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Differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells to insulin-producing cells pp495 - 507

Insa S Schroeder, Alexandra Rolletschek, Przemyslaw Blyszczuk, Gabriela Kania & Anna M Wobus

Published online: 29 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.71


Rational design and in vitro and in vivo delivery of Dicer substrate siRNA pp508 - 517

Mohammed Amarzguioui, Patric Lundberg, Edouard Cantin, James Hagstrom, Mark A Behlke & John J Rossi

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.72


Southern blotting pp518 - 525

Ed Southern

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.73


Localized transfection with magnetic beads coated with PCR products and other nucleic acids pp526 - 531

Maria Isabel Santori, Cayetano Gonzalez, Luis Serrano & Mark Isalan

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.74


Blind patch clamp recordings in embryonic and adult mammalian brain slices pp532 - 542

David R Castañeda-Castellanos, Alexander C Flint & Arnold R Kriegstein

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.75

See also: Protocol by Komai et al.


A lectin microarray approach for the rapid analysis of bacterial glycans pp543 - 549

Ku-Lung Hsu & Lara K Mahal

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.76


A detergent-based assay for the detection of promiscuous inhibitors pp550 - 553

Brian Y Feng & Brian K Shoichet

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.77


An autonomous fueled machine that replicates catalytic nucleic acid templates for the amplified optical analysis of DNA pp554 - 558

Yossi Weizmann, Zoya Cheglakov, Valeri Pavlov & Itamar Willner

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.78


Analysis of locomotor activity rhythms in Drosophila pp559 - 568

Ezio Rosato & Charalambos P Kyriacou

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.79


A microarray-based protocol for monitoring the growth of yeast overexpression strains pp569 - 576

Rebecca A Butcher & Stuart L Schreiber

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.80


Immunoprecipitation of mRNA-protein complexes pp577 - 580

Tiina Peritz, Fanyi Zeng, Theresa J Kannanayakal, Kalle Kilk, Emelía Eiríksdóttir, Ulo Langel & James Eberwine

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.82

See also: Protocol by Zeng et al. | Protocol by Windbichler & Schroeder


The single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate–phenol–chloroform extraction: twenty-something years on pp581 - 585

Piotr Chomczynski & Nicoletta Sacchi

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.83


Laser-capture microdissection pp586 - 603

Virginia Espina, Julia D Wulfkuhle, Valerie S Calvert, Amy VanMeter, Weidong Zhou, George Coukos, David H Geho, Emanuel F Petricoin, III & Lance A Liotta

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.85


Tagging recombinant proteins with a Sel-tag for purification, labeling with electrophilic compounds or radiolabeling with 11C pp604 - 613

Qing Cheng, Sharon Stone-Elander & Elias S J Arnér

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.87

See also: Protocol by Itsenko et al.


Selection by flow-sorting of genetically transformed, GFP-expressing blood stages of the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei pp614 - 623

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

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.88


High-throughput plasmid cDNA library screening pp624 - 632

Kenneth H Wan, Charles Yu, Reed A George, Joseph W Carlson, Roger A Hoskins, Robert Svirskas, Mark Stapleton & Susan E Celniker

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.90


Enhanced delivery of cell-penetrating peptide–peptide nucleic acid conjugates by endosomal disruption pp633 - 636

Takehiko Shiraishi & Peter E Nielsen

Published online: 29 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.92


Isolation of specific RNA-binding proteins using the streptomycin-binding RNA aptamer pp637 - 640

Nikolai Windbichler & Renée Schroeder

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.95

See also: Protocol by Zeng et al. | Protocol by Peritz et al.


Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana using the floral dip method pp641 - 646

Xiuren Zhang, Rossana Henriques, Shih-Shun Lin, Qi-Wen Niu & Nam-Hai Chua

Published online: 29 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.97


Two-photon targeted patching (TPTP) in vivo pp647 - 652

Shoji Komai, Winfried Denk, Pavel Osten, Michael Brecht & Troy W Margrie

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.100

See also: Protocol by Castañeda-Castellanos et al.


De novo production of antigen-specific suppressor cells in vivo pp653 - 661

Karsten Kretschmer, Tracy S P Heng & Harald von Boehmer

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.105


Reverse engineering cellular networks pp662 - 671

Adam A Margolin, Kai Wang, Wei Keat Lim, Manjunath Kustagi, Ilya Nemenman & Andrea Califano

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.106


The JAM Test and its daughter P-JAM: simple tests of DNA fragmentation to measure cell death and stasis pp672 - 682

David Usharauli, Ainhoa Perez-Diez & Polly Matzinger

Published online: 27 June 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.107


NMR: prediction of protein flexibility pp683 - 688

Mark Berjanskii & David S Wishart

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.108

See also: Protocol by Tugarinov et al.


