...editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes. Cell, 184(22), 5635-5652.e29. https...efficient prime editors. Cell, 186(18), 3983-4002.e26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.07.039 Lin, Q.,...correct only a minority of those variants in most cell types. But prime editing, a CRISPR technique developed...unedited DNA. The heteroduplex is resolved by the cell’s mismatch repair system, and more recent prime editing...editing demonstrated ~20-50% efficiency in HEK293T cells with 1-10% indels. Since then, further innovations...type of edit, genomic context, delivery strategy, cell type, and goal of the experiment can all impose ...nicking the non-edited strand, they can cause the cell to remake that strand using the edited strand as...

...genome-wide deamination of RNA cytosines in human cells. Thus, they engineered two CBE variants with mutations...RNA edits by >390 fold and >3,800 fold in human cells with no significant reduction in editing efficiency...mice and in zygotes. Read the paper in Molecular Cell Find the Nme2Cas9 All-in-One AAV constructs CRISPR...

... vectors and genetically target them to specific cell populations. They demonstrated use of the LITEs ...non-invasively, its use is not restricted to cultured cells but extends to freely moving animals, as established...no means limited to particular model organisms or cell types. “This tool is really flexible and modular...novel mode of optogenetic control of endogenous cellular processes." The LITE system can now be applied...

... genetic loci within a single cell. One might imagine transfecting cells with both the nuclease-positive...nuclease-competent Cas9, obviating the need to generate new cell lines or transgenic animals expressing dCas9 as ...reliance on orthogonal Cas9 species. Within a single cell, full-length guides targeting one set of genetic...knockin mice for genome editing and cancer modeling." Cell 159.2 (2014): 440-455. PubMed PMID: 25263330. PubMed...

...Control of Gene Expression. Cell 152:1173–1183 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.02.022 Sajwan S, Mannervik...and Fluorescence Imaging. Cell 159:635–646 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.039 Zhou H, Liu J,...from when looking to activate genes across diverse cell lines.   dCas9-VP64 Description CRISPR activation...large and are not expressed consistently throughout cells. VPR Description VPR fuses a tripartite complex ...activation levels than SAM in some loci across Drosophila cell lines (Sajwan et al., 2019). SPH SPH combines components...

...Inhibitor of CRISPR-Cas9. Cell 170:1224-1233.e15 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.037 Li C, Psatha...Off-Switches for CRISPR-Cas9. Cell 167:1829-1838.e9 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.017 Shin J, Jiang...concern is that the longer Cas remains active in a cell, the greater chances there are for off-target edits...within the first six hours. When added to human cells six hours after the introduction of Cas9 RNPs, AcrIIA4...CRISPR/Cas9 Toxicity in Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells. Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development...

...Single-Domain Camelid Antibodies. Cell 181:1004–1015.e15 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.031 Zimmermann ...coronaviruses and enable the virus to enter host cells. To do this, they injected the spike protein from...camelid antibodies that bind to the spike proteins in cell culture, and inhibit these viruses.  But llama ...hidden in the molecular crevices proteins on the cell surface. Figure 1: Comparison of common antibody...blog Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification RANbodies: Reporter...

... for Mapping Multiprotein Complexes in Human Cells.” Cell Rep. 13: 621-633. PMID: 26456817. Find plasmids...Chromosomes). Using their PITCh plasmids, GFP knock-in cell lines can be created in about a month and a half...locus-specific gRNAs Step 4: Select for puromycin resistant cells Step 5: PCR amplify and sequence the locus to verify...crispr.mit.edu. They tested their system in HEK293 cells, integrating the GFP-Puro cassette into the FBL ...

...sequence. DSBs are preferentially repaired in the cell by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), a mechanism...PAM site. When a repair template is present, the cell may repair a DSB using homology-directed repair ...Cas protein and a target-specific gRNA in the same cell at the same time. Single plasmids containing both...

