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TypeBlog Post...transducing the cell type under study. Many AAVs will show significant expression in a variety of cell types, ...optogenetics as tools to investigate the roles of certain cell types in locomotion. We have relied heavily upon...deliver chemogenetic/optogenetic constructs into our cells of interest. Although they have a small packaging...of serotype (which determines which tissues and cells an AAV can infect) can influence an AAV’s value ... tissue? Location (2): Where in the tissue/which cell type? Location (3): Traveling from the original ...AAV5, AAV6, AAV9 Pancreas AAV8 Photoreceptor Cells AAV2, AAV5, AAV8 RPE (Retinal Pigment Epithelium...-vectors/aav/aav-guide. Where in the tissue/what cell type? In the CNS, for instance, there are marked...
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Cell Migration Consortium Plasmids
TypeCollection... Depositor Collections Cell Migration Consortium (CMC) Plasmids Cell Migration Consortium (CMC) Plasmids...collaboration between the Cell Migration Consortium and Addgene. Member laboratories of the Cell Migration Consortium...This resource is a collaboration between the Cell Migration Consortium (CMC) and Addgene, which highlights...Consortium have deposited plasmids useful for cell migration research at Addgene. CMC investigators who have... -
15 Hot Plasmids from 2017
TypeBlog Post... of cell types in the nervous system. While certain cell types, such as principal excitatory cells and...neuronal cell types involved in neurodegenerative diseases, the Cole Lab selected promoters for cell types...with edited “pools” of cells, eliminating the time-consuming step of single-cell isolation. Agudelo et ...gene. Koo M, et al. Cell Systems. 2016. PubMed PMID: 28189581 Peters J, et al. Cell. 2016. PubMed PMID:...generation Deriving iPSCs (induced pluripotent stem cells) through the expression of transcription factors...the established model for reprogramming somatic cells. A common method for generating iPSCs to express...work are available at Addgene. Kim, et al. Stem Cell Reports. 2015. PubMed PMID: 25772473 Targeting... -
Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo
TypeBlog Post...degraded by the cellular machinery, leaving a small amount of active NgAgo/ssDNA complex in the cell. As proposed...results of Gao et al 2016 in a letter to Protein & Cell. Update (August 3rd, 2017) THE ORIGINAL NgAgo ARTICLE... guide, it cannot be produced from a plasmid in cells. Additionally, in vitro assembly of NgAgo/ssDNA ...dangerous, non-physiological temperature for mammalian cells and one which diminishes the endonuclease activity...guide. Therefore, researchers must co-transfect cells with 5’-P-ssDNA guides and an NgAgo expression plasmid.... Researchers can conveniently transfect/inject cells with in vitro preassembled Cas9/gRNA complexes or...lipofectamine-based method to deliver NgAgo ingredients into the cell, the same method used by Gao et al, 2016 (1). View... -
BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development
TypeBlog Post...the physiological and pathological roles of human cell glycans. Accordingly, she joined efforts with the...aspect of immunology, participating in events such as cell development, recognition and migration, the immune...plasmids to immortalize CDG patient-derived immune cell lines and use these lines to study how immune processes...McMurray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado...evidence of Arg-mutant protein rescue in living cells. The McMurray lab found that low concentrations ...multiple Arg-mutant proteins in living baker’s yeast cells, including Arg-mutant yeast homologs of human proteins...disease-linked Arg-mutant proteins both in yeast and human cells in order to determine the specific molecular features... -
Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening
TypeBlog Post...genes essential for West-Nile-virus-induced cell death." Cell reports 12.4 (2015): 673-683. PubMed PMID:... (and multiple) genetic perturbations in single cells. Methods to scale up multiplexed CRISPR systems ...perturbations and applications in functional genomics, cell reprogramming, and beyond. For further details, ...CRISPR-mediated control of gene repression and activation." Cell 159.3 (2014): 647-661. PubMed PMID: 25307932. PubMed...Genes and Genotype-Specific Cancer Liabilities." Cell 163.6 (2015): 1515-1526. PubMed PMID: 26627737. ...Genome-wide recessive genetic screening in mammalian cells with a lentiviral CRISPR-guide RNA library." Nature...Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screening in human cells." Science 343.6166 (2014): 84-87. PubMed PMID: 24336571... -
Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry Controls
TypeBlog Post...and beads that are unable to bind to them: like cells but with far more predictability. The beads create...The benefit of beads is that they do not require cells from your experiment, and they are non-specific....flow cytometer, you generally want your positive cells to read between 104 and 105 in order to have enough...the plot to see all of your positive and negative cells. This can be achieved by adjusting your voltage ...gating schematic to easily determine where your cells of interest are (B). Using FMO controls In...markers or commonly used markers that define broader cell populations (e.g., CD4, CD8b, CD11b, CD19), are ...require an FMO. Markers that define more specific cell populations, often used in the later gates, are ... -
Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius
TypeBlog Post... to date for visualizing genomic loci in living cells. Previous iterations of genomic loci visualization...labeling system to visualize chromosomal loci in human cells (Ma et al., 2015). To do so, they fused a different...visualization of sites on different chromosomes in living cells, the system requires high-copy chromosome-specific... aptamer system to visualize the gRNA in living cells. Broccoli aptamers are nucleic acid sequences that...production needed to deliver CRISPR-Sirius into cells. They named this guide sgRNA-Sirius-8XMS2 which ... 46 loci gave a detectable signal in human U2OS cells. Based upon this, they chose an intergenic DNA region...copy number variation (CNV) analysis of the U2OS cells. Figure 2: CRISPR-Sirius tricolor labeling... -
Zebrafish as a Model for Behavior: Swimming into the Optogenetic Spotlight
TypeBlog Post... light sensitive proteins (opsins) to manipulate cell activity, enables researchers to silence or incite...channels that allow charged particles to cross the cell membrane when exposed to light. Neuronal firing ...channel LiGluR both cause ion movement that results in cell depolarization. They therefore function as a neuron...in negative chloride ions which hyperpolarize the cell. It therefore functions as a neuron “off switch....They found that photostimulating the Kolmer-Agduhr cells was sufficient to trigger the symmetrical tail movement...forward swimming. Furthermore, only Kolmer-Agduhr cells on one side of the body required photostimulation...symmetrical response. The function of Kolmer-Agduhr cells had previously been a mystery, but through the control... -
CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions
TypeBlog Post...when working with cell culture, because it is easy to harvest large quantities of cells. However, when working...numbers of cells or when a high degree of signal to noise is desired. It also provides an excellent additional... been widely applied in many model organisms and cell lines. Although ChIP-seq is a relatively simple ...typically requires a large amount of input material, cells or tissue, to produce a strong enough signal over...protein of interest. First, nuclei from tissue or cell culture are isolated using lectin-coated magnetic...the usage of a strong detergent to permeabilize cells rather than to rely on nuclei extraction. They report...technique, specifically in terms of initial steps of cell or tissue preparation. All in all, CUT&RUN offers... -
Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?
TypeBlog Post... small circular piece of DNA found in bacterial cells, and someone new to plasmids may need some extra...and designed to introduce foreign DNA into another cell. Minimally, lab-created plasmids have an origin ...the ability of plasmids to self-replicate within a cell make them attractive tools for the life scientist...component for expression vectors: determines which cell types the gene is expressed in and amount of recombinant...plasmids also have selectable markers for use in other cell types. Primer Binding Site A short single-stranded...newly inserted gene is transformed into bacterial cells and selectively grown on antibiotic plates. Importantly...plasmids to manipulate gene expression in target cells. Characteristics such as flexibility, versatility... -
A Scientist's Guide to Ebola
TypeBlog Post... infected cells to go undetected by the immune system in a novel way, by shielding host cell surface proteins... itself to escape vesicles within host cells and turn the cell into a veritable virus factory. Their ... sets off. The virus works its way into immune cells in ways that aren’t fully understood. Much of the... viral attachment and fusion. Once inside a host cell, new evidence in PLoS Pathogens shows that the Ebola... -
FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution
TypeBlog Post... specific cell-type promoter. Once injected into the brain, the viruses infect all the cells with an inactive...proteins control the flow of electric charges across cell membranes and maintain membrane potential in response...once a certain number of positive ions crosses the cell membrane, a threshold is reached and the neuron ...selective expression of opsin genes in targeted cells makes it possible to control neuronal activity with... This could be overcome by fusing opsin genes to cell-type specific promoters; however, those usually ...drive weak expression of downstream genes. Strong cell-specific promoters, on the other side, are too long...achieve strong opsin expression in specific neuronal cell types then? This is where FLEx enters the scene.... -
Antibodies 101: Validation
TypeBlog Post...antibody binding in the transfected cells but not in control cells. But (there is always a ‘but’), you...transfect it into your favorite cell line. In parallel, you transfect cells with another plasmid not encoding...the cells transfected with your protein of interest and show just the faintest band from the cells transfected...look at the subcellular localization of a protein of interest. Conveniently, you found a cell line in which...when you start using complex samples such as whole cell lysate or tissue sections. It is important to confirm...proteomic data from several different tissues or cell types. If your antibody indeed binds to your target...You perform immunocytochemistry on these mutant cells as well as a non-mutant line and see a great antibody... -
