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  1. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    ...vacuole and emit red and green fluorescence. After 4 hours of nitrogen starvation to induce autophagy, ...turnover of cytosol and organelles in yeast. Autophagy,4(2), 205-213. doi:10.4161/auto.5331. PubMed PMID: 18094608...PMID: 20144757. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2852113. 4. Klionsky, D. J., Cuervo, A. M., & Seglen, P. O. (...unless autophagy is induced. Then non-selective macroautophagy of the cytosol leads to accumulation of Pho8Δ60.... E. (2015). Rapid parallel measurements of macroautophagy and mitophagy in mammalian cells using a single...
  2. Podcast: A Malawian Professor's Path to Biotech Research

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    ... and education 3:49-4:35 : Kingdom on opportunities to go into science in Malawi 4:36-5:46 : How Kingdom...thoughts on the need for more scientific collaboration across the globe. Listen here! Podcast Breakdown (Time...
  3. Zhang Lab CRISPR Page

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    ...Shalem O, Zhang F. Nat Methods . 2014 Aug;11(8):783-4. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3047. PubMed . Return to GeCKO...CRISPR RNA (crRNA) and the trans-activating crRNA (tracrRNA; Hsu et al ., Nature Biotechnology 2013). We also... cassettes to express the CRISPR RNA array and tracrRNA separately (Cong et al ., Science 2013). Additionally...or SpCas9n, D10A nickase) + CRISPR RNA array + tracrRNA: This plasmid contains three expression cassettes...repair-mediated Kras G12D mutations, leading to macroscopic tumors of adenocarcinoma pathology. These plasmids...
  4. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    ...Depending on the protocol, samples can be expanded to ~4-10x linearly! This expansion physically separates ... cases, labels are added after this stage.  Step 4: Expand! (Typically by just adding water.)  Step 5...quite so much. Created with biorender.com Steps 2-4 are not found in standard IHC/ICC protocols and you...16:33–41. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-018-0219-4  Yu C-C (Jay), Barry NC, Wassie AT, et al (2020) Expansion... of protocols and examples of applications from across disciplines now available. In this post, we’ll ...
  5. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    ...Neuroscience. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00969-4.   Increased neuronal expression using Cre-mediated...Neuroscience. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00969-4.   dCas9-SSAP with reduced error rate for long sequence...to be deconvoluted using freeware.    Fig. 4: Images of 12 visual barcodes in use in A375 cell ...rate of less than 0.3%, both on and off target. Across all loci tested, error rates overall ranged from...
  6. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    ...expression. When using these constructs to tag the GOLG-4 protein, mScarlet3 was 50% brighter than the original... Figure 3: Expression of fluorophore-tagged GOLG-4 through eight stages of embryonic development. Representative...knockouts limits further cutting and errors (Figure 4). This work marks the first use of CRISPR/Cas9 in ...pathogenicity, and resistance mechanisms.     Figure 4. Overview of the dual-plasmid CRISPR/Cas9 workflow...mycobacteria, but such systems don’t always work across species due to differences in natural DNA repair...
  7. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    ...had a tremendous impact on our world -- as of June 4, 2020, COVID-19 has caused an estimated total of 380,000...deaths worldwide (statistics provided by Google on 6/4/20). Many countries entered lockdown for weeks to ...during weekends and significant holidays. Figure 4: Plasmid request trajectories suggest an exponential...in the rate of scientists placing orders per day across regions, with Europe most impacted and China least...in the rate of scientists placing orders per day across regions. Our investigation of model fit revealed...
  8. Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis

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    ...extension time, 3) increased concentration of MgCl2, 4) increased concentration of dNTP, and/or 5) the addition...glycosylase (UDG) and Exonuclease III (ExoIII) (step 4). UDG recognizes uracils that are in DNA and ExoIII...Methods 13.11 (2016): 928-30. PubMed PMID: 27723752.  4. Fowler, Douglas M., Jason J. Stephany, and Stanley...this technique uses mutagenic primers that tile across a region of interest, generating multiple mutants... given codon site and multiple primer sets tile across the protein or region of interest. A low primer-to-template...
  9. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ... ShadowR, a novel FLIM-FRET acceptor Figure 4: ShadowR is used as a FRET acceptor to mRuby2 or mScarlet...energy transfer (FLIM-FRET) in living cells (Figure 4). They created ShadowR by modifying the surface of...Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48604-4 Salih A, Larkum A, Cox G, Kühl M, Hoegh-Guldberg O...the Pink and Blue Pigments of Pocilloporid and Acroporid Corals. The Biological Bulletin 189:288–297 . ...
  10. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    ...an attL-containing entry vector.   Figure 4: Method B to create an entry clone: TOPO cloning the...vectors at once in the same tube. You can clone up to 4 DNA fragments, in a specific order and orientation...Technology: Advantages and Drawbacks. Clon Transgen 4:138. doi:10.4172/2168-9849.1000138 2. Hartley JL. ...sequence of interest, you can move this DNA fragment across any expression system in just one recombination...
  11. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    ...VI-B, and VI-D being the most common. Figure 4: Overview of the general CRISPR type VI mechanism....Elements of Acidithiobacillia. The CRISPR Journal, 4(5), 656–672. https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2021.0051...competition between plasmids. Nucleic Acids Research, 48(4), 2000–2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz1197 Samai... type I CRISPR system. Gene and Genome Editing, 3–4, 100013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ggedit.2022.100013...seems. There is not a single gene that is shared across all CRISPR types; the fast evolution of these adaptive..., L., Kocalar, S., Oshiro, R., Makarova, K. S., Macrae, R. K., Koonin, E. V., & Zhang, F. (2023). Uncovering...
  12. Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags

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    ... A flexible chemical tag. Nature Methods, 2(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth749  Strebinger...HaloTags and SNAP-tags. Cell Chemical Biology, 26(4), 584-592.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2019.01.003...Proximity-Induced Reactivity. ACS Chemical Biology, 4(7), 547–556. https://doi.org/10.1021/cb900062k  Gautier..., Frangieh, C. J., Friedrich, M. J., Faure, G., Macrae, R. K., & Zhang, F. (2023). Cell type-specific ...
  13. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    ...DNA, then they could diminish off-target cutting (4). However, instead of weakening interaction sbetween...PMID: 25079318. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4176945. 4. Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., et al. "High-fidelity CRISPR–Cas9...fewer off-target cuts when compared to WT SpCas9 across a variety of genomic sites. Knowledge of Cas9’s...activity and similar or decreased off-target activity across the sites tested when compared to eSpCas9(1.1) ...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    ...Cardiovascular Research, 1(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44161-022-00046-4 Kumar, S. R., Miles, T... fold change in RNA and DNA levels (~25-fold and ~4-fold respectively) relative to AAV9 in the pigtail...nervous system. Current Research in Neurobiology, 4, 100086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crneur.2023.100086...106–115. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00969-4 Goertsen, D., Goeden, N., Flytzanis, N. C., & Gradinaru...enhanced transgene expression in the macaque CNS. Med, 4(1), 31-50.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2022.11.002...capsids, when writing this post, we didn’t come across a broadly used working definition of systemic capsids...expression (EGFP, in the depositing manuscript) across the brain. AAV-BI-28 has been tested in C57BL/6J...
  15. Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...approach using a single crRNA array to express up to 4 crRNAs. Zetsche et al. also suggest that Cpf1 may ...Kleinstiver et al. saw no decrease in Cpf1 activity with 4-6 base deletions at the 3’ end of the target sequence...and requires only one RNA rather than the two (tracrRNA and crRNA) needed by Cas9 for cleavage. In certain...differently. Since Cpf1 loci are widely distributed across bacterial species, Zetsche et al. hypothesized ...target. Cpf1 also does not require an additional tracrRNA. Once they had determined the minimal elements...favored by SpCas9. Since Cpf1 doesn’t require a tracrRNA, crRNA guides are only ~42 nt long. Direct synthesis...significantly cheaper than that of the ~100 nt crRNA/tracrRNA hybrid guides needed for Cas9 function. Since ...
  16. Flow Cytometry Readouts: Yes, No, and Everything in Between

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    ... they do for yes-no readouts.      Figure 4: A histogram plot for a smeary antibody readout. The... four populations in the histogram plot in Figure 4 compared to the dot plot in Figure 2. Quantification...interest: two clear populations or a huge smear across your FSH vs reporter plot. In this post, I’ll walk...
  17. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    ...2015). The unexhausted potential of E. coli. ELife, 4. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.05826 Blum, M., & Ott...ecological context with Arabidopsis thaliana. ELife, 4. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.06100 Liu, L. S., Zhao...organisms. Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research, 37(4), 237–245. https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2016.4.237...regulate regeneration and wound healing are conserved across species, studying the axolotl may reveal the potential...
  18. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    ...Thousands of Reporters Integrated in Parallel. Cell, 154(4), 914–927. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CELL.2013.07.018... 149–157. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1711-4 Chen, P. J., & Liu, D. R. (2023). Prime editing for...2023), their predictive power is sometimes limited across different targets due to variations in chromatin...chromatin substantially affects prime editing outcomes across many genomic locations. In our study, we used the...learning prediction of prime editing efficiency across diverse chromatin contexts. Nature Biotechnology...
  19. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    ...library consists of 77,441 sgRNAs with an average of 4 sgRNAs per gene and 1,000 non-coding control sgRNAs...PMID: 25307932. PubMed Central PMCID: MC4253859.  4. Konermann, Silvana, et al. "Genome-scale transcriptional... method (Tanenbaum et al., 2014). The sgRNA or tracrRNA sequences can also be modified to include RNA ...transcription factors. The Root and Doench labs utilized tracrRNAs with two PP7 stem loops to recruit additional ...the targeted region (Sanson et al., 2018) . This tracrRNA was combined with the sgRNA expression vector ...
  20. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    ...Retroviruses and cancer. Rev Infect Dis. 1982 Sep-Oct;4(5):1015-25. DOI: 10.1093/clinids/4.5.1015 Lee C.S....Era of Personalized Medicine. Genes Dis. 2017 Jun;4(2):43-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2017.04.001 Maetzig...adenoviruses are known to cause respiratory disease across species, as well as cancer in hamsters, although...
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