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  1. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    ...dodge cellular variation observed in mammalian cells is to tag an endogenous gene. By imaging cells (or ...mammalian cells within the dish. This is caused by the stochastic nature of plasmid uptake by cells. To correct...intended application. The three key properties for live cell imaging that will be treated in this series of posts...Determining practical brightness When a dish of mammalian cells is transiently transfected with a plasmid containing...allows for a precise determination of brightness in cells, under realistic experimental conditions. By determining...al (2017) and Heppert et al (2016). In mammalian cells this would be possible with CRISPR/Cas-based genome...efficiency of the fluorescent protein in the host cell, which is a key determinant of the practical brightness...
  2. 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...Anti-FLAG Frankenbodies for modular imaging of cellular targets Optimized genetic screening technique ...Anti-FLAG Frankenbodies for modular imaging of cellular targets by: Mike Lacy Adding to their set of anti-HA...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...
  3. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    ...human T cells and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC)s to ~40% expression in the K562 cell line...gene to airway epithelial cells in mice. This vector transduced ~10% of cells, similar to the transduction...Using AAV Donor Vectors. Cell Reports 20:750–756 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.06.064  Carvalho... then independently packaged into an AAV. When a cell is co-infected with both part A and part B AAVs,... always.  The combination of serotype and tissue/cell type could have a big impact on the rate of transgene...since both of these variables influence whether cells will be co-transduced with multiple copies of both... followed by the 3’-end of the transgene. When a cell is transduced by both viruses, if the AAV genomes...
  4. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    ...). The Heroes of CRISPR. Cell, 164(1), 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.041  Musunuru, K....birth. Within a seven-month whirlwind of developing cell and mouse model systems, testing base editing variants...reporting genome editing by CRISPR in mammalian cells appeared in 2013 (Cong et al., 2013; reviewed in... The first ABE was about 50% efficient in human cells on average, but its effectiveness varied depending... the chromosomal location, sequence context, and cell type. Multiple labs worked to improve its effectiveness...would be tested for their base-editing efficacy in cellular models of KJ’s CPS1 mutation. Every genetic target...base editors that could target KJ’s mutation in cellular models tested both the SpG and SpRY variants of...
  5. 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...
  6. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ...that it appears “newly synthesized” to the cell. Thus, the cell repairs the DNA using the U-containing strand..., which may lead to cell death rather than NHEJ repair, thus removing these cells from the edited population...target modification in primary T cells, making them a promising tool for cell therapy applications. Dual base...relatively low frequency, especially in nondividing cells. Scientists everywhere wistfully imagined being ... and DNA repair. Black arrows indicate natural cellular processes. BER = base excision repair. Note: hypoxanthine...editing efficiency, Komor and team wanted to force the cell to use the deaminated DNA strand as a template. ...frequency to above 30% for a variety of targets in human cell lines, with an average indel frequency of only 1.1%...
  7. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability

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    ...intensity evolves over time in living cells at a power used for live-cell imaging. To conclude, the most photostable...molecule will photobleach at some point. For live-cell imaging, it is desirable to have fluorescent proteins...experiment. The best fluorescent proteins for live cell imaging can be excited many times, thereby producing...these factors, environmental conditions such as cellular redox state and oxygen concentration may affect...protein is a key requirement for quantitative live-cell imaging, it is important to be able to quantify ...it is advisable to perform time-lapse imaging of cells producing the fluorescent protein of interest under...natural situation. Measuring photostability in living cells provides a much more realistic view of photostability...
  8. Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening

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    ...genes essential for West-Nile-virus-induced cell death." Cell reports 12.4 (2015): 673-683. PubMed PMID:... (and multiple) genetic perturbations in single cells. Methods to scale up multiplexed CRISPR systems ... build and constantly improve gRNA libraries, excellent resources with effective gRNAs are publicly available...perturbations and applications in functional genomics, cell reprogramming, and beyond. For further details, ...CRISPR-mediated control of gene repression and activation." Cell 159.3 (2014): 647-661. PubMed PMID: 25307932. PubMed...Genes and Genotype-Specific Cancer Liabilities." Cell 163.6 (2015): 1515-1526. PubMed PMID: 26627737. ...Genome-wide recessive genetic screening in mammalian cells with a lentiviral CRISPR-guide RNA library." Nature...
  9. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...mammalian cells. Co-expression markers EGFP and PuroR enable sorting and selection of transduced cells. Grant...in the Mammalian Genome. Cell 167:233–247.e17 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.056 Find plasmids...targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discovery 2: . https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9 Find plasmids from...the epigenome may make certain processes, like cellular reprogramming of iPSCs, more efficient. In general...for targeted cytosine demethylation in mammalian cells. This plasmid is used with pcDNA3.1-MS2-Tet1-CD ...vectors and targeted delivery into hard-to-manipulate cell types. They have also fused LSD1 to x-Cas9(3.7)....modifiers may be more frequently inherited by daughter cells. For example, KRAB induced silencing was transient...
  10. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ... require minimal cellular perturbation. Also, this method requires live, intact cells; the sequencing ...Synthetic recombinase-based state machines in living cells” (1), into a more straight-forward, concise explanation...mutations, and environmental conditions drive certain cellular behaviors, but little is known about the order... may be used to better understand and engineer cellular processes that are influenced by temporally ordered... our paper (1), we allowed individual bacterial cells to form colonies on a plate and then we performed..., but more population-wide (as opposed to single-cell) approach is to interrogate state with qPCR. The...cytometry. However, expressing reporters will consume cellular resources and therefore this state read-out method...
  11. Split-BioID: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    ... expressed in cells via plasmids or by the creation of stable cell lines and these cells are then grown... complex. Not performed in a native cell context. For AP-MS, cells are lysed before the bait protein is...and interacting proteins in mammalian cells. The Journal of cell biology. PubMed PMID: 22412018. PubMed...against PPIs that aren't stable outside the native cell context. The Split-BioID method Enter Split-BioID...tagging of proteins in both BioID or Split-BioID, cells are lysed, protein extracted, and labeled protein...proteins that interact with the bait in a native cell contact. Other PPI methods may require protein interactions...interactions to remain stable (or to be stabilized) during cell lysis and lysate fractionation. Important considerations...
  12. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ... them into your cells, you can simply look for blue colonies to determine which cells have taken up the... that the cellular fitness cost varied greatly between chromoproteins. In some cases, cells containing... mScarlet as the donor in HeLa cells.   Find ShadowR for mammalian cell expression here   Now that you...cloning experiment worked just by looking at the cells on the plate. For example, if your plasmid contains...Here, the chromoprotein is expressed and gives the cell a magenta (amilCP) or purple (tsPurple) color. Though...added which induces expression of the toxin. Any cells that grow after this point will be those that have...resonance energy transfer (FLIM-FRET) in living cells (Figure 4). They created ShadowR by modifying the...
  13. Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields

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    ...large amounts of carbohydrates that can inhibit the cell lysis process. To ensure that lysis is complete,...strains adapted for protein purification use the cell’s resources to produce high levels of protein, not...difference? In the simplest of terms, more volume = more cells = more plasmid. Plasmids can vary in copy number...of plasmid copies supported within each bacterial cell in your culture. Copy number is partially specified...richer media or adding supplements can improve your cell density, leading to an improved plasmid DNA yield... supplements to the media You can achieve higher cell density using a nutrient-rich broth such as Terrific...glucose (in moderation) may also serve to increase cell density and plasmid yield. Start with a single, ...
  14. 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...discovered - many from viruses, but also some from cellular mRNAs. What they all have in common is the ability... cistron due to factors such as the experimental cell type and the specific genes cloned into the vector...
  15. What's New in CRISPR - March 2020

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    ...for studying the bacterial cell cycle, asymmetric cell division, and cellular differentiation, but it takes...crescentus Multiplexed gRNA for human pluripotent stem cells CRISPR-based DNA demethylation Optogenetic repressors...complex remains in the cytoplasm. Read the paper in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Find the optogenetic...Figure 1: Serial dilutions of CRISPRi in Caulobacter cells for ctrA gene expression using various dCas9. Image...lab repressed ctrA, a gene encoding an essential cell cycle regulator. The lab expressed both dCas9 and...piggyBac transposon system for human pluripotent stem cells Lindy Barrett’s lab developed new fluorescently ... of multiplexed gRNAs in human pluripotent stem cells. Previously, CRISPRi or CRISPRa depended on continued...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    ...synthesized inside of what is called the “target cell” (or host cell) by the viral protein reverse transcriptase...reverse-transcribed DNA into the host cell’s genome and then use cell machinery for transcription and translation...1971). Noninfectious ARK mouse embryo cell lines in which each cell has the capacity to be activated to ..., interested in transferring genes to mammalian cells (i.e. transferring DNA), yet retroviruses are RNA-containing...separate set of instructions in the same producer cells as the virus. Because it is made at the same time...viral genes. It is derived from the host/producer cell membrane, and acquired as an envelope during exocytotic...particles do once they come in contact with target cells (Fig. 3).     Figure 3: The life cycle of...
  17. DNA Purification Without a Kit

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    ...broken out of cells with a solution of salts, detergent, and ball bearings. Then a cellulose dipstick is... kits and typically follow the same principles: cells are lysed, RNAs and proteins are removed to leave... could be digested with restriction enzymes.  Cellulose nucleic acid purification Starting material: plant... plant, microbe, blood, or mammalian cells or tissue Product: total nucleic acids While glass or silica...silica are commonly used to bind and purify DNA, cellulose also efficiently binds, or at least entraps nucleic...and RNA from plants, microbes, blood or mammalian cells in 30 seconds or less without using a pipette.  ... absorb the nucleic acids. Containinants bind cellulose less tightly than nucleic acids, so placing the...
  18. 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...transcribed (and the viral mRNAs are translated) by cellular machinery. NP encapsidates the negative sense,...polyadenylate the mRNA. These mRNAs are translated by cellular host machinery (as viral mRNAs would be in the...
  19. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

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    ...of neuronal sub-cellular structures GFP is limited in its ability to label subcellular structures in the...ability to interact with protein partners within the cell. However, antibodies can have low affinity for these... generally bright, stable and well tolerated by cells. They can be used for protein localization, isolation...trigger protein aggregation which is toxic for the cells and affects the labeling of small structures like...team, an ideal probe should combine the solubility, cell tolerance, and optional fluorescence of FPs with...used to amplify the direct smFP signal within sub-cellular structures. For instance, smFPs have been used...example, N-cadherin (cadherin-2) is a postsynaptic cell adhesion protein that plays a critical role in neural...
  20. Sonic Hedgehog? Sleeping Beauty? Learn About the Genes Behind Addgene’s Conference Room Names

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    ... are filled with early mitotic cells as well as necrotic or dead cells (Jiang and White-Cooper, 2003)....Ivics et al 1997. Spaghetti Squash, a regulator of cellular contraction You may think that a gene called "...the fly actomyosin cytoskeleton that regulates cellular contraction. This network is composed of actin...interact with each other to generate forces that cause cells and muscles to contract depending on the context...context. Contraction is critical for processes such as cell movement/motility, development, cytokinesis, and...scientists who discovered comr thought the sperm cells in mutant flies looked like a “whole bunch of cookie...are part of a genetic cascade that determines the cell fate of the dorsal mesoderm in developing Drosophila...
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