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  1. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...polyadenylation generally serves to promote transcript longevity in eukaryotes and promote transcript degradation ...poly(A) signal. While many studies focus on promoter strength as a determinant of gene expression levels...termination. In a previous post we discussed the promoter's role in the initiation step of gene transcription...rbGlob) include the sequence motif AAUAAA which promotes both polyadenylation and termination. Out of those...but Has the Potential to Reduce Viral Titer in a Promoter-Dependent Manner. Hum Gene Ther. 2008. PMID: 18627247... Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn how the Promoter Controls Gene Expression Learn about New Cloning...transcription machinery. Terminators are found downstream of the gene to be transcribed, and typically ...
  2. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    ...strategy, the need for lengthy promoters, such as U6 or EF1α promoters, has limited the number of gRNAs...tandemly assembled tRNA-gRNAs is placed downstream of a lengthy promoter, which is used to drive the expression...from human or plant sources) in both the strength as a promoter and the activity to release gRNAs from ...previous tRNA-gRNA arrays, that rely on an upstream lengthy promoter to express the gRNA array, DAP arrays ...expression of itself, without using any additional promoter, which is followed by tRNA processing to release...installing functional genes to study and potentially treat polygenic diseases. This could also enable more ...
  3. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...from its own promoter. But that doesn’t mean you have to clone and transfect multiple promoter-gRNA constructs...gRNA target sequence downstream of the 7SK, human U6, mouse U6, or human H1 promoters. If you express fewer...can I express more than one gRNA from a single promoter using a plasmid like pX330? Unfortunately, the...of pX330, contains humanized wtCas9 and two U6 promoters. To use this plasmid, you simply order oligonucleotides...contain Type IIS restriction sites flanking the promoter-gRNA construct, but with different sequences adjacent...contain Type IIS restriction sites that flank the promoter-gRNA constructs. When these plasmids are digested...in a polyT-termination sequence for each unused promoter. This step is necessary to generate all of the...
  4. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    ... individual part, this category also includes promoters, UTRs, terminators, etc. Once selected, individual...one or more gene(s), and typically begin with a promoter and end with a terminator. A simple TU could be... be comprised of just three parts: promoter, gene, and terminator.     Fig 1. MoClo enables individual...three steps: Level 0: Cloning of basic parts (promoters, UTRs, genes, tags, etc.) into MoClo-compatible...maximize production potential. For example, the best promoter for a given peptide can easily be tested by generating...generating Level 1 TUs with unique promoters, and the ideal phosphatase (or any modifying enzyme) to pair...additional components such as selectable markers, promoters, enhancers, etc. MoClo is especially useful for...
  5. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    ...experimented with the promoter strength of various components, removing inducible promoters that could crosstalk...outcome is directed transcription from a given promoter. To harness the power of light, Christopher Voigt... activates the RR (OmpR) via phosphorylation, promoting transcription (see figure below). Subsequent exposure...activates the response regulator via phosphorylation, promoting transcription of a GFP reporter. Subsequent exposure...chromosomally. Leakiness was also an issue; some promoter activity persisted in the inactive state. The ..., Schmidl et al. condensed the system to two streamlined plasmids. The utility of these TCSs was limited...improvements, the constructs have been greatly streamlined; only two plasmids are required per system. Applications...
  6. A Primer on Optogenetics: Introduction and Opsin Delivery

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    ...of a generic promoter). A DIO opsin allows cell type specificity dependent on the promoter of the cre recombinase...neuronal specificity through promoter-directed expression alone is extremely limited. Therefore, highly ...communicated to me as one of these extremely high expressing promoters). Conduct a time course experiment...for sufficiency of your circuit of interest in promoting reward is a self-stimulation experiment wherein...developed many of these AAV constructs with various promoters and other genetic manipulations to help restrict...specific neuronal subtype. However, the length of promoter that can be used in an AAV construct is limited...highly expressing, generic neuronal promoters such as synapsin or camKIIα drive most of the constructs. As ...
  7. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...dependent promoters, Baojun Wang’s lab developed a system that can activate sigma-54 dependent promoters (Liu...activation of sigma-54 type promoters. The system was functional in activating promoters in Pseudomonas syringae...that utilizes phage recombination machinery to promote homologous recombination of linear DNA fragments...regulate gene expression were limited to inducible promoters or direct gene knockout. In contrast, CRISPR offers...systems, catalytically dead (dCas9) targeted to a promoter or gene body can repress transcription by physically...and can be more effective targeting either the promoter or the coding sequence and the template or non-template...to multiplex repression. Using a Tet responsive promoter to drive expression of a catalytically dead Cas9...
  8. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    ...hybrid promoter. Although the DE3/T7 RNAP system works well for most experiments, the lac promoter can “...expression from high-copy number plasmids and powerful promoters will greatly exceed that of any native host protein... accomodate high protein loads using inducible promoter systems (which will be discussed later). In addition...Kanamycin (pREP4) Cis-repression of the E. coli T5 promoter (found on vectors such as pQE or similar), inducible...above, many expression plasmids utilize inducible promoters, which are 'inactive' until an inducer such as...the culture to make protein.  The DE3 lysogen/T7 promoter combination is the most popular induction system...available to transcribe the gene of interest from a T7 promoter on the plasmid. Many commercial strains carry ...
  9. Lentivirus Production

