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  1. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    ...PMID: 24552514. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3929550. 3. Kaati, Gunnar, Lars O. Bygren, and Soren Edvinsson...Mechanisms of epigenetic modifications The main mechanism of epigenetic modification is chromatin remodeling...literally means ‘on top of the genome’). Epigenetic modifications can result in phenotypic changes without any...any change in genotype. Epigenetic modifications play a large role in turning genes ‘off’ and ‘on’, signaling...two main mechanisms, either through histone modifications, which can influence the transcription of genes...hypomethylation, on the other hand, has also been implicated in the development and progression of cancer ...enzyme digestion, DNA adenine methyltransferase identification, and bisulfite sequencing. However none of ...
  2. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    ...back to your specific goal. When thinking about step 3, however, you may be surprised at the number of options...well as suitable applications. Expression System Components of System Application Mammalian expression...CRISPR mammalian expression systems, the typical applications for each, and potential delivery methods.   ...Select the appropriate CRISPR tools for your application: Wildtype Cas9 or Cas9 nickase are appropriate... or introducing mutations and tags, while a catalytically dead dCas9 can be used in conjunction with activator...or more sgRNAs and Cas9 are required for any application. If you want to include a homology directed repair...Cas9-gRNA complex and delivered to cells using cationic lipids. Transient expression of CRISPR components...
  3. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    ...Originally published Aug 3, 2017 and last updated Apr 6, 2021 by Will Arnold. Introducing NGS in 2017...containing genes with many modifications. We look for point mutations, truncations, and insertions that could...significant amount of QC. First, we perform Picogreen quantification on each and every isolated plasmid sample and... preparation process and includes Picogreen quantification of various intermediate steps, a sizing electrophoretic...electrophoretic gel, and qPCR quantification of the final libraries. A broader view of the whole plasmid...often find a few mismatches in the origin of replication or other common backbone elements. Since we’ve...annotated Genbank files that are useful for more complicated plasmids, like those that contain synthesized...
  4. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    ...expression and high cell-type specificity.  Strategy #3 (ProC): Create promoters by repeating mouse cell type...channelrhodopsin, fused to a fluorescent GFP marker (CatCH-GFP). The lab deposited AAV plasmids containing ...expression. Surprisingly, <1% of synthetic promoters replicated the expression specificity of the wild-type promoters...reproducibly labeled retinal cells can be found here.  Applications for synthetic promoter AAVs Besides restricting...synthetic promoters have a few other potential applications: Using promoter combinations for targeted expression... promoters expressed in. The lab tested this application using one promoter to drive expression of Cre-mCherry...drive expression of a Cre-dependent fluorescent CatCH-GFP reporter. Expression of GFP will only result...
  5. Lab Automation at Addgene

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    ...protocol, we can prep two 96 well plates in just under 3 hours or one 96 well plate in about an hour. Automating...efficient. Here, I’ll discuss transformation, DNA purification, and filling vials with agar. I’ll also provide...greater than 95% success rate! Automating DNA purification We're developing ways to prep large quantities...
  6. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    ...more advantageous for your search. Timesaving Tip #3: Note that protein databases available are unlikely...search to check for expected ORFs, mutations or truncations. A primary advantage of blastx is that you do...other labs speed up their plasmid and cloning verification steps and free up more time for using your plasmids...
  7. Plasmid Cloning by PCR (with Protocols)

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    ...Forward Primer will use the sequence 5'-ATGTGGCATATCTCGAAGTAC-3' for the region that binds the ORF and ...primer, making our Forward Primer 5'-GAATTCATGTGGCATATCTCGAAGTAC-3'. Many restriction enzymes do not cut...final Forward Primer sequence of 5'-TAAGCAGAATTCATGTGGCATATCTCGAAGTAC-3'. For the Reverse Primer, the design... the ORF, including the stop codon (5'-TGGCATATCTCGAAGTACTGA-3'), then adding NotI (GCGGCCGC) and then... This gives us a sequence of 5'-TGGCATATCTCGAAGTACTGAGCGGCCGCTAAGCA-3' (30bp with 18bp of homology to ...chose for our reverse primer (5’-TGGCATATCTCGAAGTACTGAGCGGCCGCTAAGCA-3’) into this calculator we get a ...assist with restriction enzyme digestion (usually 3-6bp). Restriction Site: Your chosen restriction site...
  8. Protocol - pLKO.1 – TRC Cloning Vector

