我们非常感谢马修罗伯特韦瑟优质的技术服务和约翰拉尔夫，威斯康星大学的宝贵意见，讨论和杨木样本。这项工作的美国能源部（DOE）的大湖生物能源研究中心（美国能源部的BER科学DE - FC02 - 07ER64494办事处）和化学科学，地球科学和生物科学部，基础能源科学办公室，科学办公室资助美国能源部（无奖。DE - FG02 - 91ER20021）。

1。细胞墙隔离<ol><li>大约60 - 70mg的空气或冷冻干燥植物材料研磨5.5毫米，在2毫升Sarstedt螺丝帽使用一个iWall管不锈钢球，研磨和配药机器人（30秒）。另一种非机械手的低吞吐量的程序，使用一个球，磨（retschmill）是在第二部分2。 </li><li> 1.5毫升的70％的水溶液乙醇添加到免除地面材料，旋涡彻底。 </li><li>以10,000 rpm离心10分钟沉淀不溶于酒精残留。 </li><li>吸或倒出上清液。 </li><li>加入1.5毫升氯仿/甲醇（1:1 V / V）的解决方案去渣，彻底动摇管悬浮沉淀。 </li><li>离心10,000 RPM为10分钟，并吸出或倒出上清液。 </li><li> 500μL丙酮中的悬浮颗粒。 </li><li>蒸发与空气流在35 ° C，待干溶剂。 如果需要干燥的样品可存放在室温，直到进一步的处理。 </li><li>要启动从样本中去除淀粉颗粒悬浮在一个0.1 M的醋酸钠缓冲液的pH值5.0分中评1.5毫升。 </li><li>第20分钟Sarstedt管和热。在80 ° C在加热块。 </li><li>清凉冰暂停。 </li><li>添加以下代理颗粒：35微升0.01％叠氮化钠（NaN3的），35μL淀粉酶（50μg/ mL的H 2 O; 芽孢杆菌的物种，Sigma公司）; 17μL普鲁兰（17.8 acidopullulyticus芽孢杆菌;单位西格玛） 。第管和涡彻底。 </li><li>悬挂在37℃摇床中的C孵育过夜。定向管水平助手改善混合。 </li><li>热悬浮在100 ° C下10分钟，在加热块终止消化。 </li><li>离心（10,000 RPM，10分钟），弃上清液含溶解淀粉。 </li><li>洗净，加入1.5毫升的水，振荡，离心，洗涤水调迁，其余颗粒三次。 </li><li> 500μL丙酮中的悬浮颗粒。 </li><li>蒸发与空气流在35 ° C，待干溶剂。这可能是必要的，也打破了管具有更好的干燥锅铲的材料。 干燥后的材料呈现孤立的细胞壁（lignocellulosics）。如果需要干燥的样品可存放在室温，直到进一步的处理。 </li></ol> 2。木质素含量这种方法是基于一个福岛和Hatfield 3方法。 <ol><li>称取1 - 1.5毫克的细胞壁物质准备（1）到2 ml容量瓶中留下一管空一个空白。 </li><li> 250丙酮液收集管底部的细胞壁物质冲洗管壁，丙酮蒸发下的气流非常温柔。 </li><li>轻轻地沿管壁添加100μL新鲜的乙酰溴铵溶液（25％V / V冰醋酸中的乙酰溴），防止飞溅。 </li><li>第容量瓶和热在50℃为2小时彗星</li><li>热与涡旋每15分钟增加一小时。 </li><li>在冰上冷至室温。 </li><li>新增400个2M的氢氧化钠和70μL新鲜配制的0.5 M的盐酸羟胺液。涡容量瓶。 </li><li>完全填充容量瓶用冰醋酸，第2.0毫升标志和颠倒几次混合。 </li><li>吸取200μL的解决方案的紫外线具体的96孔板，在酶标仪在280nm处读取。 </li><li>乙酰溴溶解木质素（％ABSL）的比例，使用适当的系数（白杨= 18.21;草= 17.75;拟南芥= 15.69），用下面的公式确定： ABSL％Calc工作： <img src="/files/ftp_upload/1745/1745eq.jpg" alt="图1" /> 10微克/毫克细胞壁单位乘法％ABSL 它可以帮助做至少有3盘读取的平均吸光度（ABS），因为微粒可导致吸光度值略有变化。