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  1. CRISPR Plasmids - Bacteria

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    ... rather than DNA. In bacteria, once they have recognized and cleaved the target RNA sequence, they adopt...
  2. Open Enzyme Collection

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    ...Eco31I 165507 pOpen-NotIR (GC) NotI (GC-rich recognition site) 165508 pOpen-HindIIIR HindIII 165526 pOpen-PstIR...
  3. Rett Syndrome

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    ...Age of diagnosis in Rett syndrome: patterns of recognition among diagnosticians and risk factors for late...
  4. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    ...lobes and helps recognize the guide RNA. Unlike the cleavage domains, the recognition domains—including...strand CTD (or PI) Recognize PAM REC REC I, II, and III Recognize guide RNA Bridge helix....   DNA sequence recognition Once primed by RNA loading, the PAM-recognition residues in the CTD can...lobes, called NUC (for nuclease) and REC (for recognition). The NUC lobe contains the DNA scissors: the...to the NUC lobe. Because its primary role is recognizing the PAM on DNA, the CTD is also sometimes called... book (Figure 2). The portion of the CTD that recognizes the PAM is so flexible in this state that it ...structure (Figure 2) at all. When this crucial recognition region is disordered, Cas9 binds DNA very weakly...
  5. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    ...antibody does not recognize the entirety of the target protein: instead, it recognizes a small portion ...of more robustly recognizing the target protein because the antibodies will recognize multiple epitopes...antibody, which recognizes your protein of interest, and a secondary antibody, which recognizes the primary...light chain determine what antigen the antibody recognizes and binds to.   Figure 1: Labeled diagram...may contain many epitopes that antibodies can recognize. Imagine you’re doing a word search puzzle. You...the word you’re searching for. Antibodies may recognize a linearized sequence of amino acids, or only ...with the antigen that you want the antibody to recognize. This triggers an immune response within the animal...
  6. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    ...heterogeneous mixture of many antibodies that recognize the same protein. In the immune system, antibodies...individual B cell produces antibodies that all recognize the same region, or epitope, of the target protein...system make different isotypes of antibodies that recognize many different epitopes of the target protein.... can be performed to isolate antibodies only recognizing your protein of interest: affinity-purified antibodies...containing the target protein, and any antibody recognizing the target protein remains bound to the column...using pre-adsorbed secondary antibodies (which recognize other antibodies) in experiments that require ...population that is enriched for antibodies that recognize your target protein without causing high background...
  7. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    ...produced. Because of this, all of the antibodies recognize a single epitope on the target molecule. Although...this blog post we’ll focus on antibodies that recognize proteins. Figure 1: Steps in the generation...to make sure that you choose an antibody that recognizes an epitope far from the ligand binding site (... (Mould et al., 2016). If your antibody recognizes a part of your protein that may be masked while the... a false negative signal - the antibody can’t recognize the protein even though it is present in your ...proteins. This is because monoclonal antibodies recognize a single epitope, so it’s less likely that this...are a heterogenous mixture of antibodies that recognize many different epitopes on the same protein - ...
  8. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    ...enzymes in that they cleave outside of their recognition sequence, creating four base flanking overhangs...overhangs. Since these overhangs are not part of the recognition sequence, they can be customized to direct assembly... DNA fragments. When designed correctly, the recognition sites do not appear in the final construct, allowing...because this construct does not retain the enzyme recognition sites. As a result, the ligation process is close...desired order of fragments, and the loss of enzyme recognition sites after ligation favors formation of the ...ability of Type IIS enzymes to cut outside their recognition site and permits DNA fragments with compatible...assembled. Scientists can engineer unique enzyme recognition sites that flank their DNA fragment in an inverse...
  9. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ...large serine recombinase that recognizes its own attB and attP recognition sites on the register and catalyzes...re-orienting their recognition sites, or by excising one or multiple of their recognition sites from the ... same recognition site array on the register, and all three-input GRSMs use the same recognition site ...the registers. All parts used in this paper (recognition sites, terminators, promoters, and genes) were...to idiosyncrasies that arise when all parts (recognition sites, promoters, genes, terminators, etc) are...
  10. Of Myc and Men

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    ...C-terminal antibodies only recognized the human c-Myc protein and did not recognize the mouse or chicken homologs...which turned out to be critical for antibody recognition. As such, the peptide could only be added to ...other species, suggesting that these antibodies recognize an epitope within that region. You’ll notice that...Pelham, 1987). They narrowed down the epitope recognized by Myc1-9E10 down to 10 amino acids (EQKLISEEDL...tag, they found that the Myc epitope could be recognized by its antibody without additional chemical modification...antibody 9E10 displays highly variable epitope recognition dependent on neighboring sequence context. Sci...
  11. Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability

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    ...hides the epitope that the antibodies used to recognize the protein, your antibody will no longer be effective... issue with monoclonal antibodies, which only recognize one epitope. (It can sometimes be an issue with... for flow cytometry, for example, can only be recognized by antibodies that bind to the epitopes that ...some assays, you may only need to validate for recognizing the protein following your sample prep steps;... for others, you may need to validate that it recognizes the protein of interest in specific configurations...conditions to understand exactly what your antibody recognizes.  Understanding how the available epitopes in...
  12. Plasmids 101: Methylation and Restriction Enzymes

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    ...DNA sequences and companion endonucleases that recognizes and cleave the same DNA sequence if not methylated...strains such as DH5alpha contain 3 methylases that recognize and methylate different stretches of DNA: Dam...be blocked due to methylation if the enzyme's recognition site (TCTAGA) is preceded by GA or followed by...As shown in the figure below, a Dam methylase recognition site (underlined in red) overlaps with the XbaI...enzymes such as DpnI require methylation at their recognition sites in order to efficiently cleave DNA. DpnI...enzymes commonly used in the lab do not have recognition sites that could overlap with a methylation site...
  13. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    ... ZFNs, but instead of recognizing nucleotide triplets, the components recognize individual nucleotides...These proteins are characterized by large DNA recognition sites, which makes them highly specific.  Jurassic...recombination with a repair template.  Each zinc finger recognizes a nucleotide triplet and when several ZFNs are...CRISPR  CRISPR The strategy of using a protein to recognize DNA sequences is not ideal. For the early generation...generation gene editors, new amino acid recognition sites had to be designed each time we wanted to target...
  14. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    ...metastasis. Evading Recognition Tumor cells over-express CD47 to escape recognition by circulating macrophages...nomenclature. 1. Eliminate - Latent tumors are recognized by effector cells of the immune system - cytotoxic...Suppressing function, creating tolerance, and evading recognition are a few methods by which tumors sidestep immune... class I proteins on their surfaces to avoid recognition by CD8+ T cells. Existing therapies and effects...times. These engineered T cells are capable of recognizing targets like CD19 on tumor cells and exhibit ...
  15. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    ...bacteriophage: the Cre recombinase and a loxP recognition site. The P1 bacteriophage uses these components...and inter-molecular recombination at the loxP recognition sites. A key advantage of the system is that ...cross)-over in P1) sites are 34-base-pair long recognition sequences consisting of two 13-bp long palindromic...13bp repeat sequences on a single loxP site are recognized and bound by a Cre protein, forming a dimer. ..., with flippase (Flp) and the short flippase recognition target (FRT) site being analogous to Cre and ...
  16. Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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    ...also recognizes the same target protein. The capture antibody and the detection antibody recognize different...detect proteins for which multiple antibodies that recognize different epitopes are available; this type of...pre-incubated with a known amount of an antibody that recognizes it, while the bottom of the wells are coated ...to characterize properties of an antibody that recognizes that protein, while coating the wells with an...
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