...for labeling specific structures within cells. HeLa cells were transfected with plasmids encoding...protein evolution Fluorescent tools for mammalian cells Nanobody purification CRISPRi and CRISPRa system...mCitrine gene. mCherry is constitutively expressed. Cells are then cultured and FACS sorted. Image from Mateo...labeling structures and compartments in mammalian cells By Angela Abitua Genetically encoded fluorescent...or specific localization of biomolecules within cells. However, sometimes these fluorescent proteins might...exactly a structure or protein is located within a cell. The Goedhart lab, Gadella lab, and collaborators...for labeling a list of specific structures within cells. For example, to improve nuclear localization of...

...targeted One Many Sample type(s) Cell lines Cell lines, primary cells Table 1: Key differences between... of cells (~5x107). Together, these two requirements prevent the use of CAPTURE with primary cells or ...need to create stable cell lines and allows CAPTURE 2.0 to be used with primary cells. Find plasmids for...that occur during development and cellular differentiation. Using a cell line model, the Xu Lab tracked ...by Biotinylated dCas9. Cell 170:1028–1043.e19 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.003 Liu, X., Chen...CAPTURE method requires the creation of a stable cell line that co-expresses three components: dCas9 ...drawback of the original CAPTURE method is that a new cell line has to be created for each genomic loci of ...

...that cells are labeled with their own unique color; and 2) low levels of labeling so that a cell’s projections...tables 1 and 2, with a cell-type specific promoter or enhancer now allows for cell-type-restricted expression...this plasmid pool are injected into an animal with cell-type-specific Cre, the polyA sequence is inverted... library to infect an animal expressing Cre in a cell type of interest, a scientist can isolate DNA from...(s) of the capsid gene successfully infected the cell type of interest. Repeat rounds of infection and...capsid variants with increased ability to infect the cell type of interest, which, in the case of Chan et ...transduced a higher number of neurons overall (GFP+ cells that also stained for a neuronal marker). Check ...

...in live cells is that one can now follow movement of two or more targeted loci during the cell cycle or...mammalian cells, yeast, and Drosophila. Synchronization of secretory protein traffic in mammalian cells The...populations within the same cell. Mitochondrial fusion is typically assayed in living cells by using mitochondrially-targeted... alternative splicing in mammalian cells. Younis, et al. Mol Cell Biol. 2010 Apr;30(7):1718-28. New...yeast cell viability, had less of an effect on GFP diffusion, properly localized in mammalian cells without...fluorescent fusion proteins can visualize: Cell Structure Plasmids: Cell Structure Plasmids: ER mCherry-Sec61...Friedman, et al. Mol Biol Cell. 2013. PubMed PMID: 23389631 Rowland, et al. Cell. 2014. PubMed PMID: 25416943...

...hijacking the machinery of the cells they infect. Once they enter a cell, they treat their viral genome...genome as a “payload” that is delivered to the cell. The cell then uses its own machinery to replicate the...replication process whereby one cell copies itself and “splits” into two cells. Viral vectors Viruses are ...virus. From one, come many After a virion infects a cell, the single particle creates many copies of itself...millions of new copies, which are released from the cell like baby spiders from an egg sac. (Okay, some enveloped...lysing, but they do generally still kill the infected cell.) This is in contrast to bacteria and eukaryotes...means the vector can deliver a genetic payload to a cell but cannot create new particles. As a bonus, this...

...culture cells in the drug of interest at a lethal dose for non-manipulated cells and then assay cells which...selection, you might put cells into a drug-containing media in which only cells which can tolerate the ...considering either a cellular screen or a selection. A selection is a process in which only cells with the trait... – that is, you are not specifically looking at cells that can survive. Instead, all manipulations are...off. For a screen, you would individually treat cells with many different drugs and then perform an assay...manipulating or mutagenizing a population (typically cells or small organisms) and then assaying for a functional...For example, a drug screen may be performed on a cell line possessing a patient mutation to assess how...

...issues with tissue autofluorescence, cell heterogeneity, and/or cell position changes (To et al., 2016, ...apoptosis in HeLa cells, zebrafish embryos, and Drosophila. They treated HeLa cells expressing FlipGFP...cleavage by executioner caspases. Failure for cells to die or cells dying at the wrong time and/or place can...the degradation of over 600 cellular components ultimately leading to cell fragmentation and death (Elmore...Apoptosis or “programmed cell death" plays a pivotal role in an array of biological processes including...including development, the immune system, and cell turnover. Apoptosis is a highly controlled process that ...sfCherry however did not initially fluoresce in HEK293 cells. To rectify this the Shu lab first improved the ...

...within an E. coli cell, but vectors can be widely utilized across many different cell types and each one... the yeast cell. These elements control not only the number of plasmids found in each cell, but also whether...are eukaryotes and thus contain complex internal cell structures similar to those of plants and animals...components to allow shuttling between E. coli and yeast cells. To be useful in the lab, the vectors must contain...replication (ORI) and a means of selection in yeast cells, in addition to the bacterial ORI and antibiotic...determines plasmid copy number within the bacterial cell. Similarly, the specific ORI elements included within...plasmid) allows for 50+ copies to stably propagate per cell. The copy number of these vectors can also be controlled...

...yielded editing of 80–90% in human cell lines and primary cells. Although cell entry of a Cas9 ribonucleoprotein...post: Peptide-assisted genome editing for primary cells Monomeric StayGold variants AAV.CAP-Mac for systemic...antibodies Peptide-assisted genome editing for primary cells By Susanna Stroik Even with the advances in CRISPR...CRISPR technology over the past decade, primary cells remain difficult to genetically edit due to toxicity...Genome Editing (PAGE). They fused the Cas enzyme to cell-penetrating peptides and co-incubate it with an ...including in clinically-relevant lines such as CAR-T cells. Plus, this method is fast! These editing frequencies...even with multiplexed guides. Figure 1: A) Cell-penetrating Cas9, fused to HIV TAT, Myc and SV40...

...of interest into cells. Unlike gamma-retroviruses that can only infect dividing cells, lentiviruses can...dividing and non-diving cells while retroviruses can only infect dividing cells. When choosing the appropriate...to ensure that the proper cell line is used; several common laboratory cell lines including 293 were immortalized...can infect dividing and non-dividing cells.  Addgene has an extensive collection of lentiviral plasmids...transfecting four different plasmids into the producer cells (two packaging plasmids, an envelope plasmid, and...appropriate gene delivery system, the specific target cell or tissue needs to be considered. Q2: Can I use...investing time and resources into making a stable cell line. When expressing a viral construct transiently...