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Live-cell assay to detect antigen-specific CD4+ T-cell responses by CD154 expression pp1 - 6

Pratip K Chattopadhyay, Joanne Yu & Mario Roederer

Published online: 12 May 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.1


T-maze alternation in the rodent pp7 - 12

Robert M J Deacon & J Nicholas P Rawlins

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.2

See also: Protocol by Deacon | Protocol by Deacon | Protocol by Deacon


Appetitive position discrimination in the T-maze pp13 - 15

Robert M J Deacon

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.3

See also: Protocol by Deacon & Rawlins | Protocol by Deacon | Protocol by Deacon


Tricine–SDS-PAGE pp16 - 22

Hermann Schägger

Published online: 12 May 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.4

See also: Protocol by Wittig et al.


The comet assay: a method to measure DNA damage in individual cells pp23 - 29

Peggy L Olive & Judit P Banáth

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.5

See also: Protocol by van Genderen et al.



In-gel stable isotope labeling for relative quantification using mass spectrometry pp46 - 51

John M Asara, Xiang Zhang, Bin Zheng, Lisa A Maroney, Heather R Christofk, Ning Wu & Lewis C Cantley

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.7

See also: Protocol by Tanner et al. | Protocol by Shiio & Aebersold | Protocol by Burlina et al. | Protocol by Samyn et al.


Quantification of DNA methylation in electrofluidics chips (Bio-COBRA) pp52 - 58

Romulo M Brena, Herbert Auer, Karl Kornacker & Christoph Plass

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.8


Biomolecular screening of formylpeptide receptor ligands with a sensitive, quantitative, high-throughput flow cytometry platform pp59 - 66

Bruce S Edwards, Susan M Young, Tudor I Oprea, Cristian G Bologa, Eric R Prossnitz & Larry A Sklar

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.9


Unrestrictive identification of post-translational modifications through peptide mass spectrometry pp67 - 72

Stephen Tanner, Pavel A Pevzner & Vineet Bafna

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.10


Labeling of immune cells for in vivo imaging using magnetofluorescent nanoparticles pp73 - 79

Mikael J Pittet, Filip K Swirski, Frederick Reynolds, Lee Josephson & Ralph Weissleder

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.11


Cysteine engineering of polyproteins for single-molecule force spectroscopy pp80 - 84

Hendrik Dietz, Morten Bertz, Michael Schlierf, Felix Berkemeier, Thomas Bornschlögl, Jan Philipp Junker & Matthias Rief

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.12


The gelatin sponge–chorioallantoic membrane assay pp85 - 91

Domenico Ribatti, Beatrice Nico, Angelo Vacca & Marco Presta

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.13


Reverse MAPPIT detects disruptors of protein-protein interactions in human cells pp92 - 97

Irma Lemmens, Sam Lievens, Sven Eyckerman & Jan Tavernier

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.14


Immunocytochemical techniques for whole-mount in situ protein localization in plants pp98 - 103

Michael Sauer, Tomasz Paciorek, Eva Benková & Jir caroní Friml

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.15

See also: Protocol by Paciorek et al.


Immunocytochemical technique for protein localization in sections of plant tissues pp104 - 107

Tomasz Paciorek, Michael Sauer, Jozef Balla, Justyna Winiewska & Jir caroní Friml

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.16

See also: Protocol by Sauer et al.


Radiolabeling of HYNIC–annexin V with technetium-99m for in vivo imaging of apoptosis pp108 - 110

Francis G Blankenberg, Jean-Luc Vanderheyden, H William Strauss & Jonathan F Tait

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.17

See also: Protocol by Cooper et al.


Azido ruthenium: a new photoreactive probe for calcium-binding proteins pp111 - 117

Adrian Israelson, Noam Zilberberg & Varda Shoshan-Barmatz

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.18

See also: Protocol by Tovey et al.


Burrowing in rodents: a sensitive method for detecting behavioral dysfunction pp118 - 121

Robert M J Deacon

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.19

See also: Protocol by Deacon & Rawlins | Protocol by Deacon | Protocol by Deacon


Digging and marble burying in mice: simple methods for in vivo identification of biological impacts pp122 - 124

Robert M J Deacon

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.20

See also: Protocol by Deacon & Rawlins | Protocol by Deacon | Protocol by Deacon


Production of cloned mice by somatic cellnuclear transfer pp125 - 138

Satoshi Kishigami, Sayaka Wakayama, Nguyen Van Thuan, Hiroshi Ohta, Eiji Mizutani, Takafusa Hikichi, Hong-Thuy Bui, Sebastian Balbach, Atsuo Ogura, Michele Boiani & Teruhiko Wakayama

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.21

See also: Protocol by Singer et al.


Quantitative proteome analysis using isotope-coded affinity tags and mass spectrometry pp139 - 145

Yuzuru Shiio & Ruedi Aebersold

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.22

See also: Protocol by Asara et al. | Protocol by Tanner et al. | Protocol by Burlina et al. | Protocol by Samyn et al.


