Skip to main content

We narrowed to 376 results for: fus

Showing: 51 - 100 of 376 results
  1. Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...reversible oligomerization when fused to a protein of interest. Fusion protein oligomerization happens...cryptochrome-interacting basic-helix-loop-helix) protein. After fusing the CRY2 and CIB1 domains to separate proteins ...used to control homo-oligomerization of a protein fused to CRY2, although some studies have shown that this...derivative of the opsin CoChR, termied soCoChR, by fusing a fragment of the kainate receptor subunit to the... the C-terminus of the protein. Unlike the diffuse neuronal expression observed with wild type CoChR, ...which TagRFP-T and Dronpa flanked a PKA substrate fused to the phosphopeptide binding domain FHA. The FHA1...
  2. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...repressor) fusion protein, the authors show that the VP16 transcription activation domain fusion increases... in cellular functional imaging and in protein fusions. The Gadella lab has deposited all mScarlet constructs...activity. In addition, proteins can be “caged” by fusion to specific domains thereby rendering them inactive... base editing technique uses dCas9/Cas9 nickase fused to a cytidine deaminase for targeted conversion ...minimum efficiency of ~50% and confirmed that the fusion protein retained the PAM properties of the individual...the B. subtilis libraries Transcription factor fusions elucidate iPSC reprogramming mechanism The Ptashne... efficiency of iPSC reprogramming while the HP1 fusion eliminates reprogramming. These results argue that...
  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...validate that the fusion protein localizes properly by comparing the signal from the fusion itself to the ...fluorescent tag. Once expressed as a fluorescent protein fusion, it is possible to track your protein of interest...finally degraded (2, 3). Once you've created your fusion protein, it's important to validate its function...always possible, to use inert fluorescent protein fusions to visualize subcellular structures. For example...example, you might use your fluoresent protein fused to a signal sequence that traffics the fluorescent protein...size – it is possible that a large or charged FP fusion can change the subcellular localization of a protein...
  4. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...are just one (admittedly large) class of common fusion protein tags. Biochemists and molecular biologists...amassed a considerable molecular tool box of tags and fusion proteins to aid in the expression and purification..., glutathione S-transferase (GST), which can be fused to recombinant proteins for one-step purification...immunoprecipitating, or purifying that protein may be to fuse an affinity tag to it. The FLAG, hemaglutinin antigen...column. Like other affinity tags, a His tag can be fused to either the N- or C-terminus of a protein. Unlike... available, and though adding too many tags and fusion proteins to your protein of interest would eventually...scientists use tags, with a few time-tested tags and fusion proteins as examples. The tables list more common...
  5. Exploring Applications of the Bioluminescent HiBiT Tag

