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  1. Tetracycline Inducible Expression

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    ...the TRE, permitting transcription. Tetracycline-dependent promoters are developed by placing a TRE upstream...third-generation rtTA On Elledge 19407 pTREtight2 Promoter contains a modified TRE that is silent in absence of ...inducible promoters capable of controlling eukaryotic gene expression. Several endogenous promoters had been...plasmids. Tet System and the Tet Response Element (TRE) A TRE is seven repeats of a 19 nucleotide tetracycline...from a bidirectional tet-responsive promoter (Pbi); Pbi contains a TRE between two minimal CMV and is silent....CMV.tTA Adenoviral; CMV promoter; see article for neuronal-specific promoter and enhancer options tTA...
  2. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ... are repressible promoters regulated? Like inducible promoters, repressible promoters can be regulated...Promoters control the binding of RNA polymerase and transcription factors. Since the promoter region ...natural and engineered repressible promoters. Chemically repressible promoters Tet-Off In its native context... function well in mammalian cells, and TRE-containing promoters can be used in the repressible manner ... pADH1 displays low promoter activity (~20% activity of the strong yeast promoter pTEF). As ethanol accumulates...that promoter is active. In this way, you can interrogate the activity of uncharacterized promoters. Similarly... QUAS promoter, and the QF transcription factor cannot drive transcription from the UAS promoter. This...
  3. Plasmids 101: Inducible Promoters

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    ... on repressible promoters. How are inducible promoters regulated? Inducible promoters can be regulated...steroid regulated promoters commonly used in plant research. Promoter Subtype Promoter Example Activator...Promoters control the binding of RNA polymerase and transcription factors. Since the promoter region ...will be produced. Many common promoters. like CMV, EF1A, and SV40 promoters, are always active and thus ...of a promoter. Below, you’ll find a short description of these three types of inducible promoters, and...Many of these promoter systems are available at Addgene! Chemically inducible promoters Chemically regulated...regulated promoters are among the most common inducible promoters. The positive inducible tetracycline ...
  4. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) Plasmids

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    ...expressing Rep2 and PHP.eB Cap controlled by tTA-TRE amplification system Gradinaru 103006 pUCmini-iCAP-PHP.S... expressing Rep2 and PHP.S Cap controlled by tTA-TRE amplification system Gradinaru 127847 pUCmini-iCAP-PHP.V1...expressing Rep2 and PHP.V1 Cap controlled by tTA-TRE amplification system Gradinaru 175004 pUCmini-iCAP-AAV.CAP-B10...), expressing Rep2 and B10 Cap controlled by tTA-TRE amplification system Gradinaru 175005 pUCmini-iCAP-AAV.CAP-B22...), expressing Rep2 and B22 Cap controlled by tTA-TRE amplification system Gradinaru 185136 pUCmini-iCAP-AAV.MaCPNS1...expressing Rep2 and MaCPNS1 Cap controlled by tTA-TRE amplification system Gradinaru 185137 pUCmini-iCAP-AAV.MaCPNS2...expressing Rep2 and MaCPNS2 Cap controlled by tTA-TRE amplification system Gradinaru RepCap Plasmids for...
  5. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ... trying to pick your perfect promoter! Eukaryotic Promoters   Promoter   Primarily used for RNA     .... In practice, the term "promoter" describes the combination of the promoter (RNA polymerase binding site...recognize and bind to specific promoter elements. This means that the promoter present in your plasmid backbone...RNAP II promoter, whereas small RNAs (such as shRNA) are transcribed from the RNAP III promoters. This ...post on viral vector parts. Promoter specificity Aside from choosing a promoter based on type of RNA transcript...cell types or organisms, promoters must be similarly variable. Bacterial promoters only work in prokaryotic...require unique promoters and there is very little crossover. Generally speaking, promoters in bacteria are...
  6. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ...system a Tet-response element (TRE) is placed upstream of the promoter in your transfer vector. In the...and the promoter of the 5’LTR has been deleted to reduce its activity. A CMV or an EF1α promoter has been...the control of two different promoters. Both the single and dual promoter transfer vectors can be used...containing the rev response element (RRE), an internal promoter, and the desired gene (transfer vector plasmid...entry site (IRES) and expressed under the same promoter. Alternatively, your gene and the marker can be...cell cycle, a transfer vector with an inducible promoter (see below) should be used. Inducible lentiviral... expressed by your transfer vector) binds to the TRE and activates the expression of your gene. The addition...
  7. Cre-lox system

