...resulting from non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) (2-5), depending on your desired genome edit. Since exploitation...each sample can be quickly calculated (details in [2]) and can be used to quantify rates of mutation in... have been reported for mismatch nuclease assays (2, 6, 7). Ability to distinguish between mono-allelic...assays, in addition to testing their performance (2). Remember that although digital PCR is a great screening...PMID: 24509632. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4063274. 2. Findlay, S. D., Vincent, K. M., Berman, J. R. & Postovit...mono-allelic and bi-allelic mutations: Perhaps the most noteworthy advantage of digital PCR assays is that they ...

... as muscular dystrophies, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes, across four different types of human cells...(#186715) and hCtRNA_VT (#186716).   Fig. 2: Comparison of previous representative dual-gRNA architectures... in a variety of cells and organisms. However, lengthy genetic payloads and insufficient transcription...assembled tRNA-gRNAs is placed downstream of a lengthy promoter, which is used to drive the expression...efficient MBE with such a strategy, the need for lengthy promoters, such as U6 or EF1α promoters, has limited...previous tRNA-gRNA arrays, that rely on an upstream lengthy promoter to express the gRNA array, DAP arrays ...

...Cas enzymes? CasPEDIA is an encyclopedia of Class 2 CRISPR systems with wiki entries describing enzyme...BclI-SwaI none S. pyogenes URA3 Wyrick pCRISPomyces-2 61737 Bacteria BbsI yes, cut S. pyogenes Apramycin... S. pyogenes Zhang gRNA Cloning Vector Bbs I ver. 2 85586 Mammalian BbsI None S. pyogenes H Fujii pX601...yes, methylation S. pyogenes EGFP Zoldos pdCas9-DNMT3A-PuroR 71667 Mammalian U6 yes, methylation S. pyogenes...pdCas9-DNMT3A-PuroR_v2 74407 Mammalian U6 yes, methylation S. pyogenes Puro Zoldos pBLO1811_Cas9_noNLS_human...

... that results in a polymerase error rate of up to 2% per nucleotide position. The “sloppy” PCR reaction...modifications: 1) increased concentration of Taq polymerase, 2) increased PCR extension time, 3) increased concentration...to synthesize a complementary mutant strand (step 2 and 3). Then the uracil-labeled template strand is...restrict site matter? Most of the time no, but there are 2 instances where it does. 1) When the backbone vector...ExoIII. See the below figure for an example like this. 2) When your gene of interest has a BbvCI site(s). If...saturation mutagenesis method are 1) ease of use, 2) time savings, and 3) ability to perform single site...PMID: 23766324. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4409680. 2. Mccullum, E. O., Williams, B. A., Zhang, J., & Chaput...

...fluorescent state make them useful for 2-color imaging with green PA-FPs. Table 2: Properties of Selected Reversible... conventional FP imaging. PA-FPs are divided into 2 main categories - those with irreversible and reversible... forms of the chromophore which contribute to the 2 peaks of wtGFP’s excitation spectrum- a major 397 ... / N99K / S148L / I165V / Q167P / L169V / I203R) (2) and PA-mRFP1(S146H / I161V / I197H) (3) were derived...with two distinct wavelengths of light (see Table 2). The best known reversible PA-FP is the naturally... above background. The majority of PA-FPs come in 2 flavours- monomeric and tetrameric. Tetrameric PA-...most PA-FPs, but, in 2015, the Looger Lab designed 2 variants of EosFP that can withstand these conditions...

...vector:insert ratio is used in the DpnI digestion and 2 µL of digest product are used in the transformation...Biology 38 (2016): 145-154. PubMed PMID: 27391134. 2. Li, Chaokun, et al. "FastCloning: a highly simplified...and then combine the products and digest with methylation sensitive restriction enzyme DpnI to remove the... Note—templates must have been isolated from methylation competent E. coli for this procedure to work ...

... Plant Methods. BioMed Central, 2(1), p. 19. doi: 10.1186/1746-4811-2-19. PubMed PMID: 17087829. PubMed...PMID: 24032037. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3759027. 2 Harrison, S. J. et al. (2006) ‘A rapid and robust ...work, but the efficiency will be low. Tips: Use healthy plants: Your plants should show no signs of stress...production, or disease, such as fungal growth. Healthy plants produce lots of seeds. More seeds mean more...