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...results that don't reflect true biology. Fluorescent fusions utilizing bulky tags can disrupt normal cell biology...with a minimally disruptive tag. Find HiBiT-TP53 Fusion Vector at Addgene! Following extracellular RNA ...tracking proteomic cargo flow via EVs. Find ADAR-HiBiT Fusion Vector at Addgene! Watching protein degradation...extracellular-specific and full lytic measurements. Find CFTR-HiBiT Fusion Vector at Addgene! Real-time tracking of receptor...the cell surface. Find HiBiT-EGFR and EGFR-HiBiT Fusion Vectors at Addgene! Measuring messengers: growth...(Peach et al., 2021). They used HiBiT and LgBiT fusion proteins to track how specific modifications to...the heteromeric receptor complex. Find sHiBiT-KDR Fusion Vector at Addgene! HiBiT advances detection of ...
  6. Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...vacuolar/lysosomal and cytoplasmic Rosella. When fused with a mitochondria-targeting sequence, Rosella ...mitochondria, or mitophagy. Rosella can also be fused to a protein of interest to track the autophagy ... This autophagy biosensor contains mRFP and GFP fused to the autophagy-related microtubule-associated ...puncta turning red (GFP negative/RFP positive) upon fusion of an autophagosome with a lysosome. An increase...to more yellow and red puncta, while a block at fusion of autophagosomes with lysosomes leads to an increase...Fluorescent Protein, but following translation, this fusion protein is cleaved to generate one molecule of ...
  7. Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...Nano-lanterns contain a Renilla luciferase variant fused to an FP; when supplied with a luciferase substrate...applications, including optogenetics, biosensors, and fusion proteins. Solving the problems of low luminescence...Saito et al. described the first Nano-lantern, a fusion of a mutagenized Renilla luciferase (RLuc8) with...Renilla luciferase variant are used to excite the fused fluorescent protein. This technique is very similar...compartments over several minutes using Nano-lantern fusion proteins. To further improve long-term imaging,... as good reporter genes for endogenous protein fusions created using CRISPR/Cas9. eNLs offer high luminescent...
  8. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...Monitor dynamics of vesicle fusion and release from the plasma membrane by fusing various vesicle cargoes ...more popular timers (whether as part of protein fusions or expressed independently) originally fluoresce...expressed, either in whole cells or as a pool of fusion proteins localized to a specific region of the ...expressing a single FP-timer protein or protein fusion. This one protein method simplifies cloning and...between models for trafficking to the lysosome by fusing Medium-FT to LAMP-2A, a lysosome-associated membrane...
  9. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...turnover rates. Additionally, by engineering FP fusions associated with cellular organelles, scientists...processes, including mitosis, mitochondrial fission/fusion, nuclear import, and neuronal trafficking. Although... pitfalls of overexpressed fluorescent protein fusions is to replace the genomic copy of your gene of ...of interest with a fluorescent protein fusion. CRISPR genome editing can help accomplish this goal. The..., allows users to easily create C-terminal tag fusions of endogenous genes in human cells. To use CRISPaint...users to generate a plasmid containing a direct fusion of the desired gRNA to the U6 promoter, and a second...
  10. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... create an abasic (empty) DNA site using either fused or endogenous Uracil DNA N-glycosylase (UNG) enzymes...researchers at HuidaGene Therapeutics guessed that fusing MPG to an ABE would allow it to act on newly-deaminated...nucleobase hypoxanthine + a ribose sugar. Their fusion of wild-type MPG to an ABE was able to edit A →...al., 2023). gGBE consists only of engineered MPG fused to nCas9. First, MPG removes the G base from DNA...invented. CGBE C → G Base Editor Converts C → G by fusing a uracil DNA glycosylase to a CBE; the first type... H. (2023). Programmable A-to-Y base editing by fusing an adenine base editor with an N-methylpurine DNA...
  11. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... neurons and show that smFPs fusions provided better labels than fusions to 3 or more HA tags. 4. High-resolutions...synapses for instance. Also these tags need to be fused to scaffold proteins in order to be expressed stably...contrast to epitope tags, FPs are bigger and their fusion to a POI can affect protein folding and protein-protein...proteins (smFPs). smFPs are literally composed of FPs fused to multiple epitope tags. Indeed, to create the ...difficult to distinguish using standard antibodies. By fusing N-cadherin to smFPs the Looger team was able to...
  12. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...epitope tag fusions to a protein of interest. The plasmids used to generate these fusions all use the ...of functions via different fusions. Some applications of PUF protein fusions reported in the literature...leader sequence. Using a variety of GFP and RFP fusions as their test genes, the researchers at the BIOFAB...little as 3 days. Abil et al., 2014 show that you can fuse custom PUF proteins to a translational repressor...
  13. Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...complexes, scientists can simply express a bait protein fused to BirA* in cells and then incubate those cells ...and allows scientists to more selectively target fusion proteins to specific locations in the cell.   Find...increased with higher expression levels but for many fusion proteins this would lead to protein/organelle aggregation... is an in vivo technique where two proteins are fused to complementary reporter proteins that can only...molecule that can reassemble to restore activity when fused to two interacting proteins (Schopp et al., 2016...Roux, Kyle J., et al. "A promiscuous biotin ligase fusion protein identifies proximal and interacting proteins...
  14. Addgene’s Expanding Collection of Research Tools for Industry Scientists

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...pCLIP-tag (m) Vector to generate a tagged fusion protein. Fusion proteins can then be covalently labeled...for bacterial expression, as well as a number of fusions for cellular localization studies including mEmerald-Mito...analysis and tools for tracking and detecting proteins fused to NanoLuc, HaloTag, SmBiT, and LgBiT. These plasmids...specificity to epitope tags such as HA or FLAG and are fused with different fluorescent proteins. The collection...
  15. Antibodies 101: Affinity Tags

