Nuclear Receptors: Methods and Experimental Protocols

1. Nuclear Receptors: A Historical Perspective

            Gisela I. Mazaira, Nadia R. Zgajnar, Cecilia M. Lotufo, Cristina Daneri-Becerra, Jeffrey C. Sivils, Olga B. Soto, Marc B. Cox, and Mario D. Galigniana

2. An Optimized Immunoblotting Protocol for Accurate Detection of Endogenous PGC-1 Isoforms in Various Rodent Tissues

            Thomas W. Gettys and Ji Suk Chang

3. Sub-Cellular Localization of NR4A2 Orphan Nuclear Receptor Expression in Human and Mouse Synovial Joint Tissue

            Aisling Smyth, Martina Gogarty, Daniel Crean, and Evelyn P. Murphy

4. In Vivo Quantitation of Estrogen Receptor b Subtype Expression in Ovarian Surface Epithelium Using Immunofluorescence Profiling and Confocal Microscopy

            Linda S.M. Gulliver

5. In Vivo ChIP-Seq of Nuclear Receptors: A Rough Guide to Transform Frozen Tissues into High Confidence Genome-Wide Binding Profiles

            Ashfaq Ali Mir, Kenneth Allen Dyar, Franziska Greulich, Fabiana Quagliarini, Céline Jouffe, Michaël Jean Hubert, Marie Charlotte Hemmer, and Nina Henriette Uhlenhaut

6. High-Content Analysis of Constitutive Androstane Receptor Nuclear Translocation

            Bryan Mackowiak and Hongbing Wang

7. Antibody Validation Strategy for Nuclear Receptors

            Borbala Katona, Ahmed Ibrahim, Mårten Sundberg, and Cecilia Williams

8. Immunofluorescence Labeling of Nuclear Receptor Expression in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissue

            Elizabeth Lightbody and Christopher J.B. Nicol

9. Detection of ADP-Ribosylation of the Androgen Receptor Using the Recombinant Macrodomain AF1521 from Archaeoglobus fulgidus

            Teddy Kamata, Chun-Song Yang, Kasey Jividen, Adam Spencer, Natalia Dworak, Luke T. Oostdyk, and Bryce M. Paschal

10. Reconstitution of the Steroid Receptor Heterocomplex

            Gisela I. Mazaira and Mario D. Galigniana

11. High-Throughput Imaging of PPIX Using Confocal Microscopy

            C. Trent Brewer, Jonathan Low, and Taosheng Chen

12. PGC-1 Overexpression via Local In Vivo Transfection in Mouse Skeletal Muscle

            Dongwook Yeo, Chounghun Kang, and Li Li Ji

13. A Reverse Transfection Method for Screening of Nuclear Receptor Activators

            Jenni Küblbeck and Paavo Honkakoski

14. Hybrid Reporter Gene Assays: Versatile In Vitro Tools to Characterize Nuclear Receptor Modulators

            Jan Heering and Daniel Merk

15. Analysis of the Transcriptional Activity of Retinoic Acid-Related Orphan Receptors (RORs) and Inhibition by Inverse Agonists

            Yukimasa Takeda, Hong Soon Kang, and Anton M. Jetten

16. Examining the Role of Nuclear Receptors during In Vivo Chemical-Mediated Breast Tumorigenesis

            Jia Yue Shi, Rachel E. Rubino, and Christopher J.B. Nicol

17. Analysis of IL-4/STAT6 Signaling in Macrophages

18. Isolation and Characterization of Adipose Tissue Macrophages

            Grace Ampem and Tamás Röszer

19. Assessing Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in Isolated Mitochondria from Mouse Heart Tissues Using Oroboros 2k-Oxygraph

            Qinqiang Long, Lizhen Huang, Kai Huang, and Qinglin Yang

20. Generation of Skeletal Myocytes from Embryonic Stem Cells through Nuclear Receptor Signaling

            Jihong Chen, Hongsheng Liang, Aili Gao, and Qiao Li

21. Obtaining Crystals of PPARGamma Ligand Binding Domain Bound to Small Molecules

22. Molecular Modeling Approach to Study the PPARGamma-Ligand Interactions

            Merilin Al Sharif, Ivanka Tsakovska, Petko Alov, Vessela Vitcheva, Antonia Diukendjieva, and Ilza Pajeva

23. High Dimensional Data Approaches to Understanding Nuclear Hormone Receptor Signaling

            Moray J. Campbell