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  1. The Pleiades Promoter Project

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    ... research and therapies for brain disorders by enabling region- and cell-specific gene-delivery in the...
  2. Genetic Code Expansion

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    ...Kensaku Sakamoto 197099 pIYN3 TyrRS M. jannaschii halogenated tyrosines Bacterial TAG Kensaku Sakamoto 197100...
  3. Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability

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    ...its native state to a less folded, or denatured, one. This enables absorbing of the proteins to the microtiter...researcher and ones that happen naturally.  Sample Denaturing  First, let’s think about induced conformation...assays, such as ELISAs and Westerns, frequently denature the proteins as part of the sample prep. This ... or ELISAs may therefore often be specific to denatured versions, or even to just that particular assay...    Fig. 1: A native protein (left) is denatured, allowing the antibody to bind to a previously...you’re working with native proteins instead of denatured ones - well, don’t relax just yet. Proteins often...s configuration in your assay. Did you have a denaturing step? Do you want to capture the protein bound...
  4. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    ...through a matrix by charge. In a denaturing western, the protein is denatured to its primary structure and...to detect the presence or absence of a protein (Renart et al., 1979, Towbin et al., 1979, Burnett et al...Westerns are divided into two categories, native and denaturing. In a native western, the protein’s secondary... purpose of this blog, we will be focusing on denaturing westerns.  Separating a protein mix by size Sodium...content and normalize to ensure equivalent loading. Denature the samples to their primary amino acid sequence...its native state while a western blot detects denatured polypeptide chains. The protein regions available...–939 . https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.ra119.010472 Renart J, Reiser J, Stark GR (1979) Transfer of proteins...
  5. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    ... have leveraged such host-defense mechanisms to enable multiplex gene editing in a variety of cells and...knockout or regulations, it lacks proper functions to enable efficient base editing and has yet to be developed...gene editing. CRISPR-Cas9, the key component to enable efficient base editing and prime editing, is unable...process its own array but is the key component to enable efficient base editing and prime editing. How do...these constraints? The Gao lab first thought to enable MBE by using Cas12a fused base editors (dCas12a-BE...potentially treat polygenic diseases. This could also enable more convenient multiplex genome engineering of...editing with DAP array   Use DAP arrays can enable efficient multiplex gene editing, such as base ...
  6. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors

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    ...recent blog post. Fatima Enam: Biosensors for human milk oligosaccharides Fatima Enam is currently a graduate...Fluorescent proteins have enabled scientists to pursue creative research avenues previously unavailable...Davidson and Roger Tsien played enormous roles in enabling researchers to utilize and develop these tools...Commemorative Travel Awardees: Xin Zhou and Fatima Enam. There were many excellent applicants but Xin and...fluorescent proteins and the potential for their work to enable future discoveries. Read on to learn more about...these biosensors and her future work with HMOs will enable researchers to engineer healthier microbiomes in...
  7. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...Kamenyeva et al, 2015. Cellular trafficking studies enabled by fluorescent proteins The optimization of GFP...live-cell imaging (intravital imaging) studies it’s enabled are revealing the cellular behaviors that mediate...antigen presenting cells, but two-photon microscopy enabled scientists to see how chaotic and random the scanning...of fluorescent pathogens and fluorescent cells enables scientists to monitor cell interactions in diverse...proteins are excited by 750 nm to 760 nm laser light, enabling dual color imaging studies with blue or cyan proteins...photoactivable or photoconvertible proteins, as it enables tracking throughout the lifetime of the cell.     ...2009): 6379-6393. PubMed PMID: 19414791. 7. John, Beena, et al. "Dynamic imaging of CD8+ T cells and dendritic...
  8. Technical Design of a Western Blot