注：0.539厘米的光程，但根据板，这可能需要确定。 </li></ol> 3。木质素组成这种方法是通过从罗宾逊和曼斯菲尔德5最近出版了一方法。 <ol><li>转移到一个螺丝thioacidolysis上限玻璃管约2毫克细胞壁物质（见1）。。 </li><li>精心准备二乙基乙醚2.5％，三氟化硼（BF 3），10％的乙硫醇（EtSH）解决方案。您必须使用一个气球充满氮气，以取代二恶烷在用氮气瓶的丢失量。二恶烷是非常危险的，不拿样品或设备的引擎盖。需要为每个样品溶液的制备：175μL的二恶烷; 20μLEtSH; 5μL高炉3卷。 </li><li>加入200μLEtSH，BF 3，每个样品中的二恶烷的解决方案。 </li><li>样品瓶顶空与氮气和第立即清除。 </li><li>热在100 ° C时轻轻搅拌每隔一小时4小时。 </li><li>冰上冷却5分钟结束反应。 </li><li> 0.4M碳酸氢钠加入150μL，涡旋</li><li>对于清理中添加1毫升的水和0.5毫升乙酸乙酯，旋涡，让独立的阶段（顶部，底部水醋酸乙酯）。 </li><li>转移到2毫升Sarstedt管150μL的醋酸乙酯层。确保没有水转。 </li><li>溶剂蒸发与空气浓缩。 </li><li>添加200μL丙酮和蒸发（共两次重复删除多余的水分）。 </li><li>对于TMS衍生添加醋酸乙酯500μL，20μL吡啶，N，O -双（三甲基硅基）乙酰胺，以每管100μL。 </li><li>孵育2小时25 ° C。 </li><li>转移100μL成小瓶的GC / MS的反应，并添加100μL丙酮。 </li><li>配备一个四极质谱仪或火焰离子化检测器的气相色谱法分析样品。安捷伦HP - 5MS柱的安装（X 0.25毫米X 0.25微米薄膜厚度30毫米）。以下的温度梯度是用溶剂延迟了30分钟和一个1.1毫升/分钟流速：初始保持在130 ° C，3分钟3℃/ min的坡道至250℃，保持1分钟;平衡到初始温度130 ° C </li><li>米/ 269米/ Z，Z，和239米/ Z，S，G和H单体，分别为（见图相对保留使用四烷内标（可选）倍或299频谱特征质量离子峰确定。 2）。木质素组件的组成是通过设置总峰面积的100％的量化</li></ol> 4。代表性的成果墙上分析的一个例子是在图2。在这种情况下，杨树干（木）协议部分所述的各种程序进行了分析。木质素元件分离后thioacidolysis和TMS衍生的一个例子色谱图。显然，紫丁香的相对丰度（S），愈创木，（G）和P - hydroxyphenol - （H）的单位可确定。乙酰溴溶于木质素的内容是不言自明，可以壁干重的20-50％之间的预期值。应该注意的乙酰溴不溶解在墙上的木质素目前，增溶程度可以有所不同，视物。然而，这种方法是比较容易开展和快速的，并给出了在一个木质纤维材料的木质素含量的优秀近似值。 <img src="/files/ftp_upload/1745/1745fig1.jpg" alt="图1" /> 图1：木质纤维分析概述。细胞壁（lignocellulosics）原油干植物材料隔离。墙体材料，然后加权成等份，并细分为各种检测。墙体材料是乙酰溴和溶解的木质素由紫外线光谱量化处理。木质素成分的测定，墙体材料是受到thioacidolysis。溶酚醛树脂进行TMS衍生化和GC - MS分析，然后可以分离和量化。矩阵多糖的组成和结晶纤维素含量协议是讨论在第二部分 2 。 <img src="/files/ftp_upload/1745/1745fig2.jpg" alt="图2" /> 图2：杨树（ 胡杨tremoloides） 杨树木材的木质纤维综合分析木片所描述的协议。 Ligin组成，H P -羟基苯基，G愈创木，S紫丁香单位。

