Biochemistry MethodsAcetone precipitation of proteinBioRad Protein AssayBrf1 purification from E. coliComassie Blue Protein gel stainCNBr protein digestCrosslinking of PICs and IPFluorescence polarization guideE. coli total protein for SDS PAGE3x Flag peptide elutionGcn4 purificationGel mobility shift assay (-Mg)Immobilized Template Assay (Pol II)Invitrogen NuPAGE and western transferMobile Pilot Plant Ni Sepharose (GE) manualPEAS labeling of Gcn4Pet_SUMO manual (Invitrogen)Pol II yeast nuclear extract prep (small scale)Pol II in vitro transcription and primer extension assayPol III in vitro transcriptionPol III yeast whole cell extract (small scale)Protein Expression-PET plasmid handbook (Novagen; EMB Biosciences)Silver Stain for SDS PAGETalon Metal affinity column purificationTCA precipitation of proteins
TFIIA PurificationTFIIIC purification from yeastYeast Nuclei isolation
Yeast protein prep for SDS PAGE and western (rapid)Yeast small scale whole cell extract for IPWestern blot Probing and Stripping using dye conjugated antibodies (Odyssey)
Western Blot (Li-Cor Biosciences web resources)
Western blot probing by Chemiluminescence
Genetic Methods
Convert yeast A600 to cells/mlEMS mutagenesis of yeastYeast PlatesYeast Sporulation
Yeast spot test assayYeast transformation with DMSO/LioAc (high efficiency)Yeast transformation (semi rapid)Yeast Methods from the Gottschling lab
Molecular Biology MethodsAntibody Production using denatured proteinsChromatin IP assay (Reeves/Tsukiyama)Chromatin IP assay (Fishburn)DNA concentration assay with fluorescent dyeDNA sequencing (dye terminator) [FHCRC form]DNA sequencing (rapid Maxam and Gilbert Chemical degradation)DNA Plasmid mini PrepElectrocompetent E. coli preparationGels native Acrylamide, TBE (35 ml)Gels (DNA sequencing, 100 ml)Gels Acrylamide urea (35 ml gel)in vitro mutagenesisin vitro transcription and translation with PCR DNAOligonucleotide labeling with 32POligonucleotide purification by PAGE and DEAEPCR with Taq Polymerase (Promega)PCR with expand PolymerasePCR using yeast coloniesPrimer extension of total Yeast RNA
Quantitative measurement of yeast mRNA using RT qPCR qPCR plate and master mix template (power sybr) qPCR 384 well Applied Biosystems SDS triplicate sample template
Quickchange mutagenesis with KOD extreme PolQuickchange site directed Mutagenesis (Pfu Pol)S1 mapping with of yeast RNA with oligonucleotide probeSingle stranded dut- ung- DNA preparationYeast DNA preparation (rapid glass bead prep)Yeast genomic DNA Preparation (high quality DNA)Yeast RNA (acid phenol) SM induction and cDNA synthesisYeast quick plasmid DNA prep
Proprietary Methods (password required)
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