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  1. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

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    ...light-based control of signaling pathways. This is particularly exciting because using light to control signaling...  Option #2 may sound like fiction, but light-controlled protein purification is now a reality thanks ..., and their use for protein purification and controlling cell signaling. Key components of OptoNBs OptoNBs...insertion into loops 1 and 6 resulted in light controlled binding, but with opposite effects: insertion...insertion site on light-induced binding.  Light controlled protein purification with OptoNBs The first application...application for OptoNBs takes us in vitro: light-controlled affinity purification of unmodified proteins....stuck to the surface of a bead.  Using OptoNBs to control cell signaling The second application for OptoNBs...
  2. Serotype Testing AAV

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    ...Ready-to-use AAV available from Addgene's viral service. Control EGFP vectors in various serotypes for serotype ...list of all 100 µL sized sample, please see our Control AAV Inventory . The catalog ID for the 20 µL sized... catalog item, including the titer and quality control, visit the material page (linked for each catalog...
  3. New Viral Vectors - Winter 2025

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    ...viral prep pAAV-Ef1a-fDIO EYFP AAV5. AAV8, AAVrg Control Karl Deisseroth New serotype (multiple) rAAV-CAG...pAAV-AiE0452h-minBG-SYFP2-WPRE3-BGHpA (Alias: CN2237) AAV-PHPeB Control Jonathan Ting New viral prep AiP12787 - pAAV-...minBG-SYFP2-WPRE3-BGHpA (Alias: CN2787) AAV-PHPeB Control Jonathan Ting New viral prep AiP12610 - pAAV-...pAAV-AiE0780m-minBG-SYFP2-WPRE3-BGHpA (Alias: CN2610) AAV-PHPeB Control Jonathan Ting New viral prep AiP13755: pAAV-AiE0743m...10aa-H2B-WPRE3-BGHpA (Alias: CN4496) AAV-PHPeB Control Jonathan Ting New viral prep AiP14825: pAAV-AiE0441h...prep pAAV_BiSSTe10_dTomato_nlsdTomato AAV-PHPeB Control Gordon Fishell New viral prep pAAV_BiSSTe10_ChR2... pAAV_BiCHATe27_dTomato_nlsdTomato AAV-PHPeB Control Gordon Fishell New viral prep pAAV_BiCHATe27_...
  4. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

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    ...Noninvasive Controlling Stimulation ExogenousEasily controlled EndogenousNot easily controlled Unique...spatiotemporal control of a small subset of neurons is necessary, use optogenetics. If broad control of whole...boundaries in neuroscience by granting targeted control over neuronal activity. While they serve similar...optogenetics differ are: Timing Targeted manipulation Controlling stimulation Invasiveness  Choosing the best ...Chemogenetics does not offer the same level of control over timing. Because chemogenetics relies on chemical... can reach target cells throughout the body. Controlling Stimulation Some studies rely on delivering reversible...stimulation to receptors. Optogenetics offers better control over these factors as the light source can be easily...
  5. Tetracycline Inducible Expression

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    ... in search of inducible promoters capable of controlling eukaryotic gene expression. Several endogenous... regulator of gene expression, a tetracycline-controlled transactivator (tTA) was developed. tTA was created... transactivator rtTA ( r everse t etracycline-controlled t rans a ctivator) was created by fusing rTetR...Puro_Tet3G_3xFLAG_Twin_Strep Bidirectional promoter controls expression of gene of interest with Strep-Tag ...Blast (w756-1) Lentiviral reverse tetracycline-controlled transactivator 3 (rtTA3) expression vector, CMV...and an inducible promoter at its 3' end, which controls GFP expression tTA Off Verma 26803 pEnt L1L3 EF1a-tTA...enhancer options tTA Off Uney References Tight control of gene expression in mammalian cells by tetracycline-responsive...
  6. Rewiring Metabolic Circuitry with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds [Video]

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    ...concepts discussed in the paper. The transcriptional control of multiple loci is deftly coordinated by the eukaryotic...tinkering with regulatory networks and multiplex gene control. However, these approaches are often met with the...Modifying the CRISPRi system for multidirectional control The CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) model consists...CRISPRi system for more flexible multidirectional control, a new study repurposes the sgRNA to include modular...The use of regulators allows a greater degree of control of desired expression levels dependent upon the...of simultaneous and multidirectional multiplex control via scRNA design is readily apparent in metabolic...elegantly demonstrated the potential of this to control a metabolic network in S. cerevisiae by using three...
  7. Plasmids 101: Colony PCR