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描述的方法，使木质素含量和木质纤维植物的生物量组成的快速定量评估。使用iWall机器人约350个样本，每天可地面和免除。每人的各种分析方法的吞吐量不同。使用这里描述的协议，30个样本可以处理的木质素含量，并每天为木质素组成15。由于数据的最佳原料作物的定量性质，品种或基因型，可用于生产生物燃料的适用性评估。

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comprehensive compositional analysis of plant cell walls (lignocellulosic biomass) part i: lignin

可再生，碳中性的，和可持续发展的原材料行业和社会的需要，已成为面向21世纪的最紧迫的问题之一。这再度引发了在植物产品作为工业原料使用液体燃料的运输生产的兴趣<sup&gt; 1</sup&gt;和其他产品，如生物复合材料<sup&gt; 7</sup&gt;。植物生物量的仍然是这个星球上最大的未开发储量<sup&gt; 4</sup&gt;。它主要是由细胞组成的墙壁，能源丰富的聚合物包括纤维素，半纤维素（矩阵多糖，各种多酚木质素<sup&gt; 6</sup&gt;，因此有时被称为lignocellulosics。然而，植物细胞壁的演变顽抗退化如墙壁提供抗拉强度细胞和整个植物，抵御病原体，并让水在整个工厂运输，在树木的情况下，超过100米以上地面水平。由于墙的各种功能，内有不同的植物种类和细胞类型的墙壁上一个巨大的结构在一个单一的植物多样性<sup&gt; 4</sup&gt;。因此，根据什么样的作物品种，作物品种，或植物组织是一个生物炼制，加工为解聚/酶的化学过程和随后的各种糖发酵的液体生物燃料的步骤需要进行调整和优化。这一事实的基础需要一个彻底的植物生物质原料分析。在这里，我们描述了一个全面的分析方法，使lignocellulosics组成的决心，是适合中期，以高通量分析。在第一部分中，我们专注于多酚木质素的分析（图1）。方法开始准备destarched细胞壁物质。造成lignocellulosics分裂acetylbromide增溶，以确定其木质素含量<sup&gt; 3</sup&gt;，其在紫丁香，愈创木和P -羟基苯单位的木质素组成<sup&gt; 5</sup&gt;。在木质纤维素生物质的碳水化合物，包括纤维素含量和基质多糖成分分析的协议是在第二部分讨论<sup&gt; 2</sup&gt;。

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植物生物量是一个主要的碳中性的可再生资源，可用于生产生物燃料的使用。植物生物量主要由细胞壁，一个结构复杂的复合材料，被称为lignocellulosics。在这里，我们描述为一个全面的内容和组成的多酚类木质素分析协议。

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Comprehensive Compositional Analysis of Plant Cell Walls (Lignocellulosic biomass) Part I: Lignin

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32.0K 次观看.  Michigan State University (MSU). 植物生物量是一个主要的碳中性的可再生资源，可用于生产生物燃料的使用。植物生物量主要由细胞壁，一个结构复杂的复合材料，被称为lignocellulosics。在这里，我们描述为一个全面的内容和组成的多酚类木质素分析协议。

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Human Pancreatic Islet Isolation: Part I: Digestion and Collection of Pancreatic Tissue

