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  1. Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools

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    ...proteins in ten ddifferent cell types, including difficult-to-manipulate primary cells, achieving knockdown ...stable cell lines overexpressing TRIM21, finding that TRIM21 overexpression did not affect cell proliferation...electroporated cells re-adhered to the culture plate within 4 hr of treatment. In some primary cell lines, endogenous...proliferation. These cells also did not contain changes in expression of TRIM21-associated genes, indicating...multiple methods for TRIM-Away delivery. For small cell populations, co-microinjection of TRIM21 protein...protein and the target antibody works well. In larger cell populations, you can deliver these components together...together using electroporation. In these bulk cell experiments, Clift et al. observed no stress or damage...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    ...Time to expression AAVs have to infect cells, hijack host cell machinery, and synthesize a second strand...that can be used to express genes of interest in cell and animal models. AAVs are non-pathogenic, do not...be specifically targeted to a number of different cell types even when systemically administered in an ...ranging from transient gene expression in a particular cell type to CRISPR genome editing, optogenetics, and...application of AAV is delivery of genetic cargo to a host cell. In order to make room for a gene of interest, AAVs...allow the virus to infect (or not infect) different cell types with some specificity. There are a lot of ...ability of AAV to drive gene expression in specific cells and/or tissues is one of its biggest advantages....
  3. Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice

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    ...modified zygotes or embryonic stem cells. Modified embryonic stem cells are injected into a blastocyst which...engineered cells. Similar to transgenic mice, knockout mice are engineered during the embryonic stem cell stage...not all cells in the blastocyst were successfully edited by the injection of embryonic stem cells. Also,...controls the cell types in which the conditional recombination can occur based on the cells in which Cre... interest into a zygote, or into embryonic stem cells that are then injected into a blastocyst. There ...of interest into a zygote or into embryonic stem cells. Non-homologous recombination incorporates this ...targeting vector is electroporated into embryonic stem cells and this will insert the gene at a specific site...
  4. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    ...can actually infect cells. These assays typically involve infecting a target cell line with your virus...distinguish between a cell that has had one viral particle integrated into its genome and a cell that has had ...arrived; you’ve painstakingly cared for your packaging cell line, prepped your DNA, transfected and harvested...move ahead with your infection and make your stable cell line. While we’ve all experienced the pressure to...viral copies that have integrated into the target cell’s genome. Physical titer The two most common assays...functional titer uses FACS to count the number of target cells that are positive for vector encoded transgene expression...resistance genes carried on transfer plasmids. Target cells are transduced with serial dilutions of a viral ...
  5. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    ...that cells are labeled with their own unique color; and 2) low levels of labeling so that a cell’s projections...tables 1 and 2, with a cell-type specific promoter or enhancer now allows for cell-type-restricted expression...this plasmid pool are injected into an animal with cell-type-specific Cre, the polyA sequence is inverted... library to infect an animal expressing Cre in a cell type of interest, a scientist can isolate DNA from...(s) of the capsid gene successfully infected the cell type of interest. Repeat rounds of infection and...capsid variants with increased ability to infect the cell type of interest, which, in the case of Chan et ...transduced a higher number of neurons overall (GFP+ cells that also stained for a neuronal marker). Check ...
  6. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    ...for labeling specific structures within cells. HeLa cells were transfected with plasmids encoding...protein evolution Fluorescent tools for mammalian cells Nanobody purification CRISPRi and CRISPRa system...mCitrine gene. mCherry is constitutively expressed. Cells are then cultured and FACS sorted. Image from Mateo...labeling structures and compartments in mammalian cells By Angela Abitua Genetically encoded fluorescent...or specific localization of biomolecules within cells. However, sometimes these fluorescent proteins might...exactly a structure or protein is located within a cell. The Goedhart lab, Gadella lab, and collaborators...for labeling a list of specific structures within cells. For example, to improve nuclear localization of...
  7. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    ...targeted One Many Sample type(s) Cell lines Cell lines, primary cells Table 1: Key differences between... of cells (~5x107). Together, these two requirements prevent the use of CAPTURE with primary cells or ...need to create stable cell lines and allows CAPTURE 2.0 to be used with primary cells. Find plasmids for...that occur during development and cellular differentiation. Using a cell line model, the Xu Lab tracked ...by Biotinylated dCas9. Cell 170:1028–1043.e19 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.003 Liu, X., Chen...CAPTURE method requires the creation of a stable cell line that co-expresses three components: dCas9 ...drawback of the original CAPTURE method is that a new cell line has to be created for each genomic loci of ...
  8. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...in live cells is that one can now follow movement of two or more targeted loci during the cell cycle or...mammalian cells, yeast, and Drosophila. Synchronization of secretory protein traffic in mammalian cells The...populations within the same cell. Mitochondrial fusion is typically assayed in living cells by using mitochondrially-targeted... alternative splicing in mammalian cells. Younis, et al. Mol Cell Biol. 2010 Apr;30(7):1718-28. New...yeast cell viability, had less of an effect on GFP diffusion, properly localized in mammalian cells without...fluorescent fusion proteins can visualize: Cell Structure Plasmids: Cell Structure Plasmids: ER mCherry-Sec61...Friedman, et al. Mol Biol Cell. 2013. PubMed PMID: 23389631 Rowland, et al. Cell. 2014. PubMed PMID: 25416943...
  9. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    ...hijacking the machinery of the cells they infect. Once they enter a cell, they treat their viral genome...genome as a “payload” that is delivered to the cell. The cell then uses its own machinery to replicate the...replication process whereby one cell copies itself and “splits” into two cells. Viral vectors Viruses are ...virus. From one, come many After a virion infects a cell, the single particle creates many copies of itself...millions of new copies, which are released from the cell like baby spiders from an egg sac. (Okay, some enveloped...lysing, but they do generally still kill the infected cell.) This is in contrast to bacteria and eukaryotes...means the vector can deliver a genetic payload to a cell but cannot create new particles. As a bonus, this...
  10. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    ...issues with tissue autofluorescence, cell heterogeneity, and/or cell position changes (To et al., 2016, ...apoptosis in HeLa cells, zebrafish embryos, and Drosophila. They treated HeLa cells expressing FlipGFP...cleavage by executioner caspases. Failure for cells to die or cells dying at the wrong time and/or place can...the degradation of over 600 cellular components ultimately leading to cell fragmentation and death (Elmore...Apoptosis or “programmed cell death" plays a pivotal role in an array of biological processes including...including development, the immune system, and cell turnover. Apoptosis is a highly controlled process that ...sfCherry however did not initially fluoresce in HEK293 cells. To rectify this the Shu lab first improved the ...
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