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  1. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    ...PMID: 27272384 Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., et al. "Genome-wide...Cpf1 is a single RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system." Cell (2015). PubMed PMID: 26422227...Cpf1 Is a Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell. 2015 Sep 23. pii: S0092-8674...mismatches on modification by AsCpf1 (red) or LbCpf1 (blue). Mismatch positions are indicated below each ...eclipse any of the CRISPR nucleases in AAV-based applications. Get More Cpf1 Background Here THE ORIGINAL ... off-target editing rates, determined using sophisticated genome-wide analysis. At many of its computationally...compared the ratio of total off-target to on-target modification for AsCpf1 and LbCpf1, and found that both orthologs...
  2. Three Key Considerations for Precise Neuronal Targeting Using AAV Technologies

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    ... characteristics of select AAV serotypes in Table 2 from the paper. Delivery of AAV into the brain can...routes for neuroscience see Table 1 from the paper. 2. Manipulate your cell of interest: Cell-type specific...experiments! Late last year, we hosted our first AAV Education and Development workshop aimed at brainstorming...even further. For example, injecting AAVs at one location can result in expression of an optogenetic payload...shown in Figure 1, injected retrograde AAVs at one location result in opsin expression in their cell bodies...
  3. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    ...virus 2 (Mayo-Muñoz et al., 2018). Only viral particles that have the gene deletion could replicate when...base pair to another base pair at a specific site. 2. Temporal, spatial, or conditional control of CRISPR...Editing of Sulfolobus islandicus Rod-Shaped Virus 2. Viruses 10:695 . https://doi.org/10.3390/v10120695..., 2018). For example, AcrIIA4 mentioned above indicates that it’s the fourth Acr protein discovered that...B, Bondy-Denomy J (2020) Anti-CRISPR protein applications: natural brakes for CRISPR-Cas technologies....light-inducible Cas9 activity? Check out these these plasmids Catch Up on Your CRISPR Background with Our Guide Pages...
  4. "What Makes a Good Mentor?" and 6 More FAQs About Science Mentoring

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    ...portion of our careers. In that time we may have only 2-3 formal supervisors that will provide guidance and...be challenging – is advice and guidance from only 2 people enough?  For many years I’ve been organizing... helps you reach your goals Listens well and communicates clearly and openly Gives honest feedback without...lab. If only every science trainee had such a dedicated person guiding the start of their career. “I want...
  5. 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...These impurities cannot be removed during the purification step because they are inside the virus itself...very low concentration. So how do we make sure to catch all of these potential mishaps before distributing...Guerin et al., 2020).  In addition to genome identification, we developed custom open-access Python scripts...
  6. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    ...3 plates at different densities for selection). A 2% agarose solution is then melted (and thereby sterilized...96-well assay plate. We generally freeze at least 2 ampules each of 4 clones with different levels of ...of agarose, which is then overlaid with the firmer 2% agarose gel solution discussed above for picking....to rapidly punch out cell clones with sterile truncated pipet tips. Indeed, an experienced operator can...wiped down with 70% ethanol, and a box of sterile truncated pipet tips (USA Scientific #1011-8410) is also..., and making sure we always maintain a backup replicates of each clone in case of contamination. We do...
  7. 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... its nuclease activity, catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) has many applications, the most well-known being...characterizing the 4D nucleome. Future modifications and applications Ma et al. developed this technique ...have major applications to cancer, for example, the visualization of chromosomal translocations or chromosomal...plasmids from this publication at Addgene. A protein-tagging system for signal amplification in gene expression...technique published every week! One of the newest applications is a colorful system that uses fluorescently...
  8. ReFigure: Save Scientific Figures into Dashboards and Share Your Insights

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    ...literature? Very often the data of interest are in 1 or 2 figures from one paper and then another figure in ...ReFigure by creating ReFigures and answering this 2 minute survey! You can also find ReFigure on Twitter...include: Cataloging a reagent’s performance as in this antibody ReFigure Analyzing replications as in this... ReFigure. Reading and exploration including replications and experiments resulting in “negative data”...small selection of data found in full-length publications. As early career researchers, we wondered how...reagent performs well, or you might publish a replication experiment that you conducted as part of setting...papers as they are not included in traditional publications. By submitting your data to a repository (Figshare...
  9. Cellosaurus: A Cell Line Information Database

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    ...groups, such as their vaccine production, SARS-CoV-2 research, or adenovirus packaging cell lines dataset...-Line Knowledge Resource. J Biomol Tech. 2018; 29(2): 25-38....compounds, links to publication references, and cross-references with cell line catalogs and collections....surveying of cell line collections websites and catalogues Literature searches utilizing Google Scholar ...include accession number, species, and assigned category (cancerous, hybridoma, etc.), as well as sex and...manually going through the pdfs of the 26,000 publications cited. If the information seems incomplete or...
  10. TALEN Plasmids and Kits

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    ...Golden Gate TALEN Kit and are used in place of pTAL1, 2, 3, or 4. For both plasmids sequence positions 1214...Golden Gate TALEN kit. The GoldyTALEN scaffold is truncated at both the N and C terminus and induces mutation...pC-GoldyTALEN directs expression of TALENs from a truncated CAGs promoter. RCIscript-GoldyTALEN is designed...in vitro mRNA synthesis from the T7 promoter. Truncations were introduced to the N- and C-terminus of the...Golden Gate TALEN 2.0 48705 pTAL7a Boris Greber Application of TALEN technology in hPSCs pTAL7a and pTAL7b...expression in mammalian cells, (iv) an improved, truncated TALE backbone architecture as established by Miller...
  11. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    ... tag than protein), 2-3 tags is increasingly common. Tandem affinity purification (TAP) once referred ...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...or DYKDDDK 1 Affinity and Purification Good for antibody-based purification; has inherent enterokinase...site GST Large Protein 26 Purification and Stability Good for purification with glutathione; protects...used for purification as elution requires low pH poly His HHHHHH  0.8 Affinity and Purification Very small...GKPIPNPLLGLDST   1.4 Affinity and Purification Good for antibody-based purification Combo and cleavage tags...
  12. CRISPR Protocol for Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines [Video]

