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  1. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    ...-Vvd showed substantially improved activity as compared to other recombinase/photodimer pairs. Created.... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24390935/ Hypercompact genome editor CRISPR-Casɸ By Melina Fan The ...toolbox with their discovery of CRISPR-Casɸ, a hypercompact genome editor from the Biggiephage clade of ...cells. Casɸ from Biggiephage can eliminate competing mobile genetic elements. Image by Basem Al-Shayeb...the Doudna Lab. Scientists looking for more compact genome editors due to delivery constraints and ...efficiency and reduced RNA-off target footprint compared to current N-terminal linked SaCas9 ABE variants...in screens without any reduction in performance compared to larger genome-wide libraries. Find the library...
  2. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    ...increased versatility in probe attachment, and compatibility with far-red and near-infrared fluorophores....enable highly specific visualization of cellular components, typically a protein of interest. Fluorescent...ligands Effects on protein function and cellular components: It's important to assess how dye-conjugation... function and its propensity to bind cellular components. Some dyes target specific organelles like mitochondria...may prove challenging to stain intracellular compartments in in vivo model systems, so extra care must...Transfer (FRET) applications, the dyes need to have compatible excitation and emission profiles to enable effective...finding the right dye for your experiment more complicated. We hope this post helps you in your search for...
  3. CrispyCrunch: High-throughput Design and Analysis of CRISPR+HDR Experiments

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    ... a Cambrian-like explosion of software tools accompanying the CRISPR revolution. (See omictools for even... a 96-well plate and comes out of it. Biotech companies are known to have tools that do this internally...guides and primers in batch, optimized for HDR. Compared to wealth of resources for guide design, there...batch analysis because of its ease-of-use and comprehensive reports. With CrispyCrunch, you get the all ... ranking formula that does just this: Rank = (compressed CFD score) * (gaussian normalized cut-to-insert...is within the coding region, the algorithm then compares the guide sequence to every possible 23bp sequence...Francisco. Before starting his career in software, he completed a MSc in Psychology at McMaster University in ...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    ...derived from AAV9, their efficacy is generally compared to the AAV9 serotype or an engineered precursor...doesn’t lead to enhanced transgene expression, compared to AAV9, in BALB/cJ mice but is more effective..."Mouse Strain-Specific Tropism?" column. For a complete list of mice strains with LY6A-dependent tropism... by the Gradinaru lab (Deverman et al., 2016). Compared to AAV9, it effectively transduces neurons and...toward astrocytes, but its neuron transduction encompasses more molecularly-defined neuronal subtypes and...astrocytes and neurons, with greatly increased efficacy compared to AAV9 (Hanlon et al., 2019). This capsid was...brain regions, with reduced off-target expression compared to AAV9 in infant rhesus macaques. The AAV.PAL...
  5. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    ... stranded DNA breaks that commonly result in a complete loss of function while nuclease-deactivated Cas9...have several limitations. CRISPRko results in a complete loss of function meaning that if an essential ... more hits than the SAM library approach in a comparison study screening for vemurafenib resistance in...(Konermann et al., 2015). Root and Doench also compared the Calabrese library to screens performed with...that ORF and CRISPRa libraries can be used in complement to study gene function. Find the Calabrese pooled...gene function while using fewer sgRNAs. These new compact libraries will allow scientists to conduct genome-wide...transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex." Nature517.7536 (2015): 583. PubMed PMID: 25494202...
  6. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    ...neuronal function, with far fewer side effects compared to lesioning methods -  they may be the key to...camera or tracking software. Locomotion is a highly complex process on the level of individual neurons and ...different motivation (and brain areas associated) compared to an animal running to escape a threat. Locomotion...plus maze, the light-dark box is a simple device comprised of a brightly lit (risky) and a dark (protected... control group preferred staying in the dark compartment (Howerton at al. 2014). Addgene has several recombinase-expressing... passive mode, the stronger is the depressive component of the animal behavior. With the availability ...behavioral neuroscience to reveal insights into the complex relationship between genes, neurons, and behavior...
  7. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...mutations in the genome, but they’re inefficient compared to CRISPR/Cas9 edits that rely on double strand...only occur through editing by a APOBEC-Cas9n-UGI complex. So how exactly does this work? Figure 1:...editing efficiency can be easily determined by comparing cells expressing only eGFP expression to cells...DNA editing efficiency of APOBEC-Cas9 editisome complexes in real-time (St. Martin et al., 2019). To create...DNA editing efficiency of APOBEC-Cas9 editisome complexes. The eGFP reporters rely on the correction of ...frequency of genomic base pair edits of interest compared to cells segregated solely by a reporter of transfection... single base editing by APOBEC-Cas9 editosome complexes. Scientific Reports 9: . https://doi.org/10.1038...
  8. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    ...Construction of solid matrix-antibody-antigen complexes containing simian immunodeficiency virus p27 using...structures of CRBNmidi alone (A) and in a ternary complex with the multiple myeloma drug mezigdomide and ...on its own, with drug ligands, and in ternary complexes with other proteins, establishing CRBNmidi as ...matured considerably faster, with expression levels comparable to GFP during early embryogenesis (Figure 3).... through the middle of each embryo are shown, comparing GFP, wrmScarlet (mScarlet), and the new mScarlet3...Merritt D.M., Pe K., Cesar M., Hobert O. (2024) Comparative analysis of new mScarlet-based red fluorescent...than FRET-based mechanosensors (~60 kDa) and are compatible with common microscopy methods. Plus, the luminescence...
  9. Q&A With Julie Cicalese, the Newest Member of the Addgene Board of Directors

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    ... newly formed compensation committee. The compensation committee creates a compensation philosophy that...employee compensation and also serves as an objective body to oversee some of Addgene’s compensation decisions... environment.   What do you hope Addgene will accomplish in the near future? Right now it’s a matter of...
  10. SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas

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    ...the N2 gene of SARS-CoV-2. If the Cas12a-sgRNA complex binds to the target sequences, Cas12a activity ... amplified region of interest. Cas13 uses a complementary crRNA sequence to bind to the sample and upon...steps and the Cas protein used. Here, all the components needed for the reaction are mixed in a single...incubated at one temperature. Two Cas12a-crRNA complexes are designed, each binding to one strand of the... RPA primers, the Cas12a-crRNA binds to the complementary region in the target sequence and this activity... substrates for Cas13. Cas13, upon finding complementarity between the gRNA and a given fluorescently ...streptavidin coated beads. Fluorescently labelled dCas9 complexes containing sgRNA that have no mismatches bind ...
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