Identification and detection of RNA-RNA interactions using the yeast RNA hybrid system pp689 - 694

Nicolas Piganeau & Renée Schroeder

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.111


High Ca2+-phosphate transfection efficiency in low-density neuronal cultures pp695 - 700

Min Jiang & Gong Chen

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.86


Construction of diverse adeno-associated viral libraries for directed evolution of enhanced gene delivery vehicles pp701 - 706

James T Koerber, Narendra Maheshri, Brian K Kaspar & David V Schaffer

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.93


Preparation of N-succinimidyl 3-[*I]iodobenzoate: an agent for the indirect radioiodination of proteins pp707 - 713

Ganesan Vaidyanathan & Michael R Zalutsky

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.99


Profluorescent protein fragments for fast bimolecular fluorescence complementation in vitro pp714 - 719

Vadim V Demidov & Natalia E Broude

Published online: 06 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.114


Multiplex amplification of ancient DNA pp720 - 728

Holger Römpler, Paul H Dear, Johannes Krause, Matthias Meyer, Nadin Rohland, Torsten Schöneberg, Helen Spriggs, Mathias Stiller & Michael Hofreiter

Published online: 13 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.84


Chromatin immunoprecipitation and microarray-based analysis of protein location pp729 - 748

Tong Ihn Lee, Sarah E Johnstone & Richard A Young

Published online: 13 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.98


Isotope labeling strategies for the study of high-molecular-weight proteins by solution NMR spectroscopy pp749 - 754

Vitali Tugarinov, Voula Kanelis & Lewis E Kay

Published online: 13 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.101


Isolating and engineering human antibodies using yeast surface display pp755 - 768

Ginger Chao, Wai L Lau, Benjamin J Hackel, Stephen L Sazinsky, Shaun M Lippow & K Dane Wittrup

Published online: 13 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.94


Sample extraction techniques for enhanced proteomic analysis of plant tissues pp769 - 774

Tal Isaacson, Cynthia M B Damasceno, Ramu S Saravanan, Yonghua He, Carmen Catalá, Montserrat Saladié & Jocelyn K C Rose

Published online: 13 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.102


Subcellular imaging in the live mouse pp775 - 782

Robert M Hoffman & Meng Yang

Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.109


Cross-species chromosome painting pp783 - 790

Willem Rens, Beiyuan Fu, Patricia C M O'Brien & Malcolm Ferguson-Smith

Published online: 13 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.91


PCR-based accurate synthesis of long DNA sequences pp791 - 797

Ai-Sheng Xiong, Quan-Hong Yao, Ri-He Peng, Hui Duan, Xian Li, Hui-Qin Fan, Zong-Ming Cheng & Yi Li

Published online: 13 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.103


Labeling of aliphatic carboxylic acids using [11C]carbon monoxide pp798 - 802

Oleksiy Itsenko, Tor Kihlberg & Bengt Långström

Published online: 20 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.112

See also: Protocol by Cheng et al.


Generation of cells expressing improved doxycycline-regulated reverse transcriptional transactivator rtTA2S-M2 pp803 - 811

Arkadiusz Welman, Jane Barraclough & Caroline Dive

Published online: 20 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.117


State-of-the-art two-dimensional gel electrophoresis: a key tool of proteomics research pp812 - 823

Odile Carrette, Pierre R Burkhard, Jean-Charles Sanchez & Denis F Hochstrasser

Published online: 20 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.104


Preparation and use of Coppersensor-1, a synthetic fluorophore for live-cell copper imaging pp824 - 827

Evan W Miller, Li Zeng, Dylan W Domaille & Christopher J Chang

Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.140


Alignment and calibration of a focal neurotransmitter uncaging system pp828 - 832

Dmitry V Sarkisov & Samuel S-H Wang

Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.124


A rat model for neural circuitry abnormalities in schizophrenia pp833 - 839

Sabina Berretta & Francine M Benes

Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.110


A guinea pig model of acute and chronic asthma using permanently instrumented and unrestrained animals pp840 - 847

Herman Meurs, Ruud E Santing, René Remie, Thomas W van der Mark, Fiona J Westerhof, Annet B Zuidhof, I Sophie T Bos & Johan Zaagsma

Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.144


Morris water maze: procedures for assessing spatial and related forms of learning and memory pp848 - 858

Charles V Vorhees & Michael T Williams

Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.116

See also: Protocol by Deacon


Flow cytometry after bromodeoxyuridine labeling to measure S and G2+M phase durations plus doubling times in vitro and in vivo pp859 - 869

Nicholas HA Terry & R Allen White

Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.113


Isolation of DNA from bacterial samples of the human gastrointestinal tract pp870 - 873