...at lower copy numbers within bacterial cells, and bacterial cells with multimers grow more slowly compared...stable and more prone to being lost in bacterial cells compared to monomers, although this can be prevented...increase the frequency of base substitution in human cells. J Biol Chem. 2011 Mar 25;286(12):10017-26. doi:...plasmids leading to the formation of plasmid multimers. Cell. 1976 Dec;9(4 PT 2):707-16. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674...supercoiled plasmid DNA concatemers in mammalian cells. J Gene Med. 2009 May;11(5):444-53. doi: 10.1002...essential for plasmid monomerization and stability. Cell. 1984 Apr;36(4):1097-103. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674...

...fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). This is not possible in plants outside of limited, single cell protoplast...genes known to be essential for cell growth. Together, this excellent work highlights the importance of...visually identified subpopulation. For traditional cell culture, enriching your active RNAi subpopulation...where he investigated how plants achieve polarized cell growth in the lab of Luis Vidali. For his next adventure...Screens for Effective Gene Silencing in Plants. Plant Cell 25:1507–1522 . https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.113.112235...Augmin in Phragmoplast Microtubule Generation. Plant Cell 24:1478–1493 . https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.112.098509...exquisitely and robustly self-organize at the cellular and multicellular scale.     References Bezanilla M, Perroud...

...degraded, cell still can methylate DNA   hsdS(rk-,mk-) Unmethylated DNA not degraded, cell cannot methylate... gal Mutation in galactose metabolism pathway Cells cannot grow on galactose only gyrA, gyrA96 DNA...permease inactivated, lactose cannot be taken up by cell mcrA, mcrBC Inactivation of pathway that cleaves...gene that maintains the plasmids at ~250 copies per cell.  F- ∆lac169 rpoS(Am) robA1 creC510 hsdR514 endA...rpsL20 xyl-5 leu mtl-1 Stbl4   Electrocompetent cells for cloning and storage of unstable DNA and lentiviral...

...path.   Yeast as a model organism Yeast are single cell, eukaryotic organisms formally classified as fungi...similarity to the ancient yeast strains and metazoan cells.   Applications for K. phaffii There’s a number ...protein bang for your media buck - it grows at higher cell densities than most of its counterparts, yielding...oxidative reactions. They are found in all eukaryotic cells and peroxisomes are where methanol metabolism occurs...and S. cerevisiae (budding). Yeast make for an excellent model organism for a few reasons: Affordable...in methylotrophic organisms. K. phaffii is an excellent model for peroxisome studies since their peroxisomes...

...stimulate AraC binding to I1 and I2 sites. Supplementing cell growth media with glucose decreases cAMP and represses... Because transcription machinery differs between cell types or organisms, promoters are similarly variable...variable. Bacterial promoters only work in prokaryotic cells and typically only in the same or closely related... were derived. Similarly, the various eukaryotic cell types (mammalian, yeast, plants, etc.) require unique...

...aiming to dedifferentiate mouse brain cells into neural stem cells. I was quite unsuccesful (although I...versatile means of delivering genes to many different cell types with minimal immunological effects. AAVs are... used in experiments targeting genes to specific cell types in the brain, mapping neuronal networks, and...

...of viruses used to deliver CRISPR components to cells or organisms under study. In the past we’ve left... they want to do is to quickly generate a single cell line and proceed to use it for experiments.” - ...representation in the viral prep, infect target cells, and, finally, conduct the screen. To help alleviate...deliver gRNA and therefore, must be used to infect a cell line already expressing Cas9. As John Doench (Broad...screen for genes involved in a wide variety of cellular processes. While these are widely requested and...

... results, but also confirm expression in target cells. While the various AAV serotypes can be used to ...Chemogenetics offers noninvasive methods for manipulating cell activity, particularly in the brain, and holds promise... systems such as Cre-lox allow for more accurate cell and tissue targeting. While promoters and AAV serotypes...allowing you to further restrict gene activation to cells expressing both Cre and GFP. The GFP dependent FLPo...

... Process ChIP can be done for either tissues or cells. The process is very similar for both, though tissue...fragmenting the DNA, spin down the samples to remove cell debris, which will collect in a pellet. The supernatant..., these are mostly fairly standard molecular and cell biology techniques. What’s all the fuss? Well, ChIP...will also have to be optimized for both tissue or cell type, amount of protein, and desired fragment length...

