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  1. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    ...of these neurons via the channel Channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2) reduced glutamate transmission from the mPFC...deliver Cre-dependent expression of  Channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), a modified receptor protein that activates...diseases, animals have reduced anxiety levels and a higher tendency for risk taking. These animals also show...time the animal spends in the passive mode, the stronger is the depressive component of the animal behavior...and quantify locomotion, scientists monitor an animal’s movement in an open field box or a circular corridor... other aspects may be involved. For example, an animal moving around to explore the environment has a ...motivation (and brain areas associated) compared to an animal running to escape a threat. Locomotion can thus...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    ...Indicators GEVIs can be divided up structurally into 2 main groups: voltage sensitive domains and Rhodopsin...depending on your experimental system.   Figure 2: General overview of chemigenetic tools. A genetically...and utilize both a genetic component as well as a small molecule which we will describe in more detail below...contain a FRET pair, a genetic component, and a small molecule component. Early versions of these sensors...component is delivered in vivo or in vitro and a small molecule is added exogenously to measure a phenotypic...
  3. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...detection, and control. Int J Pharm. 2018 Oct 25;550(1-2):251-268. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2018.08.043. Epub...and particle formation. J Pharm Sci. 2015 Feb;104(2):602-11. doi: 10.1002/jps.24259. Epub 2014 Nov 21....cost-effective and faster-growing than mammalian cells, but mammalian cells can perform human-like post-translational... Y, Zhan C, Malm M, Field R, Turner R, Sellick C, Varley P, Rockberg J, Chotteau V. Small-scale bioreactor...can take place in bacterial, yeast, plant, or mammalian cells. Each of these systems has their advantages...bonds (Frenzel et. al., 2013). If you’re using a mammalian production system, cell lines typically used include... your plasmid(s), and then wait 7-14 days (in mammalian cells) to collect the cell culture supernatant...
  4. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    ... 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...little tissue absorption, weak tissue scattering and small amounts of tissue auto-fluorescence (Drobizhev et...excitation wavelength as it has been shown that even a small incremental change of the excitation wavelength ...Dynamic imaging of dendritic cell extension into the small bowel lumen in response to epithelial cell TLR engagement...
  5. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    ...of ~75% in response to the magnetic field (Figure 2); they named this variant MagLOV. Andrew was thrilled...any added cofactors.      Figure 2: Fluorescence intensity and ΔF/F of MagLOV, a variant of AsLOV2...Matsuoka et al., 2023), but these effects were very small or were possible only in non-biological conditions...slight but detectable change in fluorescence when a small magnet was passed over the sample (Frank Hayward...license. They did more experiments to see if any small molecules act as a cofactor (among others, flavins...clearly visible whether expressed in E. coli, in mammalian cells, or in purified form, and didn’t need any...
  6. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    ...et al., 2020). Genomic targets require an upstream 2-bp PAM sequence for recognition by QCascade; although...of the plasmid after integration. Figure 2: (A) Streamlined VchINT expression constructs. (B) High...strongly biased towards T-RL, where the R end is proximal to the target site (Klompe et al., 2019, Vo et...pSPIN), which offer simple transformations for smaller cargos, and the ability to easily cure cells of...something called target immunity, whereby multiple proximal insertions with the same transposon exhibit reduced... R, Jiang Y, Yang J, Yang S (2020) Multicopy Chromosomal Integration Using CRISPR-Associated Transposases...
  7. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    ...antibiotic selection. Essentially, this gene is a 2-in-1 providing both bacterial and eukaryotic selection...Zeocin-induced DNA cleavage in human cells. Mutagenesis, 20(2), 111–114. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/gei016I ...beta-lactamase is excreted. Satellite colonies are small colonies of bacteria which do not contain the plasmid... its associated resistance gene. They can grow proximal to a colony that does contain the plasmid that...other plasmids must carry both a bacterial and a mammalian antibiotic selection gene. However, it does require...Pros: Widely available, cost-effective, confers mammalian resistance to G418. Con: Slow transformation ...
  8. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ...retain their individual activities when separated (2), and that DBD and TAs from different systems could... Enzymol. 1983;100:293-308. PubMed PMID: 6312261. 2. Keegan, L., Gill, G., and Ptashne, M. Separation ... experiments. False positives can occur even in small scale experiments, although these can often be accounted...target proteins in heterologous systems (e.g. mammalian proteins in S. cerevisiae). While this may ...alternative fungi (C. albicans, pC2HB) (7) and mammalian cells. If the problem is that your proteins are...for detecting protein-protein interactions in mammalian cells based on protein splicing. Anal Chem. 2001...
  9. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    ...NGG-3′ (“N” can be any nucleotide base, followed by 2 guanines). This limits the use of ABEs as DNA sites... in the promoter region of gamma hemoglobin (HGB1/2) leads to continuous expression of fetal hemoglobin...contains only the evolved TadA and is ~500 base-pair smaller than ABE8.x-d.  This resulted altogether in 40...cell line for these versions they found that the smaller version, ABE8.x-m, showed comparable editing behavior...
  10. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    ...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 ... The kind of informal conversations about research that can take place in Slack normally never become ...sources The data entered into an ELN is only ever a small fraction of all data directly relevant to a particular...experiment, series of experiments, or project. ‘Small’ data produced by the research group in spreadsheets...
  11. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ...amilCP, tsPurple, and gfasPurple) (Figure 2). Figure 2: Chromoprotein expression from bacteria on...as the donor in HeLa cells.   Find ShadowR for mammalian cell expression here   Now that you’ve learned... J., Funk, S. K., Tietscher, S., Edlund, A. D., Jamal, S., Wistrand-Yuen, P., … Forster, A. C. (2018)....
  12. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    ...scientists have 1) the courage to make mistakes and 2) the integrity to recognize these mistakes quickly...She studies beta-cell function and failure in Type 2 Diabetes. Birmingham, AL, USA 33.5207°N 86.8025°W ...available to people who want to join the dialog and 2) remember that science should not be partisan: everyone...ninety-nine cubits of Aristotle, nor would you mention my small error and at the same time pass over in silence ...she studies the development and regeneration of mammalian taste buds. Erin is also the President of Project...
  13. Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry

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    ...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 ...quite broad, detectors will usually only pick up a small portion of that spectra to use for compensation....
  14. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ... SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small as 1-2 nucleotides. To reduce off-target effects associated... a template, copying the base edit. Figure 2: Cytidine deamination takes place on the free strand...formation. To further decrease indel formation 1.5-2 fold, the team fused bacteriophage protein Gam to ...which we've discussed in two follow-up posts: (1) (2). Base editors have a narrow editing window of only...Another way to improve base editing efficiency for mammalian edits is to ensure the editors make it into the... CBEs (called Td-CBEs, CBE-Ts, or TadCBEs) are smaller and less likely to cause off-target mutations than...2023). Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient cytosine base editor with low off-target...
  15. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    ...linear region to solve for total expression time. 2. Timer functionality with a single gene Although it...290.5496 (2000): 1585-1588. PubMed PMID: 11090358. 2. Tsuboi, Takashi, et al. "Age-dependent preferential...their versatile timer could be used in vitro, in mammalian cells, in C. elegans, and in Xenopus embryos. ... timers should therefore find use in studies of animal development where events like the patterning of...
  16. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    ...your sample (i.e. cultured cells or tissues).  Step 2: attach anchors to your sample that will link biomolecules...quite so much. Created with biorender.com Steps 2-4 are not found in standard IHC/ICC protocols and ...answer to the space problem. Instead of imaging smaller, what if we just made the sample bigger? In ExM...provides new insights into the cytoskeleton of malaria parasites including the conservation of a conoid...
  17. Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation

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    ...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...Magnetic beads are solid spheres and tend to be much smaller than agarose beads. Proteins conjugate on the surface...following the incubation step. The wash buffer has an optimal pH and ionic strength that breaks weak interactions...
  18. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    ...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... treat a bacterial infection with a lower than optimal drug concentration. Drug resistance is not a black...patient infection. Limiting the use of antibiotics in animal farming is already being recognized as an important...
  19. Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication

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    ..., ending replication.   Figure 2: Prokaryotic chromosomal replication. Adapted from BioRender template...Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews: MMBR, 62(2), 434–464. https://doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.62.2.434-464.1998...let's review how E. coli normally replicate their chromosomal DNA. Chromosomal replication in bacteria ...synchronized with the replication of the host cell's chromosomal DNA.  Plasmids are said to be under stringent...replication fork. Termination sequences present in the chromosomal DNA ensure that the helicases are released from...regulatory mechanisms allow E. coli to control chromosomal replication and balance population growth against...
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