Description The Under-Agarose assay is a useful method for observing the response of a cell population to one or more chemoattractant sources. The behavior of individual migrating cells can be studied by modifying the assay for video micro...
Saturday, October 18, 2003 Description Many different molecules have been described to promote cell adhesion including several cell surface carbohydrate-binding proteins. Measuring cell adhesion in the convenient 96-well microtiter plate f...
Saturday, October 18, 2003 Description Tritiated thymidiene Uptake assay and MTT assay To study if modulation of apoptosis by CD40 ligation and TNFa activation is by induction of proliferation or inhibition of apoptosis, following assays w...
Friday, October 17, 2003 Description Annexin V Staining Protocol Procedure 1. Wash cells twice with cold PBS and then resuspend cells in 1X Binding Buffer at a concentration of ~1 x 10 6 cells/ml. 2. Transfer 100 l of the solution (~1 x 10...
Friday, October 17, 2003 Description Radioiodination of cell surface proteins Procedure 1. Wash cells at least three times with PBS and resuspend in 1 ml of PBS cntg. glucose at 0.5 - 2 x 107 cells/ml) in 15 ml conical tube, hold on ice 2....
Friday, October 17, 2003 Description Addition of oxidizing reagents (such as chloramine-T or peroxidase+H202) converts I- to I+ or I3-. This highly reactive molecule attacks o-position of tyrosine (or in some case, histidine is also labele...
Friday, October 17, 2003 Description In vitro Sphingomyelinase Assay Procedure Isolating cellular enzyme 1) Grow 5 x 108 cells under regular growth conditions. 2) Pellet cells and wash one time with ice cold PBS. 3) Resuspend pellet in 10...
Friday, October 17, 2003 Description Conjugation of Antibody to HRP Procedure A. Preparation of Thiolated Antibody 1. Concentrate the antibody to 5-7 mg/ml 2. Dissolve 10 mg of SATA in 1 ml DMF (SATA:DMF) 3. Add 3.0 ml SATA:DMF per mg of a...
Wednesday, October 08, 2003 Description Typical 5'-kinase labeling reactions included the DNA to be labeled, [[gamma]]-32-P-dATP, T4 polynucleotide kinase, and buffer (1). After incubation at 37degC, reactions are heat inactivated by incub...
Thursday, November 17, 2005 Description A method for preparing competent E. coli for transformation. The key advantage is that these cells can be kept for a week at 4 degrees Celsius. Procedure 1. Grow an overnight culture of E. coli XL-1...