Huong Le, Marcus Hinchcliffe, Bing Yu, Ronald J A Trent
{"title":"Computer-assisted reading of DNA sequences.","authors":"Huong Le, Marcus Hinchcliffe, Bing Yu, Ronald J A Trent","doi":"10.1007/978-1-60327-148-6_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-148-6_10","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>DNA sequencing is increasingly used in a range of medical activities involving DNA diagnostics and research. This is the result of improving technology and cheaper costs. Paradoxically, a greater demand for DNA sequencing has placed additional work on the laboratory because sequencing profiles must be checked visually despite the availability of informatics-based tools in interpreting DNA sequence traces. In this environment it is essential to have more sophisticated software that will allow the sites of known and unknown DNA variants to be quickly identified, as well as providing an objective assessment of quality for the DNA sequence generated. This chapter describes the Applied Biosystems SeqScape software program (version 2.5) and how it has assisted in the interpretation of DNA sequencing in a DNA diagnostic laboratory.</p>","PeriodicalId":18460,"journal":{"name":"Methods in molecular medicine","volume":"141 ","pages":"177-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-1-60327-148-6_10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27418340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three methods to assay inhibitors of ribosomal subunit assembly.","authors":"W Scott Champney","doi":"10.1007/978-1-59745-246-5_6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-246-5_6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The inhibition of bacterial ribosomal subunit formation is a novel target for translational inhibitors. Inhibition of subunit biogenesis has been shown to be equivalent to the inhibition of protein biosynthesis for many antibiotics. This chapter describes three methods for examining the inhibition of subunit formation in growing bacterial cells. The first method permits the determination of the IC50 value for inhibition of assembly and protein synthesis. The second is a pulse and chase labeling procedure to measure the kinetics of subunit formation. The third procedure allows an examination of ribosome reformation after antibiotic removal as a part of the post-antibiotic effect. Together these procedures give a description of the relative inhibitory effects of an antibiotic on translation and subunit formation.</p>","PeriodicalId":18460,"journal":{"name":"Methods in molecular medicine","volume":"142 ","pages":"63-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-1-59745-246-5_6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27404315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assays for the identification of inhibitors targeting specific translational steps.","authors":"Letizia Brandi, John Dresios, Claudio O Gualerzi","doi":"10.1007/978-1-59745-246-5_8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-246-5_8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While bacterial protein synthesis is the target of about half of the known antibiotics, the great structural-functional complexity of the translational machinery still offers remarkable opportunities for identifying novel and specific inhibitors of unexploited targets. We designed a knowledge-based in vitro translation assay to identify inhibitors selectively targeting the bacterial or the yeast translational apparatus, preferentially blocking the early steps of protein synthesis. Using a natural-like, \"universal\" model mRNA and cell-free extracts prepared from Eschericha coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and HeLa cells, we were able to translate, with comparable yields in the three systems, the immunogenic peptide encoded by this \"universal\" mRNA. The immuno-enzymatic quantification of the translated peptide in the presence of a potential inhibitor can identify a selective bacterial or fungal inhibitor inactive in the human system. When applied to the high-throughput screening (HTS) of a library of approximately 25,000 natural products, this assay led to the identification of two novel and specific inhibitors of bacterial translation.</p>","PeriodicalId":18460,"journal":{"name":"Methods in molecular medicine","volume":"142 ","pages":"87-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-1-59745-246-5_8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27404317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In situ Hybridization.","authors":"Kayhan T Nouri-Aria","doi":"10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_27","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hybridization is the formation of hybrid nucleic acid molecules with complementary nucleotide sequences in DNA:DNA, DNA:RNA, or RNA:RNA forms. In situ hybridization is a highly sensitive technique that allows detection and localization of specific DNA or RNA molecules in morphologically preserved isolated cells, histological tissue sections, or chromosome preparations. In situ hybridization has broad range of applications and has been used to (a) localize viral infection, (b) identify sites of gene expression, (c) analyze mRNA transcription and tissue distribution, and (d) map gene sequences in chromosomes. There are several advantages of the use of in situ hybridization including the fact that it can be applied to archival materials and frozen tissues and can be combined with immunohistochemistry to detect protein as well as mRNA of interest or phenotype of cells expressing the target genome, detecting more than one nucleic acid sequences using different labeling methods.The major steps involved in in situ hybridization are as follows: probe preparation and labeling, tissue fixation, permeabilization, hybridization, and signal detection and these are described in detail in this chapter.</p>","PeriodicalId":18460,"journal":{"name":"Methods in molecular medicine","volume":"138 ","pages":"331-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_27","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27522175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William P Stefura, J Darren Campbell, Renée Douville, Monique J Stinson, F Estelle Simons, Allan B Becker, Kent T HayGlass
{"title":"Ultrasensitive ELISA for measurement of human cytokine responses in primary culture.","authors":"William P Stefura, J Darren Campbell, Renée Douville, Monique J Stinson, F Estelle Simons, Allan B Becker, Kent T HayGlass","doi":"10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_10","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ELISAs offer excellent specificity and, once fully optimized, sensitivity that rivals that of bioassays. The major variables that need to be experimentally determined when developing an ELISA are the optimal number of fresh cells required per well, the optimal antigen concentrations for stimulation, period of culture, and the anticipated intensity of the response. In this chapter, we review the major factors to be considered in the development and application of ultrasensitive ELISAs to the analysis of human immune responses. We specify the conditions we have found to be optimal for quantifying a number of cytokines of demonstrated relevance to human immune regulation and discuss the major pitfalls inherent in this approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":18460,"journal":{"name":"Methods in molecular medicine","volume":"138 ","pages":"107-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27522381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monique Stinson, Renee Douville, Yuriy Lissitsyn, Melanie Blanchard, William Stefura, Estelle Simons, Allan Becker, Peter Nickerson, Kevin Coombs, Kent HayGlass
