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  1. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    ...therapy and ex vivo cell engineering applications and is especially well-suited for lung cells via airway administration...epithelial cells, liver, CNS (limited penetration), retina, hematopoietic cells, and immune cells. B) AAV11...Sanchez, P. S., & Rodriguez-Fraticelli, A. E. (2025). Pre-existing stem cell heterogeneity dictates clonal...the acquisition of leukemic driver mutations. Cell Stem Cell, 32(4), 564–580.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016...you'll find in this post: Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent protein mGold2 Viral delivery of TnpB...plant genome editing LARRYv2 pooled libraries for cell barcoding Addgene’s own AAV6 and AAV11 packaging...connections with ATLAS Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent protein mGold2 By Mike Lacy Get your...
  2. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    ...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...brightness, kinetics, and sensitivity. iGluSnFR4f is well-suited for imaging rapid synaptic events such as...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...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Serotypes and Tissue Tropism

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    ...lets AAVs “unlock” and infect specific cells. This protein shell packages the vector’s genetic material...particle sneaks its way into cells. Generally, AAV serotypes have a primary cellular receptor and sometimes ..., 2006). AAV6 is particularly well-suited for transduction of lung cells via airway administration (Halbert...has tropism for cardiac and liver cells (Issa et al., 2023), as well as skeletal muscle, although muscle...transduction efficiency, and is an excellent choice for targeting cardiac cells (Bish et al., 2008). It can ...-associated viruses. Cell, S0092-8674(25)00692-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.06.026 Halbert, ... Therapy: An Overview. Cells, 12(5), 785. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12050785 Kaludov, N., Brown, K....
  4. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI

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    ...linkage of intra- and extracellular environments. Found on nearly every cell in the human body, integrins are...array of processes, including cell adhesion, migration, and signaling, as well as immune response, tissue... that protrude from the cell membrane, physically connecting the extracellular environment and the cytoskeleton...ligand binding, mediating cell adhesion and migration, initiating intracellular signal cascades, and allowing... the extracellular matrix. During immune responses, this same conformation encourages immune cell adhesion...tensions before they would enable cells to spread, resulting in cells that elongated and morphed asymmetrically...on the BJ-5ta fibroblast cells, integrin αVβ1 was critical in initiating cell spreading and two other ...
  5. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    ... is technically cell-permeable, its use in live cells can sometimes result in cellular toxicity due to...its propensity to bind cellular components. Some dyes target specific organelles like mitochondria, and... Dyes that can pass through cell membranes can prove useful for live-cell imaging. Experimental context...Additionally, cell permeability is a critical factor, as it influences the dye's ability to enter cells without...enabled the visualization of both organic tissues and cell cultures, opening biological interiors to many inquisitive... dye or ligand to make your selection easier, as well as highlight some recent advancements within this...collection contains many self-labeling protein fusions as well as empty backbones to clone your own protein of ...
  6. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    ...matters. Well, it turns out this isn’t the case for using AAV. When it comes to infecting cells, titer,...Making contact with a cell Although an individual AAV particle’s ability to infect a cell is dependent on its...construction and the cell it’s infecting, getting these particles to infect cells is also very titer-dependent... particle to infect a cell, it has to come into physical contact with that cell. Since there is a limited...of surface area on each cell, the way to get more AAV in contact with the cell is to increase the AAV ...between the cell and any individual AAV particle is rare. But simply getting into the cell may not always...particles that have entered the cell now have to travel up the axon, through the cell, and potentially spread ...
  7. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...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 ...exposed to plant cells. The region of the Ti plasmid between the T-DNA borders (yellow) are recognized ... shown to be excellent alternative genome editing technologies especially in human cells. In contrast ... 2019) or cell-penetrating peptides (Santana et al., 2020) and plants viruses (barley yellow striate mosaic...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...
  8. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    ...). These cell-permeable Janelia Fluor (JF) dyes have excellent properties inside living cells, especially... fluorescent proteins. In-cell labeling strategies The majority of in-cell labeling strategies have two...and oligonucleotide labels for fixed-cell imaging, not for live-cell applications. Thus, these fluorophores..."Imaging live-cell dynamics and structure at the single-molecule level." Molecular cell 58.4 (2015): 644...sparked a renaissance in biological imaging. Suddenly, cell biologists were no longer beholden to chemists and.... Add a dash of DNA with an electrical jolt and cells become perfectly capable of synthesizing fluorophore...question: In this age of GFP and its ilk, why should cell biologists talk to chemists? One reason is something...
  9. "Hall of Fame" AAV Enhancers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science

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    ...genetic access to cortical cell types. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.002 Hunker, A. C.,...Although all cell types share the same DNA sequence, not all enhancers are functional in every cell. Differential...expression in a cell type-specific manner also makes them useful tools for targeting those specific cell types ...Brain Map portal, and cell science-focused tools at the Allen Institute for Cell Science. There are also...generate highly specific tools to target different cell populations and regions of the brain. This has culminated... end_module_block %}   Using enhancers to target cell populations Enhancers are non-coding sequences of...sequence serving as a functional enhancer in one cell type but not in others. The same mechanism that ...
  10. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    ...untreated cells—but can we be certain? Do we know whether the plasmid delivered into the cells successfully...test plasmid or transfected into a separate well of your cells. Regardless, the amount of reporter protein...amount of DNA transfected into the cells and the ability of the cells to express the protein.   In analysis...because the purified plasmid, cells, and media used in each of the wells are not independent: they were...Gene X in backbone Y) was transfected into human cells. From this result one could simply conclude that...didn’t work, as the expression level of Gene X in cells treated with Plasmid A is similar to the expression...or transfection process) may have on the target cells. One transfection control is an empty vector control...
  11. Rabies and Neuronal Tracing

