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A New C-Terminal GST Vector for Protein Production in S. pombe

...new pESP-3 vector, which can beused for C-terminal fusion with glutathione-S-transferase (GST) and for p...pombe.After expression and purification of the GST fusion protein using the ESP yeast protein expression and purification system, the GST tag can be remov...

New Mammalian Two-Hybrid System Detects Protein-Protein Interactions

...he protein of interest, or bait, is expressed as a fusion protein with the GAL4 DNA binding domain, .... The transactivating potential of the GAL4 BD-p65 fusion proteins was tested by cotransfection with a luciferase reporter construct that cont...

Assess the In Vivo Activation of Signal Transduction Pathways with PathDetect Reporting Systems

...e PathDetect trans-reportingsystems, with specific fusion trans-activators, assess the activation ofspecific...ncludes the following plasmids: a pathway-specific fusion trans-activator plasmid, which is an in-frame fusion of the activation domain of a specific ...

An Epitope Tagging Vector for Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells

...ntibodies. The epitope tagging technique involves fusion of a protein of interest to apeptide-epitope that ...able antibody. In thistechnique, expression of the fusion protein is monitored using a tag-specificantibody, allowing a new protein to be studied without gene...

Antibodies for Studying NMDA Receptor Protein Expression and Synapse-Specific Immunolabeling

...ions. These antibodies were raised against fusion proteins representing selected regions of the NR2A...ns Antibodies raised against specific peptides or fusion proteins can be used tospecifically target receptor protein subunits and to localize, quantify andch...

High-Level Expression of Peanut Allergens Affected by Rare Codon Usage

...series (Qiagen) to produce (His) 6 -tagged fusion proteins in E. coli M15 cells. In Figure ... responsive promoter to produce(His) 10 -tagged fusion proteins. Two E. coli strains weretransformed with this plasmid and selected on LB broth supplemente...

Versatile Vectors for Ponasterone A- Inducible Control of Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells

...ticoid receptor (GR). 3 The GR-EcR (GEcR) fusion protein retains the ability to dimerize wi...t amino acid FLAG tag is positioned for C-terminal fusion tothe protein of interest. Therefore, the induction of FLAG fusion proteins can bemonitored by Weste...

Simple, Sensitive, and Rapid Detection of FLAG -Tagged Fusion Proteins

...tect as little as 10 ng/ml ofexpressed FLAG-tagged fusion protein in just 10 minutes. Epitope-tagging techn...specific antibody is usedto target and analyze the fusion protein within the cell, without making aspecific antibody to each new protein under study. 1 Epi...

Safe Production of High-Titer Retrovirus

...th four aims in mind: High Titer: MMLV gag-pol fusion protein and each of the envelope proteins are expressed at sufficiently high levels to allow the production of viral supernatants with titers greater than or equal to 10 7 cfu/ml following transient transfection. Safety: Because there is...

New Mammalian Expression Vectors Employ Stable, High-Level Fluorescence Humanized Renilla GFP Reporter

... new Vitality phrGFP-C and phrGFP-N1 protein fusion vectors, like the original Vitality pIRES-...ected visually, and the FLAG- or HA-tagged fusion product is easily detected by Western blot analysis. We used a Vitality bicistronic v...

New Yeast Cloning System for Producing Proteins with Native Amino Acid Sequences

...xpression andsingle-column purification of the GST fusion protein, the purification tag canbe removed with e...duct. The yields for GST-Elk1 and GST-Krs2 fusion proteins were relatively low, approximately 1 mg or less per liter, while the GST-MEK1 WT f...

Optimizing Transfection Conditions for Studying Signal Transduction Pathways

... PathDetect trans-reporting systems include unique fusion trans-activatorplasmids, a reporter plasmid that e...iferase gene, andpositive control plasmids. 1 The fusion trans-activatorplasmids express pathway-specific trans-activator proteins that consistof the yeast G...

Production of Full-Length, Biologically Active MEK1WT and MEK1CA

...ribe theexpression of MEK1 WT and MEK1 CA as GST fusion proteins in Schizosaccharomyces pombe using the ESP expression andpurification system. 9 We show that full-length GST-MEK1 WT and GST-MEK1 CA can be produced in yeast and purified by GST affinitychromatography and that the recombinant MEKs pro...

High-Efficiency Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Large Plasmid Vectors

...loney Murine Leukemia Virus (MMLV) gag-pol fusion protein. QuikChange reactions were performed with components of the standard kit or the QuikChange XL kit. Electrophoresis of Dpn I-digested reaction products showed that bands of the appropriate size (10.1-kb) were only evide...