Management of Type 1 diabetes is burdensome, both to the individual and society, costing over 100 billion dollars annually. Despite the widespread use of glucose monitoring and new insulin formulations, many individuals still develop devastating secondary complications. Pancreatic islet transplantation can restore near normal glucose control in diabetic patients 1, without the risk of serious hypoglycemic episodes that are associated with intensive insulin therapy. Providing sufficient islet mass is important for successful islet transplantation. However, donor characteristic, organ procurement and preservation affect the isolation outcome 2. At University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) we have developed a successful isolation protocol with an improved purification gradient 3. The program started in January 2004, and more than 300 isolations were performed up to November 2008. The pancreata were sent in cold preservation solutions (UW, University of Wisconsin or HTK, Histidine-Tryptophan Ketoglutarate) 4-7 to the Cell Isolation Laboratory at UIC for islet isolation. Pancreatic islets were isolated using the UIC method, which is a modified version of the method originally described by Ricordi et al 8. Briefly, after cleaning the pancreas from the surrounding tissue, it was perfused with enzyme solution (Serva Collagenase + Neutral Protease or Sigma V enzyme). The distended pancreas was then transferred to the Ricordi digestion chamber, connected to a modified, closed circulation tubing system, and warmed up to 37&deg;C. During the digestion, the chamber was shaken gently. Samples were taken continuously to monitor the digestion progress. Once free islets were detected under the microscope, the digestion was stopped by flushing cold (4&deg;C) RPMI dilution solution (Mediatech, Herndon, VA) into the circulation system to dilute the enzyme. After being collected and washed in M199 media supplemented with human albumin, the tissue was sampled for pre-purification count and incubated with UW solution before purification. Purification process will be described in Part II: Purification and Culture of Human Islets.

Achieving high quality and appropriate quantity of human islets is one of the prominent prerequisites for successful islet transplantation. In this video, we describe step by step the procedures for human pancreatic islet isolation (part I: digestion and collection of pancreatic tissue) using a modified automated method.

人类胰岛的分离：第一部分：收集和胰腺组织消化

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Vaccinia Virus Infection &amp; Temporal Analysis of Virus Gene Expression: Part 1

The family Poxviridae consists of large double-stranded DNA containing viruses that replicate exclusively in the cytoplasm of infected cells. Members of the orthopox genus include variola, the causative agent of human small pox, monkeypox, and vaccinia (VAC), the prototypic member of the virus family. Within the relatively large (~ 200 kb) vaccinia genome, three classes of genes are encoded: early, intermediate, and late. While all three classes are transcribed by virally-encoded RNA polymerases, each class serves a different function in the life cycle of the virus. Poxviruses utilize multiple strategies for modulation of the host cellular environment during infection. In order to understand regulation of both host and virus gene expression, we have utilized genome-wide approaches to analyze transcript abundance from both virus and host cells. Here, we demonstrate time course infections of HeLa cells with Vaccinia virus and sampling RNA at several time points post-infection. Both host and viral total RNA is isolated and amplified for hybridization to microarrays for analysis of gene expression.

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Vaccinia Virus Infection &amp; Temporal Analysis of Virus Gene Expression: Part 2

The family Poxviridae consists of large double-stranded DNA containing viruses that replicate exclusively in the cytoplasm of infected cells. Members of the orthopox genus include variola, the causative agent of human small pox, monkeypox, and vaccinia (VAC), the prototypic member of the virus family. Within the relatively large (~ 200 kb) vaccinia genome, three classes of genes are encoded: early, intermediate, and late. While all three classes are transcribed by virally-encoded RNA polymerases, each class serves a different function in the life cycle of the virus. Poxviruses utilize multiple strategies for modulation of the host cellular environment during infection. In order to understand regulation of both host and virus gene expression, we have utilized genome-wide approaches to analyze transcript abundance from both virus and host cells. Here, we demonstrate time course infections of HeLa cells with Vaccinia virus and sampling RNA at several time points post-infection. Both host and viral total RNA is isolated and amplified for hybridization to microarrays for analysis of gene expression.

