22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014
Type
Blog Post
...has used an inducible MitoTimer reporter using a Tet-on system (pTRE-Tight-MitoTimer) to show its usefulness...peptide-peptide ligation using SpyLigase
Building off their SpyTag/SpyCatcher system for protein-peptide...mutagenesis (K176R) to improve the otherwise slow off-kinetics (15.8 ± 0.4ms from 21.4 ± 1.1 ms); this ...duration. Both of these strategies carry the risk of off-target effects.
Harald Janovjak and his team at the...RUSH) use Cre-mediated recombination to turn on or off the expression of shRNA. This system requires less...expression. The capability to turn RUSH and CRUSH alleles off or on enables this method to rapidly address questions...repressor plasmids from Scot Wolfe's lab. These include Tet-inducible CRISPR activators and repressor plasmids...