..., that strongly binds the glycoprotein, avidin or a similar protein, streptavidin. This strong interaction...antibody based affinity purification and mass spectrometry approaches. Recently however, scientists have...classic antibody based affinity purification/mass spectrometry methods.  BioID: a promiscuous biotin ligase...ascorbate peroxidase (APEX), used as a genetic tag for electron microscopy, could be used for efficient proximity...of hydrogen peroxide. This radical reacts with electron-rich amino acids such as tyrosine on neighboring...exogenous biotin allowing for more precise temporal control.  Find plasmids for TurboID and miniturbo Split-BioID...Stephanie S., et al. "Directed evolution of APEX2 for electron microscopy and proximity labeling." Nature methods...

...-phosphorylated or ‘wild type’ control protein. The ‘wild type’ control can be made one of two ways. First... model systems coupled with advances in mass spectrometry suggest that phosphorylation is far more prevalent...non-phosphorylated recombinant protein and perform in vitro kinase reactions. Often, however, researchers lack...or have difficulties with kinase specificity in vitro. The establishment of a system in which purified...-containing GFP that can be used as a positive control during optimization experiments. This version of... pSer incorporation can also done using mass spectrometry to identify a mass shift proportional to a single...expression plasmid. This is a particularly important control when creating a phosphoserine-incorporation mutant...

...with the lentivirus HIV-1. Today, HIV-1 can be controlled with antiviral therapies such that the virus ... dCas9-SAM to activate HIV-1 transcription and destroy infected cells, the other using wild-type Cas9 ...Read on to learn how CRISPR can take on HIV-1 in vitro, and what obstacles must be overcome for clinical...infections not usually seen in healthy individuals. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) can virtually eliminate plasma...Why can’t the body mount an immune response to destroy these reservoirs? Essentially, the immune system...out of the genome with CRISPR/Cas9 Before the introduction of CRISPR, HIV-1 genome editing with ZFNs and...infection period rather than the ART-induced viral control found in most HIV-1 patients. Obstacles for CRISPR...

...creative commons license.    The introduction The introduction serves two purposes. First, it should... to have conflict. There are a lot of ways to introduce conflict into your work, but one of my favorite... two other things to complete your story: an introduction, and a resolution.   Fig. 2: The structure...ever thought about how X works?”, or even by introducing a person that the audience can relate to. It ...read (or listen or watch) further.  Second, the introduction needs to provide enough information so that ...thing applies for science storytelling. You can introduce your results right at the beginning of your communication...Addgene blog SSCS: Cognitive Load SSCS: Preprints Intro to our Summer SciComm Series  ...

...26973 AAVrg pAAV-hSyn-hChR2(H134R)-EYFP   Control AAV Control AAV allow researchers to not only interpret...inventory. Our new AAVs include: Optogenetics AAV Control AAV Biosensor AAV And more! Optogenetics Optogenetics...more efficient tools for light mediated neuronal control and we are expanding our viral service to make ...own experiments. To this end, we offer specific control AAV in smaller aliquots of 20 ul for serotype testing... service has now expanded to offer many of our control plasmids in new serotypes. See our Serotype Testing...response to action potentials, is now offered under control of the CAG promoter for ubiquitous expression. ... 44362  AAV1 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-hM4D(Gi)-mCherry Controls Plasmid Serotype Name 50459 AAV1 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-mCherry...

...which introduces functional Cas9 protein and the targeting guide RNA into cells by electroporation. Results...of the nuclease dissociates very slowly after introducing a cut, with residence times on DNA of approximately...free to anneal to complementary ssDNA molecules in vitro. Figure 1: Cas9 binding to the cleaved DNA... if we could leverage this model (built from in vitro studies) to boost the efficiency of sequence replacement...enables sequence replacement without cutting Our in vitro results also demonstrated that catalytically inactive...advantage but error-prone repair of the gene would be disastrous (i.e. if breaking the gene is worse than leaving...homology-directed human genome engineering by controlled timing of CRISPR/Cas9 delivery." Elife 3 (2015...

