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  1. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    ...mazF gene and a gene for Zeocin resistance (Figure 2). This MazF-ZeoR cassette is flanked by two direct...activity of CcdB. Applications of ccdB in plasmid cloning Perhaps the most widely used application of CcdB is...selection markers. Restriction modification systems Because restriction modification systems consist of two enzymes...used as biological tools for a wide range of applications in molecular biology or in vivo studies. Let...types of plasmid addiction systems and their applications. The discovery of toxin-antitoxin systems Toxin-antitoxin...CcdA (antitoxin) where CcdB inferes with DNA replication by binding the GyrA subunit of DNA gyrase and...construct. Other toxin-antitoxin systems and their applications MazE/MazF Aside from CcdB/CcdA, there are many...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    ...the bacteria to grow and replicate, then purify the DNA.     Figure 2: A pooled library page with...you.  Starting from plasmids requires amplification, verification, and lentiviral production steps before...the same proportion after amplification as they were prior to amplification. And as anyone who has worked...process for using pooled lentiviral libraries. A) Amplification, validation, and lentiviral generation of a ...pooled library is transformed into E. coli for amplification. Transformed E. coli are allowed to grow on ...into HEK cells allows production of lentivirus. Purification of this lentivirus results in the pooled library...//pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27366891/   Amplification When you request a DNA pooled library from Addgene...
  3. A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional

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    ...experience and to build upon your existing skills.  2. Find your niche Identify and develop an area of expertise...development, certification, degrees, foundations, coaching and even Twitter Chats dedicated to the Grant...the candidate application process, the candidate’s ability to write a grant application through a written... much more than writing. In fact, many grant applications and grant makers have moved away from long written...Now they require grant seekers to use online applications with significant character limits for the written...written portion of the grant application. They have increased their demand for stronger budgets with clear...duties can range from coordinating the grant application and submitting it, to evaluating the capacity...
  4. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    ...would help them grasp some of the key concepts (Fig. 2). One thing I will likely change for next time is ...my opinion, it was more important to communicate the applications of CRISPR over the details of how it...m a father of three, a scientist and science communicator, and I strive to be a volunteer and contribute...recent experiences. STEM in elementary schools - catching them early I’m fortunate to live in a town with...unlike elementary schools, middle schools have dedicated science teachers. I tried contacting our school...simplistic and I would insult the students. Too complicated and I would quickly lose their interest. I won...great feedback from teachers and other science communicators.  What can CRISPR do? I spent more time on...
  5. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    ...that view (Callahan et al., 2022).     Fig. 2: Students in an MDH CURE replaced select residues ... put it best when he stated, “the value of an education . . . is not the learning of many facts but the...possible to bring the kinds of transformative educational experiences afforded to those fortunate enough...which can lead to greater success in meeting educational goals (Kowalski et al., 2016; Scott, 2021). In...CUREs are beginning to transform undergraduate education in the sciences by making a greater number of ...scientific research more inclusive. CBE Life Sciences Education. 13(4):602-606. Brian, D. 1996, Einstein: A Life...positive STEM attitudes in CUREs. CBE Life Sciences Education. 21(4):ar74. Duboue, E., Kowalko, J., Keene, A...
  6. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    ...and eVLPs for in vivo and in vitro applications.   Figure 2: Modular features of DIRECTED particles...Figure 1: Choosing the best PE6 variant for your application. Image reused form Doman and Pandey et al., 2023...approach for experimental therapies and medical applications.  Find DIRECTED plasmids here! Strebinger, D...delivery by modular envelope design. Nature Communications, 14(1), 5141. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...interactions or map a local proteome, but some applications have been challenging or inaccessible. The Ting... (which had therefore been trafficked between locations). Figure 3: A) LOV-Turbo becomes active...active when illuminated with blue light, catalyzing the biotinylation of nearby proteins. B) TransitID uses...
  7. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    ...based antiviral method to degrade RNA from SARS-CoV-2 sequences and live influenza A virus. It was demonstrated...Fluorescent tools for mammalian cells Nanobody purification CRISPRi and CRISPRa system for hPSCs The CRISPR...CRISPR corner New from the viral service Faster catalysis after yeast-based protein evolution By Joanne ...concept, Sanchez and Ting sought to improve the catalytic efficiency of tobacco etch virus protease (TEV...activity with a fluorescent protein--no affinity purification required! The team used other molecular techniques...evolution platform to generate TEV protease variants. Catalysis by TEV protease allows a transcription factor ...information on where exactly a structure or protein is located within a cell. The Goedhart lab, Gadella lab, and...
  8. Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More

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    ...externally fertilized, transparent progeny (Figure 2). These features give it a leg up (or a fin up?) over... are not ideal for every application. Disadvantages include their duplicated (i.e., redundant) genome,...mutant, which regulates a developmental pathway implicated in congenital heart defects and cancer. These...DNA into the genome is useful for a variety of applications. For example, specific tissues such as blood...pathways control this process. Additional zebrafish applications and conclusions Zebrafish are also popular outside...—have proven useful in a variety of research applications. Lineage tracing studies highlight how these...Contemporary zebrafish transgenesis with Tol2 and application for Cre/lox recombination experiments." Methods...
  9. Affinity Purification of Recombinant Antibodies with Protein A or Protein G

