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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...Anti-FLAG Frankenbodies for modular imaging of cellular targets Optimized genetic screening technique ...Anti-FLAG Frankenbodies for modular imaging of cellular targets by: Mike Lacy Adding to their set of anti-HA...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...
  2. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    ...dodge cellular variation observed in mammalian cells is to tag an endogenous gene. By imaging cells (or ...mammalian cells within the dish. This is caused by the stochastic nature of plasmid uptake by cells. To correct...intended application. The three key properties for live cell imaging that will be treated in this series of posts...Determining practical brightness When a dish of mammalian cells is transiently transfected with a plasmid containing...allows for a precise determination of brightness in cells, under realistic experimental conditions. By determining...al (2017) and Heppert et al (2016). In mammalian cells this would be possible with CRISPR/Cas-based genome...efficiency of the fluorescent protein in the host cell, which is a key determinant of the practical brightness...
  3. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    ...). The Heroes of CRISPR. Cell, 164(1), 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.041  Musunuru, K....birth. Within a seven-month whirlwind of developing cell and mouse model systems, testing base editing variants...reporting genome editing by CRISPR in mammalian cells appeared in 2013 (Cong et al., 2013; reviewed in... The first ABE was about 50% efficient in human cells on average, but its effectiveness varied depending... the chromosomal location, sequence context, and cell type. Multiple labs worked to improve its effectiveness...would be tested for their base-editing efficacy in cellular models of KJ’s CPS1 mutation. Every genetic target...base editors that could target KJ’s mutation in cellular models tested both the SpG and SpRY variants of...
  4. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    ...human T cells and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC)s to ~40% expression in the K562 cell line...gene to airway epithelial cells in mice. This vector transduced ~10% of cells, similar to the transduction...Using AAV Donor Vectors. Cell Reports 20:750–756 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.06.064  Carvalho... then independently packaged into an AAV. When a cell is co-infected with both part A and part B AAVs,... always.  The combination of serotype and tissue/cell type could have a big impact on the rate of transgene...since both of these variables influence whether cells will be co-transduced with multiple copies of both... followed by the 3’-end of the transgene. When a cell is transduced by both viruses, if the AAV genomes...
  5. 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...
  6. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ...that it appears “newly synthesized” to the cell. Thus, the cell repairs the DNA using the U-containing strand..., which may lead to cell death rather than NHEJ repair, thus removing these cells from the edited population...target modification in primary T cells, making them a promising tool for cell therapy applications. Dual base...relatively low frequency, especially in nondividing cells. Scientists everywhere wistfully imagined being ... and DNA repair. Black arrows indicate natural cellular processes. BER = base excision repair. Note: hypoxanthine...editing efficiency, Komor and team wanted to force the cell to use the deaminated DNA strand as a template. ...frequency to above 30% for a variety of targets in human cell lines, with an average indel frequency of only 1.1%...
  7. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability

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    ...intensity evolves over time in living cells at a power used for live-cell imaging. To conclude, the most photostable...molecule will photobleach at some point. For live-cell imaging, it is desirable to have fluorescent proteins...experiment. The best fluorescent proteins for live cell imaging can be excited many times, thereby producing...these factors, environmental conditions such as cellular redox state and oxygen concentration may affect...protein is a key requirement for quantitative live-cell imaging, it is important to be able to quantify ...it is advisable to perform time-lapse imaging of cells producing the fluorescent protein of interest under...natural situation. Measuring photostability in living cells provides a much more realistic view of photostability...
  8. Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening

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    ...genes essential for West-Nile-virus-induced cell death." Cell reports 12.4 (2015): 673-683. PubMed PMID:... (and multiple) genetic perturbations in single cells. Methods to scale up multiplexed CRISPR systems ... build and constantly improve gRNA libraries, excellent resources with effective gRNAs are publicly available...perturbations and applications in functional genomics, cell reprogramming, and beyond. For further details, ...CRISPR-mediated control of gene repression and activation." Cell 159.3 (2014): 647-661. PubMed PMID: 25307932. PubMed...Genes and Genotype-Specific Cancer Liabilities." Cell 163.6 (2015): 1515-1526. PubMed PMID: 26627737. ...Genome-wide recessive genetic screening in mammalian cells with a lentiviral CRISPR-guide RNA library." Nature...
  9. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...mammalian cells. Co-expression markers EGFP and PuroR enable sorting and selection of transduced cells. Grant...in the Mammalian Genome. Cell 167:233–247.e17 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.056 Find plasmids...targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discovery 2: . https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9 Find plasmids from...the epigenome may make certain processes, like cellular reprogramming of iPSCs, more efficient. In general...for targeted cytosine demethylation in mammalian cells. This plasmid is used with pcDNA3.1-MS2-Tet1-CD ...vectors and targeted delivery into hard-to-manipulate cell types. They have also fused LSD1 to x-Cas9(3.7)....modifiers may be more frequently inherited by daughter cells. For example, KRAB induced silencing was transient...
  10. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ... require minimal cellular perturbation. Also, this method requires live, intact cells; the sequencing ...Synthetic recombinase-based state machines in living cells” (1), into a more straight-forward, concise explanation...mutations, and environmental conditions drive certain cellular behaviors, but little is known about the order... may be used to better understand and engineer cellular processes that are influenced by temporally ordered... our paper (1), we allowed individual bacterial cells to form colonies on a plate and then we performed..., but more population-wide (as opposed to single-cell) approach is to interrogate state with qPCR. The...cytometry. However, expressing reporters will consume cellular resources and therefore this state read-out method...
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