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    ...Stainier 85040 pK170.AAV-TRE-Cre-WPRE (Supernova) TRE-Cre based Supernova TRE AAV Iwasato 85577 pTC-...system is tight temporal regulation. Promoter-regulated Cre: The promoter region defines the areas in which...active promoter like CAG, or expressed only in a subset of cells under a more specific promoter (e.g. ... PBAD promoter Bacterial Richmond 112614 pVHC Venus and Cre-ERT2 with MCS for inserting promoter none ...inserting promoter none Mammalian Heller 112616 pmTHC TFP and Cre-ERT2 with MCS for inserting promoter none...GFP and Cre CMV Lentiviral Lu 118029 pAAV-TRE-dDIO-vCre VCre TRE AAV Luo 119063 pBac(3xP3-gTc’v; Tc-hsp68...CAG Mammalian Zhang 68477 pTRE:iRFP670-EFS:Cre-2A-GFP iRFP670, Cre, and GFP TRE Mammalian Jacks 68544 AAV-Cre-GFP...
  8. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    ...with which promoters, what part of a gene enhancers like to interact with, and how many promoters or genes...published Dec 7, 2017 and updated Jul 2, 2020. Promoters may be the star of gene regulation, but enhancers...its capture rate of chromatin interactions at a promoter in the well-characterized beta globin locus. The...a cell line model, the Xu Lab tracked enhancer-promoter interactions during erythroid differentiation.... tre...into pieces small enough to be pulled down via streptavidin IP. Biotinylated dCas9 goes along for the ride...
  9. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    ...finding retinal cell-type specific promoters. Most existing promoters express in a broad number of cell... occurring promoters to drive transgene expression, the Roska lab built synthetic promoters from scratch... for designing synthetic promoters  To build a library of synthetic promoters, the Roska lab used four... containing the active promoters at Addgene. Performance of synthetic promoter AAVs in mice All of these...class of cells  Of the four different promoter designs, promoters from strategy #4 had the highest rate... of synthetic promoters replicated the expression specificity of the wild-type promoters they were derived...natural promoter that was active in the outer part of the retina.  Find the AAV synthetic promoter plasmids...
  10. Qi Lab CRISPR Page

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    ...controlled by SNR 52 promoter, targeting endogenous TRE elements of pTET07 promoter...retroVirus LTR promoter. The second plasmid ( pgRNA_humanized ) contains a murine U6 promoter controlled ...vector containing murine U6 promoter and sgRNA targeting GAL4 UAS promoter 46916 pU6-sgGAL4-4 Human pSico-based...vector containing murine U6 promoter and sgRNA targeting GAL4 UAS promoter (negative control) 46918 pU6...contains sgRNA controlled by SNR 52 promoter, targeting endogenous TEF1 promoter 46923 pSNR52-sgTET Yeast CEN...pHR-SFFV-dCas9-BFP Human expression vector containing SFFV promoter, dCas9 that is fused to 2x NLS and tagBFP 46911...BFP-KRAB Human expression vector containing SFFV promoter, dCas9 that is fused to 2x NLS, tagBFP and a KRAB...
  11. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    ...stabilized promoters. In contrast to unregulated promoters that are always on, stabilized promoters incorporate...constitutive promoter upstream of GFP increased expression of GFP six-fold, but a stabilized promoter increased...with the stabilized promoter while gene expression from the constitutive promoter did not. Similar levels...Segall-Shapiro et al., 2018). Designing stabilized promoters To keep gene expression stable regardless of copy...if you introduce negative regulation by using a promoter that is responsive to a repressor protein, the...level constant. In the case of the stabilized promoters from Segall-Shapiro et al., they chose a TALE ... addition, TALEs bind non-cooperatively to the promoter region, which is predicted to be required to decouple...
  12. AAV Molecular Tools

