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  1. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...target gene, it therefore determines the timing of gene expression and largely defines the amount of recombinant... GAL4/UAS to examine the expression of reporter genes, or to combine reporter expression from one promoter...necessary or desirable to control or look at multiple genes at the same time.  The 3 binary systems listed above...Drosophila or for precise control over multiple genes in synthetic systems. Recent work has even used ... simplex virus immediate early gene expression. Genes Dev. 1988 Jun;2(6):718-29. doi: 10.1101/gad.2.6.718...and interconvertible Drosophila overexpression transgenes. Sci Rep 12, 3835 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038...Sneha Srikrishnan. “Introduction and expression of genes for metabolic engineering applications in Saccharomyces...

  2. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    ... and high binding capacity. In addition, PVDF membranes can be repeatedly stripped of an antibody and ...antibodies used for staining. To address this, the membranes are incubated before staining in a buffer containing...across tissues. Recently, knockdown or knockout lines have become the gold standard in antibody validation...(Pillai-Kastoori et al., 2019). Tissues or cell lines other than those used by the vendor for validation...controls. Positive controls typically include cell lines or tissues that are known to express the protein...specific substrate. The emitted light, or chemiluminescence, is detected on x-ray film or with specific...standards.  Protein abundance In addition, the thickness of the band provides information about the relative...

  3. Reagent Repositories Are Speeding up Science During the Pandemic

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    ...research, including over 4,000 cell lines. Seventeen of these cell lines were used to investigate the susceptibility...repositories that distribute mouse strains, plasmids, cell lines, and much more have been critical for pandemic research...Reproducibility for Everyone. Case study 1: Cell lines Many of the reagents used to investigate SARS-CoV...research into this virus. One such example is cell lines. The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) is ...additional cell line used in this study came from the Japanese Collection of Research Bioresources Cell Bank,... pathogen. The sharing and distribution of cell lines from repositories on opposite sides of the world...

  4. Dos & Don'ts When Publishing a Scientific Manuscript

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    ...vivo research and the CARE guidelines for case reports are two sets of guidelines frequently used by editors...journal, it is important to check the journal’s guidelines to authors and see whether your paper is in scope... scope for the journal’s coverage. These guidelines also provide information on a journal’s house style...use to the scientific communities. The ARRIVE guidelines for the reporting of laboratory animals during...interest of the journal. Be sure to check the Author Guidelines of the journal you are submitting to and make... your paper. Always check the journals Author Guidelines to make sure that your paper fits with the journal...

  5. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    ...of traditional cloning is the identification of clones that actually contain your insert of interest. ...of the gene and how molecular biologists have harnessed it to evolve cloning technology. CcdB: A potent..., leading to positive identification of desired clones.   ...Becomes a powerful cloning tool Molecular... 20 years ago and developed cloning vectors to harness it. These vectors, called pKIL18 and pKIL19, contained...This procedure dramatically reduces the number of clones that do not contain the recombinant plasmid and...investigator’s insert of interest. Hence correct clones are identified much more efficiently, as those ...propagate and prep your ccdB-containing empty backbones but should never be used when selecting for recombinant...

  6. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    ...interested in heftier genes, you can coinfect with multiple viruses to express genes or gene sets over 4.7...expressing multiple small genes, you can design single rAAV vectors with multiple genes packaged in them and...icosahedral capsid, that can be used to express genes of interest in cell and animal models. AAVs are ... their genomes “gutted”, meaning that all viral genes except ITRs (inverted terminal repeats – the sequences... 4.7 kb, meaning that your gene of interest (or genes) need to be 4.7 kb or less to fit in a single rAAV...

  7. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    ...Cre-DOG, respectively, repurpose popular GFP reporter lines for more sophisticated experimental manipulations...saving the time and money needed to develop new lines. Using nanobodies to create GFP scaffolds for transcriptional...but knew it would take years to develop the mouse lines required for this purpose. Tang wondered if he could... could use previously established mouse lines expressing GFP in specific cell types to do more than just...then tested T-DDOGs with two mouse GFP reporter lines; again, TdTomato was seen only in cells with GFP...optogenetics, opening up the possibility of adapting GFP lines for optogenetics experiments in specific cell populations... open up many new possibilities for GFP-labeled lines, and they each have their own advantages. T-DOGGs...

