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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Integrase-Deficient Lentiviral Vectors

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    ...purposes, like creating stable cell lines, delivering CRISPR/Cas9 to cells for genome editing, and introducing...viral entry into the host cell.  Transfecting these three plasmids into cells enables the production of...lost through cycles of cell division, though the rate of loss greatly depends on cell turnover. Why use ...be different for each transduced cell, there’s no telling which cells may harbor these unwanted interruptions...expression in non-dividing cells IDLVs can also be useful for transducing non-dividing cells, as they avoid the... chromosome of the cell. This integrated viral genome is then part of the cellular DNA… forever!  This... transduced cells and quantifying the integrated viral DNA along with a reference cellular gene. When ...
  2. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    ...primary human cells  Cell therapy approaches can use base editors to correct mutations in stem cells and return...primary human cell editing, the researchers tested ABE8 in CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells. ABE8 efficiently... In addition to stem cells the authors targeted 6 genes in primary human T cells using 8 selected ABE8s...to edit primary human T cells efficiently makes it a promising tool for T cell therapy development.  Reducing...be introduced into cells as a plasmid or as mRNA constructs. In primary human cells mRNA delivery of ABEs...ability for more robust editing in human cell lines and primary cells makes them a great addition to the base...these base changes, especially in primary human cells. Now, scientists at Beam Therapeutics have found...
  3. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ...cancerous cells Luckily, there are several safety mechanisms in place to protect us from rogue cells when ...process of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is one such mechanism. When a cell or its genetic material... directly inhibit the ability of a cell to undergo programmed cell death while simultaneously stimulating...eliminate every cancerous cell. Even so, to pose the greatest threat, cancerous cells still need to successfully...universally-dividing behavior of cancer cells, attacking the cellular machinery necessary for division. This...proteins that, when expressed, normally encourage cell survival, growth and proliferation, while tumor ... suppressors perform the opposite task, keeping cells from dividing out of control. One may compare the...
  4. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...with live host cells Now you can proceed with incubating this membrane with your cells of interest and...membranes well with PBST to remove unbound cells. To detect bound cells, simply lay each membrane on an agar... cloned into E. coli cells, isolated colonies will be lifted onto nitrocellulose membranes and exposed... proteins directly onto the nitrocellulose for subsequent probing for cell-binding activity.  First, cut...E. coli or Salmonella, or any cells that bind strongly to nitrocellulose, over-incubation of plates can...directly onto nitrocellulose and carry out the steps from blocking the membrane to probing with cells in order...structure(s) a given phage will recognize on a host cell. To make matters even more interesting, much of...
  5. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    ...demonstrated its use to probe cell mechanics, vesicle transport, and cell division, but given the long ... expressed in a monolayer of endothelial cells, showing cell protrusions and overlaps (arrows) after blue...2016). Rho GTPase signalling in cell migration. Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 36, 103–112. https://doi.org...Optogenetics gives you the power to control cells or organisms with the flip of a switch. You may be ...optogenetic tools to control the cytoskeleton and cell membrane dynamics. First, a quick refresher.  The...important components of the cytoskeleton. They provide cells with physical structure, separate chromosomes during...strategies are available to disrupt microtubules in cells, they have various disadvantages and limitations...
  6. Why Add Sucrose? Improved Yields for Adeno-associated Virus Preparation

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    ...at bioRxiv. AAV2 interacts with the packaging cell's cell membrane When packaging adeno-associated viral...of the packaging cells (Vandenberghe, 2010). Rather than being released into the cell culture supernatant... particles associate with the cell membrane and are taken into the cell via endocytosis. In our study,...AAV2 viral particles by our packaging cells by treating the cells with the endocytosis inhibitor sucrose...target cells is blocked following sucrose treatment. Moreover, several reports have shown that cells treated... yields approximately 1.8-fold without affecting cell viability. This effect appears to be serotype specific...difference between untreated and sucrose treated cells. Although we were unable to deduce the mechanism...
  7. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    ...recombined cells. Recombination is a rare event, so you must select as opposed to screen for cells where recombination...Correctly recombined cells will not contain the negative selection marker, but cells with random recombination...modified version of the targeted sequence to the cell which will recombine the template with the endogenous... used to inactivate specific genes in mammalian cells. Despite the popularity of CRISPR-based knockout...targeting construct. For recombination to occur in a cell, a minimum of 2 kb of sequence homology is required...antibiotic resistance gene. To avoid selecting for cells in which the construct has randomly integrated into...outside one of the homology arms. When we select cells later, we will first perform a positive selection...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    ...dividing cells only, so is not suitable for infection of quiescent cells or infrequently cycling cells but ...non-dividing cells, making it conducive to targeting all cell types. Altogether, AAV has many excellent features...DNA copies of their genome upon infecting a host cell. This viral DNA (also called proviral DNA) is then...and permanently integrate a genetic cargo into a cell. These viruses have a cargo capacity of ~ 8 kb, ...needs, and can transduce (infect) a wide range of cell types with a high efficiency. However, gamma-retrovirus...but is fine for experiments with immortalized cell line cultures. Lentivirus Lentivirus is a type of retrovirus...lentivirus can infect both dividing and non-dividing cells. Lenti particles enter the nucleus through nuclear...
  9. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    ...efficient gene deletion in B cells, T cells, macrophages, and dendritic cells, with no deleterious effects...to HEK293FT and HeLa cell lines. When the miRNA activity profile for a given cell type is already known...or ZFN to edit immune cells poses challenges such as the inhibition of immune cell differentiation. Furthermore...immune cell activity. However, a CRISPR-based tool for in vivo functional analysis of immune cells has been...construct in bone marrow stem cells from Cas9-expressing mice, and used the cells to reconstitute the immune..., these reporters can help define the different cells present in a mixed population, or identify differentiation...turning the single-input reporters into multi-input cell classifiers in one assembly step. Find the miRNA...
  10. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...and yeast cells are cost-effective and faster-growing than mammalian cells, but mammalian cells can perform...your cells with your plasmid(s), and then wait 7-14 days (in mammalian cells) to collect the cell culture...production system, cell lines typically used include Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK) cells and Chinese Hamster...recombinant antibodies with some molecular biology and cell culture experience. Let’s go over the basics of ... place in bacterial, yeast, plant, or mammalian cells. Each of these systems has their advantages and ...post-translational modifications that bacterial and most yeast cells cannot. Your choice of production system may depend...Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. (L'Abbé et al., 2018).  Recombinant antibodies can be produced through a single...
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