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  1. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    ...Plasmid FAQs. Lentiviral vectors in the lab Lentiviral vectors are incredibly popular in the lab - the...and genome-wide screening.   Lentiviral vectors in the clinic Since lentiviral vectors can deliver a large...Lentiviral vectors are one of the most popular and useful viral vectors in the lab. Advantages of lentivirus...dividing and non-dividing cells. Lentiviral vectors are the vector of choice for many CRISPR applications,...and future) applications of lentiviral vectors! Lentiviral vector history and components In the early ...viral vector systems based on retroviruses like Moloney murine leukemia virus (MMLV). The vectors could...transgene expression, but they could only infect actively dividing cells. Another type of vector, based ...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter

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    ...early gene expression, but can become methylated over time, resulting in decreased expression (Damdindorj...know what expression pattern you need, and the factors in your system that can affect expression, before...tyrosine-hydroxylase (TH), can limit which cells express your gene. Off-target expression can still occur (Fig. 3) - for...transiently express TH - so you’ll need to check for this in your system and then test each vector before ...timing of expression in your experiment. Some inducible constructs can exhibit leaky expression in the absence...one that optimizes gene expression where you want it and minimizes expression where you don’t. The key...on the Addgene blog Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV Viral Vectors 101: The AAV Retrograde Serotype...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    ...blog Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping Viral Vectors 101: Systemic...and rAAV vectors, modifications can affect gene transfer efficiency and transgene expression (Zhou et ...ITRs can be used to drive gene expression at varying capacities. AAV vectors containing the AAV2 ITRs can...Inverted Terminal Repeat Sequence Role in Vector Transgene Expression. Hum Gene Ther, 31(3–4), 151–162. https...reduce the packaging efficiency but increase transgene expression (Zhou et al., 2017). The most common...transcription factor binding sites can increase transgene expression and transduction efficiency (Shitik ...repeats reduces rAAV productivity but increases transgene expression. Sci Rep, 7(1), 5432. https://doi.org...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Transductions

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    ...Production at Addgene Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus? Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements ...and viral particles are packaged, when the vector is expressed. Once the design and construction steps are...integrated into the host genome? Expressed episomally long-term? Expressed short-term? Answering these questions...nucleic acid cargo of your choice. First, a viral vector is selected to perform the transduction with: either...desired DNA to be integrated can be cloned into the vector that you have selected. The nucleic acid will be... it’s time to make virus! The constructed viral vector containing the cargo of interest is then typically...293 cells. When all of these viral plasmids are expressed within the production cell line, viral particles...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...targeting receptor expression as a ligand and receptor pair. Targeting Receptor Expression Using chemogenetics...therapies when expression must be restricted to specific circuits. Methods for targeting expression involve ...on the Addgene blog New to viral vectors? Browse our Viral Vectors 101 blog posts Read blog posts about...target effects. For example, if your receptors are expressed in the brain, it is necessary to use ligands capable...different responses depending on what cell type it is expressed in. The most common target for chemogenetic manipulation...modify other properties such as endogenous gene expression, which can lead to changes in normal cell physiology... H, Fishman GI, Conklin BR (1999) Conditional expression and signaling of a specifically designed Gi-coupled...
  6. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    ...Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications Adenoviral Vector Production and Troubleshooting Viral Vectors 101...fact, of how adenoviral vectors work. What are adenoviruses?   Adenoviral vectors are commonly derived from...majority of adenoviral vector systems used in research, they are only expressed in the producer cells ...cells that are infected by the vector, only the transgene will be expressed, since the early genes are absent...encapsidate new virions) are not expressed. Note that replication-competent AdV vectors also exist and are used...adenoviral vectors all have a genomic capacity that is much higher than other viral vectors (tens of kilobases...retroviruses). The tradeoff is that adenoviral vector expression is very short-lived. It is worth noting that...
  7. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    ...Knockdown the expression of Gene X using shRNA expressed from a plasmid   Figure 1: Expression Level of Gene... the empty vector control shows any effect of the vector/backbone itself on gene expression in your target... the decreased expression of Gene X. Ergo the positive control(s) should decrease the expression of Gene...as the expression level of Gene X in cells treated with Plasmid A is similar to the expression level of...empty control vector would be Plasmid A sans shRNA, or backbone Y alone. The empty vector control allows...replicate controls.  Transfection controls: empty vector and internal control A transfection control measures...any effects of the transfection itself (i.e., the vector used in transfection, transfection reagent, or ...
  8. Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening

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    ...operon repressor, thereby allowing lac expression). When expressed, the β-galactosidase enzyme can break... methods. Positive selection vectors encode a gene which, when expressed, is lethal to the cell. Cloning...other screening strategies, check out our screening overview blog post.) *Note: Two Popular Vectors for...pBluescript are a few common vectors. Blue-white screening is just that – a screening process. It does not select... inserted it into a plasmid, creating an α-complementation cloning vector. When a cloning reaction goes... that encodes for the enzyme β-galactosidase. Expression of the lac operon is induced by lactose, and ...enough time for any intact β-galactosidase to be expressed and process x-gal into blue pigment (16-20 hours...
  9. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    ... of vectors for the SB transposase system - one set of vectors for robust constitutive expression (pSBbi...gene (red) for expressing the transposase enzyme.2.) The transposase enzyme is expressed (red stars) and...efficiencies of integrating viral vectors. New Sleeping Beauty transposase vectors Even more recently, Eric ...pSBbi derivatives) and one set of vectors for inducible expression (pSBtet derivatives). The constitutive...constitutive and inducible expression vectors were developed into 16 variants with different selection markers...cells’ defense mechanisms. The use of non-viral vectors, like transposons, avoids many, though not all,...transposition; and 2) a transposon containing the gene-expression cassette that can translocate within the genome...
  10. Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene

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    ...AAV vectors. I wanted to use an AAV vector to express ChR2(H134R) in A2 norepinephrine expressing neurons...serotypes containing an expression cassette with an ubiquitous promoter to express GFP in a group of young...to AAV vectors, many from people trying to answer the exact same question I was: What AAV vector is best...evaluate how small changes in vector administration can influence AAV expression properties.  By providing...tracked, and appropriately credited, broadening the knowledge base of AAV vector performance in various brain...Working with AAV vectors in the brain and peripheral nervous system presents a special challenge to scientists... brain region or nucleus. Just optimizing AAV expression can take months (or longer), yet the process ...
  11. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - Spring 2019

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    ...restricts expression to GABAergic interneurons. These vectors can also be used as the control vectors for experiments...and control AAV These fluorescent protein expression vectors can be used to visualize cells and to quantify...pAAV-hSyn-mCherry at Addgene. Viral vectors coming soon! These vectors listed below should be released at...DreO-bGHpA 121675  AAV9  pAAV-EF1a-fDIO-Cre (FLP-dependent CRE) 55634  AAV1  pAAV-EF1a-mCherry-IRES-... of our viral vectors blog posts Find tips for preparing AAVs Download our viral vectors 101 eBook Resources...new tools to our inventory of ready-to-use viral vectors. Here are some of the AAV we have released so far... constitutive (pAAV-Syn-Archon1-KGC-GFP-ER2) and cre-dependent version (pAAV-Syn-FLEX-rc [Archon1-KGC-...
  12. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    ...promoter to drive expression of Cre-mCherry and a second promoter to drive expression of a Cre-dependent fluorescent...reporter. Expression of GFP will only result in cells where Cre-mCherry is also expressed. If Cre-mCherry...Cre-mCherry expresses in photoreceptors and horizontal cells, and Cre-dependent-GFP expresses in horizontal cells...to test for cell type-specific expression of GFP. Half (113) expressed in retinal cells four weeks post-injection...More than 90% of expression occurred in one type of cell More than 50% of expression occurred in one type...of targeted expression. Surprisingly, <1% of synthetic promoters replicated the expression specificity...restrict expression to a single cell type based on the overlap in cell types both promoters expressed in. ...
  13. pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs

