In the studies on the precipitin reaction hitherto published from this laboratory (1) the salt concentration was held constant at 0.9 per cent of sodium chloride in order to permit observations on the effect of varying the proportions of antigen (or hapten) and antibody. In the present paper are reported data obtained during several years on the influence on the course of the precipitin reactio...

Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reactions (qRT-PCR) have become the method of choice for rapid, sensitive, quantitative comparison of RNA transcript abundance. Useful data from this method depend on fitting data to theoretical curves that allow computation of mRNA levels. Calculating accurate mRNA levels requires important parameters such as reaction efficiency and the fractional cycle ...

A quantitative study o f the diazo reaction has been made with several bilirubins including a 2,3dihydrobilirubin and several phycorubins. The latter have been prepared from the integral phycocyanin of two cyanobacteria (Mastigocladus laminosus and Spirulina platensis), and from the phycocyanin subunits. These phycorubins have been subjected to the diazo reaction in order to test for the presen...

Recombinant therapeutic proteins are biopharmaceutical products that develop rapidly for years. Recombinant protein production in certain hosts requires vector expression harboring the gene encoding the corresponding protein. Escherichia coli is the prokaryote organism mostly used in recombinant protein production, commonly using a plasmid as the expression vector. Recombinant protein productio...

Limiting dilution PCR has become an increasingly useful technique for the detection and quantification of rare species in a population, but the limit of detection and accuracy of quantification are largely determined by the number of reactions that can be analyzed. Increased throughput may be achieved by reducing the reaction volume and increasing processivity. We have designed a high-throughpu...

Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are common vascular malformations that arise primarily in the central nervous system. CCMs are typically diagnosed in middle age and constitute an important cause of stroke and neurological deficit in younger individuals. One third of CCMs are familiar, and positional cloning studies have identified loss of function mutations in 3 genes, KRIT1, CCM2 and P...