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  1. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    ...Director of the Merkin Institute and Vice-Chair of the Faculty at the Broad Institute; Professor of Chemistry...Harvard University, and David R. Liu from the Broad Institute and Harvard University. Over the course of the...papers (data was provided by Addgene on 5/26/20 and contains requests from 5/22/14 to 5/19/20). Each paper ...data with a 7-day rolling mean gave us a crude insight into the magnitude of the effect COVID-19 had on... analytical expression for the data likelihood contains an intractable integral of the product of a Poisson... least impacted. These results highlight the instability and uncertainty in estimating parameters from...important additional caveat is that our dataset contains plasmid orders from just one lab, which limits...

  2. CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics

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    ...to modified proteins called histones. We can detect modified histones with “GPS for proteins,” ChIP-seq... coordinates: chromosome, start, and stop. For instance (chr3, 1, 10) indicates a stretch of DNA at the...techniques Technique What It Locates ChIP-seq Proteins (for our example later, histones) ChiRP-seq ...For details on DNA compaction and the structural proteins that make it possible, see the appendix DNA is... you run a ChIP-seq experiment (think “GPS for proteins”) for NANOG, an essential transcription factor...epigenomics: H3 – one of NANOG’s associated histone proteins K4 and K27 – locations of the amino acid lysine...enhancers, lncRNAs, repetitive elements, repressors, insulators, and more. We know that this matter exists, but...

  3. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    ...locus-specific ChIP). These methods consist of insertional chromatin immunoprecipitation (iChIP) and engineered...interactions. For this purpose, we developed the insertional chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) (iChIP) ...purification, in 2009. However, iChIP requires insertion of recognition sequences of an exogenous DNA-binding... DNA-binding molecule technologies such as TAL proteins and CRISPR became available, I was very excited...easily isolated for identification of associated proteins, RNAs, and other genomic regions. I believe that...genome functions in the hope of developing drugs against intractable diseases. Currently, a number of labs...analyze signal-induced nuclear translocation of proteins in 2004. In addition, we have recently developed...

  4. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    ...lines. Identifying less toxic envelope proteins or envelope proteins that target specific tissues are areas... lentiviral expert) Didier Trono's lab webpage explains how lentiviral particles are produced by co-transfecting...that's gag, pol, and env), the isoforms of these proteins, as well as the viral long terminal repeats (LTRs...envelope plasmid and a packaging plasmid encoding HIV proteins gag, pol, rev, and tat. 3rd generation systems...In addition the deletion reduces the risk of insertional mutagenesis by limiting the interaction between...components are HIV-based? A7: No single plasmid contains all the components necessary to produce viral ...vectors contain gag, pol, and rev. Second-generation contains those three genes plus tat. The envelope plasmid...

  5. Antibodies 101: Affinity Tags

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    ...proper folding of the tag, which prevents insoluble fusion proteins from being purified by GST (maybe try ...between – now all you need are some of your favorite proteins purified to carry out your plan. With a little...purification a cinch. Types of affinity tags, the proteins they work best attached to, and the species they...will be expressed along with all other cellular proteins within the expression system (bacteria, yeast,...tags also have commercially available antibodies, resins, beads, and other purification aids readily available...for detection and/or purification of MBP-tagged proteins. The antibody is an alternative to amylose resin...Nickel, Cobalt, Copper, etc.), allowing His fusion proteins to be purified by single step metal affinity chromatography...

  6. CRISPR 101: Cas9 Nickase Design and Homology Directed Repair

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    ...Place intended insert in between nick sites Use 40 nt homology arms for small insertions or tags (ssODN...By mutating one of two Cas9 nuclease domains, researchers created the CRISPR nickase. Nickases create... creates a non-target strand-cleaving nickase. Instead of cutting both strands bluntly with WT Cas9 and...deletions, while H840A is biased towards large insertions. These profiles are likely due to the distinct...can’t find a good gRNA that cuts close to your insertion site, you can’t obtain high HDR efficiency. Nickases...and Yan designed a PAM-out nickase experiment to insert an EcoRI site using a single-stranded oligonucleotide...oligonucleotide (ssODN) donor. Using a D10A nickase to insert an EcoRI site in various spots between the nick...

