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  1. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    ...represent the preexisting resistant subpopulation 2. Resistant cells among the separate replicates would...medicine 21.5 (2015): 440-448. Pubmed PMID: 25849130. 2. Hata, Aaron N., et al. "Tumor cells can follow distinct...infected a non-small cell lung cancer cell line containing an activating mutation in epidermal growth factor...researchers to individually label millions of mammalian cells through lentiviral infection and to monitor... other replicate; prior to treatment, there are small (previously undetectable) populations of cancer ...combination treatment with multiple drugs reveals even smaller preexisting populations with resistance to both...distinct evolutionary paths to become resistant to epidermal growth factor receptor inhibition." Nature medicine...
  2. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    ...parts: (1) β-strands 1-9 (β1-9) and the one ɑ-helix, (2) β-strand 10 (β10), and (3) β-strand 11 (β11). Each...activating caspase-3, and detected fluorescence within 2 to 5 hours, a time consistent with previous methods... difficult to detect, and thus quantify, due to small fluorescence changes of the donor and acceptor after...spatio-temporal dynamics of apoptosis in living animals. To do this they modified a different self-assembling...fluorescence was dependent on protease activation. Normally, β10-11 are antiparallel. To prevent binding, ...the sequence, β10 and β11 can rearrange to their normal antiparallel position and fluoresce. FlipCherry... a beta strand of GFP for imaging apoptosis in animals." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2019...
  3. Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists

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    ...of 1-2 mentors and 3-5 mentees who meet together for an 8 month formal program. After the formal program... together. If you all work at the same place, a 1-2 hour lunch on a regular schedule might work. If not...supporters and advisors? I tried to start a more formal mentoring program at my company, but there weren't...awkward to ask someone for the time commitment of a formal mentoring relationship or there aren’t enough senior...for one another (trainees never get to present formally often enough) and give honest, critical feedback...
  4. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ...nonsense-mediated decay. Although Nelson et al. observed only 2% genome editing in one experiment, they found the ... cells throughout the body, especially stem cells 2. Remove any immunogenicity of the AAV vector Once ...Science. 2015 Dec 31. doi:10.1126/science.aae0169 2. Long C, Amoasii L, Mireault AA, McAnally JR, Li H...in a clinical setting. CRISPR is often used for animal germline modification, to repair or add in disease-causing...recessive disorder affecting approximately 1 in 5000 males. DMD is caused primarily by frameshift mutations... reading frame, leading to the production of a smaller, but at least partially functional protein. Individuals... of the dystrophin gene would take place, with minimal risk of off-target editing. In order for the therapy...
  5. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    ...is always best to have options.      Fig. 2: Addgene’s western blot for mEGFP-HRas (from Plasmid...the presence of oxidizing agents. Adapted from Fig. 2 Campbell et al, Nature Methods   Find YFP plasmids...alternatives - RNAi and Cas13. CRISPR-Csm doesn’t degrade proximal RNAs nor does it have high levels of off-target...changes of non-target genes and RNA-seq of a nuclear (MALAT1) and cytoplasmic (CKB1) RNA target. Adapted from...
  6. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...form or as ready-to-use lentivirus. Figure 2: dCas9-Tet1 demethylates cytosines at promoters and...pX330a dCas9-LSD1 for targeted removal of H3K4me1/2 and H3K9me2 histone modifications. Like the TALE-LSD1...approach for targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discovery 2: . https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9 Find plasmids...functions in mammalian expression systems.   Christopher Newgard’s Lab has fused LSD1 to the smaller nuclease-dead...specified loci. Charles Gersbach’s lab has deposited mammalian expression constructs including pcDNA-dCas9-p300...Tet1-CD for targeted cytosine demethylation in mammalian cells. This plasmid is used with pcDNA3.1-MS2-...DNMT3A-PuroR for targeted cytosine methylation in mammalian cells. Co-expression markers EGFP and PuroR enable...
  7. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    ... intensity of the cell’s illumination (see Figure 2). H describes the maximum signal strength, while W...SSC-A, so most people use that setting. Figure 2: As the cell passes through the laser beam and causes...scale in proportion (while H and W do not; see Figure 2), single cell events will show up in a straight line... a homogenous cell population in culture, it is normal to observe diversity in cell size, marker expression...s origin mainly stem from cell debris and other small fragments. Where exactly a given cell population...
  8. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    ...China, Korea, Japan, Brazil, India, and Mexico. Table 2: Addgene distributors Distributor Partnership...distribution after we partnered with them (Figure 2). In others, the distributor helped solve an issue...temperature for the duration of their journey. Figure 2: Annual distribution of items to countries with a ...website, we’ve learned about the importance of smaller, systemic changes, like using alt-text, captions...
  9. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...immediate early gene expression. Genes Dev. 1988 Jun;2(6):718-29. doi: 10.1101/gad.2.6.718. PMID: 2843425...Targeted Gene Expression in Drosophila.” Genetics 186(2) (2010): 735-55. PubMed PMID: 20697123. PubMed Central... in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” FEMS Yeast Res. 12(2) (2012): 197-214. PubMed PMID: 22129153. Additional...bacterial origins, Tet systems function well in mammalian cells, and TRE-containing promoters can be used...OFF. The cumate switch system functions well in mammalian cells, and can be used in the repressible manner...previous post. While originally developed for use in mammalian cells, this system has also been implemented in...Bujard H. Tight control of gene expression in mammalian cells by tetracycline-responsive promoters. Proc...
  10. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - June 2019

