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  1. Why and how to start studying chromatin (with Addgene's help)

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    ...architecture to every diagram portraying some aspect of eukaryotic DNA would become busy and potentially detract... R, Schmalhorst PS, Jude JG, Zuber J, Gerlich DW Cell. 2017 Aug 24;170(5):956-972.e23 Screen identifies... R, Schmalhorst PS, Jude JG, Zuber J, Gerlich DW Cell. 2017 Aug 24;170(5):956-972.e23 Rapid and phosphoinositol-dependent... Rando OJ, Xue Y, Swiderek K, Kuo A, Crabtree GR Cell. 1998 Nov 25. 95(5):625-36. An architectural role..., Ensminger AW, Fox AH, Chess A, Lawrence JB Mol Cell. 2009 Mar 27;33(6):717-26. Reporter-nanobody fusions...
  2. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    ...toolkit in human cells. Nissim L, Perli SD, Fridkin A, Perez-Pinera P, Lu TK. Mol Cell. 2014 May 22;54(... or pre-tRNAs are cleaved by RNase P and Z in eukaryotes (E in bacteria), and only a few elements of tRNAs...tRNAs are among the most abundant molecules in a cell, this system is clearly also robust enough to ensure... tRNA processing is common to prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Though the plasmids made by Xie et. al are specifically...
  3. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    ...can often be used in cells that are difficult to transfect, such as primary cells. Using RNPs can also...with protein expression that occur in cells where common eukaryotic promoters (such as CMV or EF1A promoters...interest. This is commonly performed by transfecting cells with a plasmid, such as PX459, which encodes Cas9...must be considered when using this method:     Cells must be amenable to transfection or viral transduction...protein in complex with a targeting gRNA, to your cells of interest. Cas9 RNPs are capable of cleaving genomic...single or multi-gene knockouts in a wide variety of cell types, gene editing using homology directed repair...after transfection, and are quickly cleared from the cell via protein degradation pathways. This makes Cas9...
  4. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ... This system is distinct from those used in eukaryotes in that CRISPR isn’t the primary editing force... is primarily a means of selection that targets cells in which homologous recombination has not occurred...ensures high editing efficiency; the only non-edited cells to survive have inactivating mutations in the Cas9... similarly to CRISPR/Cas9 systems adapted for eukaryotes in that Cas9-mediated cleavage induces HDR to...design more familiar to those using CRISPR in eukaryotes (Qi et al., 2013). As in other systems, catalytically...one or more genes in E. coli. and in a mammalian cell line (Qi et al., 2013). Two important features of...the bacteria are unable to resolve them, and the cells die.  This could be applied to diseases where the...
  5. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    ...measuring protein expression or localization in cells, or even single-particle tracking of the bound complex...(1–10) and GFP(11) Versatile protein tagging in cells with split fluorescent protein. Kamiyama et al. ...oxygenase for chromophore formation (abundant in eukaryotes) A Near-Infrared BiFC Reporter for In Vivo Imaging...oxygenase for chromophore formation (abundant in eukaryotes) Bright monomeric near-infrared fluorescent proteins...tracking of protein-protein interactions in living cells. Shao et al. Commun Biol. 2021 Yujie Sun   For...bright enough for single-molecule tracking in live cells.  Controls  When designing experiments, it’s important... fragments themselves can sometimes interact in cells and produce background signal (especially for some...
  6. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    ... want to make sure your cells have first reached an appropriate density. Cells in the exponential growth...collecting dead cells, and, conversely, you cannot induce too early as there are not enough cells in the culture...host protein, using up valuable resources in the cell thus leading to slowed growth. Additionally, some...mB-) gal dcm (DE3) pRARE2 (CamR) Expression of eukaryotic proteins Lemo21 (DE3)* Chloramphenicol (pLemo...such as TB or 2XYT is optimal because of the high cell-density they support; however, minimal media supplemented...
  7. Distribution to Industry

