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TypeBlog Post... them into your cells, you can simply look for blue colonies to determine which cells have taken up the... mScarlet as the donor in HeLa cells. Find ShadowR for mammalian cell expression here Now that you... that the cellular fitness cost varied greatly between chromoproteins. In some cases, cells containing...cloning experiment worked just by looking at the cells on the plate. For example, if your plasmid contains...Here, the chromoprotein is expressed and gives the cell a magenta (amilCP) or purple (tsPurple) color. Though...added which induces expression of the toxin. Any cells that grow after this point will be those that have...resonance energy transfer (FLIM-FRET) in living cells (Figure 4). They created ShadowR by modifying the...
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Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap
TypeBlog Post...Depletion in Human Cells by Auxin-Inducible Degron Tagging with Short Homology Donors.” Cell Rep.15(1) (2016...and function of cellular systems. FPs have been used to track protein localization, cell structure, intracellular...to fluorescently tag markers of cellular structures in mammalian cells. These plasmids use fluorescent...loci in other model systems, including mammalian cells. CRISPaint (CRISPR-assisted insertion tagging)...C-terminal tag fusions of endogenous genes in human cells. To use CRISPaint, users need 3 vectors: 1) a gRNA...also be introduced directly into a Drosophila S2 cell line stably expressing Cas9. This PCR toolkit offers...selection. Researchers at the Allen Institute for Cell Science recently developed a collection of plasmids... -
Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
TypeBlog Post...ancestry and germline sequence variation in cancer cell lines took them down unexpected paths. Though this...researchers do large-scale CRISPR screens in cancer cell lines, looking to uncover genetic dependencies of...to see if they could identify the ancestry of the cell lines (European, East Asian, Indigenous American...or South Asian) used in the screens based on the cells’ germline genetic variations. They then wanted to...with each ancestry group. Since about 90% of the cell lines used in DepMap CRISPR screens are of either...groups for 994 of the Cancer Dependency Map cancer cell lines (left). Heatmap indicating the breakdown of...CRISPR guides, short pieces of RNA that bind to a cell’s DNA, telling the Cas machinery where to cut. ... -
What's New in CRISPR - November 2021
TypeBlog Post... into AAV particles for delivery into mammalian cells, especially when fused to effector proteins for ..., base editing, and genome editing in mammalian cells. The “V4” version (named CasMINI) had the highest...an active nuclease. Read the paper in Molecular Cell Find the CasMINI plasmids Efficient CRISPR editing...effective in genome editing in both bacteria and human cells using various delivery methods, including plasmid...mRNA or Cas9 mRNA and sgRNA, in human and mouse cells. They further develop a version of SEND for gene...modular system for delivering gene editing tools into cells. Image adapted from Segel et al. 2021. Prime...correct mutations in a variety of target genes and cell types. Their Nature Biotechnology paper showcases... -
Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases
TypeBlog Post...of Multiple Kinase Activities in Live Single Cells." Cell 157, no. 7 (2014): 1724-734. PubMed PMID: 24949979...Signal transduction pathways are a lot like cell phone networks. Protein kinases deliver messages to ... dimeric Dronpa is less prone to aggregation in cells compared to the tetrameric Dronpa it was derived...inhibitors, psMEK1 and ERK KTR-mRuby2 expressing cells were incubated with an inhibitor of choice, exposed...inactivation, and then decreases. Treatment of the cells with a PP1/PP2A inhibitor leads to maintenance of...Raf-MEK-ERK signaling in the hypodermis and gut cells of C. elegans causes the same phenotype. Activation...signaling pathway with psRaf1 or psMEK1 in these same cells by 24-48 hours exposure to blue light also induced... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability
TypeBlog Post...intensity evolves over time in living cells at a power used for live-cell imaging. To conclude, the most photostable...molecule will photobleach at some point. For live-cell imaging, it is desirable to have fluorescent proteins...experiment. The best fluorescent proteins for live cell imaging can be excited many times, thereby producing...protein is a key requirement for quantitative live-cell imaging, it is important to be able to quantify ...it is advisable to perform time-lapse imaging of cells producing the fluorescent protein of interest under...natural situation. Measuring photostability in living cells provides a much more realistic view of photostability...spectral class on the microscopy system and in the cell type (or tissue) that is intended to be used with... -
Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning
TypeBlog Post... protein (CcdA) that protects the cell against the toxic CcdB. Cells that lose ccdA through the loss of...disrupted allowing cells expressing the recombinant plasmid to propagate. Any cells that contained non-recombinant...which is responsible for plasmid maintenance during cell division. ccdB codes for the toxic protein (CcdB...broken double stranded DNA and ultimately causing cell death. ccdA, another gene found in the ccd operon...Gateway takes advantage of the same principle that cells will not propagate while expressing the gene. Briefly...can one work with a plasmid/gene that kills the cells expressing it? The answer lies in special strains...PMID: 8254658. 5. Bernard, P. and Couturier, M. “Cell killing by the F plasmid CcdB protein involves poisoning... -
How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing
TypeBlog Post...Targeted Human Stem Cell Clones Detected by Whole-Genome Sequencing. Cell Stem Cell 15:27–30 . https://...protein, in order to mitigate the ability of the cell to use an alternative ATG downstream of the annotated...process, and usually involves the need for single cell cloning and subsequent screening for successful ...standard requires not one but two rounds of single cell cloning – as a control, one should revert the edit...passenger variant that came along with the single cell clone (although this is rarely done). When targeting...levels of modification. Whole-genome sequencing of cells modified by CRISPR indicates that the consequences...mutations (Veres et al., 2014). When working with single-cell clones, the authors note that “clonal heterogeneity... -
University of Florida Serotype Testing Panel for the Eye and Brain
TypeCollection...adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells into pluripotent stem cells by a mutant adeno-associated viral...serotype also demonstrates enhanced transduction of cells in culture for ex-vivo conditioning. The AAV2(trpYF...displays enhanced transduction of hematopoietic stem cells and microglia. The AAV6(dbY-F+T-V) serotype was ...AAV-mediated transduction and targeting of retinal bipolar cells with improved mGluR6 promoters in rodents and primates...human gene therapy of glaucoma and their reversed cell entry characteristics. Gene Ther . 2020 Apr;27(3...delivery of a novel AAV vector targets ON bipolar cells and restores visual function in a mouse model of... of Primary Human Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cells by AAV6 Vectors: Strategies for Overcoming Donor-Variation... -
Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene
TypeBlog Post...Purification Process with pCri Cell-free protein expression kit Cell-free expression systems have been...testing and comparison of different cell-free expression systems; the Cell-free expression test kit represents...SITS to create the pCell-Free vectors, Gateway-compatible backbones that enable cell-free expression of...: FX Cloning Kit BIOFAB Plasmid Set pCri System Cell Free Protein Expression Kit FREQ Seq PUF Assembly...facilitate gene expression in bacteria, yeast, mammalian cells, insects, and even Xenopus oocytes. The expression...of proteins in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell extracts (Gagoski et al 2015). He has also constructed...to perform statistically relevant benchmarking of cell-free expression systems, and tested for product ...