TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA

Methods in Cell Biology, Volume 62, 1999.

Academic Press

David J. Asai and James D. Forney, editors.

 

Table of contents

 

Chapter Titles

Authors

Laboratory and Evolutionary History of Tetrahymena thermophila

D. L. Nanney and E. M. Simon, University of Illinois in Urbana.

Cell Biology of Tetrahymena thermophila

J. Frankel, University of Iowa.

Tetrahymena Genetics: Two Nuclei are Better Than One

K. M. Karrer, Marquette University.

Tetrahymena as a Laboratory Organism: Useful Strains, Cell Culture, and Cell Line Maintenance

E. Orias, E. P. Hamilton, and J. D. Orias, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Long-term Storage

P. Bruns, H. R. Smith, and D. Cassidy-Hanley, Cornell University.

Genetic Crosses: Setting up Crosses, Testing Progeny, and Isolating Phenotypic Assortants

E. P. Hamilton and E. Orias, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Methods for Genetic Analysis

P. Bruns and D. Cassidy-Hanley, Cornell University.

Isolation of Micronuclear and Macronuclear DNA

S. L. Allen, University of Michigan.

Genetically Sorting a Collection of Tetrahymena Mutants

E. Orias and E. P. Hamilton, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Genetically Mapping New Mutants and Cloned Genes

E. P. Hamilton and E. Orias, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Selection of Motility Mutants

D. G. Pennock, Miami University of Ohio.

Nuclear and Cytoskeletal Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques

E. S. Cole and K. R. Stuart, St. Olaf College.

Nuclear and Cortical Histology for Bright Field Microscopy

E. S. Cole and K. R. Stuart, St. Olaf College

Fixation of Tetrahymena Cells for Electron Microscopy

W. Dentler, University of Kansas.

Immuno-electron Microscopy of Tetrahymena

R. H. Gavin, J. G. Hoey, and J. A. Garces, Brooklyn College

Regulated Protein Secretion in Tetrahymena thermophila

A. P. Turkewitz, N. D. Chilcoat, A. Haddad, and J. W. Verbsky, University of Chicago.

Electrophysiology of Tetrahymena

T. M. Hennessey and H. G. Kuruvilla, State University of New York in Buffalo.

Isolation and Characterization of in vivo Modified Histones and Activity Gel Assay for Identification of Histone Acetyltransferase

E. A. Wiley, C. A. Mizzen, and C. D. Allis, University of Virginia.

Tetrahymena Telomerase Activity, Purification, and Reconstruction

C. Autexier, McGill University.

Study the Telomerase RNA in Tetrahymena

E. Blackburn, D. Gilley, T. Ware, A. Bhattacharyya, K. Kirk, and H. Wang, University of California in San Francisco.

Isolation and Characterization of 22S Outer Arm Dynein from Tetrahymena Cilia

T. M. Gibson and D. J. Asai, Purdue University.

Preparation of Cytoskeletal Fractions from Tetrahymena

N. E. Williams, University of Iowa.

Immunoprecipitation Procedures

N. E. Williams, University of Iowa.

Tetrahymena Calcium-binding Proteins, TCBP-25 and TCBP-23

O. Numata, K. Hanyu, T. Takeda, and Y. Watanabe, University of Tsukuba.

Microinjection of Tetrahymena thermophila

M. -C. Yao, D. L. Chalker, C. Randolph, and J. G. Ward, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Transient and Stable DNA Transformation of Tetrahymena thermophila by Electroporation

J. Gaertig and G. Kapler, University of Georgia and Texas A&M University.

Biolistic Transformation of Macro- and Micronuclei

P. Bruns and D. Cassidy-Hanley, Cornell University.

Knockout Heterokaryons Enable Facile Mutagenic Analysis of Essential Genes in Tetrahymena

M. A. Gorovsky, B. Hai, and J. Gaertig, University of Rochester

Creation and Use of Antisense Ribosomes in Tetrahymena thermophila

M. -C. Yao, Q. Fan, and R. Sweeney, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Protein Tagging in Tetrahymena

M. A. Gorovsky and L. Yu, University of Rochester.

Appendix I: Genetic Nomenclature Rules for Tetrahymena thermophila

S. L. Allen, University of Michigan.

Appendix II: Codon Usage in Tetrahymena thermophila

J. Wuitschick and K. Karrer, Marquette University.

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