abstract：:More than 400,000 people each year suffer adverse effects following bites from venomous snakes. However, snake venom is also a rich source of bioactive molecules with known or potential therapeutic applications. Manually 'milking' snakes is the most common method to obtain venom. Safer alternative methods to produce v...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Puschhof J,Post Y,Beumer J,Kerkkamp HM,Bittenbinder M,Vonk FJ,Casewell NR,Richardson MK,Clevers H

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive computing is revolutionizing the way big data are processed and integrated, with artificial intelligence (AI) natural language processing (NLP) platforms helping researchers to efficiently search and digest the vast scientific literature. Most available platforms have been developed for biomedical researcher...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Majumder EL,Billings EM,Benton HP,Martin RL,Palermo A,Guijas C,Rinschen MM,Domingo-Almenara X,Montenegro-Burke JR,Tagtow BA,Plumb RS,Siuzdak G

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic complex genetic interaction studies have provided insight into high-order functional redundancies and genetic network wiring of the cell. Here, we describe a method for screening and quantifying trigenic interactions from ordered arrays of yeast strains grown on agar plates as individual colonies. The proto...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Kuzmin E,Rahman M,VanderSluis B,Costanzo M,Myers CL,Andrews BJ,Boone C

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Using siRNAs to genetically manipulate immune cells is important to both basic immunological studies and therapeutic applications. However, siRNA delivery is challenging because primary immune cells are often sensitive to the delivery materials and generate immune responses. We have recently developed an amphiphilic d...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Chen J,Ellert-Miklaszewska A,Garofalo S,Dey AK,Tang J,Jiang Y,Clément F,Marche PN,Liu X,Kaminska B,Santoni A,Limatola C,Rossi JJ,Zhou J,Peng L

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of single-molecule switching (SMS) fluorescence microscopy (also called single-molecule localization microscopy) over the last decade has enabled researchers to image cell biological structures at unprecedented resolution. Using two opposing objectives in a so-called 4Pi geometry doubles the available ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Wang J,Allgeyer ES,Sirinakis G,Zhang Y,Hu K,Lessard MD,Li Y,Diekmann R,Phillips MA,Dobbie IM,Ries J,Booth MJ,Bewersdorf J

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The research community is in a race to understand the molecular mechanisms of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, to repurpose currently available antiviral drugs and to develop new therapies and vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). One major challenge in achieving ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Gurumurthy CB,Quadros RM,Richardson GP,Poluektova LY,Mansour SL,Ohtsuka M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult stem cell-based organoid technology is a versatile tool for the generation and long-term maintenance of near-native 3D epithelial tissues in vitro. The generation of cancer organoids from primary patient material enables a range of therapeutic agents to be tested in the resulting organoid cultures. Patient-deriv...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Driehuis E,Kretzschmar K,Clevers H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world is on the cusp of a post-antibiotic era, but researchers and medical doctors have found a way forward-by looking back at how infections were treated before the advent of antibiotics, namely using phage therapy. Although bacteriophages (phages) continue to lack drug approval in Western medicine, an increasing...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Luong T,Salabarria AC,Edwards RA,Roach DR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several noncanonical initial nucleotides (NCINs) have been found to cap RNAs and possibly regulate RNA stability, transcription and translation. NAD+ is one of the NCINs that has recently been discovered to cap RNAs in a wide range of species. Identification of the NAD+-capped RNAs (NAD-RNAs) could help to unveil the ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Shao X,Zhang H,Yang Z,Zhong H,Xia Y,Cai Z

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycocalyx comprises glycosylated proteins and lipids and fcorms the outermost layer of cells. It is involved in fundamental inter- and intracellular processes, including non-self-cell and self-cell recognition, cell signaling, cellular structure maintenance, and immune protection. Characterization of the glycocal...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Li Q,Xie Y,Wong M,Barboza M,Lebrilla CB

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining enantiomeric excess (e.e.) in chiral compounds is key to development of chiral catalyst auxiliaries and chiral drugs. Here we describe a sensitive and robust fluorescence-based assay for determining e.e. in mixtures of enantiomers of 1,2- and 1,3-diols, chiral amines, amino alcohols, and amino-acid esters....

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Shcherbakova EG,James TD,Anzenbacher P Jr

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Adult' or 'somatic' stem cells harbor an intrinsic ability to regenerate tissues. Heterogeneity of such stem cells along the gastrointestinal tract yields the known segmental specificity of this organ and may contribute to the pathology of certain enteric conditions. Here we detail technology for the generation of 'l...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Duleba M,Yamamoto Y,Neupane R,Rao W,Xie J,Qi Y,Liew AA,Niroula S,Zhang Y,Mahalingam R,Wang S,Goller K,Ajani JA,Vincent M,Ho KY,Hou JK,Hyams JS,Sylvester FA,Crum CP,McKeon F,Xian W

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system operates at the scale of the whole organism in mammals. We currently lack experimental approaches to systematically track and study organism-wide molecular processes in mice. Here we describe an integrated toolkit for measuring gene expression in whole tissues, 3-prime mRNA extension sequencing, that...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Pandey S,Takahama M,Gruenbaum A,Zewde M,Cheronis K,Chevrier N