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    ...it first infects one cell (the “starter cell”). It then replicates within that cell, and nascent RABV cross...the starter cell, RABV was modified to only infect user-defined starter cell types, as well as to only ...dictate infection of target cells through their interactions with target cell surface receptors (Callaway...Callaway 2008). Based on this, cell type specificity of the starter cell can be achieved by using EnvA-pseudotyped...studied biological processes, like how our stem cells are housed in specific locations and give rise to...Tracers Due to their ability to efficiently enter cells and deliver a variety of cargoes, genetically engineered...replicate, and for a virus to cross a synapse from one cell to another, it must replicate. Modified Rabies Virus...
  12. Improving Transduction Efficiency with Exosome AAVs

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    ...the producer cells and purification protocols often describe a process that begins with cell lysis to release...producer cells into the supernatant during the production phase. However, this has not been well characterized...particles is able to infect more cells (as demonstrated in different cellular environments such as retina ... steps to separate cell culture supernatant containing exo-AVVs from producer cells, and then to enrich...Exosomal vesicles secreted from producer cells also contain cellular macromolecules (e.g. proteins, nucleic...effectively target less accessible cells, such as brain tumor stromal cells in a mouse model of glioblastoma...Standard AAV vectors are generated with a producer cell line like the widely used 293T. During vector production...
  13. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ...fluorescence images of C2C12 cells stably expressing pTRE-Tight-MitoTimer and rtTA. The cells were pulsed with 2µg...newly synthesized (green) protein and organelles with older (yellow to orange) protein. Image courtesy of... 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...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter

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    ... Overview. Cells, 12(5), 1–41. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12050785 Kanaan, N. M., Sellnow, R. C., Boye... where many different cell types, or even different phenotypes of the same cell type, are intermingled... of the same species. What works well in a mouse may not work as well in a rat or non-human primate. Likewise...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...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...
  15. Performing In Vivo CRISPR Screens Using the FITS Approach

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    ...activated T cells, precluding analyses of T cell differentiation beginning with naïve T cells. The Framework...screens have been used to interrogate T cells, an important immune cell type, in more complex and physiological...naïve T cells. More broadly, this system can be used to perform in vivo screens in other cell types. A...screens to assess T cell responses and clonal dynamics in lymph nodes (LN) and tumor cells. Figure used with...FITS In vitro CRISPR screens in immune cells have identified many putative regulators of immunity. However...screens cannot faithfully model the complex spatial, cellular, metabolic, and cytokine microenvironment that...Framework for In vivo T cell Screens (FITS) approach (Milling and Markson et al., 2024), developed and deposited...
  16. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ...molecular level, at the cellular level there is a universal theme - uncontrolled cellular proliferation. We ...cancerous cells Luckily, there are several safety mechanisms in place to protect us from rogue cells when ...process of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is one such mechanism. When a cell or its genetic material... directly inhibit the ability of a cell to undergo programmed cell death while simultaneously stimulating...eliminate every cancerous cell. Even so, to pose the greatest threat, cancerous cells still need to successfully...universally-dividing behavior of cancer cells, attacking the cellular machinery necessary for division. This...proteins that, when expressed, normally encourage cell survival, growth and proliferation, while tumor ...
  17. Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR

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    ...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...
  18. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    ...unstable, meaning that the cells must continually produce antitoxin to avoid cell death. In the case of plasmids...addiction systems” require dividing cells to retain plasmids - if a cell does not inherit plasmid due to ...will be degraded leaving the cell to be killed by the more stable toxin. Cells only survive if they retain...10% of cells while plasmids containing the plasmid addiction system were retained in 75% of cells. They...consist of a toxin which can affect a variety of cellular processes and an antitoxin that suppresses the...designated this fragment as the ccdB region (for “coupled cell division”). The encoded toxin-antitoxin system consists...cleaved complex. This results in DNA breakage and cell death. Conversely, CcdA binds to and blocks the ...
  19. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    ...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...
  20. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    ...challenging to track intracellularly, but aptamers permit the study of intracellular RNA dynamics. Aptamers...RNA aptamers are used to track cellular processes by transforming cells with plasmids encoding aptamer-tagged... been used to investigate intracellular viral DNA dynamics in neuronal cells (Nilaratanakul et al., 2017...be used to simultaneously target cellular RNA to specific intracellular locations using Cas9 and track ...PMC4244833. Kellenberger, Colleen A., et al. "RNA-based fluorescent biosensors for live cell imaging of...and later introducing the small molecule into the cell. The fluorescence that is generated allows for qualitative...). DFHBI is membrane permeable and non toxic to cells. Because it rapidly photobleaches, DFHBI can only...
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