...fusing NanoLuc® and Venus fluorophore to Troponin C Ca 2+ binding domain. Nano-lanterns , Enhanced Nano-lanterns...transfection Feng Zhang 21471 pLenti PGK V5-LUC Neo (w623-2) Firefly PGK Lentiviral expression of firefly luciferase...DULIP in our 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016 blog post. LuTHy plasmids (Double‐Readout Lu minescence‐based T wo...modified) CMV Optical reporter of presynaptic ATP Timothy Ryan 24348 pAC-hRluc Renilla Actin5C Insect expression...

...Golden Gate TALEN Kit and are used in place of pTAL1, 2, 3, or 4. For both plasmids sequence positions 1214...TALE fusions with the histone demethylase LSD1 (Lysine specific demethylase) made using these plasmids along... the amount of Histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) di-methylation at the target locus ( Mendenhall et al., 2013...

...testing your AAV.  Figure 2: Comparison of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, and 9 in two different ...) your experimental conditions and measurements; (2) the cells you’re targeting; (3) how much expression... Tropism and Axonal Transport of AAV Serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 in the Mouse Brain. PLOS ONE, 8(9),... Comparison of four promoters. Gene Therapy, 28(1–2), 56–74. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41434-020-0169-1...analyses of adeno-associated viral vector serotypes 1, 2, 5, 8 and 9 in marmoset, mouse and macaque cerebral... strong early gene expression, but can become methylated over time, resulting in decreased expression ...

...or non-homologous end joining (see Figure 2).  Figure 2: Schematic representation of integration...due to insertional mutagenesis (Howe et al., 2008). 2. Transient expression of transgenes/shRNAs If you ...vectors: progress and applications. Gene Therapy, 17(2), 150–157. https://doi.org/10.1038/gt.2009.135. PubMed...efficiently during infection. Journal of Virology, 70(2), 721–728. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.70.2.721-728.1996...15219234 PubMed Central PMCID: PMC449739 Yew, C.T., Gurumoorthy, N., Nordin, F., Tye, G.J., Wan Kamarul Zaman...

...drastically with lower titers. As you can see in figure 2, the expression from the 5x1011 titer was essentially... roughly 6-fold increase in expression [3, Figure 2]. Note how expression increases exponentially with...international 61.1 (2002): S9-S15. PubMed PMID: 11841606. 2. Schultz BR, Chamberlain JS. Recombinant Adeno-associated...your cells happy - Make sure your cells are as healthy as can be to prepare them for the arduous process...

... used. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions.   2. Isolate Your Insert and Vector by Gel Purification...DNA concentration alone. One method is to conduct 2 ligations for each plasmid you are trying to create...containing the ligation mixture with backbone alone; 2. Transformation containing ligation mixture with insert...colonies than the vector + insert plate (unsuccessful 2), or roughly equivalent numbers of colonies on each... or equivalent to backbone + insert, unsuccessful 2 and 3 above), you can try ligating the recipient plasmid...Crystal Violet Pre and Post Visible Light 100 Methylene Blue Post Visible Light 100 Ethidium Bromide...

...procedure to be performed using a simple two-step, 2 hr protocol prior to transformation (Figure 1). As...Primer design Using specific primer design (Figure 2), IVA cloning can be used to perform any plasmid modification... for each type of modification is shown in Figure 2, and is discussed in more detail below. The main requirement...Biotechniques 10.1 (1991): 62-66. PubMed PMID: 2003926. 2. Bubeck, Peter, Monica Winkler, and Wilfried Bautsch...C for 15 mins). This enzyme specifically cuts methylated DNA, so it will selectively destroy the template...

...digital PCR. Human Gene Therapy Methods, 25(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1089/hgtb.2013.131 Wang,...(see maps section for images).     Figure 2: AAV Pro cells were transduced with either pAAV-Ef1a-mCherry-IRES-Cre...Digital PCR Method. Human Gene Therapy Methods, 29(2), 96–103. https://doi.org/10.1089/hgtb.2017.198   ...lentiviral preparation by precipitation in 10% polyethylene glycol (PEG) followed by centrifugation. Precipitated...

...is excised from the donor vector.   Figure 2: The Gateway system adopts phage integration into ...our website to search for your favorite gene! STEP 2: Generate an Expression Clone When making the expression...expression construct in only 1 day, as opposed to 2+ days with traditional restriction and ligation cloning...Clon Transgen 4:138. doi:10.4172/2168-9849.1000138 2. Hartley JL. Use of the Gateway System for Protein...Addgene Blog Try Out FastCloning Learn About Methylation and Restriction Enzymes Use Colony PCR to Quickly...

