Fluorescent Labeling Method Re-Evaluates the Intriguing Thermoresponsive Behavior of Poly(acrylamide-co-acrylonitrile)s with Upper Critical Solution Temperatures

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (20) ◽  
pp. 7646-7660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chie Otsuka ◽  
Yuko Wakahara ◽  
Kohki Okabe ◽  
Juri Sakata ◽  
Masaki Okuyama ◽  
...  
2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianita Santiana ◽  
Peter M. Takvorian ◽  
Nihal Altan-Bonnet ◽  
Ann Cali

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charudharshini Srinivasan ◽  
Shafiuddin Siddiqui ◽  
Lawrence K. Silbart ◽  
Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos ◽  
Diane J. Burgess

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 2444-2456
Author(s):  
Ooi ◽  
Salvador ◽  
Martins ◽  
Pereira ◽  
Caldeira ◽  
...  

Easel paintings are assets with an important historic and cultural value. They usually possess a multi-tiered structure, composed of different layers some of which may present protein binders, making it important to identify these materials for restoration and conservation purposes. We propose the identification of different protein binders by a new fluorescent labeling method employing a coumarin based chromophore, C392STP (sodium(E/Z)-4-(4-(2-(6,7-dimethoxycoumarin-3-yl)vinyl)benzoyl)-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzenesulfo-nate). The method was optimized using commercial proteins and was further tested on proteins extracted from hen’s egg yolk, white bovine milk, and rabbit skin glue. To model more realistic conditions, paint models of easel paintings were prepared. The paint models were made with hen’s egg yolk, white bovine milk, and rabbit skin glue, mixed with different pigments and submitted to artificial aging. Then the extracted proteins from the paint models were labeled with C392 which allowed a sensitive and selective identification by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) of the different protein binders used. As a final test, three 19th century easel paintings, from the Italian painter Giorgio Marini, were analyzed. The results show the potential of the proposed method for the identification of protein binders present in easel paintings.


RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 4030-4038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiyang Lv ◽  
Miao Du ◽  
Jianliang Xiao ◽  
Yihu Song ◽  
Qiang Zheng

A facile fluorescent labeling method was developed to track the filler structural evolution in a rubber matrix, which could be helpful in understanding the Payne effect in the filled compounds.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuyu Kobirumaki-Shimozawa ◽  
Togo Shimozawa ◽  
Kotaro Oyama ◽  
Yasuharu Kushida ◽  
Takako Terui ◽  
...  

The present study was conducted to systematically investigate the optimal viral titer as well as the volume of the adenovirus vector (ADV) that expresses α-actinin-AcGFP in the Z-disks of myocytes in the left ventricle (LV) of mice. An injection of 10 μL ADV at viral titers of 2 to 4 × 1011 viral particles per mL (VP/mL) into the LV epicardial surface consistently expressed α-actinin-AcGFP in myocytes in vivo, with the fraction of AcGFP-expressing myocytes at ~10%. Our analysis revealed that SL was ~1.90-2.15 μm upon heart arrest via deep anesthesia. Likewise, we developed a novel fluorescence labeling method of the T-tubular system by treating the LV surface with CellMask Orange (CellMask). We found that the T-tubular distance was ~2.10-2.25 μm, similar to SL, in the healthy heart in vivo. Therefore, the present high-precision visualization method for the Z-disks or the T-tubules is beneficial to unveiling the mechanisms of myocyte contraction in health and disease in vivo.


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