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  1. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    ...lab-adapted bacteria because it has been challenging to introduce CRISPRi machinery into diverse bacteria species... gRNAs, and dCas9 proteins. Second, it can be introduced into a broader range of bacteria. Once transferred...., 2019 with permission.   Two methods to introduce Mobile-CRISPRi by bacterial conjugation For gram...gram negative bacteria, Mobile-CRISPRi is introduced using the bacterial Tn7 transposon system. This system...firmicute gram positive bacteria, Mobile-CRISPRi is introduced using the bacterial integrative and conjugative...Mobile-CRISPRi. The Mobile-CRISPRi ICE element is first introduced into the B. subtilis genome. Mobile-CRISPRi is...into the trnS-leu2 locus.   Figure 2: Introducing Mobile-CRISPRi into bacteria. Top: A Tn7 transposon...
  2. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    ... Overview of in vitro AAV CRISPR screens. Created with BioRender.com. The in vitro option requires... screens may be AAVantageous!       In vivo, in vitro, ex vivo CRISPR screens can be carried out using...using a few different methods — in vivo, in vitro, and ex vivo. The general process of these screens is the...with transducing cells with the CRISPR library in vitro before transplanting them into mice. For in vivo...when designing screens. Each serotype has its own tropism, or a preference to infect specific cell or tissue...tissue types. Using serotypes that have a known tropism for your cells of interest — for example, AAV8 ... used these psuedotypes to further improve the tropism of AAV vectors, enhancing their affinity for specific...
  3. Antibodies 101: Flow Compensation

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    ... APC control, with APC and APC-CY7 plotted against each other. Since it is a single-color control, you...example with single color control. Flow plots showing an APC single-color control sample before (A) and after...recommended to start compensating with single-color controls before moving onto your experimental samples. ...samples without needing to use your single-color controls as a starting point. Applying compensation to ...experimental samples as they did with your single control samples: if the population needs to be shifted ...School.   More resources on the Addgene blog Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry Antibodies 101: ...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    ...action potentials, muscle contractions, and the control of voltage gated ion channels all depend on transmitting...been successful even at the single neuron level in vitro. In vivo monitoring has also been achieved with ...effective at the single cell level as they are in vitro. Factors like photobleaching, lack of red-shifted...rhodopsin. FP-fusion to rhodopsin resulted in electrochromic FRET capable GEVIs, with rhodopsin quenching...membrane as well. Another flavor of these tools is Voltron, which uses rhodopsin as the voltage sensing component...genetically encoded component is delivered in vivo or in vitro and a small molecule is added exogenously to measure...Optogenetics Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET ...
  5. New Viral Vectors - March 2024

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    ...AAV PHP.eB Controls Wilson New viral vector pENN.AAV.EF1a.eGFP.WPRE.rBG AAV PHP.eB Controls Wilson New...pAAV-CaMKIIa-EGFP AAV PHP.eB Controls Roth New serotype pAAV-hDlx-Flex-dTomato-Fishell_7 AAV2 Controls Fishell New serotype...  AAV PHP.eB Controls Gradinaru New serotype pAAV-CaMKIIa-mCherry  AAV PHP.eB Controls Deisseroth New...New serotype pAAV-Ef1a-mCherry  AAV PHP.eB Controls Deisseroth New serotype Looking for more viral...
  6. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ...only a few, very strong associations.   Unexpected results Their results showed 96 strongly correlated genetic...may be the result of a technical artifact that introduced an ancestry bias into their experiments instead... prevent Cas9 from cutting, both of which can introduce significant bias into the results. But the reference...mapped to a SNP would be ignored. Working with Lia Petronio and Katherine Huang from Broad’s Pattern team,... of ancestral bias into genome-wide screens, introducing bias into all work based on these and any other...an ancestry group what is actually an artifact introduced by bias within the design of the experiment or...Noorbakhsh, Isabella Boyle, Joshua Dempster, Lia Petronio, Katherine Huang, Alham Saadat, Thomas Green, ...
  7. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    ...unknown sample. To do this, you serially dilute a control sample of known concentration and measure a specific...example, a BCA assay uses a serial dilution of a control protein, incubated alongside an unknown sample ... absorbance of both is then measured on a spectrophotometer and concentration versus absorbance is plotted... a standard curve by serially diluting a known control sample, called a standard. The ideal standard curve...curve accordingly.    Figure 1: A 1 mg/mL control is diluted in a series ranging from 1:2 to 1:32... for each run. To validate, include a positive control of known concentration in the experiment and use...  Include both a standard curve and a positive control in every run.  When setting up your dilution series...
  8. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    ...28b-Cas9-His from Alex Schier’s Lab. gRNAs can be in vitro transcribed from ssDNA, which can be generated by... advantage has allowed scientists to perform in vitro and in vivo CRISPR studies in experimental systems... common techniques for delivery of RNPs is electroporation (A in the figure above), which generates pores...through a process known as CRISPR-EZ (CRISPR RNP Electroporation of Zygotes) (Chen et al. 2016). For CRISPR ...CRISPR experiments that involve HDR, electroporation can be combined with cell-type specific reagents in a ...approach using RNPs has recently been described in vitro, with the hope of eventually using this method for...genome editing by CRISPR ribonucleoprotein electroporation of zygotes." Journal of Biological Chemistry...
  9. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    ...very weakly, most likely through unstructured electrostatic interactions. It also can’t recognize PAMs, ... present in the sample. Other techniques, like electron microscopy and FRET, can offer more information...well described in the closed conformation, recent electron microscopy studies have also found Cas9:RNA complexes...loops 2 and 3 are not strictly necessary for in vitro cleavage, but they improve cutting efficiency and...pairing in the seed sequence.   Figure 6: Electron microscopy structure of S. pyogenes Cas9 bound...structure (left, PDB ID 4ZT0) with Cas9:RNA:DNA electron microscopy structure (right, PDB ID 7S4X), viewed...conformational state of the HNH domain also allosterically controls RuvC activity through a hinge region between the...
  10. Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations

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    ...tobacco. Studying gene function in C. roseus is strongly limited by the availability of methods. Infection...check for GUS-like activity of your tissue. Run a control with Agrobacterium lacking the GUS gene since plants...promoter activity, for example. Useful positive controls could include: pSB96 - pL2_pSB90_2x35S::fLUC-I...days in the dark after the transformation. Use introns Plant promoters can be recognized or leaky in Agrobacterium...Agrobacterium, but not the plant. For example, we have seen strong expression of the GUS gene with the commonly used...Agrobacterium. This can be easily avoided by the use of introns, which will be removed from the transcripts in ...plants, check out this interview with the Nicola Patron, who shared the MoClo plant kit via Addgene. For...
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