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  1. Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication

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    ... host cell's initiation proteins. In nature, such plasmids ensure their propagation by limiting their ...replication in bacteria is carefully regulated to ensure that it occurs at the appropriate time—for example...lower levels of DnaA to get the job done.   Figure 1: DNA melting by DnaA and IHF is the first step...Termination sequences present in the chromosomal DNA ensure that the helicases are released from the DNA once...of the chromosome, ending replication.   Figure 2: Prokaryotic chromosomal replication. Adapted...high, restraining further replication.   Figure 3: Comparison of replication regulation mechanisms...

  2. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    ...transducing your virus. Let’s start there!     Figure 1: Flowchart showing the process for using pooled...coli are allowed to grow on plates or in liquid culture to amplify the library, followed by DNA isolation... sequencing and further data analysis. Based on Figure 31.5.2 from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27366891... and replicate, then purify the DNA.     Figure 2: A pooled library page with protocols boxed in...is controlled by viral titer, so you’ll need to measure your viral titer before you can transduce your ...with titer, cell type, and other factors, so make sure to put that aliquot to full use! Common conditions...that a cell doesn’t get infected at all. To make sure that every plasmid’s payload is adequately represented...

  3. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    ... there. Make sure you read the instructions for whatever antibiotic you choose to ensure it works in your...shared by every living thing fit onto a single lecture slide. That shared language is the basis of shuttle...are designed to shuttle between species. Figure 1: Shuttle vectors are vectors that can function... your vector between, you should have a plan to ensure it persists in both contexts. For a vector ...This is useful for keeping your eukaryotic cell cultures bacteria-free, but it won’t allow you to select... producer cells, which have the machinery to manufacture infectious viral particles. Those particles are...

  4. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    ...for at least 12 hours, or at lower temperatures for longer. Cultures induced with arabinose and colonies...results in the production of air-filled protein nanostructures called gas vesicles, which scatter sound waves..., used in bacteria, expressed poorly at body temperature (37oC) and were too burdensome to express in ...Excess gvpA plasmid added into the transfection mixture in HEK293T cells gave drastic improvement in expression...transfection reagent (e.g. PEI-MAX). Simply cotransfect a mixture of 1248 ng of CMV-gvpA-IRES-BFP plasmid and 954...noninvasive imaging of microorganisms in mammalian hosts. Nature 553, 86–90 (2018). Farhadi, A., Ho, G. H., Sawyer...

  5. Transferable Skills Guide: Career Planning Resources

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    ...or resume). If you receive a card in return, make sure to follow up with a professional “thank you” via...your CV doesn’t necessarily mean that you are a future employee of the company. It does, however, offer...to consider, some of the best options are the Naturejobs Career Expo and the ACS career fair, which are... candidates. If you do receive such a call, make sure to get that person’s contact information and again...when you are looking to change positions in the future. Anyone looking for work in today’s job market ...with you to ease the way. Make connections, and nurture those relationships. Then when you are ready to...job, you’ll be in the best possible position to secure it! Further Reading and Outside Resources http...

  6. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    ...engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex. Nature 517:583–588 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14136 Pan J, Meyers RM, Michel...screens can be used to gain insight into protein structure and function (Pan et al., 2018). cDNA libraries... therapeutic targets using CRISPR–Cas9 screens. Nature 568:511–516 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019...C, Hsu PD, Habib N, Gootenberg JS, Nishimasu H, Nureki O, Zhang F (2014) Genome-scale transcriptional ...2018) Interrogation of Mammalian Protein Complex Structure, Function, and Membership Using Genome-Scale Fitness...Zetsche B, Volz SE, Zhang F (2015) A split-Cas9 architecture for inducible genome editing and transcription...

  7. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    ...datasets with their resultant figures. Instead of providing a “dead end” figure or table, clicking on the ... descriptions, legends and limiting numbers of figures such that many have multiple, complex panels. PLOS...sizes) but images should be unprocessed and in capture format. This raises another issue of proprietary...Other new data initiatives are also taking root. Nature Publishing Group recently launched a publication... and funders. Clearly, it is in our interest to ensure that our data are reproducible and useful to others... alpha isoform of GSK-3 to the same (deserved) stature as the beta isoform. Follow him on Twitter @jwoodgett...