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    ...is sufficient. Controls: Controls can make or break an experiment. The best controls for a colony PCR... They also serve as controls for your PCR reaction. Running a no template control PCR reaction for detecting...bacterial debris. Use a positive control. A good positive control is bacteria transformed with the same...primer design. Use a negative control strain. A good negative control strain is an untransformed culture...type of control is especially important for insert-specific primers. If your negative control amplifies...number of background colonies on your no ligation control plate. The more background, the more colonies you...backbone vector with and without an insert. These controls are quick references you can use when you run ...
  8. Bacterial Expression Systems

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    ...Engineering Visualization and Tagging Purification Controlled Expression Reporter Plasmids Reporter Plasmids...Plasmids Tagging and Visualization Purification Controlled Expression Reporter Plasmids You may also like… ...Manipulating the genome directly can give you more subtle control over protein expression and activity thereby limiting...protein’s function under a wide range of highly controlled conditions in vitro , or, if you want to determine...can be made and tested at once. Return to Top Controlled Expression It isn’t always beneficial to constitutively...stationary phase. In these cases you may want to control protein levels or to turn on expression only at...expression levels have been well studied or can be controlled by small molecules, light, temperature, or even...
  9. Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design

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    ...an appropriate control? Many CRISPR screens use non-targeting guides as negative controls. Non-targeting...are well characterized and strategies exist to control for these faults. However, it’s still unclear if...screens and how best to design these screens to controls for flaws. Recently the Bassik Lab at Stanford...site in the genome. This means that while they control for many of the effects of gRNA and Cas9 expression...detecting Cas9 cutting. Safe targeting guides better control for non-specific toxicity than non-targeting guides... a coding region. Targeting these sites should control for the effects of guide expression and dsDNA breaks... the genome, and are commonly used as negative controls for genome-wide CRISPR screens; and 3) safe-targeting...
  10. Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View

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    ...tracking for instance) can be controlled with FLP-FRT. For further temporal control, Tamoxifen inducible Cre...system, but it only gives you a single level of control without modification - either Cre is there or it...for site specific (and often cell type specific) control of DNA recombination and gene expression can be...addition, a variety of means to spatiotemporally control FLP and Cre expression have been developed. Read...FLP and Cre enable additional levels of genetic control. What is FLP FRT and how does it work? FLP recombinase...expressing the light activatable ion channel under the control of Cre recombinase are used in combination with...occur at a specific time point? To allow temporal control, ligand regulated Cre and FLPe recombinase have...
  11. Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools

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    ...and other proteins controlled by GAL4 and ZIF268. To demonstrate independent control of gene expression...a GAL4/estradiol controlled transcription factor and a ZIF268/progesterone controlled transcription factor...transcription factor 1 controls expression of transcription factor 2, which directly controls expression of a...chemically inducible approaches to provide temporal control, this new system, Fkbp/Frb Inducible Recruitment...PubMed PMID: 28916764. Plasmids for independent control of gene expression in yeast Article contributed...yeast transcription factors that can independently control expression of your genes of interest. These transcription...possible to use synthetic transcription factors to control the level of random variation, or noise, in reporter...
  12. New Viral Vectors - Fall 2024

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    ...-GFP AAV9-X1.1 Controls Edward Boyden New serotype pAAV-hSyn-EGFP AAV PHP.eB Controls Bryan Roth New...CN3905) AAV PHP.eB Controls Jonathan Ting New viral prep pAAV-CaMKIIa-EGFP AAV1 Controls Bryan Roth New ...minBG-SYFP2-WPRE3-BGHpA (Alias: CN3044) AAV PHP.eB Controls Jonathan Ting New viral prep AiP13038 - pAAV-AiE0743m...minBG-SYFP2-WPRE3-BGHpA (Alias: CN3038) AAV PHP.eB Controls Jonathan Ting New viral prep AiP12408 - pAAV-AiE0600m-minBG-SYFP2...pAAV-AiE0600m-minBG-SYFP2-WPRE3-BGHpA (Alias: CN2408) AAV PHP.eB Controls Jonathan Ting New viral prep AiP13863 - pAAV-AiE0888m_C4...minBG-SYFP2-WPRE3-BGHpA (Alias: CN3863) AAV PHP.eB Controls Jonathan Ting New viral prep AiP13905 - pAAV-AiE0441h...New serotype pAAV-Ef1a-DIO mScarlet AAV5 Controls Karl Deisseroth New serotype pAAV_hSyn-PdCO-mScarlet-WPRE...
  13. Top Requested AAV of 2017: pmSyn1-EBFP-CRE

