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Alternatively, GFP can be visualized using rabbit polyclonal antibody raised against GFP purified directly from A. victoria. This anti-GFP antibody facilitates the detection of native GFP, recombinant GFP, and GFP-fusion proteins both by immunofluorescence and brightfield microscopy, as well as by western blot analysis and immunoprecipitation. Direct anti-GFP conjugates made from a complete serum or from an IgG fraction are available from Invitrogen (http //www.invitrogen.com/ site/us/en/home.html). Additional options for your research offered by Invitrogen include two mouse monoclonal antibodies and a chicken IgY fraction. 

Immunodiffusion and immunoprecipitation, developed ia the 1940s as a means to identify and semiquantitate specific proteias, were the direct precursors to the development ia 1953 of Immunoelectrophoresis, a method used ia many clinical laboratories (5). Single- and double-gel immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis were, ia effect, the first standardized and routinely used immunoassay methods (see Electroseparations, electrophoresis). 

Law and Reisine [73] reported that the cloned 8 receptor physically associated with G0. They solubilized the 8 receptor with a mild detergent which allowed solubilized 8 receptors to remain associated with G proteins. They then showed that antisera directed against G0 co-immunoprecipitated 8 receptor/G protein complexes. 

Direct kinase assays can be performed for all of these enzymes following their immunoprecipitation from cell lysates (see protocols later). 

This assay method (RIPA) is used primarily in research. It is too technically demanding for routine use in clinical laboratories. HIV is cultured in radio-labeled cells, or viral proteins are directly labeled with a radioisotope. The virus is disrupted and then exposed to the test specimen. Specific antigen-antibody complexes are concentrated and isolated by immunoprecipitation. After exten-... 

For immunoprecipitations from native tissues, one requires antibodies directed against both the fish and the bait proteins. Further, these antibodies should not bind to epitopes within the putative protein-protein BDs. It is technically difficult to determine low affinity or transient association among proteins by immunoprecipitation because low-affinity interactions may be lost by washing immune pellets to remove nonspecifically bound proteins. Also, one cannot manipulate protein concentrations to favor protein association as one can in a pull-down assay. Under these circumstances, probably the best method to use would be FRFT. 

Finally, NGS can also be applied to epigenome analysis, currently one of the main areas of cancer research. By one of three different approaches, immunoprecipitation of methyl-cytosine after DNA fragmentation, capture of CpG islands and associated sequences, or complete genome sequencing after bisulfite treatment, all of them are directed to envision what promoter regions may be modified by methylation-based silencing (121,122). 

Moreover, it was recently shown that the deliberate removal of phosphatases from the in vitro translation mixture by immunoprecipitation results in increased protein yields (Shen et al., 1998). As proposed earlier (Jermutus et al., 1998), the elimination of one of the many causes of fast ATP and GTP depletion extends the time of synthesis, and, as a consequence, the total amount of produced protein. It should be possible to similarly remove proteases and nucleases (see above). Together with new ATP regeneration systems to keep the biochemical energy level at a high steady state (Kim and Swartz, 1999), the optimization measures mentioned should increase the level of synthesis of most proteins, and this should directly improve in vitro selection. 

CK-MB can be measured in numerous ways. Immunoassays developed in recent years have improved on the analytical and clinical sensitivity and specificity of the earlier immunoinhibition and immunoprecipitation assays. These assays now (1) measure CK-MB directly and provide mass measurements, (2) are easily automated, and (3) provide rapid results (<30 minutes). Mass assays reliably measure low CK-MB concentrations in both samples with low total enzyme activity (<100 U/L) and with high total enzyme activity (>10,000 U/L). Furthermore, no interferences from other proteins have been documented. The majority of commercially available immunoassays that use monoclonal anti-CK-MB antibodies are the same as those listed in Table 5-2 for cardiac troponin assays. Excellent concordance has been shown between mass concentration and activity assays. A primary reference material is commercially available to assist in harmonization. If used for assay standardization, then this material allows... 

In reconstitution experiments with solubilized proteins, D1 receptors have been shown to interact not only with Gas but also with pertussis toxin (PTX)-sensitive a subunits of G protein (Sidhu et al., 1991). In cell lines expressing D1 receptors, solubilized D1 receptors can be co-immunoprecipitated by antisera directed against Gas or Ga0 suggesting an alternative coupling of D1 receptor with Go protein (Kimura et al., 1995). By contrast, D5 receptor does not co-immunoprecipate with PTX-sensitive a subunits but with Gaz a protein of the Gai/o type which is insensitive to PTX (Sidhu et al., 1998). 

Although immunoprecipitation is not used as widely in modern biochemistry, it has been used in the past to study protein-protein interactions. If an antigen of interest has a strong affinity for another molecule present in the solution, the associated molecule will precipitate in the complex along with the antigen that is recognized directly by the antibody (Fig. W-8b). This technique is often used to identify new members of physiologically important multiprotein complexes when one component of the complex has been purified, but others are unknown. 

The MALDI mass spectrum obtained from the peptides resulting from the enzymatic digestion (Asp-N) of the bFGF protein (A) spectrum before and (B) spectrum after immunoprecipitation with an antibody directed against the recombinant protein. The peaks marked correspond to either Cu adducts or doubly charged ions. (C) Schematic representation of the observed peptides. A continuous line corresponds to a peptide that links to the antibody, and a dotted line to a peptide that does not link. Reproduced (modified) from Zhao Y.M., Muir T.W., Kent S.B.FL, Tisher E., Scardina J.M. and Chait B.T., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93, 4020M024, 199, with permission. 

Figure 8.26 illustrates the application of the first method to an antibody directed against the recombinant protein bFGF. Twelve peptides are identified in the MALDI spectrum of the mixture obtained after enzymatic cleavage non-bounded (Figure 8.26A). After immunoprecipitation with the antibody, the peptides are washed out, and only four peptides are detected as shown in Figure 8.26B. A comparison of the sequences of those peptides allows the epitope to be located somewhere in the residues 15-27, as explained in Figure 8.26C.

Immunoprecipitation can also be carried out in gds, resulting in the formation of precipitated bands which can be visualised dther directly, or by staining. These approaches have been largely superseded by techniques based on ELISA and Western analysis. 

Figure 6. The RPGR-nephrocystin protein network. Putative core oculo-renal protein network in the cilia, interconnected in the retina by the RPGRIPl-nephrocystin-4 interaction. The connections are based on reported protein-protein interactions (for description and references, please see text). Direct interactions are shown by solid lines, interactions that were identified by immunoprecipitations, as part of a protein complex, are shown by dotted lines.

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