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    ...Gradinaru 99120 pAAV-ihSyn1-tTA Inducible Synapsin promoter (ihSyn) Expression of the tet-off transactivator...pAAV-ihSyn1-DIO-tTA Cre-dependent and inducible Synapsin promoter (ihSyn) Cre-dependent expression of the tet-off...for amplified tTA expression. 1 Gradinaru 117383 TRE-DIO-eYFP Cre-dependent and Tetracycline-inducible...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    ...interest. Promoter The promoter drives the expression of the AAV transgene. On a plasmid map, promoters are ...location. Promoters can also drive different levels of expression. For example, CAG is a strong promoter that...synapsin 1 promoter is neuronal specific (Haery et al., 2019). Most AAV transfer plasmids have a promoter, but...are upstream or 5’ of the gene they control. Promoters can be organism or tissue type-specific, which can...nuclear export of RNA and RNA translation, and promotes RNA transcript longevity. The polyA is located...for the perfect AAV tool Learn about synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type expression in retinal cells...the end of the AAV genome, just upstream of the final ITR and downstream of the WPRE. TL;DR? Watch our ...
  14. A New Optogenetic Tool Based on AraC Controls Gene Expression with Blue Light

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    ...contains BLADE, the PBAD promoter, and a mCherry reporter downstream of the PBAD promoter. To use this plasmid...on AraC and other promoter systems, head over to our Plasmids 101: Inducible Promoters article.) Modifying...domain of AraC using a mCherry reporter downstream of a PBAD promoter. While none of the constructs gave as...protein that controls transcription from the PBAD promoter. “AraC is widely used in synthetic biology, biotechnology... pTRC99a plasmid. It does not include the PBAD promoter. If you already have a pBAD33-based plasmid expressing...previously cloned gene of interest, under the pBAD promoter, can be controlled with light without the need...superfolder GFP instead of mCherry under the PBAD promoter. They created a bacterial lawn on an agar plate...
  15. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    ... expressed under promoters like the tet-responsive element (TRE) or the cFos promoter. For example, neurons...inducibly express tagged iPAK4 from different promoters, specific time points appear as fluorescent bands...new way to record and quantify the dynamics of promoter activity in single cells. Find iPAK4 plasmids ...targeting components are interchangeable. Image from Strebinger et al., 2023, reused under CC-BY 4.0 License....medical applications.  Find DIRECTED plasmids here! Strebinger, D., et al. (2023). Cell type-specific delivery...moving to and from the nucleus, ER, mitochondria, stress granules, and more. For added precision, the authors...neurons treated with a phorbol ester activator gave fluorescent signal in the ticker tape from cFos::GFP-iPAK4...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter

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    ...your experiment site or circuit can occur. Promoters The promoter controls how the gene of interest will ...selective, or inducible.  Ubiquitous promoters  These often-strong promoters offer the most flexibility for ...vitro) or months (in vivo).  Selective promoters Selective promoters, such as synapsin, glial fibrillary ...International License.   Inducible promoters  This type of promoter allows you to decide when to turn ...three key variables of an AAV vector: serotype, promoter, and titer.     Figure 1: Flow chart depicting...depicting a) steps for selecting serotypes and promoters to test in your AAV system and b) steps for testing...testing and optimizing your serotypes, titer, and promoter. Note that several steps in testing are effected...
  17. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    ...of constitutive and inducible promoters. Inducible promoters are extremely useful if a desired protein ... of the galactose inducible promoter (GAL). Other commonly used promoters include the phosphate and copper... Blog Learn about inducible promoters Learn about repressible promoters Check out protein tags Resources...designed for mammalian expression utilize viral promoters (SV40, CMV, and RSV) for robust expression post-transfection... of these vectors is controlled by a different promoter resulting in different levels of expression from... vectors, pET, under the control of the T7 lac promoter and induced by lactose, provides the highest level...copper inducible PHO5 and CUP1 promoters respectively. Yeast cells are grown in well-defined media and...
  18. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    ...more elements of control. Tet promoters Tetracycline-dependent promoters are engineered by placing tet...blog Plasmid 101: Inducible Promoters Plasmid 101: Repressible Promoters CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I...tet response elements upstream of a minimal promoter. These systems come in two varieties: tet-on and tet-off...the genome. Make sure to choose an appropriate promoter to express your cDNA, depending on the level of... of expression you would like. Check out our promoter blog if you need help choosing. Viral expression....     Fig. 2 Tetracycline on/off promoters and modes of action Check out Addgene's Lentiviral... proteins, as many of them just need a special promoter or tag prior to introduction of the construct ...
  19. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    ...pcDNA3, comes from the pcDNA series. It has the CMV promoter for mammalian expression, a multiple cloning site...yeast expression vectors with various markers and promoters. If you need to visualize YGOI on a western blot...vectors carrying several fusion proteins. Pick your promoter, selection cassette and visualization vehicle ...fly genome and are under the Gal4 inducible UAS promoter. Other vectors can be expressed in fly culture...culture cells like S2 and carry the metallothionein promoter (e.g. pMT-puro). Worm vectors There are several... following the expression pattern of a defined promoter region, ectopically expressing YGOI in a pattern...flanking sequences matching the sequences upstream and downstream of the open reading frame (ORF) of interest...
  20. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ...inducible promoter (PLtetO), the TP901 gene downstream of the arabinose (Ara)-inducible promoter (PBAD),...and promoters with buffer sequences on their 5’ and 3’ ends (for insulation). A list of promoters and ...serine recombinase genes downstream of inducible promoters: the BxbI gene downstream of the anhydrotetracycline...and the A118 gene downstream of the diacetylphloroglucinol (DAPG)-inducible promoter (PPhlF).  Output...Depending on the desired application, the inducible promoters we used to drive recombinase expression may be...demonstrates that genetic parts (genes, terminators, and promoters) may be interweaved onto a GRSM register to execute...in this paper (recognition sites, terminators, promoters, and genes) were built with flanking primer binding...
  21. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...polyadenylation generally serves to promote transcript longevity in eukaryotes and promote transcript degradation ...poly(A) signal. While many studies focus on promoter strength as a determinant of gene expression levels...termination. In a previous post we discussed the promoter's role in the initiation step of gene transcription...rbGlob) include the sequence motif AAUAAA which promotes both polyadenylation and termination. Out of those...but Has the Potential to Reduce Viral Titer in a Promoter-Dependent Manner. Hum Gene Ther. 2008. PMID: 18627247... Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn how the Promoter Controls Gene Expression Learn about New Cloning...transcription machinery. Terminators are found downstream of the gene to be transcribed, and typically ...
  22. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    ...strategy, the need for lengthy promoters, such as U6 or EF1α promoters, has limited the number of gRNAs...tandemly assembled tRNA-gRNAs is placed downstream of a lengthy promoter, which is used to drive the expression...from human or plant sources) in both the strength as a promoter and the activity to release gRNAs from ...previous tRNA-gRNA arrays, that rely on an upstream lengthy promoter to express the gRNA array, DAP arrays ...expression of itself, without using any additional promoter, which is followed by tRNA processing to release...installing functional genes to study and potentially treat polygenic diseases. This could also enable more ...
  23. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...from its own promoter. But that doesn’t mean you have to clone and transfect multiple promoter-gRNA constructs...gRNA target sequence downstream of the 7SK, human U6, mouse U6, or human H1 promoters. If you express fewer...can I express more than one gRNA from a single promoter using a plasmid like pX330? Unfortunately, the...of pX330, contains humanized wtCas9 and two U6 promoters. To use this plasmid, you simply order oligonucleotides...contain Type IIS restriction sites flanking the promoter-gRNA construct, but with different sequences adjacent...contain Type IIS restriction sites that flank the promoter-gRNA constructs. When these plasmids are digested...in a polyT-termination sequence for each unused promoter. This step is necessary to generate all of the...
  24. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    ... individual part, this category also includes promoters, UTRs, terminators, etc. Once selected, individual...one or more gene(s), and typically begin with a promoter and end with a terminator. A simple TU could be... be comprised of just three parts: promoter, gene, and terminator.     Fig 1. MoClo enables individual...three steps: Level 0: Cloning of basic parts (promoters, UTRs, genes, tags, etc.) into MoClo-compatible...maximize production potential. For example, the best promoter for a given peptide can easily be tested by generating...generating Level 1 TUs with unique promoters, and the ideal phosphatase (or any modifying enzyme) to pair...additional components such as selectable markers, promoters, enhancers, etc. MoClo is especially useful for...
  25. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    ...experimented with the promoter strength of various components, removing inducible promoters that could crosstalk...outcome is directed transcription from a given promoter. To harness the power of light, Christopher Voigt... activates the RR (OmpR) via phosphorylation, promoting transcription (see figure below). Subsequent exposure...activates the response regulator via phosphorylation, promoting transcription of a GFP reporter. Subsequent exposure...chromosomally. Leakiness was also an issue; some promoter activity persisted in the inactive state. The ..., Schmidl et al. condensed the system to two streamlined plasmids. The utility of these TCSs was limited...improvements, the constructs have been greatly streamlined; only two plasmids are required per system. Applications...
  26. A Primer on Optogenetics: Introduction and Opsin Delivery