CRISPR Guide
TypeCollection...with Haploid Embryonic Stem Cells Carrying a Guide RNA Library. Cell Stem Cell . 17 (2), 221–232. PMID: ...in the same cell. This is called multiplexing , and increases the likelihood that any cell containing ...can increase efficiency. Synchronizing cells or modulating the cell cycle can help as HDR takes place during...expressing stable cell line. After applying your screening conditions to your transduced cell population, you...tracking of RNA in live cells, including orthogonal RNA/DNA labeling in the same cell. Figure 11: Overview...promiscuity is unique to bacterial cells and does not occur in mammalian cells. SHERLOCK , developed by the ...genomic loci in living human cells by an optimized CRISPR/CAS system. Cell . 155 (7), 1479–1491. PMID: ... -
TALEN Plasmids and Kits
TypeCollection...effectors to visualize subcellular positioning of target DNA sequences in living cells (TALE-mediated Genome...serial ligation. Validated in zebrafish somatic cells. Keith Joung Zhang Lab TALE Toolbox PCR/Golden Gate...ligation-independent cloning (LIC). Validated in human cells. Veit Hornung Musunuru/Cowan Lab TALEN Kit Kit comprised..., both in microinjected embryos and transfected cells. TALEN expression is driven by the strong CAG promoter...destination vectors and a reporter vector for mammalian cell-based validation assay that are designed for use... the evaluation of TALEN activities in cultured cells. Golden Gate TALEN 2.0 47388 pcDNA3.1-GoldenGate...in mammalian systems including hard-to-transfect cell lines. Features include (i) Esp3I (BsmBI) restriction... -
The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
TypeBlog Post...RNA aptamers are used to track cellular processes by transforming cells with plasmids encoding aptamer-tagged... been used to investigate intracellular viral DNA dynamics in neuronal cells (Nilaratanakul et al., 2017...and later introducing the small molecule into the cell. The fluorescence that is generated allows for qualitative...). DFHBI is membrane permeable and non toxic to cells. Because it rapidly photobleaches, DFHBI can only...as stable metabolite sensors for imaging in live cells. By placing Spinach downstream of a riboswitch, ... 2014); its length reduces artefacts during live cell imaging. Bunch of baby spinach, or BoBS, contains...transformed, and then sorted by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) in the presence of DFHBI to identify... -
Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2015!
TypeBlog Post...both Cas9 and your gRNA of interest to mammalian cells. It was designed to have increased lentiviral titer...knock-out thousands of genes in mixed population of cells as part of pooled library screens (1,2). The human...pooled libraries targeting both mouse and human cells are avaliable for distribution. To learn more about... includes work probing mTOR signaling in cancer cells, deciphering the mechanism of matrix metalloproteinase...Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screening in human cells." Science 343.6166 (2014): 84-87. PubMed PMID: 24336571...Common Ways to Deliver CRISPR Plasmids to Mammalian Cells Resources on the Addgene Website Visit our Lentiviral... -
Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle
TypeBlog Post...synthesized inside of what is called the “target cell” (or host cell) by the viral protein reverse transcriptase...reverse-transcribed DNA into the host cell’s genome and then use cell machinery for transcription and translation...1971). Noninfectious ARK mouse embryo cell lines in which each cell has the capacity to be activated to ..., interested in transferring genes to mammalian cells (i.e. transferring DNA), yet retroviruses are RNA-containing...separate set of instructions in the same producer cells as the virus. Because it is made at the same time...viral genes. It is derived from the host/producer cell membrane, and acquired as an envelope during exocytotic...particles do once they come in contact with target cells (Fig. 3). Figure 3: The life cycle of... -
Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More
TypeBlog Post...development. Single cell sequencing-based lineage tracing Recently, gene expression in all cells of the developing...proportions of otherwise normal cell types are produced, rather than novel, abnormal cell types. Sequencing-based...applications. For example, specific tissues such as blood cells or neurons can be fluorescently labeled, allowing...divisions, and movements of each of the thousands of cells in the developing zebrafish embryo have been tracked...developing zebrafish embryo has been mapped using single cell RNA sequencing approaches (Harland, 2018). Several...sequenced zebrafish genome. One study profiled 38,731 cells from 694 embryos over multiple stages and reconstructed...reconstructed the patterns of gene activity and cell divisions that coordinate development of the body plan...