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    ... an episomal vector system that increases reprogramming efficiency through the expression of a shRNA against...cells, thus expressing additional EBNA-1 transiently. The transiently expressed EBNA-1 increases protein ...RNA virus Episomal vectors- extrachromosomally maintained DNA plasmids that express reprogramming factors...Reprogramming efficiency of PBMCs with episomal vectors Episomal vectors are based on the Epstein-Barr Nuclear ...long-term expression of the reprogramming factors. However, reprogramming of PBMCs by episomal vectors has ...protein expression from the other episomal plasmids. When used on PBMCs, the pCXLE episomal vector system increases...method for creating clinical-grade, safe, nonviral and nonintegrating hiPSCs where the vectors encoding ...
  14. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    ...variety of pExpression vectors) plasmids. The type IIS restriction sites used in these vectors are of low...Confronted with the problem of creating vectors for predictable protein expression in bacteria, researchers ...SITS to create the pCell-Free vectors, Gateway-compatible backbones that enable cell-free expression of proteins...or a mammalian expression vector in a one-pot reaction. Using this system, you can create custom RNA binding...easier to produce the constructs you need. Expression vectors within this kit contain a variety of promoters... oocytes. The expression vectors additionally contain various combinations of protein tags (His, Avi, ...Process with pCri Cell-free protein expression kit Cell-free expression systems have been improved for both...
  15. Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor

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    ... tool for gene expression in mammals. Resources on Addgene.org Search for AAV vectors to use with your...pathogens to the CNS, but this also stops viral vectors, such as adeno-associated virus (AAV), from reaching...injection into the bloodstream, but requires a high vector dose and is unable to reach all regions of the ...phenotypic effects such as those that affected gene expression, mRNA splicing, or protein coding regions. In...one, Ly6a, showed differential protein and RNA expression between the brains of C57BL/6J mice and BALB/...strong linkage to the PHP.B phenotype and its expression pattern in the mouse brain.  Both labs then took...Deverman lab started by seeing how changes in LY6A’s expression affected PHP.B’s transduction rates. Knock out...
  16. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    ...Gateway pDEST, and pBAD vectors for example. Protein expression from each of these vectors is controlled by ...resulting in different levels of expression from each vector; lower expression may be required if your protein... and cell free expression systems. Overall the general strategy for protein expression consists of transfecting...which expression system to use depends on several factors: The protein you are trying to express How ...system. Mammalian expression systems Mammalian cells are an ideal system for the expression of mammalian proteins...for mammalian expression utilize viral promoters (SV40, CMV, and RSV) for robust expression post-transfection...insect expression systems; baculovirus infected and non-lytic insect cells. Baculovirus expression systems...
  17. New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor

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    ... expression. CAG-FLEX: CAG promoter, FLEXed for expression in Cre-expressing cells hSynap: Human Synapsin...neuronal expression. hSynap-FLEX: Synapsin-1 promoter, FLEXed for expression in Cre-expressing cells. hSynap-FLP...systems you can use to express the iGluSnFR3 variants: pRSET: Bacterial expression vector, use with IPTG induction...transmembrane domain in the mammalian expression pMinDisplay vector. GPI contains a C-terminal glycosylphostidylinositol...FLP-dependent expression GFAP: Glial fibrillary acidic protein (promoter). Good for Glial expression (not neurons... eGFP for sfGFP to create SF-iGluSnFR. This improved variant has higher expression levels in bacteria ...range, photostability, quantum yield, and expression. Create yellow (v82) and lime green (v857) variants...
  18. Rabies and Neuronal Tracing

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    ...Control Gene Expression with FLEx Vectors Resources on Addgene.org AAV Vector for TVA Expression AAV for ...example, a researcher can deliver Cre-dependent TVA to Cre-expressing neurons in a transgenic mouse line...RABV expressing the viral protein EnvA on its surface will only infect Cre-positive, TVA-expressing cells...Addgene Blog AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - ...to visualize how neurons are connected. Viral Vectors as Neuronal Tracers Due to their ability to efficiently...achieved by using EnvA-pseudotyped RABV, and only expressing the EnvA receptor (TVA) in user-defined cells... genome, so viral progeny will not necessarily express EnvA unless it is supplied in trans. Monosynaptic...
  19. Easing the Protein Purification Process with pCri

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    ... information, you can then pick an expression vector and expression system. If you find that your protein... al. "The pCri system: a vector collection for recombinant protein expression and purification." PloS ...protein might not fold well, you should screen a few different vectors to see which gives you the most functional... the secretory pathway to improve folding and disulfide bond formation. If one prefers expression in E...special E. coli strains designed for protein expression. Cultures are then lysed and the protein of interest...stability and solubility. Determining the best way to express one’s protein of interest can save a lot of time...pCri also includes plasmids designed for protein expression in systems other than E. coli, specifically the...
  20. Introducing an All-in-One CRISPR/Cas9 Vector System for Multiplex Genome Engineering