Protocol for Vaccinia infection of HeLa cells and analysis of host and viral gene expression. Part 2 of 3.

牛痘病毒感染及病毒基因表达的时空分析：第2部分

Vaccinia Virus Infection &amp; Temporal Analysis of Virus Gene Expression: Part 3

Protocol for Vaccinia infection of HeLa cells and analysis of host and viral gene expression. Part 3 describes the process of fluorescently labeling the amplified RNA from both host and viral samples by amino allyl coupling of dyes. Part 3 of 3.

牛痘病毒感染及病毒基因表达的时空分析：第3部分

Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting of Plant Protoplasts

High-resolution, cell type-specific analysis of gene expression greatly enhances understanding of developmental regulation and responses to environmental stimuli in any multicellular organism. In situ hybridization and reporter gene visualization can to a limited extent be used to this end but for high resolution quantitative RT-PCR or high-throughput transcriptome-wide analysis the isolation of RNA from particular cell types is requisite. Cellular dissociation of tissue expressing a fluorescent protein marker in a specific cell type and subsequent Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) makes it possible to collect sufficient amounts of material for RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis/amplification and microarray analysis.
An extensive set of cell type-specific fluorescent reporter lines is available to the plant research community. In this case, two marker lines of the Arabidopsis thaliana root are used: PSCR::GFP (endodermis and quiescent center) and PWOX5::GFP (quiescent center). Large numbers (thousands) of seedlings are grown hydroponically or on agar plates and harvested to obtain enough root material for further analysis. Cellular dissociation of plant material is achieved by enzymatic digestion of the cell wall. This procedure makes use of high osmolarity-induced plasmolysis and commercially available cellulases, pectinases and hemicellulases to release protoplasts into solution.
FACS of GFP-positive cells makes use of the visualization of the green versus the red emission spectra of protoplasts excited by a 488 nm laser. GFP-positive protoplasts can be distinguished by their increased ratio of green to red emission. Protoplasts are typically sorted directly into RNA extraction buffer and stored for further processing at a later time.
This technique is revealed to be straightforward and practicable. Furthermore, it is shown that it can be used without difficulty to isolate sufficient numbers of cells for transcriptome analysis, even for very scarce cell types (e.g. quiescent center cells). Lastly, a growth setup for Arabidopsis seedlings is demonstrated that enables uncomplicated treatment of the plants prior to cell sorting (e.g. for the cell type-specific analysis of biotic or abiotic stress responses). Potential supplementary uses for FACS of plant protoplasts are discussed.

A method for isolating specific cell types from plant material is demonstrated. This technique employs transgenic marker lines expressing fluorescent proteins in particular cell types, cellular dissociation and Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting. Additionally, a growth setup is established here that facilitates treatment of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings prior to cell sorting.

植物原生质体的荧光激活细胞分选

High-resolution, cell type-specific analysis of gene expression greatly enhances understanding of developmental regulation and responses to environmental ...

Comprehensive Compositional Analysis of Plant Cell Walls (Lignocellulosic biomass) Part II: Carbohydrates