Erwin G Zoetendal, Hans GHJ Heilig, Eline S Klaassens, Carien CGM Booijink, Michiel Kleerebezem, Hauke Smidt & Willem M de Vos

Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.142


Cervical duct cannulation in sheep for collection of afferent lymph dendritic cells from head tissues pp874 - 879

Isabelle Schwartz-Cornil, Mathieu Epardaud & Michel Bonneau

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.147


Automated serum peptide profiling pp880 - 891

Josep Villanueva, Kevin Lawlor, Ricardo Toledo-Crow & Paul Tempst

Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.128


Clinical and empirical applications of the Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test pp892 - 899

Min-Sup Shin, Sun-Young Park, Se-Ran Park, Soon-Ho Seol & Jun Soo Kwon

Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.115


Construction of marker-free transplastomic tobacco using the Cre-loxP site-specific recombination system pp900 - 910

Kerry Ann Lutz, Zora Svab & Pal Maliga

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.118


Visualization of F-actin and G-actin equilibrium using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) in cultured cells and neurons in slices pp911 - 919

Ken-Ichi Okamoto & Yasunori Hayashi

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.122


A protocol for PAIR: PNA-assisted identification of RNA binding proteins in living cells pp920 - 927

Fanyi Zeng, Tiina Peritz, Theresa J Kannanayakal, Kalle Kilk, Emelía Eiríksdóttir, Ulo Langel & James Eberwine

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.81

See also: Protocol by Peritz et al. | Protocol by Windbichler & Schroeder


Color-coded fluorescence imaging of tumor-host interactions pp928 - 935

Robert M Hoffman & Meng Yang

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.119


Housing, husbandry and handling of rodents for behavioral experiments pp936 - 946

Robert M J Deacon

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.120

See also: Protocol by Vorhees & Williams


Chromophore-assisted light inactivation (CALI) using the phototoxic fluorescent protein KillerRed pp947 - 953

Maria E Bulina, Konstantin A Lukyanov, Olga V Britanova, Daria Onichtchouk, Sergey Lukyanov & Dmitriy M Chudakov

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.89


Isolation of RNA from bacterial samples of the human gastrointestinal tract pp954 - 959

Erwin G Zoetendal, Carien CGM Booijink, Eline S Klaassens, Hans GHJ Heilig, Michiel Kleerebezem, Hauke Smidt & Willem M de Vos

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.143


Cell tracking using a photoconvertible fluorescent protein pp960 - 967

Kohei Hatta, Hitomi Tsujii & Tomomi Omura

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.96


Assay of protein kinases using radiolabeled ATP: a protocol pp968 - 971

C James Hastie, Hilary J McLauchlan & Philip Cohen

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.149

See also: Protocol by Brumbaugh et al.


Conjugation of DOTA-like chelating agents to peptides and radiolabeling with trivalent metallic isotopes pp972 - 976

Jane K Sosabowski & Stephen J Mather

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.175


Biolistic transfection of neuronal cultures using a hand-held gene gun pp977 - 981

John A O'Brien & Sarah C R Lummis

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.145


Isolation and purification of afferent lymph dendritic cells that drain the skin of cattle pp982 - 987

Jayne C Hope, Chris J Howard, Helen Prentice & Bryan Charleston

Published online: 03 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.125


An ultrastructural readout of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching using correlative light and electron microscopy pp988 - 994

Kevin J Darcy, Kevin Staras, Lucy M Collinson & Yukiko Goda

Published online: 10 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.146


Dendrimer-like DNA-based fluorescence nanobarcodes pp995 - 1000

Soong Ho Um, Jong Bum Lee, Sang Yeon Kwon, Yougen Li & Dan Luo

Published online: 10 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.141


Studying the uptake of cell-penetrating peptides pp1001 - 1005

Tina Holm, Henrik Johansson, Pontus Lundberg, Margus Pooga, Maria Lindgren & Ülo Langel

Published online: 10 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.174


Production of recombinant protein in Pichia pastoris by fermentation pp1006 - 1021

Berend Tolner, Lisa Smith, Richard H J Begent & Kerry A Chester

Published online: 08 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.126


A double-reporter splicing assay for determining splicing efficiency in mammalian cells pp1022 - 1028

Md. Talat Nasim & Ian C Eperon

Published online: 10 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.148


Multiplexed absolute quantification for proteomics using concatenated signature peptides encoded by QconCAT genes pp1029 - 1043

Julie M Pratt, Deborah M Simpson, Mary K Doherty, Jenny Rivers, Simon J Gaskell & Robert J Beynon

Published online: 17 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.129


Single- and dual-parameter FRET kinase probes based on pleckstrin pp1044 - 1055

Justin Brumbaugh, Andreas Schleifenbaum, Gunter Stier, Michael Sattler & Carsten Schultz

Published online: 17 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.177

See also: Protocol by Hastie et al.


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