LCM utilizes an infrared laser integrated into a standard microscope. A transparent cap is attached to a thermoplastic transparent membrane which lies directly on the surface of a routinely prepared tissue section on a glass slide. The investigator examines the tissue section microscopically and activates the laser when the desired cells underlie the target. This in turn activates the membrane with subsequent binding and procurement of the cells of interest. - [Read Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM)]
Protocol describes how to generate a plasmid construct (pBAIT) that expresses a target protein fused to the bacterial LexA protein. PBAIT is cotransformed into yeast with a lexAop-lacZ reporter plasmid carrying the bacterial lacZ gene under the control of the lexA operator. The recipient yeast strain contains a chromosomally integrated leu2 reporter gene, also under the control of the lexA operator. - [Read Two-hybrid Systems Stage 1: Characterization of a Bait-LexA Fusion Protein Protocol]