Lin-Moshier Yaping, Marchant Jonathan S
Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2013 Mar 1;2013(3):10.1101/pdb.prot072785 pdb.prot072785. doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot072785.
The Xenopus oocyte is frequently used for heterologous expression and for studying the spatiotemporal patterning of Ca(2+) signals. Here, we outline a protocol for nuclear microinjection of the Xenopus oocyte for the purpose of studying how subsequently expressed proteins impact intracellular Ca(2+) signals evoked by inositol trisphosphate (InsP3). Injected oocytes can easily be identified by reporter technologies and the impact of heterologously expressed proteins on the generation and properties of InsP3-evoked Ca(2+) signals can be resolved using caged InsP3 and fluorescent Ca(2+) indicators.
非洲爪蟾卵母细胞常用于异源表达以及研究Ca(2+)信号的时空模式。在此,我们概述了一种用于非洲爪蟾卵母细胞核显微注射的方案,目的是研究随后表达的蛋白质如何影响由三磷酸肌醇(InsP3)诱发的细胞内Ca(2+)信号。通过报告技术可以轻松识别注射后的卵母细胞,并且使用笼锁三磷酸肌醇(caged InsP3)和荧光Ca(2+)指示剂可以解析异源表达蛋白质对InsP3诱发的Ca(2+)信号的产生及特性的影响。