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of transcription can be studied genome wide by high-throughput sequencing of nascent and newly synthesized RNA. 4-thiouridine (4SU) labeling in vivo enables the specific capture of such new transcripts, with 4SU residues being tagged by biotin linkers and captured using streptavidin beads before library p...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Gregersen LH,Mitter R,Svejstrup JQ

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding chemical reactivity through the use of state-of-the-art computational techniques enables chemists to both predict reactivity and rationally design novel reactions. This protocol aims to provide chemists with the tools to implement a powerful and robust method for analyzing and understanding any chemical ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Vermeeren P,van der Lubbe SCC,Fonseca Guerra C,Bickelhaupt FM,Hamlin TA

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically encoded fluorescent proteins (FPs) are highly utilized in cell biology research to study proteins of interest or signal processes using biosensors. To perform well in specific applications, these FPs require a multitude of tailored properties. It is for this reason that they need to be optimized by using m...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Bindels DS,Postma M,Haarbosch L,van Weeren L,Gadella TWJ Jr

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria release a variety of membrane vesicles through different formation routes. Knowledge of the structure, molecular cargo and function of bacterial extracellular vesicles (BEVs) is primarily obtained from bacteria cultured in laboratory conditions. BEVs in human body fluids have b...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Tulkens J,De Wever O,Hendrix A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) enables label-free spatial mapping of hundreds of biomolecules in tissue sections. This capability provides valuable information on tissue heterogeneity that is difficult to obtain using population-averaged assays. Despite substantial developments in both instrumentation and methodology...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Yin R,Burnum-Johnson KE,Sun X,Dey SK,Laskin J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are continually produced and degraded, to avoid the accumulation of old or damaged molecules and to maintain the efficiency of physiological processes. Despite its importance, protein turnover has been difficult to measure in vivo. Previous approaches to evaluating turnover in vivo have required custom labeli...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Alevra M,Mandad S,Ischebeck T,Urlaub H,Rizzoli SO,Fornasiero EF

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise identification of sites of RNA modification is key to studying the functional role of such modifications in the regulation of gene expression and for elucidating relevance to diverse physiological processes. tRNA reduction and cleavage sequencing (TRAC-Seq) is a chemically based approach for the unbiased globa...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Lin S,Liu Q,Jiang YZ,Gregory RI

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon-based dots (CDs) and their functionalized (nano)composites have recently attracted attention due to their seemingly easy preparation and numerous potential applications, ranging from those in the biomedical field (i.e., imaging and drug delivery) to those in (opto)electronics (i.e., solar cells and LEDs). This ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Ðorđević L,Arcudi F,Prato M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freestanding plasmonic nanoparticle (NP) superlattice sheets are novel 2D nanomaterials with tailorable properties that enable their use for broad applications in sensing, anticounterfeit measures, ionic gating, nanophotonics and flat lenses. We recently developed a robust, yet general, two-step drying-mediated approa...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Dong D,Fu R,Shi Q,Cheng W

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase H-dependent PCR-enabled T-cell receptor sequencing (rhTCRseq) can be used to determine paired alpha/beta T-cell receptor (TCR) clonotypes in single cells or perform alpha and beta TCR repertoire analysis in bulk RNA samples. With the enhanced specificity of RNase H-dependent PCR (rhPCR), it achieves TCR-specific...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Li S,Sun J,Allesøe R,Datta K,Bao Y,Oliveira G,Forman J,Jin R,Olsen LR,Keskin DB,Shukla SA,Wu CJ,Livak KJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmembrane (TM) anchors of cell surface proteins have been one of the 'blind spots' in structural biology because they are generally very hydrophobic, sometimes dynamic, and thus difficult targets for structural characterization. A plethora of examples show these membrane anchors are not merely anchors but can ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Fu Q,Piai A,Chen W,Xia K,Chou JJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the version of this protocol originally published, the caption for Fig. 3 was erroneously placed with Fig. 4, and that for Fig. 4 was placed with Fig. 3. This error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the paper. ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Cruz-Acuña R,Quirós M,Huang S,Siuda D,Spence JR,Nusrat A,García AJ

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectroscopic techniques such as Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy are used to study interactions of light with biological materials. This interaction forms the basis of many analytical assays used in disease screening/diagnosis, microbiological studies, and forensic/environmental investigations. Advantag...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Morais CLM,Paraskevaidi M,Cui L,Fullwood NJ,Isabelle M,Lima KMG,Martin-Hirsch PL,Sreedhar H,Trevisan J,Walsh MJ,Zhang D,Zhu YG,Martin FL