{"title":"Quantification of human chemokine production in TLR-stimulated and antigen-specific recall responses.","authors":"Monique Stinson, Renee Douville, Yuriy Lissitsyn, Melanie Blanchard, William Stefura, Estelle Simons, Allan Becker, Peter Nickerson, Kevin Coombs, Kent HayGlass","doi":"10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_11","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chemokines are primarily low molecular mass proteins that are produced and usually released by a wide variety of cell types. Differential chemokine responses can be excellent early markers of immune dysfunction, allowing clinical intervention prior to expression of full blown undesirable effector responses. Thus, assessment of the nature and intensity of Ag-dependent chemokine production provides a valuable tool for probing human immune regulation.Here, we provide detailed instructions on approaches we have developed to assess the nature and intensity of recall responses to a wide variety of exogenous and endogenous antigens capable of consistently stimulating chemokine responses by PBMC from adult and pediatric populations. This chapter is divided into two sections. The first is focused on culture techniques for eliciting antigen-driven chemokine responses for a panel of chemokines that are relevant to immune function. The second section details assay systems for their quantitative analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":18460,"journal":{"name":"Methods in molecular medicine","volume":"138 ","pages":"121-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27522382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Isolation, flow cytometric analysis, and suppression assay of CD4+ CD25+ T-regulatory cells.","authors":"Hayley Jeal","doi":"10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Allergy and asthma are characterized by airway hyperresponsiveness and chronic mucosal inflammation mediated by CD4+ Th2 lymphocytes and their cytokines. It is unclear why allergic individuals make a Th2-type T-cell response whereas other (non-allergic) individuals do not. Recently, attention has focused on regulatory mechanisms, such as T-regulatory cells, preventing IgE responses to allergens in nonatopic individuals. Regulatory CD4+CD25+ T cells have been described in both mice and humans. The suppressive phenotype of these cells has been associated with the expression of the forkhead transcription factor, Foxp3. It has been suggested that allergic disease may arise from an inappropriate balance between allergen activation of regulatory CD4+CD25+ T cells and effector Th2 cells or from the impairment in the suppressive activity of these so-called T-regulatory cells. The isolation of these T-regulatory cells is described in order to further our understanding of the role of these cells in allergic disease and asthma and allow us to design novel therapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":18460,"journal":{"name":"Methods in molecular medicine","volume":"138 ","pages":"85-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-1-59745-366-0_8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27524494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods to identify and characterize inhibitors of bacterial RNA polymerase.","authors":"A Simon Lynch, Qun Du","doi":"10.1007/978-1-59745-246-5_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-246-5_4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>RNA polymerase is essential to the viability of bacteria in all phases of growth and development and is a proven chemotherapeutic target as the cellular target of the rifamycin class of antibiotics. However, despite the characterization of multiple different classes of natural products that selectively target bacterial RNA polymerase, and the identification of a limited number of synthetic compound inhibitors, only agents of the rifamycin class have been developed and approved for human clinical use as antibiotics. Herein we describe a scintillation proximity assay (SPA) for identifying and characterizing inhibitors of bacterial RNA polymerases and that is applicable to de novo drug discovery programs through application of automated high-throughput screening methods. In addition, we describe gel electrophoresis-based methods that are applicable to the detailed characterization of inhibitors of transcriptional initiation or elongation by bacterial RNA polymerases.</p>","PeriodicalId":18460,"journal":{"name":"Methods in molecular medicine","volume":"142 ","pages":"37-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-1-59745-246-5_4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27404313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ben Crossett, Alistair V G Edwards, Melanie Y White, Stuart J Cordwell
{"title":"Statistical analysis of image data provided by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis for discovery proteomics.","authors":"Ben Crossett, Alistair V G Edwards, Melanie Y White, Stuart J Cordwell","doi":"10.1007/978-1-60327-148-6_15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-148-6_15","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Standardized methods for the solubilization of proteins prior to proteomics analyses incorporating two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) are essential for providing reproducible data that can be subjected to rigorous statistical interrogation for comparative studies investigating disease-genesis. In this chapter, we discuss the imaging and image analysis of proteins separated by 2-DE, in the context of determining protein abundance alterations related to a change in biochemical or biophysical conditions. We then describe the principles behind 2-DE gel statistical analysis, including subtraction of background noise, spot detection, gel matching, spot quantitation for data comparison, and statistical requirements to create meaningful gel data sets. We also emphasize the need to develop reproducible and robust protocols for protein sample preparation and 2-DE itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":18460,"journal":{"name":"Methods in molecular medicine","volume":"141 ","pages":"271-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-1-60327-148-6_15","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27417701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anassuya Ramachandran, Michael A Black, Andrew N Shelling, Donald R Love
{"title":"Microarrays--analysis of signaling pathways.","authors":"Anassuya Ramachandran, Michael A Black, Andrew N Shelling, Donald R Love","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microarrays provide a powerful means of analyzing the expression level of multiple transcripts in two sample populations. In this study, we have used microarray technology to identify genes that are differentially regulated in response to activin-treated ovarian cancer cells. We find a number of biologically relevant genes that are involved in regulating activin signaling and genes potentially contributing to activin-mediated growth arrest appear to be differentially regulated. Thus, microarrays are an important tool for dissecting gene expression changes in normal physiological processes and disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":18460,"journal":{"name":"Methods in molecular medicine","volume":"141 ","pages":"115-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27418336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}