...oviductal lumen, tweezer-type electrodes are placed to mediate electroporation. Ohtsuka et al. compared traditional... homology arms and a selection marker, then electroporate it into mouse embryonic stem cells. After selecting...from Yang et al. requires two gRNAs targeting two intronic regions and two repair templates in order to insert...promoter upstream of the left homology arm, perform in vitro transcription, and use the IVT product as a template...compatible with standard microinjection and electroporation methods using in mouse transgenics. Designing... allele requires you to target 2 loxP sites to intronic regions 0.5 - 0.8 kb apart. In the example below...between the ampulla and infundibulum. In vivo electroporation is performed immediately after injection. Image...

... of biogenesis and mitochondrial degradation in vitro and in vivo. Merged green and red channel fluorescence...Technology Austria, decided to take a novel approach to control for these effects, drawing on the rapidly growing...1):39-48. APEX2 for proteomic mapping and electron microscopy A thorough understanding of complex...enabled progress on both fronts – as a genetic electron microscopy (EM) tag providing superior subcellular...also available at Addgene and can be used as a control for your experiments. For more information, please... allowing labs to precisely and non-invasively control neuronal signaling. For more information on DREADDs...Chen and colleagues for genome editing inXenopus tropicalis. (Guo et al., Development. 2014..) A new, higher...

...Lab and the Chang Lab have created methods that introduce diversification by targeting a site of interest...which limits the level of variation that can be introduced.   Diversification is limited due to the integration...use of such libraries means that the diversity introduced by lambda red recombineering and Multiplex Automated...PCR, EvolvR uses an error prone polymerase to introduce mutations. However, by using nCas9 to direct PolI3m...the 3' end of the nick (right), occasionally introducing mutations (red nucleotide). Created with BioRender.com...EvolvR, three additional amino acid changes were introduced to nCas9. These changes promote nCas9’s dissociation...increased the likelihood that a single gRNA would introduce more than one mutation near the target site. Applications...

...is the best-case result. For example, you have introduced a GFP protein into your cells (visualized via...104–105 signal intensity. If your samples and controls were processed the same way, the GFP- population...population should overlap with the negative control population (Figure 1). Based on where the GFP- population... Example of yes-no flow plot of the (negative) control (left) or with the sample (right). Negative and...biorender.com. Pro tip! If your samples and control underwent different treatment processes, you may... population, so it no longer overlaps with the control. In tricky experiments, these populations may overlap...positions to the base expression. When compared to the control — which should be base expression — a peak to the...

...one type of virus to choose from (lentivirus, retrovirus, AAV, etc.). When you’ve decided on an application...experiment. Research applications Gene expression control Researchers are always wanting to manipulate gene...complementary mRNA sequence for degradation. Viral introduction of shRNA plasmids can induce gene-specific silencing...Viral CRISPR-Cas9 tools have been engineered to introduce frameshift mutations in genes of interest, turning...depending on the virus used. All of these expression control mechanisms require a specific modification of the...that the copies of library cargo delivered are controllable. For many screening applications, it is essential...attenuated, nef-deleted HIV-1 strains in vivo. Retrovirology. 2007 Sep 23;4:66. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-4-...

...guides are generated by introduction of a single photocleavable 2-nitrobenzyl linker in the 20-bp targeting...nucleic acids or bridged nucleic acids can also be introduced in the gRNA. These modifications result in conformationally... innate immune response associated with gRNA introduction (Allen, et al., Frontiers in Genome Editing)...experiments in which viability is being compromised by introduction of foreign RNAs or immunity itself is being ...technologies utilize chemical modifications to the RNA to control the entire editing system with a simple LED light...al. Photoswitchable gRNAs for Spatiotemporally Controlled CRSIPR-Cas-based Genomic Regulation. ACS 6, 5... Susanna Stroik...

...Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins Control Protein Expression with Cre-lox Control Protein Activity with GFP ...transmitted by intermediate messengers. Optical control of kinase activity can provide greater spatiotemporal...There is no common method for creating optically controlled kinases. The Solution: In Zhou et al, the Lin... the delayed effects because you can precisely control the timing of kinase activity. 2. Studying negative...photoswitchable kinases in vivo not only allows for precise control of a signaling pathway in the context of a whole...addition, it could be possible to use pdDronpa to control other kinases and proteins. Zhou et al suggest ...Pengpeng Li, Kang Shen, and Michael Z. Lin. "Optical control of cell signaling by single-chain photoswitchable...

