Isozyme-specific inhibitors and activators of protein kinase C.

abstract：:Hsp70 chaperones and their obligatory J-protein cochaperones function together in many cellular processes. Via cycles of binding to short stretches of exposed amino acids on substrate proteins, Hsp70/J-protein chaperones not only facilitate protein folding but also drive intracellular protein transport, biogenesis of ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Dutkiewicz R,Nowak M,Craig EA,Marszalek J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enveloped virus particles select their lipid-protein components and egress by budding from the host cell membranes. The matrix protein of many enveloped viruses has been proposed as a crucial element for viral budding; however, molecular mechanisms behind membrane remodeling by the matrix protein are yet to be unravel...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Shnyrova AV,Zimmerberg J

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Nonribosomal peptides are natural products typically of bacterial and fungal origin. These highly complex molecules display a broad spectrum of biological activities, and have been exploited for the development of immunosuppressant, antibiotic, anticancer, and other therapeutic agents. The nonribosomal peptides are as...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Wilkinson B,Micklefield J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EPR long-range distance measurements on spin-labeled macromolecules have recently become a popular tool in structural biology. The method can be used to obtain coarse-grained structures of biomolecules, to track conformational changes and dynamics, to dock macromolecular complexes, or to localize spin centers within m...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Hagelueken G,Abdullin D,Schiemann O

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in regulators and effectors of the Rho GTPases underlie various forms of mental retardation (MR). Among them, oligophrenin-1 (OPHN1), which encodes a Rho-GTPase activating protein, was one of the first Rho-linked MR genes identified. Upon characterization of OPHN1 in hippocampal brain slices, we obtained evi...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Kasri NN,Govek EE,Van Aelst L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes are now well recognized as major drivers of the biogeochemical cycling that fuels the Earth, and their viruses (phages) are known to be abundant and important in microbial mortality, horizontal gene transfer, and modulating microbial metabolic output. Investigation of environmental phages has been frustrated ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Solonenko SA,Sullivan MB

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:In eukaryotes, determination of the subcellular location of a novel protein encoded in genomic or transcriptomic data provides useful clues as to its possible function. However, experimental localization studies are expensive and time-consuming. As a result, accurate in silico prediction of subcellular localization fr...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Gaston D,Tsaousis AD,Roger AJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:In principle, the long emission lifetimes of lanthanide chelates should enable their ultrasensitive detection in biological systems by time-resolved optical microscopy. However, most lanthanide-imaging systems cannot achieve sensitivities that exceed those of conventional fluorescence microscopes, since they are limit...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Ciepla P,Cho U,Chen JK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional (3D) organization of the genome is important for chromatin regulation. This organization is nonrandom and appears to be tightly correlated with or regulated by chromatin state and scaffolding proteins. To understand how specific DNA and chromatin elements contribute to the functional organization...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Harr JC,Reddy KL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically encodable RNA devices that directly detect small molecules in the cellular environment are of increasing interest for a variety of applications including live cell imaging and synthetic biology. Riboswitches are naturally occurring sensors of intracellular metabolites, primarily found in the bacterial mRNA...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Trausch JJ,Batey RT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

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 analysis of a reaction pathway by stopped-flow and chemical quench-flow methods provides the only means of directly measuring the rates of reaction at the active site of an enzyme. The interpretation of data from each technique is similar and involves solution of the differential equations describing the approach ...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Johnson KA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutases (SODs; EC 1.15.1.1) are a group of metalloenzymes which are essential to protect cells under aerobic conditions. In biological systems, it has been reported that SODs and other proteins are susceptible to be attacked by peroxynitrite (ONOO(-)) which can be originated from the reaction of nitric o...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Larrainzar E,Urarte E,Auzmendi I,Ariz I,Arrese-Igor C,González EM,Moran JF

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nedd8 is a ubiquitin-like molecule that is highly conserved in eukaryotes. Similar to ubiquitin, Nedd8 attaches to target proteins through an enzymatic cascade composed of Nedd8-specific E1 (activating)- and E2 (conjugating)-enzymes. The E1 for Nedd8 is a heterodimer of APP-BP1 and Uba3, while the E2 is Ubc12. The mos...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Chiba T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins change their charge state through protonation and redox reactions as well as through binding charged ligands. The free energy of these reactions is dominated by solvation and electrostatic energies and modulated by protein conformational relaxation in response to the ionization state changes. Although computa...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Gunner MR,Baker NA

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:A simple and convenient method is described to determine primary deuterium kinetic isotope effects (1°DKIEs) on reactions where the hydron incorporated into the reaction product is derived from solvent water. The 1°DKIE may be obtained by 1H NMR analyses as the ratio of the yields of H- and D-labeled products from a r...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Amyes TL,Richard JP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogen-host interactions are mediated in part by secreted microbial proteins capable of exploiting host cells for their survival. Several of these manipulations involve, but are not limited to, suppression of defense responses, alterations in host vesicular trafficking, and manipulation of gene expression. The deliv...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Clark HR,Hayes TA,Kale SD

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:Expression of fusion proteins such as MBP fusions can be used as a way to improve the solubility of the expressed protein in E. coli (Fox and Waugh, 2003; Nallamsetty et al., 2005; Nallamsetty and Waugh, 2006) and as a way to introduce an affinity purification tag. The protocol that follows was designed by the authors...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Duong-Ly KC,Gabelli SB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are essential mediators of leukocyte movement in vivo. In vitro assays of leukocyte migration cannot mimic the complex interactions with other cell types and matrix needed for cells to extravasate and migrate into tissues. Therefore, in vivo strategies to study the effects and potential relevance of chemoki...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Amaral FA,Boff D,Teixeira MM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work demonstrates that RNA interference (RNAi) can coordinate protein expression. Inhibitory RNAs are expressed naturally in cells as microRNAs (miRNAs) or introduced into cells as small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). Both types of small RNAs can be used at the bench to silence mRNA expression. For many researchers...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Davidson BL,Harper SQ

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:All cells in nature are covered with a dense and complex array of glycans. The total glycan repertoire expressed on cells, "the cellular glycome," varies at every level of biological organization, and in response to intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli. The cellular glycome is often referred to as the "cell face," which re...

journal_title：Methods in enzymology

authors： Tateno H,Kuno A,Itakura Y,Hirabayashi J

更新日期：2010-01-01 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