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  1. CRISPR Plasmids - Drosophila

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    ...gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila Plant C. elegans Yeast Zebrafish Xenopus CRISPR Resources ...transcription Virmilion none, need Cas9 plasmid Bullock and Port 49411 pCFD4-U6:1_U6:3tandemgRNAs dU6:1 and dU6:3...transcription Virmilion none, need Cas9 plasmid Bullock and Port 49330 pAc-sgRNA-Cas9 dU6 BspQI Transfection Puromycin...transcription Virmilion none, need Cas9 plasmid Bullock and Port 49409 pCFD2-dU6:2gRNA dU6:2 BbsI Injection or in...transcription Virmilion none, need Cas9 plasmid Bullock and Port 51026 U6-BbsI-crRNA dU6 BbsI Transfection none, ...
  2. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    ...of our most popular mammalian expression vectors, c-Flag pcDNA3, comes from the pcDNA series. It has the...consider as you make your choice. The first and most important thing you need to know is your expression system...have to make sure that your plasmid has been incorporated into the host organism, usually achieved with...basal expression level, induce expression at an opportune time or go all out with constitutive high level...Some of the more popular studies involve using a reporter vector to tag YGOI with lacZ and/or GFP (e.g. ...animals, gene targeting and genome modifications to reporter vectors (e.g. pBV-Luc) and gene silencing (e.g...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    ... Deverman BE, Matho KS, Cetin A, Woodard K, Cepko C, Guerin KI, Rego MA, Ersing I, Bachle SM, Kamens J...’s ~4.4 kb or smaller. Some examples include a reporter like GFP, some smaller CRISPR-Cas proteins such...the Cre recombinase, are used to spatially and temporally control transgene expression. Lox sites are directional...sites lets researchers control the spatial and temporal activation of a transgene. Figure 2: FLEX...structure when transcribed which aids in nuclear export of mRNA and helps increase the expression of your...polyadenylation or polyA signal aids in the nuclear export of RNA and RNA translation, and promotes RNA transcript...
  4. Addgene Begins Distribution of Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...Boeckman JX, Manning CF, Nguyen JT, Bechtold H, Dumitras C, Gong B, Nguyen K, van der List D, Murray KD, Engebrecht...and have always been, a community resource that supports both toolmakers and tool users. We encourage you...Educational Resources As part of our commitment to supporting your research, Addgene is creating an array of...Through our incredible community, including your support, we have enabled scientists to easily share plasmids...Studies Hybridoma Bank, a nonprofit that has been supporting hybridoma sharing within the community for decades...Immunofluorescence Addgene’s Antibody Guide The project is supported by a NIH BRAIN Initiative grant (U24NS119916 )...
  5. Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux

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    ...∆G, however, can not be conjugated to PE due to a C-terminal glycine deletion, so it remains in the cytosol... development of several fluorescent autophagy reporters now allows for the measurement of autophagic flux...makes Keima useful for monitoring mitophagy. It’s important to remember that because Keima’s fluorescent relies... al. "Rosella: a fluorescent pH-biosensor for reporting vacuolar turnover of cytosol and organelles in...using a single fluorescent biosensor." Scientific reports 5 (2015): 12397. PubMed PMID: 26215030. PubMed ...
  6. Fluorescent Protein Guide: Biosensors

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    ...Twitch calcium indicator, based on C-terminal domain of troponin C Griesbeck Lab Twitch Plasmids Oliver...GMP) FlincG3 (GFP-based cGMP sensor) for imaging in C. elegans neurons Using a Robust and Sensitive GFP-...Asymmetrical distribution of the second messenger c-di-GMP upon bacterial cell division. Science. 2010...Plasmids Joel Kralj Voltage Voltage sensors for use in C. elegans (Arch(D95N), MacQ-mCitrine, QuasAr and QuasAr-mOrange...cyclic AMP) Signaling reporter island (SiRI) with GFP-based fluorescent reporter cAMPr Spatial Multiplexing...maturation reporter (pmRFP-LC3) Dissection of the autophagosome maturation process by a novel reporter protein... DsRed1-E5 as a reporter for mitochondrial oxidative stress A novel MitoTimer reporter gene for mitochondrial...
  7. Antibodies 101: Avoiding the Mouse on Mouse Mess in IHC

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    ... antibodies aren’t free to bind endogenous IgGs. (C) A third solution is to use Fab fragments against ...primary antibody that is directly conjugated to your reporter circumvents the issue. However, directly conjugated...which uses just a primary antibody that has your reporter (in this case a fluorophore) directly attached... as effective for other techniques, but it is important to be aware that the issue is not unique to IHC...
  8. Antibodies 101: Fc Effector Functions

