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  1. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    ...and Protein Modifications in Cells and Tissues in Situ. Curr Protoc Cell Biol 89:e115. https://doi.org... like proximity ligation, immuno-PCR, and single-cell applications (Hegazy, et al., 2020; Niemeyer, et...epitope and transcriptome measurement in single cells. Nat Methods 14:865–868. https://doi.org/10.1038...
  2. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    ...small enough to be expressed in bacterial and other cell systems. Since the majority of these alternative...the constant region. Nonspecific binding, caused cell receptors for the constant region, is also reduced...can be easily expressed in transfected eukaryotic cells, allowing for them to be used as intracellular inhibitors..., peptides, amino acids, drugs, metal ions, and cells. They can be used either with or as fluorophores...
  3. Tagging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics Receptors: Fluorescent Proteins and Other Options

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    ...modulate the activity of neurons and other brain cells. Since the opsins or chemogenetic receptors used...fused. The tag protein will be expressed in the same cell, but not necessarily at the same subcellular compartment...neuropil conceals identification of opsin-expressing cells). For other things to keep in mind when making fluorescent...cerevisiae by use of an epitope addition method. Mol Cell Biol 8:2159–2165 . https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.8.5.2159...
  4. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - May 2020

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    ... results, but also confirm expression in target cells. While the various AAV serotypes can be used to ...Chemogenetics offers noninvasive methods for manipulating cell activity, particularly in the brain, and holds promise... systems such as Cre-lox allow for more accurate cell and tissue targeting. While promoters and AAV serotypes...allowing you to further restrict gene activation to cells expressing both Cre and GFP. The GFP dependent FLPo...
  5. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    ...delivered using AAV injection, the majority of the cells surrounding the injection site will become infected... ensure that the reporter remains silent until a cell or tissue-specific Cre is provided. Since the FLEx...used to study the physiology or behavior of certain cell populations.  Acknowledgement:Through a partnership...FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range circuit mapping...
  6. Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers

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    ...also gives cells antibiotic resistance to neomycin so that you can select the population of cells with the...Only a small percentage of the proteins inside a cell have a commercial antibody against them. There’s...antibody. It’s an epitope not found in human or other cells. It was made artificially. That means you aren’t...
  7. Supporting Rare Disease Research with BeHeard 2017

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    ...plasmids to upregulate their expression in specific cells. With a more concrete understanding of the molecular...molecules targeting SMN1 and its partners in mouse cell lines. Dr. Di Schiavi hopes that these studies will... of ~30 patient derived peritoneal mesothelioma cells lines and assess their tumorigenesis. These experiments...
  8. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    ...successfully infected/expressing cells by flow cytometry. The isolated cells were injected into mice and imaged...packaged into a retrovirus for infection of host cells. The fluorescent moiety of the BRET reporter was...imaging multiple proteins at the same time in live cells using fluorescent proteins (FPs) can be problematic...calcium and is useful for direct imaging of events in cells and brain explants. This construct is available ...available through Addgene (Plasmid #83926). Live-Cell Voltage Sensor  Ingaki and colleagues (8) were interested...
  9. Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond

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    ...slightly more efficient and less toxic to mammalian cells (Allen, et al., Frontiers in Genome Editing).  Some...enhance CRISPR-Cas genome editing in human primary cells. Nat Biotechnol 33, 985–989 (2015). https://doi....Enhance CRISPR Genome Editing Systems in Mammalian Cells. Frontiers in Genome Editing, 28 (2021). https:/...deactivation with photocleavable gRNAs. Molecular Cell 81, 7, 1553-1565 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016...
  10. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    ... question about what should go into a cell, hover over the cell and instructions will pop up. When you...spreadsheet (Figure 2) and are described in Table 1. Some cells have drop-down options for you to choose from, while... into the appropriate full and partial sequence cells. *Note: If you believe you need to deposit a collection...
  11. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...Plasmids designed to express genes in a given host cell type are generally broken down into two broad categories...purpose and mechanism of polyadenylation vary across cell types, but polyadenylation generally serves to promote...additionally act as a quality control mechanism to rid the cell of mis-folded RNAs. Eukaryotic termination and polyadenylation...efficient rabbit beta-globin mRNA 3' end formation. Cell. 1987. PMID: 3568131.  Hager S, Frame FM, Collins...
  12. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    ...read’ by the cellular machinery. This is how most cells in the body contain the same DNA but have very different...visualise changes in histone methylation in living cells. Essentially this reporter construct consists of...recognise lysine 27 methylation. When tested in living cells where methylation of these sites was controlled,...fluorescent reporters of histone methylation in living cells." Journal of the American Chemical Society 126.19...
  13. A Control for All Seasons

