Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC) in Tissue Culture and in Developing Tissues of Drosophila to Study Protein-Protein Interactions.

Methods Mol Biol

Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

Published: June 2019

Protein-protein interactions provide a common mechanism for regulating protein functions and also serve as the fundamental step of many biochemical reactions. To accurately determine the involvement and function of protein-protein interactions, it is crucial to detect the interactions with the minimum number of artifacts. In this chapter, we report the method of bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) in tissue culture and developing tissues of Drosophila, which allows the visualization of subcellular localization of protein-protein interactions in living cells.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8910-2_6DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

protein-protein interactions
16
bimolecular fluorescence
8
fluorescence complementation
8
complementation bifc
8
bifc tissue
8
tissue culture
8
culture developing
8
developing tissues
8
tissues drosophila
8
interactions
5

Similar Publications

Background: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a common hematologic malignancy. Although previous research has explored associations between plasma proteins and CLL, the causal relationships remain unclear. This study used Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate the causal relationship between 7156 plasma proteins and CLL risk.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

This study aims to identify novel loci associated with sarcopenia-related traits in UK Biobank (UKB) through multi-trait genome-wide analysis. To identify novel loci associated with sarcopenia, we integrated the genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of usual walking pace (UWP) and hand grip strength (HGS) to conduct a joint association study known as multi-trait analysis of GWAS (MTAG). We performed a transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) to analyze the results of MTAG in relation to mRNA expression data for genes identified in skeletal muscle.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) hallmarks are amyloid plaques and tau tangles. APOE and TREM2 are the strongest genetic risk factors for AD. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is increasingly recognized to play a central role in amyloid beta clearance and microglia activation in AD.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: In neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's disease and stroke, the brain transitions to pro-inflammatory profile, where microglia and T-cells in the brain have increase inflammatory profiles, along with increased Kv1.3 potassium channel abundance. Pharmacological blockade of Kv1.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, etiologically complex disease of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by inflammation, demyelination, and neuronal damage. MS has seven categories based on disease course. Seventy to eighty percent of individuals with MS initially develop a clinical pattern with periodic relapses and remissions, called relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!