Amyloid proteins : methods and protocols /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sigurdsson, Einar M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2005]
Series:Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) ; v. 299.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preparation of aggregate-free, low molecular weight amyloid-beta for assembly and toxicity assays
  • Determination of peptide oligomerization state using rapid photochemical crosslinking
  • In vitro preparation of prefibrillar intermediates of amyloid-beta and α-synuclein
  • Purification of recombinant tau protein and preparation of Alzheimer-paired helical filaments in vitro
  • Cyclic amplification of protein misfolding and aggregation
  • X-ray diffraction studies of amyloid structure
  • Molecular electron microscopy approaches to elucidating the mechanisms of protein fibrillogenesis
  • Time-lapse atomic force microscopy in the characterization of amyloid-like fibril assembly and oligomeric intermediates
  • Fourier transform infrared and circular dichroism spectroscopies for amyloid studies
  • Quasielastic light scattering for protein assembly studies
  • Intrinsic fluorescent detection of tau conformation and aggregation
  • Quantitative measurement of fibrillogenesis by mass spectrometry
  • Isolation and culturing of human vascular smooth muscle cells
  • Murine cerbrovascular cells as a cell culture model for cerebral amyloid angiopathy : isolation of smooth muscle and endothelial cells from mouse brain
  • Purification of human wild-type or variant cystatin C from conditioned media of transfected cells
  • Prion propagation in cell culture
  • Preparation and propagation of amyloid-enhancing factor
  • Purification of amyloid protein AA subspecies from amyloid-rich human tissues
  • Purification of transthyretin and transthyretin fragments from amyloid-rich human tissues
  • Extraction and chemical characterization of tissue-deposited proteins from minute diagnostic biopsy specimens
  • Tissue processing prior to protein analysis and amyloid-beta Quantitation
  • ELISA method for measurement of amyloid-beta levels
  • Histological staining of amyloid-beta in mouse brains
  • The mouse model for scrapie : inoculation, clinical scoring, and histopathological techniques
  • Radiolabeling of amyloid-beta peptides
  • In vivo imaging amyloid-beta deposits in mouse brain with multiphoton microscopy
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of amyloid plaques in transgenic mice