tree nuts, including almond (prunus dulcis) are a source of food allergens often associated with life-threatening allergic reactions in susceptible individuals. although the proteins in almonds have been biochemically characterized, relatively little has been reported regarding the identity of the allergens involved in almond sensitivity. the present study was undertaken to identify the allerge...

Diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS) is an important field involving the synthesis of libraries of diverse small molecules for applications including biological screening. The last decade has witnessed major progress in the field, with continued emphasis on structural and functional diversity for DOS library construction. A number of recent reviews have updated the community on this topic, includ...

MOTIVATION Certain chemical substructures are present in many drugs. This has led to the claim of 'privileged' substructures which are predisposed to bioactivity. Because bias in screening library construction could explain this phenomenon, the existence of privilege has been controversial. RESULTS Using diverse phenotypic assays, we defined bioactivity for multiple compound libraries. Many s...

We have developed a fast and general method to obtain an enriched, full-length cDNA expression library with subtractively enriched cDNA fragments. The procedure relies on RecA-mediated triple-helix formation of single-stranded cDNA fragments with a double-stranded cDNA plasmid library. The complexes were then captured from the solutions using the digoxigenin-antidigoxigenin paramagnetic beads f...

• Spectral Libraries In this document, we discuss the principles behind the planning, development and implementation of Fourier transform near-infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopic libraries for raw material identification and qualification. This document considers not only the mechanics of library construction but also the steps in establishing a raw material program. This includes the planning stag...

Most cDNA library screening procedures do not distinguish between full-length and incomplete clones and therefore may yield incomplete cDNA fragments. Thus, there is a widespread need for a method allowing the efficient selection of full-length clones. I present a rapid, PCR-based method that allows the simultaneous screening of > 10(6) cDNAs. The longest cDNA is identified in the first step so...

To construct a hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) subtracted cDNA library to find differentially expressed genes in normal mice and mice infected with Schistosoma japonicum (S. japonicum). Suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) was used. The cDNA fragments of normal mouse were compared to those of schistosoma-infected mice to find differentially expressed genes. Then differentially expressed cD...

A cDNA library was constructed from firefly (Photinus pyralis) lantern poly(A)+ RNA, using the Escherichia coli expression vector lambda gt11. The library was screened with anti-P. pyralis luciferase (Photinus luciferin:oxygen 4-oxidoreductase, EC 1.13.12.7) antibody, and several cDNA clones expressing luciferase antigens were isolated. One clone, lambda Luc1, contained 1.5 kilobase pairs of cD...