... to DFHBI in the presence of that metabolite (Fig.2). Spinach eventually evolved into Spinach2, a more...PMID: 25713381. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4364232. 2. Baker, Monya. “RNA imaging in situ”. Nature Methods...emerging environmental pollutants.” Front Chem. 2014; 2: 41. PubMed PMID: 25019067. PubMed Central PMCID: ...biosensors.” TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry 27(2):108-117 · February 2008. 11. Svensen, Nina and Jaffrey...difficult-to-study RNA-modifying enzymes, such as the RNA demethylases FTO and ALKBH5. Their ease of production have...

...Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes.   Figure 2:  Crystal structure of S. pyogenes Cas9 in the apo...NUC and REC lobes laying open like a book (Figure 2). The portion of the CTD that recognizes the PAM is...it doesn’t appear in the crystal structure (Figure 2) at all. When this crucial recognition region is disordered...regions, so crystal structures like those in Figures 2 and 3 don’t show these regions, even if they are present...itself at the bottom of the image. Stem loops 1 and 2 extend horizontally across both lobes. The guide RNA...is required for Cas9 nuclease function. Stem loops 2 and 3 are not strictly necessary for in vitro cleavage...open conformation, but highly flexible, as in Figure 2. The guide RNA is bound primarily by the REC lobe,...

...left free to interact with the target DNA. Figure 2: Overview of the NHEJ repair mechanism Cas9 will only...systems enable researchers to target anywhere from 2–7 genetic loci by cloning multiple gRNAs into a single...Cas9 is included in the gRNA-containing plasmid, or 2-vector systems, in which Cas9 must be delivered separately...your experimental cell population (Figure 8E). In a 2-vector system, you’ll need to either co-infect with...the presence of infectious organisms (like SARS-CoV-2 ) and genetic mutations. Similar to Cas9 and Cas12...Cas enzymes? CasPEDIA is an encyclopedia of Class 2 CRISPR systems with wiki entries describing enzyme...off-target effects by using a single Cas9 nickase and 2 different gRNAs, which bind in close proximity on ...

... working with is correct. It's also best to use 1-2 ug of the vector for digestion. PCR Design primers...plasmid; a starting point could be a molar ratio of 1:2 (plasmid:insert), but this parameter has to be optimized...colonies (5-10) and grow them in a small culture volume (2 or 3 ml) containing the corresponding antibiotic, ...enzymes that you are using are not blocked by methylation like XbaI, ClaI, etc. If you are doing multiple...

...cell-attached recordings in primary visual cortex (V1) layer 2/3 (L2/3). B) Fluorescence from axonal boutons of neurons... generation and stable cell line creation (Figure 2). Looking for more? Explore our empty and EGFP retroviral... Lentiviral backbone plasmids here! Figure 2: Addgene cloned EGFP into pAG Lenti CMV N-HA Puro ...Glypicans are proteoglycans composed of a protein core, 2–4 glycosaminoglycans (GAG), and are (typically) tethered...either the optogenetic activator channelrhodopsin-2 or fluorescent reporter dTomato under the control ...combined CRISPR / retrotransposon system with the pithy name "site-specific target-primed insertion through...

...plasmids Enhanced CRISPR-based DNA demethylation Figure 2: The components of Casilio-ME1. Image...acetylation or demethylation. Casilio DNA Methylation Editing (Casilio-ME) is a methylation editing tool...for linking methylcytosine oxidation to DNA repair, which increases activation of methylation-silenced genes...human pluripotent stem cells CRISPR-based DNA demethylation Optogenetic repressors of gene expression ...Albert Cheng’s lab that enhances RNA-guided methylcytosine editing by TET1 by co-delivering TET1 and protein...

...CombiGEM lentiviral vector backbone pAWp12 (Figure 2). Cloning from the pAWp28 storage vector to the pAWp12... before beginning your experiments. Figure 2: Strategy for assembling barcoded combinatorial gRNA...PMID: 25114216. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4151723. 2. Doench, John G., et al. "Optimized sgRNA design to...References 1. Cheng, Allen A., Huiming Ding, and Timothy K. Lu. "Enhanced killing of antibiotic-resistant...

