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AO Research Institute Davos, Davos, Switzerland

3 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Cancer Research

Phosphopeptide Enrichment Coupled with Label-free Quantitative Mass Spectrometry to Investigate the Phosphoproteome in Prostate Cancer

Larry C. Cheng^*1,2, Zhen Li^*3, Thomas G. Graeber⁴, Nicholas A. Graham⁵, Justin M. Drake^1,2,3,6,7

¹Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, ²Graduate Program in Quantitative Biomedicine, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, ⁴Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA Metabolomics Center, and California NanoSystems Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, ⁵Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, ⁶Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, ⁷Cancer Metabolism and Growth Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

This protocol describes a procedure to extract and enrich phosphopeptides from prostate cancer cell lines or tissues for an analysis of the phosphoproteome via mass spectrometry-based proteomics.

Engineering

Radio Frequency Magnetron Sputtering of GdBa₂Cu₃O₇₋_δ/ La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃ Quasi-bilayer Films on SrTiO₃ (STO) Single-crystal Substrates

Ying Wang^1,2, Zhen Li^1,2, YongSheng Liu¹, Yijie Li², Linfei Liu², Da Xu², Xiaojing Luo¹, Tian Gao^1,3, Yanyan Zhu^1,4, Luozeng Zhou³, Jianming Xu³

¹Department of Physics, Mathematics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Materials Protection and Advanced Materials in Electric Power, Shanghai University of Electric Power, ²Key Laboratory of Artificial Structure and Quantum Control, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ³Shanghai Institute of Space Power-sources, ⁴Shanghai Key Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductors, Shanghai University

Here, we present a protocol to grow LSMO nanoparticles and (Gd) BCO films on (001) SrTiO₃ (STO) single-crystal substrates by radio frequency (RF)-sputtering.

Medicine

A Proinflammatory, Degenerative Organ Culture Model to Simulate Early-Stage Intervertebral Disc Disease.

Babak Saravi^*1,2, Gernot Lang^*2, Sibylle Grad¹, Mauro Alini¹, R. Geoff Richards^1,2, Hagen Schmal², Norbert Südkamp², Zhen Li¹

¹AO Research Institute Davos, Davos, Switzerland, ²Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Centre-Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

This protocol presents a novel experimental model of proinflammatory, degenerative bovine organ culture to simulate early-stage intervertebral disc degeneration.