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  1. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    ...expression, measured using fluorescent protein fusions In addition to visible light, flow cytometers can...Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use? However, fusion proteins tag your protein of interest with a fluorescent...- or C-terminus of the protein. One downside of fusion proteins is that the tag can alter the structure...get around the challenges of fluorescent protein fusions by binding to the protein in its native state.  ...
  2. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    ...experiments. However, remember that, if you make an FP fusion, you are inserting about 20-25 kDa of protein mass...to this bulky insertion are inevitable. Most FP fusions for FRET studies are at the N- or C-terminus of... protein of interest, resulting in a C-terminal fusion of a tetracysteine tag. In addition, since these...FRET Browse Empty Plasmids to Fluorescent Protein Fusions Check out Our Fluorescent Protein Guide ...
  3. Plasmids 101: How to Name Your Plasmid in 3 Easy Steps

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    ... any tags or fusions that are on your insert. Typically you would list any tag or fusion protein in the... pBACKBONE-Flag-hGene If there was also an EGFP fused to the C-terminal of your insert you would list ...
  4. What's New in CRISPR - May 2019

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    ...After testing dCas9 fusions with transcriptional repressors, they found that fusing dCas9 to an Mxi1 repressor...covalently attached to the Cas9-gRNA RNP complex via the fused HUH endonuclease PCV. This increases HDR efficiency...
  5. Inntags: Innovative Protein Epitope Tagging

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    ..., Georgieva et al. examined the effects of GFP fusions to inntags or traditional FLAG, HA, and Myc tags...untagged GFP overexpression, while the rest of the fusions had some negative effect on these parameters. IT5... cell morphology was observed with IT5 and IT6 fusions. In contrast, Flag and HA tags had especially detrimental...
  6. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    ...from the Zhang Lab. It's name, though a little confusing to the uninitiated, contains much of the information...directed by a gRNA. 2A-Puro In this plasmid, SpCas9 is fused to the puromycin resistance gene through a 2A peptide...the 2A peptide on its C-terminus, SpCas9 is also fused to a 3X FLAG tag at its N-terminus. This tag can...
  7. A new platform for fast functional characterization of potentially cancerous mutations

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    ...they identified included gene amplifications and fusions, missense mutations, and indels (Ng et al., 2018...carrying a single gene with a defined mutation or gene fusion. Plasmids carrying the corresponding wild-type ...Mutations in Cancer.” Of all the mutations and fusions represented in this collection, approximately 80%...
  8. What's New in CRISPR - September 2019

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    ...genome editing by fusing Cas9 to a mutated human estrogen receptor. This protein fusion stays in the cytoplasm...vector to create knock-ins of fluorescent proteins, fusion proteins, or transcriptional regulators. In this...
  9. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    ... for Goldengate cloning   Design primers for In-Fusion Cloning Design primers for Gibson Assembly and ...restriction enzyme cloning, Gibson assembly, or In-Fusion cloning.  NEB Ligation Calculator: This tool works... from five different insert:backbone ratios. In-Fusion cloning molar ratio calculators Lab math calculators...
  10. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    ...an exon of a gene to generate a transcriptional fusion. This may disrupt the endogenous function of the...the gene product resulting in a transcriptional fusion, much like promoter traps. While this system does...disrupt the gene it monitors due to transcriptional fusion.   Examples of promoter, enhancer, and gene...
  11. CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions

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    ...by using the DNA cutting activity of a Protein A fused micrococcal nuclease (MNase) to specifically isolate... against the protein of interest. The Protein A fused MNase is then added and Protein A binds Immunoglobulin...protein interactions Learn about other types of fusion proteins Study chromatin interactions with CAPTURE...
  12. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors

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    ...biosensors contain a single fluorescent protein fused to a domain that senses the concentration of a given...an example. Many calcium biosensors include GFP fused to calmodulin (CaM) and the chicken myosin kinase... an intracellular or extracellular molecule? By fusing a biosensor to an organelle-specific targeting ...
  13. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    ...available – you can always add an epitope tag or a fusion protein. Mammalian vectors One of our most popular... cells. The addition of an in-frame fluorescent fusion protein will allow you to visualize YGOI in vivo... offer a collection of vectors carrying several fusion proteins. Pick your promoter, selection cassette...
  14. New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor

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    ...binding protein known as GltI. When the resulting fusion protein binds to glutamate, conformational changes...original iGluSnFR in the pMinDisplay backbone is fused to a specific peptide segment (PDGFR TMD) that anchors...Aggarwal et al… Figure 4. PDGFR is a C-terminal fusion to the PDGFR transmembrane domain in the mammalian...
  15. Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level