High-Level Protein Expression, One-Column Purification, and FLAG Epitope Tagging in E. coli

...ion of the FLAG epitope ll ll as an N-terminal fusion with the protein of interest. The FLAGepitope is u... the availability of expression vectors that allow fusion of theprotein coding sequence of interest to short peptide sequences, or largerproteins, enabling th...

Stable HeLa Luciferase Reporter Cell Lines Expressing GAL4 Fusion Transactivators

...pression of the GAL4-CREB, GAL4-Elk1, or GAL4-cJun fusion proteins,respectively. They also contain the firef...n plasmid. When activatedby phosphorylation, these fusion proteins bind to the promoter and induceluciferase expression. Therefore, luciferase activity in sta...

A New Lambda Vector for Mammalian Expression

...yotic blue/white color screening and b-gal fusion protein expression no yes no yes contains excisable phagemid yes yes yes yes ant...

Transfection of Green Fluorescent Protein into Human Adrenalcarcinoma Cells

...onvenient restriction sites in these vectors allow fusion of aprotein of interest to either the amino- or ca...erogeneous subcellular localization of some of our fusion proteins inthe same set of transfected cells. Presumably, this is due to varying levels ofexpression...

Yeast Protein Production System Features High Yields and One-Step Purification

...ystem expresses a protein ofinterest in yeast as a fusion protein with GST. The fusion protein is thenpurified using glutathione-agarose beads, and the GST tag can be removed fromthe prot...

Efficient Cleavage of Fusion Proteins to Yield Native Amino Termini

...oxy terminus of its recognition target.Cleavage of fusion proteins that contain the enterokinase (EK) recogn...rminalpolypeptide of interest results in Cterminal fusion partners that have noextraneous amino acids derived from the cleavage site. Thus, recombinantprotein...

Expression and Purification of Recombinant Proteins That Have Native Amino Acid Sequence

...s of the inserted polypeptidesequence, cleavage of fusion proteins produced in the pCAL-n-EK vector yieldsthe desired fusion partner free of any extraneous amino acids derived from thefusion tag. Therefore, cleavage results i...

The GeneZoo or the GeneJungle?

... has been done to minimize artifacts such as fusion inserts and genomic DNA inserts ( Table 1 ). Moreover the cDNAs have been highly normalized, yielding a very low level of clone redundancy. We have systematically sequenced the 3 ends of our clones and analyzed the resulting seque...

Highly Active and Removable AffinityTagged Lambda Phosphatase

...ity proteinphosphatase that has been produced as a fusion to Stratagene's novel affinitytag, the calmodulinb...sphatasegene was cloned into the pCALn vector as a fusion to an affinity tag, thecalmodulinbinding peptide (CBP). 5 The tag simplifies purification ofthe enz...

TKB1 Cells Identify Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Interacting Proteins

...parental RTK-deficient BL21 cells, and the fusion proteins were induced with IPTG, which is also cap...n a membrane proximal to distal fashion. Three GST fusion proteins were constructed to individually contain phosphorylation sites Y1201, Y1226/7, ...

In Vivo Signal Transduction Pathway Reporting Systems

...leading to the activation of these kinases. When a fusion activatorplasmid, reporter plasmid and uncharacter... pathways. The PathDetect systems include a fusion trans-activator expression vector ( figure 1 , panel A) specific for the designated ...

Improved Vectors for PathDetect Trans-Reporting Systems

...e cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter for expression of fusion proteins ina wide variety of cell lines and the ne...ct reporting systemincludes (1) a pathway-specific fusion trans-activator plasmid, which isan in-frame fusion of an activation domain and the DNA binding doma...

Mammalian and Bacterial Expression in One Vector

...cated downstream ofthe cloning site. The 4-kDa CBP fusion tag, expressed on the C-terminus of theprotein, ca...he fusionprotein using Stratagenes Affinity CBP fusion detection kit and Calmodulin Affinity Resin, respectively. The newpDual expression vector is offered...

Sequence-Validated and Expression-Tested Human cDNA in a Dual Expression Vector

... and Purification Tags All clones express a fusion protein consisting of the protein encoded ...permits quick and easy purification of the fusion protein from bacterial cells. 5 Constitutive High-Level Mammalian Expression The GeneConnection c...

New Fusion Trans-Activator Plasmids for Studying Signal Transduction Pathways

...athDetect trans-reporting systems include a unique fusion trans-activatorplasmid that expresses pathway-spec...o facilitate the construction and expressionof new fusion trans-activator proteins, Stratagene has designed the newpFA-CMV plasmid for expressing the activati...

Principles and applications of electrical cell fusion

...AG Significance of cell fusion Electrical cell fusion is an essential step in some of the most innovative methods in modern biology, such as the p...

