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...month to a year. The researcher remains employed by their home institute, meaning the host university does... host lab or institute provides something that you can’t obtain at your current institute. A common reason...scientist, in academia, is someone who visits an institution to perform research there temporarily. The length...requires re-location of the scientist to the new institute where their typical workdays will be carried out...back to your home lab. Alternatively, the host institute may have a piece of equipment that is custom-built...train and acquire the data you need on the new instrumentation. Bonus reasons Visiting gives you access to...level researchers, it can expose them to a new institute and mentor that they may want to consider for ...

...tagging proteins, as it can be fused to the N- or C-terminus (or even in the middle of proteins) and performs...Kroupova et al., 2024). This construct contains the Lon and TBD domains, part of the HB domain, and several... tag antibody produced by our partners at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI), part of a new collection...short, linear epitope derived from the P and V proteins of Simian virus 5 (SV5) (Randall et al., 1987)...a fusion of mouse variable and rabbit constant domains and is recommended for use in western blots (Figure... own antibody or want to swap out the constant domains, the plasmids for the heavy chain and light chain...Antibody here!   Anderson, Z., Zhu, H., Riedel, T., Moshinsky, D., Meijers, R. (2024). Western Blot for Anti-V5...

...coding regions. In total, they tested 13 strains, with seven strains identified as permissive and six as non-permissive...in different mouse strains. The in vivo selection for PHP.B in C57BL/6J mouse strains likely contributed...transduction of AAV serotypes generally tracks between strains of mice. This suggests that a small genetic difference...phenotypes. Two labs, the Deverman lab at the Broad Institute and the Wilson lab at the University of Pennsylvania...mutants that had a small randomized peptide loop inserted in the AAV9 capsid. This mutant library was then...then screened in vivo in C57BL/6J mice strains to identify variants that reached the CNS following IV ...searched for genetic difference between the 36 mouse strains that are part of the Mouse Genome Project. They...

...with dimerizing fluorescent proteins is illustrated. 1) Membrane proteins fused to FPs that dimerize can... National Institutes of Health and he is currently an Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of...-based FRET, with application to intrinsically unstructured proteins. Protein Sci, 2007. 16(7): p. 1429... Erik L. Snapp. Stop using EGFP/GFP for fusion proteins! Despite multiple studies in high profile journal...(i.e. DsRed) [3]. This is a problem for fusion proteins. One of the major applications of FPs is to visualize...Transmembrane fluorescent protein fusions Transmembrane proteins, i.e. receptors and transporters, are integrated... to an obligate dimer or oligomer Several cell proteins normally self-associate into homodimers or even...

...sorting or FACS (2). By analyzing single cells instead of the population as a whole, scientists gain statistical...Techniques is Best for Me?  An overview of the instrumentation A flow cytometer combines three systems to ...receptor are stained with a fluorescent antibody against the receptor and analyzed on a flow cytometer. ...cells pass through the path of a laser and the instrument collects information about the cell’s size, complexity...targets. If you are planning on using fluorescent proteins for your experiment and are unsure which to choose...Fluorescent Protein Should I Use? However, fusion proteins tag your protein of interest with a fluorescent...C-terminus of the protein. One downside of fusion proteins is that the tag can alter the structure of the...

...non-dividing cells Insertional Mutagenesis Possible Adenovirus Remains Episomal (Little Risk...access into the cell. The viral envelope and its proteins determine what type of cell the virus will target...can be engineered to be cell type specific. Once inside the host cell, the virus unleashes its cargo – ...Image courtesy of National Human Genome Research Institute. Its genome, however, isn’t enough to ensure...ensure the virus can replicate and spread. Instead, viruses replicate by hijacking the host’s system to ...signals which can traffic their viral particles inside the nucleus, without the need for envelope disassembly...kb, but viral packaging is less efficient when inserts are on the higher end. Adeno and adeno-associated...

... antibody on crosslinked proteins. In the case of histone modifying proteins, which bind quite strongly...that ChIP uses native proteins (so antibodies validated only for denatured proteins may not be a good choice...another. For instance, a sample may need more or less cross-linking to firmly attach the proteins to the DNA...is an extremely useful technique that provides insight into protein:DNA interactions. ChIP works by using...exploring these interactions, and can give valuable insight into DNA expression and protein interactions, including...the downstream analysis process. And ChIP itself begins at...  Crosslinking Once you have your sample, ...other until you are ready to separate them. Most proteins are not likely to remain attached to the DNA throughout...