The need for renewable, carbon neutral, and sustainable raw materials for industry and society has become one of the most pressing issues for the 21st century. This has rekindled interest in the use of plant products as industrial raw materials for the production of liquid fuels for transportation2 and other products such as biocomposite materials6. Plant biomass remains one of the greatest untapped reserves on the planet4. It is mostly comprised of cell walls that are composed of energy rich polymers including cellulose, various hemicelluloses, and the polyphenol lignin5 and thus sometimes termed lignocellulosics. However, plant cell walls have evolved to be recalcitrant to degradation as walls contribute extensively to the strength and structural integrity of the entire plant. Despite its necessary rigidity, the cell wall is a highly dynamic entity that is metabolically active and plays crucial roles in numerous cell activities such as plant growth and differentiation5. Due to the various functions of walls, there is an immense structural diversity within the walls of different plant species and cell types within a single plant4. Hence, depending of what crop species, crop variety, or plant tissue is used for a biorefinery, the processing steps for depolymerisation by chemical/enzymatic processes and subsequent fermentation of the various sugars to liquid biofuels need to be adjusted and optimized. This fact underpins the need for a thorough characterization of plant biomass feedstocks. Here we describe a comprehensive analytical methodology that enables the determination of the composition of lignocellulosics and is amenable to a medium to high-throughput analysis (Figure 1). The method starts of with preparing destarched cell wall material. The resulting lignocellulosics are then split up to determine its monosaccharide composition of the hemicelluloses and other matrix polysaccharides1, and its content of crystalline cellulose7. The protocol for analyzing the lignin components in lignocellulosic biomass is discussed in Part I3.

Comprehensive Compositional Analysis of Plant Cell Walls Lignocellulosic biomass Part II: Carbohydrates

Plant biomass is a major carbon-neutral renewable resource that could be used for the production of biofuels. Plant biomass consists mainly of cell walls, a structurally complex composite material termed lignocellulosics. Here we describe a protocol for a comprehensive analysis of the content and composition of wall derived carbohydrates.

综合植物细胞壁成分分析（木质纤维素生物质）第二部分：碳水化合物

Label-free in situ Imaging of Lignification in Plant Cell Walls

Meeting growing energy demands safely and efficiently is a pressing global challenge. Therefore, research into biofuels production that seeks to find cost-effective and sustainable solutions has become a topical and critical task. Lignocellulosic biomass is poised to become the primary source of biomass for the conversion to liquid biofuels1-6. However, the recalcitrance of these plant cell wall materials to cost-effective and efficient degradation presents a major impediment for their use in the production of biofuels and chemicals4. In particular, lignin, a complex and irregular poly-phenylpropanoid heteropolymer, becomes problematic to the postharvest deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass. For example in biomass conversion for biofuels, it inhibits saccharification in processes aimed at producing simple sugars for fermentation7. The effective use of plant biomass for industrial purposes is in fact largely dependent on the extent to which the plant cell wall is lignified. The removal of lignin is a costly and limiting factor8 and lignin has therefore become a key plant breeding and genetic engineering target in order to improve cell wall conversion.
Analytical tools that permit the accurate rapid characterization of lignification of plant cell walls become increasingly important for evaluating a large number of breeding populations. Extractive procedures for the isolation of native components such as lignin are inevitably destructive, bringing about significant chemical and structural modifications9-11. Analytical chemical in situ methods are thus invaluable tools for the compositional and structural characterization of lignocellulosic materials. Raman microscopy is a technique that relies on inelastic or Raman scattering of monochromatic light, like that from a laser, where the shift in energy of the laser photons is related to molecular vibrations and presents an intrinsic label-free molecular "fingerprint" of the sample. Raman microscopy can afford non-destructive and comparatively inexpensive measurements with minimal sample preparation, giving insights into chemical composition and molecular structure in a close to native state. Chemical imaging by confocal Raman microscopy has been previously used for the visualization of the spatial distribution of cellulose and lignin in wood cell walls12-14. Based on these earlier results, we have recently adopted this method to compare lignification in wild type and lignin-deficient transgenic Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood) stem wood15. Analyzing the lignin Raman bands16,17 in the spectral region between 1,600 and 1,700 cm-1, lignin signal intensity and localization were mapped in situ. Our approach visualized differences in lignin content, localization, and chemical composition. Most recently, we demonstrated Raman imaging of cell wall polymers in Arabidopsis thaliana with lateral resolution that is sub-&mu;m18. Here, this method is presented affording visualization of lignin in plant cell walls and comparison of lignification in different tissues, samples or species without staining or labeling of the tissues.

