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  1. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    ...directed evolution to create xCas9, an enzyme recognizing a broad range of PAMs like NG, GAA, and GAT, ...sequences adjacent to a protospacer. If ω-dCas9 could recognize a library PAM, it would induce transcription of...pool. According to this logic, ω-dCas9 variants recognizing multiple PAMs should have a fitness advantage...advantage over proteins with single PAM recognition. Created with BioRender.com. After 24 days of ...resistance. xCas9 3.7 showed the broadest PAM range, recognizing NG, NNG, GAT, and CAA PAMs, while xCas9 3.6 displayed...
  2. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    ...Table 2: Protease recognition sites commonly used with tags Protease Recognition site Notes TEV...requiring the addition of an independent cleavage recognition site. In fact, SUMO cannot be used in eukaryotes...FLAG tags can be cleaved by enterokinase, which recognizes DDDDK^X, cleaving after the lysine. The efficiency...but scientists would need to incorporate their recognition sites into their protein tag in order to use ...
  3. Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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    ... mesothelioma patients have an extremely poor prognosis. Together, the cause, long latency period, and...the best ways to improve the traditionally dire prognosis for mesothelioma patients is to catch the disease...mesothelioma much earlier, thus improving the patient’s prognosis significantly, but also to monitor those who may...pembrolizumab (Keytruda) causes T-cells to more easily recognize and cause the destruction of cancer cells. Pembrolizumab...historically been full of bad news and dreadful prognoses. Survival rates for mesothelioma are creeping ...
  4. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    ...required for translation (Figure 1): A tRNA that recognizes a specific ‘open’ codon and utilizes this triplet...includes 4 copies of a tRNA that specifically recognizes amber stop codons (TGA) to encode phosphoserine...strain, C321.ΔA. Because the phosphorserine OTS recognizes the TAG amber stop codon, using the OTS in an...is an ‘open’ codon, which can be specifically recognized by the Sep-tRNA. 3. An expression plasmid encoding...mutagenesis. In the C321.ΔA strain, this TGA will be recognized by Sep-tRNA and translated with a specific phosphoserine...
  5. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ... specifically, cognate peptide epitopes fused to the protein of interest are recognized and thus fluorescently...Cas9 protein is composed of an n-terminal DNA recognition domain and a mostly c-terminal nuclease domain...dCas9 is fused to a scaffold containing epitopes recognized by scFV antibodies fused to VP64 transcriptional...phage integrases which act irreversibly on their cognate attB/attP sites with no cross-talk. These pairs... plasmid or in various combinations, while the cognate att sites are supplied as individual reporter constructs...chromosome shattering. This method is based on the recognition of genomic loci by three orthogonal nuclease-...gene editing in human cells without cross-talk in cognate sgRNA binding. By fusing these dCas9s with one ...
  6. Antibodies 101: Avoiding the Mouse on Mouse Mess in IHC

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    ...antibody are present, your secondary antibody recognizes both the endogenous IgGs and your primary antibody...the tissue with unconjugated Fab fragments that recognize the endogenous IgGs (Lu and Partridge, 1998). ...secondary antibody since 1) your secondary should not recognize Fab fragments from the same species and 2) these... likely to bind (and block) the same epitopes recognized by the secondary.   Figure 2: There are...
  7. Antibodies 101: Choosing the Right Isotype

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    ...antibodies. Some secondary antibodies are broad and recognize multiple isotypes from a species, like a general...general anti-mouse antibody. Others recognize specific isotopes within that species, like an anti-mouse IgG...only a fraction of the antibody molecules will recognize and bind to your primary antibody. Manning et ...example, some goat anti-mouse secondary antibodies recognize some rat primary antibodies (Erickson 1993). It...
  8. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    ... specific nucleotide sequences, preventing the cognate restriction enzyme from cleaving the DNA. A role...regulated by antisense RNA, which base pairs to cognate mRNA to inhibit its translation. The hok/sok system...resulting in a double stranded RNA structure that is recognized and cleaved by RNaseIII resulting in cell survival...MazF complex: molecular bases of antidote-toxin recognition." Molecular cell 11.4 (2003): 875-884. PubMed...
  9. Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis

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    ...(ExoIII) (step 4). UDG recognizes uracils that are in DNA and ExoIII recognizes nicked duplexed DNA. This...enzymes. These enzymes, Nt.BbvCI and Nb.BbvCI, recognize the same restriction site, but nick opposite strands...the DNA strand that contains their respective recognition site. This means that if the BbvCI enzyme used...
  10. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    ...approach to conflict resolution, it’s important to recognize that there are different types of conflict. Most...can fall into “groupthink” and fail to evolve. Recognizing when “bad” conflict can be spun into “good” conflict...you find someone annoying or disagreeable, you recognize their feelings as valid. Listening: In one of ...management skills. It’s also completely OK to recognize that conflict resolution may never be a strength...
  11. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    ...GpNLuc and OgNLuc BRET reporters produced bright signals without exogenous excitation and with OgNLuc being... penetrative orange fluorescent protein fusion (OgNLuc). Both fluorescent proteins can be excited by Nluc...deep tissue imaging. The constructs for GpNLuc and OgNLuc are available through Addgene (Cat.# 70185 and ...
  12. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...the Szymanski lab. Reasons to study how a phage recognizes its host Bacteriophages (viruses that prey on...Currently, receptor binding proteins (RBPs, the host recognition factors of phages) constitute one of the most...knowledge of the structure(s) a given phage will recognize on a host cell. To make matters even more interesting...accomplished using a restriction enzyme with a short recognition sequence (like MluCI) that will cleave DNA frequently...
  13. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    ...Flp that induce DNA recombination at defined recognition sites (i.e., loxP and FRT, respectively) (Abremski...flanked (“floxed”) by two sets of incompatible recognition sites (e.g., loxP and lox511) in opposite orientations...does not cause recombination between mismatched recognition sites, its presence induces first opsin inversion...analyzing the neural circuits of behavior." Trends in cognitive sciences 15.12 (2011): 592-600. PubMed PMID: 22055387...
  14. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    ... the target antigen - Recognition of an immunogen does not guarantee recognition of the target antigen...form of the target protein to be present and recognizable by your antibody despite the manipulation. Additionally...removes the entire exon that codes for the epitope recognized by your antibody. You perform immunocytochemistry...
  15. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    ...independent antibodies). If two antibodies, that recognize different epitopes of the same protein, show the...epitope is often not available to confirm that they recognize different epitopes. Detection of overexpressed...produced by different vendors. The specific epitope recognized by either antibody was not shared. Tables describe...describe that the antibodies both recognized the target when transiently overexpressed in CHO cells and...
  16. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    ...Adapted from Figure 3 Colognori et al 2022.   Find CRISPR Csm plasmids here! Colognori D, Trinidad M, Doudna...Differences:  Distinct variable domains that recognize different epitopes on GFP Monoclonal antibodies...
  17. Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors

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    ...refer to as the analyte, needs to be specifically recognized by another factor, the receptor. The receptor...job is to generate a quantitative signal upon recognizing the analyte. This signal depends on the system...quantitatively give a readout for whatever the bio-recognition event is (fluorescence, pH, etc.). The transducer...
  18. Choosing a CRISPR Nuclease: Site Accessibility, Specificity, and Sensitivity

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    ... Cas9. This is determined by the PAM sequence recognized by the nuclease. For the most frequently used... 3’-NGG. But Cas9s found in other species can recognize a variety of different PAM sequences. Researchers...Figure 1: The PAM sequence that the Cas nuclease recognizes determines site accessibility. Cas9s with a broader...
  19. Antibodies 101: Fab Fragments

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    ...you already have in your refrigerator will not recognize a Fab fragment. In order to detect a Fab fragment...IHC in a sample where your secondary antibody recognizes endogenous antigens. In these cases, even though...you block the antigens that the secondary would recognize and reduce non-specific binding.   At this point...
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