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  1. Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot

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    ...check its subcellular location and solubility. If it’s membrane-bound or located in a subcellular compartment...about which type of gradient can help answer your particular question before running one.  Good on gradients...strengths. If that’s not working, consider using a subcellular fractionation kit or a lysing protocol developed...enough to get good separation in your ladder, particularly in the sizes around your protein of interest...overheating remains an issue, which can happen with large proteins, try lowering the voltage and using a longer... leftover sample) to fill the relevant wells. Similarly, if you load a gel and then forget to start it...proteins going completely through the membrane or larger proteins not transferring completely onto the membrane...
  2. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    ...options could be good choices if you have a particularly large number of inserts to assemble. You could ...figure out what system might work best for your particular purposes. We’re here to help with that! Four ...Cost Difficulty Efficiency For cloning in particular, another important consideration is: The number...post, we will focus on a high-level comparison of popular cloning methodologies, with a special emphasis ...cloning approach should you use if the budget is particularly tight? Most cloning processes will require a...and overall you’re looking at a price of a few dollars per reaction for traditional restriction cloning...obtained for about $70, resulting in a price of a few dollars per reaction. By comparison, Gibson assembly can...
  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors

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    ...presence or changing cellular conditions. Other types of biosensors To focus on a particular gene or protein...be expressed. Are you looking at an intracellular or extracellular molecule? By fusing a biosensor to ... domain, biosensors can be targeted to a particular cellular compartment such as the nucleus, mitochondria...luminescent and fluorescent reporters being especially popular. We’ll give you an introduction to fluorescent ...by Olivier Pertz’s lab. Other biosensors track cellular characteristics like pH, redox state, and voltage...mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), vacuole or cellular membranes. Examples include blue flame mitochondria-targeted...calcium sensor CMV-mito-GEM-GECO1  and blue flame extracellular glutamate sensor pCMV(MinDis).iGluSnFR. Picking...
  4. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    ...the lab. Addgene’s Molecular Biology Reference includes information about molecular cloning, how to choose...updated Apr. 14, 2020. Any newcomer who joins a molecular biology lab will undoubtedly be asked to design..., or construct a plasmid. A plasmid is a small circular piece of DNA found in bacterial cells, and someone... will provide you with an overview of general molecular biology knowledge and techniques, and empower ... At their most basic level, plasmids are small circular pieces of DNA that replicate independently from...plasmids as they grow, scientists can easily make large amounts of plasmid to manipulate and use in later...versatility, safety, and cost-effectiveness enable molecular biologists to broadly utilize plasmids across ...
  5. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    ...strength. This signal strength is due in large part to their larger size (~10-15 nm), which allows for the...together without forming large oligomeric complexes. Antibodies are also too large to be expressed in bacteria..., than antibodies for all of the above listed molecular techniques, but they can also be expressed in ...antibody structures. Functional comparison Strong but Large: Advantages of Antibodies One of the main reasons...being big is a double-edged sword. An antibody’s large size creates more distance between the target antigen...ability to penetrate tissue. Because antibodies are large and bivalent, primary and secondary antibodies cannot... Poor tissue penetration Less resolution due to larger label displacement Require separate incubation ...
  6. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    ...partner to optogenetics to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms of the brain in vivo. Many...energy conversion or the induction of intra- or intercellular signaling pathways (Ernst et al., 2014). Microbial...adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) have become increasingly popular for gene delivery in the central nervous system...ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain. In particular, they found that optogenetic stimulations of ...animal rhodopsins: structures, functions, and molecular mechanisms." Chemical reviews 114.1 (2013): 126...functional photoreceptor for phototaxis in the unicellular eukaryote Chlamydomonas." Nature 311.5988 (1984...Central PMCID: PMC4987841. Lodish, Harvey et al. Molecular Cell Biology. New York: W. H. Freeman, 2000. Bookshelf...
  7. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    ...researcher toolkit due to their ability to bind to molecular targets with high affinity and specificity. However... does not mean that is all it will bind to - particularly when you start using complex samples such as...Validation (Uhlen, et al., 2016). This group proposed 5 Pillars of antibody validation which represent five experimental...performs as expected. One of the benefits of these pillars is that they are intentionally generalizable and...summarizing the IWGAV five proposed antibody validation pillars. Created with BioRender.com.     Orthogonal...your antibody can distinguish between two very similar proteins. Additionally, they require variable expression...1) other strategies may not be feasible and (2) large-scale proteomic and transcriptomic datasets already...
  8. Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More

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    ... Zebrafish are also popular outside of developmental biology, and are particularly well-suited for neuroscience... development. Why have zebrafish become such a popular model organism? Zebrafish (Figure 1) were initially... the function of these genes in fish will help clarify their roles in humans. The sequenced genome also...Zebrafish mutants In the 1990’s, two revolutionary large-scale random mutagenesis screens produced ~1,500...TALENs, and more recently CRISPR/Cas9. Another popular targeted gene deactivation method in zebrafish ...exploits the bacteriophage integrase phiC31. The popular UAS/Gal4 and Cre/Lox gene regulatory systems have...tail. Compared to the opaque mouse embryo, where similar processes occur over days inside the mother, the...
  9. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    ...our popular blog series even more accessible by collecting and formatting all 101s on a particular topic...execute a step can provide needed clarity (Table 1). Our most popular video, however, is “What is a Plasmid...offering temperature-sensitive materials, we noticed a large percentage of these shipments arrived in India at...help with sharing information through the use of popular Chinese social media platforms.  As you can imagine...expertise in a specific country can quickly reduce a large number of barriers. Though we haven’t solved every...about them. As early as 2007, we began grouping similar tools together in what would eventually become ... right for their experiment.     Table 1: Most popular guides, protocols, and collections of 2023. ...
  10. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    ... to learn that FPs are often poorly suited for cellular compartments other than the cytoplasm. Generally...eukaryotic) proteins localize to chemically distinct subcellular environments, including the organelles that compose...mitochondria, lysosomes or they are secreted into the extracellular milieu. Many of the resident proteins within...function of resident ER chaperones and may impact cellular function or possibly viability. FP misfolding .... The moxFPs overcome the inherent problems of popular fluorescent proteins and were re-engineered by ...residues and N-glycosylation consensus sequences in popular FPs. This generated a palette of inert green, cyan...most inert solutions for imaging in a variety of cellular compartments including the secretory pathway (...
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