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    ...to detect dead or dying cells so that you can base your analysis on living cells only (for example, propidium...This tends to be most problematic when staining cells or tissues that are the same species as your primary...propidium iodide only stains dead cells). Compensation controls address the spectral overlap that occurs...Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy.” Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 185, no. 7, Rockefeller University...
  14. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...repair fix DNA double-strand breaks?  In eukaryotic cells, repair of DSBs occurs primarily by two pathways...used, however, these are generally more toxic to cells than their plasmid counterparts. Another consideration...how to fix a broken relationship. Pardo B, et al. Cell Mol Life Sci (2009). PubMed. Regulation of DNA...break repair pathway choice. Shrivastav M, et al Cell Research (2008). PubMed. Mechanisms of DNA double-strand...Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells Resources on Addgene.org Browse All CRISPR Plasmids...
  15. Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning

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    ...use electro-competent cells instead of the more common chemically-competent cells. You should perform, ... manufacturer’s instructions for your competent cells. For most standard cloning, you can transform 1-...1-2μl of your ligation reaction into competent cells such as DH5alpha or TOP10. If using much less total...colonies, you might want to use higher competency cells. Additionally, if your final product is going to...
  16. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    ...fluorescent protein (GFP) was the reporter gene and green cells were observed in the kidneys at a specific developmental...genes of interest may not be expressed in the tissue/cell line you are working with. Development-specific...10.7554/eLife.67667 Springer, S. P. Gene Traps. Plant Cell. (2000) 12(7): 1007-1020. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.12.7.1007...
  17. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    ...school at MIT. “I read some of the seminal papers on cell cycle discovery from Lee Hartwell and Paul Nurse...genetic screen to identify the factors that regulate cell division. And that really got me hooked on genetics...high-resolution tracking of more than 1 million cancer cells under drug treatment.” Stegmeier especially finds...
  18. Which Fluorescence Microscopy Technique is Best for Me?

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    ...high light doses to the cells. Thin static samples Ex: Fixed monolayers of cells or thin (<15 μm) tissue...1). Thin dynamic samples Ex: monolayers of live cells with fluorescently labelled, motile structures These... 10s of nanometers. Thick dynamic samples Ex: 3D cell cultures, small model embryos >15 μm Thsee are some...Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy in cell biology. Methods Enzymol 361, 1-33 (2003). PubMed...Richardson DS, Lichtman JW. Clarifying Tissue Clearing. Cell 162, 246-257 (2015). PubMed PMID: 26186186.  Additional...
  19. Antibodies 101: Flow Compensation

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    ... make it difficult to properly gate your desired cell population. By compensating between fluorescent ... your fluorescent markers are staining for. If a cell is positive for both markers, it will show up as...Figure 3: Flow plot for a double positive sample. The cell population in the top right corner of the plot is...learning! Ashlyn has a research background in CD8+ T cells and cancer immunotherapies. She is currently a research...
  20. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    ... acid (DAP), a component of the cell wall. Once in the recipient cell, the CRISPRi DNA (purple) flanked... is propagated during normal DNA replication and cell division. Mobile-CRISPRi does not disrupt gene function...mobilize these plasmids for transfer to recipient cells during a tri-parental mating scheme. Mobile-CRISPRi...
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