  7. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    ...segment of DNA which contains several restriction sites allowing for the easy insertion of DNA. In expression... Produce proteins that glow so that scientists can track their location or quantity inside a cell ...2014 and updated Apr. 14, 2020. Any newcomer who joins a molecular biology lab will undoubtedly be asked... a plasmid by recruiting replication machinery proteins Antibiotic Resistance Gene Allows for selection... the MCS is often downstream from a promoter. Insert Gene, promoter or other DNA fragment cloned into...commonly referred to as “vectors” or “constructs.” To insert a gene of interest into a vector, scientists may... are complete, the vector containing the newly inserted gene is transformed into bacterial cells and selectively...

  8. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    ...vague and "what proteins regulate the Z pathway?" is an open-ended list of proteins. Instead, consider "how... at the National Institutes of Health, was an Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine...Hughes Medical Institute. His interests include the quality control of secretory proteins in the Endoplasmic... Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Are you currently on or planning to go on the..."how do proteins X and Y regulate the Z pathway?" A well-defined outcome makes it easier for the search...favor a different model. Finding evidence for or against a model is a standard scientific strategy. However...Endoplasmic Reticulum, optimization of fluorescent proteins,  and live cell imaging approaches. Erik is also...

  9. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...used for an array of detectable proteins including fluorescent proteins, antibiotic resistance, and luciferase...monitors APOBEC (a family of cytidine deaminase proteins) and Cas9-mediated editing in real time (St. Martin...inactive mCherry, the lab introduced a 43 base-pair insertion that disrupts fluorescence due to a frameshift...TCA-to-TUA) found within the 43 base-pair mCherry insertion. Editing of these motifs generates lesions that... editing capability of the seven human APOBEC3 proteins, finding that APOBEC3A and APOBEC3bctd are the...populations. To develop this method the lab was inspired by work that used an integrated GFP reporter that...DNA editor. Specifically the BFP mutant (BFPH66) contains a histidine at amino acid 66. This histidine is...

  10. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...making copies.     Types of origins of replication There are lots of origins of replication out there so...: The insert Bacteria tend to maintain fewer copies of plasmids if they contain large inserts or genes...elements. The ori is the place where DNA replication begins, enabling a plasmid to reproduce itself as it must...known derivatives), pSC101, R6K, and 15A. Not all origins of replication are created equal. Some will produce...whether the ori is positively regulated by RNA or proteins, respectively. A plasmid's copy number has to ...mutations in the replicon. For example, the pMB1 ori maintains about 20 copies per cell, while pUC – which differs...toxic product. The E. coli strain Most E. coli strains can be used to propagate plasmids, but endA- E....

  11. Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level

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    ... reporter mRNA, which contains the tethering sites for the fluorescent proteins and is driven by an inducible... to monitor local translation and determine if proteins are targeted to their destination co- or post-...Translating RNA Imaging by Coat protein Knock-off) instead takes advantage of the ribosome’s movement. When... along an mRNA, it displaces other RNA-binding proteins to allow translation to occur. For a TRICK reporter...only a red FP bound to the reporter. Because it contains a nuclear localization signal, NLS-PCP-GFP then...mRNAs and their corresponding newly synthesized proteins. As in the TRICK system, the 3’ UTR of the reporter...labeled by PCP-mCherry (Figure 2). The 3’ UTR also contains a CAAX sequence to bind the mRNA to the plasma...

  12. The MTA at Addgene

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    ...majority of research institutes.  Pro tip! In most academic and nonprofit institutes, the Tech Transfer ...materials are requested, instead of coordinating signatures from two different institutes. Our online portal...commonly used ones for transfers between academic institutions.  What is the UBMTA, you ask? Well, organizations...signatory) to the MTAs for plasmids in our repository. Instead, we facilitate the signing of MTAs by the Provider...people think our MTAs are different than other institutes. But they’re not! The vast majority of our plasmids...that plasmid facilitated by Addgene — basically, instead of having to sign individual MTAs for each request...Recipient Scientist Acknowledgment (RSA), which contains the terms of use for the requested material. Once...

  13. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    ...product to insert, and tools for primer design, so it’s always best to check in with the instructions from ... Gibson and colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute in 2009. Here at Addgene we added this option ...fragments, but can also be used in basic cloning of an insert into your vector of choice as shown in the figure...incubated together with an enzyme master mix, which contains three different enzymes: an exonuclease, which...using Gibson assembly, imagine that you want to insert your gene of interest into a vector with a large...included in the vector you want to use. If you inserted these two pieces of DNA by restriction enzyme ...fragments. However, by using Gibson assembly, you can insert both the gene of interest and the tag sequences...

