Michael M Wördehoff
  • Physikalische Biologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany, Germany,
研究方向
  • Molecular biology
α-Synuclein Aggregation Monitored by Thioflavin T Fluorescence Assay
通过硫磺素T荧光测定法监测核突触蛋白聚集
作者:Michael M. Wördehoff and Wolfgang Hoyer日期:07/20/2018,浏览量:12947,Q&A: 1
Studying the aggregation of amyloid proteins like α-synuclein in vitro is a convenient and popular tool to gain kinetic insights into aggregation as well as to study factors (e.g., aggregation inhibitors) that influence it. These aggregation assays typically make use of the fluorescence dye Thioflavin T as a sensitive fluorescence reporter of amyloid fibril formation and are conducted in a plate-reader-based format, permitting the simultaneous screening of multiple samples and conditions. However, aggregation assays are generally prone to poor reproducibility due to the stochastic nature of fibril nucleation and the multiplicity of modulating factors. Here we present a simple and reproducible protocol to study the aggregation of α-synuclein in a plate-reader based assay.