In-cell NMR for protein-protein interactions (STINT-NMR) pp146 - 152

David S Burz, Kaushik Dutta, David Cowburn & Alexander Shekhtman

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.23


mini-Tn7 insertion in bacteria with single attTn7 sites: example Pseudomonas aeruginosa pp153 - 161

Kyoung-Hee Choi & Herbert P Schweizer

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.24

See also: Protocol by Choi et al. | Protocol by Choi & Schweizer


mini-Tn7 insertion in bacteria with multiple glmS-linked attTn7 sites: example Burkholderia mallei ATCC 23344 pp162 - 169

Kyoung-Hee Choi, David DeShazer & Herbert P Schweizer

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.25

See also: Protocol by Choi & Schweizer | Protocol by Choi & Schweizer


mini-Tn7 insertion in bacteria with secondary, non-glmS-linked attTn7 sites: example Proteus mirabilis HI4320 pp170 - 178

Kyoung-Hee Choi & Herbert P Schweizer

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.26

See also: Protocol by Choi & Schweizer | Protocol by Choi et al.


Protocol for the fast chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) method pp179 - 185

Joel D Nelson, Oleg Denisenko & Karol Bomsztyk

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.27

See also: Protocol by Meng & Wolfe | Protocol by Hallikas & Taipale | Protocol by Palin et al.


Isothermal titration calorimetry to determine association constants for high-affinity ligands pp186 - 191

Adrian Velazquez-Campoy & Ernesto Freire

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.28


In vivo protein biotinylation and sample preparation for the proteomic identification of organ- and disease-specific antigens accessible from the vasculature pp192 - 199

Christoph Roesli, Dario Neri & Jascha-N Rybak

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.29


A direct approach to quantification of the cellular uptake of cell-penetrating peptides using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry pp200 - 205

Fabienne Burlina, Sandrine Sagan, Gérard Bolbach & Gérard Chassaing

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.30

See also: Protocol by Asara et al. | Protocol by Shiio & Aebersold | Protocol by Samyn et al.


Reconstruction of human mammary tissues in a mouse model pp206 - 214

David A Proia & Charlotte Kuperwasser

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.31


High-throughput assay for determining specificity and affinity of protein-DNA binding interactions pp215 - 222

Outi Hallikas & Jussi Taipale

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.33

See also: Protocol by Palin et al. | Protocol by Meng & Wolfe | Protocol by Nelson et al.


One-step analysis of protein complexes in microliters of cell lysate using indirect immunolabeling & fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy pp223 - 229

Oda Stoevesandt & Roland Brock

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.34


The counting Stroop: a cognitive interference task pp230 - 233

George Bush, Paul J Whalen, Lisa M Shin & Scott L Rauch

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.35

See also: Protocol by Whalen et al. | Protocol by Zelazo | Protocol by Bush & Shin


Design and cloning of lentiviral vectors expressing small interfering RNAs pp234 - 240

Gustavo Tiscornia, Oded Singer & Inder M Verma

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.36

See also: Protocol by Tiscornia et al. | Protocol by Singer et al.


Production and purification of lentiviral vectors pp241 - 245

Gustavo Tiscornia, Oded Singer & Inder M Verma

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.37

See also: Protocol by Tiscornia et al. | Protocol by Singer et al.


Preparation of aptamer-linked gold nanoparticle purple aggregates for colorimetric sensing of analytes pp246 - 252

Juewen Liu & Yi Lu

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.38


Colony filtration blotting for screening soluble expression in Escherichia coli pp253 - 258

Sue-Li Dahlroth, Pär Nordlund & Tobias Cornvik

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.39


Rapid functional assays of intracellular Ca2+ channels pp259 - 263

Stephen C Tovey, Yi Sun & Colin W Taylor

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.40

See also: Protocol by Israelson et al.


COBRA: combined binary ratio labeling of nucleic-acid probes for multi-color fluorescence in situ hybridization karyotyping pp264 - 275

Karoly Szuhai & Hans J Tanke

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.41


The fluorescence protease protection (FPP) assay to determine protein localization and membrane topology pp276 - 279

Holger Lorenz, Dale W Hailey, Christian Wunder & Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.42


Site-specific protein labeling by Sfp phosphopantetheinyl transferase pp280 - 285

Jun Yin, Alison J Lin, David E Golan & Christopher T Walsh

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.43


Rapid generation of knockdown transgenic mice by silencing lentiviral vectors pp286 - 292

Oded Singer, Gustavo Tiscornia, Masahito Ikawa & Inder M Verma

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.44

See also: Protocol by Tiscornia et al. | Protocol by Tiscornia et al.