...the light-inducible heterodimerizing cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) and calcium and integrin-binding protein 1 ...inactive, dead Cas9 protein (dCas9) fused to CIB1; and 2) the activator - the CRY2 photolyase homology region... fused to both the N- and C-termini of dCas9; and 2) CRY2FL-VP64, a fusion of full-length CRY2 and the...researchers saw an 11-fold increase in mRNA levels after 2 hr and a 400-fold increase after 30 hr. The system...authors fragmented Cas9 into N-terminal (residues 2-713, N713) and C-terminal (residues 714-1368, C714...nMagC714 instead of nMagHigh1-C714, generating paCas9-2. This change did not significantly alter the system...prior work, the Sato lab also showed that the paCas9-2 system could be spatially controlled and reversibly...

.... The most common options are 4 °C overnight or 1–2 hours at room temperature (RT). Most people choose...overnight at 4 °C and their secondary antibody for 1–2 hrs at room temperature, which allows them to reduce...Tris-glycine 6–400 kDa Tris-glycine 100 V, 1–2 hours Easy and cheap to handcast Short shelf-life...–40 kDa Tris-tricine 30 V, 1 hour or 100 V, 1–2 hours Good separation, quality, and stability ...separation of proteins of different sizes.  Table 2: Recommended gel percentages for various protein sizes...are consistent and stable at room temperature for 1–2 years and are available in formulas specific to your...response over a broad dynamic range that typically spans 2–5 orders of magnitude, which includes a wide dynamic...

...NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85175  pBK-EE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85176  pBK-YE2-...quantum yield of 0.54) and mScarlet-H with M164H (2-fold improvement in photostability compared to mScarlet...SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small as 1-2 nucleotides! To reduce off-target effects associated...pBK-YE2-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85177  pBK-YEE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Lower on-target activity...activity than BE3; editing window ~1-2 nt  87438  pET42b-HF-BE3  HF-Cas9 (NGG)  Very low off-target activity...Ladders Are Awesome Tools: They are comprised of 2 plasmids, pPSU1 and pPSU2, that can be amplified affordably...libraries The Gross Lab at UCSF recently deposited 2 Bacillus subtilis libraries with Addgene – the B. ...

...Nature Cell Biology, 26(2), 294–304. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-023-01342-2 Koblan, L. W., Arbab, M...order to bind DNA, Cas9 requires (1) a guide RNA, (2) a complementary DNA sequence, and (3) a protospacer-adjacent...region of separate strands called an R-loop (Figure 2). This allows the guide RNA to base pair with the ...accessible on the outside of the enzyme. Figure 2: CRISPR R-loop. Created with BioRender.com. Base...), 35–40. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0592-2 Additional Resources on the Addgene blog CRISPR 101...hypoxanthine) or between the pyrimidine bases (cytosine, thymine, and uracil). Base transversions are edits that...

...revert back to a pluripotent stage (iPSC formation) [2, 3]. The iPSCs then proliferate and redifferentiate... more common delivery methods include retrovirus [2], lentivirus [4], adenovirus [5], Sendai virus [6]...2006. 441(7097): p. 1061-7. PubMed PMID: 16810240. 2. Takahashi, K., et al., Induction of pluripotent stem... Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell, 2015. 17(2): p. 178-94. PubMed PMID: 26189426. 15. Si-Tayeb, ...induced pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Rev, 2015. 11(2): p. 242-53. PubMed PMID: 25578634. PubMed Central... to regeneration. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 2011. 12(2): p. 79-89. PubMed PMID: 21252997. 37. Merrell, A....directly into a different cell type, bypassing the lengthy processes of reprogramming. The process was first...

...Currently available from the Kim lab are 2 presynaptic and 2 postsynaptic targeting mGRASP plasmids. Additionally... cells were pulsed with 2µg/ml of Doxycycline for 2 hours, and imaged on the Keyence BZ-9000 fluorescence...work! Robinson et al., Dev Cell 2010 Feb 16;18(2):324-31. Cheeseman et al., J Cell Sci 2013 May 1...promotes the formation of an isopeptide bond between 2 peptide tags, SpyTag and KTag. The group demonstrated... of three sets of cloning vectors (Level 0, 1, or 2) which can be utilized in three successive assembly...1 modules can be similarly assembled into a Level 2 vector, thus forming a functional genetic circuit....circuit. Flexibility has been built into the Level 2 vectors to allow for additional iterations of Level 1 assembly...

