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  1. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    .... Nat Cell Biol. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-021-00836-1 Visual barcodes for live cell clonal...with one visual barcode per cell and up to 200-plex with two barcodes per cell. The researchers validated...long sequence knock-ins Visual barcodes for live cell clonal multiplexing Improving flexibility for ... powerful approach for proteomic mapping in both cell culture and whole organisms (see our 2019 overview...reduced risks of unwanted mutations in mammalian cells. Long sequences traditionally have higher risks ...multiplexing by: Rachel Leeson Multiplexed images in live cells remains a challenge due to multiple factors, including...flourescent proteins that can be inserted into a cell without disrupting its functions. Recently, Ravid...
  2. Reagent Repositories Are Speeding up Science During the Pandemic

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    ...4,000 cell lines. Seventeen of these cell lines were used to investigate the susceptibility of cells from...additional cell line used in this study came from the Japanese Collection of Research Bioresources Cell Bank...that SARS-CoV, which entered human cells via hACE2, could not enter cells expressing murine ACE2 (Subbarao...repositories that distribute mouse strains, plasmids, cell lines, and much more have been critical for pandemic...from Reproducibility for Everyone. Case study 1: Cell lines Many of the reagents used to investigate SARS-CoV...accelerating research into this virus. One such example is cell lines. The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC...of this pathogen. The sharing and distribution of cell lines from repositories on opposite sides of the...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    ...difficult-to-transfect cell types ranging from primary to embryonic stem cells. Viral integration of a... also generally less toxic to cells than transfections, preserving cell viability. Library delivery Screening...Viral applications Viruses work by infecting a host cell (the target of viral infection) and delivering a...to be anything you want delivered to your target cells. This delivered DNA/RNA can then be either permanently...permanently integrated into the genome of the target cell or transiently expressed. It’s important to note...This vector can express your construct in target cells transiently or constitutively depending on the virus...transcription factors, barcoded libraries to trace cell lineage, and so much more! Libraries allow you to...
  4. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    ...fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) helps researchers sift through thousands of cells to identify cells exhibiting...target single cells. Now, Francois St-Pierre’s lab developed a new form of FACS-based cell screening, Single-cell...individual cells with unique spatiotemporal phenotypes from large heterogeneous cultures.  HeLa cells expressed... conformational changes in a protein.    Cells expressing an RFP reporter plasmid for recombinase...is active in vitro as well as in human and plant cells. Casɸ from Biggiephage can eliminate competing... Single-cell Phenotypic Observation and Tagging with Light (SPOTlight) as a way to isolate individual ...of keratin with mGold (top) and mVenus (bottom). Cells were imaged every 30 seconds for 3 hours. Image ...
  5. Lentivirus Plasmids

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    ...Lentivirus can transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells without a significant immune response. These viruses...expression of hTERT, used to create immortalized cell lines. See Hayer et al. (2016) for additional selection...pBOB-EF1-FastFUCCI-Puro 3rd Encodes FUCCI reporters for cell cycle analysis. Puromycin selection. Kevin Brindle...
  6. Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer

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    ...cancers. It was inspiring to participate in the 2017 Cell Symposium on Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity and...recent findings in basic immunology, cancer-immune cell interactions, cancer immunotherapy, as well as new...example the upregulation of the immunosuppressive cell surface receptor PD-1. This immunosuppressive environment...follow the interactions between tumor and immune cells in real time. Addgene depositor Professor Max Krummel...effect of PD-1 blockade.“ (Ref 4). PD-1 helps tumor cells evade the immune system - COX inhibitors like aspirin...therapeutics such as  (Chimeric Antigen Receptors) CAR T cells and PD-1 modulators. An exciting development in ...combination of the CRISPR/Cas9 methodology with T cell receptor engineering (Ref 5)  as described by Blue...
  7. Hot Plasmids - December 2019 - CRISPR pooled library, LipoGlo, CRISPRa, and Voltage Imaging Tools

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    ... on the method used to introduce the gRNAs into cells. Most CRISPR pooled libraries have been created ...the chance of transducing a only a single gRNA per cell. The viral DNA containing the gRNA then integrates...next-generation sequencing of the genomic DNA. However, some cell types are poorly transduced by lentivirus, and thus...CRISPR libraries was not possible. Primary murine T cells cannot be transduced by lentivirus and have been...library was used to transduce T helper type 2 (Th2) cells from mice that constitutively express Cas9 and screen...CRISPR pooled library can be used for screening of cells that are refractory to lentiviral transduction, ..., now enabling forward genetic screens in cells with few genetic tools. Find the mouse CRISPR knockout...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    ...reagents and keep the cells happy. Harvesting virus Once you have transfected your cells, wait 2–5 days and...however, you’ve collected the producer cells, you’ll need to lyse the cells to let the virions out. We recommend...particles that can transduce cells, which can vary based on target cells and can be altered by freeze/...come into contact with the rAAV and apply common cell culture practices diligently throughout the production...capsid genes.  In this helper-free system, HEK293T cells, expressing Ad E1A and E1B, can be transfected with...and then collect the supernatant and/or producer cells for further processing. What component(s) you need...released into the culture media, while others remain cell-associated (Vandenberghe et al., 2010). For certain...
  9. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    ... between living cells by TransitID. Cell, 186(15), 3307–3324.e30. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.044. PMID...lentivirus and MMLV gag, to specific cell types. It can also make CAR-T cell therapy more accessible by simplifying... efficient prime editors. Cell, 186(18), 3983–4002.e26. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.07.039. PMID: 37657419...called DIRECTED (Delivery to Intended REcipient Cells Through Envelope Design). This modular approach ...viral surface, expanding the range of targetable cell types. DIRECTED is compatible with fusogens from...process and could even enable the creation of CAR-T cells directly within the body. Overall, DIRECTED can ...DIRECTED plasmids here! Strebinger, D., et al. (2023). Cell type-specific delivery by modular envelope design...
  10. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    ...to monitor cell, organelle, and protein localization. For instance, you might dye your cells and look at...either in whole cells or as a pool of fusion proteins localized to a specific region of the cell. For example...the relationship between the age of a cell, protein, or cellular structure and a particular biological...trafficking to a subcellular location, start of gene expression, development of a cell structure, etc)....timers, researchers can look at a single image of a cell and understand how protein localization changes ...was a tetramer with a propensity to aggregate in cells (Tsuboi et al.), limiting its use. Nonetheless, ...versatile timer could be used in vitro, in mammalian cells, in C. elegans, and in Xenopus embryos. Of course...
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