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    .... sin 3’LTR 3’ Self-inactivating long terminal repeat. f1 ori f1 bacterial origin of replication. Amp ...antisense—TTTTTG 3’ Reverse oligo: 5’ AATTCAAAAA—21bp sense—CTCGAG—21bp antisense 3’ For example...bacterial origin of replication. 5’LTR 5’ long terminal repeat. RRE Rev response element. A.3 Related Products...’ CCGG AATGCCTACGTTAAGCTATAC CTCGAG GTATAGCTTAACGTAGGCATT TTTTTG 3’ Reverse oligo: 5’ AATTCAAAAA...AATTCAAAAA AATGCCTACGTTAAGCTATAC CTCGAG GTATAGCTTAACGTAGGCATT 3’ Back to Top C. Cloning Oligos into pLKO...Vector A.1 The RNAi Consortium A.2 Map of pLKO.1 A.3 Related plasmids B. Designing shRNA Oligos for pLKO... C.1 Recommended materials C.2 Annealing oligos C.3 Digesting pLKO.1 TRC-Cloning Vector C.4 Ligating and...
  9. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    ...PMID: 25357182. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4289409. 3. Rouet, Romain, et al. "Receptor-Mediated Delivery...valuable to scientists, there are some potential complications that must be considered when using this method...alternative approach, which avoids many of these complications, is to directly deliver a ribonucleoprotein ...used for most of the current genome engineering applications of CRISPR including: generating single or multi-gene...pathways. This makes Cas9 RNPs useful for CRISPR applications where limited expression of Cas9 is required...development. David Liu’s Lab has demonstrated the use of cationic lipid-mediated methods to deliver Cas9-gRNA RNPs... of eventually using this method for in vivo applications. This technique utilizes Cas9 proteins harboring...
  10. Rabies and Neuronal Tracing

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    ...2013 Mar 19;110(12):E1152-61 Pubmed PMID 23487772. 3. Etessami R, Conzelmann KK, Fadai-Ghotbi B, Natelson...able to replicate, and for a virus to cross a synapse from one cell to another, it must replicate. Modified...like how our stem cells are housed in specific locations and give rise to progenitors during growth and...infects one cell (the “starter cell”). It then replicates within that cell, and nascent RABV cross synapses...infection occurs, subsequent cycles of viral replication and retrograde transmission occur, spreading ...limitations. First, these high levels of viral replication are toxic. Second, infecting subsequently higher...spread monosynaptically from these cells. These modifications take advantage of the fact that RABV is an enveloped...
  11. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    ... of “Do-It-Yourself Science” described in Chapter 3, and of course the rapidly changing world of genome...drives and their ramifications. Readers unfamiliar with academia’s challenges with publication and funding ...Connecticut College who has been teaching and communicating science for over two decades, attempts to answer... primarily on fluorescent proteins and their applications, tackles much broader issues in this brief volume...sexism in science, problems with peer-reviewed publications and funding, bioethics in the age of CRISPR,... and her essential-but-unlauded role in the identification of DNA’s double helix. Perhaps to the dismay...dismay of middle-aged scientists, the identification of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and its development...
  12. Drew Endy Introduces the Biobrick Public Agreement Plasmid Collection