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    ...  AAV9, AAVrg pAAV-hSyn-DIO-mCherry 37825 AAV1, 2, 5, 8, 9 (20 µL size serotype testing) pAAV-CAG-GFP...size serotype testing) pAAV-CAG-GFP 50465 AAV1, 2, 5, rg (20 µL size serotype testing) pAAV-hSyn-EGFP...chemogenetic AAV for activating and inhibiting neurons. Minimally-tagged DREADD AAV from the Richie lab are especially...
  11. Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level

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    ...the reporter mRNA is labeled by PCP-mCherry (Figure 2). The 3’ UTR also contains a CAAX sequence to bind...PMC2746483 Find ribosome profiling plasmids at Addgene. 2. Halstead, James M., et al. “Translation. An RNA biosensor...round of translation from single cells to living animals.” Science 347(6228) (2015): 1367-71. PMID: 25792328...
  12. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    ...without leaving behind any accessory DNA sequences [2], [3]. Simply put, the piggyBac™ transposon containing...with a Footprint-Free™ genome edit.   Figure 2: Editing DNA using the piggyBac™ transposon selection...PMID: 26211958. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4663986. 2.  A. M. Singh, V. V Adjan Steffey, T. Yeshi, and D...successfully used for genetic manipulation in mammalian cells until 2005 [1]. Like other transposons, ...to efficiently perform genetic manipulations in animal models or cells lines, including stem cells, without...specific, and has not been shown to cause genomic abnormalities when expressed. This lack of off-target effects...27075976. 4.  X. Li, E. R. Burnight, A. L. Cooney, N. Malani, T. Brady, J. D. Sander, J. Staber, S. J. Wheelan...
  13. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ... pCRISPomyces-2 contains Cas9 and a gRNA cassette. The simpler system of pCRISPomyces-2 displays a higher...and a subsequent curing protocol that requires only 2-3 hours incubation. E. coli and T. citrea scarless...four major components including (1) a CRISPR RNA, (2) four proteins forming the QCascade DNA-targeting ...efficiency for point mutations and 66% efficiency for small insertions. Multiplexing of two targets simultaneously.... coli; while the Marraffini lab used a native minimal CRISPR array (Bikard et al., 2013), the Qi lab ... plasmids Stanley Qi’s lab demonstrated that a minimal, regulatable CRISPR system effectively silenced...transcription of one or more genes in E. coli. and in a mammalian cell line (Qi et al., 2013). Two important features...
  14. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    ... tropism and axonal transport of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 in the mouse brain. PLoS One. 2013 ...PMID: 24086725. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3785459. 2. Krashes MJ, Koda S, Ye C, Rogan SC, Adams AC, Cusher... attain cell-specific expression in transgenic animals, where cre expression is restricted to a particular... which can then be exclusively activated by the small molecule clozapine N-oxide (CNO) (Krashes et al....
  15. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ...plasmid kit consists of 20 plasmids encoding 14 alpha, 2 beta, and 4 gamma subunits of the heterotrimeric G...activation via bioluminescence resonance energy transfer 2 (BRET2). Check out our blog post on GPCR signaling...genetically engineered receptors to interact with small molecules to elicit a response in a certain cell...genetically modified receptors are activated by small molecules to either activate or inhibit neuronal...to respond to specific, pharmacologically-inert, small molecules. These new receptors were termed Designer...muscarinic receptor family and are activated by small molecule ligands such as clozapine-N-oxide (CNO)...
  16. Antibodies 101: Antibody Engineering and Directed Evolution

