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  1. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    ...Vector Mammalian Lentivirus pRDA_512 (RSV-driven; lentiGuide-based) Mammalian Lentivirus... over 512) Mammalian Lentivirus pRDA_789 (CMV-driven; CROPseq) Mammalian AAV pRDA_889...AAV2) Mammalian Transposon pRDA_757 (Piggybac; constitutive expression) Mammalian Plasmid...features of your vector, which are: Organism (Mammalian or drosophila) Delivery type (lentivirus, AAV...
  2. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ...constructs available at Addgene includes bacterial and mammalian mCyRFP1 or CyRFP1 expression plasmids, FRET constructs...method to increase CRISPR editing efficiency in mammalian cells. Their marker-free coselection, analogous...mutations in ATP1A1 can render cells resistant to the small molecule ouabain - and editing at the ATP1A1 locus...create SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small as 1-2 nucleotides! To reduce off-target effects... HF-Cas9 (NGG)  Very low off-target activity; mammalian expression vector Rees H, et al. Nature Communications...looking for the production of ECT-DNA (extra-chromosomal telomeric DNA), which accumulates when T-loops...inhibit Spy Cas9 function in both bacteria and mammalian cells. These CRISPR inhibitors may provide a layer...
  3. Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields

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    ...your plasmid yield is sub-optimal? If you are consistently getting sub-optimal plasmid yields from your...Different plasmids and strains will vary in their optimal growth conditions. For many high copy plasmids,...therefore be cultured in media containing half the normally recommended antibiotic concentration. Add supplements... or more to achieve maximum plasmid yield. The optimal growth time should be determined for each plasmid...culture is getting the right amount of oxygen for optimal growth, as insufficient gas exchange will prevent...cultures in flasks may be shaken around 220 RPM, but smaller cultures, especially those in deep-well plates,...
  4. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ... fluorescent proteins, chosen for minimal spectral overlap, minimal protein aggregation, and high photostabilty...Chemical approaches may require expensive peptides or small molecules and exceed a physiologically relevant ...Classic genetic engineering methods enabling chromosomal integration of sequences in bacteria are time-consuming... by otherwise pharmacologically inert drug-like small molecules, allowing labs to precisely and non-invasively...catalytically inactive Cas9 DNA-binding domain in mammalian cells. (Guilinger et al., Nat Biotechnol. 2014... different TALE scaffolds are provided, as the optimal scaffold can depend on the length of the spacer... in the mouse brain. Kim et al is utilizing a mammalian GRASP (GFP reconstitution across synaptic partners...
  5. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...them advantageous for small capacity vectors like AAV. In addition to the mammalian option described below... many tools to help you multiplex - we’ll use mammalian plasmids to introduce you to some of your potential...cleaved and released. These constructs tend to be smaller than constructs with multiple promoter-gRNA cassettes...available from the Yang lab for use in plants. The mammalian multiplex systems use the Csy4 RNA nuclease from...efficiency for point mutations and 66% efficiency for small insertions. Multiplexing of two targets simultaneously...Danilo, et al. “In vivo engineering of oncogenic chromosomal rearrangements with the CRISPR/Cas9 system.” ...modular vector system for rapid combinatorial mammalian genetics.” Journal of Clinical Investigation 125...
  6. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...cost-effective and faster-growing than mammalian cells, but mammalian cells can perform human-like post-translational... Y, Zhan C, Malm M, Field R, Turner R, Sellick C, Varley P, Rockberg J, Chotteau V. Small-scale bioreactor...can take place in bacterial, yeast, plant, or mammalian cells. Each of these systems has their advantages...bonds (Frenzel et. al., 2013). If you’re using a mammalian production system, cell lines typically used include... your plasmid(s), and then wait 7-14 days (in mammalian cells) to collect the cell culture supernatant...
  7. "Hall of Fame" AAV Enhancers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science

