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Ex vivo Follicle Rupture and in situ Zymography in Drosophila

Detection and Analysis of Circular RNAs by RT-PCR

Authors: Amaresh C Panda and Myriam Gorospe, date: 03/20/2018, view: 1359, Q&A: 2

Gene expression in eukaryotic cells is tightly regulated at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. Posttranscriptional processes, including pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA export, mRNA turnover, and mRNA translation, are controlled by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and noncoding (nc)RNAs. The vast family of ncRNAs comprises diverse regulatory ...

BODIPY 493/503 Staining of Neutral Lipid Droplets for Microscopy and Quantification by Flow Cytometry

Authors: Bo Qiu and M. Celeste Simon, date: 09/05/2016, view: 11878, Q&A: 0

Lipid droplets (LDs) are ubiquitous, dynamic organelles and function as a storage depot for neutral lipids, including triglycerides and cholesterol esters (Walther and Farese, 2012). The movement of lipid species into and out of LDs impacts a variety of cellular processes, such as energy homeostasis, lipid-based signaling, and membrane homeostasis ...

Sulforhodamine B (SRB) Assay in Cell Culture to Investigate Cell Proliferation

Authors: Esteban A. Orellana and Andrea L. Kasinski, date: 11/05/2016, view: 13191, Q&A: 0

The SRB assay has been used since its development in 1990 (Skehan et al., 1990) to inexpensively conduct various screening assays to investigate cytotoxicity in cell based studies (Vichai and Kirtikara, 2006). This method relies on the property of SRB, which binds stoichiometrically to proteins under mild acidic conditions and then can be ...

Single-step Precision Genome Editing in Yeast Using CRISPR-Cas9

Authors: Azat Akhmetov, Jon M Laurent, Jimmy Gollihar, Elizabeth C Gardner, Riddhiman K Garge, Andrew D Ellington, Aashiq H Kachroo and Edward M Marcotte, date: 03/20/2018, view: 1691, Q&A: 0

Genome modification in budding yeast has been extremely successful largely due to its highly efficient homology-directed DNA repair machinery. Several methods for modifying the yeast genome have previously been described, many of them involving at least two-steps: insertion of a selectable marker and substitution of that marker for the intended ...

Multiple Stepwise Gene Knockout Using CRISPR/Cas9 in Escherichia coli

Authors: Enrico König, Francesca Zerbini, Ilaria Zanella, Davide Fraccascia and Guido Grandi, date: 01/20/2018, view: 2340, Q&A: 0

With the recent implementation of the CRISPR/Cas9 technology as a standard tool for genome editing, laboratories all over the world are undergoing one of the biggest advancements in molecular biology since PCR. The key advantage of this method is its simplicity and universal applicability for species of any phylum. Of particular interest is the ...

Sucrose Preference Test to Measure Stress-induced Anhedonia

Authors: Andrew L. Eagle, Michelle Mazei-Robison and Alfred J. Robison, date: 06/05/2016, view: 10432, Q&A: 0

The 2-bottle choice procedure for assessing sucrose preference is a useful test to investigate anhedonia (i.e., inability to feel pleasure) in laboratory rodents, particularly in stress-based models of depression. The 2-bottle choice procedure allows for a comparison between behavioral preference for sucrose solution in drinking water ...

Immunofluorescent Staining of Mouse Intestinal Stem Cells

Authors: Kevin P. O’Rourke, Lukas E Dow and Scott W Lowe, date: 02/20/2016, view: 11512, Q&A: 0

Immunofluorescent staining of organoids can be performed to visualize molecular markers of cell behavior. For example, cell proliferation marked by incorporation of nucleotide (EdU), or to observe markers of intestinal differentiation including paneth cells, goblet cells, or enterocytes (see Figure 1). In this protocol we detail a method to fix, ...

Hemagglutination Inhibition (HI) Assay of Influenza Viruses with Monoclonal Antibodies

Authors: Ying Wu, MyungSam Cho, David Shore, Manki Song, JungAh Choi, Tao Jiang, Yong-Qiang Deng, Melissa Bourgeois, Lynn Almli, Hua Yang, Li-Mei Chen, Yi Shi, Jianxu Qi, An Li, Kye Sook Yi, MinSeok Chang, Jin Soo Bae, HyunJoo Lee, JiYoung Shin, James Stevens, SeoungSuh Hong, Cheng-Feng Qin, George F. Gao, Shin Jae Chang and Ruben O. Donis, date: 06/05/2016, view: 8044, Q&A: 0

Heamagglutination is inhibited when antibodies are present because antibodies to the influenza virus will prevent attachment of the virus to red blood cells. The highest dilution of antibody that prevents hemagglutination is called the HI titer. Human monoclonal antibodies generated from single human B cells were tested to characterize their ...

Sucrose Preference Test to Measure Anhedonic Behaviour in Mice

Authors: Tsvetan Serchov, Dietrich van Calker and Knut Biber, date: 10/05/2016, view: 6953, Q&A: 0

The sucrose preference test (SPT) is a reward-based test, used as in indicator of anhedonia. Anhedonia, or the decreased ability to experience pleasure, represents one of the core symptoms of depression. Rodents are born with an interest in sweet foods or solutions. Reduced preference for sweet solution in SPT represents anhedonia, while this ...

Analysis of Protein Stability by the Cycloheximide Chase Assay

Authors: Shih-Han Kao, Wen-Lung Wang, Chi-Yuan Chen, Yih-Leong Chang, Yi-Ying Wu, Yi-Ting Wang, Shu-Ping Wang, Alexey I Nesvizhskii, Yu-Ju Chen, Tse-Ming Hong and Pan-Chyr Yang, date: 01/05/2015, view: 32307, Q&A: 1

Comparison of protein stability in eukaryotic cells has been achieved by cycloheximide, which is an inhibitor of protein biosynthesis due to its prevention in translational elongation. It is broadly used in cell biology in terms of determining the half-life of a given protein and has gained much popularity in cancer research. Here we present a ...