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    ...sites to tether many copies of the FP-coat protein fusions to their reporter mRNAs. Using translation inhibitors...to the plasma membrane; this sequence prevents diffusion of the mCherry labeled mRNA and keeps it in a ...SunTag, a synthetic scaffold that can recruit GFP fused to the SunTag-specific antibody scFv. Each time ...
  16. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    ... mEGFP, mRuby2, iRFP713, SNAP-tag, and HaloTag fusions, while the anti-HA frankenbodies include mEGFP,...Leeson The large size of CRISPR-Cas effectors and fusion proteins, such as Cas9 and Cas12a, creates challenges...from Xiaoshu, et. al. 2021.   Created by the fusion of Cas12f with a transcriptional activator, CasMINI...
  17. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    ...producing monoclonal antibodies is from a hybridoma, a fusion between an antibody-producing B cell and a myeloma...cells from an immunized animal, those B cells are fused to myeloma cells at a 1:1 ratio and then cultured...medium called HAT. This medium selects against unfused myeloma cells and antibody-producing B cells that...
  18. Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR

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    ...diversification by targeting a site of interest with dCas9 fused to the Activation Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID...two key components: the error prone PolI3M that’s fused to a nicking Cas9 (nCas9). Similar to mutagenesis...consists of an error-prone polymerase (PolI) that is fused to a nicking Cas9. A guide directs Cas9 to a site...
  19. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ...beta-arrestin-TEV protease fusion to a receptor-transcription factor fusion. TEV protease cleave the transcription... et al., 2017). In this technique, the receptor fused to APEX2 catalyzes the biotinylation of proteins...
  20. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    ...interference (CRISPRi) targets a catalytically dead Cas9 fused to a transcriptional repressor to your gene of interest...activators (CRISPRa) are transcriptional activators fused to a dead Cas9. The system is led, via a custom ...specific ligand to mark the tag and whatever it is fused to for degradation. Since the tagged protein of ...
  21. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    ...proteins into one particle within the cell, the lab fused the red fluorescent protein (RFP) to a self-assembling...microcompartment protein. The expression of this fusion is under control of the arabinose-inducible promoter... with arabinose to begin expressing the SAP-RFP fusion. Then, the cells are washed to stop the production...
  22. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ...with Peptide-Assisted Genome Editing (PAGE). They fused the Cas enzyme to cell-penetrating peptides and ...guides. Figure 1: A) Cell-penetrating Cas9, fused to HIV TAT, Myc and SV40 Nuclear Localization Signals... et al. (2023). StayGold variants for molecular fusion and membrane-targeting applications. Nature Methods...
  23. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    ...replace” genome editing technique that relies on a fusion enzyme of Cas9 nickase + reverse transcriptase ...Nelson et al., 2022). PE7: This editor includes the fused RNA-binding protein La to protect the end of the... not epegRNAs) can improve either endogenous or fused La binding (Yan et al., 2024). Figure 9:...
  24. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    ...protein-protein interactions. One popular approach is to fuse a protein of interest to each part of a split fluorescent...General Design Figure 1: Two proteins are fused to the FP(11) and FP(1–10) fragments. When Protein...cell environments). Also consider that a protein fusion may disrupt functionality or binding of your target...
  25. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    ...our FRET Resource page and can be used to create fusions with a gene of interest. These plasmids will be..., where the donor and acceptor fluorophores are fused to two separate proteins. (In contrast, intramolecular...achieve, because the ratio of acceptor to donor fusions varies with transfection efficiency and any unpaired...
  26. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    ...TIRF-SIM imaging of COS-7 cells expressing LifeAct fused to mVenus, mGold2s, or mGold2t. Bottom: Quantification...synapses (Rivera & Huang, et al., 2025). AF was fused to a presynaptic vesicle protein (VAMP2) and an ...remain on the presynaptic cell membrane while AF, fused to a payload, is released into the synapse. Once...
  27. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...2: CLIP-SNAP fusion proteins for single-molecule FRET. A) Schematic of a CLIP-SNAP fusion protein (a.k.a...YFP-tagged G protein and a NanoLuc® (Nluc) Luciferase-fused detector that specifically binds to active (GTP-...
  28. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ...co-expressed with a fusion protein containing VP2C and a protein of interest (POI). The VP2C fusion protein anchors...while still allowing substrates and products to diffuse freely into or out of the protein compartment. ...
  29. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

