Joe's mRNA prep(Audrey Gasch Pat Brown ) Oligo-dT cellulose prepDump Ambion vial contents into 50 ml c/f tube Add 10 ml 1x NETS to vial cap rinse vial dump 10 ml into c/f tube Spin tube 3000 rpm 2 min ...
Yale RNA prep(Rebecca D. Burdine Michael J. Stern ) Add 8 ml of TRIZOL to 2 ml packed worms in 15 ml centrifuge tube. Vortex and invert tube to solubilize and lyse worms for at least 10 min. Divide in ...
Immunofluorescence of C. elegans EmbryosMaterials:fixative dependent on antigen (common: 4% formaldehyde or 100% MeOH) post-fixative dependent on antigen (usually MeOH) PBS 1X PBS PBST PBS + detergent ...
DAPI Staining To visualize DNA incubate fixed samples with 100 ng/ml 4'6'-diamidino-2-phenylindole hydrochloride (DAPI) in PBS for 30 min. Rinse 3x with PBTw. MaterialsPBS: Sambrook et al. (Molecular ...
Double dye filling (using DiO and di-4 ANEPPS)(Krista Williams) Dye Filling Label 15 ml centrifuge (c/f) tubes with strain name. Squirt ~1-2 ml M9 onto plate with a Pasteur pipet. Rinse plate with M9 ...
Dye Filling to Stain Amphid and Phasmid Neurons by Michael Koelle from Beth Sawin 4/6/94 1. Buy DiO from Molecular Probes catalog # D-275. DiO fluorescesces green (use FITC filters). If you want red f ...
Fixation and Staining ParametersAntigen Fixation Fixation time AntibodyDilutionRefmicrotubules 100% MeOH 5 min @ RT DM1a1:500actin 4% Formaldehydundefined 8 min @ RT C41:5001POD-1 Formaldehyde or MeOundefined 8 min ...
EM Fixation of EmbryosAdapted following advice from Andy Fire and Jim Priess1. Mount embryos on slides as if for DIC except agar has fixative. Agarose Fixative 3ml 2% Agarose : 1.5% LGT Agarose + .05% ...
Bloomington No-Plug Food Prep Method Standard medium in use at Bloomington Hard agar medium in use at Bloomington Cornmeal Sucrose Dextrose Yeast and 2-Acid Medium Cornmeal-molasses-yeast medium Co ...
Gonad Dissections- From R. Francis -1) Pick adults and/or L4s to an unseeded NGM plate. Alternatively wash worms off a seeded plate with 1.5 ml of PBS and allow to gravity settle for a few minutes in ...
Gonad Fixation - From R. Francis -A. Methanol Methanol fixation is quick easy and gives satisfactory nuclear morphology after DAPI staining. However methanol-fixed gonads break easily and are more dif ...
In situ hybridizationIn situ hybridizations were based on a modified method of Seydoux and Fire (1994 Development 120 2823-2834; 1995 Methods in Cell Biology) (H. Tabara and Y. Kohara personal commun ...
FREEZE-CRACK b-GALACTOSIDASE STAINING PROTOCOLFIRE LAB1. Prepare humidity chamber: line large square plate with humid paper towels and place 4 5ml plastic pipets across chamber to support slides.Place ...
Preparation of single-stranded probes from cloned cDNA(from Patel and Goodman 1992)a) 2-5 µg of plasmid DNA containing the cDNA insert is linearized using an appropriate restriction enzyme. For antise ...
MMS integration (both methods modified by Herman Lab) NOTES: Remember that MMS is a potent mutagen -- wear gloves and be very careful. Integration is best done using an array that is transmitted at ve ...
Nematode dye filling(Ed Hedgecock ) Thumb plate Transfer worms into a known amount of M9 in a labeled depression. Add DiO(2 mg/ml in DMF) at 10 l/ml of M9. Let sit for 2 hours. Transfer worms with a P ...
Whole-mount in situ hybridization for the detection of RNA in C. elegans embryosGeraldine Seydoux and Andrew Fire Adapted from Seydoux G. and Fire A. (1995). Whole-mount in situ hybridization for the ...
"CONVENTIONAL" TWO STEP FIXATION 1995 1. Wash animals in M9 and anaesthetized in 8% alcohol in M9 5’ 2. 2.5% glutaraldehyde 1% paraformaldehyde in 0.1M sucrose 0.05M cacodylate on ice 2 hours 3. 3 ri ...
Phalloidin Staining worms by Michael Koelle modified from Beth Bucher and Andrew Chisholm 4/6/94 Phalloidin binds to filamentous actin. This stain allows visualization of mainly of muscles but some ot ...
Staining C. elegans for ß-galactosidase activity using X-gal by Michael Koelle adapted from Laird Bloom Jeff Way & Michael Basson 4/6/94 1. Grow up a small plate of worms. Some protocols call for usin ...