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  1. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    ...Brainbow mouse neural labeling system. Brainbow-1 and -2 have been further refined to create Brainbow 3.2. ...M-CFP expression; these deletions are defined using 2 loxP variants (only identical loxP sites can mediate... each fluorophore. Third, Brainbow-1 and Brainbow-2 each contained a “default” state; for example, Brainbow...processes not previously visible with Brainbow-1 and -2. The general structure of Brainbow-1.0 is retained...populations. To decrease the animal breeding necessary to produce animals with Brainbow transgenes and...
  2. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    ...digestion of the destination vector with SapI yields 2 sites- the first site accepts the sgRNA target sequence...marker, and connector to be released (Fig. 1, Step 2-3). Since donor plasmids of the same type will produce... a gRNA vector that targets the gene of interest, 2) a plasmid to specify the reading frame of the insertion...localization, protein aggregation, or disruption of normal protein function, and ultimately misinterpretation...endogenous genes of interest to better understand normal protein function. However, CRISPR protein tagging...genomic loci in other model systems, including mammalian cells. CRISPaint (CRISPR-assisted insertion ...TagGFP2, TagBFP, TagRFP, and T2A-TurboGFP-PEST), and small epitope tags (HA, Myc, Strep tag II, AviTag, HaloTag...
  3. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    ...the system outlined in Schmid-Burgk, J.L., et al (2). In this post, I’ll cover two great applications ...molecularly evolved from mNeptune2 through 33 mutations and 2 deletions. CyOFP1 has a higher quantum yield, brightness...luciferin 24 hours later demonstrated a more than 2-fold brighter signal from Antares as compared to Fluc...PMID: 22894855. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3501149. 2. Schmid, J.L., et al. (2016) CRISPaint allows modular...perform whole-animal imaging, however NLuc’s emission peak is at 460 nm thus making it non-optimal for in vivo...absorbance of heme-containing proteins in whole animals, light at or above 600 nm wavelengths should be...issues as traditional luciferases emit at near optimal wavelengths (Fluc emits at 610 nm) and do not require...
  4. Mapping the 4D nucleome with CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...resolved loci with physical map distances of 75 and 2 Mbp, with the calculated fluorescent distances correlating...established physical map. In comparing pairs of targets ~2 Mbp apart, they noticed that they could evaluate the...example, the visualization of chromosomal translocations or chromosomal shattering (chromothripsis). As...could then be used to examine both inter- and intrachromosomal dynamics, and how they change in response ...turned their attention to mapping pairs of intrachromosomal loci. The technique successfully resolved ...the degree of chromatin compaction even for this small distance! To the authors’ knowledge, this work represents... represents the first mapping of intrachromosomal loci, a major benchmark in characterizing the 4D nucleome...
  5. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 3: Genome Engineering in Flies

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    ...are many docking sites available for integration. 2. How soon would you like your flies ready for use?...beautiful immunofluorescent images like in this paper (2). Metabolic assays such as Seahorse can be employed...PMID: 16547094. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1526508. 2. H. Jiang,  et al. Cytokine/Jak/Stat signaling mediates...your docking site is located). This amounts to a small difference of two or three weeks. 3. How would you...
  6. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    ...base pair to another base pair at a specific site. 2. Temporal, spatial, or conditional control of CRISPR...difficult-to-engineer Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 2 (Mayo-Muñoz et al., 2018). Only viral particles that...Editing of Sulfolobus islandicus Rod-Shaped Virus 2. Viruses 10:695 . https://doi.org/10.3390/v10120695...). Anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins are phage-derived small protein inhibitors of CRISPR-Cas systems that help... Acr proteins by inducible promoters, light, or small molecules could achieve rapid, dynamic, and spatial...cytotoxicity of CRISPR-Cas editing in tissues The small size of Acr proteins (~50-200 amino acids) means...is where Acr proteins come in. Acr proteins are small enough that they could be engineered to “armor” ...
  7. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    ...Cpf1 is a single RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system." Cell (2015). PubMed PMID: 26422227... Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., et al. "Genome-wide specificities...Cpf1 Is a Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell. 2015 Sep 23. pii: S0092-8674...homology-directed repair. Both Cpf1 and its guide RNAs are smaller than their SpCas9 counterparts, so they will be...in length, respectively, larger than SaCas9 but smaller than SpCas9. These nucleases should fit well into...the newly described non-CRISPR protein NgAgo is smaller than any of these options (2.7 kb with 24 nt guides...efficiency of two Cpf1 orthologs known to be active in mammalian cells, LbCpf1 and AsCpf1. In both reports, on ...
  8. The time and cost required to make a plasmid

