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  1. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    ...type of edit you need to introduce highly specific? Perhaps you need to introduce a single nucleotide modification...McDade and significantly updated in 2022 by Susanna Stroik.  The advent of CRISPR/Cas9 has made it easier ...right for your unique experiment. Here, we will introduce you to the wide array of Cas9s (many available...Knock-out cells or animals are engineered by introducing Cas9-mediated frameshift mutations in the gene...interest. The genomic target for Cas9 and the introduction of this mutation can be any site early in the...and knockouts Some experiments may require the introduction of a mutation at a specific site e.g., deleting...Synergistic Activation Mediator complex, generally the strongest activator, consists of a dCas9-VP64 fusion and...
  2. Three Key Considerations for Precise Neuronal Targeting Using AAV Technologies

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    ...your cell of interest: AAV tropism and route of administration AAV tropism is defined by the viral capsid...FRT, with AAV vectors are common approaches to control transgene expression by restricting expression ...regulatory elements such as promoters and enhancers, multicistronic vectors, and post-translational regulatory ...Combinatorial strategies can also be used for retrograde tracing: visualizing neurons that received information...region. In the example shown in Figure 1, injected retrograde AAVs at one location result in opsin expression...viral vector related blog posts Learn more about retrograde AAVs Resources on Addgene.org Read our AAV ...guide Learn more about our viral service Find retrograde AAVs at Addgene ...
  3. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    ...video making.   Cycle One: The Ironing Board Control Center With the pandemic in full swing and everyone...Ironing boards. Good as a WFH desk, and as a video control center.   Cycle 2: Zooming Forward Design: ...me to set up a camera in a room, but still have control over focus, zoom, stop/start record, and allow ...focus system. Follow focus systems allow you to control the focus or zoom on a camera lens without having...door (connected via bluetooth to the camera, to control some basic functions, including starting and stopping... complete with wireless video receiver, camera control, and extra hand sanitizer.    Cycle 4: Venturing...mount a battery to it if necessary. I could still control the camera from a distance if I needed to be close...
  4. CRISPR 101: Validating Your Genome Edit

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    ...updated Nov 3, 2022 by Susanna Stroik. You’ve designed your gRNA and introduced it into your target cells ... of your target site is. If you are trying to introduce a homozygous mutation, it’s helpful to know how...knockout cell line is desired, any mutation that introduces a frameshift in the coding region of interest... sequence clones to verify that the deletions introduced are out of frame but finding clones with deletions....   Validating knock-in mutations You’ve introduced a donor template along with your gRNA and Cas9...your desired edit is. Large knock-ins Are you introducing a large insertion, something 20 base pairs or...restriction enzyme sites? Never fear! You can introduce a silent, passenger edit to serve as a proxy for...
  5. Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping

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    ..., that strongly binds the glycoprotein, avidin or a similar protein, streptavidin. This strong interaction...antibody based affinity purification and mass spectrometry approaches. Recently however, scientists have...classic antibody based affinity purification/mass spectrometry methods.  BioID: a promiscuous biotin ligase...ascorbate peroxidase (APEX), used as a genetic tag for electron microscopy, could be used for efficient proximity...of hydrogen peroxide. This radical reacts with electron-rich amino acids such as tyrosine on neighboring...exogenous biotin allowing for more precise temporal control.  Find plasmids for TurboID and miniturbo Split-BioID...Stephanie S., et al. "Directed evolution of APEX2 for electron microscopy and proximity labeling." Nature methods...
  6. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    ...-phosphorylated or ‘wild type’ control protein. The ‘wild type’ control can be made one of two ways. First... model systems coupled with advances in mass spectrometry suggest that phosphorylation is far more prevalent...non-phosphorylated recombinant protein and perform in vitro kinase reactions. Often, however, researchers lack...or have difficulties with kinase specificity in vitro. The establishment of a system in which purified...-containing GFP that can be used as a positive control during optimization experiments. This version of... pSer incorporation can also done using mass spectrometry to identify a mass shift proportional to a single...expression plasmid. This is a particularly important control when creating a phosphoserine-incorporation mutant...
  7. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    ...with the lentivirus HIV-1. Today, HIV-1 can be controlled with antiviral therapies such that the virus ... dCas9-SAM to activate HIV-1 transcription and destroy infected cells, the other using wild-type Cas9 ...Read on to learn how CRISPR can take on HIV-1 in vitro, and what obstacles must be overcome for clinical...infections not usually seen in healthy individuals. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) can virtually eliminate plasma...Why can’t the body mount an immune response to destroy these reservoirs? Essentially, the immune system...out of the genome with CRISPR/Cas9 Before the introduction of CRISPR, HIV-1 genome editing with ZFNs and...infection period rather than the ART-induced viral control found in most HIV-1 patients. Obstacles for CRISPR...
  8. Summer SciComm: Science Storytelling

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    ...creative commons license.    The introduction The introduction serves two purposes. First, it should... to have conflict. There are a lot of ways to introduce conflict into your work, but one of my favorite... two other things to complete your story: an introduction, and a resolution.   Fig. 2: The structure...ever thought about how X works?”, or even by introducing a person that the audience can relate to. It ...read (or listen or watch) further.  Second, the introduction needs to provide enough information so that ...thing applies for science storytelling. You can introduce your results right at the beginning of your communication...Addgene blog SSCS: Cognitive Load SSCS: Preprints Intro to our Summer SciComm Series  ...
  9. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - December 2019

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    ...26973 AAVrg pAAV-hSyn-hChR2(H134R)-EYFP   Control AAV Control AAV allow researchers to not only interpret...inventory. Our new AAVs include: Optogenetics AAV Control AAV Biosensor AAV And more! Optogenetics Optogenetics...more efficient tools for light mediated neuronal control and we are expanding our viral service to make ...own experiments. To this end, we offer specific control AAV in smaller aliquots of 20 ul for serotype testing... service has now expanded to offer many of our control plasmids in new serotypes. See our Serotype Testing...response to action potentials, is now offered under control of the CAG promoter for ubiquitous expression. ... 44362  AAV1 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-hM4D(Gi)-mCherry Controls Plasmid Serotype Name 50459 AAV1 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-mCherry...
  10. Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...which introduces functional Cas9 protein and the targeting guide RNA into cells by electroporation. Results...of the nuclease dissociates very slowly after introducing a cut, with residence times on DNA of approximately...free to anneal to complementary ssDNA molecules in vitro. Figure 1: Cas9 binding to the cleaved DNA... if we could leverage this model (built from in vitro studies) to boost the efficiency of sequence replacement...enables sequence replacement without cutting Our in vitro results also demonstrated that catalytically inactive...advantage but error-prone repair of the gene would be disastrous (i.e. if breaking the gene is worse than leaving...homology-directed human genome engineering by controlled timing of CRISPR/Cas9 delivery." Elife 3 (2015...
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