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  1. Antibody Neutralization Response Against Pseudoviruses Expressing SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Variants

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    ...expressing target cells. Any neutralized pseudoviruses would be unable to get into the target cells and this can...disease severity and survival. Cell 184:476-488.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.12.015 Garcia-Beltran...vaccine-induced humoral immunity. Cell 184:2372-2383.e9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.013 Additional resources...vaccines and allows the virus to gain entry into human cells via human ACE2 receptors. In their assay, the pseudoviruses...
  2. Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns

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    ...have become indispensable tools for molecular and cell biologists over the last two decades, but their ...quantum yield, and when transiently expressed in cells, generates much less signal than comparable fluorescent...three luminescent proteins can be used together in cells. As Nano-lanterns are not subject to photobleaching...Nano-lanterns, Takai et al. continuously imaged cells for about 4 hours! The latest enhanced Nano-lanterns... al. “Luminescent proteins for high-speed single-cell and whole-body imaging.” Nat Commun. 3 (2012): 1262...light. Long-term light exposure can also lead to cellular phototoxicity, and experimental success can be...phototoxicity, they successfully imaged multiple subcellular compartments over several minutes using Nano-...
  3. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...mammalian cells. Co-expression markers EGFP and PuroR enable sorting and selection of transduced cells. Grant...in the Mammalian Genome. Cell 167:233–247.e17 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.056 Find plasmids...targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discovery 2: . https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9 Find plasmids from...for targeted cytosine demethylation in mammalian cells. This plasmid is used with pcDNA3.1-MS2-Tet1-CD ...vectors and targeted delivery into hard-to-manipulate cell types. They have also fused LSD1 to x-Cas9(3.7)....modifiers may be more frequently inherited by daughter cells. For example, KRAB induced silencing was transient...enhancers. As the effects of these tools are likely cell type- and context-dependent, it may make sense to...
  4. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ... require minimal cellular perturbation. Also, this method requires live, intact cells; the sequencing ...Synthetic recombinase-based state machines in living cells” (1), into a more straight-forward, concise explanation... our paper (1), we allowed individual bacterial cells to form colonies on a plate and then we performed..., but more population-wide (as opposed to single-cell) approach is to interrogate state with qPCR. The...sufficient for greater than 50 percent of RSM-containing cells in a population to correctly record each possible... were sufficient for greater than 90 percent of cells to correctly record each possible permuted substring...Synthetic recombinase-based state machines in living cells. Science. 353, aad8559 (2016). PubMed PMID: 27463678...
  5. Six Spooky Science Stories and Halloween at Addgene

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    ...attaches to the cell wall of green algae (Soo et al., 2015). There, it divides into two cells. At the same...Vampirovibrio). What’s left of the algae cell is just the cell wall and cytoplasmic membrane. Vampirovibrio...biosynthesis in Drosophila melanogaster." Molecular and cellular endocrinology 215.1-2 (2004): 1-10. PubMed PMID...
  6. Of Myc and Men

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    ...For about as long as the disciplines have existed, cell and molecular biologists have been continuously ... peer into the mysterious, microscopic world of cells. The development of antibodies as tools allowed ...monoclonals would help the field explore Myc’s role in cell proliferation and tumorigenesis.  Using two different...specific for human c-myc proto-oncogene product. Mol Cell Biol 5:3610–3616. https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.5.12.3610... and immunoglobulin heavy chain binding protein. Cell 46:291–300. https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(86...signal prevents secretion of luminal ER proteins. Cell 48:899–907. https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(87...
  7. CRISPR Cheat Sheet

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    ...nuclease target multiple genes in a cell population. The resulting mutant cells are screened for phenotypes of...range. CRISPR can be difficult to deliver. Not all cells efficiently take up plasmids used to produce CRISPR...
  8. Antibody Data Repositories and Search Engines

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    ... Immune cells Flow cytometry (potentially others) Data repository From the Human Cell Differentiation...repository   HuBMAP Consortium Healthy human cells Imaging (IHC, ICC, IF, etc.)  Data repository...
  9. New Viral Vectors - Fall 2024

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    ...the fall colors are inspiring you to paint your cells in equally vivid colors, you'll want to check out...AAV9-X1.1 enables expression in brain endothelial cells via an injection into the systemic circulation. ...levels compared to AAV9. You can now target these cells with AAV-CAG-GFP packaged in AAV9-X1.1!  We also...recombinase or a fluorescent marker in the various cell types of the basal ganglia. They work via newly-...
  10. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    ...system, antibodies are produced by B cells. Each individual B cell produces antibodies that all recognize...also all the same isotype. But together, all the B cell clones in the immune system make different isotypes...antibodies starts with selecting just one of these B cell clones for further antibody production, polyclonal... blood from the immunized animal. The red blood cells and the serum are separated, and the serum - which...
  11. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins

