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TypeBlog Post...heterogeneous population of mutant cells, with each cell or set of cells containing a mutation in a different...separately. Mutant cells are enriched using either drug selection or fluorescence-based cell sorting and screened...mutant cells can be used in drug screens to identify genes that confer drug-resistance. Mutant cells are ...generate lentivirus (B). Cas9-expressing cells or wild-type cells are treated with lentivirus containing...plus Cas9 to generate the mutant cells, respectively (C). Mutant cells are screened (D) and "hits" are ...lead to skewed results. Selecting a cell type - Theoretically, any cell type can be used in a CRISPR screen...requires a massive amount of cells as starting material. Therefore, cell types that are of low abundance...
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CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9
TypeBlog Post...this approach is limited to protoplast cells (plant cells whose cell wall has been removed). Another common...expression is dependent upon the cell type in question. In plant cells, gRNA expression is achieved by ... shown to be excellent alternative genome editing technologies especially in human cells. In contrast ...are necessary to enable genome editing in plant cells. This blog post will present a general overview...are necessary to use the CRISPR system in plant cells. Like other model systems, expression of S. pyogenes...gRNA) is sufficient to modify the genome of plant cells. The structure of the gRNA (composed of a ~20 nucleotide...increase translation in a particular plant species or cell type (Belhaj et al., 2013). Nuclease dead Cas9 (... -
Arf GTPase Family
TypeCollection...concepts and challenges. Molecular Biology of the Cell , 30 (11), 1249–1271. PMID: 31084567 (Link opens... -
Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools
TypeBlog Post...pulses to the subject/cells expressing the optogenetic tool causing a change in cellular activity or gene ...receptors (GPCR) regulate cellular function through multiple intra-cellular signaling cascades. Optical... in the extracellular domain which activates the native signaling cascade of the intracellular part of...Neuroscience. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 15, 778900. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2021.778900 Mattis...positively charged ions to rapidly pass through the cell membrane and initiate an action potential - a very...have developed many optogenetic tools to control cellular activity with exquisite precision using only light...both the membrane potential and a host of other cellular functions. Photoswitches are engineered molecules... -
Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter
TypeBlog Post... where many different cell types, or even different phenotypes of the same cell type, are intermingled...postsynaptic cells when used at very high titers (Zingg et al., 2017), which can lead to cells in far away...Therapy: An Overview. Cells, 12(5), 1–41. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12050785 Murlidharan, G., Samulski...Therapy: An Overview. Cells, 12(5), 1–41. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12050785 Kanaan, N. M., Sellnow...experimental conditions and measurements; (2) the cells you’re targeting; (3) how much expression is needed... capsids, which determine how a virus enters the cell. Different serotypes utilize a number of different...co-receptors, and other mechanisms to gain entry into the cell (Dudek et al., 2018; Korneyenkov & Zamyatnin, 2021... -
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...yield of 0.70), mScarlet-I with T74I (accelerated maturation in cells compared to mScarlet, fluorescent lifetime...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... -
Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators
TypeBlog Post...Cellular communication and function depend on potential energy. Cellular activities like action potentials...Indicators As previously mentioned, cellular voltage is measured at the cell membrane, and this voltage is ...endocrine cells. It follows that the specific targeting of these voltage indicators needs to be cell type ...electrical events! Voltage indicators are voltmeters for cells! In this blog we will review how these indicators...related to the electrical impulse of the cardiac cells. To study this phenomenon you will likely want to...the voltage change across the membrane of cardiac cells. Similarly, neuronal signaling is carried out by... electrical charges propagated through multiple cells to do things like translate perceived signals to... -
Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors
TypeBlog Post...the caffeine of the cell!)—ATP. There are biosensors for intracellular, extracellular, and even the ADP:... as proxies for a cellular process or directly measure a cellular process. Cellular phenomena such as ... measure real-time cellular reactions to stimuli and as well as changes in cellular dynamics during so-called...type of cells the viral particles infect. This can direct your biosensor to specific tissues or cell (sub...Applications. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 2019 Oct Vol. 13; 1662-5102. DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2019.00474 Resources...biosensor is the thing that you care about within your cellular or animal system. This ‘thing’ could be a neurotransmitter...blog we will focus on those which can be applied in cell culture and animal models primarily. Fun fact: Almost... -
Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems
TypeBlog Post...packaging cell line. γ-Retroviruses can transduce target cells, but the transduced target cell does not...using helper-free packaging cell lines This method utilizes a packaging cell line that stably expresses... packaging cell line. For example, Phoenix, a second generation γ-retrovirus packaging cell line developed...and rat cells), or an amphotropic envelope, Phoenix-AMPHO (for the infection of mammalian cells.) Using...transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells because once in the host cell cytoplasm, the viral components are...for efficient gene delivery to mammalian cells using 293T cell-based systems. Curr Protoc Immunol. 2001...γ-retroviruses (gamma-retroviruses) in cancer and stem cell research has prompted the development of multiple... -
Antibodies 101: Fc Effector Functions
TypeBlog Post...animation.) Many types of immune cells, from mast cells to B cells, express Fc receptors that bind to...) antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) c) antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (ADCP). ...opened in the pathogen’s cell membrane (Dunkelberger & Song, 2010). As cells cannot survive when holes...die. Antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) Antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) is...(NK) cells expressing Fcγ receptors binds to IgG and release cytotoxins that kill the target cell. If ...response, by binding to Fc receptors on other immune cells. (psst! Need a quick review of the different immune...pathogen and physically prevent it from entering a cell, a non-Fc-dependent effector function known as neutralization... -
Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP
TypeBlog Post...lines expressing GFP in specific cell types to do more than just label cells. If GFP could be co-opted to ...reporter output was observed in their 293 cell culture system. In cells cotransfected with GFP and the GBPs,...expression was induced in ~76% of GFP+ cells, and 100% of DsRed+ cells also expressed GFP. Using AAV constructs...fluorescent proteins as scaffolds for cell-specific gene manipulation.” Cell 154(4) (2013): 928-939. PubMed ...wanted to express a variety of proteins in single cell types in the mouse, but knew it would take years...could then selectively manipulate only GFP-labeled cells. Once Tang and Cepko found a description of GFP-...heavy chain, and they are small and stable inside cells. Nanobodies binding GFP were designed in 2009. Subsequent... -
New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library
TypeBlog Post...resistant cancer cells exist prior to drug treatment. They infected a non-small cell lung cancer cell line containing...same parent cells that represent the preexisting resistant subpopulation 2. Resistant cells among the separate... target cell population at low multiplicity of infection (MOI) such that each individual cell receives...researchers to individually label millions of mammalian cells through lentiviral infection and to monitor their...quantify the take rate of mouse xenografts after cell implantation. Their goal was to figure out how to...ClonTracer library to determine whether or not cancer cell populations resistant to drug treatments arise during...They hypothesized that, if they labeled the parent cell population using the library, propagated it, separated... -
Hot Plasmids - November 2023
TypeBlog Post... between living cells by TransitID. Cell, 186(15), 3307–3324.e30. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.044. PMID... efficient prime editors. Cell, 186(18), 3983–4002.e26. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.07.039. PMID: 37657419...lentivirus and MMLV gag, to specific cell types. It can also make CAR-T cell therapy more accessible by simplifying...Optogenetic proximity labeling and TransitID Tracking cellular history with protein ticker tape Teaching an old...called DIRECTED (Delivery to Intended REcipient Cells Through Envelope Design). This modular approach ...viral surface, expanding the range of targetable cell types. DIRECTED is compatible with fusogens from...process and could even enable the creation of CAR-T cells directly within the body. Overall, DIRECTED can ... -
Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025
TypeBlog Post...PV-positive cells out of all BiPVe3-dTom cells. C) Confocal stack of a biocytin-filled cell expressing ...particles in HEK293T cells with pMD2.G (Addgene #12259) and psPAX2 (Addgene #12260). HeLa cells were infected...interactome. Molecular Cell, 84(24), 4929-4944.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2024.11.007. Branon,...Scheme for two-photon (2P) imaging and loose-seal, cell-attached recordings in primary visual cortex (V1...contains everything needed to replicate inside a host cell but with space to insert your genetic cargo of choice...promoter drives robust gene expression in mammalian cells. Flexible tagging: Choose untagged or add a versatile...stable: A puromycin resistance gene makes stable cell line creation a breeze. Modular by design: Key elements... -
Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene
TypeBlog Post...prevent cell death. One of the cool things about amp is that it's exclusively toxic to dividing cells. The... continuous cellular processes (e.g., protein synthesis), while amp only affects the cell wall synthesis...Check icon" %} Spectinomycin Excellent No Just bacteria Not SHuffle cells {% icon icon_set="fontawesome...icon" %} Zeocin Excellent No Bacteria, plants, and eukaryotes Not Tn5-containing cells {% icon icon_set..., penicillin, and is a beta-lactam that inhibits cell wall synthesis. The AmpR (amp resistance) gene produces...synthesis step during cell division. This is nifty because the recovery period after transformation (the dreaded...at 37 degrees) can be shortened since the plated cells will have time to produce beta-lactamase prior to... -
22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014
TypeBlog Post...fluorescence images of C2C12 cells stably expressing pTRE-Tight-MitoTimer and rtTA. The cells were pulsed with 2µg... Robinson et al., Dev Cell 2010 Feb 16;18(2):324-31. Cheeseman et al., J Cell Sci 2013 May 1;126(Pt ... targeted to subcellular regions or protein complexes for proteomic mapping in live cells. Lam et al...neighboring cells in imaging applications and the mapping of neuronal projections to their associated cell bodies...been used by several groups to monitor protein and cell ageing, as the spectrum shift occurs during Timer...(pTRE-Tight-MitoTimer) to show its usefulness in cell culture to report changes in mitochondrial turnover...rapamycin-binding domains, such as FKBP and FRB. The cell does not appear to mind extraneous proteins bound... -
Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility
TypeBlog Post...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... -
Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries
TypeBlog Post...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... -
All in a Twist: dsRNA
TypeBlog Post...mammalian cells. Here, we will cover how these structures are generated, why it’s important for cells to sense...., Hur, S. Cellular origins of dsRNA, their recognition and consequences. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 23: 286...performs almost all of its biological functions in our cells in the single strand form, but double stranded RNA...with bidirectional transcription. In an uninfected cell, dsRNA rarely circulates, but upon viral infection... Fig. 1: Exogenous sources of dsRNA Cellular sources of dsRNA Transposable elements such as...While these molecules are clearly associated with cellular damage and dysfunction, it is unclear what the... A major source of dsRNA (that doesn’t involve cellular dysregulation) is the mitochondria. These organelles... -
A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression
TypeBlog Post...specific cell type rely on transgenic models that express recombinases like Cre or Flp in their cells of interest...entry into the cell (Dudek, AM. 2018). If the serotype you are using transduces cells that you are not... an ATG start codon to prevent transcription in cells where the recombinase was not present (Kuhlman, ...recombination that can lead to leaky expression in cells that do not express Cre or Flp. Here at Addgene ...recombined/functional transgene that can be expressed in cells where Cre is absent. Additionally, we have experienced.../Flex vectors and leaky expression can occur in cells that don’t express Cre or Flp, what can we do about...volume needed to achieve adequate expression in your cells of interest. The AAV serotype used can exhibit ...