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    ...required to make a plasmid. In 2023 (and at closer to 2 million plasmids shared than not!), we think it’s ...time does it take to make a plasmid? Figure 2: Survey results from a Twitter poll run in 2023, n...go wrong, replace them for free. Plasmids ship out 2-3 days after ordering, making it a toss-up as to whether...to use or build on work done previously, borrow small aliquots of restriction enzymes for one-off projects...
  9. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    ...AAVs in the clinic Thus far, AAV vectors AAV1, AAV-2, AAV1-AAV2 hybrids, AAV-6, AAV-7, AAV-8, AAV-9 and...neutralizing antibodies against some AAV types, AAV1, 2, 3 and 5 are thought to be as high as 70% among the... 10.24 (2003): 1999-2004. PubMed PMID: 14566358.  2. Hirsch, M. L., et al. "Self-complementary AAV mediates...persistent immunological reconstitution with a normally functioning T cell repertoire (1). In this example...icosahedral, non-enveloped virus that carries a small, approximately 4.7 kb single stranded genome. AAV...
  10. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    ...(you generally don’t want more tag than protein), 2-3 tags is increasingly common. Tandem affinity purification...TEV cleavage site (more on that in a moment), and 2 ProtA IgG-binding domains. TAP has since come to encompass...found in this paper (available at Addgene).   Table 2: Protease recognition sites commonly used with tags... Protein tags are usually smallish peptides incorporated into a translated protein. As depicted in the...point in crystallizing it or testing its function. Small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) can help with ...with folding and stabilization, as can maltose-binding protein (MBP). Overexpression can also lead to insolubility... issues, but scientists may also choose to add smaller proteins, such as Thioredoxin A (TrxA) that improve...
  11. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    ...the mixed sample in our pipeline (see Figure 2, sample 2). When we blindly analyzed AAV-68544, we were...look for potential contaminants. The analysis is a 2-step process using Geneious software: First, the individual...serotype of the prep by interrogating the VGS data for small predetermined seed sequences unique to the capsid...to transgene expression in recombinase-negative animals, producing misleading results.  To date, we have...that users titrate their AAV vectors to find the optimal dose that allows for sufficient transgene expression...
  12. Plasmids 101: Colony PCR

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    ...design primers to detect the presence of your insert; 2) set up a standard PCR reaction (primers, dNTPs, polymerase...strategies for primer design: 1) insert-specific primers, 2) backbone-specific primers, and 3) orientation-specific...negative clone (-) will not. Backbone-specific primers (2) give larger sized products for positive clones (+...sterile flat toothpick or pipette tip and swirl in a small amount of sterile water.  Pick 3-10 colonies in ...to start liquid cultures. Lastly, you can start small overnight liquid cultures with the clones you pick...boiling the sample before use or by directly adding a small volume of the sample to the PCR reaction. The bacteria...
  13. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    ...indicating primer dimers. (c) A double peak indicating 2 amplicons. Image credits (respectively): Zuzanna K...details for reproducibility’s sake!   Fig. 2: Setting up triplicates in multiple configurations...used method is the Standard Curve method. See Table 2, (adapted from Wong, 2018) for a comparison of different...Statistically defined log-linear phase   Table 2: A comparison of different qPCR analysis methods. ... for RNA quantitation. Biotechniques. 2000 Aug;29(2):332-7. doi: 10.2144/00292rv02. PMID: 10948434.Taylor...’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 ...
  14. Spurred by COVID-19, Addgene Bridges Plasmid Sharing Between Academia and Industry