  8. Addgene's Website Update

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    ... biggest change is to our most frequently used feature: the search bar. We’ve changed the colors and centered...to go straight to your materials of interest!   Figure 1: The new search bar.   Pro tip! You can use a...will prompt you to log in or create an account.  Figure 2: The new deposit materials bar New menu Most ...website without scrolling up and down the page.  Figure 3: The Education & Tools menu Further down What...look and a fresh new friend: Antibody of the Day!  Figure 4: The plasmid, viral prep, and antibody of the...t take our word for it — check out all the new features and designs addgene.org! And when you’re finished...

  9. Inntags: Innovative Protein Epitope Tagging

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    ... "Inntags: small self-structured epitopes for innocuous protein tagging." Nature methods (2015). PubMed...each tagged protein must be tested carefully to ensure it retains the attributes of the native protein...Georgieva et al. to develop new tags with defined 3D structures less likely to compromise protein folding and...Due to their limited effects on native protein structure, inntags may become the tags of choice for examining...correlation for protein localization in mammalian cells." Nature methods 10.4 (2013): 315-323. Pubmed PMID: 23435261...

  10. Let There Be LITE Plasmids

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    ...Addgene’s repository for use in neurons, both in culture and in living brain tissue. “The brain is such ... that’s exactly what the LITEs now enable. In a Nature paper introducing the optogenetic tool, Konermann...said in MIT’s press release. In an accompanying Nature News & Views Andreas Möglich and Peter Hegemann...of transcription occurs within minutes of light exposure. Third, the response can be graded with light ...applied non-invasively, its use is not restricted to cultured cells but extends to freely moving animals, as...endogenous transcription and epigenetic states." Nature. 500, 472–476 (22 August 2013).   , with the ...

  11. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ... each requires selection. These two steps are (Figure 1): The initial plasmid integration step (the ...antibiotic resistance marker from the vector (abR, Figure 1). The resolution step (“double crossover”) which...for the loss of a specific phenotype (using sacB, Figure 1, further discussed below).  Counter-selectable...frequently requires considerable optimization to ensure strong counter-selection. Anecdotally, there is... of two visible blue or magenta chromoproteins (Figure 2) (Liljeruhm et al., 2018). This system is a nice...aeruginosa genome with two-step allelic exchange." Nature protocols 10.11 (2015): 1820. PubMed PMID: 26492139...of bacterial genomes using CRISPR-Cas systems." Nature biotechnology31.3 (2013): 233. PubMed PMID: 23360965...

  12. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    ...mammalian evolution. Nature 428, 493–521 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02426 Iannaccone, P. M., ...processes and developments. Model organisms often feature genetic, physiological, or developmental characteristics...laboratory settings. One of its most attractive features is its stability and easily obtainable growing...axolotl has the ability to regenerate complex structures such as limbs, the spinal cord, and internal ...disease research. One of their most attractive features are their eggs. Frog eggs are large, opaque, and...genomics study in bacteria with superior performance. Nature Communications, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...

  13. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    ...get several interviews but no job offers, is a failure to clearly articulate one's talents and ideas. ...Have a competitive CV You don't necessarily need a Nature/Cell/Science paper. You do need multiple first/...techniques. You DO need to be prepared to know the literature of your field and all of the caveats and alternatives...misfolded proteins is essential for human health. Failure to do so is implicated in several human diseases...much easier to focus on the questions when you’re secure in the knowledge that you have given everyone a...you want to convey for each section or aim. Make sure those get priority. The fine details for aficionados... is the task. Do your homework. Learn what your future potential colleagues study. Think about how you...

