Molecular Biology Core

New York University School Of Medicine, New York NY

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Abstract

Since all four Projects of this Program Project center around studies of uroplakins and their associated proteins, they all need to use, repeatedly, a common set of reagents including purified urothelial plaques, plasmids containing uroplakin cDNAs and genes, antibodies to uroplakins and other urothelial antigens, and cultured urothelial cells. Obviously it would not be economical for each laboratory to generate and characterize all these reagents themselves. The purpose of this Molecular Biology Core is to provide a central supply of these important research materials that can be shared by every investigator in the Program Project. This offers several major advantages including cost-effectiveness, reproducible quality, ease of comparing data generated by separate Projects, and promotion of interactions among the PIs. In addition, this Core manages a large panel of shared antibodies, some of them obtained commercially and others are produced by our own laboratories. Finally, our Core also provides shared mouse, bovine and human tissues. In the following sections, we will describe the generation of these reagents, quality control, database, personnel, budget and its justification, the contribution of this Core to the individual Projects, and prioritization of usage. These have remained basically unchanged from the previous application, with only minor modifications and updates. This Core has worked extremely well, as evidenced in the Progress Report.