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...45 kDa tag which can be purified (along with its fusion protein) with amylose resin. The MBP tag, although...Unlike MBP, the GST tag can be cleaved off from the fusion protein while it is still bound to the glutathione...proper folding of the tag, which prevents insoluble fusion proteins from being purified by GST (maybe try ...ions (Nickel, Cobalt, Copper, etc.), allowing His fusion proteins to be purified by single step metal affinity...affinity chromatography. Purification of His fusion proteins from E. coli is generally more straightforward...
  16. Hot Plasmids June 2018 - Reverse transcriptase, nanobody, and protein-DNA interaction tools

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...of plasmids each containing an anti-GFP nanobody fused with a different functional element (tyrosine sulfation...described here can be used to target any protein fused with GFP, YFP, mCerulean, or other related fluorophores... He made use of catalytically inactive dCas9 by fusing it to an engineered peroxidase, (APEX) that labels...plasmids, catalytically inactive Cas9 (dSpyCas9) fused to APEX2 is expressed from a Tet/Shield1 inducible...the 20 nm radius surrounding the dSpyCas9-APEX2 fusion.  This Sontheimer lab used this technology, which...
  17. HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...stable scaffold, part epitope binding region, all fused to a fluorescent protein. “Frankenbody,” like the...variable fragments (scFvs) (Inbar et al., 1972) are fused to mature fluorophores, and can bind and light up...scaffolds specific to different targets, the scientists fused them to sequences called complementarity determining...of interest tagged with the HA epitope, the lab fused a fluorescent protein to the hybrid anti-HA scFvs...sensitive cells such as living neurons, and can be fused to other fluorescent proteins and tags including...
  18. Bright Monomeric Fluorescent Proteins: mNeonGreen, mTFP1, and mWasabi

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...protein that they are fused to. The researchers constructed 22 different mTFP1 fusions to both the C- and...readout, respectively. mNeonGreen can be used as a fusion tag for a wide range of applications from traditional...mCitrine and mOrange or for live cell imaging of fusions and FRET reporters. mTFP1 is also insensitive to...termini of the fluorescent protein and found that the fusion protein localized to their expected locations. ...
  19. Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...easier - now, one can generate a fluorescent protein fusion, transcriptional reporter, and loss-of-function...template plasmid to create fluorescent and 3xFLAG-tag fusion proteins. The repair template and Cas9-sgRNA plasmid...loss-of-function allele as well as a promoter-FP fusion for the gene of interest. L1/L2 larvae from these...phenotype. These animals contain a fluorescent protein fusion for the targeted gene. After initial testing, Dickinson...genome. Although they tested fluorescent protein fusions, this system could be used to make many other genome...
  20. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...sample. The second sensor is a fusion protein consisting of sfGFP fused to a His-tagged ABC transporter...exposed to ultraviolet light. To do so, she generated fusion proteins in which Dronpa domains flanked either...either side of an enzyme’s active site. In these fusions, ultraviolet light exposure caused oligomerization...iterations of FLiPs only used N- and C-terminal dronpa fusions. With these various designs, Xin has been able ...
  21. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...Moshe Szyf at McGill University. Some enzymatic fusions are godsends. Tethering dCas9 to the histone acetyltransferase...where they were absent before. But other enzymatic fusions, such as dCas9-TET, can, like the iron ball-and-chain...notoriety – as a tool of choice in the field: dCas9 fused to the enzymatic domain of TET1 or TET2 (Morita ...by dCas9 alone, without TET (or any demethylase) fusion. This may seem counterintuitive: how can a DNA-...–peptide repeat and scFv–TET1 catalytic domain fusions. Nat Biotechnol 34, 1060–1065. https://doi.org/...
  22. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... own. When the two fragments come together, they fuse and fluoresce. The team engineered C. elegans cell...2020.07.02.185249 Predicting cell cycle length with a histone-fused fluorescent timer By Kate Harten DeMaio Studies ...Shangqin Guo and her colleagues at Yale University fused a color-changing fluorescent timer (FT) protein ...hours in primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts. This fusion protein can be used to determine cell cycle length...lentiviral preps at Addgene hSyn1-SIO-stGtACR1-FusionRed is a Cre-dependent, soma-targeting inhibitory ...
  23. Nanoblades: Tiny CRISPR Ninjas for Genome Editing Difficult Cells

