Journal: PLoS ONE
Article Title: Proteomics Analysis of Human Obesity Reveals the Epigenetic Factor HDAC4 as a Potential Target for Obesity
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075342
Figure Lengend Snippet: Reporter and expression vectors were used in transient transfection assays in HEK293 cells as indicated in materials and methods. Reporter vector in which the firefly luciferase gene is under the control of 3 copies of wild type (3xwt-κB) or mutant (3xmut-κB) NF-κB binding was cotransfected with HDAC4 expression vector. pCMV was used a control empty vector. 24 hours post-transfection, cells were treated with 25 ng/ml of TNF-α for overnight and then, the luciferase activity was carried out as described in materials and methods. Protein concentration was used for normalization.
Article Snippet: The expression vector encoding HDAC4 (pCMV-HDAC4) and the pCMV empty vector were purchased from OriGene (OriGene Technologies, Inc, Rockville, MD).
Techniques: Expressing, Transfection, Plasmid Preparation, Luciferase, Mutagenesis, Binding Assay, Activity Assay, Protein Concentration