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α-Synuclein Aggregation Monitored by Thioflavin T Fluorescence Assay
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2018-07-20
[Abstract]  Studying the aggregation of amyloid proteins like α-synuclein in vitro is a convenient and popular tool to gain kinetic insights into aggregation as well as to study factors (e.g., aggregation inhibitors) that influence it. These aggregation assays typically make use of the fluorescence dye Thioflavin T as a sensitive fluorescence reporter of amyloid fibril formation and are conducted in a plate-reader-based format, permitting the simultaneous screening of multiple samples and conditions. However, aggregation assays are generally prone to poor reproducibility due to the stochastic nature of fibril nucleation and the multiplicity of modulating factors. Here we present a simple and reproducible protocol to study the aggregation of α-synuclein in a plate-reader based assay. [摘要]  研究淀粉样蛋白如α-突触核蛋白体外聚集是一种方便和流行的工具,可以获得聚集的动力学见解以及研究因子(例如,聚集抑制剂) 影响它。 这些聚集测定通常利用荧光染料硫磺素T作为淀粉样蛋白原纤维形成的敏感荧光报告物,并且以基于读板器的形式进行,允许同时筛选多个样品和条件。 然而,由于原纤维成核的随机性质和调节因子的多样性,聚集测定通常倾向于较差的再现性。 在这里,我们提出了一个简单和可重复的协议,以研究基于读板器的测定中α-突触核蛋白的聚集。

【背景】内源性蛋白质与淀粉样原纤维的聚集是一种致病过程,与几种疾病相关,例如,神经退行性疾病如阿尔茨海默病(AD)或帕金森病(PD)以及全身性疾病如AL淀粉样变性( Knowles et al。,2014)。通过基于硫磺素T荧光的聚集测定,可以在基于板读者的装置中在体外中概括该过程,从而允许根据各种影响因素研究淀粉样蛋白的聚集动力学。

硫磺素T(ThT)是一种荧光染料,最初用于组织学样本中的淀粉样蛋白原纤维染色,于1959年由Vassar和Culling(Vassar和Culling,1959),其在体外检测和定量淀粉样纤维的应用

目前,硫代黄素T的聚集测定主要在荧光板读数器中进行,其中例如,96条件可以同时测试。由于原纤维成核的随机性质和影响蛋白质聚集的多种因素,这些测定法具有较差的重现性。因此,已经采用了增加ThT测定的再现性的策略,例如在测量期间使用井板的轨道摇动以及向孔中添加玻璃珠以改善混合(Giehm和Otzen,2010)。 ...

Qualitative and Quantitative Assay for Detection of Circulating Autoantibodies against Human Aortic Antigen
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2017-07-05
[Abstract]  Increased amount of autoantibodies in human sera are the hallmark of autoimmune diseases (Wang et al., 2015). In case of known antigen, detection of autoantibodies is done using laboratory based methods. However, in most autoimmune diseases, knowledge of self-antigen is still vague. We have developed an ELISA-based quantitative assay to detect the presence of autoantibodies as well as to measure the circulating autoantibodies in the sera of patients suffering from large vessel vasculitis (LVV), an autoimmune disease (Chakravarti et al., 2015). Using this assay, we detected the increase in anti-aortic antibodies in LVV patient’s sera. We have further verified the results by independent biochemical techniques and found the specificity to be > 94% (Chakravarti et al. ... [摘要]  人血清中自身抗体量的增加是自身免疫性疾病的标志(Wang等人,2015)。 在已知抗原的情况下,使用基于实验室的方法检测自身抗体。 然而,在大多数自身免疫性疾病中,自身抗原的知识仍然是模糊的。 我们已经开发了基于ELISA的定量测定法来检测自身抗体的存在以及测量患有大血管血管炎(LVV),自身免疫疾病(Chakravarti等人)的患者的血清中的循环自身抗体, ,2015)。 使用该测定,我们检测到LVV患者血清中抗主动脉抗体的增加。 我们通过独立生物化学技术进一步验证了结果,发现特异度 94%(Chakravarti等人,2015)。 该方法可以被独特地修改以适应任何自身免疫,特别是器官特异性疾病,因此在自身抗体的检测和定量中具有更广泛的应用。
【背景】约有80-100种自身免疫性疾病,其中免疫细胞将自身蛋白识别为外源抗原,并被激活以产生体液应答。尽管大多数自​​身免疫性疾病的触发因素仍然是一个谜,患者血清中存在较高水平的抗体是非常普遍的(Wang等人,2015)。一些实例包括抗小血管血管炎中的嗜中性粒细胞胞浆抗原,多发性硬化中的髓磷脂碱性蛋白,1型糖尿病中的谷氨酸脱羧酶等。(Wang等人, ...

Fluorometric Estimation of Glutathione in Cultured Microglial Cell Lysate
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2017-06-05
[Abstract]  Glutathione is one of the major antioxidant defense components present in cells. It is predominantly present as reduced glutathione (GSH) and converted into oxidized glutathione (GSSG) while reducing the free radicals like hydroxyl ions (OH-). For the measurement of GSH and GSSG, o-phthalaldehyde (OPT) has been used as a fluorescent reagent. O-phthalaldehyde has an ability to react specifically with GSH at pH 8 and GSSG at pH 12 respectively. N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) has been used to prevent auto-oxidation of GSH during measurement of GSSG in the present protocol. The original protocol by Hissin and Hilf was developed for glutathione estimation in Rat liver tissue. The present protocol has been standardized following Hissin and Hilf (1976) for the estimation of ... [摘要]  谷胱甘肽是细胞中存在的主要抗氧化防御成分之一。它主要作为还原型谷胱甘肽(GSH)存在并转化为氧化型谷胱甘肽(GSSG),同时还可以减少自由基,如羟基离子(OH)。对于GSH和GSSG的测定,邻苯二甲醛(OPT)已被用作荧光试剂。邻苯二甲醛具有与pH8的GSH和pH12的GSSG特异性反应的能力。已经使用N-甲基马来酰亚胺(NEM)来在本方案中测量GSSG期间防止GSH的自动氧化。 Hissin和Hilf的原始方案被开发用于大鼠肝组织中的谷胱甘肽估计。目前的方案已经在Hissin和Hilf(1976)之后被标准化,用于估计培养的小胶质细胞裂解物中的谷胱甘肽,但它也可以用于其它哺乳动物细胞裂解物。在我们的实验中,相同的方案已被用于估计小鼠神经母细胞瘤细胞N2a的全细胞裂解物中的谷胱甘肽。

背景 该方法于1976年由Hissin和Hilf在分析生物化学方面出版(Hissin和Hilf,1976)。然而,有可用于准确检测GSH的方法;由于GSH容易氧化转化为GSSG,所以大多数方法给出过高的GSSG。 ...

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