Rumbaugh Gavin, Miller Courtney A
Department of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute Florida, Jupiter, FL, USA.
Methods Mol Biol. 2011;670:263-74. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60761-744-0_18.
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of research on the role of epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation and histone protein acetylation and phosphorylation, in neuroscience. These changes exert control over gene expression and have been shown to play important roles in a variety of neural processes, including learning and memory. We and others have also recently shown that epigenetic changes may contribute to neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. Western blot analysis with antibodies raised against specific histone modifications is a relatively simple technique able to reveal the type, location, and degree of histone posttranslational modifications produced by an experimental manipulation. Here we provide a step-by-step protocol for isolating histone proteins from tissue and measuring these posttranslational modifications.
近年来,关于表观遗传修饰(如DNA甲基化、组蛋白乙酰化和磷酸化)在神经科学中的作用的研究呈爆发式增长。这些变化控制着基因表达,并已被证明在包括学习和记忆在内的各种神经过程中发挥重要作用。我们和其他人最近还表明,表观遗传变化可能导致神经退行性疾病,如阿尔茨海默病。使用针对特定组蛋白修饰产生的抗体进行蛋白质免疫印迹分析是一种相对简单的技术,能够揭示实验操作产生的组蛋白翻译后修饰的类型、位置和程度。在这里,我们提供了一个从组织中分离组蛋白并测量这些翻译后修饰的分步方案。