...Takeda et al., 2002). G proteins: The receptor is coupled with heterotrimeric G proteins on the intracellular... catalyzes the biotinylation of proteins near the GPCR. These proteins are then identified with mass spec... into two parts: the receptor itself and the G-proteins it associates with.  Receptor: GPCRs are also...recognizes the appropriate ligand to activate the G proteins. It is estimated that there are approximately ...intracellular side of the cell membrane. Heterotrimeric G proteins are important molecular switches in signal transduction...subunits: alpha (Gα), beta (Gβ), and gamma (Gγ). G proteins are divided into four subtypes, based on their...role of 14 of the 16 non-visual heterotrimeric G proteins that can be activated downstream of GPCRs. This...

...be limited by a few caveats. Since fluorescent proteins (FP) require external light activation, you can...practical due to the low intensity of luminescent proteins. To make luminescent imaging a reality, Addgene...including optogenetics, biosensors, and fusion proteins. Solving the problems of low luminescence By...generates much less signal than comparable fluorescent proteins. This weak emission hasn’t stopped some scientists...scientists from using chemiluminescent proteins for imaging, but it has precluded widespread adoption of the...eliminates the need for an excitation light source. Instead, a luciferase substrate like coelenterazine is ...Nano-lanterns and showed that these three luminescent proteins can be used together in cells. As Nano-lanterns...

... Georgeta, and Justin W. Taraska. "Imaging proteins inside cells with fluorescent tags." Trends in biotechnology...Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Chemistry is dead, long live chemistry! The discovery... their own. Subsequent advances in fluorescent proteins have replicated many of the properties once exclusive...budgets are a widespread issue with fluorescent proteins—even the thriftiest cell biologist can feel like...brighter and more photostable than fluorescent proteins, providing a straightforward way to improve the...combined with the ease and specificity of fluorescent proteins. In-cell labeling strategies The majority of ...tetracysteine (Cys4) peptide tag could be used to label proteins in cells (Figure 1a). Other strategies that have...

...occurring E. coli plasmid ColE1 (Goebel & Helinski, 1968; Bazaral & Helinski, 1968), in which the plasmid was ...1981). E. coli strains such as DH5α, HB101, NEB Stable, Stbl3, etc., are recA- mutant strains, and therefore... of plasmids, taking many forms (Levene, 2009; Higgins & Vologodskii, 2016). Plasmid multimerization occurs...to occur more frequently in plasmids with large inserts (>7 kb)(Berg et al., 1989), direct repeats (Ribeiro...et al., 2009). Since multimers have additional origins of replication compared to monomers, they are also... of multimer present in your sample. In these instances, please note that the supercoiled dimer band can.... If the presence of a multimer in your sample remains unclear after visualizing it on a gel, one of the...

...Mutations Insertions, deletions, point mutations Insertions, deletions, point mutations Insertions, deletions...-4 phage proteins are needed and these can be provided via a separate plasmid or be inserted into the ...recombineering proteins Red/ET from a temperature-sensitive plasmid. Homologous recombination then joins the linear...successfully incorporated a 60-nucleotide insertion; beyond this insertion size, primer synthesis is more expensive...making small point mutations, large deletions/insertions require complicated, often costly in vitro assembly...the power of bacterial recombineering to create insertions, deletions, and substitutions - at the same efficiency...colonies carrying the unmodified plasmid. For insertions, it’s possible to use the same technique just...

...S-shaped curve. Sparse proteins may not be detected at all, while overloaded proteins may saturate the detector...choose. Housekeeping proteins as loading controls Ubiquitously expressed proteins like β-actin or GAPDH... be careful relying on so called “housekeeping proteins.” Fully quantifying a western blot requires a ...semi-quantitative western blots. No pipetter is perfect, and proteins may not transfer precisely evenly across the entire...transfer errors — not to any factors from before the proteins even hit the gel. But what if your experiment ... this S-shaped relationship poses problems for proteins of very different abundance, consider the following...controls. These are often called “housekeeping proteins” and are detected with an antibodies, just like...

