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  1. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    ...segment of DNA which contains several restriction sites allowing for the easy insertion of DNA. In expression... Produce proteins that glow so that scientists can track their location or quantity inside a cell ...2014 and updated Apr. 14, 2020. Any newcomer who joins a molecular biology lab will undoubtedly be asked... a plasmid by recruiting replication machinery proteins Antibiotic Resistance Gene Allows for selection... the MCS is often downstream from a promoter. Insert Gene, promoter or other DNA fragment cloned into...commonly referred to as “vectors” or “constructs.” To insert a gene of interest into a vector, scientists may... are complete, the vector containing the newly inserted gene is transformed into bacterial cells and selectively...

  2. CRISPR 101: Cas9 Nickase Design and Homology Directed Repair

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    ...Place intended insert in between nick sites Use 40 nt homology arms for small insertions or tags (ssODN...By mutating one of two Cas9 nuclease domains, researchers created the CRISPR nickase. Nickases create... creates a non-target strand-cleaving nickase. Instead of cutting both strands bluntly with WT Cas9 and...deletions, while H840A is biased towards large insertions. These profiles are likely due to the distinct...can’t find a good gRNA that cuts close to your insertion site, you can’t obtain high HDR efficiency. Nickases...and Yan designed a PAM-out nickase experiment to insert an EcoRI site using a single-stranded oligonucleotide...oligonucleotide (ssODN) donor. Using a D10A nickase to insert an EcoRI site in various spots between the nick...

  3. Antibodies 101: Affinity Tags

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    ...proper folding of the tag, which prevents insoluble fusion proteins from being purified by GST (maybe try ...between – now all you need are some of your favorite proteins purified to carry out your plan. With a little...purification a cinch. Types of affinity tags, the proteins they work best attached to, and the species they...will be expressed along with all other cellular proteins within the expression system (bacteria, yeast,...tags also have commercially available antibodies, resins, beads, and other purification aids readily available...for detection and/or purification of MBP-tagged proteins. The antibody is an alternative to amylose resin...Nickel, Cobalt, Copper, etc.), allowing His fusion proteins to be purified by single step metal affinity chromatography...

  4. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...used for an array of detectable proteins including fluorescent proteins, antibiotic resistance, and luciferase...monitors APOBEC (a family of cytidine deaminase proteins) and Cas9-mediated editing in real time (St. Martin...inactive mCherry, the lab introduced a 43 base-pair insertion that disrupts fluorescence due to a frameshift...TCA-to-TUA) found within the 43 base-pair mCherry insertion. Editing of these motifs generates lesions that... editing capability of the seven human APOBEC3 proteins, finding that APOBEC3A and APOBEC3bctd are the...populations. To develop this method the lab was inspired by work that used an integrated GFP reporter that...DNA editor. Specifically the BFP mutant (BFPH66) contains a histidine at amino acid 66. This histidine is...

  5. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    ...vague and "what proteins regulate the Z pathway?" is an open-ended list of proteins. Instead, consider "how... at the National Institutes of Health, was an Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine...Hughes Medical Institute. His interests include the quality control of secretory proteins in the Endoplasmic... Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Are you currently on or planning to go on the..."how do proteins X and Y regulate the Z pathway?" A well-defined outcome makes it easier for the search...favor a different model. Finding evidence for or against a model is a standard scientific strategy. However...Endoplasmic Reticulum, optimization of fluorescent proteins,  and live cell imaging approaches. Erik is also...

  6. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...making copies.     Types of origins of replication There are lots of origins of replication out there so...: The insert Bacteria tend to maintain fewer copies of plasmids if they contain large inserts or genes...elements. The ori is the place where DNA replication begins, enabling a plasmid to reproduce itself as it must...known derivatives), pSC101, R6K, and 15A. Not all origins of replication are created equal. Some will produce...whether the ori is positively regulated by RNA or proteins, respectively. A plasmid's copy number has to ...mutations in the replicon. For example, the pMB1 ori maintains about 20 copies per cell, while pUC – which differs...toxic product. The E. coli strain Most E. coli strains can be used to propagate plasmids, but endA- E....

  7. The MTA at Addgene

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    ...majority of research institutes.  Pro tip! In most academic and nonprofit institutes, the Tech Transfer ...materials are requested, instead of coordinating signatures from two different institutes. Our online portal...commonly used ones for transfers between academic institutions.  What is the UBMTA, you ask? Well, organizations...signatory) to the MTAs for plasmids in our repository. Instead, we facilitate the signing of MTAs by the Provider...people think our MTAs are different than other institutes. But they’re not! The vast majority of our plasmids...that plasmid facilitated by Addgene — basically, instead of having to sign individual MTAs for each request...Recipient Scientist Acknowledgment (RSA), which contains the terms of use for the requested material. Once...

  8. Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level

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    ... reporter mRNA, which contains the tethering sites for the fluorescent proteins and is driven by an inducible... to monitor local translation and determine if proteins are targeted to their destination co- or post-...Translating RNA Imaging by Coat protein Knock-off) instead takes advantage of the ribosome’s movement. When... along an mRNA, it displaces other RNA-binding proteins to allow translation to occur. For a TRICK reporter...only a red FP bound to the reporter. Because it contains a nuclear localization signal, NLS-PCP-GFP then...mRNAs and their corresponding newly synthesized proteins. As in the TRICK system, the 3’ UTR of the reporter...labeled by PCP-mCherry (Figure 2). The 3’ UTR also contains a CAAX sequence to bind the mRNA to the plasma...

  9. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    ...product to insert, and tools for primer design, so it’s always best to check in with the instructions from ... Gibson and colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute in 2009. Here at Addgene we added this option ...fragments, but can also be used in basic cloning of an insert into your vector of choice as shown in the figure...incubated together with an enzyme master mix, which contains three different enzymes: an exonuclease, which...using Gibson assembly, imagine that you want to insert your gene of interest into a vector with a large...included in the vector you want to use. If you inserted these two pieces of DNA by restriction enzyme ...fragments. However, by using Gibson assembly, you can insert both the gene of interest and the tag sequences...

  10. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...allowing a spacer-repeat “brick” to be inserted. The BsaI site remains intact, allowing subsequent “bricks...make sure that each cell that gets the plasmid contains all of the desired gRNAs. This increases the chance...the Ventura lab. pX333, a modification of pX330, contains humanized wtCas9 and two U6 promoters. To use ...available from the Bullock lab, and gRNAs can be inserted using Gibson Assembly or SLIC cloning methods....)-containing plasmids. Each destination vector contains GFP, enabling you to select cells with high GFP...enables users to express up to 7 gRNAs. The kit contains different destination vectors depending on the...through Golden Gate or Gibson Assembly. gRNAs are inserted into the pCBC vectors using BsaI, and promoter-gRNA...
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