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  1. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    ...transversions C → TG → A A → GT → C C → G                   C → AG → C                   G → T A → C                   ...Rosser, S. J., Bi, C., & Zhang, X. (2021). Glycosylase base editors enable C-to-A and C-to-G base changes.... (2021). CRISPR C-to-G base editors for inducing targeted DNA transversions in human cells. Nature Biotechnology...deaminase could also perform cytidine (C) deamination, converting the C base to uracil (U). This is the same...given the pithier name CGBE1, for “C → G Base Editor 1,” and had a C → G editing efficiency of up to 68%...Beyond UNG: Optimizing C → G editors Now that several labs had shown that preferential C → G editing was possible...pyrimidines (C ↔ T).   Base transversion  Base changes from purine (A or G) to pyrimidine (C or T) or vice-versa...
  2. CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining

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    ... EA, Giovannangeli C, Jasin M, Brunet E (2014) Chromosomal Translocations in Human Cells Are Generated.../10.1016/j.molcel.2014.08.002 Ran FA, Hsu PD, Lin C-Y, Gootenberg JS, Konermann S, Trevino AE, Scott DA... Yan M-Y, Li S-S, Ding X-Y, Guo X-P, Jin Q, Sun Y-C (2020) A CRISPR-Assisted Nonhomologous End-Joining...End-Joining Strategy for Efficient Genome Editing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mBio 11: . https://doi.org/10.1128...
  3. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ...calculate the viral titer: GC/mL = {[(R*C)(1000/V)]*D} R = Reaction volume C = Copies/uL V = Volume of virus ...of recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors." Human Gene Therapy ja (2019). PubMed PMID: 31140327. PubMed...viral vector genome titers by droplet digital PCR." Human gene therapy methods 25.2 (2013): 115-125. PubMed...Song, Neng, et al. "Detection of circulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific DNA by droplet digital...
  4. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    ...There are over 40 trillion cells that make up the human body and G-baToN provides versibility in tracking...interactions New auxin inducible degron system for C. elegans New CRISPR plasmids New items from the viral...tool-kit for the auxin inducible degron (AID) system in C. elegans By Alyssa Cecchetelli The auxin inducible... degron (AID) system has been extensively used in C. elegans since 2015 to conditionally degrade proteins...repression, and editing with a single Cas9-VPR in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To control Cas9 activity and influence...
  5. Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View

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    ...optimum of 30 °C and is therefore inefficient in mammalian cells (usually grown at 37 °C). Smart molecular... neurons to form the functional networks of the human brain.     Acknowledgement:Through a partnership...identification of FLPe which has a temperature optimum of 37 °C (Buchholz, Angrand, and Stewart 1998). FLPe’s performance... receptor (ER) ligand binding domain (LDB) to the C-terminus of FLP or Cre (pCAG-CreERT2 #14797). These...Sadowski. 1985. “The FLP Recombinase of the Saccharomyces Cerevisiae 2 Micron Plasmid Attaches Covalently...
  6. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    ...(unless if you count normal human interaction for all of us studying human genes in test tubes and gels...Mello) These very cute birds learn their songs like humans learn speech. Finches must learn early, use auditory...existence, but most abundant cell on earth (twice the human biomass). The lab is developing a system using novel...habitats - even 50 meters from Old Faithful in 60 °C soils. Dendrobatidae (Lauren O’Connell)  Poison frogs...So, think beyond Drosophila melanogaster or Saccharomyces cerevisiae (both fine research organisms) -  ...
  7. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    ...production of lentiviral and retroviral vectors.” Human Gene Therapy Clinical Development 25.3 (2014). 175... for less than a day, lentivirus can be kept at 4°C. For long-term storage, viral preps should be divided...divided into single-use aliquots, and stored at -80°C. Some reports suggest rapidly freezing virus in a ... labs and hinders experiments is mycoplasma contamination. Mycoplasma contamination has been shown to ...routinely test for mycoplasma contamination. There are several commercially available mycoplasma detection kits...larger microbes such as yeast, fungi, or bacteria, mycoplasma can be extremely hard to detect with levels reaching...cells per ml before the media becomes cloudy. Mycoplasma compete with host cells for nutrients and can...
  8. Molecular Biology Reference

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    ... T H A, C, or T K G or T M A or C N A, T, C, or G R A or G S C or G V A, C, or G W A or T Y C or T Amino...thousand basepairs from the entire human genome. Digesting the human genome with restriction enzymes would...plasmid in intended for use in human cells, the promoter will be a human or mammalian promoter sequence...Thymine (T), Cytosine (C) and Guanine (G). In the double helix A always pairs with T and C always pairs with...Adenine C Cytosine G Guanine T Thymine U Uracil Single Letter Code: Ambiguous bases Nucleobase B C, G, or...molecules. In order to isolate a particular gene from human chromosomal DNA, it would be necessary to isolate...including plants, worms, mice, and even cultured human cells. Although plasmids were originally used to...
  9. Fluorescent CRISPR Reporters: SRIRACCHA and GEmCherry2