  8. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    ...ex: rods or cones) or cell classes (ex: photoreceptors which encompassed both rods and cones).  Targeted...of cell types, such as inhibitory neurons, rods, cones, or retinal ganglion. Rather than using naturally...of the start codon of retinal cell-type specific genes from mice. Strategy #2 (ProB): Create promoters ... transcription initiation sites of at least two genes with high expression and high cell-type specificity...to loosely match the specificity of their source genes, i.e. if a synthetic promoter expressed in cells... Transgenic animals allow for the expression of genes in particular tissues, but they are costly and time-consuming...

  9. Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice

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    ...to cross mice to create double knockout lines and Cre-lox lines, and how to properly control for genetically...goal is to generate mice that have two modified genes in their genome, and assuming Mendalian patterns...your parental mice were all homozygous for your genes of interest, your F1 mice will be carriers at those...mice that are homozygous for all of your desired genes. Remember Punnett squares from high school biology... that harbor homozygous alleles at both of your genes of interest. About 1 in 4 mice will be homozygous...the promoter being used should be tested in cell lines to determine how it impacts the expression level...

  10. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    ...right CRISPR vectors on Addgene and found instead ones that were… pretty close, or at least close enough...Fragmid depositor John Doench reports even the greenest members of his lab, high school interns, were ...created over five months. When they tested those clones (in duplicate), 93% had the correct banding pattern...enzyme digest. They sent 82 of the correctly banded clones for plasmid sequencing and found 98% of the plasmids...Drosophilia Plasmid pRDB_051 (for stable fly cell lines; attL and attR sequences for genome integration ...Drosophilia Plasmid pRDB_052 (for stable fly cell lines; Hygromycin resistance gene; for genome integration...own Fragmid components! Ensure your backbone and genes contain only the Bbsl cut sites needed for the Fragmid...

  11. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    ...regulate the transcription of specific genes. What if one of those genes coded for a protein that regulated...combinations of different candidate genes at once to identify the best cocktail of genes when the relationship between...Level 0: Cloning of basic parts (promoters, UTRs, genes, tags, etc.) into MoClo-compatible vectors. Level...the DNA that encodes the protein itself or other genes within the circuit. These interactions yield a cellular...stacking is the use of a combination of multiple genes to achieve a desired effect. This is commonly used...

  12. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    ...also vary in their brightness, depending on the respective fluorochrome. Brightness is impacted by both...the background. Dyes that can pass through cell membranes can prove useful for live-cell imaging. Experimental...maintained through mechanisms like fission, fusion, biogenesis, and mitophagy, can be tracked using dyes like...for super-resolution usages, such as superior brightness, photostability, and most importantly, a photoswitching...combination is Alexa594, and Alexa647 due to their brightness and high degree of overlap. Dyes for DNA/RNA ...The field of fluorescent ligands and dyes has witnessed remarkable advancements, driven by the need for...receptors. In Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes (Vol. 1838, Issue 1 PARTA, pp. 15–33). https...

  13. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    ...sequencing of puromycin resistant clones, they found that 80% and 50% of clones displayed proper insertion at... Addgene depositor Takashi Yamamoto’s lab has harnessed MMEJ to create a new method for CRISPR gene knock-in.... Using their PITCh plasmids, GFP knock-in cell lines can be created in about a month and a half, without...promoter, and the technique can be adapted to other transgenes. It’s important to note that the fluorescence... would be advantageous to adapt PITCh to insert genes into AAVS1, the “safe harbor locus” of the human...and Ling Lu. (2016). “Highly efficient CRISPR mutagenesis by microhomology-mediated end joining in Aspergillus...

  14. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    ...organisms that can't reproduce with wild ones. For example, Drosophila lines with compound autosomes are completely...populations. Whereas most genomic changes impose a fitness cost and are eliminated by natural selection, gene...didn't work quite as well as anticipated4, greater awareness will certainly improve safety. What safeguards...? There are ongoing efforts to develop formal guidelines to answer this question. Until then, using multiple...guest blogger! An inventor of technologies that harness evolution, Kevin Esvelt studies ways of using molecular...www.sculptingevolution.org. References: Burt, A. Site-specific selfish genes as tools for the control and genetic engineering...

