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  1. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    ... including live-cell imaging, single-molecule tracking, immunolabeling of fixed cells, Western blotting...possibilities in both cell engineering and gene therapy.  Xiaoshu X, et al. Molecular Cell. 2021. https://doi.org...well-folded scFv scaffold to improve its stability in cells, and use it in a variety of applications. This set...frankenbodies to amplify the signal.  Liu et al. Genes Cells. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/gtc.12893, Zhao et...Cas12a, creates challenges for in vivo delivery and cell engineering applications. CasMINI, a new miniature...endogenous genes. It is highly specific in mammalian cells without significant off-target effects, yet small...Anti-FLAG Frankenbodies for modular imaging of cellular targets Optimized genetic screening technique ...
  2. GCE4All: Making Genetic Code Expansion Accessible

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    ...with) the cells’ own natural translation machinery; these are often incorporated into the cells via plasmid...published, followed soon by GCE done in mammalian cells (Shandell et al., 2021).   How it works If you’...is usually added to the media for uptake by the cells. Second, you’ll need tRNAs and tRNA synthetases ...biosynthetic pathway for the ncAA integrated into the cell’s genome, instead of incorporation via plasmid or...Theoretically, if you put all these together, the cell will produce a protein with a site specifically ...techniques are straightforward, the systems – the cells growing and producing the proteins – are not, and...component of the experiment system (including media, cell type, and growth temperature) may need to be individually...
  3. CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt

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    ...through programming cells. In the context of therapeutics, if you want to program a cell to identify and ...translational activity a cell has and control how much it taxes the resources of a cell. The objective is to... to the regulatory networks within E. coli host cells. Image from Nielson and Voigt (2014). ...and target a malignant cell, then you’d need the ability to turn on genes at different times. It requires...being used. One thing is that Cas9 is toxic. When cells carry CRISPR circuitry, it can slow their growth...chemicals as sophisticated as those that living cells and animals make. That will be an outcome of genetic...within the wood. There are different types of cellulose fibers, pattern, shape. All of that is controlled...
  4. Working with Nuclear Receptors

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    ... that are diffused or actively transported from cells, traverse the body through the bloodstream, and ...corepressors depending upon a context defined by ligand, cell type, and promoter, organizing the expression of... coactivator proteins individually contribute to cell regulation in a coherent manner. Because coregulators...that coactivators may be integrators of multiple cell signaling systems. Activation of membrane receptors...sense the impact of the total environment on the cell. The NURSA Consortium Now in its third phase of ...purification proteomic profiling of coregulators in HeLa cells was the first comprehensive analysis of the interactome...executioners of transcriptional regulation. Molecular Cell 27, 691-700. (PubMed) McKenna, N. J.and O'Malley...
  5. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...Targeted Human Stem Cell Clones Detected by Whole-Genome Sequencing. Cell Stem Cell 15:27–30 . https://...protein, in order to mitigate the ability of the cell to use an alternative ATG downstream of the annotated...process, and usually involves the need for single cell cloning and subsequent screening for successful ...standard requires not one but two rounds of single cell cloning – as a control, one should revert the edit...passenger variant that came along with the single cell clone (although this is rarely done). When targeting...levels of modification. Whole-genome sequencing of cells modified by CRISPR indicates that the consequences...mutations (Veres et al., 2014). When working with single-cell clones, the authors note that “clonal heterogeneity...
  6. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ...persist over time, stem cell editing would be highly desirable. Should stem cell editing occur, the CRISPR... high percentage of muscle cells throughout the body, especially stem cells 2. Remove any immunogenicity...patient myoblasts; when injected into DMD mice, these cells expressed functional dystrophin. Editing genes in...in vivo is of course much more difficult than in cell culture, but Ran et al. have shown that CRISPR and...be delivered to both cardiac and skeletal muscle cells, where precision editing of the dystrophin gene ... the percentage of dystrophin-expressing muscle cells increases over time, and all three groups confirm...editing. Tabebordbar et al. show that muscle stem cells are modified by this approach, increasing the possibility...
  7. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...to reproduce itself as it must to survive within cells. The replicons of plasmids are generally different...’s sake, we've ignored those used in eukaryotic cells and viruses and focused only on those found in bacteria...example, the pMB1 ori maintains about 20 copies per cell, while pUC – which differs by only two mutations...mutations – will produce as many as 700 copies per cell. Figure 1: A plasmid map showing the standard ...positives? Will you have only one plasmid type in your cells at a time? Do you want to make a lot of your plasmid... stabs, or liquid cultures. Freshly transformed cells also give a higher plasmid yield that colonies streaked...bacteria have just reached stationary phase, but the cells have not started to die off. Have any questions...
  8. HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides

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    ...systems, and often do not fold properly once inside cells.  Developing the HA frankenbody To combat the issues...previously proven to fold and function in living cells. To make these scaffolds specific to different targets...the tagged protein upon probe binding in living cells.  In their proof of concept experiment the Stasevich...mCherry, 4xHA tagged histone protein (H2B) in U2OS cells. They then showed that the HA frankenbody probe ...that the HA frankenbody is effective in sensitive cells such as living neurons, and can be fused to other...remains bound to HA epitopes for minutes in living cells, meaning that scientists can track the movement ...effectively used to track single mRNA translation in U2OS cells. HA is small, only 9 amino acids, thus it is translated...
  9. Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping

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    ...plant protein TIR1 in non-plant cells, which interacts with the cells’ endogenous ubiquitin ligase, the...translate AID to yeast, as well as mammalian and human cell lines (Nishimura et al., 2009, Natsume et al., 2016...based method to tag endogenous proteins in HCT116 cells with mAID. Using this method, the lab was able to... protein of interest to create conditional human cell lines. Lastly, the Kanemaki lab demonstrated that...the target sites adjacent to an NG PAM in human cells. The increased versatility of the engineered SpCas9... just a 2-D linear molecule snaking through our cells’ nuclei--our chromatin is comprised of thousands...
  10. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...neuroscience where specific tissues, cell types, or even subcellular regions of a neuron need to be targeted...disease, neuroscientists need to be able to probe cells and circuits without disrupting normal brain function...it provides a noninvasive method for manipulating cell activity, especially neuronal firing. What is chemogenetics...drugs. Once activated, chemogenetic receptors hijack cell signaling pathways and can lead to such responses...requires successfully introducing receptors to target cells. Targeted and specific delivery becomes especially...ability of agonists to successfully reach target cells while resulting in minimal off target effects. For...can elicit different responses depending on what cell type it is expressed in. The most common target ...
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