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  1. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ...fluorescence images of C2C12 cells stably expressing pTRE-Tight-MitoTimer and rtTA. The cells were pulsed with 2µg... Robinson et al., Dev Cell 2010 Feb 16;18(2):324-31. Cheeseman et al., J Cell Sci 2013 May 1;126(Pt ... targeted to subcellular regions or protein complexes for proteomic mapping in live cells. Lam et al...neighboring cells in imaging applications and the mapping of neuronal projections to their associated cell bodies...been used by several groups to monitor protein and cell ageing, as the spectrum shift occurs during Timer...(pTRE-Tight-MitoTimer) to show its usefulness in cell culture to report changes in mitochondrial turnover...rapamycin-binding domains, such as FKBP and FRB. The cell does not appear to mind extraneous proteins bound...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    ...transduction of cells, resulting in cell population mutated by the viral pooled library. These cells can then...transduce your cells.  Titering After generating your lentivirus, you’ll want to infect your cells with the ...of a cell being infected by only one viral particle, but it also increases the chances that a cell doesn...adequately represented in the cell population, you’ll need to infect many more cells than the number of plasmids...appropriate packaging and envelope plasmids into HEK cells allows production of lentivirus. Purification of...small aliquot is not enough to transfect producer cells, so your first step will be to amplify the library...approach for producing lentivirus in Lenti-X 293T cells using a polyethyenimine transfection protocol. I...
  3. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility

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    ...copy number in the cell is high, but allows replication when copy number in the cell falls too low (Novcik...system to partition themselves to each daughter cell during cell division. They don’t simply rely on chance...eukaryotic cells). The partition NTPase is recruited and “walks” each plasmid to a separate daughter cell. When... daughter cell, instead of partitioning each type of plasmid into a separate daughter cells (Figure 2)...from the cell with the same probability, or asymmetrical, where one plasmid lost from the cell at a higher...different plasmids to be maintained in one bacterial cell. In this Plasmids 101 post, we’ll cover why this...incompatibility occurs when multiple plasmids within one cell have the same replicon and/or partitioning system...
  4. 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... Fig. 1: Exogenous sources of dsRNA Cellular sources of dsRNA Transposable elements such as...While these molecules are clearly associated with cellular damage and dysfunction, it is unclear what the... A major source of dsRNA (that doesn’t involve cellular dysregulation) is the mitochondria. These organelles...
  5. A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression

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    ...specific cell type rely on transgenic models that express recombinases like Cre or Flp in their cells of interest...entry into the cell (Dudek, AM. 2018).  If the serotype you are using transduces cells that you are not... an ATG start codon to prevent transcription in cells where the recombinase was not present (Kuhlman, ...recombination that can lead to leaky expression in cells that do not express Cre or Flp. Here at Addgene ...recombined/functional transgene that can be expressed in cells where Cre is absent. Additionally, we have experienced.../Flex vectors and leaky expression can occur in cells that don’t express Cre or Flp, what can we do about...volume needed to achieve adequate expression in your cells of interest.  The AAV serotype used can exhibit ...
  6. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    ...challenging to track intracellularly, but aptamers permit the study of intracellular RNA dynamics. Aptamers...RNA aptamers are used to track cellular processes by transforming cells with plasmids encoding aptamer-tagged... been used to investigate intracellular viral DNA dynamics in neuronal cells (Nilaratanakul et al., 2017...be used to simultaneously target cellular RNA to specific intracellular locations using Cas9 and track ...and later introducing the small molecule into the cell. The fluorescence that is generated allows for qualitative...). DFHBI is membrane permeable and non toxic to cells. Because it rapidly photobleaches, DFHBI can only...as stable metabolite sensors for imaging in live cells. By placing Spinach downstream of a riboswitch, ...
  7. 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...
  8. What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science

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    ...including Trends in Cell Biology, Cell, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, and Cell Stem Cell.  She was the...inception and launch of other Cell Press journals, including Cell Metabolism, Cell Reports and Joule. In September...Deborah Sweet from Cell Press. Deborah Sweet is the Vice President of Editorial at Cell Press.  She trained...the founding Editor-in-Chief of Cell Stem Cell, a role she held for 10 years, and played a major role in...by Deborah Sweet, Vice President of Editorial at Cell Press. Almost everyone who works in a lab struggles...communication of science very seriously. That’s why at Cell Press we developed STAR Methods to improve the structure...trained originally in cell biology, completing her PhD at the MRC LMB in Cambridge UK and then a postdoc...
  9. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...and yeast cells are cost-effective and faster-growing than mammalian cells, but mammalian cells can perform...your cells with your plasmid(s), and then wait 7-14 days (in mammalian cells) to collect the cell culture...production system, cell lines typically used include Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK) cells and Chinese Hamster...recombinant antibodies with some molecular biology and cell culture experience. Let’s go over the basics of ... place in bacterial, yeast, plant, or mammalian cells. Each of these systems has their advantages and ...post-translational modifications that bacterial and most yeast cells cannot. Your choice of production system may depend...Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. (L'Abbé et al., 2018).  Recombinant antibodies can be produced through a single...
  10. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    ... AdVs is dependent on modulation of the host cell’s cell cycle; inhibition of the innate immune system... in the producer cells where there is E1 and E3 gene complementation. In target cells that are infected...hexon), as well as other intracellularly-exposed proteins and downstream cellular events, all recruit strong...death of adenoid cells in vitro (Rowe et al., 1953). While overt death of the targeted cells is less likely... & Verma, I. (1998). Cellular immune response to adenoviral vector infected cells does not require de ...infection for efficient cell lysis and release of adenovirus from infected cells. J Virol, 70(4), 2296....production and/or by genes present in the HEK293T cell line used (which have fragments of the AdV genome...
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