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  1. Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them

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    ... Traditionally, they have been made as either polyclonal antibodies or monoclonal hybridomas, but those...those techniques have several drawbacks. Polyclonal antibodies produced in animals may be variable among...& Plückthun, 2015a).   Figure 1: (Top) Polyclonal antibodies are produced in animals and consist...Recombinant antibodies offer numerous advantages over polyclonal antibodies and traditional hybridomas.  First...
  2. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    ...cloning capacity of ~8 kb, so either a single polycistronic vector or multiple single-gene vectors can be...retroviral vectors. This makes it possible to use a polycistronic cassette that expresses multiple reprogramming...factors can be delivered either as a single polycistronic transgene or with four different adenoviruses... ~14.5kb minicircle expressing a 2A peptide polycistronic cassette comprised of OCT4, SOX2, LIN28, NANOG...
  3. Antibody Guide

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    ...lower background signals than polyclonal antibodies. However, polyclonal antibodies are more sensitive...clone that are specific to a certain epitope, or polyclonal, meaning there are many clones that are specific... antibodies are typically more expensive than polyclonal antibodies. Environmental factors, binding partners...available epitope on your protein of interest. Polyclonal antibodies are typically collected directly from...targeting various epitopes on the same antigen. Polyclonal antibodies are often more environmentally stable...protein in any form it may be present in. However, polyclonals can vary significantly from lot to lot, as immune...consider the following questions: Do you need polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies? Will you be using a...
  4. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    ...targets human glycosyltransferase genes and other proteins related to cellular glycosylation. Get the library... PAM. Get the plasmids at Addgene The Human GlycoGene CRISPR Library is a new lentiviral CRISPR library...
  5. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    ...protein folding, formation of disulfide bridges, glycosylation and acetylation to create functional, stable...systems enable high expression of very complex, glycosylated proteins that cannot be produced in  E. coli...optimized. Yeast cells are also known for hyperglycosylating proteins which may be an issue depending ...
  6. Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples

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    ... Addgene - DNA sent from depositors, bacterial glycerol stocks, prepped DNA ready for our quality control...storage on Thursday. The lab prepares bacterial glycerol stocks on Fridays. From each overnight culture... to transformed cells and finally to bacterial glycerol stocks that are used to fulfill orders.  The barcoded...
  7. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    ...repair mediated by uracil glycosylase (Figure 1). The presence of a uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) minimizes...promoter driven expression system. We use a single polycistronic tRNA-gRNA (PTG) gene system to clone multiple...
  8. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    ...positively charged polycation, polybrene. Interestingly, one study found that alternative polycations such as DEAE-dextran...efficiency of lentiviral vectors: effect of sera and polycations.” Molecular Biotechnology 53.3 (2013). 308-14...
  9. Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis

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    ...dUTPase and uracil deglycosidase. dUTPase prevents the buildup of dUTP and uracil deglycosidase removes uracil...uracil-labeled template strand is degraded by uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) and Exonuclease III (ExoIII) (step 4). ...
  10. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    ...structure. Glypicans are proteoglycans composed of a protein core, 2–4 glycosaminoglycans (GAG), and are (typically...
  11. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ...or repair. Fusing an inhibitor of uracil DNA glycosylase (UGI) to dCas9 prevents base excision repair,...producing a double strand break. UGI = uracil DNA glycosylase. Created with BioRender.com. The BE3 system...byproducts likely resulted from excision by uracil N-glycosylase (UNG) during base excision repair. Adding a second...
  12. Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot

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    ...biorender.com.    Since antibodies, especially polyclonal antibodies, can vary lot-to-lot, this range needs...this starting point. You can also consider using polyclonal or recombinant multiclonal antibodies to increase... time Not enough antibody binding sites Polyclonal or recombinant multiclonal antibodies Protein...
  13. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...single colony and do not subculture directly from glycerol stocks, agar stabs, or liquid cultures. Freshly...higher plasmid yield that colonies streaked from a glycerol stock. Incubation for 12-16 hours tends to give...
  14. Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability

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    ...one epitope. (It can sometimes be an issue with polyclonal antibodies, so it's good to keep epitope availability...Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies...
  15. Immunology Research Plasmids and Resources

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    ...MGC149868, hCS-L CSPG5 chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 5 (neuroglycan C) MGC44034, NGC CTF1 cardiotrophin 1...MGC99678 GPHA2 glycoprotein hormone alpha 2 A2, GPA2, MGC126572, ZSIG51 GPHB5 glycoprotein hormone beta ...subunit ADTB3, ADTB3A, HPS, HPS2, PE AZGP1 alpha-2-glycoprotein 1, zinc-binding ZA2G, ZAG B2M beta-2-microglobulin...osteosarcoma viral oncogene homolog AP-1, C-FOS GSK3B glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta - HRAS v-Ha-ras Harvey ...laevis) DAND4, MGC119894, MGC119895, MGC96951 CGA glycoprotein hormones, alpha polypeptide CG-ALPHA, FSHA, ...MIF macrophage migration inhibitory factor (glycosylation-inhibiting factor) GIF, GLIF, MMIF MLN motilin...gfg-1 OGFR opioid growth factor receptor - OGN osteoglycin DKFZp586P2421, OG, OIF, SLRR3A OPRD1 opioid receptor...
  16. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    ...Cassettes transfection gRNAs expressed from a polycistronic transcript  Requires co-transfection of Cas9...Cassettes transfection gRNAs expressed from a polycistronic transcript Requires co-transfection of Cas9  ...
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