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  1. TALEN Plasmids and Kits

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    ...determined by customizable arrays of polymorphic amino acid repeats in the TAL effectors. View Addgene'...DNA-binding ability of TALEs), 63 wild-type TAL amino acids after the repeat domain, and C-terminal SV40...
  2. Rinehart Lab Phosphoprotein Reagents

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    ...serine phosphorylation by adding this phosphorylated amino acid to the genetic code of E. coli (Park et al....consist of a central phosphoserine site flanked by 15 amino acids on either side occurring within the parent...
  3. Luciferase Plasmid Collection

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    ...into Large (LgBiT; 18 kDa) and Small (SmBiT; 11 amino acids) fragments for protein-protein interaction...fluorophore to Troponin C Ca 2+ binding domain. Luminopsins : Luciferase-opsin fusion proteins for bioluminescent...
  4. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life

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    ...resource to have in your pocket.   5. +AMINO- by iGreenEarth AMINO is a very simple app that packs important...abbreviations of the amino acids memorized, but the structures are another story. AMINO has been very helpful...properties of or draw an amino acid or peptide for some reason. It contains all twenty amino acids plus selenocysteine...wishing that it had a codon list for each amino acid, but, overall AMINO can be beneficial for new researchers...important biological information, amino acid abbreviations, and structures into one convenient resource. ... Promega Material Safety Data Sheet by RSS-ICTD Amino Acid Structure Quiz/Card by Andrey Solovyev Lab ... He works with gene expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Follow him on twitter @100percentSDS.     Additional...
  5. GCE4All: Making Genetic Code Expansion Accessible

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    ...in which non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs, also sometimes called unnatural amino acids) are placed in a...re probably quite interested in the canonical 20 amino acids. But in your quest to learn more about your...protein of interest, you may find the available amino acids a bit…limiting. It may be time, then, to look...allowed for intentional incorporation of an unnatural amino acid in translation (Noren et al., 1989). In the...developed into an E. coli system, with the noncanonical amino acid in the media and the tRNAs and synthetase introduced...First, and most obviously, you need a non-canonical amino acid, which is usually added to the media for uptake...result in the incorporation of the non-canonical amino acid at the site of interest (figure 1). While the...
  6. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    ...genes encoding amino acid biosynthetic enzymes may be preferentially charged during amino acid starvation...preferences for the codons they use to encode specific amino acids. This is possible because there are 4 bases...There are therefore 64 possible codons but only 20 amino acids and 3 stop codons to encode leaving 41 codons...result is redundancy; multiple codons encode single amino acids. Evolutionary constraints have molded which... codon tables showing which codons encode which amino acids (see example to the right). With such simple...correctly, and charge the tRNAs with the appropriate amino acids. If an organism uses only a subset of codons...starvation thus resulting in higher production of amino acid biosynthetic enzymes (Dittmar et al., 2005). ...
  7. Antibodies 101: Epitope Tags

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    ...of as little as 8 or as many as several hundred amino acids, depending on the tag, and are introduced ...and cons. FLAG FLAG is a synthetically derived 8 amino acid tag (DYKDDDDK) that can be added multiple times...protein with enterokinase, which recognizes the 5 amino acids on the C terminal of the tag. Of the most ...with 5 negatively charged and 2 positively charged amino acids. FLAG tag has been used with moderate to high...as a chimera (rabbit). Myc The Myc tag is a 10 amino acid peptide (EQKLISEEDL) derived from the protooncogene...with 4 negatively charged and 1 positively charged amino acids. Myc tags are frequently used for western ...for all of these species. HA The HA tag is a 9 amino acid peptide (YPYDVPDYA) derived from human influenza...
  8. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    ...G418. Con: Slow transformation   Spectinomycin/streptomycin Spectinomycin and streptomycin both inhibit ...selection agent. Pros: Stable (spectinomycin). Cons: Cost (spectinomycin) or stability (streptomycin), ...Expensive.   Kanamycin Kanamycin, or kan, is an aminoglycoside which inhibits protein synthesis. The kan resistance...The NPTII gene confers resistance to several aminoglycosides, including G418 which is commonly used for ...carb (they are interchangeable). Like carb, spectinomycin is the more stable and expensive antibiotic ...antibiotic compared to streptomycin. Spectinomycin/streptomycin can be successfully used for plant and bacterial...purpose="decorative" title="Check icon" %} Spectinomycin Excellent No Just bacteria Not SHuffle cells...
  9. Video Library

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    ...efficiency Bacterial Transformation Protocol Inoculating a Liquid Bacterial Culture How to prepare and...and grow bacteria in a liquid medium Inoculating a Liquid Bacterial Culture Protocol Getting Started with...
  10. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...codons that encode 20 amino acids and three stop codons, meaning that the same amino acid can be encoded...actually prefer certain codons over others for certain amino acids. This is termed codon usage bias. In fact,...transfer RNAs (tRNAs). tRNAs bind to and deliver amino acids to the ribosome where they are incorporated...mRNA sequence. The 3’ end of  the tRNA binds the amino acid that corresponds to the anticodon sequence....always easy to identify the ideal codon for every amino acid across an entire polypeptide. Many researchers...wheel depicts the 64 codons that encodes the 20 amino acids and three stop codons. (B) Example of codon.... There are several codons that encode the same amino acid. Each organism, however, may preferentially...
  11. A New Optogenetic Tool Based on AraC Controls Gene Expression with Blue Light

