[HTML][HTML] A systematic approach to quantitative Western blot analysis

L Pillai-Kastoori, AR Schutz-Geschwender… - Analytical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Attaining true quantitative data from WB requires that all the players involved in the
procedure are quality controlled including the user. Appropriate protein extraction method …

Tubulin or not tubulin: heading toward total protein staining as loading control in western blots

CP Moritz - Proteomics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Western blotting is an analytical method widely used for detecting and (semi‐) quantifying
specific proteins in given samples. Western blots are continuously applied and developed …

Hemocompatibility challenge of membrane oxygenator for artificial lung technology

BPN Thi, BTD Nguyen, IS Jeong, JF Kim - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The artificial lung (AL) technology is one of the membrane-based artificial organs that partly
augments lung functions, ie blood oxygenation and CO 2 removal. It is generally employed …

Western blotting: a powerful staple in scientific and biomedical research

H Begum, P Murugesan, AD Tangutur - Biotechniques, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Western blotting (WB), also known as immunoblotting, is a well-known molecular biology
method that biologists often use to investigate many features of the protein, ranging from …

In vivo study of gene expression with an enhanced dual-color fluorescent transcriptional timer

L He, R Binari, J Huang, J Falo-Sanjuan, N Perrimon - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Fluorescent transcriptional reporters are widely used as signaling reporters and biomarkers
to monitor pathway activities and determine cell type identities. However, a large amount of …

Inhibiting IRE1α-endonuclease activity decreases tumor burden in a mouse model for hepatocellular carcinoma

N Pavlović, C Calitz, K Thanapirom, G Mazza… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a liver tumor that usually arises in patients with cirrhosis.
Hepatic stellate cells are key players in the progression of HCC, as they create a fibrotic …

Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein is required for normal mouse liver development

E Szunyogova, H Zhou, GK Maxwell, RA Powis… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is caused by mutation or deletion of the survival
motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. Decreased levels of, cell-ubiquitous, SMN protein is …

[HTML][HTML] Prolonged mitotic arrest induced by Wee1 inhibition sensitizes breast cancer cells to paclitaxel

CW Lewis, Z Jin, D Macdonald, W Wei, XJ Qian… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wee1 kinase is a crucial negative regulator of Cdk1/cyclin B1 activity and is required for
normal entry into and exit from mitosis. Wee1 activity can be chemically inhibited by the …

Regulation of factor V and factor V-short by TFPIα: relationship between B-domain proteolysis and binding

T Petrillo, F Ayombil, C van't Veer… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
Coagulation factor V (FV) plays an anticoagulant role but serves as a procoagulant cofactor
in the prothrombinase complex once activated to FVa. At the heart of these opposing effects …

A critical path to producing high quality, reproducible data from quantitative western blot experiments

SC Taylor, LK Rosselli-Murai, B Crobeddu, I Plante - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Western blotting experiments were initially performed to detect a target protein in a complex
biological sample and more recently, to measure relative protein abundance …