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  1. 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...
  2. CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics

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    ... for stem cells, or metastasized tumor cells, or alzheimers-affected neurons, or [your cell line of interest...critical to stem cell survival. Knowing which genes influence the survival of our cell culture is the foundation...minimal side-effects on healthy cells and maximal effect on unhealthy cells. Until recently, the human genome...ENCODE project, find enhancers in embryonic stem cells, and conclude with a targeted CRISPR screen that...essential transcription factor in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Your ChIP-seq finds just over 13,000 significant...We start by infecting millions of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) with a lentiviral vector, an attenuated retrovirus...The result is a heterogenous population of stem cells, usually housed in a single flask. Through a bit...
  3. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ... a big issue for cells, but it may confound research results or even kill your cells if your gene of interest...necessary to replicate plasmids and make sure the cells maintains it. Here, we'll cover the promoter, which... Because transcription machinery differs between cell types or organisms, promoters must be similarly ...variable. Bacterial promoters only work in prokaryotic cells and typically only in the same or closely related... were derived. Similarly, the various eukaryotic cell types (mammalian, yeast, plants, etc) require unique...complex, having fewer parts than those in eukaryotic cells. Some promoters are constitutively active and on... at will with a chemical, heat, or light. In the cell, promoters themselves are controlled by still other...
  4. The Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank: Over 25 Years of Antibody Sharing

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    ...produced by a single B cell. To create a monoclonal antibody cell line, myeloma cells are fused with activated...activated B cells from the spleen of mice injected with the antigen of interest. The immortalized cells, called...distributing over 3,000 antibodies and associated hybridoma cell lines. The DSHB was created by the National Institute... individually isolated and expanded. The clonal cells are screened to identify hybridoma lines, each producing...
  5. SpyLigase Irreversibly Locks Peptides Together for Efficient Cell Capture

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    ...help in the capture of other rare cell types, like stem cells or cells infected with malaria or other parasites...tumor markers to subsequently capture cancerous cells expressing low levels of tumor antigen. I asked ...looking at, magnetic isolation of circulating tumor cells, we found that the binding stability really mattered... in the pili that they use to anchor on to host cells. Addgene: Were there any major hurdles along the... donor for keeping going while we worked out the cell capture system.) Cancer and other applications Addgene...cancer? Howarth: The capture of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is going to have a big impact on our understanding...polymerizes affibodies to enhance magnetic cancer cell capture. Fierer et al (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A....
  6. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    ... HEK293FT cells expressing a single gRNA targeting a single gene. The gRNA expressing cells were then ...plasmid to generate a population of mutant cells. The mutant cells were treated with WNV at a dose and duration...regulate the ability of WNV to induce cell death in infected cells (SEL1L, UBE2J1, EMC3, EMC2, DERL2, UBE2G2...AID-tagging system to essential genes in human cells and mouse ES cells because it was difficult to fuse the AID...-to-study genes in hard-to-study cell types. Natsume T, et al. Cell Rep. 2016. PubMed PMID: 27052166 ...small GTPases involved in cell signaling pathways that control many cellular processes such as differentiation...therefore varies with cellular location: it is both red and green through much of the cell, but turns more ...
  7. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    ... properties and processes with our own cells. Like human cells, yeast DNA is packaged into chromosomes...differentiation of β-cells in the the developing zebrafish pancreas. They first tagged these cells using plasmids...recapitulate the complex interactions between cancer cells, therapeutic drugs, and the rest of the body than...than studies in other model organisms or cell culture. For example, Scott Lowe’s lab utilized mice to study...to identify a set of mutations that made cancer cells more resistant to chemotherapy. You can find these...to optimally control gene expression in specific cells of the fly (Pfeiffer et al., 2010). Yeast (Saccharomyces...is very amenable to genetic manipulation. Yeast cells are great model organism not only for the reasons...
  8. Hot Plasmids September 2018 - Optogenetics, RNA Localization, Fluorescent Protein, and Base-editing Tools

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    ...manipulations on cells, and has potential use for a wide range of applications in cellular biology. Van ... of a microtubule-associated protein to regulate cell growth dynamics Article contributed by Klaus Wanisch...of the modified EB1 protein are overexpressed in cells, microtubule growth can be switched off with blue...paper demonstrated that the migration of a cancer cell line equipped with photodissociable EB1 could be...Van Haren J et al. Nature Cell Biology 2018 Pubmed PMID 29379139. The “Riboglow” platform for visualizing...used to visualize RNA localization in mammalian cells. These tools consist of cobalamin-binding riboswitches...proteins (FP) with improved tissue penetrance and live cell imaging capabilities. Upon developing a new imaging-based...
  9. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    ...Digenome Seq 0.1% Cell-free (in vitro) Works across all cell types Must be verified with cell-based method ...Requires large cell population, senstive to time since cell fixing HTGTS Not reported Cell-based Identifies...method IDLV 1% Cell-based Programmable, can detect DSBs in live cells Not as senstive as other unbiased methods... use single cell clones for in vitro CRISPR experiments. The likelihood that a single cell clone derived...picture of the impact of CRISPR editing in the model cell line or organism. Several options exist for unbiased...Osborn et al. 2016) and HTGTS (Frock et al. 2015) for cell-based experiments. These strategies can be used ...off-target editing events. Two of the most common cell-based methods are genome-wide, unbiased identification...
  10. All in a Twist: dsRNA

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    ...mammalian cells. Here, we will cover how these structures are generated, why it’s important for cells to sense...., Hur, S. Cellular origins of dsRNA, their recognition and consequences. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 23: 286...performs almost all of its biological functions in our cells in the single strand form, but double stranded RNA...with bidirectional transcription. In an uninfected cell, dsRNA rarely circulates, but upon viral infection...Unlike dsRNA, DNA:RNA hybrids are abundant in normal cells and are arise from a ssRNA engaging one strand of...genes is constantly occurring throughout a single cell, so these nucleic acid hybrids are always around...at risk. Consequences of duplexed RNA Mammalian cells have multiple receptors in place to sense dsRNA ...
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