EMSA probe creation using ds Oligonucleotides by annealing two complementary oligos, and Klenow for probe creation. - [Read EMSA using ds Oligonucleotides]
Experimental Procedures for Protein Microarrays. MacBeath G & Schreiber SL (2000). Printing proteins as microarrays for high-throughput function determination. Science 289: 1760-1763. - [Read Experimental Procedures for Protein Microarrays]
Flow Cytometry Analysis Protocol. Springer Lab - Harvard. Background on flow cytometry technique: Flow cytometry is a method which uses instrumentation scanning single cells flowing past excitation sources in a liquid medium. - [Read Flow Cytometry Analysis Protocol]
This is an easy and straightforward protocol that gives efficiencies of 106 to 107 cfu/mg of plasmid DNA. A growth curve is required for each strain that is prepared.
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Protocol for histochemical staining. This protocol has been optimized for b-galactosidase and human placental alkaline phosphatase staining in retinal tissue and cultured cells. - [Read Histochemical Staining Protocol]
Protocol describes a plate method that gives very good yield for cloning. Includes: T-TYN Media + Mg+2; T-TYN Plates; T-TYN Top Agarose. - [Read Lambda DNA Preparation Protocol]
Describe the use of replication-incompetent retroviral vectors for the analysis of lineal relationships in developing vertebrate tissues. An overview of the relevant aspects of the retroviral life cycle, and the strategies and current methods in use at their laboratory are described. - [Read Lineage Analysis Using Retroviral Vectors]
Negative staining is a rapid, qualitative method for analyzing microtubule structure at the EM level. Because negative staining involves deposition of heavy atom stains, structural artifacts such as flattening of the cylindrical microtubule and opening up of microtubules into flat sheets are common. Negative staining is very useful because of its ease, rapidity and lack of requirement for specialized equipment other than that found in a regular EM facility. - [Read Negative Stain Electron Microscopy of Microtubules Protocol]
Tubulin is polymerized into microtubules by incubating tubulin at 37°C with GTP. A nucleation seed is added when the purpose is to assay microtubule elongation. Tubulin can also be polymerized for the purposes of recycling the tubulin or labeling the microtubules with fluorescently labeled tubulin. Based on the protocol by Timothy Mitchison of Harvard University.
In Vitro Translated Xenopus Mos Kinase Assay Protocol. In response to progesterone, immature Xenopus oocytes mature to eggs that can be fertilized. The Mos protein kinase is essential for oocyte maturation, most likely due to its ability to activate the MAP kinase cascade. This MAP kinase cascade eventually leads to the activation of Cdc2/cyclin B and entry into M phase. In this protocol, tagged Mos kinase is translated in vitro, immunopurified, and used in a kinase assay.