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    ...of a generic promoter). A DIO opsin allows cell type specificity dependent on the promoter of the cre recombinase...neuronal specificity through promoter-directed expression alone is extremely limited. Therefore, highly ...communicated to me as one of these extremely high expressing promoters). Conduct a time course experiment...for sufficiency of your circuit of interest in promoting reward is a self-stimulation experiment wherein...developed many of these AAV constructs with various promoters and other genetic manipulations to help restrict...specific neuronal subtype. However, the length of promoter that can be used in an AAV construct is limited...highly expressing, generic neuronal promoters such as synapsin or camKIIα drive most of the constructs. As ...
  27. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...dependent promoters, Baojun Wang’s lab developed a system that can activate sigma-54 dependent promoters (Liu...activation of sigma-54 type promoters. The system was functional in activating promoters in Pseudomonas syringae...that utilizes phage recombination machinery to promote homologous recombination of linear DNA fragments...regulate gene expression were limited to inducible promoters or direct gene knockout. In contrast, CRISPR offers...systems, catalytically dead (dCas9) targeted to a promoter or gene body can repress transcription by physically...and can be more effective targeting either the promoter or the coding sequence and the template or non-template...to multiplex repression. Using a Tet responsive promoter to drive expression of a catalytically dead Cas9...
  28. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    ...hybrid promoter. Although the DE3/T7 RNAP system works well for most experiments, the lac promoter can “...expression from high-copy number plasmids and powerful promoters will greatly exceed that of any native host protein... accomodate high protein loads using inducible promoter systems (which will be discussed later). In addition...Kanamycin (pREP4) Cis-repression of the E. coli T5 promoter (found on vectors such as pQE or similar), inducible...above, many expression plasmids utilize inducible promoters, which are 'inactive' until an inducer such as...the culture to make protein.  The DE3 lysogen/T7 promoter combination is the most popular induction system...available to transcribe the gene of interest from a T7 promoter on the plasmid. Many commercial strains carry ...
  29. Lentivirus Production

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    .... Pro-Tip Different brands and lots of FBS can promote or inhibit transfection. Test a variety of brands...total per 10 cm dish). Using transfer plasmid pHAGE TRE dCas9-KRAB (total μg of plasmid DNA 27.8 μg), this...produced, lentivirus can be used for a variety of downstream applications such as stable-cell line generation...T75 flask in 15 mL DMEM Complete. Do not add pen-strep to the media. Use cells that are below passage 15...
  30. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...all chemically inducible promoters; 3) improving the strength of the promoters used; and 4) optimizing ...fluorescent proteins, 8 constitutive promoters, 2 includible promoters, 3 polyA terminators and various pieces...sequences. Several pre-constructed promoter-selection marker or promoter-inducible expression related vectors...ideal promoter/location combination. However, other constructs which contain different promoters and/or...to study the human GM-CSF promoter and enhancer, a finely regulated promoter controlled by a mixture of...multiple copies of a transcription factor to a promoter and localization of a protein via the presence...are inserted between the truncated gene and the promoter to prevent leaky expression of this resistance...
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