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TypeBlog Post... fluorescent proteins expressed in the specimen. 2. Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACs) A machine...photostability of your fluorescent protein when using 2-photon microscopy as this hasn't been well reported...PMID: 18703742. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2606057. 2. Chtanova, Tatyana, et al. "Dynamics of neutrophil... tagged with a fluorescent protein or dye. It separates the cells mechanically in a vibrating nozzle, ...Schaeffer, Marie, et al. "Dynamic imaging of T cell-parasite interactions in the brains of mice chronically...
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Imaging Tools and Following a Passion for Basic Biology: Interview with Joachim Goεdhart
TypeBlog Post...Joachim ended up at the University of Amsterdam Chapter 2 - Joachim’s Academic and career goals. Career advice...microscopy (University of Amsterdam). He develops, characterizes and uses genetically encoded fluorescent probes... -
Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation
TypeBlog Post...green squares, purple circles and blue triangles. 2) An antibody immobilized on a bead binds specifically...protein G, a novel IgG-binding reagent. J Immunol 133(2):969-974. Hjelm H, Hjelm K, Sjöquist J (1972) Protein...controls for an IP. When possible, perform the IP in parallel with both a sample known to express the protein...identify any non-specific interactions, perform parallel IPs with beads only and an isotype control antibody... -
Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem
TypeBlog Post...diffusion test or Kirby-Bauer susceptibility test (Figure 2), and requires at least 18-24 hours to obtain results...." London: Wellcome Trust & HM Government (2016). 2. CDC Information Pages on Antibiotics 3. WHO Antimicrobial...antibiotic’ can also be used to describe anti-parasitic drugs and anti-fungal drugs, because ‘antibiotic...Resistance can be intrinsic, meaning a basic characteristic that naturally occurs in the bacterium, and... -
QC Sequencing Technologies at Addgene
TypeBlog Post...short-read sequencing are highlighted in Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of short-read sequencing technology...synthesized (Figure 1). Sanger sequencing requires four separate reactions, where a fraction of one of the four...The resulting DNA fragments are pooled and then separated by size using electrophoresis, typically capillary...deconvoluted to identify the bases (and, if necessary, separate different samples), the resulting data, or reads...nucleotide that passed through based on these characteristic drops. Figure 3: Overview of Nanopore...To address this issue, the QC team developed a separate script for manually inputting known innocuous ... -
Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them
TypeBlog Post...from animals or hybridomas. Figure 2: (Left) Figure 2: (Left) The light chain and heavy chain genes..., Aldred SF, Bestagno M, Burrone O, Maynard J, Ferrara F, Trimmer JS, Görnemann J, Glanville J, Wolf P... -
Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals
TypeBlog Post...due to the presence of additional helper sequences (2-3). As alluded to above, termination and polyadenylation...and translation processes as well. Figure 2: The conserved eukaryotic polyadenylation signal directs...transcriptional read-through. Chris Voigt’s lab has characterized a set of prokaryotic terminators and deposited... -
Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry
TypeBlog Post...from another within a fully stained sample. Figure 2 is an example of the emission spectra for two fluorophores...another during spectral unmixing. Figure 2: The full emission spectra for BV421 and BV711 on ...experiment, it is important to consider how many parameters you want to use in a given experiment. For very... -
Antibodies 101: Antibody Engineering and Directed Evolution
TypeBlog Post... 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...antibodies developed by IPI are extensively characterized and validated, with the application data from... -
Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication
TypeBlog Post...the chromosome, ending replication. Figure 2: Prokaryotic chromosomal replication. Adapted from...Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews: MMBR, 62(2), 434–464. https://doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.62.2.434-464.1998...cooperatively to separate nearby AT-rich regions of DNA. In a test tube, the DNA helix can be separated by DnaA...ATP-bound DnaA, the proteins cooperatively can separate the DNA strands. Created with BioRender.com. ... -
CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!