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    ...font-family":"helvetica","font-style":"normal","font-weight":"normal","text-decoration":"none"},"fallback..."font-family: helvetica; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none","font_set":"DEFAULT... then cloned into an AAV backbone containing a minimal promoter to drive expression of a fluorescent gene... AAV Enhancer Collection is a quick guide to a smaller set of tried-and-true winners, containing enhancers.../10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108754 Panigrahi, A., & O'Malley, B. W. (2021). Mechanisms of enhancer action: ...
  8. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    ...Yeast-based protein evolution Fluorescent tools for mammalian cells Nanobody purification CRISPRi and CRISPRa...affinity tags from purified recombinant proteins at small and large scale.  This new technique involves selection...tools for labeling structures and compartments in mammalian cells By Angela Abitua Genetically encoded fluorescent...from the Lck gene. For marking microtubules of mammalian cells, the author found that too high expression...label entire microtubules. Find these fluorescent mammalian cell structure markers plasmids at Addgene! Chertkova...antibodies can’t be overlooked. Nanobodies are smaller in size, more durable, and usually much easier ...the authors created the pMAK backbone by modifying pMAL-T-Avi-His/BirA, a vector commonly used for in vivo...
  9. Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication

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    ...let's review how E. coli normally replicate their chromosomal DNA. Chromosomal replication in bacteria ...synchronized with the replication of the host cell's chromosomal DNA.  Plasmids are said to be under stringent...replication fork. Termination sequences present in the chromosomal DNA ensure that the helicases are released from... replication.   Figure 2: Prokaryotic chromosomal replication. Adapted from BioRender template....regulatory mechanisms allow E. coli to control chromosomal replication and balance population growth against...
  10. Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks

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    ...affects primarily girls. After a period of seemingly normal development through ages 6 to 18 months, individuals...gene activation, and more. Loss of MECP2 in adult animal models results in rapid symptom onset, suggesting...influence Rett Syndrome. Zoghbi’s lab found that a small DNA binding motif in MECP2 interacts with the minor...disease that has shown reversibility of symptoms in animal models, Rett syndrome is a strong translational...delivery of a functional MECP2 gene in preclinical animal studies with positive results (Sinnett et al., ...programmable RNA editing can repair a gene in a living animal across multiple cell types using a mouse model ...repositories including patient-derived iPSCs, MECP2 animal models, tissue banks, Rett databases, and other...
  11. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ... Learn All about Mammalian Vectors Read up on CRISPR Delivery Systems for Mammalian Cells Learn about...retracted due to cell line contamination: Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition Is Required for Acquisition of Anoikis...nitrogen store to prevent loss from equipment malfunctions. One Master vial can then be thawed and used...independent quality control for a range of testing, from animal doping to forensics, DNA sequencing to drug testing...PubMed PMID: 19722756. Additional Resources ATCC Animal Cell Culture Guide Thermofisher Guidelines for ... Resources on Addgene.org Find Plasmids for Mammalian Cells ...
  12. Plasmid Preps: Different Purity, Different Quantities, Different Uses

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    ...electrocompetent cells is minimal (picogram range). It can be extracted from small bacterial cultures (i.... approach, allowing scientists to clone from a smaller amount of DNA (ng range). To allow efficient and... Figure 3: Need to introduce plasmids into mammalian cells? Use transfection grade DNA. Transfection...the process of inserting an external plasmid in mammalian cells and it will likely require micrograms of...plasmid DNA, so that you can decide what will be the optimal type of plasmid preparation in terms of quantity...
  13. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ...of interest is relatively small, adding GFP may alter diffusion rates. Smaller genetically encoded probes...cofactor binding proteins as described above. The smallest tags are peptides that are engineered to bind ... For a review see Lotze et al. (2016). To date, small probes that are entirely genetically encoded do ...in the medium or flavin containing proteins in mammalian cells. Generally, autofluorescence is less of .... "A genetically encoded fluorescent probe in mammalian cells." Journal of the American Chemical Society...bioluminescence imaging of deep tissue in freely moving animals." Science 359.6378 (2018): 935-93. PubMed PMID:...
  14. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    ...concentrations of template (e.g. 0.1-1.0 ng/μl). Smaller plasmids (~3 kb) are generally more efficiently... the unmodified plasmid will be split into two smaller bands (Figure B, digest A). In contrast, if your...digestion with the appropriate enzyme will merge two smaller bands visible in a digest of the unmodified plasmid...digest, which excises a short region (<400 bp) proximal to the target site, can identify these duplications... relative to the original template). Due to the small difference in size, the fragments should be separated...sequence), it may be easier to subsequently clone a smaller region (containing the specific modification) into...target site, you can simply amplify and mutate this smaller portion of the plasmid with a primer pair that ...
  15. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    ...’ll want to run gradients for optimal annealing temperature and optimal primer concentration; check for...parameters, some people find it can detect even smaller differences, and it can even be used to detect ...chemistries available and they can be the more optimal choices at times. For example, chemistries that... plate type or tubes, sealing method, and other small variations in consumables. Track and record these... passive reference dye, such as ROX, can help normalize for that. Passive reference dyes are inert fluorescent...machine surge errors and allow for well-to-well normalization of signal. They are often included in commercial... a protocol that automatically performs the normalization step.  Machines Most general-use protocols, ...
  16. Cre-ating New Methods for Site-specific Recombination in Drosophila