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the different developed solid-state nanopores, nanopores constructed in a monolayer of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) stand out as powerful devices for single-molecule analysis or osmotic power generation. Because the ionic current through a nanopore is inversely proportional to the thickness of the pore, ultrathin...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Graf M,Lihter M,Thakur M,Georgiou V,Topolancik J,Ilic BR,Liu K,Feng J,Astier Y,Radenovic A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optogenetic tools provide users the ability to photocontrol the activity of cells. Commonly, activation is achieved by expression of proteins from photosynthetic organisms, for example, microbial opsins (e.g., ChR2). Alternatively, a sister approach, synthetic optogenetics, enables photocontrol over proteins of mammal...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Carmi I,De Battista M,Maddalena L,Carroll EC,Kienzler MA,Berlin S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A big challenge in proteomics is the identification of cell-type-specific proteomes in vivo. This protocol describes how to label, purify and identify cell-type-specific proteomes in living mice. To make this possible, we created a Cre-recombinase-inducible mouse line expressing a mutant methionyl-tRNA synthetase (L27...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Alvarez-Castelao B,Schanzenbächer CT,Langer JD,Schuman EM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type II (NF2) is a disease that lacks effective therapies. NF2 is characterized by bilateral vestibular schwannomas (VSs) that cause progressive and debilitating hearing loss, leading to social isolation and increased rates of depression. A major limitation in NF2 basic and translational research is ...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Chen J,Landegger LD,Sun Y,Ren J,Maimon N,Wu L,Ng MR,Chen JW,Zhang N,Zhao Y,Gao X,Fujita T,Roberge S,Huang P,Jain RK,Plotkin SR,Stankovic KM,Xu L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung epithelium is derived from the endodermal germ layer, which undergoes a complex series of endoderm-mesoderm-mediated signaling events to generate the final arborized network of conducting airways (bronchi, bronchioles) and gas-exchanging units (alveoli). These stages include endoderm induction, anterior-poste...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Miller AJ,Dye BR,Ferrer-Torres D,Hill DR,Overeem AW,Shea LD,Spence JR

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Top-down proteomics (TDP) by mass spectrometry (MS) is a technique by which intact proteins are analyzed. It has become increasingly popDesalting and concentrating GELFrEEular in translational research because of the value of characterizing distinct proteoforms of intact proteins. Compared to bottom-up proteomics (BUP...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Toby TK,Fornelli L,Srzentić K,DeHart CJ,Levitsky J,Friedewald J,Kelleher NL

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human stomach contains two primary domains: the corpus, which contains the fundic epithelium, and the antrum. Each of these domains has distinct cell types and functions, and therefore each presents with unique disease pathologies. Here, we detail two protocols to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs)...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Broda TR,McCracken KW,Wells JM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of anisotropic NMR data, such as residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) and residual chemical shift anisotropies (RCSAs), has emerged as a powerful technique for structural characterization of organic small molecules. RDCs typically report the relative orientations of different 1H-13C bonds; RCSAs report the relati...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Liu Y,Navarro-Vázquez A,Gil RR,Griesinger C,Martin GE,Williamson RT

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing tool and the availability of whole-genome sequences from plant species have revolutionized our ability to introduce targeted mutations into important crop plants, both to explore genetic changes and to introduce new functionalities. Here, we describe protocols adapting the CRISPR-Cas9 sy...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Osakabe Y,Liang Z,Ren C,Nishitani C,Osakabe K,Wada M,Komori S,Malnoy M,Velasco R,Poli M,Jung MH,Koo OJ,Viola R,Nagamangala Kanchiswamy C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast, high-resolution mapping of heterogeneous interfaces with a wide elastic modulus range is a major goal of atomic force microscopy (AFM). This goal becomes more challenging when the nanomechanical mapping involves biomolecules in their native environment. Over the years, several AFM-based methods have been develop...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Benaglia S,Gisbert VG,Perrino AP,Amo CA,Garcia R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the implementation and use of an adaptive imaging framework for optimizing spatial resolution and signal strength in a light-sheet microscope. The framework, termed AutoPilot, comprises hardware and software modules for automatically measuring and compensating for mismatches between light-sheet and detecti...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Royer LA,Lemon WC,Chhetri RK,Keller PJ

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontal disease (PD) is a common dental disease associated with the interaction between dysbiotic oral microbiota and host immunity. It is a prevalent disease, resulting in loss of gingival tissue, periodontal ligament, cementum and alveolar bone. PD is a major form of tooth loss in the adult population. Experimen...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Marchesan J,Girnary MS,Jing L,Miao MZ,Zhang S,Sun L,Morelli T,Schoenfisch MH,Inohara N,Offenbacher S,Jiao Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypochlorous acid (HOCl) is a critical member of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by immune cells to fight infections. On the other hand, HOCl in homeostasis causes oxidative damage to biomolecules and is linked to many diseases, including inflammatory, neurodegenerative, and cardiovascular diseases. Herein,...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Zhu H,Zhang Z,Long S,Du J,Fan J,Peng X

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biominerals serve as critical structures of living systems and play important roles in biochemical processes. Understanding their crystallization mechanisms is therefore central to many areas of biology, biogeoscience, and biochemistry. Some biominerals, such as bone and dentin, are hierarchical nanocomposite structur...

journal_title：Nature protocols

authors： Zhang X,He Y,Liu J,Bowden ME,Kovarik L,Mao SX,Wang C,De Yoreo JJ,Rosso KM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00