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  1. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    ...plasmid. Envelope proteins determine which types of cells a virus can infect. The VSV-G envelope protein enables... enables this virus to infect many different cell types so it is useful in a wide range of applications... The 2A-GFP allows for screening of transfected cells. Find pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP (PX458). lentiCRISPR v2...deliver Cas9 and your gRNA of interest into mammalian cells. This vector was the top requested plasmid of 2015... popular in genome engineering. For use in human cell lines, the Zhang lab codon-optimized SpCas9. Using...puromycin cassette that makes it less efficient in some cell lines. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) V2.0 was made...capable of inducible expression of shRNA in target cells by the addition of tetracycline/doxycycline to the...
  2. An Interview with Connie Cepko - Gene Therapy, Plasmid Tools and Insights to Success

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    ...fluorescent proteins as scaffolds for cell-specific gene manipulation.” Cell 154(4) (2013): 928-939. PubMed ...Cepko Interested in Working on the Eye 9:05-10:16 : Cell Targeting in Retinal Gene Therapies 10:17-14:34 ...28:39 : Methods for Delivering Multiple Genes to Cells for Gene Therapy 28:40-35:10 : GFP Activatable Tools...publication at Addgene. 2. Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. “Cell type-specific manipulation with GFP-dependent Cre...
  3. A new platform for fast functional characterization of potentially cancerous mutations

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    ...attempting to characterize mutations in a pooled cell population, as mutations with strong phenotypic ...models. Ba/F3 and MCF10A are growth factor dependent cell lines and any mutations that that confer proliferation...functional groups, based on how each one impacted cell viability (see figure). Most of the mutations were...to be “neutral,” having no significant effect on cell viability compared to a wild-type control. Approximately... the mutations, however, significantly increased cell viability, and these “activators” may be the direct...annotation of somatic mutations in cancer." Cancer Cell 33.3 (2018): 450-462. PubMed PMID: 29533785. PubMed...
  4. GCE4All: Making Genetic Code Expansion Accessible

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    ...with) the cells’ own natural translation machinery; these are often incorporated into the cells via plasmid...published, followed soon by GCE done in mammalian cells (Shandell et al., 2021).   How it works If you’...is usually added to the media for uptake by the cells. Second, you’ll need tRNAs and tRNA synthetases ...biosynthetic pathway for the ncAA integrated into the cell’s genome, instead of incorporation via plasmid or...Theoretically, if you put all these together, the cell will produce a protein with a site specifically ...techniques are straightforward, the systems – the cells growing and producing the proteins – are not, and...component of the experiment system (including media, cell type, and growth temperature) may need to be individually...
  5. Plasmids 101: Screening Strategies Used in Plasmid Cloning

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    ...activity. These cells, presumably the cell you want, cannot break down X-gal and are white. Cells that don’t...killing off a portion of the cells like in a selection. Instead, all cells survive and you will need to... the plasmid you’re looking for out of the many cells that don’t. One way to begin the search is by using...using selection strategies, where only cells that have gained or lost a specific gene survive (ex: antibiotic... plates containing X-gal allows you to identify cells that took up the vector and distinguish between ...
  6. Working with Nuclear Receptors

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    ... that are diffused or actively transported from cells, traverse the body through the bloodstream, and ...corepressors depending upon a context defined by ligand, cell type, and promoter, organizing the expression of... coactivator proteins individually contribute to cell regulation in a coherent manner. Because coregulators...that coactivators may be integrators of multiple cell signaling systems. Activation of membrane receptors...sense the impact of the total environment on the cell. The NURSA Consortium Now in its third phase of ...purification proteomic profiling of coregulators in HeLa cells was the first comprehensive analysis of the interactome...executioners of transcriptional regulation. Molecular Cell 27, 691-700. (PubMed) McKenna, N. J.and O'Malley...
  7. Hot Plasmids: February 2026