Genetic Reporter Systems

...one cell, or the location of two different fusion proteins in one cell. Other variations of GFP are particularly designed for expression in mammalian cells or have up to a 35-fold higher fluorescence. With the aid of a GFP system with a drastically reduced half-life, dynamic ...

Principles and applications of electrical cell fusion

...AG Significance of cell fusion Electrical cell fusion is an essential step in some of the most innovative methods in modern biology, such as the p...

Genetic Reporter Systems

...one cell, or the location of two different fusion proteins in one cell. Other variations of GFP are particularly designed for expression in mammalian cells or have up to a 35-fold higher fluorescence. With the aid of a GFP system with a drastically reduced half-life, dynamic ...

Optimizing electroporation parameters

... to the electrical field. This may lead to cell fusion and cause the transfection rate to decrease. However, using a cell density of 6 cells/ml should have no negative effect on the transfection rate....

Transfection Reagent Selector Kit Handbook

... expression, such as localization studies of fusion proteins within cells. References Tang, M.X., Redemann, C.T., and Szoka, Jr F.C. (1996) In vitro gene delivery by degraded polyamidoamine dendrimers. Bioconjugate Chem. 7, ...

Double-Affinity Purification of GST-His Tagged Proteins Using Vivapure 8-to-96 Well Cobalt-Chelate Kit

...amination, even though degradation products of the fusion proteins are often co-purified. A combined, two-st...ication step exploited the GST-tag to separate the fusion protein from the bacterial proteins. The eluate was directly digested in the presence of tobacco etc...

Superior Gene Silencing Using Adenoviral Vectors

...referentially suppressed expression of the fusion construct containing that allele (Atx-Q28-GFP, Figure 3A). Conversely, AdC10i preferentially suppressed expression of the mutant allele construct (Atx-Q166, Figure 3A). Finally, these two adenoviral vectors were used to infect...

A Rapid Method for the Purification of Analytical Grade Proteins From Plants Using Preparative SDS-PAGE and Preparative IEF

...bed with antibody developed to tobacco BiP fusion protein (TOBBLP4, gift from Dr. J. Denecke). 3 Preparative Isoelectric Focusing Fractions 35, 36, and 37 from the Model 491 Prep Cell run were pooled and precipitated with 80% AS. The resulting 80% AS pellet was res...

Preparative SDS-PAGE Electrophoresis of a Recombinant Epstein-Barr Virus Encoded Protein and Its Application in Serodiagnostic Test Systems, Rev C

...sion of a particular viral protein as DHFR fusion protein in Escherichia coli, we purified the recom...s system). The recombinant p23-DHFR fusion protein was expressed at a high level (constituting up to 50% of the total cellular protein)...

Electrotransformation of E. coli With M13 DNA

... blue/white selection process afforded by the LacZ fusion cloning scheme allows easy detection of recombinant phage over background. During the process of evaluating and optimizing different techniques of transforming E. coli with M13 DNA, including conventional chemical methods ...

A Rapid Method for the Purification of Analytical Grade Proteins From Plants Using Preparative SDS-PAGE and Preparative IEF

...bed with antibody developed to tobacco BiP fusion protein (TOBBLP4, gift from Dr. J. Denecke). 3 Preparative Isoelectric Focusing Fractions 35, 36, and 37 from the Model 491 Prep Cell run were pooled and precipitated with 80% AS. The resulting 80% AS pellet was resuspended...

Optimization of Biolistic Transformation Using the Helium-Driven PDS-1000/He System

...ronidase as a sensitive and versatile gene fusion marker in higher plants, EMBO J., 6 , 3901-3907 (1987). Johnston, S. A., Anziano, P. Q., Shark, K., Sanford, J. C. and Butow, R. A., Mitochondrial transformation in yeast by bombardment with microprojectiles, Science, ...

siRNA screening of the cell cycle with two dynamic GFP sensors (from Discovery Matters Issue 1, July 2005)

...to S phase transition via translocation of an EGFP fusion protein incorporating the phosphorylation-dependen...ization sequence (NLS) within the PSLD retains the fusion protein within the nuclei of G1 cells. Phosphorylation of serine 967 within the PSLD by CDK2/cyclin...

Performance of Ad-A-Gene EGFP-Glucocorticoid Receptor (EGFP-GCCR): an adenoviral vector gene delivery system

...Quantitation of the EGFP signal from the EGFP-GCCR fusion protein within the cells when exposed to chemical ...as has been noted before (2). Use of the EGFP-GCCR fusion protein enables facile identification of this phenomenon. <P > Function of gene sensors: A...

Performance of Ad-A-Gene EGFP-MAPKAP-k2: an adenoviral vector gene delivery system

...EGFPMAPKAP-k2 vector. The transduced cells produce fusion proteins that function in a pharmacologically relevant manner. The results with MCF7 cells compare favorably to those obtained from transduced HeLa cells shown in Figure 1. The data for HeLa and MCF7 cells also illustrate key differences between tran...

