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  1. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    ...recombined cells. Recombination is a rare event, so you must select as opposed to screen for cells where recombination...Correctly recombined cells will not contain the negative selection marker, but cells with random recombination...modified version of the targeted sequence to the cell which will recombine the template with the endogenous... used to inactivate specific genes in mammalian cells. Despite the popularity of CRISPR-based knockout...targeting construct. For recombination to occur in a cell, a minimum of 2 kb of sequence homology is required...antibiotic resistance gene. To avoid selecting for cells in which the construct has randomly integrated into...outside one of the homology arms. When we select cells later, we will first perform a positive selection...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    ...dividing cells only, so is not suitable for infection of quiescent cells or infrequently cycling cells but ...non-dividing cells, making it conducive to targeting all cell types. Altogether, AAV has many excellent features...DNA copies of their genome upon infecting a host cell. This viral DNA (also called proviral DNA) is then...and permanently integrate a genetic cargo into a cell. These viruses have a cargo capacity of ~ 8 kb, ...needs, and can transduce (infect) a wide range of cell types with a high efficiency. However, gamma-retrovirus...but is fine for experiments with immortalized cell line cultures. Lentivirus Lentivirus is a type of retrovirus...lentivirus can infect both dividing and non-dividing cells. Lenti particles enter the nucleus through nuclear...
  3. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    ...efficient gene deletion in B cells, T cells, macrophages, and dendritic cells, with no deleterious effects...to HEK293FT and HeLa cell lines. When the miRNA activity profile for a given cell type is already known...or ZFN to edit immune cells poses challenges such as the inhibition of immune cell differentiation. Furthermore...immune cell activity. However, a CRISPR-based tool for in vivo functional analysis of immune cells has been...construct in bone marrow stem cells from Cas9-expressing mice, and used the cells to reconstitute the immune..., these reporters can help define the different cells present in a mixed population, or identify differentiation...turning the single-input reporters into multi-input cell classifiers in one assembly step. Find the miRNA...
  4. Viral Production

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    ... preparations are added to cells in culture. Three to five days later, cell cultures are inspected for... a new vial of early passage cells. Approximately 2 weeks post-thaw, cell culture supernatant is tested...involves transducing cells with serial dilutions of the lentiviral vector, harvesting cells several days later...see maps section for images). Figure 2: AAV Pro cells were transduced with either pAAV-Ef1a-mCherry-IRES-Cre... (55634-AAVrg) alone at 1.7E6 viral genomes (vg)/cell, pAAV-CAG-FLEX-rc [Jaws-KGC-GFP-ER2] (Addgene 84445...Production Lentiviral preparations are produced in 293T cells using the 2nd generation psPAX2 and pMD2.G packaging...packaging system developed by the Trono lab . Cell culture medium (OptiPro SFM) containing lentivirus is ...
  5. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...and yeast cells are cost-effective and faster-growing than mammalian cells, but mammalian cells can perform...your cells with your plasmid(s), and then wait 7-14 days (in mammalian cells) to collect the cell culture...production system, cell lines typically used include Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK) cells and Chinese Hamster...recombinant antibodies with some molecular biology and cell culture experience. Let’s go over the basics of ... place in bacterial, yeast, plant, or mammalian cells. Each of these systems has their advantages and ...post-translational modifications that bacterial and most yeast cells cannot. Your choice of production system may depend...Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. (L'Abbé et al., 2018).  Recombinant antibodies can be produced through a single...
  6. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    ...transduction of cells, resulting in cell population mutated by the viral pooled library. These cells can then...transduce your cells.  Titering After generating your lentivirus, you’ll want to infect your cells with the ...of a cell being infected by only one viral particle, but it also increases the chances that a cell doesn...adequately represented in the cell population, you’ll need to infect many more cells than the number of plasmids...appropriate packaging and envelope plasmids into HEK cells allows production of lentivirus. Purification of...small aliquot is not enough to transfect producer cells, so your first step will be to amplify the library...approach for producing lentivirus in Lenti-X 293T cells using a polyethyenimine transfection protocol. I...
  7. Zebrafish Plasmid Collection

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    ... and track clones of cells over time. Examples of useful tools for studying cells that share clonal origin...Shendure Lab Simultaneous single-cell profiling of lineages and cell types in the vertebrate brain - Alex...Mumm Lab. NTR 2.0/MTZ-based cell ablation system that allows sustained cell loss and ablation of ...Sauka-Spengler Lab Lineage Tracing Cell lineage tracing in multicellular systems typically relies on genetic...below: UFlip CRISPR targeted integration vectors for cell-type specific conditional gene inactivation - Jeffrey...Pantazis Lab Multibow: digital spectral barcodes for cell tracing - Sean Megason Lab Zebrabow - Albert Pan... previously resistant cell types. CreLite - George Eisenhoffer Lab. An optogenetically controlled...
  8. Viral Vectors

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    ...hard-to-transfect mammalian cells. In addition, "viral pseudotyping" can be used to target specific cells or tissues. ...genetic material into a cell, and even deliver this genetic material to specific cells in an organism. Figure...Genome Packaging Capacity Virus Size (nm) Cells Infected Target Cell Genome Integration Immune Response Lentivirus...because of their ability to transduce non-dividing cells. These viruses enable long-term stable gene expression...ability to preferentially infect and kill cancer cells. Adenoviruses have high transduction efficiency ... though this infectivity is limited to dividing cells. Retroviruses integrate permanently into the host...for the delivery of this genetic information to cells. Adapting plasmid DNA for use with virus-mediated...
  9. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    ...Cas9 in Intestinal Stem Cell Organoids of Cystic Fibrosis Patients." Cell Stem Cell. 13, 653-658 (2013). ...patient’s own cells that have been modified ex vivo, previously edited healthy donor cells can be delivered...Genetic Disease in Mouse Via Use of CRISPR/Cas9." Cell Stem Cell. 13, 659-662 (2013). Gerald Schwank et al. ...on editing animal models of disease and cultured cells. For example, in 2013, Jinsong Li and colleagues...applied CRISPR to disease correction in adult stem cells isolated from two patients with cystic fibrosis ...delivery directly to the patient. Patient-derived cells can alternatively be harvested, edited ex vivo, ...therapies involve editing healthy donor-derived cells and delivering them to the patient.   Current...
  10. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility

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    ...copy number in the cell is high, but allows replication when copy number in the cell falls too low (Novcik...system to partition themselves to each daughter cell during cell division. They don’t simply rely on chance...eukaryotic cells). The partition NTPase is recruited and “walks” each plasmid to a separate daughter cell. When... daughter cell, instead of partitioning each type of plasmid into a separate daughter cells (Figure 2)...from the cell with the same probability, or asymmetrical, where one plasmid lost from the cell at a higher...different plasmids to be maintained in one bacterial cell. In this Plasmids 101 post, we’ll cover why this...incompatibility occurs when multiple plasmids within one cell have the same replicon and/or partitioning system...
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