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  1. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    ...to the neuronal networks involved in directly controlling muscle activity and coordinating movement, several...optogenetics to support these existing findings by controlling neurons in the mPFC with light. Activation of...inhibited by fear/anxiety. On the other hand, the control group preferred staying in the dark compartment...paper, the authors used lentivirus to introduce an shRNA to downregulate expression of miR124a, a regulatory...
  2. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    ... knockdown, consider using shRNA vectors instead. With both siRNA and shRNA, it can be difficult to achieve...parental cell line, but not in the iso-genic knockout control. This can involve cell surface labeling and/or ... target of interest, you can add an additional control containing treated cells. The expected change in...
  3. Kazuhiro Oka Lentiviral Vectors

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    ...tdTomato from the EF1 promoter pLL3.7-TNFa-shRNA3 72598 Expresses shRNA against mouse TNF-alpha mRNA from the...vectors to express your gene of interest under the control of a variety of promoters. Professor Oka and the...
  4. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    ...MTA) approval  Send plasmids to Addgene  Quality control  In this post, we’ll explain how to use our deposit... Choose from: Encodes one insert, encodes gRNA/shRNA, or empty backbone. Purpose Answer “What does...
  5. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ... (4). Otherwise, using a specific system for controlling gene expression such as Cre-lox, may be sufficient...and optogenetic AAV-based tools to study neural control. Surprisingly, little research has compared and...such as microRNAs (miRNAs), short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs), antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), zinc finger...
  6. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ...lentiviral vectors fantastic options for delivering shRNA, CRISPR/Cas9 components, and fluorescent sensors...your gene and the marker can be placed under the control of two different promoters. Both the single and...derivative such as Doxycycline (Dox), the Tet-controlled transactivator (tTA, also expressed by your transfer...
  7. Promoters

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    ...Transcription is tightly controlled in both bacteria and eukaryotes. Promoters are controlled by various DNA regulatory...vital component of expression vectors because they control the binding of RNA polymerase to DNA. RNA polymerase...a functional protein. Thus the promoter region controls when and where in the organism your gene of interest... are proteins which recruit RNA polymerase and control and regulate the transcription of DNA into mRNA...consists of the sequence TTGACA and this element controls the rate of transcription. Bacterial cells contain...Operons are a cluster of different genes that are controlled by a single promoter and operator. Operons are...operon in bacteria is an example of a negatively controlled operon. A positive repressible operon works in...
  8. Guide to Using Pooled Libraries

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    ...libraries, each plasmid contains a unique cDNA. In shRNA or gRNA libraries, each plasmid contains a unique... Perform Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) on a control sample (no selection) In parallel, apply library...cells Compare NGS results between experimental and control cells Generate a list of gRNAs that disappear with...selection while the other serves as a non-selected control. These two populations are then sequenced using...Screening Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens New Tool for...
  9. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    ... under the control of the cI857 temperature-sensitive repressor. The temperature-controlled expression... at a dose and duration sufficient to kill all control cells and surviving “mutant” colonies were deep...GTPases involved in cell signaling pathways that control many cellular processes such as differentiation...expressing GFP, tetracycline response elements, and shRNAs many of which are available at Addgene. Since GMAP...gRNA backbone plasmids with Addgene. Additional control plasmids for the TKO library will be available ...luciferase activity in the Co-IP compared of a control Co-IP indicates stronger interaction. The system...Furthermore, dCAS9-VPR expression is under the control of the TRE promoter, which allows for doxycycline-inducible...
  10. Molecular Biology Reference

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    ...that the antibiotic resistance gene is under the control of a bacterial promoter, and is thus expressed ...strength of the promoter is also important for controlling the level of insert expression (i.e., a strong...antibiotic resistance gene (this time, under the control of a non-bacterial promoter) or a fluorescent protein...frequently accomplished through expression of an shRNA targeting the mRNA of the gene of interest. These...plasmids are sequenced with NGS during our quality control process . NGS allows us to sequence entire plasmids...
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