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    ...Cas break for HR is to fuse an HR protein to the nuclease. Early HR factors fused to Cas9 have been shown..., A. H. Y., Menerot, S., Brion, A., et al. CtIP fusion to Cas9 enhances transgene integration by homology-dependent...
  30. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    ...integrase via protein fusions, using Prime to lay a “beacon” into the genome that a fused integrase would then... single protein, computationally described as a fusion of four Cas7 proteins and a putative Cas11-like...
  31. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    ...live cells. Indeed, groups have utilized dCas13 fusion proteins for imaging, tracking, modulating splicing...Leptotrichia wadei (LwaCas13a), using a superfolder GFP fusion to stabilize the protein in mammalian cells. LwaCas13a-msfGFP...programmable RNA-binding protein, creating the fluorescent fusion protein dLwaCas13a-NF for in vivo RNA imaging. ...
  32. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    ...colleagues devised a “Modular fluorescence unit fused with TRansmembrane region-to-IntrAcellular loop ...immunoreceptor tyrosinase-based activation motif (ITAM). By fusing ITAM to an RTK of interest and co-expressing a ...to meet those requirements (Lu et al. 2022). By fusing two bright fluorescent proteins with different ...
  33. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    ... Learn about in vivo biotinylation of bacterial fusion proteins Biotin is an essential vitamin for life...protein of interest with biotin by simply creating a fusion in which AviTag is added to either the N or C terminus...Addgene blog In vivo biotinylation of bacterial fusion proteins Learn how biotin is used in Split-BioID...
  34. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...tetracycline-controlled transactivator (tTA). They fused TetR with the transcriptional activation domain ... A chimeric transactivator, cTA, was created by fusing CymR to the activation domain VP16. cTA binds to...with LexA binding to the lexA operator (lexAop). Fusing the LexA DNA-binding domain (DBD) to GAL4 or VP16...
  35. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    ...such as inducible expression of the hpRNA and/or fusing your gene target sequence to a fluorescent reporter...of the DNA construct, where your RNAi-target is fused to the DNA backbone that contains a target sequence...achieved this by creating constructs that directly fused any gene targeting sequence to a targeting sequence...
  36. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    ...are artificial restriction enzymes generated by fusing a zinc finger DNA-binding domain to a DNA-cleavage...to introduce point mutations in the genome. They fused a catalytically impaired Cas9 protein to a DNA-editing...in 2019. It’s based on a prime editor which is a fusion between Cas9 and reverse transcriptase. Using an...
  37. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    ...as a fusion protein. An ScFv is made up of the variable regions of the heavy and light chains fused together...produced from hybridomas. Hybridomas are formed by fusing B cells that have been extracted from animals injected...
  38. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    .... Empty backbones often contain epitope tags or fusion proteins that are appended to new inserts through... the gene cloned into your plasmid, any tags or fusion proteins contained in the plasmid, any mutations...affinity for calcium". Please describe any tags or fusions (e.g. His, FLAG, EGFP, etc) on your insert. Use...
  39. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...of traditional tracing compounds is that their diffusion across the synaptic cleft is usually severely ...small (20 nm) in size which makes them capable of diffusing in the extracellular space; they also have low...there is always a risk that viral particles will diffuse long distances within the extracellular space along...
  40. A Scientist's Guide to Ebola

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    ...surface – making it critical for viral attachment and fusion. Once inside a host cell, new evidence in PLoS ...neutralizing antibodies and inhibitors of attachment and fusion. Recommended Reading For those looking to delve...
  41. What's New in CRISPR - Spring 2019

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    ...Plant base editing with a Cas9-adenosine deaminase fusion Caixia Gao’s lab has developed a new plant base...from an evolved tRNA adenosine deaminase that is fused to a nicking Cas9. This base editor can be used ...
  42. What's New in CRISPR - December 2019

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    ... and A-to-G base editors into one protein. They fused an activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and...adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editor called REPAIR by fusing catalytically inactivated RNA-targeting Cas13 (...
  43. Tag Your Favorite Yeast Genes with Ease

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    ... e67902. Many imaging studies rely on direct fusion of fluorescent proteins (FPs) to a yeast gene of...epitope tag for creation of your own unique protein fusions. This collection is ideal for tandem affinity purification...
  44. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    ...The first functional SB system was synthesized by fusing and modifying various extinct transposases. Improvements...is made up of a fragment of the RPL13a promoter fused to a region of the RPL41 gene, to drive the selection...
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