  14. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...four-stranded branched structures that form when elongation of the invasive strand “captures” and synthesizes...genome instability and contributes to cancer, premature aging, and other harmful processes. The most dangerous...strand; this results in the formation of a DNA structure referred to as the displacement loop (D loop)....and the resulting mutations after an HDR event, ensure the gRNA or PAM site is disrupted in the donor....engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system. Ran FA, et al. Nature Protocols Nov;8(11):2281-308; (2013). PubMed. ...Resources on the Addgene Blog Check out our CRISPR Featured Topic Page Learn about Non-Homologous End Joining...

  15. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    ... just hides in latently infected cells. To truly cure HIV-1, researchers need to vanquish these hidden...for HIV-1 patients. However, ART is not an HIV-1 cure. In patients who stop ART, viral levels will soon... the percentage of cells with activated HIV-1, measured via HIV-1 promoter-driven GFP expression. In cell...target sequence. Kaminski et al. next tested their procedure in HIV-1 infected T-cells to see if they could...therapies target HIV-1 at the level of protein structure, CRISPR gRNAs require DNA sequence-specific binding... note that these experiments were done in cell culture, and the cells infected with HIV-1 only after stable...papers present tantalizing evidence that an HIV-1 cure may be within our reach. Similar studies have shown...

  16. Management for Scientists: Seeking Feedback

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    ...be boiled down to one, key concept: Creating a culture of excellent, effective communication between all...on the team talks and listens in roughly equal measure, keeping contribution short and sweet. One key... face one another, and their conversations and gestures are energetic.  This can take practice and training...training. This is important because it creates a culture of engagement in the issues at hand and eagerness...tactics for effective delegation will be covered in a future post in this series). Members carry on back-channel...talking about gossip here – this means encouraging a culture of maximum information flow so everyone knows what...

  17. Increasing Your Work's Visibility with Addgene: Citation, Search, and Collections

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    ... you and the original depositor. Our citations feature makes it so that, when you cite a plasmid from ...to find your work later. We also hope that this feature will decrease redundancy. If you modify a plasmid...section. We’ve also added the Plasmid of the Day feature to our home page - each day we showcase a new plasmid...plasmid that you might otherwise miss. We hope this feature will draw attention to the great variety of plasmids...repository. And last, but certainly not least, we often feature new plasmid technologies on our blog and encourage...Evolving Check out the Blog Post on Our Citations Feature Browse More Inside Addgene Posts Additional Resources...

  18. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    ...cellular events such as the dynamics of subcellular structures and gene expression. You must see the movies ... a compatible fluorescent protein. FRET can be measured by exciting the most blue-shifted fluorescent ...optogenetic receptor, melanopsin, requiring brief exposure to 470nm blue light. To avoid overlap with this...gene tagging using a ligase-4-dependent mechanism. Nature Comm. 7, 12338. PubMed PMID: 27465542. PubMed Central...microscopy and enhances bioluminescence imaging in vivo.Nature Biotechnol. 34, 760-7. PubMed PMID: 27240196....luminescent protein for real-time multicolour bioimaging. Nature Comm. 7, 13718. PubMed PMID: 27966527. PubMed Central...NanoLuc-based luminescence (BRET) Ca++ sensing. Nature Comm. 7, 13268. PubMed PMID: 27786307. PubMed Central...

  19. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Science Writing

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    ... comments. They could be featured in future career blog posts. And make sure to subscribe to the Career...Iowa, he was like a lot of newly minted PhD’s: not sure what his next step should be. He debated taking ...few other tips: “Learn HTML, write a lot to make sure you don’t hate it, and be flexible. The best stuff...appealing images and colors draw people in. Drawing a picture of a mechanism that also looks nice is a great ...

  20. CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions

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    ...not terribly problematic when working with cell culture, because it is easy to harvest large quantities...sheering of DNA by sonification. Though it helps capture weaker or more transient DNA-protein interactions...of interest. First, nuclei from tissue or cell culture are isolated using lectin-coated magnetic beads...thus targeting MNase to antibody bound proteins (Figure 1). Importantly, since Protein A has weaker affinity...desired. It also provides an excellent additional measure of DNA binding sites in combination with existing...fusion proteins Study chromatin interactions with CAPTURE Additional Resources on Addgene.org Find simple...
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