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    ...AraC system, which uses arabinose, requires many wash steps to remove arabinose making it difficult to ...🎶 “Bye bye L-arabinose drivePut your cultures in the shakerTurn the LEDs onAnd when you wantYou can ...recently published in @nchembio Title: Bye bye L-arabinose drive. Dedicated to Edo, Armin and @KhammashLab...lab,” says Di Ventura. It relies on the sugar arabinose to activate transcription by causing conformation...to regulate quickly. Arabinose also circulates within growth media and can’t be contained to a specific...AraC to make it responsive to light instead of arabinose. Nat Chem Biol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589...
  12. Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards

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    ...autoinflammatory loop: keratinocytes both respond to and release IL-36 cytokines. Keratinocytes are the main source...cytokine family resulting in the activation of keratinocytes, which release inflammatory mediators that trigger...known how IL-36 cytokines actually get out of keratinocytes and induce their effector functions. It’s an...important to study what is happening within the keratinocytes. “We hope to use CRISPR libraries from Addgene...or proteins are involved in IL-36 release in keratinocytes,” says Mellett. This would help the lab identify...
  13. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ...for aminoacyl tRNA synthetases By Kate Harten Recombinant antibodies targeting fourteen aminoacyl tRNA...escape in SARS-CoV-2 Recombinant antibodies for aminoacyl tRNA synthetases Nanocompartments for yeast bioproduction...pooled plasmid library encompassing all possible amino acid mutations of the receptor binding domain (RBD... work by generating antibodies for additional aminoacyl tRNA synthetases.     Figure 2: Specific...encapsulated a rate-limiting enzyme in this pathway (myo-inositol oxygenase), providing enzyme protection while ...
  14. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    ...for longer. Cultures induced with arabinose and colonies on arabinose-containing plates will be visibly... inducible expression systems in E. coli. The arabinose-inducible promoter pBAD and a low-copy number ...wide range of inducer concentrations (0.1-1% L-arabinose) without signs of toxicity or burden relative ...or on LB-agar plates containing glucose and L-arabinose at 37oC for at least 12 hours, or at lower temperatures...after the E. coli have colonized tumors, inject L-arabinose intraperitoneally and wait 24 hours before imaging...
  15. Harnessing TnpB for Genome Editing: A Compact and Versatile Tool for Your Research

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    ...quite large — comprising approximately 1000–1400 amino acids — which poses a challenge for efficient delivery...compact genome editors, typically only around 400 amino acids in size. To give a visual analogy: if Cas9...powerful. Our lab recently harnessed TnpB from Deinococcus radiodurans (Dra2TnpB) to create a genome editing...et al., 2024). This version of TnpB is just 408 amino acids long — making it one of the most compact genome...different Cas species. For instance, the TnpB from Deinococcus radiodurans (Dra2TnpB) recognizes the TAM sequence...sequence 5′-TTGAT-3′, while TnpB from Deinococcus geothermalis (Dge10TnpB) targets a different TAM (5′-...
  16. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    ...component of the nucleoside inosine. Created with BioRender.com. Inosine excision leads to the first...it to act on newly-deaminated inosines. Pro tip! The nucleoside inosine consists of the nucleobase hypoxanthine...repair. But mammals also have an enzyme to remove inosine from DNA: N-methylpurine DNA glycosylase (MPG),...extends to thymine Since an enzyme that excises inosine can be modified to target guanosine instead, perhaps...
  17. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    ...1350 amino acids in size, which includes SpCas9, and shortern orthologs approximately 1000 amino acids..., only Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 (SaCas9, 1053 amino acids) displayed cleavage activity in mammalian ...that’s small enough to package into AAV. At 984 amino acids in length, Cas9 from Campylobacter jejuni ... Neisseria meningitidis Cas9 (NmeCas9) at 1,082 amino acids, can also be packaged into AAV. NmeCas9 has...these Cas proteins with AAV, at just 1,108 and 986 amino acids, respectively, the size of both is within ...
  18. Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook

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    ...Marketing Manager at sciNote. Tea Pavlek is a Product Marketing Manager at SciNote, interested in combining...research with tech advances. You an follow SciNote on Twitter @scinoteELN Additional Resources on the Addgene...blogger, Tea Pavlek, Product Marketing Manager at sciNote. Today, every lab has its own habits and approaches...priorities for future ELN development and developed the SciNote Electronic Lab Notebook. Implementing an electronic...
  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ... Balla. "Live cell imaging of phosphoinositides with expressed inositide binding protein domains." Methods...be downsized by deleting residues. Only about 10 amino acids can be deleted from the C-terminus and about... but the development of non-natural fluorescent amino acids and their incorporation into proteins are ...homology domains can be used to detect specific phosphoinositides (Varnai and Balla, 2008) (Figure 2). RNA production...10. Hilaire, Mary Rose, et al. "Blue fluorescent amino acid for biological spectroscopy and microscopy....
  20. Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning

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    ...critical amino acid). Many common E. coli strains used for cloning are auxotrophic for specific amino acids...bacteria (one that doesn’t synthesize an essential amino acid), and a plasmid that complements the auxotrophy...acids. When plated on media lacking the essential amino acid, the bacteria will only grow if it acquired...containing the gene necessary to synthesize the missing amino acid. Auxotrophic selection is often used for cloning...
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