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    ...and efficiency for all-in-one CRISPR/Cas9 vectors expressing up to seven guide RNAs (gRNAs). Sakuma said...cloning method to ligate expression cassettes of the gRNAs into a single vector in tandem. They went on...A newly established all-in-one vector construction system for CRISPR/Cas9-mediated multiplex genome engineering...systematically established way of making an all-in-one vector for multiplex genome engineering.” Now, they’...Schematic overview of the all-in-one CRISPR/Cas9 vector construction system for multiplex genome engineering...their CRISPR/Cas9-nuclease and CRISPR/Cas9-nickase vectors work successfully to target multiple sites in cultured...it has not yet been demonstrated, they say the vectors are also likely to work in animal embryos based...
  21. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 3: Genome Engineering in Flies

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    ...Learn about Using Cre in Drosophila Read Other Genome Engineering Posts Use FLEx Vectors for Site-Specific... plasmids for overexpression and knockdown. Addgene also has a number of insect vectors to consider. An... your gene of interest in a plasmid and get the vector incorporated into the germline. To begin this process... browse Addgene’s Collection under the insect expression system or by filtering by fly as species of gene...Find Gal4 and UAS plasmids at Addgene Choosing a vector to generate a transgenic fly There are a few important...important points to consider when choosing the vector you’d like to use to generate your new fly line:... gene to be incorporated into the genome? Some vectors incorporate into the genome randomly, while others...
  22. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...lentiviral vector will infect, pseudotyping can help. In pseudotyping, you produce viral vectors using viral...Sandoval S (2017) Pseudotyped Lentiviral Vectors: One Vector, Many Guises. Human Gene Therapy Methods ... Lentiviral vectors pseudotyped with a modified RD114 envelope glycoprotein show increased stability in...To deliver genes using lentiviral vectors, you need an envelope protein on the virus’s surface and a ...virus. How to pseudotype To pseudotype your viral vector, you use the same protocol for generating lentivirus...Sometimes this is due to the cells that the viral vectors were produced in. For example, production of vesicular...virus, HIV-2, and human foamy virus in cell lines expressing galactosyl(alpha1-3)galactosyl (alphaGal) sugars...
  23. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ...terminals with one vector. AAV hSyn FLEx mGFP-2A-Synaptophysin-mRuby from Liqun Luo’s lab expresses membrane tethered...element containing vectors developed in the Jordane Dimidschsteind lab provide expression selectively in ...interneurons. We now provide ready-to-use AAV vectors expressing GCaMP6f with this promoter. Image calcium...dendritic neurites from axonal neurites with AAV vectors expressing cytoplasmic targeted tdTomato and pre-synaptic...this method, the major capsid protein VP1 is co-expressed with a fusion protein containing VP2C and a protein...These plasmids with different promoters driving expression of Cas9 were used in this study.  The zCas9i ... a plant cloning kit that contains a series of vectors and DNA modules for assembly of CRISPR/Cas9 constructs...
  24. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...bacterial expression vector which gives close to 100% cloning efficiency and gene expression. The pUCXKT...luciferase) to create a final lentiviral vector containing up to 5 different elements. Lentiviral vectors constructed... to create the pCell-Free vectors, Gateway-compatible backbones which enable cell-free expression of proteins...science.aaa3380 MuLE vectors for customized lentivirus production Finding a lentiviral vector backbone with ... SFFV) or inducible (CMV-TO) cDNA expression, sgRNA (U6) expression, shRNA/shRNA-miR30 constitutive (H1...-miR30 (CMV-TO) expression, or a promoterless construct. Pre-constructed Entry vectors containing Cas9...reaction with a desired destination vector expressing a separate reporter gene (EGFP, iRFP, IFP1.4, puromycin...
  25. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    ...AAV transfer vector for in-vivo expression and plasmids optimized for dCas9-VPR expression in drosophila...parasites that constitutively express Cas9 with a library of sgRNA expression vectors (containing ten guides ...easily create protein expression constructs fused with epitopes or fluorophores, generate expression vectors...large-scale expression screen that can be used to generate His-tagged human kinase constructs that express well... HEK293FT cells expressing a single gRNA targeting a single gene. The gRNA expressing cells were then ... to test multiple expression systems before they achieve the appropriate expression level for their gene...various promoters suitable for in vivo expression, and/or produce vectors to make mutant cell lines or transgenic...
