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  1. Cancer Research Plasmids and Resources

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    ...of plasmids for cancer research, organized by signaling pathway. ... large variety of resources for use in cancer signaling studies, including mutant, knockdown, and overexpression...below organizes the plasmids and resources by signaling pathway, focusing on the main pathways involved.... These pathways are important to normal cell signaling and physiology, and, when dysregulated, can enable... mTOR mTOR is a protein kinase that anchors a signaling network for transitioning between anabolic and... Labs containing cDNAs for studying oncogenic signaling pathways. ClonTracer Library : Barcoding library...
  2. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ...are able to signal through more than one subtype. How GPCR signaling works GPCR signaling is initiated...subsequently another round of signaling.    Addgene Tools for Studying GPCR signaling  So with the hundreds ... three senses, GPCRs play roles in initiating signaling pathways in inflammation, and neurotransmission...neurotransmitters, photons or odorants, to elicit downstream signaling cascades.  So let’s break down the name "G-protein... G proteins are important molecular switches in signal transduction pathways and consist of a trimer of...subunits then induce or inhibit intracellular signaling cascades as a response to the extracellular stimuli...GPCRs out there, how can scientists decipher the signaling pathways from ligand to receptor to G-protein,...
  3. Flow Cytometry Readouts: Yes, No, and Everything in Between

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    ... that the signal for the positive population is no higher than 105 signal intensity. Signals any higher...better. The histogram shows peaks of high signal densities, so signal shifts due to upregulation or downregulation...indicates a higher signal, or upregulation, and a peak to the left indicates a lower signal, or downregulation...higher for a signal peak that shifts to the right on a histogram plot and lower for a signal peak that shifts... the voltage will shift it to the left. If your signal is too high, lower the voltage to have your positive...GFP protein are most likely to be clustered at signals below 103, while the GFP+ population cluster would... in comparison, say somewhere between a 104–105 signal intensity. If your samples and controls were processed...
  4. Ras Pathway

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    ...GTPases serve as molecular switches that transmit signals within the cell. GTPases have an active (GTP) and...physiological conditions GTPases play prominent roles in signaling pathways regulating cell migration, survival, ...growth, and differentiation. Schematic of Ras signaling cascade that starts at the plasma membrane. Cancer...containing SPRY SPRY1 SPRY2 SPRY3 SPRY4 Sprouty RTK signaling antagonist STK STK3 STK4 Serine/threonine kinase...;1773(8):1177-95. PubMed PMID: 17428555 . RAS signaling pathways, mutations and their role in colorectal....i5.97. PubMed PMID: 23799159 . Targeting RAS signalling pathways in cancer therapy. Downward J. Nat Rev...
  5. Working with Nuclear Receptors

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    ... of multiple cell signaling systems. Activation of membrane receptors and signaling cascades conceivably...Nuclear Receptor Signaling. Dr. McKenna edits the website of the Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas (NURSA)...actions instigated by the central nervous system signaling to peripheral effector organs, which then return...actions on other tissues. At the Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas (NURSA), one of our primary goals is to ...permit the integration and communication of such signals between central and peripheral organs because of...molecular sensors and governors of endocrine-hormone signaling. The success of members of this group stems in...acetyltransferases or CARM1 methyltransferase. This attendant signaling feature afforded by coactivator complexes suggests...
  6. Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody

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    ...light to discern the signal. If the exposure time is long (e.g. > 1/7s) then the signal is weak and vice ... versa for a strong signal. However, exposure time and its relationship to signal depend on what you’re...prominent, strong signal has a shorter exposure time than the negative control, and a weak signal has a longer...sample with the primary included to confirm that the signal is from the primary antibody and not from the background...negative control, such as showing a very bright signal only in the hippocampus compared to other regions... antibody has specific binding and has a strong signal. We call the unique pattern of the antibody binding... an expectation and comparison on the antibody signal’s location. If a distinct imaged pattern does NOT...
  7. Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot

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    ...In this example, a 1:1,000 dilution gives a high signal with low background. Created with biorender.com...during your transfer instead of one. If you see signal on both membranes, you know your protein is over-transferring...over-transferring! If you see very little signal, but you know you loaded a good amount of sample of a ...high background (insufficient blocking) or reduced signal (too much blocking.) If you’re having issues with...concentrations of blocking buffer. If you see a low signal, you can optimize blocking conditions by running...protein’s expected concentrations, you’ll see the signal increase as the concentration of the protein increases...samples. If multiple dilutions are showing the same signal (Figure 3B), that means the amount of protein loaded...
  8. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    ...variations in fluorescent signals, and how the machine reads/interprets the signals, the axis is instead divided...the cut-off value for a positive signal (Figure 8). Note that the signal is actually on the X axis; what...passes through the machine’s lasers and gives off a signal read by the machine’s sensors. (Usually this something...(right.) Each event is plotted by the amount of signal read from Marker A and Marker B. Created with biorender.com... divided into positive and negative signal at a point on the axis determined by the researcher, based ...frequency of events on the Y axis and strength of signal read on the X axis may be presented. A horizontal...peak is sufficiently narrow to count as a “true” signal.  Figure 8: A series of histograms from ...
  9. Antibodies 101: The Four ELISAs and When to Use Them

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    ...common enzyme-based reporter methods. For enzymatic signal detection, users provide a substrate that the enzyme...into a detectable product. Scientists compare the signal intensity of the sample to that of a standard curve...direct, indirect and sandwich ELISA the reporter signal is directly proportional to the level of antigen...sample whereas in a competitive ELISA the reporter signal is inversely proportional to the level of antigen...reacts with a provided substrate and produces a signal that is directly proportional to the level of antigen...background staining. Direct ELISAs also lack the signal amplification afforded by secondary antibodies ...single primary antibody and thereby amplify the signal. Since the primary antibody does not need to be...
  10. SunTag and Fluorescent Imaging

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    ...SunTag signal allowed them to cut their laser power by over 80% and still obtain a higher signal-to-noise...transcriptional activation. Multiple nuclear localization signals (NLS) increase protein import into the nucleus....lesson and created a system to amplify fluorescent signals. Named for the "stellar explosion SUperNova," SunTag...have to increase your imaging time to get enough signal. This workaround risks cellular phototoxicity and...short epitope GCN4. GCN4 recruits GFP fused to the cognate scFV antibody, which is expressed from a separate...system amplifies the intensity of the fluorescent signal and enables single molecule tracking  within living...traditional fluorescent proteins Improved brightness and signal-to-noise ratio Less chance of phototoxicity Reduced...
  11. Exploring Applications of the Bioluminescent HiBiT Tag

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    ...can obscure weak signals; photobleaching from the excitation light, causing the signal to gradually diminish...substrate generates a proportionate luminescent signal, strong enough to detect from proteins expressed... and even modest endogenous pools generate high signal-to-background luminescence (Schwinn et al., 2018... fractions (Shibata et al., 2023). Luminescence signal was used to confirm efficient EV loading of ADAR1...linking EV-mediated protein spread to enhanced malignant potential. This work highlights HiBiT tagging ...of CFTR was measured through decreases in HiBiT signal, which was slowed by knockdown of UBE3C or other...tyrosine kinase essential for cell proliferation signaling. CRISPR knock-in HiBiT-tagged EGFR cells allowed...
  12. RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions

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    ...they are detected with tyramide signal amplification. Tyramide signal amplification occurs when HRP converts... a ≥100-fold increase in signal over intrinsic fluorescence. Increased signal is likely due to lower background...cells and are secreted from cells due to their IgGκ signal peptide sequence, making them easy to harvest from...RANbody staining results in a ≥10-fold increase in signal over staining with a primary/ labeled secondary...is indistinguishable since they produce the same signal, so only one HRP-conjugated RANbody can be used...Method Uses Pros Cons Antigens HRP (P) Tyramide signal amplification of HRP Staining cultured cells and... and tissue sections Amplifying weak signals of fluorescent protein (i.e. GFP, RFP) Detecting GFP reconstitution...
  13. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    ...powerful the FRET signal. In well-designed FRET-based biosensors, the intensity of the FRET signal can be correlated...depolarization increases the BRET signal whereas hyperpolarization decreases the signal. The authors additionally...GpNLuc and OgNLuc BRET reporters produced bright signals without exogenous excitation and with OgNLuc being... later demonstrated a more than 2-fold brighter signal from Antares as compared to Fluc in this model....overcome these problems but has been hampered by dim signals from the coupled luciferase. This strategy was ...fusions coelenterazine intiates the fluorescent signal and these FP-RLuc8 fusions were dubbed Nano-Lanterns...proteins together thereby increasing their FRET signal. FRET is a non-radiative transfer of energy from...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    ...and fluorescent signaler. The pro of this system is the kinetic response time from signal input to readable... tools. Why Use Voltage Indicators? Electrical signals are integral to many facets of biology. For example...membrane of cardiac cells. Similarly, neuronal signaling is carried out by action potentials which are ...multiple cells to do things like translate perceived signals to physical actions. Understanding neuronal pathways... cells depends on the ability to monitor their signals – electricity! The research tools for studying ...which can make the kinetics of voltage sensing to signal output slightly slower than other approaches. Functionally... membrane, where it will then localize and emit signal from. This specific example is attractive due to...
  15. Using Ultrasound to Image Bacteria in vivo: Acoustic Reporter Genes