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    ...cloning and assembling standardized parts to create eukaryotic multigene constructs. ONE-GO Biosensors Kit Fluorescent...plasmids for detecting GPCR activity in a variety of cell types. Protein Purification Optimization Kit Using...
  8. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    ...The field of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has been around for 10 years. In that time, scientists...Pluripotent Stem Cells by Direct Delivery of Reprogramming Proteins." Cell Stem Cell 4, no. 6 (2009): ...Jaenisch. "Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Meet Genome Editing." Cell Stem Cell 18, no. 5 (2016): 573-86. PubMed... express a cocktail of stem cell reprogramming factors and wait for cells to de-differentiate. However...transgene-free and vector-free cells Genome integration Need to sequence cells to verify excision didn’t ...vector-free cells No genomic integration Can be difficult to fully remove virus from cells Plasmid Non-integrating...transduces a wide range of cell types and replicates in the cytoplasm independent of the cell cycle. A challenge...
  9. Ras Pathway

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    ...molecular switches that transmit signals within the cell. GTPases have an active (GTP) and inactive (GDP)...prominent roles in signaling pathways regulating cell migration, survival, adhesion, growth, and differentiation...Cancer Impact Ras is ubiquitously expressed in all cells and all tissues. Ras can activate a variety of ...pathways, which ultimately turn on genes involved in cell growth, differentiation and survival. Ras is essential...essential for regulating the growth of the cell, however when mutations occur in the Ras gene it can be... active form, constantly activating pathways for cell growth and potentially leading to cancer. Constitutively...E2F2 E2F3 E2F transcription factor ECT2 Epithelial cell transforming 2 EGFR Epidermal growth factor receptor...
  10. Plasmid Preps: Different Purity, Different Quantities, Different Uses

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    ...lipopolysaccharide of the cell wall of Gram negative bacteria like E. coli that affects tissue culture cell line viability...introduces transformation grade plasmids into a bacterial cell. Transformation grade DNA  Transformation is ...transformation of chemically and electrocompetent cells is minimal (picogram range). It can be extracted...to insert recombinant DNA from prokaryotes or eukaryotes into a synthetic vector that can have a plasmid...Figure 3: Need to introduce plasmids into mammalian cells? Use transfection grade DNA. Transfection is ...process of inserting an external plasmid in mammalian cells and it will likely require micrograms of plasmid...
  11. Arf GTPase Family

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    ...T. J. (2016). Tracing the archaeal origins of Eukaryotic Membrane-Trafficking System building blocks. ...concepts and challenges. Molecular Biology of the Cell , 30 (11), 1249–1271. PMID: 31084567 (Link opens...
  12. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ... that converts sucrose into a toxic metabolite. Cells that have undergone a double crossover will not ...contain sacB, allowing them to grow on sucrose. Cells that have only gone through the single cross over... from Harvard. Jake received his MD and a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania...Liljeruhm, Josefine, et al. "Engineering a palette of eukaryotic chromoproteins for bacterial synthetic biology...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    ...hijacking the machinery of the cells they infect. Once they enter a cell, they treat their viral genome...genome as a “payload” that is delivered to the cell. The cell then uses its own machinery to replicate the...still kill the infected cell.) This is in contrast to bacteria and eukaryotes, which use a binary replication...replication process whereby one cell copies itself and “splits” into two cells. Viral vectors Viruses are ...virus. From one, come many After a virion infects a cell, the single particle creates many copies of itself...millions of new copies, which are released from the cell like baby spiders from an egg sac. (Okay, some enveloped...means the vector can deliver a genetic payload to a cell but cannot create new particles. As a bonus, this...
  14. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    ... small circular piece of DNA found in bacterial cells, and someone new to plasmids may need some extra...bacteria, but also exist naturally in archaea and eukaryotes such as yeast and plants. In nature, plasmids...and designed to introduce foreign DNA into another cell. Minimally, lab-created plasmids have an origin ...the ability of plasmids to self-replicate within a cell make them attractive tools for the life scientist...component for expression vectors: determines which cell types the gene is expressed in and amount of recombinant...plasmids also have selectable markers for use in other cell types. Primer Binding Site A short single-stranded...newly inserted gene is transformed into bacterial cells and selectively grown on antibiotic plates.  Importantly...
  15. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    ...fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). This is not possible in plants outside of limited, single cell protoplast...number. RNA interference (RNAi) is a conserved eukaryotic process where approximately 20-30 nucleotides...reflected the scope of genes known to be essential for cell growth. Together, this excellent work highlights...visually identified subpopulation. For traditional cell culture, enriching your active RNAi subpopulation...where he investigated how plants achieve polarized cell growth in the lab of Luis Vidali. For his next adventure...Screens for Effective Gene Silencing in Plants. Plant Cell 25:1507–1522 . https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.113.112235...Augmin in Phragmoplast Microtubule Generation. Plant Cell 24:1478–1493 . https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.112.098509...
  16. Brain Initiative Collection