  26. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    .... At the time, adenoviral vectors were the most commonly used viral vectors for gene delivery, and they...transiently. However new viral vectors capable of providing long-term gene expression in retinal cells - AAV ... better vector for ocular gene therapy: Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) While other viral vectors such as...immunogenicity and its transient expression. LV results in long term expression in dividing and non-dividing...technician in a lab using adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) to treat an inherited retinal degenerative...tolerate the presence of antigens (such as viral vectors) without triggering a destructive inflammatory ...transduce retinal cells, AAV quickly became the vector of choice for ocular gene therapy. AdV and LV ...
  27. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    ...transgene expression. Once packaged in AAV, this pre-recombined DNA could lead to transgene expression in recombinase-negative... their AAV vectors to find the optimal dose that allows for sufficient transgene expression but limits...blog Check out our Viral Vectors Featured Topic Page Subscribe to Viral Vectors Blog Posts Learn How We...producing multiple vectors in parallel because the risk of accidental errors increases. In addition to human... of poor reagent quality. To make sure our AAV vectors are of the highest quality, we undertake a rigorous...To make sure that adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors available at Addgene are suitable for in vivo studies...serotype. Additionally, we check viral transgene expression in transduced cells whenever possible. This post...
  28. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    ...This is a versatile mammalian expression vector that you can use to express both SpCas9 and your gRNA in...this is a versatile mammalian expression vector that you can use to express both SpCas9 and your gRNA of...the top requested plasmid from 2016 is an expression vector for CRISPR nuclease, SpCas9 from the Zhang...mammalian cell types. Purpose  SpCas9 This plasmid expresses Streptococcus pyogenes (Sp) Cas9 from a Cbh promoter...resistance gene as separate peptides. PX459 This is the vector backbone. This particular backbone can be used ...N-terminus. This tag can be used to test for SpCas9 expression post transfection by western blot. Overall, this...mammalian cell lines. Alternative forms of this vector contain GFP-tagged and un-tagged versions of SpCas9...
  29. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    ... non-recombinant vectors (re-ligated empty vectors, for instance) would still express ccdB and therefore... years ago and developed cloning vectors to harness it. These vectors, called pKIL18 and pKIL19, contained...coli that were transformed with the empty vectors expressed the ccdB gene and were therefore unable to...insert into the vector, the ccdB reading frame would be disrupted allowing cells expressing the recombinant...cells will not propagate while expressing the gene. Briefly, the vector “backbone” in this system contains...cells expressing it? The answer lies in special strains of E. coli that tolerate the expression of the...ccdB makes cloning easier by selecting against vectors that did not take up your insert. But exactly how...
  30. Tetbow: Bright Multicolor Labeling for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...multicolor labeling, Brainbow used the Cre-loxP system to express one of the three fluorescent protein ...strategies. In such vector-based gene delivery systems, the stochastic expression of XFPs is possible ...reduced expression level of XFPs, most likely by suppressing transcription. It is critical to express a minimal... stochasticity will result in a combinatorial expression of these three genes with different copy numbers...This is because the stochastic and combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins is only possible at low...Tetbow In modern neuroscience, plasmid or viral vector-mediated gene delivery is more common than conventional...Poisson distribution. To overcome the limited expression levels of XFPs in the original method, we used...
  31. Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors

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    ...elements for vector propagation. This post, along with a future companion post on mammalian vectors, will catch...typically found as a single copy. Unlike the ARS vectors, CEN vectors are stable without integration. Yeast Episomal...of marker gene expression is to use a partially defective promoter to drive expression of the selection...to be created in advance of the experiment. The marker provided by the plasmid may be expressed at higher...plasmid maintenance within an E. coli cell, but vectors can be widely utilized across many different cell...core replication and resistance features of yeast vectors and explain how they differ from the bacterial ...previously described. Why do scientists use yeast vectors? Yeast are eukaryotes and thus contain complex ...
  32. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    ...to reduce basal expression levels; expression vector cannot have p15A origin of replication F- ompT lon...) pLysE has higher T7 lysozyme expression than pLysS; expression vector cannot have p15A origin of replication...Rhamnose-tunable T7 RNAP expression alleviates inclusion body formation. Expression vector cannot have p15A origin...for recombinant protein expression. Many challenges can arise when over-expressing a foreign protein in ...to avoid them. Why do I need an expression strain? Protein expression from high-copy number plasmids and...Addgene's curated list of Bacterial Expression Systems Table 1: E. coli expression strains  Note: All strains ...General protein expression BL21 (DE3) pLysS* Chloramphenicol (pLysS) pLysS expresses T7 lysozyme to ...
  33. Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems

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    ...cerevisiae expression vectors are available at Addgene. A set of mammalian expression vectors containing... be easily expressed in non-mammalian cells. Yeast expression plasmids The yeast expression constructs....  Bacterial expression plasmids For those constructs to be used in bacterial expression systems, Ginkgo...backbones which drive expression using either TEF1 or GAL1 promoters. These vectors are intended for the...tag, cleavage, codon usage, and expression system. Mammalian expression plasmids Finally a set of wild ... (spike protein) cloned into a CMV driven expression vector are also available. These contain no tags ...coding genes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae expression vectors in late March. The first set of 383 constructs...
  34. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - December 2019

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    ...pAAV.hSynapsin.SF-iGluSnFR.A184S Viral vectors coming soon! These vectors should be packaged and available ... of our viral vectors blog posts Find tips for preparing AAVs Download our viral vectors 101 eBook Resources...new tools to our inventory of ready-to-use viral vectors. Here are some of the AAV we have released in the...pAAV-hSyn Con/Fon hChR2(H134R)-EYFP that is both Cre and Flp dependent. Plasmid Serotype Name 124603...only interpret their results, but also confirm expression in target cells. While the various AAV serotypes... can be used to achieve different patterns of expression, researchers often need to determine these transduction...under control of the CAG promoter for ubiquitous expression. (For more details on this technology, see our...
  35. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ...Yeast Expression Vectors Find Bacterial Two Hybrid Plasmids Read our Blog Post About Yeast Vectors Read...activation. Vary the expression levels of bait and prey proteins - overexpression can lead to false interactions...interactions. Lowered expression levels will increase the stringency of your binding. And most importantly...ends’ of your protein are screened for binding. Using a variety of expression levels and systems can alleviate...produce a more vigourous screen is to use a number of different bait and prey vectors. This has been shown...During this period, proteins were successfully expressed as fusions that retain their individual activities...see Figure 2a) (4). These fusions are then co-expressed in a yeast strain that also contains a reporter...
  36. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ...that have excised the vector backbone. Vectors pTOX4, pTOX5, and pTOX6 express the YhaV, MqsR, and Tse2...excision of the vector backbone. To do this, rhamnose is added which induces expression of the toxin. Any...encode the amilCP chromoprotein. Vectors pTOX7, pTOX8, and pTOX9 express the YhaV, MqsR, and Tse2 toxins...chromoproteins to create negative selection markers for allelic exchange. These vectors contain a toxin ...gfasPurple) (Figure 2). Figure 2: Chromoprotein expression from bacteria on agar plate. Image: Liljeruhm...intensities, maturation times, and fitness cost of expression. They found that the cellular fitness cost varied...lost color overnight in liquid culture, though expressing the chromoproteins from the chromosome could ...
  37. Using Addgene's New Viral Service for Your Research

