Detecting calpain activity in Drosophila tissues is a fundamental tool to study calpain function. We use differential centrifugation to prepare membrane- versus cytosol-enriched fractions for measuring calpain activity with the fluorogenic substrate N-LY-AMC. With this method one can measure calpain A activity in wild-type flies and in several mutant fly backgrounds, revealing a strong correlation between in situ membrane distribution and in vitro determined activity measurements. Here we describe the steps for tissue preparation and calpain activity measurement in the Drosophila embryo.
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Cardoso, M., Oliveira, D., & Araujo, H. (2019). Expression and activity of calpain a in drosophila melanogaster. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1915, pp. 93–101). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8988-1_8
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