...REC and NUC, and their subdomains. NUC includes the HNH and RuvC catalytic domains, as well as the CTD (...recognition). The NUC lobe contains the DNA scissors: the HNH and RuvC domains, which are named for similar...the guide RNA. Unlike the cleavage domains, the recognition domains—including the CTD and the entire REC...similar nuclease folds found in other proteins. The C-terminal domain (CTD) of the protein also belongs ...lobe—do not structurally resemble any other known proteins; they are completely unique to the CRISPR system...Nishimasu et al., 2014). Table 1. Summary of Cas9 domains, the lobe each domain belongs to, and their roles...pyogenes Cas9 in the apo state (PDB ID 4CMP) with domains colored as in Figure 1. HNH, red; RuvC, orange;...

...binding of untagged proteins. Despite being a relatively low frequency amino acid, proteins containing two ...research requires a close examination of specific proteins within a system. This can be pretty complicated...given that a single cell has tens of thousands of proteins functioning in a variety of ways. How do scientists...from a complex mix using affinity chromatography against an amino acid sequence, or tag, on the protein....of methods can be used to successfully isolate proteins, this blog will focus on one of the most common... as Ni2+ or Co2+ (Hochuli 1988), and can elute proteins with up to 95% purity (Janknecht 1991, Hochuli...itself. Next, a series of wash steps removes excess proteins and other contaminants. The protein of interest...

...the gene/insert by aligning to NCBI entry or using BLAST.   Confirming tags and fusion proteins. We’ll...of the plasmid.   Confirming the insert We usually confirm the insert through BLAST or by direct alignment...Confirming tags and fusion proteins Finally, we confirm promoters, tags, fusion proteins, and selectable markers...and user friendly, to own the process entirely remains a large undertaking. Priority number one was to...by the depositor. Depositing labs often provide insert sequences or annotated Genbank files that are useful...We look for point mutations, truncations, and insertions that could compromise function. When we do find...promoter, and rabbit beta-globin splice acceptor, contains sequence that is over 80% GC. Some IRES sequences...

... and analysing the insecticidal potential of Cry proteins in order to manage insect pests and to support...The recombinant Cry proteins will then be screened for toxicity against local insect pests. By developing...the identification of plant compounds and insecticidal proteins to the development of renewable biotechnology...desaturating fatty acids. Identification of Insecticidal Proteins Linh Bao Ton (M. Sc.), Nong Lam University...developing biological agents such as insecticidal proteins, the use of chemical pesticides may be avoided or...system pDawn to clone and express newly identified proteins and enzymes. These compounds will later get tested... nutritionally and therapeutically significant proteins. In this project she aims to create transgenic...

... of proteins captured on magnetic beads (Arimura et al., 2024). In MagIC-cryo-EM, target proteins (expressed...adding Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) proteins, small proteins that naturally adsorb to the AWI, can ...editor installs the recombinase “landing sites,” then the recombinase handles the installation of the ... DNA-targeting proteins, so the team created versions using dCas9, zinc finger proteins, and transcription...for enrichment and structure determination LEA proteins protect samples during cryo-EM grid freezing Engineered...biotinylated SpyTag-SpyCatcher linkers and spacer proteins ending with a GFP nanobody (Figure 1). This enrichment...https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.21.576499.    LEA proteins protect fragile samples during cryo-EM grid plunge...

.... Inhibitory opsins are usually light-driven pumps that pass ions (Cl-, H+, Na+) against the concentration...Light-gated ion channels Light activated ion channels (rhodopsins) either excite or inhibit neuronal activity upon... of light (Vierock et al., 2021). Step-function opsins are chimeric ion channels that turn on with a light-pulse...are many different opsin (natural and engineered proteins responsive to light in combination with retinal...activation inhibitory (ArCH) proton pump passing ions against the concentration gradient. Created with BioRender.com...pathways? Here’s where photoswitchable intracellular proteins come into play. Photoswitches can be used to activate...partners such as light, oxygen, and voltage (LOV) domains, phytochrome B (PhyB), and cryptochrome 2 (CRY2...

... the overhangs of the assembled inserts. After ligation of the insert into the vector, the BsaI site is...transformants by colony PCR confirmed the insertion of the Lambda insert at the same high frequencies as the...single “one-pot” reaction to form complex, multi-insert modular assemblies that enable biosynthetic pathway... BsaI, and a DNA ligase such as T4 DNA ligase. Inserts, either precloned or in amplicon form (shown above...ordered, pre-determined manner. If the original insert religates into its original vector, it will subsequently... assembly: High efficiency and accurate single-insert assembly Intermediate 5- or 12-fragment assembly...assembly More complex 24-fragment assembly Single insert cloning efficiencies were measured based on the acquisition...