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  1. 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...
  2. "Hall of Fame" AAV Enhancers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science

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    ...genetic access to cortical cell types. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.002 Hunker, A. C.,...Although all cell types share the same DNA sequence, not all enhancers are functional in every cell. Differential...expression in a cell type-specific manner also makes them useful tools for targeting those specific cell types ...Brain Map portal, and cell science-focused tools at the Allen Institute for Cell Science. There are also...generate highly specific tools to target different cell populations and regions of the brain. This has culminated... end_module_block %}   Using enhancers to target cell populations Enhancers are non-coding sequences of...sequence serving as a functional enhancer in one cell type but not in others. The same mechanism that ...
  3. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    ...Cas9 in Intestinal Stem Cell Organoids of Cystic Fibrosis Patients." Cell Stem Cell. 13, 653-658 (2013). ...patient’s own cells that have been modified ex vivo, previously edited healthy donor cells can be delivered...Genetic Disease in Mouse Via Use of CRISPR/Cas9." Cell Stem Cell. 13, 659-662 (2013). Gerald Schwank et al. ...on editing animal models of disease and cultured cells. For example, in 2013, Jinsong Li and colleagues...applied CRISPR to disease correction in adult stem cells isolated from two patients with cystic fibrosis ...delivery directly to the patient. Patient-derived cells can alternatively be harvested, edited ex vivo, ...therapies involve editing healthy donor-derived cells and delivering them to the patient.   Current...
  4. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility

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    ...copy number in the cell is high, but allows replication when copy number in the cell falls too low (Novcik...system to partition themselves to each daughter cell during cell division. They don’t simply rely on chance...eukaryotic cells). The partition NTPase is recruited and “walks” each plasmid to a separate daughter cell. When... daughter cell, instead of partitioning each type of plasmid into a separate daughter cells (Figure 2)...from the cell with the same probability, or asymmetrical, where one plasmid lost from the cell at a higher...different plasmids to be maintained in one bacterial cell. In this Plasmids 101 post, we’ll cover why this...incompatibility occurs when multiple plasmids within one cell have the same replicon and/or partitioning system...
  5. Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning

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    ... and zap the mixture of DNA into cells. Unfortunately, not every cell successfully takes up plasmid DNA...selection: Cells that have gained a specific gene survive In positive selection, only cells that contain...cassette, you would plate the cells on kanamycin-containing agar. Only cells carrying plasmids that contain...Therefore, your cloning strategy needs to identify cells containing the plasmid construct you’re seeking....resistance marker. After transformation, plate the cells on medium containing the corresponding antibiotic...these cases, antibiotic selection will select for cells that have been transformed with the plasmid backbone...plasmids to complement auxotrophy. Negative selection: Cells that have lost a specific gene survive Unlike positive...
  6. X-CHIME: Context Dependent Germline Knockout in Immune Cells

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    ...hematopoietic stem cells with a lentiviral vector containing a gRNA. These transduced stem cells can be implanted...Annotation of genes in immune cells typically involves the creation of germline knockout mice, which ...CRISPR-based systems enable gene knockout in immune cells in a high-throughput manner, but these systems have..., ubiquitous knockout of single genes in immune cells in vivo (LaFleur et al., 2019a and LaFleur et al...many genes have different functions in different cell types, at different times, and in combination with... L-CHIME Knocks out a single gene in defined cell types (lineage-based) pXPR_070 Violet-excited...benchmarked on positive control genes in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. To demonstrate the power of these systems to investigate...
  7. Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries Enable Genome-Scale, Knockout Screening

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    ...identify genes essential for cell viability in cancer and pluripotent stem cells. In a melanoma model, they...high representation of library within cells and aimed for 300 cells per construct, but in some biological...were able to produce a very diverse population of cells within a lab dish in a matter of a few days. Their...pooled libraries include enrichment against kinases, cell cycle proteins, and more.  “In the past, genome ... delivered via lentiviral infection into target cells that have previously been stably transfected for...conduct systematic genetic screens in mammalian cells,” David Sabatini, a senior author of one of the ...’s also important that you infect enough target cells. What’s “enough” depends on your experiment and ...
  8. Fluorescent CRISPR Reporters: SRIRACCHA and GEmCherry2

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    ...introduced the reporter into the cells, you’re ready to edit. These cells are then transfected with several... up, all successfully transfected cells will express RFP while cells containing the reporter gene that...using the RFP:GFP ratio, edited cells can be sorted from unedited cells. In an experiment that targeted...Activity. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 6: . https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2018.00054 Sander...CRISPR experiment was successful in your organism or cell type? You can use DNA sequencing or other molecular...histone)-GFP reporter into the genome of mammalian cells.  Figure 1: The SRIRACCHA reporter construct...simply changing the gRNA used when transfecting your cells.  A plasmid that contains Cas9. The Madison lab ...
  9. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    ...strategy for bacteria to count cell divisions. The technique, called distributed cell division counting (DCDC...one bright particle that segregates into one cell during cell division. To achieve the agglomeration of ...promoter. Cells are first induced with arabinose to begin expressing the SAP-RFP fusion. Then, the cells are... new particles. With subsequent cell divisions, the fraction of cells containing the particle exponentially...plasmids to both Gram-positive and Gram-negative cells.  The Wang lab further developed a modular suite... and a desired genetic payload (ex: GFP). Thus, cells can be both sorted using FACS and isolated with ...this system in vitro and in vivo. They identified cells from 19 genera across four phyla that have taken...
  10. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    ... of cell types, so they’re ideal for work with primary cells or other difficult-to-transfect cells. Lentiviral...dividing cells. Another type of vector, based on adenovirus, could infect non-dividing cells, but without...ability to transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells. Lentiviral vectors are the vector of choice for...lentivirus HIV-1, well-known to infect non-dividing cells. The first lentiviral vector system consisted of...viral envelope to dictate the tropism, or types of cells the vector could infect. Finally, the transfer plasmid.... After co-transfection of these plasmids, 293T cells released transgene-containing lentiviral particles...adeno-associated viral vectors can also target non-dividing cells, lentiviral vectors can carry much more genetic ...
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