Label-free in situ Imaging of Lignification in Plant Cell Walls

A method based on confocal Raman microscopy is presented that affords label-free visualization of lignin in plant cell walls and comparison of lignification in different tissues, samples or species.

无标签原位成像在植物细胞壁的木质化

Meeting growing energy demands safely and efficiently is a pressing global challenge. Therefore, research into biofuels production that seeks to find ...

Glycan Profiling of Plant Cell Wall Polymers using Microarrays

Plant cell walls are complex matrixes of heterogeneous glycans which play an important role in the physiology and development of plants and provide the raw materials for human societies (e.g. wood, paper, textile and biofuel industries)1,2. However, understanding the biosynthesis and function of these components remains challenging.
Cell wall glycans are chemically and conformationally diverse due to the complexity of their building blocks, the glycosyl residues. These form linkages at multiple positions and differ in ring structure, isomeric or anomeric configuration, and in addition, are substituted with an array of non-sugar residues. Glycan composition varies in different cell and/or tissue types or even sub-domains of a single cell wall3. Furthermore, their composition is also modified during development1, or in response to environmental cues4.
In excess of 2,000 genes have Plant cell walls are complex matrixes of heterogeneous glycans been predicted to be involved in cell wall glycan biosynthesis and modification in Arabidopsis5. However, relatively few of the biosynthetic genes have been functionally characterized 4,5. Reverse genetics approaches are difficult because the genes are often differentially expressed, often at low levels, between cell types6. Also, mutant studies are often hindered by gene redundancy or compensatory mechanisms to ensure appropriate cell wall function is maintained7. Thus novel approaches are needed to rapidly characterise the diverse range of glycan structures and to facilitate functional genomics approaches to understanding cell wall biosynthesis and modification.
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)8,9 have emerged as an important tool for determining glycan structure and distribution in plants. These recognise distinct epitopes present within major classes of plant cell wall glycans, including pectins, xyloglucans, xylans, mannans, glucans and arabinogalactans. Recently their use has been extended to large-scale screening experiments to determine the relative abundance of glycans in a broad range of plant and tissue types simultaneously9,10,11.
Here we present a microarray-based glycan screening method called Comprehensive Microarray Polymer Profiling (CoMPP) (Figures 1 &amp; 2)10,11 that enables multiple samples (100 sec) to be screened using a miniaturised microarray platform with reduced reagent and sample volumes. The spot signals on the microarray can be formally quantified to give semi-quantitative data about glycan epitope occurrence. This approach is well suited to tracking glycan changes in complex biological systems12 and providing a global overview of cell wall composition particularly when prior knowledge of this is unavailable.

A technique called Comprehensive Microarray Polymer Profiling (CoMPP) for the characterisation of plant cell wall glycans is described. This method combines the specificity of monoclonal antibodies directed to defined glycan-epitopes with a miniature microarray analytical platform allowing screening of glycan occurrence in a broad range of biological contexts.

糖基谱研究植物细胞壁聚合物，用微阵列

Plant cell walls are complex matrixes of heterogeneous glycans which play an important role in the physiology and development of plants and provide the ...

Metabolic Labeling and Membrane Fractionation for Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana Suspension Cell Cultures