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    ...phosphate monobasic monohydrate (NaH 2 PO 4 ∙H 2 O), pH 7.0 138 g NaH 2 PO 4 ∙H 2 O 1 L deionized water Adjust...sodium phosphate dibasic (NaH 2 PO 4 ), pH 7.0 142 g of NaH 2 PO 4 ∙H 2 O 1 L deionized water Adjust pH...monobasic monohydrate (NaH 2 PO 4 ∙H 2 O) 610 mL of sterile sodium phosphate dibasic (NaH 2 PO 4 ) Store up to...recombinant antibody. Section 2: Buffer exchange Choose Option 1 or Option 2 based on the concentration ...antibodies. Workflow Timeline Day 1: Purify antibody Day 2 or later: Buffer exchange Equipment Class II, Type...conical tubes NanoDrop spectrophotometer 37 °C, 5% CO 2 incubator with shaking platform set to 120 rpm 37 ... channel pipette 20–200 µL single channel pipette 2–20 µL single channel pipette Reagents Aspirating pipette...
  10. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    ...systems utilize with type I-F Cascades. Figure 2: Cascade complex from CRISPR type I-E. Created with...antiviral defense). Cascade is brought to the target location using a gRNA and can then recruit Cas3, which ... type I, the most abundant type in the Class 1 category. These type Is can then be further broken into...of DNA much like a fisherman would reel in a big catch. It was originally suspected that Cas3 moved a couple...Mashimo, T. (2022). Genome editing technology and applications with the type I CRISPR system. Gene and Genome...unidirectional genome editing in human cells. Nature Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-...Koonin, E. V. (2015). An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems. Nature Reviews Microbiology...
  11. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    ...inhibit editing (Anzalone et al., 2019). Figure 2: Starting lengths for optimizing your pegRNA primer...BioRender.com. The pegRNA specifies both the genomic location to be edited and the sequence of the edit, so ...its design changes for every new prime editing application. And optimizing its sequence is important, as...left), while pegRNAs that use other bases in this location bind to Cas9 with canonical sgRNA structure (right...structured motifs like mpknot, use the pegRNA Linker Identification Tool (pegLIT) to create linkers that minimize...
  12. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    ...split at 175 Arabidopsis homolog of the yeast TREX-2 mRNA export complex: components and anchoring nucleoporin...some new and popular split-FP plasmids from our catalog to help you find the right split-FP plasmid for...pairs with N173 derived from Cerulean or Venus Identification of new fluorescent protein fragments for bimolecular...fluorescent proteins for protein labeling and signal amplification. Zhou S, Feng S, Brown D, Huang B. PLoS One....Huang Yellow Venus pBiFC-VN173, pBiFC-VC155 Identification of new fluorescent protein fragments for bimolecular...
  13. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ...Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown Publishers, 2010. 2. Gold, Michael. "A conspiracy of cells." State University...Marker-independent identification of glioma-initiating cells. The International Cell Line Authentication Committee...propagation of the line, and can include assays for authentication and contamination) and cell lines can become...let alone the human cost. Here are just a few publications which have since been retracted due to cell ...
  14. Fluorescent Protein Guide: Empty Backbones

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    ...- Bacterial Expression mScarlet-I3 568 592 68 4.2 2 min Monomer pmScarlet-I3_C1 - Mammalian Expression...No. 9, pp. 741-6 Shemiakina et al. : Nature Communications, November 2012, Vol. 3 No. 1204 Wiedenmann ... Vol. 11 No. 5, pp.572-8 Yu et al. : Nature Communications, May 2014 Vol. 15 No. 5, p. 3626 Do you have...
  15. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    ... PMID: 25184501. PubMed Central PMCID: MC4262738. 2. Doench, John G., et al. "Optimized sgRNA design to...is only effective when sgRNAs target a specific location on the gene. For CRISPRa, sgRNAs were targeted...Calabrese pooled library and lentiviral prep here! Applications for the Root and Doench CRISPR libraries Overall...et al. "A protein-tagging system for signal amplification in gene expression and fluorescence imaging....
  16. The Importance of a Fun Workplace: Company Culture at Addgene

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    ...interesting things to do, feel free to crowdsource! 2. Free food generally gets people to show up If you...be an obvious one, but don’t make things too complicated for yourself (especially if you are the sole ...sole event planner)! If you have a very intricate itinerary, there is a higher likelihood that something ...Delegate- it will save you time and sanity!    10. Communicate Make sure people know that there is something...
  17. Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations

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    ...GUS-staining is a very useful visual reporter (Figure 2). The GUS enzyme cleaves a substrate, which will then...vincristine, are regulated in the medicinal plant, the Catharanthus roseus (Figure 1). The ultimate goal of our ...and a vacuum is applied with a vacuum bell or desiccator. Successful infiltration can often be seen by...expression method for analyzing gene function in Catharanthus roseus seedlings." Frontiers in plant science...
  18. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    ...rate of 10-55% - the PASTE system.     Fig. 2: Schematic of programmable gene insertion with PASTE...experimental design and its potential for clinical applications. Specifically, efficacy rates of Cas7-11 were...place, while increasing the number of potential applications. But they weren’t done engineering quite yet... at the bench and potentially in therapeutic applications. The potential of CRISPR has yet to fully taken...
  19. Bioinformatics at Addgene

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    ...the necessary steps to perform:      Fig. 2: Quick-stepping to a FASTA file   With our outline... from depositing laboratories and associated publications, but our quality control (QC) standards have...such as 96-well microplates, and thanks to our dedicated product and development teams, frequent updates...can be easily shared with others without any complicated setup. We created, tested, and debugged each ...
  20. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...Hoogsten base pairs and wobble pairs.  Figure 2: (A) The codon wheel depicts the 64 codons that encodes...folding and stability, change post-translational modification sites and even affect protein function (Mauro... AP, Bilen B, Zavolan M (2013) Analysis of CDS-located miRNA target sites suggests that they can effectively...synonymous codon usage bias, and its potential applications. Nucl Acids Res 15:1281–1295 . https://doi.org...
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