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    ...Amplifying genetic logic gates." Science. 340, 599-603 (3 May 2013). Vivek Mutalik et al. "Precise and reliable...Initiative. Endy's team made news in March with a publication in Science describing the development of “transcriptors...work, and it begins with the central dogma - replication of DNA, transcription of DNA to make RNA, translation..., humans have two types of languages: one to communicate amongst each other, like this conversation we... in English, and then there are languages to communicate with other things. These are programming languages...successful in the long term, if it's going to communicate between humans (i.e., our dreams and intentions...
  13. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ...  Understanding the impact Fig. 3: Histograms indicating the frequency (x-axis) which SNPs map ...Dependency Map cancer cell lines (left). Heatmap indicating the breakdown of ancestry associated dependencies...machinery where to cut.      Fig. 2: Heatmap indicating loci where SNPs reside on sgRNA target sequences...same reference genomes and libraries. Further complicating the issue is the long and ugly history of reporting...
  14. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    ...important is letting people know it’s happening. Aim for 3-4 weeks advance notice for the first meeting so that...emerging work by collaboratively discussing recent publications in a specific field(s). Most anyone who has ...the company at large, by polling and informal communications we made a decision to try out a Bioinformatics...major findings and then focusing more on broader implications rather than diving deep into the individual ....  These variations are suited for different applications and should be carefully chosen for each group...
  15. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...human cell lines. Nucleic Acids Research. 2014;43(3):e17. doi:10.1093/nar/gku1198...it is important to carefully select the target locations of knock-in studies to avoid off-target effects...it comes to targeting precision and practical application. If the CRISPR/Cas9 system is not effective for...lncRNAs with high specificity, particularly in applications requiring smaller delivery systems (Zibitt et...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...Combining a PSAM with the IPD of a cation channel, such as the serotonin 3 receptor, will promote depolarization...chemogenetics for research and potential clinical applications. Science 6436: eaav5282. https://science.sciencemag.org...
  17. Neurodegeneration Plasmid Collection

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    ...Spinocerebellar ataxia 22 Bernard Weinstein 21238 PKC gamma CAT PRKCG HA CMV Spinocerebellar ataxia 21 Bernard Weinstein...TLS 2: hTLS.pCDNA1 FUS CMV ALS David Ron 21829 TLS 3: TLS.pRSET.C FUS His T7 ALS David Ron 21830 TLS 4:... APEX2 CMV Parkinson's Mark Cookson 165107 pGEX4T-3-6AOptParkin PRKN GST tac Parkinson's Arthur Haas 166671...dementia (FTD) Thomas Kukar 176922 pcDNA3.1(+)_Granulin 3+linker4 GRN Flag, Strep CMV Frontotemporal dementia...dementia (FTD) Thomas Kukar 176923 pcDNA3.1(+)_Granulin 3-no linker GRN Flag, Strep CMV Frontotemporal dementia... FUS His T7 ALS Nicolas Fawzi 226605 FUS LC 4S->A#3 FUS His T7 ALS Nicolas Fawzi 226606 FUS LC 8Y->S FUS... HA CMV ALS Catherine Tomasetto 104450 pEGFPC1-hVAP-B KD/MD VAPB GFP, HA CMV ALS Catherine Tomasetto 104465...
  18. Addgene-Seeding Labs plasmid grant round 3: microbial drug resistance and biofilms, antidiabetic plant components, visualizing brain injury - and a glowing robot fish

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    ...fields and geographical locations. In addition to providing reagents and educational resources for scientists...formation. The quest for plant compounds to treat complications of diabetes Gloria Otito Izu, PhD Candidate...nephropathy, one of the major pathophysiological complications of diabetes mellitus. Recombinant human proteins... employing synthetic biology resources and microfabrication technologies to generate a self renewable ... in the river, take water samples at specific locations, measure fluorescent signals from the sensor, ...
  19. AAV Titration by qPCR Using SYBR Green Technology

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    ...95 uL 20X 200X Dilution 3 20 uL Dil. 2 80 uL 5X 1000X Dilution 4 20 uL Dil. 3 80 uL 5X 5000X Dilution ...x 10 12 GC/mL, use dilutions 3–6 If sample is expected to have a titer >3 x 10 13 GC/mL, use dilutions...detection: 98 °C 3 min / 98 °C 15 sec / 58 °C 30 sec / read plate/ repeat 39x from step 3 / melt curve Example...Update: February 13, 2019 Estimate of time required: ~3 h Workflow Timeline Plate set-up: 2 h qPCR run: 1.5...dilution 90 2 x 10 4 10 of 2 x 10 4 dilution 90 2 x 10 3 Pro-Tip To help stabilize the standards add carrier... Example of plate set-up: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A 1.00 x 10 9 1.00 x 10 8 1.00 x 10 7 1.00 x 10 6 1.00 x 10 ...10 5 1.00 x 10 4 empty NTC C AAV reference Sample 3 D E Sample 1 Sample 4 F E Sample 2 Sample 5 F Perform...
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