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    ...Expanding the viral vector knowledge base: You can help! We’ve been expanding our viral vector educational resources...Beginners Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview AAV: A Versatile Tool for Gene Expression in Mammals Additional...gene, replace it, modulate its expression, or perform a genome-wide screen, we’ve got viruses to help you...spending time and money producing virus from select vectors in the repository yourself, you can now order ready-to-use... production process while still ordering viral vectors. Virus production can be a frustrating process ...Lentivirus As some of the most popular lentiviral vectors in the repository are used to produce CRISPR tools...experiments, while rtTA can be used to activate expression of a gene under the control of the tet operator...
  38. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    ...selectable markers that are only expressed when the targeting vector is inserted downstream of a functional...them sequentially into the chosen acceptor vector. The vectors are then packaged into AAV virions via transient...Check out our Viral Service Find AAV Vectors Browse all Viral Vectors ...fantastic gene delivery vehicles for episomal gene expression and are particularly useful for gene delivery...well understood, researchers have been using AAV vectors for gene editing in mammalian cells since 1998....when delivered via AAV infection, gene targeting vectors with relatively short (1 kb) homology arms underwent...orders of magnitude higher than identical targeting vectors delivered through transfection of naked DNA. Other...
  39. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    ...yeast expression, worm expression, insect expression, plant expression, mouse targeting, CRISPR, TALEN,...mammalian expression, bacterial expression, lentiviral, retroviral, AAV, RNAi, luciferase, cre/lox, yeast...biosensor affinity for calcium.”  Primary Vector Type The vector type should describe how your plasmid ...indicate type in “Vector Type Other” column. For example, you may enter “donor template vector”. Cloning...plasmids containing the ccdB gene, such as Gateway vectors, choose the ccdB Survival strain. For plasmids ...and Organization where your plasmids were first created. From there, we’ll use the information in the ...
  40. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    ...easier to clone, express, and purify compared to antibodies. Nanobodies are easily expressed in the cytosol...#140702) The pMAK461-64 plasmids were expressed in SHuffle T7 Express competent E.coli (NEB) using IPTG induction...approaches rely on continual expression of both dCas9 and the gRNA. This expression can vary significantly ...fluorescently labeled piggyBac vectors for uniform and sustained expression of single or multiplexed gRNAs...and track cells expressing both dCas9 and gRNAs. The multi-gRNA piggyBac vector integrates into ...First, the authors created the pMAK backbone by modifying pMAL-T-Avi-His/BirA, a vector commonly used for... the mCitrine gene. mCherry is constitutively expressed. Cells are then cultured and FACS sorted. Image...
  41. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ...counterselection vector is the pDS132 sacB-based allelic exchange vector. This vector contains sacB, an...Tight control of toxin expression is absolutely necessary, because leaky expression of toxin could select... interfering with expression of surrounding genes. However, there are ways to create scarless mutations...recombineering (Khetrapal et al., 2015). They created vectors for Lambda Red that contained one of eight ...introduce a mutation in the chromosome is to disrupt expression of a gene with an antibiotic resistance cassette...selecting for an antibiotic resistance marker from the vector (abR, Figure 1). The resolution step (“double crossover...leads to the desired mutation and excision of the vector backbone. This step requires “counter-selection...
  42. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    ...Vital component for expression vectors: determines which cell types the gene is expressed in and amount of... referred to as “vectors” or “constructs.” To insert a gene of interest into a vector, scientists may ...plasmid with its elements described below.   Vector Element Description Origin of Replication (ORI...sites allowing for the easy insertion of DNA. In expression plasmids, the MCS is often downstream from a ...Regardless, once the cloning steps are complete, the vector containing the newly inserted gene is transformed...Generally, scientists use plasmids to manipulate gene expression in target cells. Characteristics such as flexibility...common plasmid types include cloning plasmids, expression plasmids, gene knock-down plasmids, reporter ...
  43. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    ...About Viral Vector Elements Learn How to Do Genome-Wide Screens with CRISPR Lentiviral Vectors Additional...often employed to establish cell lines that stably express a gene of interest. While the general approach ...quiescent cells do not take up nucleic acid or express transgenes as well as actively dividing cells resulting...compete with host cells for nutrients and can alter expression of receptors, ion channels, and growth factors...on a variety of factors such as the transgene expressed, the viral storage buffers used, and other experimental... by the envelop protein. Many times lentiviral vectors are engineered with non-native envelopes, a process...will be able to overcome differences in receptor expression. It's all in the mix Even before the lentiviral...
  44. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    ...plasmids and expressed via cells cultured with the vectors. This allows the viral vectors to reproduce...Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools Viral Vectors 101:...able to create far safer viral vectors that can be used in BSL-1 or BSL-2 labs. Viral vectors are viruses..., just to increase the viral vector’s carrying capacity. In order to allow the viral vectors to reproduce...of Viral Vectors 101 posts about each type, so be sure to check our blog, or our Viral Vectors 101 eBook...As a bonus, this increases the carrying capacity of the viral vector, increasing both safety and usefulness...removed. This means the vector can deliver a genetic payload to a cell but cannot create new particles. As ...
  45. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    ...Cas9. Adenoviral CRISPR vectors (left) or CRISPR vectors and donor DNA vectors (right) are transduced ...need to use a two viral vectors system: one vector for Cas9/sgRNA and one vector for your specific DNA ...gRNA and Cas9 using adenoviral vectors As compared to other viral vectors, AdVs can provide a large transgene...than AAV vectors. This capacity is large enough to carry the Cas9 gene and a gRNA expression cassette ...adenoviral vectors Since then, other groups have successfully developed and used AdV vectors to edit genes...to labs wishing to create this kind of animal models. Start using adenoviral vectors with your CRISPR/Cas9...updated Dec 10, 2020 by Benoit Giquel.   Adenoviral vectors (AdVs) have been used for many years for in vivo...
  46. Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids

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    ...be used to create recombinant vectors that can replicate in different bacteria and express proteins within... S. (2011). Broad-host-range plasmid vectors for gene expression in bacteria. Methods in Molecular Biology...Gill, R. T. (2010). Broad-host-range vectors for protein expression across gram negative hosts. Biotechnology...Cloning Vectors for Gram-Negative Bacteria. In R. L. Rodriguez & D. T. Denhardt (Eds.), Vectors (pp. 287...in nature can inform us on how to create better recombinant vectors. In this blog post, we’ll define plasmid...can harness those features to create broad host range recombinant vectors.  A plasmid’s host range is ...range replicons, recombinant vectors can be modified further to increase the range of hosts in which proteins...
  47. Adenoviral Vector Production and Troubleshooting

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    ...method for creating adenoviral vector constructs. It consists of 2 plasmids: a shuttle vector (in which...Adenoviral vectors (AdV) are attractive vectors for research applications and gene therapy: they can ...Three generations of adenoviral vectors: the first generation vectors are deficient in the E1 and E3 regions... second generation vectors are deficient in E1, E2, E3, and E4. Gutless Ad vectors (helper-dependent (...therapy due their increased cloning capacity (up to 36 kb!), long-term transgene expression and negligible...death of transduced cells and loss of transgene expression (Interestingly, the strong immunogenicity of ...Adenovirus type 5. Three generations of adenoviral vectors The adenovirus virion is a non-enveloped particle...
  48. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    ...System Application Mammalian expression vector Promoter driving Cas9 expression can be constitutive or inducible...electroporation. Transient expression of CRISPR components, expression decreases as RNA is degraded within...cationic lipids. Transient expression of CRISPR components, expression decreases as gRNA and Cas9 protein...included with each expression system as well as suitable applications. Expression System Components ... in a single lentiviral transfer vector or separate transfer vectors. May contain reporter gene (e.g. ... AAV transfer vector and used to generate AAV particles. Transient or stable expression of SaCas9 and/...repress gene expression? Are you trying to create a single point mutation? Do you want to create a fusion ...
  49. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    ...target cells that are positive for vector encoded transgene expression following transduction with serial...target cell line with your virus and assaying for expression of a gene carried on the transfer plasmid or ...primers that target the common features of viral vector backbones; once validated these universal primers...higher than for functional assays depending on the vector backbone. When using qPCR based methods for viral...plasmid which can over-inflate results. A packing vector deficient in reverse transcriptase will produce... prep. This method is particularly useful when vectors carrying fluorescent markers are used as it eliminates...addition, promoter choice can also impact transgene expression. The most accurate method of lentiviral titration...
  50. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...Description Expression Additional considerations CMV General expression mRNA Strong mammalian expression promoter...lower expression than U6. May have better expression in neuronal cells. U6 small RNA expression shRNA...promoter with somewhat weak expression. lacIq mutation increases expression of the repressor 10x, thus ...some cell types. EF1a General expression mRNA Strong mammalian expression from human elongation factor ...give consistent expression regardless of cell type or physiology. SV40 General expression mRNA Mammalian...  Commonly used in expression systems for Drosophila. Polyhedrin General expression mRNA  Strong insect...Constitutive  Commonly used in expression systems for insect cells. CaMKIIa Gene expression for optogenetics mRNA...
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