Plasma membrane microdomains are features based on the physical properties of the lipid and sterol environment and have particular roles in signaling processes. Extracting sterol-enriched membrane microdomains from plant cells for proteomic analysis is a difficult task mainly due to multiple preparation steps and sources for contaminations from other cellular compartments. The plasma membrane constitutes only about 5-20% of all the membranes in a plant cell, and therefore isolation of highly purified plasma membrane fraction is challenging. A frequently used method involves aqueous two-phase partitioning in polyethylene glycol and dextran, which yields plasma membrane vesicles with a purity of 95% 1. Sterol-rich membrane microdomains within the plasma membrane are insoluble upon treatment with cold nonionic detergents at alkaline pH. This detergent-resistant membrane fraction can be separated from the bulk plasma membrane by ultracentrifugation in a sucrose gradient 2. Subsequently, proteins can be extracted from the low density band of the sucrose gradient by methanol/chloroform precipitation. Extracted protein will then be trypsin digested, desalted and finally analyzed by LC-MS/MS. Our extraction protocol for sterol-rich microdomains is optimized for the preparation of clean detergent-resistant membrane fractions from Arabidopsis thaliana cell cultures.
We use full metabolic labeling of Arabidopsis thaliana suspension cell cultures with K15NO3 as the only nitrogen source for quantitative comparative proteomic studies following biological treatment of interest 3. By mixing equal ratios of labeled and unlabeled cell cultures for joint protein extraction the influence of preparation steps on final quantitative result is kept at a minimum. Also loss of material during extraction will affect both control and treatment samples in the same way, and therefore the ratio of light and heave peptide will remain constant. In the proposed method either labeled or unlabeled cell culture undergoes a biological treatment, while the other serves as control 4.

Metabolic Labeling and Membrane Fractionation for Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana Suspension Cell Cultures

Here we describe a robust method for the fractionation of plant plasma membranes into detergent resistant and detergent soluble membranes based on a mixture of unlabeled and in vivo fully 15N labeled Arabidopsis thaliana cell cultures. The procedure is applied for comparative proteomic studies to understand signaling processes.

代谢标记和膜分馏的比较蛋白质组学分析<em&gt;拟南芥</em&gt;悬浮细胞培养

Plasma membrane microdomains are features based on the physical properties of the lipid and sterol environment and have particular roles in signaling ...

An Efficient Method for Quantitative, Single-cell Analysis of Chromatin Modification and Nuclear Architecture in Whole-mount Ovules in Arabidopsis

In flowering plants, the somatic-to-reproductive cell fate transition is marked by the specification of spore mother cells (SMCs) in floral organs of the adult plant. The female SMC (megaspore mother cell, MMC) differentiates in the ovule primordium and undergoes meiosis. The selected haploid megaspore then undergoes mitosis to form the multicellular female gametophyte, which will give rise to the gametes, the egg cell and central cell, together with accessory cells. The limited accessibility of the MMC, meiocyte and female gametophyte inside the ovule is technically challenging for cytological and cytogenetic analyses at single cell level. Particularly, direct or indirect immunodetection of cellular or nuclear epitopes is impaired by poor penetration of the reagents inside the plant cell and single-cell imaging is demised by the lack of optical clarity in whole-mount tissues.
Thus, we developed an efficient method to analyze the nuclear organization and chromatin modification at high resolution of single cell in whole-mount embedded Arabidopsis ovules. It is based on dissection and embedding of fixed ovules in a thin layer of acrylamide gel on a microscopic slide. The embedded ovules are subjected to chemical and enzymatic treatments aiming at improving tissue clarity and permeability to the immunostaining reagents. Those treatments preserve cellular and chromatin organization, DNA and protein epitopes. The samples can be used for different downstream cytological analyses, including chromatin immunostaining, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and DNA staining for heterochromatin analysis. Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) imaging, with high resolution, followed by 3D reconstruction allows for quantitative measurements at single-cell resolution.

An Efficient Method for Quantitative, Single-cell Analysis of Chromatin Modification and Nuclear Architecture in Whole-mount Ovules in Arabidopsis

We provide here an efficient and reliable protocol for immunostaining, Fluorescence in&#160;situ Hybridization, DNA staining followed by quantitative, high-resolution imaging in whole-mount Arabidopsis thaliana ovules. This method was successfully used to analyze chromatin modifications and nuclear architecture.

定量，单细胞在全安装胚珠在染色质修饰和核体系结构分析的有效方法<em&gt;拟南芥</em

In flowering plants, the somatic-to-reproductive cell fate transition is marked by the specification of spore mother cells (SMCs) in floral organs of the ...