... No spatiotemporal control. Many PPI detection methods lack spatiotemporal control or an “on/off switch...identifying PPIs, such as affinity purification mass spectrometry (AP-MS), lack the ability to specifically identify... by creating Split-BioID, a spatiotemporally controllable version of the proximity-dependent biotinylation...method Enter Split-BioID, a spatiotemporally controllable version of the BioID protocol. The critical ...interaction partners if they are enriched relative to controls using Split-BioID-GFP and BioID run on six unrelated...combinations and pick the conditions that give the strongest biotinylation signal, as measured via Western ...methods, including BioID, is its spatiotemporal controlled labeling of interacting proteins; nearby proteins...

...delivery include plasmid transfection, RNP electroporation, and viral transduction; but these methods ...gRNAs. Viral envelope proteins To alter the cell tropism of Nanoblades, different viral envelope protein...with a mix of VSV-G and the baboon endogenous retrovirus Rless glycoprotein (BaEVRless) had high rates...gene, while editing was not detected in cells electroporated with RNPs using the same guide. Nanoblades ...influence the level of off-target effects, with electroporation of RNPs generally having lower off-target edits...polymer. Polybrene has long been used to increase retroviral transduction efficiency by neutralizing the charge...the cell surface, and also helps form DNA and retroviral-particle or VLPs complexes. The team found that...

...classification. Lentivirus (a type of retrovirus) and gamma retrovirus require more caution as they are integrating...virus and its infectivity in check. Engineering controls, safety systems that are built into how something...functions, were designed for this purpose. One such control is dividing up the essential components of a virus...virus into different plasmids. For a retroviral system this looks like the genetic cargo in one plasmid... researcher.   Figure 1: Separation of retroviral packaging components onto distinct plasmids for...common types of viruses grown in the lab are gamma retrovirus, lentivirus, adenovirus, and adeno-associated...  Susanna Stroik...

...lab-adapted bacteria because it has been challenging to introduce CRISPRi machinery into diverse bacteria species... gRNAs, and dCas9 proteins. Second, it can be introduced into a broader range of bacteria. Once transferred...., 2019 with permission.   Two methods to introduce Mobile-CRISPRi by bacterial conjugation For gram...gram negative bacteria, Mobile-CRISPRi is introduced using the bacterial Tn7 transposon system. This system...firmicute gram positive bacteria, Mobile-CRISPRi is introduced using the bacterial integrative and conjugative...Mobile-CRISPRi. The Mobile-CRISPRi ICE element is first introduced into the B. subtilis genome. Mobile-CRISPRi is...into the trnS-leu2 locus.   Figure 2: Introducing Mobile-CRISPRi into bacteria. Top: A Tn7 transposon...

... APC control, with APC and APC-CY7 plotted against each other. Since it is a single-color control, you...example with single color control. Flow plots showing an APC single-color control sample before (A) and after...recommended to start compensating with single-color controls before moving onto your experimental samples. ...samples without needing to use your single-color controls as a starting point. Applying compensation to ...experimental samples as they did with your single control samples: if the population needs to be shifted ...School.   More resources on the Addgene blog Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry Antibodies 101: ...

...action potentials, muscle contractions, and the control of voltage gated ion channels all depend on transmitting...been successful even at the single neuron level in vitro. In vivo monitoring has also been achieved with ...effective at the single cell level as they are in vitro. Factors like photobleaching, lack of red-shifted...rhodopsin. FP-fusion to rhodopsin resulted in electrochromic FRET capable GEVIs, with rhodopsin quenching...membrane as well. Another flavor of these tools is Voltron, which uses rhodopsin as the voltage sensing component...genetically encoded component is delivered in vivo or in vitro and a small molecule is added exogenously to measure...Optogenetics Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET ...

... Overview of in vitro AAV CRISPR screens. Created with BioRender.com. The in vitro option requires... screens may be AAVantageous!       In vivo, in vitro, ex vivo CRISPR screens can be carried out using...using a few different methods — in vivo, in vitro, and ex vivo. The general process of these screens is the...with transducing cells with the CRISPR library in vitro before transplanting them into mice. For in vivo...when designing screens. Each serotype has its own tropism, or a preference to infect specific cell or tissue...tissue types. Using serotypes that have a known tropism for your cells of interest — for example, AAV8 ... used these psuedotypes to further improve the tropism of AAV vectors, enhancing their affinity for specific...