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  1. Building and Validating Recombinant Antibodies: A Case Study

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    ...plasmid to express the target antigen could be screened in a high-throughput manner. Cells were labeled...which was observed for the hybridoma mAb.  While screening by IF-ICC worked well for identification of the...was recognized that an aberrant IgG light chain transcript was expressed by some of the hybridomas and, ...limited the number of clones that needed to be screened through functional assays. Following functional...
  2. Choosing a CRISPR Nuclease: Site Accessibility, Specificity, and Sensitivity

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    ...Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9 described the PAM specificity of Cas9s isolated from different..., and NGCG). Since then, the Osamu Nureki Lab described a rationally engineered Cas9, SpCas9-NG, which...Nishimasu et al., 2018). The David Liu Lab similarly described xCas9, which displayed the ability to target multiple...post on choosing a Cas9, the Feng Zhang Lab had described eSpCas9, while the Keith Joung Lab had developed...
  3. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    ...recognized as important regulators of post-transcriptional gene expression across the majority of cellular...al., Nat Commun, 2019. PubMed PMID: 29934631. Screening immune cell lineages in vivo using the CRISPR-...tools have been used in immunology for in vitro screens of immune cell activity. However, a CRISPR-based...gene. CHIME can also be used for high throughput screens using pooled libraries. Find the CHIME plasmids...
  4. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    .... elegans. These dsRNAs target specific mRNA transcripts for degradation. Despite how easy these experiments...target gene between two inverted T7 promoters. Transcription from each promoter progresses past the specific... Lab’s recent Nature Biotechnology paper, they describe TurboID and miniTurbo, which utilize non-toxic...include protein stability, small molecule binding screens, peptide arrays, and phage display selections. ...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    ...catalog – so check there before building one from scratch! Why deliver these systems virally instead of by... preserving cell viability. Library delivery Screening libraries, large collections of biological independent... entire genome, overexpression of all human transcription factors, barcoded libraries to trace cell lineage...library cargo delivered are controllable. For many screening applications, it is essential to deliver a single...
  6. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    ...which is removed by culturing cells at 38℃, but screening cells for the presence of transgenes is still ...Sendai virus doesn’t rely on promoters for transcriptional regulation, so it requires a different approach...in practice integration can occur. Okita et al describes a protocol for generating iPSCs by plasmid transfection...Methods RNA Delivery: For this approach, in vitro transcribed RNAs are serially transfected using a cationic...transduction, such as the polyarginine peptide described in Zhou et al and Kim et al. This is considered...
  7. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    ...read more content related to CRISPR technology, subscribe to our CRISPR blog content.   In this post we ...miniature CRISPR-Cas12f nuclease Quanjiang Ji’s lab describes an effective miniature Cas system that utilizes...deletions and introduce epitope tags and RNA transcription start sites. The lab further demonstrated that...comprises an active Cas9 fused to the reverse transcriptase (RT), which induces two double-strand breaks...
  8. Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards

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    ...indicators. Tian developed a video-based high-throughput screen for directed evolution of biosensors based on their... to engineer many types of biosensors.   This screening method allowed Tian to optimize a red‑shifted ... the improved voltage indicator coming from the screen to understand mouse cortical and hippocampal neural...neural microcircuits. “In the longer term, this screening platform may help us to create high-performance...
  9. Troubleshooting Your Plasmid Cloning Experiment

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    ...may not result in any cells, or all the colonies screened might not contain the correct plasmid. There’s...pick the big colony and you are safe! Colony screening Pick a few colonies (5-10) and grow them in a ... you've identified potential clones after the screening, sequence the plasmid. Many vectors contain sequences...can use the chromatogram to spot whether any discrepancies between your sequencing result and the expected...
  10. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    ..., the ability to detect mRNA transcripts of toxins and other transcripts of interest is a benefit of this...the organisms present while sequencing of all transcripts gives clues into what the microbes are doing....delivery into recipients by conjugation. The labs screened for the host-range of the plasmids and suitability...
  11. Working with Nuclear Receptors

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    ...ligands NRs represent the largest family of transcription factors found in metazoans. The superfamily ...profiling datasets in to our data mining tool, Transcriptomine. We are currently nearing the completion of...transient transfection platform for assaying transcriptional activity, for example, was a key development...coregulators: Judges, juries and executioners of transcriptional regulation. Molecular Cell 27, 691-700. (PubMed...
  12. 5 Steps to Writing Grant Proposals for Grad Students

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    ...includes overview information, key dates, funding description, research plan, award information, eligibility...aspects are understood. While reading the funding description, pay attention to the keywords used and think...grant applications restrict the space available to describe the proposed work. Thus, every single sentence...project are clearly stated and align with the description of the RFA and funding institution. Emphasizing...
  13. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    ... by T7 promoters to allow for bidirectional transcription to create dsRNA. Students can produce DNA templates...A recent publication [1] from the Sánchez lab describes the plasmids and protocols required for both WISH...the temporal and spatial localization of mRNA transcripts in tissue. This is useful for labeling specific... which are available through the deposit) are described in the Sánchez lab publication [1] so that the...
  14. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    ... protein to date By Justin Ng High-throughput screening methods, such as fluorescence-activated cell sorting...s lab developed a new form of FACS-based cell screening, Single-cell Phenotypic Observation and Tagging...plasmids here Reduce the scale of your CRISPR screens by using this lentiviral CRISPR human genome-wide...guides per construct and allows a reduced scale in screens without any reduction in performance compared to...
  15. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    ...loop-mediated isothermal amplification after reverse transcription (RT-LAMP) and a colorimetric readout that can... 45 minutes. The team deposited the reverse transcriptase, protease, and Bst polymerase constructs from...toolkit include ones for expressing MMLV reverse transcriptase and Taq polymerase that can be used in a one-step...Hsu PD (2021) Genome-wide, bidirectional CRISPR screens identify mucins as critical host factors modulating...
  16. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    ...on a fusion enzyme of Cas9 nickase + reverse transcriptase and a prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA). The ...) complementary to the genome and a reverse transcriptase (RT) template including the desired edit. ...., 2019). Test different lengths of reverse transcriptase template, starting with about 10–16 nucleotides...pegRNA primer binding site (PBS) and reverse transcriptase template (RTT). Created with BioRender.com. ...
  17. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    ...Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional activation screening. Nat Protoc 12:828–863 . https:/...ask the depositing laboratory to review the discrepancies. If the depositing laboratory confirms that ... use a modified version of the Python program described by Joung et al. 2017, which we hope to make available...
  18. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    ...for viral titration consider using a reverse transcriptase mutant in a separate control reaction. This ...results. A packing vector deficient in reverse transcriptase will produce low levels of virus and can be ...into a target cell’s genome. This approach can discriminate multiple integration events, reducing the possibility... How Lentivirus is Used in CRISPR Genome-Wide Screening Learn How Lentivirus Has Been Used for Lineage...
  19. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    ...up, most will eventually grow within a week. We screen the wells in groups as they become confluent, taking...important to have a functional assay in place to screen your clones. Depending on the protein, we have ...SH-SY5Y cells, as these cells did not seem to form discrete colonies but constantly migrated away from each...either initially, or using secondary biological screens. For example, for cancer researchers, if growth...
  20. Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity

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    ...suppression of background by antibiotic selection. Screening of transformants by colony PCR confirmed the insertion...obtained if any single component was omitted. Screening for successful Golden Gate Assembly All Golden...to faster assembly workflows that require less screening to confirm the accuracy of assembly. The fidelity... assemblies per plate using outgrowth volumes described in Figure 3, with calculated yields from entire...
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