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    ...both lysate and living cells, so transcriptome states can be recorded with cell identity preserved. The...proteins in cells (Figure 6).  Figure 6: To test family-wide cross reactivity, ExpiCHO cells were transfected...imaging. Figure 1: SIM images of live COS-7 cells expressing Lifeact fused to mScarlet3-S2, mScarlet3...know yield is influenced by many variables such as cell health, DNA quality, transgene size and sequence...non-destructive, and vaults are inherited by daughter cells. Cargo transcripts are resistant to RNase degradation...to show that a subpopulation of PC9 lung cancer cells had a distinct transcriptome that was associated...either a Tet-On or Tet-Off format, and did not alter cell viability or global gene expression in tests. It's...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...disease, neuroscientists need to be able to probe cells and circuits without disrupting normal brain function...it provides a noninvasive method for manipulating cell activity, especially neuronal firing. What is chemogenetics...drugs. Once activated, chemogenetic receptors hijack cell signaling pathways and can lead to such responses...requires successfully introducing receptors to target cells. Targeted and specific delivery becomes especially... studies in neuroscience where specific tissues, cell types, or even subcellular regions of a neuron need...ability of agonists to successfully reach target cells while resulting in minimal off target effects. For...can elicit different responses depending on what cell type it is expressed in. The most common target ...
  9. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    ... into AAV particles for delivery into mammalian cells, especially when fused to effector proteins for ..., base editing, and genome editing in mammalian cells. The “V4” version (named CasMINI) had the highest...an active nuclease.  Read the paper in Molecular Cell Find the CasMINI plasmids Efficient CRISPR editing...effective in genome editing in both bacteria and human cells using various delivery methods, including plasmid...mRNA or Cas9 mRNA and sgRNA, in human and mouse cells. They further develop a version of SEND for gene...modular system for delivering gene editing tools into cells. Image adapted from Segel et al. 2021.   Prime...correct mutations in a variety of target genes and cell types. Their Nature Biotechnology paper showcases...
  10. A Tour of Addgene's Most Popular Pooled Libraries

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    ...barcodes allow researchers to identify specific cells — as well as their descendants. This makes them ... for lineage tracing, among other applications. Cells can be identified using fluorescence, like in the...barcoding approach to observe clonal dynamics and cell lineage. Variations of this library allow tracking...transcription or chromatin accessibility at the single-cell level. CRISPR libraries CRISPR screening has become...mutations that prevent their expression. The knockout cells can be used to identify genes that underlie a particular...genome-wide knockout screens in mouse and human cells, respectively. Last month, the David Root and John...proteins to be expressed on the surface of a host cell or virus, such as a yeast or bacteriophage species...
  11. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...to reproduce itself as it must to survive within cells. The replicons of plasmids are generally different...’s sake, we've ignored those used in eukaryotic cells and viruses and focused only on those found in bacteria...example, the pMB1 ori maintains about 20 copies per cell, while pUC – which differs by only two mutations...mutations – will produce as many as 700 copies per cell. Figure 1: A plasmid map showing the standard ...positives? Will you have only one plasmid type in your cells at a time? Do you want to make a lot of your plasmid... stabs, or liquid cultures. Freshly transformed cells also give a higher plasmid yield that colonies streaked...bacteria have just reached stationary phase, but the cells have not started to die off. Have any questions...
  12. The Open Repository of CRISPR Screens: CRISPR Screen Data in One Place

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    ... disease, cell type or drug treatment can browse through screens performed in relevant cell lines or conditions... currently houses over 890 CRISPR screens in 629 cell lines, each manually curated and annotated from ...feasibility and power of CRISPR-based library screens in cell lines from humans and other species. By accurately... screens performed in 26 different breast cancer cell lines. Screenshot updated 2024. Each screen ...screen is captured by BioGRID curators, including the cell line/tissue type, enzyme system, sgRNA library and...example phenotype screens with read-outs other than cell viability. The following video provides an in-depth...
  13. HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides

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    ...systems, and often do not fold properly once inside cells.  Developing the HA frankenbody To combat the issues...previously proven to fold and function in living cells. To make these scaffolds specific to different targets...the tagged protein upon probe binding in living cells.  In their proof of concept experiment the Stasevich...mCherry, 4xHA tagged histone protein (H2B) in U2OS cells. They then showed that the HA frankenbody probe ...that the HA frankenbody is effective in sensitive cells such as living neurons, and can be fused to other...remains bound to HA epitopes for minutes in living cells, meaning that scientists can track the movement ...effectively used to track single mRNA translation in U2OS cells. HA is small, only 9 amino acids, thus it is translated...
  14. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    ...when trying to screen a limited number of cells like primary cells or in vivo. Recently, the labs of David... cultured cells as well as more difficult conditions such as model systems and primary cells. References...with both A375 (melanoma) and AT29 (colon cancer) cells and assessed the libraries performance via the depletion...important criterion for probing a limited number of cells. Get the Brunello CRISPRko sgRNA library as pooled...subject to an increase in dsDNA breaks that can cause cell death. Thus, CRISPR inhibition (CRISPRi) libraries...study screening for vemurafenib resistance in A375 cells. The SAM system (CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation...CRISPR-mediated control of gene repression and activation." Cell 159.3 (2014): 647-661. PubMed PMID: 25307932. PubMed...
  15. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    ... including live-cell imaging, single-molecule tracking, immunolabeling of fixed cells, Western blotting...possibilities in both cell engineering and gene therapy.  Xiaoshu X, et al. Molecular Cell. 2021. https://doi.org...well-folded scFv scaffold to improve its stability in cells, and use it in a variety of applications. This set...frankenbodies to amplify the signal.  Liu et al. Genes Cells. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/gtc.12893, Zhao et...Cas12a, creates challenges for in vivo delivery and cell engineering applications. CasMINI, a new miniature...endogenous genes. It is highly specific in mammalian cells without significant off-target effects, yet small...
  16. Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards

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    ...sensitive GFP2 (roGFP2)-based biosensors for live cells. His work focuses on the enzyme hydropersulfide-... understand the processes that happen inside the cell,” says Pedre Pérez. Figure 2: Micrographs...Micrographs of the biosensor expressed in the human cell line, Hep3B. From left to right: Mitotracker Red, GFP...studies opioid use disorder. Her goal is to identify cell populations in the brain that contribute to the ...will explore the connectivity patterns of these cells and the functional contribution to a variety of ...administration and withdrawal to explore how these cells may encode the negative affect associated with drug...library of mutant sensors expressed in a mammalian cell line engineered to be electrically excitable. The...
  17. CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt

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    ...through programming cells. In the context of therapeutics, if you want to program a cell to identify and ...translational activity a cell has and control how much it taxes the resources of a cell. The objective is to... to the regulatory networks within E. coli host cells. Image from Nielson and Voigt (2014). ...and target a malignant cell, then you’d need the ability to turn on genes at different times. It requires...being used. One thing is that Cas9 is toxic. When cells carry CRISPR circuitry, it can slow their growth...chemicals as sophisticated as those that living cells and animals make. That will be an outcome of genetic...
  18. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...Targeted Human Stem Cell Clones Detected by Whole-Genome Sequencing. Cell Stem Cell 15:27–30 . https://...protein, in order to mitigate the ability of the cell to use an alternative ATG downstream of the annotated...process, and usually involves the need for single cell cloning and subsequent screening for successful ...standard requires not one but two rounds of single cell cloning – as a control, one should revert the edit...passenger variant that came along with the single cell clone (although this is rarely done). When targeting...levels of modification. Whole-genome sequencing of cells modified by CRISPR indicates that the consequences...mutations (Veres et al., 2014). When working with single-cell clones, the authors note that “clonal heterogeneity...
  19. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    ...Genome-wide Inhibition Library. DNA and cell amounts After deciding on a cell type, you will need to determine...DNA and how many cells to use for your transformation(s). The amount of competent cells you need total ... generally electroporated into electrocompetent cells to ensure the highest possible transformation efficiency...efficiency. Using Stbl4 or other ultra-high efficiency cells ensures that plasmid diversity in the library is...transformation may vary depending on the particular type of cells you are using, as well as other factors, such as...transformations, such as splitting 400 ng of DNA in 100 μL of cells over four individual electroporations. The specifics...do see recombination, we recommend ensuring the cells used are meant for repetitive sequences (such as...
  20. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    ...choose cell lines that are highly transfectable.  The amounts of each plasmid transfected into cells are ... polymerase gene or using cells that stably express T7 (e.g. BSR T7/5 cells) (1). We hope that minigenomes...capable of being replicated and transcribed in the cell when the appropriate viral proteins are provided... RNA-dependent RNA polymerase into the infected cells. The EBOV polymerase replicates the viral genome...on separate plasmids and are co-transfected into cells alongside a plasmid encoding the minigenome. These...the minigenome) are efficiently transfected into cells. All of these components are necessary to efficiently... RNA polymerase also needs to be present in the cells to transcribe the viral mRNAs and minigenome. This...
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