  15. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    ...has always been focused on gene transfer, from transgenes to plants, chloroplast to the nucleus, or pathogens...The MoClo Plant Kit makes it really easy to clone genes for expression in plant cells. Sylvester and I chose...includes everyone’s favorite promoters, plus a few new ones that are not used so much but have comparable expression...and give similar stability to transcripts as the ones that people use all the time. Now there are many...to a lot of pathogens. It’s also easy to express genes in, which makes it a good laboratory workhorse. ...Tim-Martin Ehnert, Stefan Werner, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Nicola J. Patron, and Sylvestre Marillonnet. ACS...Plant SynBio Reading: Quick, Versatile Plant Transgenesis with GreenGate Plasmids  ...

  16. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    ...insertions, deletions, and point mutagenesis to complex assembly of multiple genes. Primer design for each type... to the 5’ end of the reverse primer. Mutagenesis - Mutagenesis is performed by designing primers astride...included in a single PCR, for example for subcloning genes from different templates. All PCRs are run as an...@jakefwatson and @JGarciaNafria.  References 1. Jones, Douglas H., and Bruce H. Howard. "A rapid method...method for recombination and site-specific mutagenesis by placing homologous ends on DNA using polymerase...

  17. CRISPR Antimicrobials

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    ...bacteria to multiply, spreading their resistance genes throughout the bacterial population. But what if...them to multiply and propagate their resistance genes. Our society is hoping to combat antibiotic resistance.... Above all, we need new antimicrobials, ideally ones for which the development of resistance will be .... targeted beta-lactam and quinolone resistance genes in E. coli using plasmid and phagemid delivery systems...therapy. Another strategy for CRISPR antimicrobials combines them with both replication-competent phages and...work targeted two distinct beta-lactam resistance genes, again with very high specificity. This double phage...prevents sensitive bacteria from acquiring resistance genes. Yosef et al. suggest that it could be valuable ...

  18. Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View

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    ...sequence of interest can lead to poor expression of genes within that sequence and should therefore be prevented... recombinase are used in combination with mouse lines that express Cre only in the cell type of interest...and expression of a separate gene. In these mouse lines, gene knockout can be induced by Cre recombinase...researcher exquisite control over expression of multiple genes in specific cells at specific times. Many thanks...at MIT and is fascinated by the question of how genes and proteins coordinate billions of neurons to form...Properties of FLP Recombinase Evolved by Cycling Mutagenesis.” Nature biotechnology 16(7): 657–62. PubMed ...Deleter Mouse in C57Bl/6 Based on FLPo Recombinase.” Genesis 48(8): 512–20. PubMed PMID: 20506501. 6. Logie,...

  19. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    ...Yang, a professor in synthetic biology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the Yang lab, we’re continually... consists of one plasmid that expresses the S. pyogenes Cas9, a temperature-sensitive replicon for self-curing...Fortunately, we were able to successfully delete genes of interest in BL21(DE3) using the newly generated...with multiple terminators can serve to interrupt genes (or gene clusters) in metabolic engineering. So ...a strain library with 1-11 copies of integrated genes. We obtained a stable and high-yielding strain which...guest bloggers! Qi Li obtained her Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Center for Excellence...Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Shanghai Institutes...

  20. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ... enhanced GFP (EGFP), a variant with improved brightness (Tsien, 1998). Another mutation (A206K) is necessary...solution to avoid autofluorescence is offered by bioluminescent proteins. These probes generate light by a ...there is no need to excite the sample. Although bioluminescent probes are usually dim relative to fluorescent...recent engineering efforts have increased the brightness of these genetically encoded light emitters (...palette of Nano-lanterns for real-time multicolor luminescence imaging." Proceedings of the National Academy...PMC4394297. 16. Iwano, Satoshi, et al. "Single-cell bioluminescence imaging of deep tissue in freely moving animals...the Fluorescent Protein Collection Find empty backbones for fluorescent protein fusions Browse the Fluorescent...
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