... (iPS) Cells - 2008 was marked by the influx of plasmids for reprogramming differentiated cells into pluripotent... pluripotent stem cells. Plasmids from Shinya Yamanaka's lab and James Thomson's lab were the most frequently...

...and introducing it into cells. Protocol for Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines CasPEDIA : An encyclopedia...interest and correspond to edited and non-edited cell populations. For more information, see the bioRxiv...134.7 KB Musunuru CRISPRs in human pluripotent stem cells pCas9_GFP ; gRNA empty vector Link O'Connor-Giles...Bauer Protocol for Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines pSpCas9(BB) (pX330) Link Parrott NEBuilder...

...restriction digests needed in molecular biology, and thaw cell lines. There are many different types of water baths...

...there isn’t a template strand left behind that the cell can use to repair. Figure 3: General overview...complex in nucleotide unwinding steps. Molecular Cell, 70(3), 385-394.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel...formation by a type I-C CRISPR Cascade. Molecular Cell, 83(5), 746-758.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel...broad and unidirectional genome editing in human cells. Nature Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038...CRISPR–Cas systems for genome engineering in human cells. Nature Biotechnology, 37(12), 1471–1477. https:...

... for EM is not something you find in the average cell and molecular biology lab, and EM is limited in ...ultrastructural relationships that influence everything from cell division to memory, but don’t have access to the...fix (and maybe label) your sample (i.e. cultured cells or tissues).  Step 2: attach anchors to your sample...properties of the sample itself. For example, cultured cells are typically easier to expand than mouse brain ...2016) Protein-retention expansion microscopy of cells and tissues labeled using standard fluorescent proteins..., Mohar B, Eddison M, et al (2022) Visualizing cellular and tissue ultrastructure using Ten-fold Robust... Zwettler FU, Guennec ML, et al (2019) Imaging cellular ultrastructures using expansion microscopy (U-...

...the next step is to transform competent E. coli cells and select the positive clones. The entry clone ... expression of the human KRAS gene in mammalian cells. STEP 1: Generate an Entry Clone There are a few...ccdB gene. Since the ccdB product is toxic to the cell, Gateway cloning efficiency can reach >99%. ...digest! Then, you can transform or transfect the cells that you want to use for your experiments and verify...Phage (Lambda) and Higher Organisms (Cambridge, MA: Cell Press). Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog...

... attack the cell wall of bacterial cells; however, Mycoplasma species do not possess cell walls. As a ...bacteriophage (viruses that only infect bacterial cells), or a bacterium picking up resistance genes from...conserved, non-negotiable process within the bacterial cell, antibiotic resistance is very likely to develop...

...mammalian cells. This was the first codon optimized membrane protein expressed in mammalian cells. In this...sequence. That means there are 61 possible tRNAs. Cells however, may not express all 61 of these tRNAs and... are also optimized for expression in mammalian cells. For example, Henry Lester’s lab optimized the C...Caenorhabditis elegans GluCl ion channel genes for mammalian cells dramatically improves expression levels. Journal...

...your assay will scale. Or you don’t have enough cells to execute genome-wide perturbations. So, while ...lentiGuide expressing only an gRNA, for use with cells that already have Cas9). Each library consists of...be useful when screening for phenotypes, such as cell-non-autonomous effects, that do not lend themselves...

...sequence. DSBs are preferentially repaired in the cell by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), a mechanism...PAM site. When a repair template is present, the cell may repair a DSB using homology-directed repair ...Cas protein and a target-specific gRNA in the same cell at the same time. Single plasmids containing both...

...plasmids (AsCpf1 and LbCpf1) for use in mammalian cells SpCas9 variants with no detectable off-target effects...CRISPR-Cas/RGN expression plasmids for use in human cells CRISPR-Cas/RGN expression plasmids for use in zebrafish...

...interaction networks of specific proteins in living cells. Until recently, the enzymes most frequently used...but requires H2O2, which can be toxic in living cells. BioID was derived from biotin ligase and uses far...Alexander Green lab found a solution: a low-cost, cell-free detection assay that can be completed without...family, known to be involved in cytoskeletal control, cell growth, and endocytosis. Recently, the Sidhu group...to studying membranes, organelles, and other subcellular compartments is via proteomics--the study of ...