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    ...deliver DNA encoding Cre recombinase under the control of the synapsin promoter. It can be used to drive...genes to various brain regions. You can partially control which cells are successfully infected by an AAV...serotype, but occasionally you may want to further control where your gene of interest is expressed.  A cell-type...cell-type specific Cre can provide you with that control in a modular way. For example, say you would like...contains a Cre-dependent mCherry cassette under the control of an otherwise ubiquitous promoter. You could ... make an entirely new mouse line with mCherry controlled by a neuron specific promoter or you could breed...pmSyn-EBFP-Cre AAV. Because Cre expression is controlled by the synapsin promoter, it and therefore mCherry...
  14. New Viral Vectors - March 2024

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    ...AAV PHP.eB Controls Wilson New viral vector pENN.AAV.EF1a.eGFP.WPRE.rBG AAV PHP.eB Controls Wilson New...pAAV-CaMKIIa-EGFP AAV PHP.eB Controls Roth New serotype pAAV-hDlx-Flex-dTomato-Fishell_7 AAV2 Controls Fishell New serotype...  AAV PHP.eB Controls Gradinaru New serotype pAAV-CaMKIIa-mCherry  AAV PHP.eB Controls Deisseroth New...New serotype pAAV-Ef1a-mCherry  AAV PHP.eB Controls Deisseroth New serotype Looking for more viral...
  15. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins

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    ... rather blunt instrument for controlling CRISPR. To bring greater control to Acr activity as a biological...Listen to this episode of Hot Plasmids! Optogenetic control of CRISPR-Cas9 by CASANOVA Article contributed ...protein domains, they have developed a system to control CRISPR-Cas9 activity using blue light (Bubeck et...opens up the potential for spatial and temporal control in many genetic targeting and editing experiments...photostable, and is compatible with optogenetic control. The researchers also showed that Archon1 is functional... both GOIs, expression levels are more evenly controlled. The Grefen Lab has utilized the 2in1 cloning...photoswitchable protein podcast segment Reversible control of photoswitchable proteins, which change in protein...
  16. AAV Viral Preps

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    .... Addgene’s comprehensive high-quality quality control process includes titering, purity assessment, sterility... Sensors, Glutamate Sensors, Voltage Reporters Controls Fluorescent Proteins, Spagehetti Monster, Brainbow...Serotype Serotype Testing Samples Small samples of control AAV vectors for trial purposes in serotypes AAV1...
  17. Expanded Access to Rabies Plasmids

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    ...SARS-COV-1 plasmids. Export control license process    An export control license, once approved, allows...repository, including rabies plasmids, are export-controlled materials in the USA, where Addgene is located...applicable research project when purchasing export-controlled materials. Addgene will then apply for the license...   Due to recent regulation changes, an export control license for rabies materials may be required for...application process.  More information about export control licenses is available through the US Bureau of ...
  18. Using Addgene's New Viral Service for Your Research

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    ...delivering control shRNAs, GFP, and rtTA from the Tet-on system. The first two can serve as controls in a variety...virus, and quality control data for each of the materials we distribute. Quality control info can be found...The viral preparations undergo rigorous quality control testing at Addgene meaning they come ready made...used to activate expression of a gene under the control of the tet operator. AAV AAVs are the workhorses...are already available allowing you to chemically control neuronal activity while studying your phenotype...of interest. Optogenetic tools for similarly controlling neuronal activity with light will be available...determined by the serotype. You can use these as controls to determine if your AAVs are getting to the right...
  19. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    ...spatial control. Optogenetics uses genetically encoded tools, such as microbial opsins, to control cellular...tools allow scientists to use light to externally control the location, timing, and reversibility of the ...process. Read on to learn about the various light-controlled CRISPR tools available to researchers - some ...published in early 2015 focused on using light to control transcription. Two separate labs, Moritoshi Sato...gene expression while imparting spatiotemporal control, reversibility, and repeatability. The system developed...expression of the human ASCL1 gene could be spatially controlled in a reversible and repeatable manner. With their...researchers also demonstrated the ability to spatially control gene expression. Both of these techniques take ...
  20. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - June 2019

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    ...intersectional studies And more! Control AAV We’re always excited to add new control AAVs to our inventory since...popular control AAV encoding GFP. Check out our inventory of serotype testing AAV New control AAVs ...our entire AAV inventory. Our new AAVs include: Control AAVs for serotype testing jGCaMP7c for calcium ...scientists, we now offer trial size 20 µL samples of control AAV that scientists can use for serotype testing...used in combination with Cre for intersectional control of specific neuronal populations. We now offer ... Addgene in the next 6 months, pending quality control. For an estimate on availability date or to be ... and serotype you’d like to be notified about. Controls Plasmid Serotype Name 37825  AAVrg (20 µL...
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