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TypeBlog Post...can be used in bacterial and cell-free expression systems, mammalian cells, yeast, flies, and even plants...transport studies in HEK cells, recombinant protein purification in bacterial cells, and a two-hybrid protein...for synthetic biology applications in bacteria or cell-free systems. The approach is particularly useful...tags to your proteins, then the CIDAR Kit is an excellent option (Iverson et al., 2016). CIDAR offers a ...add-on kit and is compatible with E. coli and/or cell-free systems. Protein expression in yeast MoClo ...plant-specific parts you‘ll need, including sub-cellular localization signals, plant markers, and reporters...of expression and integration needed in mammalian cell types, and comes with a large library of common ...
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Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management
TypeBlog Post...splitting my cells first. Time management through planning I probably wouldn’t have fallen into my cell splitting...for Scientists. Back when I used to do mammalian cell culture, I would often respond to friends asking...there in a few minutes, I just need to split some cells.” Inevitably, this task would take longer than I...since my days as an undergrad working with cancer cell lines. As I started planning out my own experiments.... In my anecdote above, I prioritized splitting cells over meeting up with friends, but didn’t realize...mean in terms of the utility of your tasks. In my cell splitting anecdote, I probably could have grabbed...with friends and come back to the lab to split my cells later. Eating with friends has a somewhat immediate... -
Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016
TypeBlog Post...expressed in cells that express cre recombinase. Typically, this feature is used to attain cell-specific ...tools so that researchers around the world can accelerate their work. After all, as we like to sayat Addgene...CRISPR applications and can be expressed from your cell line of choice after transduction with this virus...blast virus can be used to generate Cas9-expressing cell lines, which can then be used both for screens (...viral prep to create a single stable Cas9-expressing cell line and then transduce this line with lentiviruses...using lentiCas9-blast to generate Cas9-expressing cells. To ensure that this growth rate effect doesn’t ...activating particular signaling pathways in specific cell types (typically neurons). While all of these viruses... -
Synthetic Biology - Overview
TypeCollection...Sensing and Signaling Browse plasmids related to intercellular signaling and environmental sensing. Strains... -
Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number
TypeBlog Post... engineer cells for specific purposes. Unfortunately, plasmid copy numbers vary within cell populations...problems. Rapidly dividing cells initiate genome replication more than once per cell division and thus, genes.... When cells are dividing rapidly, multiple rounds of replication are initiated before the cell has divided...growth rate can all impact plasmid copy number in a cell. One can attempt to eliminate fluctuations due ... pSC101 with copy numbers ranging from 3-100 per cell, a stabilized promoter buffered against the effects... to stationary phase, the number of plasmids per cell increases 4-5 fold (for pUC plasmids) or ~2 fold...fold (for p15a, R6K, and ColE2 plasmids) as cell division slows (Kittleson et al., 2011). Segall-Shapiro... -
Technical Design of a Western Blot
TypeBlog Post...expensive Nitrocellulose or low-fluorescence PVDF membranes Increased fragility (nitrocellulose) or increased... mechanical method before your enzyme lysis. For cell cultures, enzyme lysis is typically sufficient. ...When choosing your lysis buffer, consider the subcellular location of your protein. Proteins located in...proteins easily available in the cytoplasm or whole-cell lysate. A harsher, SDS-containing lysis buffer, ...Membranes The two membrane options are PVDF and nitrocellulose. PVDF is a sturdy membrane that can be stripped...membrane, it also has higher background noise than nitrocellulose membranes. Pro tip! You can visualize proteins...methanol and place it on a light box after drying. Nitrocellulose, on the other hand, doesn’t require any pre-wetting... -
PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs
TypeBlog Post... systems in multiple cell types. Cell, 186, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.03.034 Resources...Integrated in Parallel. Cell, 154(4), 914–927. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CELL.2013.07.018 Anzalone, A....epigenetic manipulation of prime editing. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.03.020 Mathis, N., Allam, A... balance. Molecular Cell, 81(10), 2216-2230.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MOLCEL.2021.03.032 Yu, G., ...suited for prediction of very diverse edit types and cell contexts. Figure 1: High-throughput screening... -
RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite
TypeBlog Post...genes known to be essential for cell growth. Together, this excellent work highlights the importance of...fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). This is not possible in plants outside of limited, single cell protoplast...exquisitely and robustly self-organize at the cellular and multicellular scale. References Bezanilla M, Perroud...can be found at Addgene that could serve as an excellent start (#22988, #137884). Both vectors allow the...visually identified subpopulation. For traditional cell culture, enriching your active RNAi subpopulation...where he investigated how plants achieve polarized cell growth in the lab of Luis Vidali. For his next adventure...Screens for Effective Gene Silencing in Plants. Plant Cell 25:1507–1522 . https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.113.112235... -
Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
TypeBlog Post...ancestry and germline sequence variation in cancer cell lines took them down unexpected paths. Though this...researchers do large-scale CRISPR screens in cancer cell lines, looking to uncover genetic dependencies of...to see if they could identify the ancestry of the cell lines (European, East Asian, Indigenous American...or South Asian) used in the screens based on the cells’ germline genetic variations. They then wanted to...with each ancestry group. Since about 90% of the cell lines used in DepMap CRISPR screens are of either...groups for 994 of the Cancer Dependency Map cancer cell lines (left). Heatmap indicating the breakdown of...CRISPR guides, short pieces of RNA that bind to a cell’s DNA, telling the Cas machinery where to cut. ... -
New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries
TypeBlog Post...when trying to screen a limited number of cells like primary cells or in vivo. Recently, the labs of David... cultured cells as well as more difficult conditions such as model systems and primary cells. References...with both A375 (melanoma) and AT29 (colon cancer) cells and assessed the libraries performance via the depletion...important criterion for probing a limited number of cells. Get the Brunello CRISPRko sgRNA library as pooled...subject to an increase in dsDNA breaks that can cause cell death. Thus, CRISPR inhibition (CRISPRi) libraries...study screening for vemurafenib resistance in A375 cells. The SAM system (CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation...CRISPR-mediated control of gene repression and activation." Cell 159.3 (2014): 647-661. PubMed PMID: 25307932. PubMed... -
Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing
TypeBlog Post...orthologs that display cleavage activity in mammalian cells. Like Cas9 nucleases, Cpf1 family members contain...GC-content. After sequencing and searching for cellular RNAs important for Cpf1 function, they found that...the PAM. With this information, they turned to a cell culture system to see if any Cpf1 nucleases would...would exhibit in vivo activity in mammalian cells. From 16 diverse Cpf1 candidates, Zetsche et al. found...particularly helpful for targeting non-dividing cells, which are difficult to modify through homology-... Cpf1 orthologs known to be active in mammalian cells, LbCpf1 and AsCpf1. In both reports, on target editing... (RNPs) failed to induce off-target editing in a cell culture model. The application of Cpf1 to genome... -
Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice
TypeBlog Post...expanded since its adaptation for use in mammalian cells in 2012-2013. Researchers are now using this system...plasmids containing sgRNA sequences into HEK293T cells. The fluorescence intensity was classified into ...is then a simple matter of transfecting HEK293T cells with your modified pCAG-EGXXFP plasmid along with...incubation, you assess the level of fluorescence in your cells under a fluorescence microscope. The higher the ...you’ve validated your gRNAs for use in mammalian cells, it’s time to use them in mouse embryos. When researchers...developed as the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in mammalian cells was being explored and it allowed control over each... the mutation will be homozygous for it in every cell; however, if the microinjection was done as the ... -
CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions
TypeBlog Post...when working with cell culture, because it is easy to harvest large quantities of cells. However, when working...numbers of cells or when a high degree of signal to noise is desired. It also provides an excellent additional... been widely applied in many model organisms and cell lines. Although ChIP-seq is a relatively simple ...typically requires a large amount of input material, cells or tissue, to produce a strong enough signal over...protein of interest. First, nuclei from tissue or cell culture are isolated using lectin-coated magnetic...the usage of a strong detergent to permeabilize cells rather than to rely on nuclei extraction. They report...technique, specifically in terms of initial steps of cell or tissue preparation. All in all, CUT&RUN offers... -
Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering
TypeBlog Post...to infect and replicate in host cells, but they are susceptible to cells’ defense mechanisms. The use of... transposon; the plasmid is then degraded by the cell.4.) The transposase creates a double strand break...improve its gene insertion efficiency in primary cells. In 2009, Zsuzsanna Izsvak’s lab screened many SB...tranposase variants for hyperactivity in mammalian cells. Their efforts resulted in a new and improved SB...of antibiotic-resistance genes conducted in HeLa cells). In their Nature Genetics paper, the lab showed...allows the rapid generation of stable transgenic cell lines which can robustly express your gene-of-interest...Beauty transposons rapidly generate stable transgenic cell lines. Biotechnol J. 2015 Feb 4. doi: 10.1002/biot... -
Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes
TypeBlog Post... out of 10,000 cells on average! Without some means of quickly determining which cells successfully received...detail selection in non-bacterial cells such as yeast or mammalian cells. Name Class Mode of Action...Inhibits cell wall synthesis Bactericidal 100-200 ug/mL Carbenicillin beta-lactam Inhibits cell wall ...the bacterium's perspective – a plasmid-containing cell must replicate the plasmid in addition to its own...easily detect plasmid-containing bacteria when the cells are grown on selective media, and provides those...kill bacteria (bactericidal) or slow growth/prevent cell division (bacteriostatic); however, the distinction... -
Chemogenetics AAV Preps
TypeCollection... chemically induce neuronal activity in specific cell types. See our Chemogenetics Plasmids and Chemogenetics... -
Zinc Finger Consortium: Zinc Finger Arrays
TypeCollection...efficient gene modification. Maeder ML et al. Mol Cell. . 2008. Jul 25. 31(2):294-301. PubMed PMID 18657511... -
Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius
TypeBlog Post... to date for visualizing genomic loci in living cells. Previous iterations of genomic loci visualization...labeling system to visualize chromosomal loci in human cells (Ma et al., 2015). To do so, they fused a different...visualization of sites on different chromosomes in living cells, the system requires high-copy chromosome-specific... aptamer system to visualize the gRNA in living cells. Broccoli aptamers are nucleic acid sequences that...production needed to deliver CRISPR-Sirius into cells. They named this guide sgRNA-Sirius-8XMS2 which ... 46 loci gave a detectable signal in human U2OS cells. Based upon this, they chose an intergenic DNA region...copy number variation (CNV) analysis of the U2OS cells. Figure 2: CRISPR-Sirius tricolor labeling... -
15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids
TypeBlog Post...plasmid. Envelope proteins determine which types of cells a virus can infect. The VSV-G envelope protein enables... enables this virus to infect many different cell types so it is useful in a wide range of applications... The 2A-GFP allows for screening of transfected cells. Find pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP (PX458). lentiCRISPR v2...deliver Cas9 and your gRNA of interest into mammalian cells. This vector was the top requested plasmid of 2015... popular in genome engineering. For use in human cell lines, the Zhang lab codon-optimized SpCas9. Using...puromycin cassette that makes it less efficient in some cell lines. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) V2.0 was made...capable of inducible expression of shRNA in target cells by the addition of tetracycline/doxycycline to the... -
Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry Controls
TypeBlog Post...and beads that are unable to bind to them: like cells but with far more predictability. The beads create...The benefit of beads is that they do not require cells from your experiment, and they are non-specific....flow cytometer, you generally want your positive cells to read between 104 and 105 in order to have enough...the plot to see all of your positive and negative cells. This can be achieved by adjusting your voltage ...gating schematic to easily determine where your cells of interest are (B). Using FMO controls In...markers or commonly used markers that define broader cell populations (e.g., CD4, CD8b, CD11b, CD19), are ...require an FMO. Markers that define more specific cell populations, often used in the later gates, are ...