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  1. A Tour of Addgene's Most Popular Pooled Libraries

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    ...single-cell level. CRISPR libraries CRISPR screening has become a popular tool for probing cellular pathways...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...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...
  2. 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...
  3. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    ...expression in non-dividing cells because they remain in episomal form in the cell’s nucleus. But since nothing...hope are many more clinical successes for gene (and cell) therapies. One may wonder why the first AAV-based... providing long-term gene expression in retinal cells - AAV - were becoming available. At the same time... lentivirus (LV) are known to transduce retinal cells, AAV quickly became the vector of choice for ocular...long term expression in dividing and non-dividing cells due to its (random) integration into the genome,...limited tropism in the retina, primarily infecting cells of the retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE). AAVs... for patients, this gene can be targeted to RPE cells using a lentiviral vector and a clinical trial is...
  4. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    ...them. Why Use multicistronic vectors? Detecting cells that are expressing your gene, especially if you...reporters allow you to easily screen or select for cells that are expressing your gene of interest at high...promoter, multicistronic plasmids ensure that any cells that are positive for your marker should also be...anytime you want to express multiple genes in the same cell. Although it is possible to drive co-expression ...promotes translation of the viral genome in eukaryotic cells.1,2 Since then, a variety of IRES sequences have... cistron due to factors such as the experimental cell type and the specific genes cloned into the vector...scientists. 2A cleavage is universal in eukaryotic cells, and, although some scientists report close to 100%...
  5. 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...
  6. Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry

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    ...co-expression among cellular markers You’ll also need to know if markers are co-expressed in your cells when designing...immunologists, allowing for the rapid analysis of cell populations within a heterogenous tissue type, such...methods, the identification and isolation of rare cell types. In recent years, full spectrum flow cytometry...Spectral flow allows for autofluorescence extraction Cells produce a low level of fluorescence called autofluorescence...single color control. Reference controls: Beads or cells? Compensation beads are a convenient tool to obtain...you prepare reference controls of both beads and cells for a single fluorophore. Although compensation ...Additionally, it is critical to include unstained beads or cells within your reference group to ensure proper unmixing...
  7. A new platform for fast functional characterization of potentially cancerous mutations

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    ... Ba/F3 and MCF10A cellular models. Ba/F3 and MCF10A are growth factor dependent cell lines and any mutations...attempting to characterize mutations in a pooled cell population, as mutations with strong phenotypic ...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...
  8. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ...fluorescence images of C2C12 cells stably expressing pTRE-Tight-MitoTimer and rtTA. The cells were pulsed with 2µg... Robinson et al., Dev Cell 2010 Feb 16;18(2):324-31. Cheeseman et al., J Cell Sci 2013 May 1;126(Pt ...neighboring cells in imaging applications and the mapping of neuronal projections to their associated cell bodies... targeted to subcellular regions or protein complexes for proteomic mapping in live cells. Lam et al...been used by several groups to monitor protein and cell ageing, as the spectrum shift occurs during Timer...(pTRE-Tight-MitoTimer) to show its usefulness in cell culture to report changes in mitochondrial turnover...rapamycin-binding domains, such as FKBP and FRB. The cell does not appear to mind extraneous proteins bound...
  9. Brain Initiative Collection

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    ...real-time interrogation and monitoring of brain cells and circuits during behavior. Long desired by researchers...A somatic channelrhodopsin, which enables single cell, single millisecond resolution optogenetics. Human...A somatic channelrhodopsin, which enables single cell, single millisecond resolution optogenetics. Cre-dependent...genetically encoded dopamine sensor RdLight1 in mammalian cells. Lin Tian 125708-AAV9 pAAV-hSynapsin1-RdLight1 Expresses...neurons Yulong Li 158757-AAV8 pAAV-CAG-SomaGCaMP6f2 Cell body-targeted GCaMP6f, under CAG promoter: GCaMP6f... Edward Boyden 158757-AAV9 pAAV-CAG-SomaGCaMP6f2 Cell body-targeted GCaMP6f, under CAG promoter: GCaMP6f...
  10. 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 ...
  11. 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...Anti-FLAG Frankenbodies for modular imaging of cellular targets Optimized genetic screening technique ...
  12. 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...
  13. 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...within the wood. There are different types of cellulose fibers, pattern, shape. All of that is controlled...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ...persist over time, stem cell editing would be highly desirable. Should stem cell editing occur, the CRISPR... high percentage of muscle cells throughout the body, especially stem cells 2. Remove any immunogenicity...patient myoblasts; when injected into DMD mice, these cells expressed functional dystrophin. Editing genes in...in vivo is of course much more difficult than in cell culture, but Ran et al. have shown that CRISPR and...be delivered to both cardiac and skeletal muscle cells, where precision editing of the dystrophin gene ... the percentage of dystrophin-expressing muscle cells increases over time, and all three groups confirm...editing. Tabebordbar et al. show that muscle stem cells are modified by this approach, increasing the possibility...
  17. 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...
  18. 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...
  19. Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping

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    ...plant protein TIR1 in non-plant cells, which interacts with the cells’ endogenous ubiquitin ligase, the...translate AID to yeast, as well as mammalian and human cell lines (Nishimura et al., 2009, Natsume et al., 2016...based method to tag endogenous proteins in HCT116 cells with mAID. Using this method, the lab was able to... protein of interest to create conditional human cell lines. Lastly, the Kanemaki lab demonstrated that...the target sites adjacent to an NG PAM in human cells. The increased versatility of the engineered SpCas9... just a 2-D linear molecule snaking through our cells’ nuclei--our chromatin is comprised of thousands...
  20. 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...
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