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Cell Surface Receptor Identification Using Genome-Scale CRISPR/Cas9 Genetic Screens
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2020
This manuscript describes a genome-scale cell-based screening approach to identify extracellular receptor-ligand interactions.
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Cell-surface Biotinylation Assay
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2023
A cell can regulate the amount of particular proteins on its cell membrane through endocytosis, following which cell surface proteins are effectively sequestered in the cytoplasm. Once within a cell, these surface proteins can be either destroyed or “recycled” back to the membrane. The cell surface biotinylation assay provides researchers with a way to study these phenomena. The technique makes use of a derivative of the small molecule biotin, which can label surface proteins and then be...
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Crosslinking Neuronal Surface Proteins in the Mouse Brain using a Chemical Crosslinking Assay
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2025
This video demonstrates the crosslinking of neuronal surface proteins using Bis-sulfosuccinimidyl suberate or BS3. Isolated and chilled mouse brain is sectioned coronally. The desired region is extracted from the sections, minced, and treated with BS3. BS3 crosslinks surface proteins like GABA receptors, leaving internal proteins unaltered. The reaction is quenched with glycine before processing the samples for further analysis.
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Cell-surface Signaling
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2019
Hormones—or any molecule that binds to a receptor, known as a ligand—that are lipid-insoluble (water-soluble) are not able to diffuse across the cell membrane. In order to be able to affect a cell without entering it, these hormones bind to receptors on the cell membrane. When a first messenger, a hormone, binds to a receptor, a signal cascade is set off, causing second messengers, proteins inside the cell, to become activated, resulting in downstream effects. Variety of Receptor Families
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Whole Cell Recordings from Brain of Adult Drosophila
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Cited by 40 •
2007
This video demonstrates the procedure for isolating whole brains from adult Drosophila in preparation for recording from single neurons using standard whole cell technology. It includes images of GFP labeled cells and neurons viewed during recording.
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Their organized layers and cellular barriers regulate which molecules move between nervous tissue and surrounding fluid, membranes, or blood vessels. This selective control helps maintain local conditions rather than allowing unrestricted exchange. Studying these regulatory properties can clarify how the brain preserves an environment that supports neuronal function and how interface changes may contribute to disease.
These components allow brain surface cells to coordinate both physical organization and cellular communication. Adhesion molecules help maintain contacts within organized layers, while receptors and secreted signaling factors transmit information between neighboring cells or surrounding tissues. Together, they provide mechanisms through which surface interfaces can influence brain development, local regulation, and responses to injury or inflammation.
The overview identifies meninges, glial cells, and vascular interfaces as related settings in which brain surface cells support neuronal function and regulate the brain environment. Their shared importance lies in interface organization, molecular control, and communication, but each setting connects surface-cell activity with a different surrounding structure. Comparing these interfaces can help distinguish tissue-specific roles in neuroscience.
Researchers examine these cells as accessible components of interfaces involving nervous tissue, surrounding fluid, membranes, and blood vessels. Investigations can focus on their organized layers, barrier properties, adhesion molecules, receptors, or secreted signaling factors. This approach connects cellular features with broader questions about neuronal support, brain development, inflammation, injury responses, and communication between neural and non-neural tissues.
Their position at brain interfaces makes them useful for examining how neural tissue communicates with surrounding cellular and fluid environments during inflammation. Researchers can investigate whether changes in signaling factors, receptors, adhesion, or barrier regulation alter these interactions. Such studies may clarify how neuroimmune communication is organized and how interface responses relate to injury or disease mechanisms.
Because these cells are accessible at boundaries associated with fluid, membranes, and blood vessels, they may provide routes for investigating how therapeutic substances reach or interact with nervous tissue. Research can assess the regulatory properties of their cellular barriers and interfaces rather than treating access as unrestricted. This perspective supports studies of delivery strategies alongside disease mechanisms and tissue protection.