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    ...untagged expression of SARS-CoV-2 proteins in bacteria, yeast, and mammalian cells. We teamed up with Ginkgo...approximately 3,000 constructs to support SARS-CoV-2 research.  Browse the entire Ginkgo Bioworks COVID...with children playing in the background became a normal occurrence as Addgene and our university partners...assessed how to more readily enable research. Often “normal” timelines that could be weeks to months were reduced...
  15. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    ...upstream of an opsin gene (e.g., channelrhodopsin-2, ChR2) fused to a reporter gene (e.g., mCherry) to...the correct orientation to be transcribed (Figure 2) (Sharma and Zhu, 2014). How does FLEx enable strong... Abdallah, Khaled, et al. "Adeno-associated virus 2/9 delivery of Cre recombinase in mouse primary afferents...Deniz, et al. "A FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range ...optical and genetic methods to photo-stimulate mammalian neurons and alter synaptic events: a new technology...system due to their relatively stable extra-chromosomally long-term expression and low ability to induce...optogenetic FLEx vectors in combination with transgenic animals or rAAVs expressing Cre under a specific cell-type...
  16. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    ...known as an omega RNA, or ωRNA) (Figure 2), but TnpB is small enough to be carried by viral vectors (~...than a third of the size of Cas9). Figure 2: Comparison of TnpB (A) and Cas9 (B) genome editors...Figure 5: Mechanism of ATLASCre. VAMP2 = synaptobrevin 2; At = ALFA-tag; BACE = β-secretase; AF = AMPA.FingR...time (Figure 1). See the paper for more details on small differences between mGold2s and mGold2t depending...CRISPR has become a household name, the search for smaller genome editors is heating up and TnpB has found...introduced heritable genome edits in a single step with minimal off-target effects. With this proof-of-concept,...
  17. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    ...handled at BSL-1, while lentivirus requires a BSL-2 setup. This requires a less involved setup when working...infection rates in your experiment. Figure 2: Visual representation of common AAV serotypes used..., 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12449-2 Pupo, A., Fernández, A., Low, S. H., François, A.,...of hundreds to tens of thousands of genes with minimal effort. The versatility of Cas effectors allows... the host genome. AAV instead relies mainly on episomal expression. Episomes are circular pieces of DNA... pool for downstream NGS and means you can use smaller volumes of your library for each experiment. Additional...to use variants of Cas9, like split Cas9, or a smaller Cas9 ortholog like SaCas9. You could even venture...
  18. Transferable Skills Guide: Cross-team Communication

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    ...discussed them in meetings and 2) creating a pictorial guide for our engineers (Fig. 2). Creating this guide was...communication has helped Addgene move from completing 2-3 large projects a year, on average, to completing...” “material,” “item,” and “format” all received formal definitions in our lexicon. We created documents...
  19. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    ... (2,3). Stable strand separation is maintained by 2 sets of interactions : 1. Interactions between the...formed by the Cas9 HNH and RuvC nuclease domains 2. Interactions between the target strand and the gRNA... Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Nishimasu, Hiroshi, et al. "Crystal structure of ...should enable researchers to make precise edits in mammalian cells and may decrease worries about off target...
  20. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    ...the result in Figure 1 could look like this: Figure 2: Expression of Plasmid B (as internal control) This...down expression of Gene X but, as shown in Figure 2, this was likely due to the original transfection ...PMID: 20074371. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2817684. 2. Replicates and repeats—what is the difference and...reagents and process. It is important to note that optimal experimental conditions, including how much plasmid...backbone as Plasmid A—that does not target any mammalian gene. This non-targeting control is critical to...a gene, you should design a control that shows maximal activation. Likewise if you are trying to repress...
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