  14. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...allowing a spacer-repeat “brick” to be inserted. The BsaI site remains intact, allowing subsequent “bricks...make sure that each cell that gets the plasmid contains all of the desired gRNAs. This increases the chance...the Ventura lab. pX333, a modification of pX330, contains humanized wtCas9 and two U6 promoters. To use ...available from the Bullock lab, and gRNAs can be inserted using Gibson Assembly or SLIC cloning methods....)-containing plasmids. Each destination vector contains GFP, enabling you to select cells with high GFP...enables users to express up to 7 gRNAs. The kit contains different destination vectors depending on the...through Golden Gate or Gibson Assembly. gRNAs are inserted into the pCBC vectors using BsaI, and promoter-gRNA...

  15. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    ... 100 kD proteins or 20, 40, 60, and 80 kD proteins. Plasmids containing 150 or 250 kD proteins are also...expressed proteins run in separate lanes. B: individually expressed and coexpressed proteins run as ladders...the Genetic Pertubation Platform at the Broad Institute have expanded the genetic screening toolkit by...express 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80 and 100 kD proteins in E. coli, either individually (~20,000 lanes...also available separately. The proteins, which are purified via histidine tags, are optimized for SDS-PAGE...Western blots via engineered immunoglobulin binding domains.  Santilli, R.T., et al. Sci Rep (2021). https... large size of CRISPR-Cas effectors and fusion proteins, such as Cas9 and Cas12a, creates challenges for...

  16. Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems

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    ...include proteins like nonstructural proteins 1 to 16, spike proteins, envelope small proteins, and membrane...membrane proteins. Although all viral components are available in bacterial expression plasmids, glycoproteins...glycoproteins and other proteins that require post-translational modification may not be easily expressed ...level expression and purification of SARS-CoV-2 proteins for downstream experiments and offer flexibility... doing things. These new processes have been instrumental in achieving our mission to help science move...Virus Entry Mediated by SARS Coronavirus Spike Proteins. In: Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press...

  17. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    ...recognizing the target protein remains bound to the column while the rest of the proteins are eluted. Then, the...full-length protein that you want to generate antibodies against, or a unique peptide sequence derived from this...the serum are separated, and the serum - which contains the antibodies - is further processed to isolate...Protein G purification is one common method. These proteins bind the IgG heavy chain. Running the serum over...specific to the immunogen or not, while any other proteins pass through. However, protein A and protein G...Antibodies that don’t cross-react with the serum proteins pass through the column, resulting in a polyclonal...or select a monoclonal or recombinant antibody instead. Otherwise, you might experience variability in...

  18. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    ...mice, exosomes expressed specific integrins (cell-adhesion proteins) targeting different organs. This ...action outside of tumor cells, and recent studies (Martins et al., 2018 and Xing et al., 2010) revealed precisely...physiology is deeply connected to these 3 stages and contains multiple cell types: fibroblasts, myofibroblasts...whole, microenvironments promote tumor durability instead of repressing them, making it even harder to cure...possibly inducing the secretion of growth promoting proteins, such as human growth factor, vascular endothelial...microenvironment itself. They deliver compounds like proteins and nucleic acids from cancer cells to the microenvironment...microenvironments! Take myoepithelial cells for instance. They retard tumor formation by inhibiting cell...

  19. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ...amount of information regarding which regulatory proteins, signaling molecules, mutations, and environmental...represented in a very small number of registers. Instead, one may use qPCR to determine the fraction of ...combination of red, blue, and green fluorescent proteins in each state. The three methods of state interrogation...tell you the distribution of states in a sample; instead, it will suggest the predominant state of registers...plasmid (high copy, ColE1 origin of replication), contains large serine recombinase genes downstream of inducible...copy, bacterial artificial chromosome backbone) contains the register. Depending on the desired application...endogenous gene expression (2). Our paper (1) explains how to arrange attB-attP pairs on a register to...

  20. Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE

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    ...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, the Salk Institute, and the... the Karolinska Institutet, among others). Mentors and mentees held scheduled monthly progress video conferences... confined by birth country or financial means. Instead, talent should be realized through equal opportunities...internationalization faces several obstacles; for instance there are few resources to help get individuals...supported, and can more fully identify with and be inspired by the mentor’s successful example. For evidence...2014-15, University of Valencia): “It is very inspiring to be in contact with mentors who are at a professional...universities and high level public and private institutions also showed their support and hope for the IMP...
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