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    ...with TALENs, in collaboration with the Porteus lab [2]. With the advent of CRISPR/Cas9, we began to explore...nucleases. Genome Res. 2010 Jan;20(1):81-89. PubMed. 2. Bauer DE, Kamran SC, Lessard S, Xu J, Fujiwara Y,... of Visualized Experiments (JOVE). The video publication by Stuart Orkin and Daniel Bauer's labs details... size and frequency [3]. There are several applications in which the production of deletions by paired...useful to study haploinsufficiency. Subsequent modifications at the remaining allele within the deletion ...
  13. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    ...like this: Figure 2: Expression of Plasmid B (as internal control) This result indicates that the transfection...20074371. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2817684. 2. Replicates and repeats—what is the difference and is it...down expression of Gene X but, as shown in Figure 2, this was likely due to the original transfection ...two types of replicate controls: technical and biological. In general, technical replicates can be thought... employ transfection, negative, positive, and replicate controls.  Transfection controls: empty vector...the interrogation of the independent variable. Replicate controls: technical and biological Reliable results...derived from one source. Conversely, biological replicates ARE independent and can be thought of as "reproducibility...
  14. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ... qPCR is that the results can vary by a factor of 2. This means that if you set up two identical assays...amplitude measured for each droplet in each well (Figure 2). A clean ddPCR should have a clear separation between...as low as 1C/s. Increasing the elongation time to 2 minutes and the denaturation time to 1 minute has ...take to achieve a clean NTC: Have a dedicated bench with a dedicated set of pipettes for ddPCR set-up. .... Each droplet contains the ingredients for amplification of the target DNA. This partitioning reduces...detection of the product. As an added benefit, replicates are built into the technology. One well (containing...droplet contains the material required for a mini amplification reaction to take place.  When the PCR is complete...
  15. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...resistance to the herbicide chlorsulfuron (Homo line 2) or wild type (WT), two weeks after herbicide was ... CLIPf tag and a C-terminal SNAPf tag; see Figure 2), the authors developed a cost-effective expression... when associated with microtubules. Figure 2: CLIP-SNAP fusion proteins for single-molecule FRET...single-molecule biophysics Fast and responsive voltage indicator ONE-GO biosensors kit Antibodies for neurodegeneration... an enhanced pU6cm promoter, viral replicon amplification of cargo, and heat treatment.  Figure...2024.12.20.629623.  A fast and responsive voltage indicator with enhanced sensitivity for unitary synaptic...and more responsive genetically-encoded voltage indicator (GEVI) than previous versions. ASAP5 can be imaged...
  16. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    ...properly exiting the ER and fluorescing (see Figure 2) [5].  When using FPs containing two cysteine residues...compartments including the secretory pathway (Figure 2), the inner membrane space of mitochondria and chloroplasts...PMID: 18228466. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC2875081. 2. Snapp, Erik Lee. "Fluorescent proteins: a cell biologist's...compartments undergo significant post-translational modifications including glycosylation, disulfide bond formation...are equally susceptible to these non-native modifications, which can all potentially affect function [...N-glycans [9]. Both of these posttranslational modifications can disrupt FP folding rendering the protein... non-optimized parental proteins. Our recent publication illustrated the quantitative increase in fluorescent...
  17. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    ...HEK-293T Sf9 Time to collection 2–4 days 5–10 days Purification Ultracentrifugation (AAV); centrifugation...Centrifugation Titration time ~1 day (AAV); ~1 week (lenti) 2–10 days Initial titers Higher Lower Resources... a factory to produce adeno-associated virus type 2 vectors. Human Gene Therapy, 13(16), 1935–43. https...so most labs opt to purchase adenoviruses from dedicated adenoviral production labs or companies. Production...something you may have to optimize for your specific application. With mammalian systems, it is standard to do...more cells, while AAV can be titrated following purification using qPCR or digital droplet PCR. Insect cells...to collect your viral supernatant. Baculovirus replicates inside insect cells, and its lifecycle ends in...
  18. 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 ...and Jinfang Zhu. "Immunologic applications of conditional gene modification technology in the mouse." Current...contributed by Alessia Armezzani, scientific communication manager at genOway. A few decades ago, the brain...École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Her love for educational science led her to pursue a teaching career, ...
  19. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    ...dimers. (c) A double peak indicating 2 amplicons. Image credits (respectively): Zuzanna K. Filutowska; Selma...reproducibility’s sake!   Fig. 2: Setting up triplicates in multiple configurations can help you...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...single peak, indicating one amplicon and no primer dimers. (b) A shoulder peak indicating primer dimers...Method Standard Curve?  Amplification Efficacy Calculation Amplification Efficacy Assumptions ...
  20. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    ... flanking sequences to their input string (Figure 2). This string can then be used as input for the prediction...top 5) and test them in their labs. Figure 2: Guidelines to predict pegRNA efficiencies with pridict.it...Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02268-2 Schep, R., Brinkman, E. K., Leemans, C., Vergara, ...genome editing technology that allows precise modifications of DNA (replacements, small insertions, and ...configurations can be used to introduce specific target modifications. Since this means we could design hundreds to...affects prime editing outcomes across many genomic locations. In our study, we used the TRIP (Thousands of ...to chromatin data from over a thousand genomic locations. This allowed us to train ePRIDICT (Figure 3),...
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