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...purified by centrifugation. Gag-Cas9 fusion protein The MLV Gag protein fused to a Flag-tagged SpCas9 is incorporated...transcriptional activator dCas9-VPR, if these variants are fused to the MLV Gag in place of SpCas9. gRNA A gRNA targeting...association with the the Cas9 portion of the Gag-Cas9 fusion protein. A single Nanoblade particle can be loaded...space surrounding the zygote, where they can then fuse with the target cell membrane, and transfer their...
  24. Plasmids 101: Degron Tags

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... that they only facilitate degradation of their fused protein under certain conditions (typically the ...novel degrader of the 12 kDa protein FKBP12F36V. By fusing FKPB12F36V to your protein of interest, it can ...molecule which induces dimerization of the FKPB12F36V fusion protein with the endogenous CRBN E3 ligase complex...complex which will polyubiquitinate the fusion protein. This will target the protein of interest to the ... molecules induce dimerization of an FKBP12F36V fused target protein-of-interest and the CRBN E3 ligase...
  25. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... perfectly capable of synthesizing fluorophore fusions on their own. Subsequent advances in fluorescent...moving from transient overexpression of protein fusions to gene-edited cells can decrease the number of... (1) a genetically encoded “tag” expressed as a fusion with your favorite protein and (2) a synthetic ...small-molecule labeling approaches can provide a fresh infusion of photons for your imaging experiment. Innovative...Resources on Addgene.org Generate Fluorescent Protein Fusions Request Plasmids from the Michael Davidson Collection...
  26. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...constantly being developed! Fusion tagging: One of the most common uses, GFP can be fused to the N- or C-terminus...of empty backbones for constructing fluorescent fusions. Transcription Reporter: Placing GFP under the ...overlapping excitation/emission spectra are used; one fused to each protein or domain being tested. Find FRET...interactions. In this case, two portions of EGFP are fused to the proteins of interest, and when they come ...
  27. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) alone or a dCas9 fused to the omega subunit of RNA polymerase, the lab   ...for CRISPRi and CRISPRa using RNAP-Omega-dCas9 fusions. Here’s some others. SoxS based CRISPRa In the ...The authors were able to engineer a dCas9 variant fused to bacterial enhancer binding protein required for...editing. This process is generally accomplished by fusing an enzyme capable of converting one base to another...identified a cytidine deaminase, PmCDA1, that could be fused to dCas9 and efficiently introduce cytosine-to-thymine...glycosylase inhibitor and degradation tag on the fusion protein to limit the activity of the system as ...
  28. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... of E. coli tRNA adenosine deaminases (ecTadA), fused it with dCas9, and transformed it into E. coli harboring...and tomato using a CRISPR-Cas9 cytidine deaminase fusion." Nature biotechnology 35.5 (2017): 441. PubMed... wheat and maize with a Cas9-cytidine deaminase fusion." Nature biotechnology 35.5 (2017): 438. PubMed...Efficient C-to-T base editing in plants using a fusion of nCas9 and human APOBEC3A." Nature biotechnology...rice and wheat using a Cas9-adenosine deaminase fusion." Genome biology 19.1 (2018): 59. PubMed PMID: ...
  29. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...binding scFv that’s fused to GFP. When the multiple copies of the scFv-GFP fusion bind the SunTag scaffold...smaller than antibodies. scFvs are often genetically fused to other proteins, which has led to their application...detection probe. It contains an HA-binding scFv that’s fused to a fluorescent protein such as GFP. The HA frankenbody...brings T cells to a tumor site. ScFvs can also be fused to cellular toxins, radioisotopes, cytokines, and...
  30. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...and deposited versions with both PDGFR and NGR fusions for membrane display, they recommend the NGR vectors... Figure 4: STITCHR consists of a nicking Cas9 fused to a shortened R2Tocc transposon protein, and can...the transposon RNA homology both help direct the fusion construct to the new genomic locus. Image courtesy...After minimizing the system's size, the scientists fused the retrotransposon protein R2Tocc to a Cas9 nickase...better kinetics and less background labeling. By fusing miniTurboID with dCas9 to create TurboCas, the ...
  31. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... expression. However, one caveat of FP-protein fusions (FP-chimeras) is that they undergo normal protein...their continuous excitation. By generating PA-FPs fused to intracellular proteins, scientists can track ...as organelle trafficking and dynamics (fission, fusion, etc). For example, by engineering PA-GFP tagged...Youle Lab was able to visualize and quantify the fusion dynamics of mitochondria in healthy and apoptotic... individual organelles shows that mitochondrial fusion is blocked during the Bax activation phase of apoptosis...
  32. Our Most Popular Blog Posts from 2019