... R, Schmalhorst PS, Jude JG, Zuber J, Gerlich DW Cell. 2017 Aug 24;170(5):956-972.e23 Screen identifies... R, Schmalhorst PS, Jude JG, Zuber J, Gerlich DW Cell. 2017 Aug 24;170(5):956-972.e23 Rapid and phosphoinositol-dependent... Rando OJ, Xue Y, Swiderek K, Kuo A, Crabtree GR Cell. 1998 Nov 25. 95(5):625-36. An architectural role..., Ensminger AW, Fox AH, Chess A, Lawrence JB Mol Cell. 2009 Mar 27;33(6):717-26. Reporter-nanobody fusions...

...product, the transformation may not result in any cells, or all the colonies screened might not contain ...verify the strain and the efficacy of your competent cells (when they get old, they lose competency). If all... look at your experimental design. Full lawn of cells. The antibiotic in your plate might not work. Check...acknowledged in hundreds of publications including Cell, Nature, and other journals.   Paolo Colombi is ...

...also gives cells antibiotic resistance to neomycin so that you can select the population of cells with the...Only a small percentage of the proteins inside a cell have a commercial antibody against them. There’s...antibody. It’s an epitope not found in human or other cells. It was made artificially. That means you aren’t...

...successfully infected/expressing cells by flow cytometry. The isolated cells were injected into mice and imaged...to changes in intracellular calcium and is useful for direct imaging of events in cells and brain explants...packaged into a retrovirus for infection of host cells. The fluorescent moiety of the BRET reporter was...imaging multiple proteins at the same time in live cells using fluorescent proteins (FPs) can be problematic...available through Addgene (Plasmid #83926). Live-Cell Voltage Sensor  Ingaki and colleagues (8) were interested...including monitoring multiple cellular events such as the dynamics of subcellular structures and gene expression...other cellular proteins. BRET-based biosensors utilizing NanoLuc® luciferase Many intracellular sensors...

...to enable three-feature cell targeting. C) Example of viral targeting of cells expressing Cre AND Flp,...parameters. Figure 1: Examples of intersectional cell population definitions using recombinases. A) Cre...adeno-associated virus (AAV)-borne payloads to be expressed in cells based on a doubly-specified combination of genetic...Neve R, Huang ZJ, Deisseroth K. 2014. Targeting cells with single vectors using multiple-feature Boolean...Cortex Reveals Local and Long-Range Circuit Motifs. Cell Rep. 28(13):3450-3461. PubMed (Link opens in a new...well-defined cellular sub-populations has generally been limited to single-component cellular definitions...multiple recombinase-expression strategies to define cellular sub-populations of interest, including dual-transgenic...

...Zhang Lab Plasmids The Human TFome Library Stem Cells Protocols & References MORF Plasmids MORF Pooled...Fu Z, Macrae RK, Buenrostro JD, Regev A, Zhang F. Cell 2023 Jan 5; 186(1):209-229. PubMed (Link opens in...be used for screening transcription factors for cellular programming or cancer drug resistance. Depositor...transcription factors for applications such as cellular programming or cancer drug resistance. Protocols...

...function using transcriptional recording sentinel cells! 🎵 On the 11th day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me...activation and interference screens for primary human T cells🎵 On the 3rd day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: ...Enhanced prime editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes🎵 On the 5th ...

...Lentivirus can transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells without a significant immune response. These viruses... in the viral particle) is delivered to a target cell upon infection. When lentivirus is used for research...the researcher wants delivered to specific target cells. This genome is encoded by plasmids called "transfer...encoded by the transfer plasmid is toxic to mammalian cells, it can be difficult to efficiently produce viral...

...Worms are particularly well suited for studies in cell biology, development, and aging. Scientists can .... elegans hermaphrodite consists of 959 somatic cells, which makes them attractive for imaging and fluorescence...researchers to express desired constructs in precise cell types and/or developmental timeframes. Here we highlight...

