteins, called RAG-1 and RAG-2, initiate the process of antigen receptor gene rearrangement, termed V(D)J recombination, by assembling a protein-DNA complex with two recombination signal sequences (RSSs), each of which adjoins a different receptor gene segment, and then introducing a DNA d...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Bergeron S,Anderson DK,Swanson PC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the early days of cell volume regulation research, the role of actin cytoskeleton organization and rearrangement has attracted specific interest. Rapid modifications in actin dynamics and architecture have been described. They were shown to regulate cell volume changes, as well as regulatory volume decrease in a...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Papakonstanti EA,Stournaras C

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:The JNKs (c-Jun N-terminal protein kinases) play important roles in a variety of physiological and pathological functions including induction of apoptosis. A major pathway by which JNKs are activated in response to apoptotic stimuli includes the GTP*Rac1-binding scaffold protein POSH (plenty of SH3s). POSH acts as a s...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Xu Z,Greene LA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple lipid and protein components of the plasma membrane of a living cell are organized, both compositionally and functionally, at different spatial and temporal scales. For instance, Rab protein domains in membranes the clathrin-coated pit, or the immunological synapse are exquisite examples of functional compart...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Ghosh S,Saha S,Goswami D,Bilgrami S,Mayor S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products continue to demonstrate their utility both as therapeutics and as molecular probes for the discovery and mechanistic deconvolution of various cellular processes. However, this utility is dampened by the inherent difficulties involved in isolating and characterizing new bioactive natural products, in o...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Low WK,Dang Y,Schneider-Poetsch T,Shi Z,Choi NS,Rzasa RM,Shea HA,Li S,Park K,Ma G,Romo D,Liu JO

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The breakthrough discovery that double-stranded RNA of 21 nucleotides in length (referred to as short or small interfering RNA; siRNA) can trigger sequence-specific gene silencing in mammalian cells has led to the development of a powerful new approach to study gene function (Dillon et al., 2005; Dykxhoorn et al., 200...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Janas J,Skowronski J,Van Aelst L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a systemically administered gene therapy vector to exhibit extended circulation lifetimes, accumulate at a distal tumor site, and enable transgene expression is unique to SPLP. The flexibility and low toxicity of SPLP as a platform technology for systemic gene therapy allows for further optimization of ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Fenske DB,MacLachlan I,Cullis PR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiration is widely used for evaluation of the metabolic capabilities or physiological state of the microbial culture. This chapter describes novel approaches for characterization of respiration at a single cell level: (1) flow cytometry-based redox sensing (FCRS) of actively metabolizing microbes; (2) respiration r...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Konopka MC,McQuaide S,Ojala DS,Kalyuzhnaya MG,Lidstrom ME

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Portable, nanoparticle (NP)-enhanced enzyme sensors have emerged as powerful devices for qualitative and quantitative analysis of a variety of analytes for biomedicine, environmental applications, and pharmaceutical fields. This chapter describes a method for the fabrication of a portable, paper-based, inexpensive, ro...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Karimi A,Othman A,Andreescu S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epitope tagged alpha 2-AR subtypes have been used to address a variety of cell biological questions, and the strategies used are readily applicable to all GPCR as well as other cell surface proteins. We have provided detailed protocols for successful utilization of the epitope-tagged receptor in the studies of protein...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Wozniak M,Saunders C,Schramm N,Keefer JR,Limbird LE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism of specific degradation of transcripts with a premature stop codon. NMD eliminates aberrant mRNAs arising from mutations, alternative splicing, and other events in cells. In addition, many normal transcripts undergo NMD. Recent studies demonst...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Gurskaya NG,Pereverzev AP,Staroverov DB,Markina NM,Lukyanov KA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable success of cancer immunotherapies, especially the checkpoint blocking antibodies, in a subset of patients has reinvigorated the study of tumor-immune crosstalk and its role in heterogeneity of response. High-throughput sequencing and imaging technologies can help recapitulate various aspects of the tumo...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Bhinder B,Elemento O

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to obtain large amounts of genomic sequence for organisms and high throughput technology has led to a change in the thrust of research at the level of chromosomes in animals. In the past chromosomal analysis of animals was focused on gross changes such as inversions, translocations, and deletions for both ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： DeSalle R,Gregory TR,Johnston JS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional (3D) cryoelectron microscopy reconstruction methods are uniquely able to reveal structures of many important macromolecules and macromolecular complexes. EMDataBank.org, a joint effort of the Protein Databank in Europe (PDBe), the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB), and the N...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Lawson CL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically encoded fluorescent sensors are essential tools in modern biological research, and recent advances in fluorescent proteins (FPs) have expanded the scope of sensor design and implementation. In this review we compare different sensor platforms, including Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) sensors, flu...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Sanford L,Palmer A

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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 anaphase-promoting complex (APC) is a central regulator of the eukaryotic cell cycle and functions as an E3 ubiquitin protein ligase to catalyze the ubiquitination of a number of cell cycle regulatory proteins. The APC contains at least 13 subunits in addition to two activator subunits, Cdc20 and Cdh1, that associ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Passmore LA,Barford D,Harper JW

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic processes have great potential for applications in industrial biocatalysis, biosensing, and biomedical engineering. However, poor stability and difficulty in the reuse of enzymes still create challenges for their use in catalysis and other applications. In recent years, enzyme-incorporated metal-organic fram...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hou M,Ge J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between chemokines and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are crucial for the physiological and pathophysiological activities of chemokines. GAGs are therefore commonly designated as chemokine coreceptors which are deeply involved in the chemokine-signaling network. Studying the interaction of chemokines with GAGs...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kitic N,Gschwandtner M,Derler R,Gerlza T,Kungl AJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inositol phosphates (InsPs) are an important group of eukaryotic messengers and mediate a wide range of processes. To elucidate the biological functions of these molecules, robust techniques to characterize inositol phosphate metabolism at the cellular level are highly sought after. This chapter provides a detailed pr...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Puschmann R,Harmel RK,Fiedler D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter presents methodologies for RNA extraction from soils coupled with competitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and capillary electrophoresis techniques. Combined, these approaches provide new capabilities to quantify gene expression in different environments and can aid our understanding of...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Semrau JD,Han JI

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methodologies described in this chapter allow the reproducible preparation of native high-molecular-weight synthetase complexes of leuRL. These complexes have the ability to preferentially utilize extracellular leucine immediately upon transport and are likely the forms of the enzyme most important in the utilizat...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hampel A,Tritz R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent attachment of lipids appears to be an important mechanism by which many proteins interact with membranes. As we learn more about how lipids and adjacent amino acids participate in addressing proteins to specific membranes within the cell, it should be possible to design more elegant and precise membrane targe...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Solski PA,Quilliam LA,Coats SG,Der CJ,Buss JE

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A direct transport route from early/recycling endosome (EE/RE) to the trans-Golgi network (TGN) is exploited by Shiga toxin (Mallard et al., 1998) and TGN38 (Ghosh et al., 1998). To facilitate the study of this pathway, both in vivo and in vitro transport assays using recombinant Shiga toxin B fragments (STxB) as prot...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Tai G,Lu L,Johannes L,Hong W

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00