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  1. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - September 2019

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    ... to give scientists access to a wide array of promoters and fluorophores for validating and testing purposes... pAAV-hSyn-DIO-EGFP (50457-AAV5): The Synapsin promoter directs broad, neuronal expression. AAV pCAG-FLEX-EGFP-WPRE...-FLEX-EGFP-WPRE (51502-AAV5): The CAG promoter directs ubiquitous expression. pAAV-mDlx-NLS-mRuby2 (99130...-EGFP (112677-AAV5 and 112677-AAVrg): The EF1a promoter directs strong, ubiquitous expression. This is...
  2. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    ...tandem with a single promoter, but only the gene directly following the promoter is expressed. Cre-mediated... As RFP and OFP are directly downstream of the promoter in Brainbow 1.0 and 1.1, respectively, cells will...Brainbow system are that it does not use ubiquitous promoters, meaning that not all cell types can be labeled...placing Brainbow downstream of a neural-specific promoter, or the entire fish could be labeled by injecting...an RFP, CFP, and YFP downstream of a ubiquitous promoter. Zebrabow is an extremely versatile technology...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Packaging Plasmid

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    ...expression is often driven by the AAV p5 or p19 promoters to, respectively, produce the large (Rep78 and... the transcriptional regulation of the AAV p40 promoter which drives Cap expression. Often Rep proteins...genome. The cap gene is often driven by the AAV p40 promoter. Alternative splicing and differing translational...alternative open reading frame (ORF). While AAP promotes virion assembly, the role of MAAP has not been...
  4. Protocol - pLKO.1 – TRC Cloning Vector

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    ...10878/ . Description Vector Element U6 Human U6 promoter drives RNA Polymerase III transcription for generation...transduced cells. hPGK Human phosphoglycerate kinase promoter drives expression of puromycin. Puro R Puromycin...
  5. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    ...approximately 19 kb in length. It contains short promoter sequences at its 3’ and 5’ ends that are crucial..., the roles of specific viral sequences (e.g. promoters) can be studied by changing the minigenome cis-acting...minigenome) are under control of a T7 RNA polymerase promoter sequence. Thus, T7 RNA polymerase also needs to...leader region acts as a functional BRSV genome promoter." Journal of virology 73.1 (1999): 251-259. PubMed...Michael, et al. "The Ebola virus genomic replication promoter is bipartite and follows the rule of six." Journal...
  6. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 2: Controlling Gene Expression in Flies with Gal4/UAS

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    ...Gal4 expression can be regulated by any chosen promoter, and Bloomington’s Stock Center has fly lines ...lines expressing Gal4 under a variety of promoters resulting in tissue specific expression. To express YFG...interest directly downstream of a tissue-specific promoter sounds simpler, this modular system saves you ... to making a new fly with hedgehog under a new promoter each time a new hypothesis is tested. Controlling...
  7. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...dependent promoters, Baojun Wang’s lab developed a system that can activate sigma-54 dependent promoters (Liu...activation of sigma-54 type promoters. The system was functional in activating promoters in Pseudomonas syringae...that utilizes phage recombination machinery to promote homologous recombination of linear DNA fragments...regulate gene expression were limited to inducible promoters or direct gene knockout. In contrast, CRISPR offers...systems, catalytically dead (dCas9) targeted to a promoter or gene body can repress transcription by physically...and can be more effective targeting either the promoter or the coding sequence and the template or non-template...to multiplex repression. Using a Tet responsive promoter to drive expression of a catalytically dead Cas9...
  8. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    ...the MCS is often downstream from a promoter. Insert Gene, promoter or other DNA fragment cloned into ...into the MCS for further study. Promoter Region Drives transcription of the target gene. Vital component...
  9. Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference

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    ...RNA polymerase III promoters, which transcribe small RNAs. The most common promoters are U6, H1, and 7SK...sequence Choosing the plasmid backbone Choosing the promoter Mature siRNAs typically range from 19–22 nucleotides...7SK. These are strong promoters with no tissue specificity, so in some cases they can lead to toxicity...plasmids are being designed using RNA polymerase II promoters. The design of these plasmids is meant to more...closely mimic pre-miRNAs, and the use of the pol II promoters allows for more flexibility in expression levels...integrated expression atlas of miRNAs and their promoters in human and mouse. Nature Biotechnology, 35(9...Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2) Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go! Browse All Plasmids 101 Posts...
  10. Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping

