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  1. Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes

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    ...mis-translation Bactericidal 50-100 ug/mL Spectinomycin aminoglycoside Binds 30S ribosomal subunit; interrupts...Action*   Working Concentration** Kanamycin aminoglycoside Binds 30S ribosomal subunit; causes mis-translation... Bactericidal 7.5-50 ug/mL Streptomycin aminoglycoside Inhibits initiation of protein synthesis ...macrolide Blocks 50S ribosomal subunit; inhibits aminoacyl translocation Bacteriostatic 50-100 ug/mL in...
  2. Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR

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    ...result in a spectinomycin resistant phenotype in bacteria. While there are many known spectinomycin resistance...increase the mutation rate of EvolvR, three additional amino acid changes were introduced to nCas9. These changes...five dispersed regions of the target gene of spectinomycin, rpsE. These results not only uncovered novel...used to generate bacteria resistant to both spectinomycin and streptomycin, but could also be used for...
  3. Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids

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    ...Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, Actinomyces naeslundii, A. viscosus, Aerobacter...Providencia spp., Pseudomonas spp., Rhizobium leguminosarum, R. meliloti, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, R. capsulatus...Providencia stuartii, Pseudomonas spp., Rhizobium leguminosarum, R. trifolii, Salmonella enteritidis, S. typhimurium...fluorescens, P. putida, Rhizobium meliloti, R. leguminosarum by. viciae, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Salmonella...
  4. Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection

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    ...One of the limitations is the size of GFP: ~240 amino acids or about 28 kDa. GFP and its homologues have...multiple cloning site and therefore consist of random amino acid sequences or (ii) designed to form an inert...glycines, serines and other small, non-aliphatic amino acids. However, long linkers increase the chance.... To indicate the sequence, people often use terminology like “C-terminal fusion,” but I find this very...protein fusions, our experience is that a linker of 4 amino acids (PVAT, when we use the AgeI site in the multiple...
  5. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    ...associated with phosphorylation. However, these amino acids fail to recapitulate the true steric and charge-based... version of GFP will contain a phosphoserine at amino acid 17 instead of a glutamate which allows the ... of these expression vectors, the codon for the amino acid to be replaced with phosphoserine must be recoded... a phosphoserine) to control for effects of the amino acid substitution. Alternatively, you can express..."Cysteinyl‐tRNA formation: the last puzzle of aminoacyl‐tRNA synthesis." FEBS letters 462.3 (1999): 302...
  6. Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE

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    ...IMP organizers Rosario F. Godino, Rocío López-Diego, & Zafira Castano Corsino. When someone says “internationalization... developed by its Director, Dr. Zafira Castano Corsino, a junior faculty member at Harvard Medical School...International Mentorship Program Zafira Castaño Corsino is a Junior Faculty at Harvard Medical School/BWH...zcastan or on linkedln.       Rosario Fernandez-Godino is a Postdoctoral Researcher at MEEI-Harvard Medical...
  7. Plasmids 101: How to Name Your Plasmid in 3 Easy Steps

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    ...listed as the amino acid change and not a nucleotide change. The proper way to denote an amino acid mutation...list the one letter abbreviation of the wild type amino acid immediately followed by its position (number...followed by the one letter abbreviation of the mutated amino acid currently at that position. In contrast, unmutated...
  8. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    ...letters of the DNA get translated into the twenty amino acids. Once scientists established that DNA encoded...meganucleases. The storyline involves the resurrection of dinosaurs by extracting the DNA from fossilized amber and...the insatiable appetite of the moviegoers for dinosaurs wreaking havoc in a theme park.  Released in 1997...ideal. For the early generation gene editors, new amino acid recognition sites had to be designed each time...the movie involves The Rock and his super giant albino gorilla fighting off a monstrous wolf and crocodile...
  9. Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags

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    ...Tsien’s lab in 1998 (Griffin et al., 1998), this 15 amino acid peptide contains a cluster of four cysteines...cysteines (CCXXCC, where X is any non-cysteine amino acid) that reacts with biarsenical dyes such as FlAsH (...on your protein of interest or using non-natural amino acids to directly incorporate a fluorophore in your...popular self-labeling tag systems Tag Size (amino acids) Ligand Commercial ligands available ...varies Various Few Complicated Non-natural amino acids 1 Various Many Complicated   ...
  10. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    ...Lercher, Spicer, & Davis, 2015). By using a novel aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair, a researcher can lure...the ribosome into inserting a fluorophore-tagged amino acid at a stop codon (often amber i.e. UAG) engineered...site. During translation, the novel tRNA/unnatural amino acid finds the UAG codon in the ribosome, resulting...Synthetase Expression Host pMAH-POLY Polyspecific aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Mammalian Cells pDULE-ABK pyrrolysyl-tRNA...pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthase for aliphatic diazirine amino acids E. coli and Mammalian Cells pEVOL-pAzF synthetase...
  11. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    ...are problematic because they require radiolabeled amino acids. The use of radioactive materials is highly...applies metabolic labeling using a noncanonical amino acid, azidohomoalanine (AHA). In the technique, ... labeling is known as fluorescence noncanonical amino acid tagging (FUNCAT, Dieterich et al. Nature Neuroscience...B., and L. Gabriel. "Inhibition by puromycin of amino acid incorporation into protein." Proceedings of...
  12. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    ...autophagy. Cells are cultured with isotope-labeled amino acids for several hours to several days, followed...followed by a short period of growth with unlabeled amino acids. This washout period removes radio-labeled ...ecliptic pHluorin (SEP). They are connected by a 9 amino acid linker that’s fused to the C-terminus of DsRed.T3...PubMed PMID: 18094608 2. Sargsyan, A., Cai, J., Fandino, L. B., Labasky, M. E., Forostyan, T., Colosimo...
  13. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    ...highly conserved glutamine-fructose-6-phosphate aminotransferase (glmS) gene in the recipient bacteria due ...plasmids, and lack the ability to synthesize diaminopimelic acid (DAP), a component of the cell wall. Once...disease (S. aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and P. aeruginosa) in addition to Vicrio casei, a bacteria isolated...Enterobacter aerogenes, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and P. aeruginosa (all opportunistic pathogens) were grown in presence...
  14. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ...range of targets, including proteins, peptides, amino acids, drugs, metal ions, and cells (even pathogenic...aptamers hold a few important advantages over their amino acid-based counterparts, antibodies and enzymes,...structure stabilizes a 4-hydroxybenzylidene imidazolinone (HBI)-like compound allowing it to fluoresce...derivative 3,5-difluoro-4-hydroxybenzylidene imidazolinone (DFHBI) with relatively low fluorescence in ...
  15. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    ...catalyzes the conversion of a target ‘A’ to ‘I’ (inosine), which is treated as ‘G’ by cellular polymerases...converted to a G-C pair (Figure 1). As the cellular inosine excision repair is not as active as uracil excision... for rice crop improvement in the laboratory of Yinong Yang at PSU.   References 1. Komor, Alexis C., ...PMC5726555. 4. Xie, Kabin, Bastian Minkenberg, and Yinong Yang. "Boosting CRISPR/Cas9 multiplex editing capability...
  16. Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More

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    ... oligonucleotides called morpholinos. When injected into zygotes, morpholinos complementary to a target...activity and does not work easily in zebrafish.) Morpholinos are a convenient and fast way to deactivate genes...whether a gene is deactivated via mutation or morpholino. This observation unlocked novel research into...
  17. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ...toxin genes isolated from E. coli or Psuedomonas aeruginosa. These toxins were a mix of Type VI secreted ...tested their expression under both rhamnose- and arabinose-inducible promoters. Tight control of toxin expression...though Khetrapal et al. also demonstrated that the arabinose promoter worked too. Rhamnose induction relies...et al. "Precision-engineering the Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome with two-step allelic exchange." Nature...
  18. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    ...identified the 13 amino acid sequence required for BirA recognition and biotinylation. This 13 amino acid sequence...processes such as gluconeogenesis, lipogenesis, amino acid metabolism and energy transduction. Biotinylation...Biotin’s exposed side chain can be cross-linked to amino acid functional groups in vivo via specialized chemicals...
  19. Exploring Applications of the Bioluminescent HiBiT Tag

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    ...endogenous-level detection HiBiT is a minimal 11-amino-acid fragment of the NanoBiT® complex, which, upon...activity of ADAR1, which converts adenosine to inosine (A-to-I) within double-stranded RNA. They hypothesized... from a deep sea shrimp utilizing a novel imidazopyrazinone substrate. ACS Chemical Biology, 7(11), 1848...the heterogeneity and spread of hepatocellular carcinoma in human tissue and in vitro. Oncology Reports...
  20. Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering

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    ... that alter the nucleotide sequence but not the amino acid sequence of the translated protein.  These ... include the IPTG-inducible lac promoter, the arabinose-inducible pBAD promoter and the endogenous phage...communication and in vitro diagnostics.     References 1. Costantino N, Court DL. Enhanced levels of λ Red-mediated... 5. Thomason, L. C., Sawitzke, J. A., Li, X., Costantino, N. and Court, D. L. 2014. Recombineering: Genetic...
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