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    .... Pro-Tip Different brands and lots of FBS can promote or inhibit transfection. Test a variety of brands...total per 10 cm dish). Using transfer plasmid pHAGE TRE dCas9-KRAB (total μg of plasmid DNA 27.8 μg), this...produced, lentivirus can be used for a variety of downstream applications such as stable-cell line generation...T75 flask in 15 mL DMEM Complete. Do not add pen-strep to the media. Use cells that are below passage 15...
  10. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...all chemically inducible promoters; 3) improving the strength of the promoters used; and 4) optimizing ...fluorescent proteins, 8 constitutive promoters, 2 includible promoters, 3 polyA terminators and various pieces...sequences. Several pre-constructed promoter-selection marker or promoter-inducible expression related vectors...ideal promoter/location combination. However, other constructs which contain different promoters and/or...to study the human GM-CSF promoter and enhancer, a finely regulated promoter controlled by a mixture of...multiple copies of a transcription factor to a promoter and localization of a protein via the presence...are inserted between the truncated gene and the promoter to prevent leaky expression of this resistance...
  11. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    ...cleavage sequence, tRNAs, multiple individual promoters).  spCas9 and its gRNAs are also larger than their...and up to 7 gRNAs Each gRNA requires its own promoter Sakuma et al   Multiplexed Lentiviral Expression..., and up to 4 gRNAs Each gRNA requires its own promoter   Kabadi et al Csy4-Cleavable Cassettes transfection...expressed in 293 cells. This allows for a single promoter to drive expression of a crRNA array and doesn...arrays eliminates the need to include multiple promoters to drive crRNA expression and sequences that allow... Zetsche et al reverses the orientation of the promoter driving expression of the crRNA array (bolded ... Make sure to order 5’ phosphorylated oligos or treat with T4 PNK. Delivery options for Cpf1 multiplexing...
  12. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    ...at cancer cell metabolism. Cancer cells promote oxidative stress leading to the degradation of one key .... Unfortunately, as a whole, microenvironments promote tumor durability instead of repressing them, making...caveolin 1, also known as CAV 1. Usually, caveolin 1 promotes the cell life cycle progression and enhances tumor...signaling, possibly inducing the secretion of growth promoting proteins, such as human growth factor, vascular...Fibroblasts, or CAFs. CAFs are altered fibroblasts and promote the development and metastasis of tumors through...different organs. This means that exosomes not only promote microenvironment’s malignancy but also incite different...tumor’s evasiveness, evolution, and response to treatment. Some microenvironment cells improve tumor’s durability...
  13. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    ...most imporant is that, upstream of the Cbh promoter, this plasmid has a U6 promoter followed by BbsI restriction...SpCas9 This plasmid expresses Streptococcus pyogenes (Sp) Cas9 from a Cbh promoter. Cbh is a modified version...version of CAG promoter that the Zhang lab has tested in a variety of mammalian cell lines. Cas9, of course...
  14. Hot Plasmids - December 2019 - CRISPR pooled library, LipoGlo, CRISPRa, and Voltage Imaging Tools

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    ...proteins (bEBPs) at a sequence upstream of the promoter called the upstream activating sequence (UAS). The...σ54-based transcription. Transcription from σ54 promoters requires binding of bacterial enhancer binding...gRNA complex which allows transcription from the promoter.  They found that the system is active in E. coli... and displays high dynamic range. However, the promoter in question must be σ54-dependent and the system...and further the study of natural σ54-dependent promoter systems. Find these CRISPR activation plasmids... reporter by inserting the NanoLuc luciferase downstream of the apoB gene. Using this reporter, the researchers...small-molecule probes to aid in the understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Find the LipoGlo plasmids...
  15. Lentivirus Plasmids