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    ...real-time interrogation and monitoring of brain cells and circuits during behavior. Long desired by researchers...A somatic channelrhodopsin, which enables single cell, single millisecond resolution optogenetics. Human...A somatic channelrhodopsin, which enables single cell, single millisecond resolution optogenetics. Cre-dependent...genetically encoded dopamine sensor RdLight1 in mammalian cells. Lin Tian 125708-AAV9 pAAV-hSynapsin1-RdLight1 Expresses...neurons Yulong Li 158757-AAV8 pAAV-CAG-SomaGCaMP6f2 Cell body-targeted GCaMP6f, under CAG promoter: GCaMP6f... Edward Boyden 158757-AAV9 pAAV-CAG-SomaGCaMP6f2 Cell body-targeted GCaMP6f, under CAG promoter: GCaMP6f... PdCO in frame with mScarlet under control of eukaryotic Ef1a promoter after Cre-dependent recombination...
  17. Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?

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    ... be stable in the cell. gDNA guides will also need to be transfected into the cells of interest. In contrast...learn more! Background: Argonaute and NgAgo In eukaryotes, Argonaute proteins play an important role in...unable to show TtAgo-mediated cleavage in mammalian cells, likely due to high temperature requirements. To...plasmid and genomic DNA in a variety of mammalian cell lines, with an efficiency similar to that of Cas9...
  18. Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping

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    ...plant protein TIR1 in non-plant cells, which interacts with the cells’ endogenous ubiquitin ligase, the...sequence and ultimately its degradation. While other eukaryotes don’t naturally have this response, they do contain...translate AID to yeast, as well as mammalian and human cell lines (Nishimura et al., 2009, Natsume et al., 2016...based method to tag endogenous proteins in HCT116 cells with mAID. Using this method, the lab was able to... protein of interest to create conditional human cell lines. Lastly, the Kanemaki lab demonstrated that...the target sites adjacent to an NG PAM in human cells. The increased versatility of the engineered SpCas9... just a 2-D linear molecule snaking through our cells’ nuclei--our chromatin is comprised of thousands...
  19. Empty Backbones - Choosing Your Perfect Plasmid Backbone

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    ... the elements needed for replication in the host cell and are designed for a user to insert a gene of ..., or express the insert they carry in the target cell. These vectors allow you to test the function of....1-mCherry - Expresses mCherry tag in mammalian cells pBI-MCS-EGFP - Tet-inducible Find more Tet-inducible...proteins on the extracellular surface of S. cerevisiae cells His-tagged versions of pFastBac LIC vectors and ...experiments, scientists often want to create stable cell lines in which the expression cassette of interest...is incorporated into the host DNA. For mammalian cells, you can do this through viral vector delivery...transduce both dividing and nondividing cells, integrate into host genome pLenti CMV GFP DEST ...
  20. Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors

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    ...transfected cells may be considered an entirely new cell line from that of the original parental cells. Positive...cultured mammalian cells. Of course, these mammalian vectors must be compatible with the cell type they are...bacterial cells); however, the techniques and reagents vary. Plasmid transfection into mammalian cells is fairly...expression levels in the cells. Ideally, the chosen reporter is unique to the cell, is expressed from the...components expressed in trans within the cell for effective replication. Cell lines expressing the Epstein–Barr...mammalian cells To achieve stable transfection, there should be a selective pressure to force cells to incorporate...(basically growing cells in various concentrations of the selection reagent). Cells should die within ...
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