...e.g., pHelper) and specific packaging cell lines (e.g., HEK293 cells) during AAV production. Read our AAV...AAV can transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells with a low immune response and low toxicity. Although...

...repair fix DNA double-strand breaks?  In eukaryotic cells, repair of DSBs occurs primarily by two pathways...used, however, these are generally more toxic to cells than their plasmid counterparts. Another consideration...how to fix a broken relationship. Pardo B, et al. Cell Mol Life Sci (2009). PubMed. Regulation of DNA...break repair pathway choice. Shrivastav M, et al Cell Research (2008). PubMed. Mechanisms of DNA double-strand...Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells Resources on Addgene.org Browse All CRISPR Plasmids...double-strand break (DSB). DSBs can be caused by intracellular factors such as nucleases and reactive oxygen...

...Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell 163:759–771 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.038 Find plasmids...are capable of cleaving genomic DNA in mammalian cells and zebrafish embryos, and they can be used to modify... adapted for targeted RNA cleavage in mammalian cells. The REPAIR (RNA Editing for Programmable A to I...reveals specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol 34:863–868 . https://doi.org/10.1038...specificities of CRISPR-Cas Cpf1 nucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol 34:869–874 . https://doi.org/10.1038...

...and Protein Modifications in Cells and Tissues in Situ. Curr Protoc Cell Biol 89:e115. https://doi.org... like proximity ligation, immuno-PCR, and single-cell applications (Hegazy, et al., 2020; Niemeyer, et...epitope and transcriptome measurement in single cells. Nat Methods 14:865–868. https://doi.org/10.1038...

...slightly more efficient and less toxic to mammalian cells (Allen, et al., Frontiers in Genome Editing).  Some...enhance CRISPR-Cas genome editing in human primary cells. Nat Biotechnol 33, 985–989 (2015). https://doi....Enhance CRISPR Genome Editing Systems in Mammalian Cells. Frontiers in Genome Editing, 28 (2021). https:/...deactivation with photocleavable gRNAs. Molecular Cell 81, 7, 1553-1565 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016...evolved ways to prevent degradation of important cellular RNA molecules with post translational modifications...transfection efficiency and even track localization in cellular experiments. There are many suitable dyes to choose...

... be expressed in the same cell, but not necessarily at the same subcellular compartment as the opsin or...modulate the activity of neurons and other brain cells. Since the opsins or chemogenetic receptors used...neuropil conceals identification of opsin-expressing cells). For other things to keep in mind when making fluorescent...cerevisiae by use of an epitope addition method. Mol Cell Biol 8:2159–2165 . https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.8.5.2159...

...in transfected eukaryotic cells, allowing for them to be used as intracellular inhibitors.  Aptamers are...small enough to be expressed in bacterial and other cell systems. Since the majority of these alternative...the constant region. Nonspecific binding, caused cell receptors for the constant region, is also reduced..., peptides, amino acids, drugs, metal ions, and cells. They can be used either with or as fluorophores... may sound. Validated antibodies are still an excellent option for many applications, and frankly, if ...

...delivered using AAV injection, the majority of the cells surrounding the injection site will become infected... ensure that the reporter remains silent until a cell or tissue-specific Cre is provided. Since the FLEx...used to study the physiology or behavior of certain cell populations.  Acknowledgement:Through a partnership...FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range circuit mapping...for monitoring Cre-mediated recombination at the cellular level in the mouse. 2003 PubMed PMID: 12665802...

...plasmids to upregulate their expression in specific cells. With a more concrete understanding of the molecular...molecules targeting SMN1 and its partners in mouse cell lines. Dr. Di Schiavi hopes that these studies will... of ~30 patient derived peritoneal mesothelioma cells lines and assess their tumorigenesis. These experiments...

...sequence. DSBs are preferentially repaired in the cell by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), a mechanism...PAM site. When a repair template is present, the cell may repair a DSB using homology-directed repair ...

... tools that effectively transduce many mammalian cell types. AAV is used in a wide range of experiments...Tetracycline Transactivators, Affinity Purification, Cell Ablation Monosynaptic Neuronal Tracing Rabies Virus-Based...