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  1. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    ...levels in your cell lines, you can consider a cell treatment approach. If there is a cell treatment (e....select a candidate cell line (e.g. DepMap) – you’ll need to ensure that the parental cell lines of your chosen...the parental cell line, but not in the iso-genic knockout control. This can involve cell surface labeling...) compared to the WT cells (green histogram). The unfilled histograms show cells that have only been stained...the antibody’s labeling of the cell lines to the -omics data. The cell lines with higher expression of...the cell lines with lower expression should have less antibodies labeling them. We find that cell tracker... expression levels in the same cell lines/background. However, the cell treatment will frequently induce...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...infecting most cells, but not all. For example, LDLR expression in hematopoietic stem cells, T cells, and B cells... host cell. Some of these envelope-receptor pairings are broad, allowing delivery into many cell types...delivery to only a few cell types.  If you’re looking for more control in the cell types your lentiviral...protein causes cells that it infects to fuse together and form syncytias that cause the cells to die. Cytotoxicity...Cytotoxicity can also be cell type dependent: if a cell has few receptors for a specific envelope protein...lipoprotein receptors (LDLRs) on a cell surface to endocytose into the cell. The reason VSV-G is so commonly... cells is low. Infection of these cells with VSV-G pseudotyped virus requires the upregulation of LDLR...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools

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    ...Non-Dividing Cells Transient Gene Expression Low Tropism for Mouse Cells and Hematopoietic Cells Low Packaging...fuses with the target cell’s membrane, allowing the viral particle access into the cell. The viral envelope... of cell the virus will target and fuse with. In nature, this determines which organisms and cells they...viruses can be engineered to be cell type specific. Once inside the host cell, the virus unleashes its cargo...wide range of cell types that are typically ‘difficult to transfect’, such as primary cells. They can also... them to easily deliver their “cargo” to target cells and organisms, and when that cargo is designed to...Viruses as biological tools In nature, viruses infect cells and organisms (which we refer to as hosts) via viral...
  4. Mammalian RNAi Tools

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    ... in therapeutic settings. As a tool in mammalian cell systems, silencing is achieved through the delivery...). Origins and mechanisms of miRNAs and siRNAs . Cell, 136 (4), 642–655. PubMed (Link opens in a new window...
  5. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    ...infected cells, the other using wild-type Cas9 to remove the HIV-1 genome from infected cells. Read on...1 reservoirs HIV-1 infects cells in the immune system, notably CD4+ T-cells, and eventually leads to acquired...percentage of cells with activated HIV-1, measured via HIV-1 promoter-driven GFP expression. In cell lines that... genome from every infected cell and 2. prevent reinfection of those cells. Kaminski et al. designed gRNAs...Kaminski et al. observed no negative effects on cell viability, cell cycle progression, or apoptosis with Cas9...in HIV-1 infected T-cells to see if they could be rescued by CRISPR. CD4+ T-cells were isolated from healthy...1 is limited to a subset of T-cells, but it is unclear if enough T-cells could be reached to ablate a ...
  6. Rinehart Lab Phosphoprotein Reagents

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    ...abundant forms of posttranslational modification in cells and research into its many roles in protein function...interactions can be discovered by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). The Mode #2 phosphosite library ... production of recombinant phosphoproteins using cell-free protein synthesis . Nature Communications ,...TBK1 activation to promote mitophagy . Molecular Cell , 60 (1), 7–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel...
  7. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    ...Winslow’s lab to label cells after cell-cell interactions. Using G-baToN, “sender” cells express GFP on the... and “receiver” cells express an anti-GFP nanobody on the cell surface. When the cells interact, GFP is...the receiver cell, and the receiver cell turns green. This system can be used in many cell types including...engineering with single-pot assembly Tracking cell-cell interactions New auxin inducible degron system....brgcm3sw     New system developed to track cell-cell interactions By Jennifer Tsang GFP-based Touching...including endothelial cell-pericyte, neuron-astrocyte, and cancer-stromal cell pairs.   Figure 2: Schematic...of the interaction between the sender cell and the receiver cell. Image from Tang et al., 2020.   ...
  8. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    ...Calcium phosphate Cells Transformed cell lines Transformed cell lines Transformed cell lines Cargo Nucleic...identify and enrich positive cells or a selection marker to generate stable cell lines. Transient or stable...and enrich positive cells. Likely contains a selection marker to generate stable cell lines. Packaging and...wide variety of mammalian cell lines. Useful for difficult to transfect cell types and can be used in ...protein are degraded within the cell.   Delivery methods for mammalian cell lines As mentioned above, the...components into your target cells. Delivery of these components into mammalian cell lines is quite broad and...Electroporation / Nucleofection Microinjection Cells Many types Single cells Cargo Nucleic acids or protein Nucleic...
  9. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    ...contaminating your transduction with the packaging cells. Packaging cell debris can be removed either by filtration... you can reduce the volume of cell culture medium on the packaging cells immediately following transfection...efficiency in cells that are sensitive to the toxicity of polybrene (e.g., hematopoietic or primary cells), and... the packaging cells after 1–3 days of selection. A lower percentage of surviving cells may be the result...adeno-associated virus transduction of cells." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 291.2 (2006): C386...vector, collecting virus, and transducing target cells, one may have the unfortunate experience of witnessing...witnessing…nothing. For some unclear reason, cells are not getting transduced. Here, I will share five hail...
  10. Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative

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    ... rising intracellular calcium levels within the cell. When levels of Ca2+ are high in the cell, calcineurin...infection (MOI) during cell library construction to ensure that the majority of cells receive one gRNA. The... of a genetically-defined subset of cells. By labeling fewer cells in a population, it’s easier to visualize...lengths, the density of cells that are labeled can be altered to dense (45% of cells labeled), intermediate...or aging cell populations. Figure 3: Micrographs of wild type (top panels) and cells with high...barcodes (iBARs) in their loop region. After infecting cells with sgRNAiBAR library containing lentiviral vectors...high MOI, which is beneficial for a low number of cells and in vivo settings. Find the sgRNAiBAR library...
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