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TypeBlog Post...synthesized inside of what is called the “target cell” (or host cell) by the viral protein reverse transcriptase...reverse-transcribed DNA into the host cell’s genome and then use cell machinery for transcription and translation...1971). Noninfectious ARK mouse embryo cell lines in which each cell has the capacity to be activated to ..., interested in transferring genes to mammalian cells (i.e. transferring DNA), yet retroviruses are RNA-containing...separate set of instructions in the same producer cells as the virus. Because it is made at the same time...viral genes. It is derived from the host/producer cell membrane, and acquired as an envelope during exocytotic...particles do once they come in contact with target cells (Fig. 3). Figure 3: The life cycle of...
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Plasmids 101: The Wide World of Natural Plasmids
TypeBlog Post...spread. They can be inherited by daughter cells during cellular reproduction, similar to the host’s chromosome...elements in the human gut. Cell, 187(5), 1206-1222.e16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.039 Garcillán-Barcia...bacteriophages), or conjugation (direct transfer from one cell to another). Bacteria need special fertility genes... of a plasmid benefiting its host. For example, cells with a penicillin resistance plasmid can grow in...also carry the necessary resistance genes to help cells survive their own secretions. Pro tip! Historically...bacteria invade hosts, including attaching to host cells and evading the host immune system, and those that...used routinely in biotechnology to transform plant cells. Degradative plasmids: microbial hardiness There... -
Antibody Production
TypeCollection...mammalian expression vectors, human embryonic kidney cells are transfected with the plasmid(s) encoding the.... This buffer is not compatible for use in live cells and will interfere with conjugation. For applications...antigen is first transiently expressed in mammalian cells. To learn which specific QC experiments were performed...email [email protected] . Immunocytochemistry (ICC) Cells are fixed and labeled with the antibody and a species-specific...Western Blotting (WB) Proteins are extracted from cells, separated by SDS-PAGE, transferred to a membrane... -
Antibody Plasmid Collection
TypeCollection...expressing these in bacteria, mammalian cells, yeast, plants, or insect cells. Benefits include consistency between... research purposes include animals or hybridoma cells, but are difficult to generate due to expense and...monoclonal antibodies (R-mAbs) expressed in mammalian cells. Monoclonal antibodies are derived from an individual...transiently transfected into mammalian tissue culture cells, the R-mAbs are secreted into the culture media ... -
Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics
TypeBlog Post...This novel tool is practical in cell and organ culture, as well as cell lineage studies. Eisenhoffer and...CreLite for cell tracing using the transgenic zebrafish model, ubi:zebrabow. In this system, cells express...fast-splicing split intein and co-infected into the cell. Intein splitting removes any exogenous sequences...split into two plasmids and co-transfected into cells for reconstitution. Image from Levy et al., 2020...red-light inducible optogenetic tool for precision in cell lineage tracing Article contributed by Erin Sanders...fluorescent proteins controlled by Cre recombination. Each cell can have multiple copies of the transgene that recombine..., such as the brain, eye, muscle and epithelial cells, as well as in different stages of development, ... -
15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids
TypeBlog Post...plasmid. Envelope proteins determine which types of cells a virus can infect. The VSV-G envelope protein enables... enables this virus to infect many different cell types so it is useful in a wide range of applications... The 2A-GFP allows for screening of transfected cells. Find pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP (PX458). lentiCRISPR v2...deliver Cas9 and your gRNA of interest into mammalian cells. This vector was the top requested plasmid of 2015... popular in genome engineering. For use in human cell lines, the Zhang lab codon-optimized SpCas9. Using...puromycin cassette that makes it less efficient in some cell lines. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) V2.0 was made...capable of inducible expression of shRNA in target cells by the addition of tetracycline/doxycycline to the... -
A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein
TypeBlog Post...dodge cellular variation observed in mammalian cells is to tag an endogenous gene. By imaging cells (or ...mammalian cells within the dish. This is caused by the stochastic nature of plasmid uptake by cells. To correct...intended application. The three key properties for live cell imaging that will be treated in this series of posts...Determining practical brightness When a dish of mammalian cells is transiently transfected with a plasmid containing...allows for a precise determination of brightness in cells, under realistic experimental conditions. By determining...al (2017) and Heppert et al (2016). In mammalian cells this would be possible with CRISPR/Cas-based genome...efficiency of the fluorescent protein in the host cell, which is a key determinant of the practical brightness... -
Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016
TypeBlog Post...expressed in cells that express cre recombinase. Typically, this feature is used to attain cell-specific ...CRISPR applications and can be expressed from your cell line of choice after transduction with this virus...blast virus can be used to generate Cas9-expressing cell lines, which can then be used both for screens (...viral prep to create a single stable Cas9-expressing cell line and then transduce this line with lentiviruses...using lentiCas9-blast to generate Cas9-expressing cells. To ensure that this growth rate effect doesn’t ...activating particular signaling pathways in specific cell types (typically neurons). While all of these viruses...transduction and transgene expression across different cell types (Aschauer et al., 2013). Expression of hM4D... -
Tetbow: Bright Multicolor Labeling for Neuronal Tracing
TypeBlog Post...imaging with single-cell resolution using chemical cocktails and computational analysis." Cell 157.3 (2014):... of the XFP genes is introduced at ~2 copies per cell per color, following a Poisson distribution. To ... optimal expression of XFPs. Any longer and the cells may start to show morphological abnormalities due...XFP genes have to be introduced at ~2 copies per cell per color to achieve the highest color variations... wait too long, as too much XFP is toxic to the cells. Inadequate expression levels of XFPs - Reduce the...video below depicting dendrite wiring of mitral cells. Many thanks to our guest bloggers Richi Sakaguchi...circuitry with an index-optimized clearing agent." Cell reports14.11 (2016): 2718-2732. PubMed PMID: 26972009... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors
TypeBlog Post...Localization within cells Fluorescence microscopy Visualize components of individual cells Separation/identification...fluorescently-labeled components Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (for cells); fluorescent HPLC (proteins or other molecules...biosensor Before expressing a biosensor in eukaryotic cells, think about the best place for the biosensor to...average amount of fluorescence across a population of cells (i.e. in a plate well). Use to track a process (... molecules) Isolate or quantify cells, proteins or other molecules that have been labelled with your fluorescent...be expressed. Are you looking at an intracellular or extracellular molecule? By fusing a biosensor to ...by Olivier Pertz’s lab. Other biosensors track cellular characteristics like pH, redox state, and voltage... -
The Open Repository of CRISPR Screens: CRISPR Screen Data in One Place
TypeBlog Post... disease, cell type or drug treatment can browse through screens performed in relevant cell lines or conditions... currently houses over 890 CRISPR screens in 629 cell lines, each manually curated and annotated from ...feasibility and power of CRISPR-based library screens in cell lines from humans and other species. By accurately... screens performed in 26 different breast cancer cell lines. Screenshot updated 2024. Each screen ...screen is captured by BioGRID curators, including the cell line/tissue type, enzyme system, sgRNA library and...example phenotype screens with read-outs other than cell viability. The following video provides an in-depth... -
Cre-ating New Methods for Site-specific Recombination in Drosophila
TypeBlog Post...recombination varies for different constructs and cell types. Second, Cre may induce recombination at pseudo...standard UAS/GAL4 system is toxic to proliferating cells. A Cre-estrogen receptor ligand binding domain-fusion...recombination efficiency. When expressed in neuronal cells, each line showed broad recombinase-dependent RFP...these recombinases were also active in mammalian cells. In experiments, B3 and KD were shown to be functional...functional in cultured Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, as well as in cortical neurons in layer 2/3 of ... damage induced by Cre recombinase in mammalian cells. Loonstra A, Voojis M, Beverloo HB, Al Allak B, ...recombinase toxicity in proliferating Drosophila cells by estrogen-dependent activity regulation. Heidmann... -
In Living Color: The Skinny on In Vivo Imaging Tools
TypeBlog Post...eight millimeters – not single cells (yet) but small clusters of cells. Looking ahead What’s next, you...fluorescent proteins to observe what’s happening inside cells for at least a couple of decades. Green is the classic...and tracking of proteins, organelles, and living cells in a spatiotemporal manner, which is not possible... vivo. “One of the reasons we can’t localize one cell at a depth of one centimeter with fluorescence is...on the other hand, are larger than the size of a cell, so they scatter much less. As a result, ultrasound...brighter, more photostable, smaller, and less toxic to cells. They’d like to make near-infrared fluorescent proteins... -
CRISPR Plasmids - Mammalian Expression