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    ...TIR1 of the SCF-TIR1 ubiquitin ligase complex, promoting its interaction with the degron sequence and ultimately...studying the effects of endogenous looping on distal promoters and enhancers, or have attempted to engineer loops...LADL Anchors to genomic targets, such as a distal promoter and an enhancer. What makes LADL unique from previous...group targeted the enhancer region of Klf4 and the promoter region of Zfp462, which are over 500kB apart, ...
  11. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    ...plasmids used to express CRE under neuron-specific promoters (aCaMKII and hSyn). Created with BioRender.com...plasmids used to express Cre under neuron-specific promoters, including calmodulin-dependent kinase II alpha...excitatory neurons) and Synapsin-1 (pan-neuronal) promoters (Figure 1b), and sgRNAs can be found here. Neuron-optimized...expression is mediated by the synapsin 1 (SYN) promoter, which was superior in its ability to induce CRISPRa... CRISPRa in primary rat neurons over other promoters, including ubiquitous ones such as EF-1α and CAG....consequently regulates neuronal physiology by promoting the development of neurons and synapses as well...cells to determine which transcription factors promote neuronal differentiation (Liu et al., 2018). The...
  12. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    ...you design your donor template to include a T7 promoter upstream of the left homology arm, perform in ...transcription to create your ssDNA. Note that the T7 promoter will not be included in the final ssDNA template...GG); this design has been shown to increase T7 promoter activity. To avoid re-cutting by Cas9 after editing...containing the homology arms on both sides and the T7 promoter on one end. Typically, Easi-CRISPR works best ...Addgene plasmids. Design PCR primers to add T7 promoter-left homology arm and right homology arm to the...
  13. "Hall of Fame" AAV Enhancers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science

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    ...Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go! Plasmids...mediator complexes and the RNA polymerase at the promoter region of a gene to initiate transcription (Figure...cloned into an AAV backbone containing a minimal promoter to drive expression of a fluorescent gene and ...Transcriptional enhancers and their communication with gene promoters. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 78(19–20...
  14. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    ...overcome by fusing opsin genes to cell-type specific promoters; however, those usually drive weak expression ...expression of downstream genes. Strong cell-specific promoters, on the other side, are too long for rAAVs, which...2018). Optogenetic FLEx vectors contain a strong promoter upstream of an opsin gene (e.g., channelrhodopsin... the antisense orientation with respect to the promoter to prevent its expression, and is flanked (“floxed...rAAVs expressing Cre under a specific cell-type promoter. Once injected into the brain, the viruses infect...thereby enabling its expression under a strong promoter only in specific neuronal cells. FLEx ensures,...
  15. Tips and Tricks for Using Golden Gate Modular Cloning (MoClo)

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    ...MoClo kit, to construct a Level 1 vector with a promoter and terminator flanking the CDS, and a Level 2...start with are: Is your sequence of interest a promoter, a coding sequence, a terminator, or other plasmid... part types (e.g. 5’-GGAG and 3’-TACT flanking promoter parts, 5’-AATG and 3’-GCTT flanking CDS parts,...sequentially in order to properly ligate. PRO, promoter; CDS1, coding sequence with stop codon; CDSns,...
  16. Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!

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    ...scientists Viral prep filter categories Promoters: Select the best promoter for your target cell type Serotype...world, it can be hard to find your favorite gene, promoter, serotype, or a myriad of other things. That’s...plasmid to express ubiquitin under control of a CMV promoter. Starting with two search terms we see there are...
  17. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    ...mCherry, all under the control of the human synapsin promoter. Purpose of this AAV pAAV-hSyn-DIO-hM4D(Gi)-mCherry... to a particular cell type. The human synapsin promoter further specifies neuron-specific expression of...Kügler S, Kilic E, Bähr M. Human synapsin 1 gene promoter confers highly neuron-specific long-term transgene...
  18. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    ...400-500 bp cassettes containing the RNA pol III promoter, gRNA and pol III terminator. These relatively...together in a single vector. In addition, the pol III promoter is relatively weak, and low expression of gRNAs...biological systems. Size is also a factor; the pol lll promoter and terminator need be encoded only once, and ...
  19. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    .... Unfortunately, as a whole, microenvironments promote tumor durability instead of repressing them, making...a look at cancer cell metabolism. Cancer cells promote oxidative stress leading to the degradation of ...caveolin 1, also known as CAV 1. Usually, caveolin 1 promotes the cell life cycle progression and enhances tumor...signaling, possibly inducing the secretion of growth promoting proteins, such as human growth factor, vascular...Fibroblasts, or CAFs. CAFs are altered fibroblasts and promote the development and metastasis of tumors through...different organs. This means that exosomes not only promote microenvironment’s malignancy but also incite different...
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