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    ...indicator. Archon1 can embed itself into the cell membrane where cell voltage can then be measured. Archon1 ... it. Using a robotic picking approach to select cells with variant characteristics they wanted, the team...approach to control protein-protein interactions in cells because the protein binders can be customized for...TOM20 (pTriEX Tom20 mVenus BoPD). In dark adapted cells expressing these plasmids, tgRFP fluorescence localizes...offers a way to spatially and temporally control cellular processes in vivo. Many photoactive proteins exist...photo-reversible protein-protein interactions can control subcellular localization processes in vivo. They deposited...
  12. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    ...editor in mammalian cells Not all Cas13d proteins are functional in mammalian cells, but Konermann et al...make it possible to target essentially any RNA in a cell. Since catalytically dead dCasRx maintains its RNA-binding... with RNA-Targeting Type VI-D CRISPR Effectors.” Cell (2018) pii: S0092-8674(18)30207-1. PubMed PMID: ... a WYL-Domain-Containing Accessory Protein.” Mol Cell. (2018) pii: S1097-2765(18)30173-4. PubMed PMID:...
  13. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 3: Genome Engineering in Flies

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    ...Drosophila cell line, I’ve studied a transcription factor important for T cell differentiation (a cell type ...regeneration and homeostasis in the Drosophila midgut. Cell. 137, 1343–55 (2009). PubMed PMID: 19563763. PubMed...et al. Digoxin and its derivatives suppress TH17 cell differentiation by antagonizing RORγt activity. ...
  14. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    ... can rupture E. coli spheroplasts (cells which have had their cell walls removed with lysozyme). This ...protein fusions allowed us to image R bodies inside cells, and these constructs may be useful to future scientists...applications. For example, you could use them to lyse cells (and surrounding membranes) in keeping with their...assemble and function, we might be able to endow cells with new ways to interact mechanically with their...penetrate other barriers (like vasculature or extracellular matrices) in response to pH changes. Beyond...
  15. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    ...Ishitani R, Zhang F, Nureki O. Cell. 2014 Feb 27;156(5):935-49. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.001. Epub 2014 Feb...Kampmann M, Weissman JS. Cell. 2014 Oct 23;159(3):647-61. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.029. Epub 2014 Oct...screening for genes that, when turned on, make melanoma cells resistant to treatment with a BRAF inhibitor. (The...Weissman and his colleagues demonstrated in a paper in Cell that they could typically achieve 90-99% knockdown...straightforward to apply the new library for use in various cell types and in live mice. Therapeutic uses in humans...Addgene, enabling systematic investigation of the cellular consequences of repressing or inducing individual...
  16. Empty Backbones - Choosing Your Perfect Plasmid Backbone

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    ...stable cell lines in which the plasmid is incorporated into the host DNA. For mammalian cells, you ...delivery method, it's unlikely that all of your cells will take up your plasmid. Thus, many plasmids have...them so that you can find or select for only the cells that received the plasmid. Selectable ...transduce both dividing and nondividing cells Addgene has an extensive collection of plasmids ...for viral production AdEasier®-1 cells (strain) - Bacterial strain that...or Fusion Protein Tags and fusion proteins are excellent tools for further understanding the function... as GFP, which allows you to visualize the cellular localization of your protein. Just remember...
  17. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    ...measuring protein expression or localization in cells, or even single-particle tracking of the bound complex...(1-10) and GFP(11) Versatile protein tagging in cells with split fluorescent protein. Kamiyama et al. ...tracking of protein-protein interactions in living cells. Shao S, Zhang H, Zeng Y, Li Y, Sun C, Sun Y. Commun...bright enough for single-molecule tracking in live cells.  Controls  When designing experiments, it’s important... fragments themselves can sometimes interact in cells and produce background signal (especially for some...some older split-GFP constructs or certain cell environments). Also consider that a protein fusion may...) for use with GFP(11) Multiplexed labeling of cellular proteins with split fluorescent protein tags. ...
  18. Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy

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    ...Proteins in Living Cells Using Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation. Molecular Cell 9:789–798. https...manner. This is straightforward in easy-to-transfect cell lines where plasmid dosage can be tightly controlled...fluorescence-based method for directly visualizing PPIs in cells. The ease with which BiFC can be visualized makes...visualization of protein interactions in living cells. Nat Protoc 1:1278–1286. https://doi.org/10.1038...(BiFC) Analysis of Protein Interactions in Live Cells. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2013:pdb.prot076497. https...directly visualize PPIs that regulate numerous cellular functions, including ubiquitinoylation, kinase...BiFC studies used the method to interrogate the subcellular localization of interactions between basic leucine...
  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ..., peptides, amino acids, drugs, metal ions, and cells (even pathogenic bacteria). That range is possible... combination of SELEX and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) of E. coli transformed with aptamer...and FACS, Broccoli is inherently more stable in cells. The new aptamer also has a higher melting temperature...cassettes, thereby extending their use into mammalian cells. They’ve also dimerized Broccoli to further enhance...Multicolor CRISPR labeling of chromosomal loci in human cells.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112(10) (2015): 3002...Aptamers as a Tool to Study RNA-Modifying Enzymes.” Cell Chem Biol. 2016 Mar 17;23(3):415-25. PubMed PMID... over half a century; the Addgene blog has an excellent primer and tips from experts on FRET techniques...
  20. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    ... 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...suited for prediction of very diverse edit types and cell contexts. Figure 1: High-throughput screening...double-strand break repair pathway balance. Molecular Cell, 81(10), 2216-2230.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/...
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