TypeCollection...sequence. DSBs are preferentially repaired in the cell by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), a mechanism...PAM site. When a repair template is present, the cell may repair a DSB using homology-directed repair ... time and are potentially heritable in dividing cells. ID Plasmid Gene/Insert Selectable Marker PI Publication...DNA. Type VI enzymes that function in mammalian cells can be used to attentuate RNA levels. In mammalian...genomic loci using fluorescent microscopy in living cells. Design your gRNA sequence to direct the dCas9-FP...Cas protein and a target-specific gRNA in the same cell at the same time. Single plasmids containing both... -
Plasmid Preps: Different Purity, Different Quantities, Different Uses
TypeBlog Post...lipopolysaccharide of the cell wall of Gram negative bacteria like E. coli that affects tissue culture cell line viability...introduces transformation grade plasmids into a bacterial cell. Transformation grade DNA Transformation is ...transformation of chemically and electrocompetent cells is minimal (picogram range). It can be extracted...Figure 3: Need to introduce plasmids into mammalian cells? Use transfection grade DNA. Transfection is ...process of inserting an external plasmid in mammalian cells and it will likely require micrograms of plasmid... -
Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
TypeBlog Post...ancestry and germline sequence variation in cancer cell lines took them down unexpected paths. Though this...researchers do large-scale CRISPR screens in cancer cell lines, looking to uncover genetic dependencies of...to see if they could identify the ancestry of the cell lines (European, East Asian, Indigenous American...or South Asian) used in the screens based on the cells’ germline genetic variations. They then wanted to...with each ancestry group. Since about 90% of the cell lines used in DepMap CRISPR screens are of either...groups for 994 of the Cancer Dependency Map cancer cell lines (left). Heatmap indicating the breakdown of...CRISPR guides, short pieces of RNA that bind to a cell’s DNA, telling the Cas machinery where to cut. ... -
Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap
TypeBlog Post...Depletion in Human Cells by Auxin-Inducible Degron Tagging with Short Homology Donors.” Cell Rep.15(1) (2016...and function of cellular systems. FPs have been used to track protein localization, cell structure, intracellular...to fluorescently tag markers of cellular structures in mammalian cells. These plasmids use fluorescent...loci in other model systems, including mammalian cells. CRISPaint (CRISPR-assisted insertion tagging)...C-terminal tag fusions of endogenous genes in human cells. To use CRISPaint, users need 3 vectors: 1) a gRNA...also be introduced directly into a Drosophila S2 cell line stably expressing Cas9. This PCR toolkit offers...selection. Researchers at the Allen Institute for Cell Science recently developed a collection of plasmids... -
Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments
TypeBlog Post... them into your cells, you can simply look for blue colonies to determine which cells have taken up the... mScarlet as the donor in HeLa cells. Find ShadowR for mammalian cell expression here Now that you... that the cellular fitness cost varied greatly between chromoproteins. In some cases, cells containing...cloning experiment worked just by looking at the cells on the plate. For example, if your plasmid contains...Here, the chromoprotein is expressed and gives the cell a magenta (amilCP) or purple (tsPurple) color. Though...added which induces expression of the toxin. Any cells that grow after this point will be those that have...resonance energy transfer (FLIM-FRET) in living cells (Figure 4). They created ShadowR by modifying the... -
CRISPR Pooled gRNA Libraries
TypeCollection...experiment, target cells are treated with the pooled library to create a population of mutant cells that are then...quantities of cells and therefore, may not be suitable for use when the number of cells is limited (e....ribosomal, cell cycle) 51043 — 51048 Knockout Human Sabatini and Lander 3rd 10 Varies FNLCR CRISPRa Cell Surface...e.g. primary cells). Most CRISPR libraries require the use of lentivirus to deliver the gRNA/Cas9 to target... target cells. Therefore, you must be equipped and authorized to use lentivirus in your lab. Once you ...organism, and the library is only compatible with cells derived from that organism. All of our current pooled...140219 Knockout Human J. Chen 3rd 10 4,530 Murine Cell Surface Protein Knockout (McspKO) Library 200445... -
Zhang Lab CRISPR Page
TypeCollection...genome editing in mammalian cells (Cong et al ., Science 2013, Ran et al ., Cell 2013, Ran et al ., Nature...Matoba S, Zhang Y, Zhang F. Cell . 2013 Sep 12;154(6):1380-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.08.021. Epub 2013 Aug...Feng G, Sharp PA, Zhang F. Cell . 2014 Oct 9;159(2):440-55. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.014. Epub 2014 Sep...CRISPR/Cas system can be implemented in mammalian cells by co-expressing the S. pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) nuclease...cloning. GFP-KASH fusion facilitates FACS sorting of cells and nuclei. Return to top AAV - Cas9 mouse CRISPR-Cas9...constitutively expressing Cas9 knockin mice (Platt et al ., Cell 2014). In these mice the CRISPR-Cas9 system can ...recombination and fluorescence assisted sorting of cells and nuclei in addition to sgRNA expression. This...