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    ...shRNA under the control of a tet-responsive H1 promoter Trono 11651 pLVUT-tTR-KRAB 3rd Inducible expression...11795 pLL3.7 3rd Expresses shRNA under mouse U6 promoter; CMV-EGFP reporter cassette is included to monitor...silencing were added; Expresses shRNA under mouse U6 promoter; CMV-EGFP reporter cassette is included to monitor...with a chimeric 5’LTR, Any expression cassette (promoter and gene of interest) can be cloned into the plasmid...coexpression. Trono 17619 EF.CMV.RFP 2nd EF-1 alpha promoter for transgene and CMV drives expression of RFP...41393 pCW57.1 3rd Inducible lentiviral expression, TRE-gateway; PGK-rtTA-2A-puro. See article for more versions...
  16. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    ...plasmids used to express CRE under neuron-specific promoters (aCaMKII and hSyn). Created with BioRender.com...plasmids used to express Cre under neuron-specific promoters, including calmodulin-dependent kinase II alpha...excitatory neurons) and Synapsin-1 (pan-neuronal) promoters (Figure 1b), and sgRNAs can be found here. Neuron-optimized...expression is mediated by the synapsin 1 (SYN) promoter, which was superior in its ability to induce CRISPRa... CRISPRa in primary rat neurons over other promoters, including ubiquitous ones such as EF-1α and CAG....consequently regulates neuronal physiology by promoting the development of neurons and synapses as well...cells to determine which transcription factors promote neuronal differentiation (Liu et al., 2018). The...
  17. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ... cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (CaMV 35S) or ubiquitin promoters (Belhaj et al., 2013). Addgene...achieved by placing the gRNA downstream of a plant-specific RNA pol III promoter, such as AtU6, TaU6, OsU6...consistent between plants and other organisms, but the promoter used to drive gRNA expression is dependent upon... gRNA” backbones which contain a plant pol III promoter and gRNA scaffold sequence and allow researchers...is commonly driven by plant-derived RNA pol II promoters which regulate expression of longer RNAs (such...expression). Examples of commonly used RNA pol II promoters for Cas9 expression include the ubiquitously expressing...Summary While different in many of the specifics - promoters used, precise protein sequences or domains, and...
  18. Networking and Inspiring Young Scientists at Freshers Fairs

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    ...fairs are also an opportunity for the societies to promote their upcoming events and intro sessions, and give...Since 1996, Cambridge Biosoc’s goal has been to promote interest in the biological sciences amongst the...night. The society also visits high schools to promote chemistry degrees and provide advice to students... to support iGEM alumni-industry networking to promote the creation of start ups and biotech spin offs...Laureates, who speak about their work and current, trending topics in their area of research. The society ...
  19. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    ...tandem with a single promoter, but only the gene directly following the promoter is expressed. Cre-mediated... farther downstream in the construct. As RFP and OFP are directly downstream of the promoter in Brainbow...an RFP, CFP, and YFP downstream of a ubiquitous promoter. Zebrabow is an extremely versatile technology...to neurons by placing Brainbow downstream of a neural-specific promoter, or the entire fish could be labeled...Brainbow system are that it does not use ubiquitous promoters, meaning that not all cell types can be labeled...non-fluorescent YFP and activate fluorescence of the downstream OFP, GFP, or RFP. Cells that express the construct...adult fly. As a stop cassette is located directly upstream of the fluorescent protein genes, Cre recombination...
  20. Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning

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    ... the start of the gene to end up just downstream of the promoter found in the backbone. Ideally, the backbone... enzyme cut sites (restriction sites) downstream of the promoter as part of a multiple cloning site (MCS...place your gene in the proper orientation downstream of the promoter, you can add an EcoRI site just 5’ of... leaving the 5’ end of your gene just downstream of the promoter and placing the gene in the proper orientation...easily orient your gene insert with respect to the promoter. For example, let’s say your plasmid backbone ... on the left side of the image below. It has a promoter (blue arrow) followed by the restriction sites...of the backbone plasmid (see below). You should treat your digested backbone plasmid with a phosphatase...
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