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  1. Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards

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    ... The Association for Creatine Deficiencies: Compensating for SLC6A8 mutations in Creatine Transporter...channels typically expressed on other cell types can compensate for or bypass the dysfunction of another solute...cells to identify any solute channels that can compensate for the defect caused by SLC6A8 deficiency. “...where one of the X chromosomes is partially or completely missing in women. Bicuspid aortic valve (an aortic...with an emphasis on oligomerization, signalling complex assembly, and localization to the nucleus,” says...at McGill University.  These protein-receptor complexes consist of many parts that work together on the...gene, which codes for G𝛃1 subunits of G protein complexes, lead to a rare type of developmental delay, and...
  2. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins

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    ...minutes of inactivating the CASANOVA complex, fluorescent CRISPR complexes were observed binding telomeric ...using blue light (Bubeck et al., 2018). They accomplished this by inserting a photo-sensitive LOV2 domain...indicator podcast segment The neurons in the brain compute using electrical impulses to coordinate emotions...sensitivity, responds quickly, is photostable, and is compatible with optogenetic control. The researchers also... the “2in1” vector cloning system - a Gateway compatible approach to simultaneously clone two genes-of-interest...2015) or ratiometric Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (rBiFC, Grefen and Blatt, 2012). The 2in1 Plasmid...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    ...cells, and animals. Some of these viruses are completely inert, but others can cause diseases. Nervous...One such control is dividing up the essential components of a virus into different plasmids. For a retroviral... are not encoded in the transfer plasmid, the component that physically integrates into the host genome...genome, the virus is replication incompetent, meaning it can’t replicate and continue the infection cycle... Figure 1: Separation of retroviral packaging components onto distinct plasmids for safety.    Viral...Viral cargo-specific safety   After replication competency, the second concern with virus safety is the ...materials, you’ll need to use aerosol-tight caps, compatible with your centrifugation speed, to cover the ...
  4. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    ... SCF E3 ubiquitin ligase complex. In the presence of auxin, this TIR1 complex binds to the degron sequence...depiction of chromatin within a nucleus -> DNA compaction around histones -> Examples of histone-modifying...included for visualization purposes, but the key component of the editing assemblies are sensor-actuators...The tool-kit consists of highly useful vectors compatible with Gibson and Saptrap cloning systems to generate...Resources page.  Plasmids for delivering CRISPRi components by a single AAV vector are now available from... developed by Taekjip Ha’s lab where Cas9-gRNA complex binds the target DNA without cleavage until it'...
  5. 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...
  6. 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 ...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
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