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    ... follow the same general cyclical process (Figure 2). The differences typically come in when generating...starting point for the next cycle. Figure 2: General process of antibody directed evolution. Created...module_attribute "schema_version" is_json="true" %}{% raw %}2{% endraw %}{% end_module_attribute %}{% module_attribute...font-family":"helvetica","font-style":"normal","font-weight":"normal","text-decoration":"none"},"fallback..."font-family: helvetica; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none","font_set":"DEFAULT...engineering is at a large scale — some is done on much smaller equipment on a lab bench. The best part? Less complicated...structure (Figure 1). Antibodies can be broken up into smaller parts, the variable regions can be altered for ...
  17. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    ...somewhere else (Fig. 2). Class II TEs have LTRs on both of their ends.    Figure 2: Overview of DNA...has four major components: 1) a CRISPR RNA (crRNA), 2) four proteins (TniQ, Cas8, Cas7, Cas6) that forms...to insert at these sites.  Transgenic animals Transgenic animals are often generated by directly injecting... has a close-to-random integration profile in mammalian genomes. SB is active in vertebrates and integrates... well as in vivo in yeast, plant, insect, and mammalian cells, including human cells. piggyBac is biased...transposase (hyPB) is ~10-fold more active in mammalian cells compared to the codon-optimized wild-type...)TTATAA(G/C)TNA. Tol2 can deliver 10-11 kB to mammalian cells without decreased efficiency, with a maximum...
  18. Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology

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    ... engineered components, like protein tags (Figure 2). Through the work of many groups, there are systems... in Addgene's repository (Table 1). Figure 2: Adding function to My Favorite Protein (MFP) through...contexts (Figure 1). Together the features with optimal biological performance are described as Click Biology...modules, which can connect proteins to any kind of small molecule probes with different functionalities, ...CLm and C-terminal Aes gp41-1 Split inteins A small, fast split intein SpyTag003/SpyCatcher003 SpyTag...
  19. CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)

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    ...11 and Cas13 are 1). non-specific RNA cleavage and 2). cell toxicity. Cas7-11 does not display collateral...Cpf1 is a single RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system. Cell, 163(3): 759-771 (2015). 10.1016...therapeutic promise due to the fact that it is smaller than the traditional SpCas9 enzyme (about a third...sequence Similar to Cas12, it is also significantly smaller in size than traditional Cas9. Another similarity...RNA cleavage and is significantly less toxic to mammalian cells than Cas13 (likely due to the lack of collateral...
  20. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    ...successfully regulated expression of channelrhodopsin-2, commonly used in optogenetics, opening up the possibility... Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. “Cell type-specific manipulation..., consist of a single heavy chain, and they are small and stable inside cells. Nanobodies binding GFP ...and since cells infected with AAV-Cre-DOG retain normal neuronal function, this system may make optogenetics...developed soon to allow genome modification only in a small subset of cells? Other proteins may also be utliized...
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