Use of BRET2 luminescence cell-based assays with LEADseeker Multimodality Imaging System

...#62;2.4.3 C1–C3: green cap [GFP 2 - Rluc(h) fusion transfected cells - positive BRET control] &...#62;2.5.3 C4–C6: green cap [GFP 2 - Rluc(h) fusion transfected cells - positive BRET control] <P >2.6 Dispense 25 µl 10 µM DeepBlue...

Laser Capture Microdissection of Cells Labeled with Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein

... tag at the c-terminus of an endogenous protein (a fusion protein) or as a free peptide in the cytoplasm. Owing to the high solubility of EGFP when expressed as a free protein, fixation is required to prevent leaching of the protein and retain fluorescence after cryosectioning. Recently, chromosomal express...

A Mix-and-Read Cell-Based Assay for Hybridoma Screening Using the FMAT 8100 HTS System

...ling parallel multi-specificity screening at the fusion plate stage. In contrast, the cell ELISA typically requires 50 to 100 L of hybridoma supernatant. In addition, the FMAT system allows for multiplexed assays based on bead size or dye color, enabling more than one assay to be performed in a sing...

Monitoring fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between GFP fusions in lysates of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae using the Varian Cary Eclipse

...ght of 360nm, and emission spectra for the fusion protein were recorded from the range 400550nm. Fur... Results Emission spectra of the BFP-GFP fusion protein following 360nm excitation are shown in Figure 3. An initial spectrum was taken at t...

Measurement of proteasome inhibition in live cells in Molecular Devices microplate fluorometers

...d to a specific degradation motif that targets the fusion for removal by the proteasome. Under normal conditions, the fluorescence of the cells is very low because ZsProSensor-1 protein is rapidly degraded. However, under conditions where proteasome activity is inhibited, fluorescence increases as th...

Mobile Phase Optimization for the Analysis of an Antibody-Based Fusion Protein and Aggregates using a TSKgel Super SW3000 Size-Exclusion Column

...d further improvement in the peak shape of fusion protein 1 and associated aggregate species. Additionally, the re-development increased the methods' robustness allowing for a substantial decrease in column "break-in" time from two weeks to 4 days as well as better peak area ...

Glossary for The BioPharm Guide to Fermentation and Cell Culture

...fy aggregate that resembles a woolly cloud. fusion partner When making a small protein or peptide in... of stable expression. The resulting fusion protein must be cleaved (chemically or enzymatically broken) to yield the desired prot...

Flying to the moon? Take Wisconsin tech along

... researching the mining of Helium-3 , a potential fusion energy source, on the moon's surface. Harrison (J...nd a tireless advocate for development of Helium-3 fusion power. Some researchers see Helium-3 as the perfect fuel source. It is incredibly potent, non-pollu...

UW-Madison professor to coordinate U.S. fusion science effort

...ll be the liaison between United States plasma and fusion science researchers and a group that is building the U.S. share of ITER , an international fusion experiment that eventually could lead to an abundant, economical and environmentally benign energy s...

UW biotech program launches graduates into evolving industry (part 1)

... leaders and advocates for biotechnology through a fusion of science, business and law, says Richard L. Moss, executive director of the M.S. in Biotechnology Program and chair of the Department of Physiology, where he also serves as a professor. Once the idea for this program began to develop, the tremendou...

Oshkosh's robotic truck qualifies for DARPA challenge

...off-road capability, a really rugged design, and a fusion of software, laser, and synthetic vision systems," said Don Verhoff, Oshkosh's executive vice president of technology. "We're confident in our technology and hopeful about our chances to win." The DARPA Grand Challenge is sponsored by the U.S. Depar...

A week in UW research: fusion, racing and sleep

...le to make your head spin, addressed shockwaves in fusion reactors with soap bubbles, and found losing sleep...r muffling. Photo courtesy of UW-Madison. Nuclear fusion smacking hydrogen isotopes together with enough force to fuse them together is hard enough. Gettin...

UWs Tech Students Gain MBA Business Expertise

...place to go if youre trying to find a professional fusion of science and management. SMILES faculty members are actively involved with the recently created Master of Science in Biotechnology program at UW-Madison, creating additional links with industry and science leaders. The M.S. program includes employ...

Cray Rides Again

...ed to northwest Wisconsin for 30 years.) X1 is a fusion of the vector-based computing concept hatched by the companys late genius founder, Seymour Cray, and Crays T3E massively parallel processing (MPP) system. Skipping the mind-bending technical details, in melding the two concepts, Cray has stuffed the ...
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