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    ...) antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) c) antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (ADCP). ...starting a cascade of events that results in the pores being opened in the pathogen’s cell membrane (Dunkelberger... when holes are punched in their membranes, the pore'd pathogens quickly lyse and die.  Antibody dependent...
  9. CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions

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    ...released from nuclei by a short incubation at 37 °C. These short DNA fragments can then be purified for...MNase to antibody bound proteins (Figure 1). Importantly, since Protein A has weaker affinity for mouse... rather than to rely on nuclei extraction. They report that this change offers a significant improvement...
  10. Addgene's a Nonprofit? Nonprofit Awareness Day 2017

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    ...under the United States Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3). That means we were formed to benefit the public...do. From all of us to all of you. Thanks for supporting nonprofit, open science and Addgene in our mission...Collaboration with Fellow Nonprofit Seeding Labs Addgene Supports Rare Disease Research Listen to Our Interview ...
  11. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    ...receptors. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78827-9 Breen, C. J., Raverdeau, M...Muthusamy, A. K., Liang, Y., Brown, T. A., Lemon, W. C., Patel, R., Lu, R., Macklin, J. J., Keller, P. J....protein function and cellular components: It's important to assess how dye-conjugation affects protein ... interpretation of experimental results. It's important to consider how dyes can influence receptor conformation...efficacy of these ligands can be affected by the incorporation of fluorophores, as seen in studies involving...wavelengths for green, red, and far-red dyes is important for intracellular fluorescence live imaging ​​(...from cells under certain conditions, which is an important consideration for assay design (Breen et al., ...
  12. FastCloning: A Newer, Simpler Cloning Technique

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    ...allow the digestion to take place for an hour at 37°C. This should be enough time to completely digest the...overhangs, insert and vector purification, and, most importantly, excessive time requirements. FastCloning is ...
  13. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    ...T-regs) into their microenvironment by producing C-C motif chemokine 22 (CCL22) and TGFβ. T-regs are suppressive...still many important questions in this exciting field of research. One of the most important: How will ...commute to and invade multiple organs, and most importantly escape the immune mechanisms of the host. The...against cancer. Sipuleucel-T by the Dendreon Corporation is currently the only FDA-approved DC therapy...therapies themselves can be made more effective. Some important factors researchers are beginning to focus on ... of cell types. This cell heterogeneity is an important element of successful tumor progression. A tumor...), and ability to metastasize. There have been reports of clinical trials going amiss and patient deaths...
  14. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    ... new scientific observations. References 1. Rago C, Vogelstein B, Bunz F. Genetic knockouts and knockins...Vaimberg EW, Donovan KF, Smith I, Tothova Z, Wilen C, Orchard R, Virgin HW, Listgarten J, Root DE. Nat ...of the gene with multiple gRNAs, but the most important is that you could avoid potential off target artifacts...you could run another gel that highlights the important results (for example, if you needed to make a ... Despite the shifting landscape of research opportunities, it’s an exciting time to be in the lab. Based...
  15. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    ...protein of interest with a fluorescent reporter on the N- or C-terminus of the protein. One downside of...doi.org/10.1002/cpim.40 Picot J, Guerin CL, Le Van Kim C, Boulanger CM (2012) Flow cytometry: retrospective...a pressurized buffer called sheath fluid and transported through tubes or capillaries to a laser. As the...
  16. Synthetic Biology - Overview

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    ...Autoregulation and Yeast-Mammalian Circuit Transfer C. Collins Lab Quorum Sensing Ellis Lab GeneGuard Endy... modification, including shuttle, integration, reporter, and tagging vectors. Metabolism Browse plasmids...
  17. An Addgene Summer Internship

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    ...biochemistry. There, I had exchanged contact with Amy C., Addgene’s intern coordinator shortly after hearing...capstone project report and presentation, during the final week at Addgene. This report shared my work ...Coming from an environment with limited opportunities and support, puts into perspective just how much one...hearing her talk about Addgene’s internship opportunity taking place next summer.  I applied to Addgene ...to differentiate which clone had successfully incorporated Syntaxin3 into its backbone. Once we had gotten...
  18. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors

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    ...light. Previous iterations of FLiPs only used N- and C-terminal dronpa fusions. With these various designs...back in with the Addgene blog for future award opportunities. Xin Zhou: Fluorescent Light-inducible Proteins...particularly notes their ability to be precisely spatio-temporally controlled as a key advantage over other inducible...Oligosaccharides (HMOs). HMOs are thought to play an important role in nuturing the development of beneficial...consisting of sfGFP fused to a His-tagged ABC transporter known to bind to the HMO of interest. Fatima ...
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