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...generating GFP fusion proteins. From considering protein size and shape, linker sequences, and fusion location...they’re free. 3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection by Joachim...control and flexibility to CRISPR editing. Using a fusion between Cas9 and reverse transcriptase and a prime...
  33. CRISPR Guide

    Type
    Guide
    ...Molecular Cell , 73 (4), 714-726.e4. PMID: 30581144 Fu, Y., Foden, J. A., Khayter, C., Maeder, M. L., Reyon...Nature Biotechnology , 31 (9), 822–826. PMID: 23792628 Fu, Y., Sander, J. D., Reyon, D., Cascio, V. M., & Joung...Transcriptase (M-MLV RT) is fused to the C-terminus of Cas9 H840A nickase. The fusion enzyme can catalyze targeted...dCas9-VPR — dCas9 fused to several different activation domains in series; a single fusion protein, instead...constitutive expression of the dCas9 fusion and/or expression of multiple fusions. The effects of CRISPRi/a may...Small Edits Large Edits Genome-Wide Screening Cas9 Fusion Tools Cas9 Alternatives Resources Plan Your Experiment...This means proteins with other functions can be fused to a dCas9 and delivered to specific genomic locations...
  34. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...desired (Figure 1). The probe perfuses liquid, which causes the passive diffusion of DA across the semipermeable...extracellular fluid into the perfused liquid. The probe then collects the perfusion liquid for quantitation...
  35. Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... of a quickly-degraded destabilized GFP variant fused to a 4X CDRE repeat. In addition to showing that...2Fmic2020.04.713 Truncated TALE-fluorescent protein fusions as a DNA staining dye Article contributed by Jennifer...Kyubong Jo's lab generated fluorescent protein fusions with tTALE to “stain” DNA. TALE proteins can bind...structural deformation or photo-induced damage. These fusions can also function in high salt conditions - up ...
  36. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...protein. The prime editor consists of a Cas9 nickase fused to a reverse transcriptase. The Cas9 nickase is ...strand. The first iteration of prime editor simply fused the wild-type Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus (M-MLV...thermostability. What came out on top? The Cas9 nickase fused to a pentamutant of M-MLV RT. They called this system...3′ tail of pegRNAs (Yan et al., 2024). The team fused La to the C-terminal end of PEmax to produce PE7...pegRNA stability ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ✖ Fuse RNA-binding protein La to the prime editor Improve...
  37. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...demonstrate that they can successfully create GFP fusion proteins with a variety of genes across the genome...dehydrogenation). MitoTimers are composed of a Timer protein fused to the mitochondrial targeting sequence of cytochrome...perform multiple site mutagenesis and create complex fusion or recombination vectors. The efficient and flexible... is a monomeric, 27 kD genetic tag which can be fused to proteins of interest for EM imaging, or targeted...colleagues, FokI-dCas9 expresses Fok1 nuclease domain fused to catalytically inactive Cas9 DNA-binding domain...single reaction, while retaining only a defined 4bp fusion site in between. The MoClo system is comprised...
  38. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...domain.  How do these components interact? When fused together to form an OptoNB, the AsLOV2 domain acts...Since Ras is a membrane localized GTPase, the team fused a mCherry OptoNB to the catalytic domain of the ...that activates Ras. They expressed this OptoNB-SOS fusion protein in cells that expressed membrane-localized...activity Read about RANbodies, reporter nanobody fusions Learn more about using the secondary nanobody toolbox...
  39. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... delivery into mammalian cells, especially when fused to effector proteins for gene activation or gene...the new system was able to activate expression by fusing dCas12f to VP64. Read the paper in Nature Biotechnology...combines an endogenous Gag homolog, cargo RNA, and fusogen in a modular system for delivering gene editing...active Cas9 enzyme. PE-Cas9 comprises an active Cas9 fused to the reverse transcriptase (RT), which induces...