The emotional counting Stroop: a task for assessing emotional interference during brain imaging pp293 - 296

Paul J Whalen, George Bush, Lisa M Shin & Scott L Rauch

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.45

See also: Protocol by Bush et al. | Protocol by Zelazo | Protocol by Bush & Shin


The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS): a method of assessing executive function in children pp297 - 301

Philip David Zelazo

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.46

See also: Protocol by Bush et al. | Protocol by Whalen et al. | Protocol by Bush & Shin


RIP-Chip: the isolation and identification of mRNAs, microRNAs and protein components of ribonucleoprotein complexes from cell extracts pp302 - 307

Jack D Keene, Jordan M Komisarow & Matthew B Friedersdorf

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.47


The Multi-Source Interference Task: an fMRI task that reliably activates the cingulo-frontal-parietal cognitive/attention network pp308 - 313

George Bush & Lisa M Shin

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.48

See also: Protocol by Bush et al. | Protocol by Whalen et al. | Protocol by Zelazo


Conjugation of chelating agents to proteins and radiolabeling with trivalent metallic isotopes pp314 - 317

Maggie S Cooper, Emmanuelle Sabbah & Stephen J Mather

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.49

See also: Protocol by Blankenberg et al.


A method for C-terminal sequence analysis in the proteomic era (proteins cleaved with cyanogen bromide) pp318 - 323

Bart Samyn, Kjell Sergeant & Jozef Van Beeumen

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.50

See also: Protocol by Asara et al. | Protocol by Tanner et al. | Protocol by Shiio & Aebersold


The bio-barcode assay for the detection of protein and nucleic acid targets using DTT-induced ligand exchange pp324 - 336

Haley D Hill & Chad A Mirkin

Published online: 29 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.51

See also: Protocol by Liu & Lu


Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) for the real-time detection of protein-protein interactions pp337 - 345

Kevin D G Pfleger, Ruth M Seeber & Karin A Eidne

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.52


High-efficiency transfection and drug selection of genetically transformed blood stages of the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei pp346 - 356

Chris J Janse, Jai Ramesar & Andrew P Waters

Published online: 29 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.53


Physiological 3D tissue model of the airway wall and mucosa pp357 - 362

Melanie M Choe, Alice A Tomei & Melody A Swartz

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.54


In vitro measurement of cell death with the annexin A5 affinity assay pp363 - 367

Hugo van Genderen, Heidi Kenis, Petra Lux, Lisette Ungeth, Cecile Maassen, Niko Deckers, Jagat Narula, Leo Hofstra & Chris Reutelingsperger

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.55

See also: Protocol by Olive & Banáth | Protocol by Blankenberg et al.


Locating potential enhancer elements by comparative genomics using the EEL software pp368 - 374

Kimmo Palin, Jussi Taipale & Esko Ukkonen

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.56

See also: Protocol by Hallikas & Taipale | Protocol by Meng & Wolfe | Protocol by Nelson et al.


Determining protein kinase substrate specificity by parallel solution-phase assay of large numbers of peptide substrates pp375 - 379

Benjamin E. Turk, Jessica E. Hutti & Lewis C. Cantley

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.57


Targeted bulk-loading of fluorescent indicators for two-photon brain imaging in vivo pp380 - 386

Olga Garaschuk, Ruxandra-Iulia Milos & Arthur Konnerth

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.58


Gas chromatography mass spectrometry–based metabolite profiling in plants pp387 - 396

Jan Lisec, Nicolas Schauer, Joachim Kopka, Lothar Willmitzer & Alisdair R Fernie

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.59


Glycome mapping on DNA sequencing equipment pp397 - 405

Wouter Laroy, Roland Contreras & Nico Callewaert

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.60


Generation of T-cell receptor retrogenic mice pp406 - 417

Jeff Holst, Andrea L Szymczak-Workman, Kate M Vignali, Amanda R Burton, Creg J Workman & Dario A A Vignali

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.61


Blue native PAGE pp418 - 428

Ilka Wittig, Hans-Peter Braun & Hermann Schägger

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.62

See also: Protocol by Schägger


In vivo multimodal imaging of transplanted pancreatic islets pp429 - 435

Zdravka Medarova, Natalia V Evgenov, Guangping Dai, Susan Bonner-Weir & Anna Moore

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.63


Silencing gene expression by targeting chromosomal DNA with antigene peptide nucleic acids and duplex RNAs pp436 - 443

Bethany A Janowski, Jiaxin Hu & David R Corey

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.64


Normal human keratinocyte assay to predict the human irritancy response pp444 - 451

Richard Clothier & Nancy Khammo

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.65


The 'reverse capture' autoantibody microarray:a native antigen-based platform for autoantibody profiling pp452 - 460

Joshua R Ehrlich, Shuzhen Qin & Brian C-S Liu

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.66


Photoconductive stimulation of neurons cultured on silicon wafers pp461 - 467

Yukiko Goda & Michael A Colicos

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.67


Construction of semi-randomized gene libraries with weighted oligonucleotide synthesis and PCR pp468 - 475

Mark Isalan

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.68


Real-time in vivo imaging of transgenic bioluminescent blood stages of rodent malaria parasites in mice pp476 - 485

Blandine Franke-Fayard, Andrew P Waters & Chris J Janse

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.69


A method for parental RNA interference in the wasp Nasonia vitripennis pp486 - 494

Jeremy A Lynch & Claude Desplan

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.70


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