...Brainbow mouse neural labeling system. Brainbow-1 and -2 have been further refined to create Brainbow 3.2. ...M-CFP expression; these deletions are defined using 2 loxP variants (only identical loxP sites can mediate... each fluorophore. Third, Brainbow-1 and Brainbow-2 each contained a “default” state; for example, Brainbow...processes not previously visible with Brainbow-1 and -2. The general structure of Brainbow-1.0 is retained...least six generations. In addition to the neuronal pThy1-Brainbow constructs, Addgene also has two Brainbow...

... fluorescent proteins expressed in the specimen.  2. Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACs) A machine...photostability of your fluorescent protein when using 2-photon microscopy as this hasn't been well reported...PMID: 18703742. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2606057. 2. Chtanova, Tatyana, et al. "Dynamics of neutrophil...the bone marrow to the thymus where they gain their specificity or from the thymus to the lymph nodes. These...

... is also gaining a lot of new traction lately (1, 2), depends on knowledge of the structure(s) a given...per plate) across 20 fresh selective plates. Step 2: Express random phage DNA fragments in E. coli Now...microbiology 23.4 (2015): 185-191. PubMed PMID: 25708933. 2. Cooper, Callum J., Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei, and ... biology 34 (2015): 69-77. PubMed PMID: 26275959. 2. Weigele, Peter, and Elisabeth A. Raleigh. "Biosynthesis...because phages frequently alter their DNA by adding methyl groups, glycosyl groups, and other modifications...

...one injection step! The entire protocol takes about 2-3 weeks but requires less than eight hours worth of...for C. elegans genome modification. Figure 2: Schematic from Dickinson et al. (2015) illustrating...experiments, but this strategy required the use of unhealthy, difficult-to-inject unc-119(ed3) animals, as ...

...Genome Editing and The CRISPR Software Matchmaker Day 2: Homology directed repair: CRISPR 101: Homology Directed...histone demethylation by LSD1, cytosine methylation by DNMT3A or MQ1, and cytosine demethylation by Tet1...

...improve solubility and stability (Figure 2).      Figure 2: Crystal structures of CRBNmidi alone...fluorescent tags in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics, 228(2), iyae126. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae126...for CRISPR/Cas9 in M. abscessus here! Neo D, Clatworthy A, and Hung, D. (2024). A dual-plasmid CRISPR...

...Interview with Stem Cell Researcher Darrell Kotton 2. Stem cell scientists care about patients As any grad... Yamanaka explained that it took 50 people nearly 2 years to create the first stem cell line that could...they are competing with each other, but it's a healthy competition. What an honor for Addgene to be a ...

...represent a favorable state for tumor progression (Ref 2). Future treatments may need to target this immunosuppressive...cell 30.1 (2016): 147-160. PubMed PMID: 27411589. 2. Todoric, Jelena, Laura Antonucci, and Michael Karin...Professor Kroemer often functions as one of the “healthy human volunteers” in his studies! This was followed...

...muscarinic receptor and has not been used in vivo . Figure 2: DREADDs, their ligands, and signaling properties.... Reference Rq(R165L) Human M3 muscarinic Arrestin-2/-3 CNO* Increase Arrestin translocation Arrestin signalling...hM1Dq hM5Dq Human M3 muscarinic G αq CNO* Increase Ca 2+ Neuronal burst firing Armbruster et al., 2007 rM3D...channels, their effect, and outcome in neurons. Table 2. Descriptions of PSAMs and their activity in neurons...Forbes SL, Liggett SB (2001). Modification of the beta 2-adrenergic receptor to engineer a receptor-effector...2004). The highly efficacious actions of N-desmethylclozapine at muscarinic receptors are unique and not...

... a western, proteins are: (1) separated by size, (2) transferred to a membrane, and  (3) detected using...expensive system-specific sandwiches.   Figure 2: The western blot dry apparatus includes a stack of...modifications such as phosphorylation, acetylation, methylation and ubiquitination. For example, to test if a...(1979) Transfer of proteins from gels to diazobenzyloxymethyl-paper and detection with antisera: a method...

...without leaving behind any accessory DNA sequences [2], [3]. Simply put, the piggyBac™ transposon containing...with a Footprint-Free™ genome edit.   Figure 2: Editing DNA using the piggyBac™ transposon selection...PMID: 26211958. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4663986. 2.  A. M. Singh, V. V Adjan Steffey, T. Yeshi, and D...containing a negative selection marker such as thymidine kinase, a researcher may subsequently kill off...