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    ... not with denaturing agents like DTT or β-mercaptoethanol.  Denaturing proteins To denature your proteins...ll need to lyse and denature them. If you are intentionally running non-denatured proteins, in what is...blot, your loading buffer will not contain any denaturing agents. However, you’ll still have to lyse your... post, we are assuming that you are running a denaturing blot.  There are a number of lysing methods and... aliquot your sample(s) before adding in your denaturing and/or loading buffers, as most Bradford assays...
  9. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    ...focused format, where all students work on malate dehydrogenase (MDH), a citric acid cycle enzyme he studied... easily measured activity, MDH is particularly amenable to in-class labs. Provost ultimately settled on... genes required for stem and progenitor cell maintenance in planarians in Developmental Biology (Kimball...complex is required for stem and progenitor cell maintenance in planarians. Developmental Biology. 457:119... of a fusion protein: Histidine tag, malate dehydrogenase, and green fluorescent protein. Biochemistry...semester-long research approach using malate dehydrogenase as a research model. Biochemistry and Molecular...
  10. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    ..., which are sets of genes that, when expressed, enable cells to be visualized under ultrasound imaging...cells The first-generation mammalian ARGs (mARGs) enabled ultrasound visualization of in situ mammalian gene...scattering. The best candidate for this was the Anabaena flos-aquae gas vesicle gene cluster because of... increase expression. We were able to express Anabaena GVs in mammalian cells without the shell stiffening...nonlinear ultrasound contrast. It turned out that Anabaena mARGs did not require a booster cassette, either...regular intraperitoneal doxycycline injections to enable their tracking with ultrasound imaging (Fig. 2d...
  11. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ...oncology has benefited most as cancer cells are amenable to culture in vitro. Virologists too have benefited...would seem to save time and money but cells lose provenance (this is the history of the cell line consisting...Expression Attenuates Proliferation and Invasion in Renal Cancer Cells, Marker-independent identification ... Public Domain. The basics of good cell line maintenance The key is good recordkeeping, you need to have...journals strictly require evidence of cell line provenance and identity. The Nature Publishing Group recently... cell line maintenance...
  12. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    ...Sciences 113.13 (2016): 3509-3514. Tikhonova, Elena B., et al. "A transcription blocker isolated from... E. coli, and biosensors in E. coli: Čelešnik, Helena, et al. "Biosafety of biotechnologically important... George M. Church. "Genetically encoded sensors enable real-time observation of metabolite production....pCell-Free vectors, Gateway-compatible backbones that enable cell-free expression of proteins in both prokaryotic... a set of 88 clones in a pCellFree vector that enables protein expression in any in vitro translation ...encoded in this set range in size from 4 to 156 kDa, enabling the user to characterise the efficiency of their...
  13. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ... read our blog post,Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries Enable Genome-Scale, Knockout Screening. Also, check out...the subsequent biochemical characterization, has enabled scientists to engineer a wide variety of GFPs with...Timer protein life due to a form of oxidation (dehydrogenation). MitoTimers are composed of a Timer protein...channelrhodopsins, Chronos and Chrimson, which have enabled the group to perform independent two-color optical...capability to turn RUSH and CRUSH alleles off or on enables this method to rapidly address questions of tissue-specificity...peroxidase) reporter from Alice Ting’s lab has enabled progress on both fronts – as a genetic electron...Clonetegration Classic genetic engineering methods enabling chromosomal integration of sequences in bacteria...
  14. X-CHIME: Context Dependent Germline Knockout in Immune Cells

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    ...changes one gene at a time. CRISPR-based systems enable gene knockout in immune cells in a high-throughput...developed CHIME (CHimeric IMmune Editing system) to enable the constitutive, ubiquitous knockout of single...would be quite useful for interrogating these scenarios. X-CHIME We recently developed and deposited four... four new systems to fill this gap. To enable context-specific knockouts, we developed X-CHIME, a suite...Doench, J. G., & Sharpe, A. H. (2024). X-CHIME enables combinatorial, inducible, lineage-specific and ...
  15. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...amplifies the intensity of fluorescence signal and enables tracking of single molecules within living cells...transcriptional activation domains. This system enabled the specific recruitment of multiple copies of ...peptide with the light-sensitive LOV2 domain of Avena Sativa phototropin 1 (AsLOV2). In the dark, this...screened plasmids contain a gene variant* and is amenable to both high and low throughput screening applications...recently developed a CRISPR-based multicolor tool enabling the imaging of multiple endogenous genomic loci...re-assigned stop codon (TAG). This polyspecificity enables the site-specific introduction of many different...pCell-Free vectors, Gateway-compatible backbones which enable cell-free expression of proteins in both prokaryotic...
  16. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    ...Throughout their history, fluorescent dyes have enabled the visualization of both organic tissues and cell...of the characteristics of these fluorophores to enable highly specific visualization of cellular components...495/517 nm. FITC binds to an amine on a protein, enabling the labeling of protein substrates/peptides and...impacted by several factors. Firstly, brighter dyes enable detection of finer details by improving signal-...STORM). These dyes have specific properties that enable resolution beyond the diffraction limit of light... compatible excitation and emission profiles to enable effective energy transfer, which is key to observing...
  17. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    ... "black box" provided by the manufacturers and enables customized experiments. Projects such as the OpenFlexure...Raspberry Pi, the Arduino, or 3D printers are key to enabling this work. Sharing open-source plans that rely.... These newly developed techniques are the key enablers for making assemblies open-source. The sharing... to accelerate scientific progress, but also to enable science in parts of the world that are otherwise... PhD from the Heintzmann Lab at the Leibniz IPHT Jena. He is co-founder of the open-hardware startup “...
  18. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    ...Zhang lab for GeCKO, a lentiviral CRISPR library enabling genome-scale, knockout screening). As the Zhang...pooled CRISPR libraries, also available at Addgene, enabling systematic investigation of the cellular consequences...with minimal off-target effects. The system also enabled them to turn on genes anywhere in the genome for... now. They are also developing sgRNAs that will enable even more fine-tuning of gene expression levels...Brigham MD, Trevino AE, Joung J, Abudayyeh OO, Barcena C, Hsu PD, Habib N, Gootenberg JS, Nishimasu H,...
  19. To Each HIS Own

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    ...disrupted by denaturants (Hochuli, 1988). In some cases, proteins can be bound under denaturing conditions...gradual removal of the denaturant. Not all proteins will refold once denatured, however, so take care ...neither placement works, consider purifying under denaturing conditions. Unlike other affinity purification...
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