Title
Detecting caspase activity in Drosophila larval imaginal discs
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
Publication Date
2014-02-08
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Cell Biology | Molecular Biology
Abstract
Caspases are a highly specialized class of cell death proteases. Since they are synthesized as inactive full-length zymogens, activation--at least of effector caspases and to some extent also of initiator caspases-requires a proteolytic cleavage event, generating a large and a small subunit, two of each forming the active caspase. The proteolytic cleavage event generates neo-epitopes at both the C-terminus of the large subunit and the N-terminus of the small subunit. The cleaved Caspase-3 (CC3) antibody was raised against the neo-epitope of the large subunit and thus detects only cleaved, but not full-length, Caspase-3. Although raised against human cleaved Caspase-3, the CC3 antibody cross-reacts in other species and detects cleaved caspases, most notably DrICE and Dcp-1, in Drosophila. This protocol describes the procedure for use of the CC3 antibody to detect caspase activity in larval imaginal discs in Drosophila.
DOI of Published Version
10.1007/978-1-4939-0357-3_7
Source
Methods Mol Biol. 2014;1133:109-17. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0357-3_7. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Related Resources
PubMed ID
24567098
Repository Citation
Fogarty, Caitlin E. and Bergmann, Andreas, "Detecting caspase activity in Drosophila larval imaginal discs" (2014). Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology Publications. 68.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/mccb_pubs/68