TypeBlog Post...gene activation, with some genes experiencing around 2-fold activation levels. Although other methods have.... This method has been shown to activate genes at 2- to 3-fold higher than SAM, SunTag, and VPR (Zhou ...once), however, SAM exhibits activation levels comparable to other popular activation methods (VPR and ... -
5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions
TypeBlog Post... digest and compare it to some reliable controls. 2. Viral stocks may be sensitive to freeze thaw cycles...PMID: 24003179. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3760253. 2. Rohwer, Forest. "Global phage diversity." Cell 113.2...10634178. 8. Murnane, John P., Michael J. Yezzi, and Barbara R. Young. "Recombination events during integration... -
PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays
TypeBlog Post...mean you have one copy of the gene; an RQ value of 2 means you have two copies, and so on and so forth....quantitative PCR. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2005 Mar;5(2):209-19. doi: 10.1586/14737159.5.2.209. PMID: 15833050...falciparum multidrug resistance-1 gene (pfmdr1). J Parasitol. 2011 Oct;97(5):939-42. doi: 10.1645/GE-2792.1... -
"Hall of Fame" AAV Enhancers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science
TypeBlog Post...module_attribute "schema_version" is_json="true" %}{% raw %}2{% endraw %}{% end_module_attribute %}{% module_attribute...stereotaxically, STX) to the brain. Figure 2: Selection, prep, and testing of AAV enhancers in ...B., Ben-Simon, Y., Opitz-Araya, X., Martinez, R. A., Way, S. W., Thyagarajan, B., Otto, S., … Ting, J....Resources References Ben-Simon, Y., Hooper, M., Narayan, S., Daigle, T. L., Dwivedi, D., Way, S. W., Oster... J. K., Taormina, M. J., Martinez, R. A., Opitz-Araya, X., Roth, J. R., Alexander, J. R., Allen, S., Amster...E. E., Mahoney, J. T., Kojima, Y., Ding, Y., Somasundaram, S., Miller, J. A., Kalmbach, B. E., Radaelli... -
PEI Calculator for Planning AAV Packaging Transfections
TypeBlog Post...pHelper: 1 RepCap OR 3 Transfer Plasmid : 5 pHelper: 2 RepCap Select what type of tissue culture dish you...goes, “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Preparation is a key step to any experiment and can help ... -
Our New Antibody Mascot is....
TypeBlog Post...Addgene swag. Good luck and happy naming! Fig. 2: The mascot trio! ...our new antibody mascot, who's joining us in preparation for our upcoming affinity reagent distribution... -
Countdown to Halloween @Addgene
TypeBlog Post...Halloween is only 2 days away and here at Addgene we couldn’t be more excited! As a small, tight-knit...(old board games and movies can provide great character costumes). All of this costume planning is for... -
Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores
TypeBlog Post...expressed as a fusion with your favorite protein and (2) a synthetic fluorophore-contianing “ligand” that ...cell 58.4 (2015): 644-659. PubMed PMID: 26000849. 2. Grimm, Jonathan B., et al. "A general method to improve...: 26575238. 5. Crivat, Georgeta, and Justin W. Taraska. "Imaging proteins inside cells with fluorescent... -
Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN
TypeBlog Post...connectivity to other data sources used in research; (2) connectivity to other tools used in research; and...by making it easy to get data out of the ELN; and (2) facilitate inter-operability with other research ... delve deeper and look specifically at the characteristics and capabilities an ELN needs to facilitate... -
Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting
TypeBlog Post...blotting In a western, proteins are: (1) separated by size, (2) transferred to a membrane, and (3) detected...system-specific sandwiches. Figure 2: The western blot dry apparatus includes a stack of filter paper, ...range to be separated on a single gel. Immobilizing proteins on a membrane Once separated, the proteins... process. The sample, a mixture of protein is separated in a gel, transferred to a membrane, stained with...tertiary structures remain intact and the protein is separated through a matrix by charge. In a denaturing western...protein is denatured to its primary structure and separated by size with smaller molecules moving more quickly... we will be focusing on denaturing westerns. Separating a protein mix by size Sodium dodecyl sulfate-...