  40. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...its target.  They name their most potent Acr-LOV fusion protein inhibitor CASANOVA for “CRISPR-Cas9 activity...works with the S. pyogenes Cas9, dCas9-effector fusions, and xCas9, and requires no additional chemicals...plasmid tools which includes plasmids encoding a fusion between cPYP and tgRFP (PLL7.0 tgRFP cPYP), and...or dark- state of the photoswitchable proteins) fused to mVenus linked to a mitochondrial localization...
  41. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... Early efforts tested whether or not FP-tubulin fusion proteins could properly form microtubule networks...networks in cells. Other efforts tested whether FP fusions to connexin localized correctly to gap junctions...OSER assay with a number of fluorescent proteins. Fusions of CytERM with mTurquoise2 and dTomato, which are... localization and biological properties of new fusions can be compared with mEGFP or mTurquoise2, which...
  42. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... cytoplasmic contents. Autophagosomes that have fused with the vacuole or a lysosome are trickier to identify... are degraded or released once an autophagosome fuses with the vacuole or lysosome. Rosella fluorescent...They are connected by a 9 amino acid linker that’s fused to the C-terminus of DsRed.T3. See Table 1 for a...Sargsyan et al. It is also possible to make Rosella fusions and thereby monitor autophagy of your protein of...
  43. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... the second type of these GEVIs: a FP-fused rhodopsin. FP-fusion to rhodopsin resulted in electrochromic... Simply put, VSD-based sensors consist of a VSD fused to a single fluorescent protein (FP). This class...imaging.   Figure 1: Ace-mScarlet is a fusion between the voltage-sensitive inhibitory rhodopsin...
  44. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...exact entry for your favorite gene fused to an epitope tag or fusion protein. If your sequencing primer...An alignment omitting repeated regions can be confusing, such as when you attempt to verify the starting...primer was chosen to confirm a tag or fusion protein is in-frame, we recommend using blastx with the "Align...
  45. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...ectopically expressed in most organisms. Furthermore, fusing FPs to another protein usually does not affect ...and 2) to visualize the localization of the FP (fused to the protein of interest), thus tracking the localization...used to determine the proximity of two proteins fused to the halves of the split FP. This technique is...This may affect the biological function of the FP-fusion protein. Therefore, it is recommended to use monomeric...
  46. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...has focused on transcriptional activation using a fusion to a transcriptional activator such as VP64 (Gilbert...transcriptional activators (Qi et al., 2013). However, the fusion of dCas9 with a protein tag allows for the isolation... DNA fragment (Fujita et al., 2016). 3xFLAG-tag fused to dCas9, along with a biotinylated gRNA, were successfully... (Liu et al., 2017). This system utilizes dCas9 fused to a biotinylation tag expressed on a plasmid, allowing...
  47. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...modular approach combines an interchangeable set of fusogenic and targeting components to reprogram delivery...Modular features of DIRECTED particles where the fusion and targeting components are interchangeable. Image...targetable cell types. DIRECTED is compatible with fusogens from different viral families and can be used ...transcriptional history of a cell. Lin et al. generated a fusion protein called iPAK4 that assembles into a slow-growing...
  48. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...MagIC-cryo-EM, target proteins (expressed as a GFP fusion in this proof-of-concept study) are captured on...programmable epigenetic editor consisting of dCas9 fused to a DNA methyltransferase — that can drive lasting...silencing, which can be toxic, CHARM uses a cofactor fused to a histone tail to recruit and stimulate the endogenous...multiplexed targets.   Figure 4: CHARM uses a fusion of the DNMT3L cofactor (D3L) with a histone tail...
  49. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...killswitch can be genetically fused to a protein of interest or targeted to a GFP fusion protein using an anti-GFP...of interest fused to GFP forms fluorescent biomolecular condensates. A GFP-nanobody fused to the killswitch...
Showing: 51 - 100 of 376 results