Extracellular matrix protocols /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, 2000.
Description:xiv, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Methods in molecular biology ; v. 139
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) ; v. 139.
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5845211
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Streuli, Charles H.
Grant, Michael E.
ISBN:0896036243
0896036343
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Part I.. Biochemistry of Extracellular Matrix
  • 1. Semipermeabilized Cells to Study Procollagen Assembly
  • 2. Quantitative Determination of Collagen Crosslinks
  • 3. Analysis of Laminin Structure and Function with Recombinant Glycoprotein Expressed in Insect Cells
  • 4. Recombinant Collagen Trimers from Insect Cells and Yeast
  • 5. Eukaryotic Expression and Purification of Recombinant Extracellular Matrix Proteins Carrying the Strep II Tag
  • Part II.. Biophysics of Extracellular Matrix Proteins
  • 6. Preparation of Isotopically Labeled Recombinant Fragments of Fibronectin for Functional and Structural Study by Heteronuclear Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • 7. Reconstitution of Functional Integrin into Phopsholipid Vesicles and Planar Lipid Bilayers
  • 8. Confocal-FRAP Analysis of ECM Molecular Interactions
  • 9. Electron Cryomicroscopy of Fibrillar Collagens
  • 10. Atomic Force Microspopy Measurements of Intermolecular Binding Strength
  • 11. ECM Macromolecules: Rotary Shadowing and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
  • Part III.. Molecular Biology of Extracellular Matrix Genes
  • 12. Screening for Mutations in Cartilage ECM Genes
  • 13. Tissue-Specific KO of ECM Proteins
  • 14. Homologous Gene Targeting to Study ECM Assembly
  • 15. Enhancer Analysis of the [alpha]1(II) and [alpha]2(XI) Collagen Genes in Transfected Chondrocytes and Transgenic Mice
  • 16. Retroviral Delivery of ECM Genes to Cells
  • Part IV.. Cell Biology of the Extracellular Matrix
  • 17. Using Self-Assembled Monolayers to Pattern ECM Proteins and Cells on Subtrates
  • 18. Methods for Preparing Extracellular Matrix and Quantifying Insulin-like Growth Factor-Binding Protein Binding to the ECM
  • 19. Measuring Interactions Between ECM and TGF[beta]-Like Proteins
  • 20. Using Organotypic Tissue Slices as Substrata for the Culture of Dissociated Cells
  • 21. Neuroepithelial Differentiation Induced by ECM Molecules
  • 22. Migration Assays for Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells
  • 23. Cell Adhesion Assays
  • 24. Tissue Engineering and Cell-Populated Collagen Matrices
  • 25. Solid Phase Assays for Studying ECM Protein-Protein Interactions
  • 26. Tissue Engineering of Cartilage
  • 27. Tissue Recombinants to Study Extracellular Matrix Targeting to Basement Membranes
  • 28. Fluorescence Assays to Study Cell Adhesion and Migration In Vitro
  • 29. Analyzing Cell-ECM Interactions in Adult Mammary Gland by Transplantation of Embryonic Mammary Tissue from Knockout Mice
  • Index