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    ... detects the signal of the reporter and fail to pinpoint what tissue or organ this signal is coming from... existing bacterial reporters Limited Depth of Signal/Imaging: Fluorescent reporters are not as well ...confounding factors when attempting to interpret signals from these reporters. Lack anatomical context/spatial...also scatter sound waves and therefore produce signals in ultrasound imaging. Ultrasound is an attractive...for differentiation of arg1 and arg2 ultrasound signals. This also means that multiplexing is possible ... arg1 gas vesicles and restore their ultrasound signal. Using acoustic reporter genes for in vivo imaging...localize to somewhere in the mouse abdomen. arg1 signal, however, can be overlaid onto anatomical ultrasound...
  16. Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns

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    ...transfers energy to the FP, resulting in a fluorescent signal. Since their first publication in 2012, the Nagai...transiently expressed in cells, generates much less signal than comparable fluorescent proteins. This weak...brightness over previous BRET probes, with sufficient signal for in vivo and in vitro imaging. Saito et al. ...previously described applications, the enhanced signal of eNL allows their use for the first time in single...with an eNL-based calcium sensor displaying a 500% signal change upon calcium binding. Suzuki et al. also... using CRISPR/Cas9. eNLs offer high luminescent signal for imaging of low-copy number proteins, whereas...fluorescent imaging due to autofluorescence and a high signal-to-noise ratio. Despite the many benefits of Nano-lantern...
  17. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    ...microenvironment’s malignancy but also incite different organs to become malignant. Exosomes also contain...on the conversion of non-malignant forms of cancer to invasive and malignant forms and noticed that myoepithelial...that when there’s less caveolin 1, there’s less malignancy because there’s less proliferation. However, ...increased expression of transforming growth factor-β signaling, possibly inducing the secretion of growth promoting...exosomes are tools of communication and provide malignancy to the microenvironment itself. They deliver ...myoepithelial cells prevented progression to malignancy, concluding that these cells may be considered...
  18. Brain Initiative Collection

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    ...Anion channelrhodopsin GtACR1 fused to ER export signal and targeted to the neuronal soma and proximal ...KGC-GFP-ER2 under the Syn promoter. Using bGHpA signal. Edward Boyden 115893-AAV8 pAAV-Syn-FLEX-rc [Archon1...floxed/reversed (Cre-dependent) manner. Using bGHpA signal. Edward Boyden 117382-AAV2 hSyn1-eYFP An AAV genome...for photoswitchable control of inhibitory GPCR signaling cascades. Michael Bruchas 139505-AAV8 pAAV-Ef1a-DIO-PPO-Venus...for photoswitchable control of inhibitory GPCR signaling cascades. Michael Bruchas 139505-AAV9 pAAV-Ef1a-DIO-PPO-Venus...for photoswitchable control of inhibitory GPCR signaling cascades. Michael Bruchas 140135-AAV1 pAAV-EF1a-iCreV...
  19. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ... the case of pHlash, the signal from the fluorophore is pH-dependent. Signal is simultaneously acquired...occurs via antibody-peptide labeling; specifically, cognate peptide epitopes fused to the protein of interest... system amplifies the intensity of fluorescence signal and enables tracking of single molecules within... to increase the brilliance of your fluorescent signal and endogenous activation of your target gene! ... must be controlled independently; that is, the signal to record one bit of information must not act on...phage integrases which act irreversibly on their cognate attB/attP sites with no cross-talk. These pairs... plasmid or in various combinations, while the cognate att sites are supplied as individual reporter constructs...
  20. Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry

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    ...positive signal, even for rare cellular markers, beads can sometimes distort the fluorescent signature upon...fluorophore. For example, in figure 1, the FITC signal is spilling over into the primary detector for ...flow since the machine uses the full spectral signature, not just a narrow band, to discern one marker... two fluorophores that have distinct spectral signatures and a low similarity index. In figure 3, we can...controls tell the software to look for that exact signature within your fully stained samples. If you are ...are a convenient tool to obtain a strong positive signal for a given fluorophore, as they contain a mixture...accounted for in order to distinguish the spectral signature of a fluorophore itself from the autofluorescence...
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