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  1. Sequencing Primers

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    ...GGGCTGGCAAGCCACGTTTGGTG 3' end of glutathione-S-transferase, forward primer SP6 ATTTAGGTGACACTATAG SP6 promoter... CYC1 GCGTGAATGTAAGCGTGAC (Invitrogen) CYC1 transcription termination signal, reverse primer DsRed1-C ...forward primer Gal10pro-F GGTGGTAATGCCATGTAATATG (Stratagene) S. cerevisiae GAL10 promoter, forward primer...GGGCTGGCAAGCCACGTTTGGTG 3' end of glutathione-S-transferase, forward primer pGP704-R AACAAGCCAGGGATGTAACG... primer Tet-R GGCGAGTTTACGGGTTGTTA 5' end of tetracycline resistance gene, reverse primer TK-pA-R TTGTCTCCTTCCGTGTTTCA...primer Tn7-end GGGGTGGAAATGGAGTTTTT Bacterial transposon Tn7 TRC-F CAAGGCTGTTAGAGAGATAATTGGA (Root lab...primer Ubx-F AACTCGTACTTTGAACAGGC Drosophila Ultrabithorax gene, forward primer V5 Reverse ACCGAGGAGAGGGTTAGGGAT...
  2. Addgene's eBook Collection

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    ...First Edition, trans. About CRISPR 101 en español January 2024 | First Edition, trans. About Una traducción...and management, resources for identifying your transferable skills, and tips on the job application process...
  3. Educational Resources

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    ... Antibiotic Concentrations for Bacterial Selection What is a Plasmid? Genetic Code Strain Information ...virus, including: Gel Electrophoresis Bacterial Transformation Plasmid Cloning Creating Bacterial Glycerol...
  4. Guide to Using Pooled Libraries

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    ...Functional Screens New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library...that can be used for applications like lineage tracing or parsing the effects of expressing multiple genes...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    ... focused ultrasound (FUS), intracorporeal (IC), intracerebroventricular (ICV), intramuscular (IM), intrathecal...Cre-dependent transgenes can also be paired with Cre-expressing transgenic mouse lines to restrict transgene expression...engineered to have enhanced function after intravenous administration, distributing widely throughout the organism...with broad CNS or PNS transduction, cell type specificity, or retrograde transport in neurons. (b) Genetic...capsids or transgenes. Sensory neurons and liver appear especially susceptible to off-target transgene expression-induced...differently in different mouse strains, a phenomenon that we are calling “strain-specific tropism.” For example...in many other strains, including FVB/NCrl, 129S1/SvImJ, DBA/2J, and C57BL/6J, the strain in which the ...
  6. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    ...controlled by titrating the transposase to transposon ratios. High ratios of transposase to transposon result...]. Like other transposons, piggyBac™ has two components, a transposon and a transposase. The piggyBac™...stable transgenic cell lines. The traditional method of making stable cell lines is to transfect, select... piggyBac™ transposon. These plasmids, when combined with a source of piggyBac™ transposase (available...distributor) allow you to quickly transfer a DNA sequence from the transposon vector to one of many TTAA sequences...folks at Transposagen. This post was contributed by Amar Singh and Mathew Goodwin from Transposagen What ...What is the piggyBac™ transposon? The piggyBac™ transposon was originally identified in moths in 1983, but...
  7. Common Injection Routes in Mice

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    ...considered quite invasive. Restraint: anesthesia Location: trachea Gauge (tracheal tubing): 23–20 Volume: ...advanced Intranasal instillation Intranasal instillation is very similar to its intratracheal counterpart...Injection Route Restraint Location Gauge Volume Skill Intravenous Mechanical restrainer or anesthesia ...mL Expert Intratracheal Anesthesia Trachea 20–23 (tubing) < 0.07 mL Advanced Intranasal Anesthesia ...after initial mouse training. Other techniques require more skill and additional training, going from intermediate...biorender.com.   Needle techniques Intravenous Intravenous (IV) injections are most commonly administered...institutional oversight is required. Restraint: mechanical restraint or anesthesia Location: tail vein or...
  8. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    ...piggyBac (PB) transposon: The PB transposon is a mobile genetic element that transposes via a “cut and...Generates transgene-free and vector-free cells Limited genomic integration Multiple transfections required...Delivery DNA-Free High High Transgene-free and vector-free Multiple transfections required Protein Delivery...vector, but transient expression of Cre recombinase allows for deletion of the inserted transgenes that are.... This system is transfected into cells as a donor plasmid containing the transposon, along with a helper...sequences, which the PB transposase recognizes. Following reprogramming, transgenes can be removed by re-...promoters for transcriptional regulation, so it requires a different approach for regulating transgene expression...
  9. Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot

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    ...Ensure methanol concentration in transfer buffer is < 20% Wet transfer Increase transfer time Increase...large.  Transfer method   Wet transfers are more efficient, so if you’re struggling to transfer a large...consider using a wet transfer with a long transfer time. Be aware that the transfer works by electricity...decrease alcohol in transfer buffer Small proteins: Over-transferring Transfer with two membranes...increase alcohol in transfer buffer Mixed proteins: Transferring issues Transfer with two membranes...which increase as protein concentration increases, show the protein concentrations are within the antibody...commercially available options to choose from.  Transfer Transfers are a little trickier than gels and may require...
  10. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ...and stable expression of the transgene   Transfer plasmids The transfer plasmid is the vector you clone...requires continuous administration of Dox to repress transgene expression. In contrast, in the Tet-on system...membrane pores) transfection. These techniques are still used and efficiently transfer plasmid DNA efficiently...comes to transferring DNA into primary cells or non-dividing cells. To target these un-transfectable cells...property makes the lentivirus an attractive choice for a gene transfer vector. Lentiviral vectors Although... purify and concentrate your lentiviral particles to get them to the optimum concentration to infect your...lentiviral transfer vectors The most widely used inducible lentiviral vector system is the tetracycline (Tet...
  11. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    ...contains the transposase gene (red) for expressing the transposase enzyme.2.) The transposase enzyme is ...which cuts the DNA.3.) The released transposon can now bind a strand of DNA with a TA dinucleotide (there...removal of the transposon; the plasmid is then degraded by the cell.4.) The transposase creates a double...double strand break in the DNA and allows the tranposon to integrate. Additionally, the TA sequence is duplicated....   The Sleeping Beauty transposon system The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system is one such system...perform gene transfer in vertebrates. The system is comprised of 2 components: 1) an SB transposase, the enzyme...enzyme required for catalysis of transposition; and 2) a transposon containing the gene-expression cassette...
  12. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ...experiment! Traveling from the Original Location - Axonal Transport It has been demonstrated that certain...cell type? Location (3): Traveling from the original location - Axonal Transport in the CNS What tissue...their efficiency at transducing different brain regions. Although AAV2 can transduce many tissue types,...axoplasmic transport. These AAVs may move toward the cell bodies of neurons (retrograde transport) or towards...retrograde and anterograde transport, but they also have similar transport characteristics (velocities...strong CNS tropism (4). If axonal transport is not desirable, transport can be reduced by injecting a smaller...scAAV) (7). As single stranded DNA viruses, AAVs normally require second strand synthesis before gene ...
  13. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    ... non-edited strand, they can cause the cell to remake that strand using the edited strand as the template...the nicked target strand. The initial result is a heteroduplex, with overlapping strands of edited and unedited...less than 10%. In contrast, the original paper introducing prime editing demonstrated ~20-50% efficiency...delivery strategy, cell type, and goal of the experiment can all impose different constraints and affect...Improving reverse transcriptase efficiency Building upon prior reverse transcriptase research, the Liu...the edit into one strand, there’s a mismatch between the original sequence on one strand and the edited ...other strand. To guide heteroduplex resolution to favor the edit, the Liu lab turned to a strategy they...
  14. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...enhancement of transcriptional activation via binding of multiple copies of a transcription factor to a ...endosomal trafficking to signaling pathways to the cell cycle. Good tools for measuring intracellular pH are...of its substrate, luciferin, which releases energy as a photon. The photon energy is transferred to the...ribosome during translation, which knocks off all mRNA binding proteins as it travels along the mRNA to...the stop codon. Thus a non-translated mRNA will appear yellow, but a translated mRNA will be red. This system...plasmids, Halstead et al demonstrated that 91% of reporter mRNAs were untranslated in the nucleus, confirming...P-bodies are translationally repressed whereas the nonsequestered pool goes on to initiate translation. These...
  15. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...breakage of both DNA strands - a double-strand break (DSB). DSBs can be caused by intracellular factors such ...CRISPR/Cas-mediated Transgenesis (2018). Pubmed. The Road Less Traveled: Strategies to Enhance the Frequency...overhang. This will serve as both a substrate for proteins required for strand invasion and a primer for DNA...DNA repair synthesis. The ssDNA strand then displaces one strand of the homologous DNA donor and can template...pathways: classical double-strand break repair (DSBR), synthesis-dependent strand-annealing (SDSA), and break-induced...dHJs are four-stranded branched structures that form when elongation of the invasive strand “captures” and...on the crossing strand (horizontally at the purple arrows) or on the non-crossing strand (vertically at...
  16. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...created the tetracycline-controlled transactivator (tTA). They fused TetR with the transcriptional activation... polymerase and transcription factors. Since the promoter region drives transcription of a target gene...repressor then prevents transcription from occurring, which means that transcription is now OFF.   We’ll...its native context, the tetracycline repressor (TetR) can bind to the tetracycline operator sequences (TetO...(TetO), preventing transcription. In the presence of tetracycline (Tet), TetR preferentially binds Tet...Response Element (TRE)), allowing transcription to proceed. When tetracycline or one of its derivatives is ...other. For example, the GAL4 transcription factor cannot drive transcription from the QUAS promoter, and...
  17. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...initiation step of gene transcription; today we'll provide an overview on how transcription stops, or termination...from the transcription machinery. Terminators are found downstream of the gene to be transcribed, and typically...generally serves to promote transcript longevity in eukaryotes and promote transcript degradation in prokaryotes...GC-rich hairpin in the RNA transcript followed by a weakly bound poly-uracil tract as shown in the figure ...thought to destabilize the transcription complex, initiating cleavage of the transcript.   Figure 1: ...Hepatitis Virus Posttranscriptional Regulatory Element Enhances Expression of Transgenes  Delivered by ...terminators in the context of AAV transgene expression levels. Transcription Termination Rho-dependent termination...
  18. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    ...gene transcription (6). The EBOV genome contains seven viral genes, each flanked by a transcription start...replicated and transcribed in the cell when the appropriate viral proteins are provided in trans (see Other...genes and the minigenome are transcribed (and the viral mRNAs are translated) by cellular machinery. NP ...altering the amount transfected (see Technical Tips). Minigenome replication and transcription In order to replicate...it will terminate transcription and polyadenylate the mRNA. These mRNAs are translated by cellular host... lines that are highly transfectable.  The amounts of each plasmid transfected into cells are also extremely...plasmid quality and transfection efficiency may vary between labs, initial titration experiments might ...
  19. Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering

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    ...recombineering substrates to avoid errors introduced during PCR. ssDNA Substrate ssDNA substrates can be generated...differ from traditional restriction enzyme cloning will be explained in greater detail. Substrate DNA design...   Substrate DNA Design and Generation Whether you use a linear dsDNA or ssDNA substrate depends ...ssDNA substrate is best for point mutations or changes of only a few base pairs.  dsDNA Substrate dsDNA...find out empirically which is the lagging strand. ssDNA substrate is more efficient than dsDNA with a recombination...approaches.    Bacterial strain with integrated defective prophage A number of E. coli strains exist that stably...red phage. One such strain is DY380, which is derived from the DH10B E. coli strain. Several other bacterial...
  20. Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors

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    ...process called transfection. Transfection is somewhat comparable to bacterial transformation (the introduction...the transfected plasmid to be expressed transiently. Since the DNA introduced in the transfection process...not guarantee 100% transfection efficiency. Stable transfection A stable transfection is used to create...reagents vary. Plasmid transfection into mammalian cells is fairly straightforward and the resultant cells...the genome to form a stable transfection. Unlike bacterial transformation, scientsts do not "select" for...fluorophore in a later post, so stay tuned! Transient transfection and the elusive "mammalian ORI" For many...plasmid depleted, but still want to use transient transfection methods. Since there are no "natural" mammalian...
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