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  1. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    ...Epitopes are between 5-8 amino acids long, with a typical length of 5 or 6 amino acids (Cruse et al., 2004...Antibodies may recognize a linearized sequence of amino acids, or only in their 3D conformation. Types of...and sensitivity, for example by changing certain amino acids to improve its stability. Additionally, the...
  2. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    ... is the nucleobase component of the nucleoside inosine. Created with BioRender.com. Although it was...To avoid confusion, we usually use different terminology when discussing base editors, like calling it...capable of chemically converting adenosine (A) to inosine (I, treated as G by the cell). Surprisingly, the...and Resources Glossary We introduced a lot of terminology in this post! Here’s a quick refresher if you...
  3. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...construct, you clone all but one of your gRNAs into spectinomycin-resistant plasmids pX330S-2 to pX330S-(last ...systems use the Csy4 RNA nuclease from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. When overexpressed, Csy4 efficiently cleaves...and Cas9, which are separately inducible by L-arabinose and anhydrotetracycline (aTet), respectively. ...Addgene. 8. Xie, Kabin, Minkenberg, Bastian, & Yinong Yang. “Boosting CRISPR/Cas9 multiplex editing capability...
  4. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    ... from donors. Apart from fibroblasts, human keratinocytes from hair pluck, peripheral blood cells, and...Chondrocytes [27]         Adipocytes [28] Keratinocytes [29] Photoreceptors [30] Otic hair cells [...of induced pluripotent stem cells from human keratinocytes. Nat Biotechnol, 2008. 26(11): p. 1276-84. PubMed... human induced pluripotent stem cells into a keratinocyte lineage. Methods Mol Biol, 2014. 1195: p. 1-...
  5. Designer PUF Proteins for Any RNA Target

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    ...domain is interesting because by changing certain amino acids you can change the specificity,” explained...explained Zhanar Abil of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The PUF proteins include eight modular...consecutive base in its RNA target. By changing amino acids, it’s possible to produce a protein that binds...
  6. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...and Cas9, which are separately inducible by L-arabinose and anhydrotetracycline (aTet), respectively. ...enzyme cloning. Streptomyces bacteria are more recombinogenic than E. coli, so this system functions more...effectively able to introduce point mutations in P. aeruginosa, Pseudomonas putida, Pseudomonas fluorescens,.../10.1038/s41467-019-11479-0 Peters JM, Koo B-M, Patino R, Heussler GE, Hearne CC, Qu J, Inclan YF, Hawkins...
  7. History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution

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    ...technology? Let us know.  References Ishino Y, Hideo, S, Makino K, Mitsuko A, Nakata A. J Bacteriol. ...the Type I-F CRISPR/Cas system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (6). However, these genes only deactivate the...
  8. Intro to Our Summer SciComm Series!

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    ...at all levels.      Jargon is field-specific terminology or language. This can refer both to terms that...that are only used in the field and terminology that is widely used but has a very specific use-case (definition... your career as a scientist underrepresented minorities in your local high school who are also students...
  9. Predicting Adverse Reactions to Monoclonal Antibody Drugs

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    ... the prediction of T cell epitopes based on the amino acid sequence of the antibody.  NetMHCPan is one...adverse reactions to drugs: adverse reaction terminology. WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug...Immunogenicity Assessment for Sequences Containing Unnatural Amino Acids: A Method Using Existing in silico Algorithm...
  10. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    ...orthologs from Eubacterium siraeum (EsCas13d) and Ruminococcus sp. (RspCas13d), while Konermann et al. characterized...Anaerobic digester metagenome” (AdmCas13d) and Ruminococcus flavefaciens (nicknamed CasRx), as well as EsCas13d...with WYL domains (named for the three conserved amino acids in the domain). Yan et al. from Arbor Biotechnologies...
  11. Plasmids 101: Inducible Promoters

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    ...used for bacterial protein purification. When arabinose is absent, regulatory protein AraC binds O and...pBad, blocking transcription. The addition of arabinose causes AraC to bind I1 and I2 sites, allowing ...allowing transcription to begin. In addition to arabinose, cAMP complexed with cAMP activator protein (CAP) can...
  12. To Each HIS Own

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    ...complex mix using affinity chromatography against an amino acid sequence, or tag, on the protein. While a variety...proteins. Despite being a relatively low frequency amino acid, proteins containing two or more adjacent histidines... The polyhistidine tag is a string of histidine amino acids on the N- or C- terminus of a protein. Neither...
  13. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    ...systems such as Cascade-Cas3, Cas9, Cas12, and Cas13 (Marino et al., 2020). Some Acr proteins are specific to...tissues The small size of Acr proteins (~50-200 amino acids) means they can be delivered in vivo using...401 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtm.2018.04.008 Marino ND, Pinilla-Redondo R, Csörgő B, Bondy-Denomy J...
  14. KLF Research Plasmids

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    ... metabolism, fibrosis, atherosclerosis, and carcinogenesis. The defining feature of the KLF family is ...
  15. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ...reach zooxanthellae, the coral’s symbiotic dinoflagellates that are photosynthetic (Salih et al., 2000...luminescence, which require UV lamps, fluorometers, or luminometers, chromoprotein detection can be done by the ... the chromoprotein Ultramarine with hydrophilic amino acids to reduce non-specific interactions with cytosolic...
  16. Of Myc and Men

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    ...highly specific antibody to the C-terminal five amino acids, meaning the tag could be quite small. However... the epitope recognized by Myc1-9E10 down to 10 amino acids (EQKLISEEDL) - larger than the substance P... et al., who published a paper showing that the amino acids neighboring the Myc epitope influence 9E10...
  17. Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School

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    ... Museum of Indianapolis. I drove passed these dinosaurs every day. They made me happy. Grad school can...made me happy. I started volunteering in the “Dinosphere” almost every week. I gained experience explaining...visitors of all ages, learned a lot about the dinosaurs, and met wonderful people. When I started volunteering...
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