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    ...target a specific locus to create a knock-out in human embryonic stem cells.  Find GEmCherry2 reporter ...these methods a try.  References Højland Knudsen C, Ásgrímsdóttir ES, Rahimi K, Gill KP, Frandsen S, ...stably integrate a reporter gene that contains a puromycin resistance gene followed by the target site (the...genome edit:  A donor plasmid that contains a puromycin resistance gene linked to an in-frame H2B-GFP....
  10. CRISPR Plasmids - Prime Edit

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    ...optimized PE2 enzyme containing RT optimized for human codons, additional nuclear localization signals,...gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila Plant C. elegans Yeast Zebrafish Xenopus CRISPR Resources ...which a reverse transcriptase (RT) is fused to the C terminus of Cas9 H840A nickase. The fusion enzyme ...-Puro Mammalian, piggyBac hU6 pegRNA BsmBI No Puromycin Jacob Giehm Mikkelsen 173222 pPBT-PE2-PuroTK-pegRNA_GG...
  11. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...3,300-fold in Drosophila cells and ~24,000-fold in human HeLa cells as compared to basal expression. Co-expression...also shown that the Q system is also functional in C. elegans. Subsequent work by the Luo and Potter labs...23995928; PMCID: PMC3811519.Seo SO, Schmidt-Dannert C. Development of a synthetic cumate-inducible gene ...; PMCID: PMC5270762. Wendler, F., Park, S., Hill, C. et al. A LexAop > UAS > QUAS trimeric plasmid to ...genes for metabolic engineering applications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” FEMS Yeast Res. 12(2) (2012): 197...
  12. Malate Dehydrogenase CUREs Community Collection

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    ...based on: Organism or species (e.g., human, watermelon, Streptomyces ) Subcellular compartment (chloroplastic...expression vector. All His-tags are cloned at the C-terminus of MDH and, if indicated on the plasmid map...
  13. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    ...He has also constructed a library of eGFP-tagged human ORF clones to allow testing and comparison of different... easy for a researcher to quickly generate N- and C-terminal epitope tag fusions to a protein of interest...et al. "Adaptation of Enterococcus faecalis to daptomycin reveals an ordered progression to resistance....
  14. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ... Rinehart lab synthesized the activated form of human mitogen-activated ERK activating kinase 1 (MEK1)...the mitochondrial targeting sequence of cytochrome c oxidase subunit VIII, so that they can be imported...pCoofy series of plasmids contain a variety of N- and C-terminal tags (including His, S-tag, OneStrep, CBP...N-terminal tag, coding sequence of the gene of interest, C-terminal tag, plant terminator, and plant resistance... The strategy relies on several observations: Rapamycin is a membrane-permeable pharmacological agent ...induction heterodimerization of proteins that contain rapamycin-binding domains, such as FKBP and FRB. The cell...membrane protein with a FRB domain (MitoTRAP). Rapamycin binds your recombinant protein (via FKBP) and ...
  15. CRISPR Plasmids - Empty gRNA Vectors

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    ...Cas9 + Empty sgRNA) 47549 C. elegans yes, cut S. pyogenes Goldstein DR274 42250 C. elegans BsaI none S. pyogenes...Mammalian/AAV SapI none S. pyogenes Zhang pgRNA-humanized 44248 Mammalian/Lentiviral BstXI + XhoI none S...gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila Plant C. elegans Yeast Zebrafish Xenopus CRISPR Resources ...pyogenes Zhang PX854 62886 Mammalian BbsI yes, cut, C-terminal S. pyogenes Zhang pGuide 64711 Mammalian ...pyogenes Zhang PX852 62884 Mammalian BbsI yes, cut, C-terminal S. pyogenes Zhang PX855 62887 Mammalian BbsI...pyogenes Zhang PX856 62888 Mammalian BbsI yes, activate, C-terminal S. pyogenes Zhang pU6-(BbsI)_CBh-Cas9-T2A-BFP-P2A-Ad4E1B...pyogenes URA3 Wyrick pCRISPomyces-2 61737 Bacteria BbsI yes, cut S. pyogenes Apramycin Zhao pRB1017 59936...
  16. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    ...ti2learning.org. References 1. Dieterich, Daniela C., et al. "In situ visualization and dynamics of newly...Nathans, Daniel. "Puromycin inhibition of protein synthesis: incorporation of puromycin into peptide chains...attended a very interesting talk by Prof. Erin M Schuman, a former Caltech researcher, now Director at the...newly synthesized proteins with FUNCAT Professor Schuman’s technique applies metabolic labeling using a noncanonical...the turnover of one specific protein. Professor Schuman’s lab showed that FUNCAT’s usefulness can be extended...interaction. To study protein levels in situ, the Schumann lab used a modified version of PLA where one antibody...Yarmolinsky, Michael B., and L. Gabriel. "Inhibition by puromycin of amino acid incorporation into protein." Proceedings...
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