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    ...to occur at a frequency of 1.2 per megabase in mammals), leading to DNA damage and developmental aberrations...indicating that the recombinases were inherited normally and thus nontoxic. In contrast, 0/79 offspring...two of these recombinases were also active in mammalian cells. In experiments, B3 and KD were shown to...site-specific recombinases for use in manipulating animal genomes. Nern A, Pfeiffer BD, Svoboda K, Rubin ... and DNA damage induced by Cre recombinase in mammalian cells. Loonstra A, Voojis M, Beverloo HB, Al Allak.../s004270100167. PubMed. Cryptic loxP sites in mammalian genomes: genome-wide distribution and relevance...
  17. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...functions in mammalian expression systems.   Christopher Newgard’s Lab has fused LSD1 to the smaller nuclease-dead...specified loci. Charles Gersbach’s lab has deposited mammalian expression constructs including pcDNA-dCas9-p300...Tet1-CD for targeted cytosine demethylation in mammalian cells. This plasmid is used with pcDNA3.1-MS2-...DNMT3A-PuroR for targeted cytosine methylation in mammalian cells. Co-expression markers EGFP and PuroR enable...pcDNA3.1-dCas9-MQ1(Q147L)-EGFP, a fusion of dCas9 to a small DNA methyltransferase from the prokaryote Mollicutes...Jaenisch R (2016) Editing DNA Methylation in the Mammalian Genome. Cell 167:233–247.e17 . https://doi.org...
  18. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    ...i-GONAD is performed directly on pregnant female mice using a small incision that exposes the ovaries and ...into blastocysts to be implanted in pseudopregnant female mice. If you obtained the desired chimeric mice...template with 55-100 bp homology on each side. For optimal repair, place the loxP sites precisely at the cut...microinjection and i-GONAD knock-in efficiency using a small ssDNA, and they found comparable efficiencies (52...However, microinjection does require 2.5x more animals than i-GONAD and is a more technically difficult...for Cas9 Purification Find CRISPR Plasmids for Mammalian Expression ...
  19. CRISPR 101: Cas9 Nickase Design and Homology Directed Repair

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    ...targeted region, as shown below.  To identify optimal nickase designs, IDT scientists Mollie Schubert...consistently higher than that of H840A, especially with smaller nick distances. Using D10A, they subsequently showed...the PAM-out configuration, D10A tends to generate small deletions, while H840A is biased towards large insertions...and Yan next examined a situation thought to be suboptimal for HDR. At the AAVS1 locus, the two nearest ...13 nt away from the target site rather than the optimal <10 nt distance. Employing two gRNA sites that ...between nick sites Use 40 nt homology arms for small insertions or tags (ssODN; IDT Ultramer® Oligonucleotides...
  20. Deep Dive: Statistical Tests (Comparisons)

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    ...calculated p values from smallest to largest and ranking them (1 being the smallest value). It calculates...test. Distribution - spread of data; typically, normal (bell curve) or skewed (see Fig. 2). Assumptions...   Parametric test assumptions: Distribution – Normal Variables – Independent Variance – Approximately... the assumptions for the tests described above (normal distribution, equal variance, and independent variables...histogram is sometimes sufficient to determine normality (or lack thereof). Alternatively, a Quantile vs...from a theoretical distribution. If your data is normally distributed, it will form (more or less) a straight...
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