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  1. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    ...binding of an aptamer to its target small molecule activates the fluorescence of the small molecule. Fluorescent... metabolite binding to the riboswitch instead activates Spinach fluorescence. In the search for something...directed evolution. First, a pool of RNAs that activate the fluorescence of DFHBI were identified using... transformed, and then sorted by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) in the presence of DFHBI to...2017). Corn naturally dimerizes, and this dimer activates the fluorescence of 3,5-difluoro-4-hydroxybenzylidene-imidazolinone... quantify the effect of mTOR inhibition on the activity of RNA Polymerase III. Red and orange fluorescent...Katherine Deigan, et al. "Structural basis for activity of highly efficient RNA mimics of green fluorescent...

  2. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ...Rinehart lab synthesized the activated form of human mitogen-activated ERK activating kinase 1 (MEK1) with either...Opto-RTKs have a similar level of background activity and activation as their wild-type counterparts. The Janovjak...optogenetics guide. More optogenetics tools – light-activated receptor tyrosine kinases Receptor tyrosine kinases...engineering approach, they designed Opto-RTKs, which activate signaling cascades on exposure to low-intensity...clonogenic neural stem cells concomitant with activated DsRed2 expression. Brown et al., Genesis 2014...first-generation APEX suffered from inconsistent activity levels and limited sensitivity under the stringently...distributing his Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADD) plasmids on his own...

  3. Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools

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    ...detect PKA activity can be generalized to measure phosphatase activity, second messenger activity, and protein-protein...biosensors for live-cell imaging of biochemical activity Article contributed by Angela Holmes Jin Zhang... imaging of the dynamic changes in biochemical activity within the cell. Their Fluorescence fLuctuation...tracked protein kinase A (PKA) activity at the plasma membrane in living cells using a construct in which...different time points, the authors tracked protein activity while also capturing information about spatial...living biosensor for measuring caffeine content in samples. The Barrick lab and the UT Austin undergraduate...fluorescence intensity due to interactions with photoactivatable fluorescent protein Dronpa. The authors tracked...

  4. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...Mobile CRISPRi blog post. CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) While the activation of transcription is a more challenging...required for the activation of sigma-54 type promoters. The system was functional in activating promoters in...Jiang W, Samai P, Hochschild A, Zhang F, Marraffini LA (2013) Programmable repression and activation of bacterial...polymerase, the lab   successfully repressed or activated transcription of select genes in E. coli. Furthermore...Streptococcus thermophilus, Cas9sth1 as a robust and highly active enzyme for transcriptional silencing Mycobacterium...controlled, Tet responsive promoters to avoid leaky activation of the system. Mobile CRISPRi for Gram-negative...SoxS based CRISPRa In the search for a CRISPR activation method in E. coli, Jesse Zalatan’s lab used an...

  5. All in a Twist: dsRNA

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    ...outside of the mitochondria, the same inflammatory response can activate. These types of cellular dysregulation... nucleic acid can build up. The foreign dsRNA activates the innate immune response machinery of the host...molecules designed to degrade mRNA transcripts. RNAi activates the RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISCs), which...consequences arise. dsRNA An immune response is activated if and when dsRNA levels reach a given threshold...reach this threshold and thus do not typically activate an inflammatory response. However, if dsRNA sensors...systems can lead to local dsRNA production. In the same vein, genotoxic stress, such as chemotherapy treatment...

  6. A New Optogenetic Tool Based on AraC Controls Gene Expression with Blue Light

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    ...Di Ventura. It relies on the sugar arabinose to activate transcription by causing conformation changes ... one that represses transcription to one that activates transcription.However, this system lacks spatio-temporal...light, the VVD domains of the BLADE dimerize and activates transcription. The team created two constructs... cannot do with AraC,” says Di Ventura. BLADE activates transcription with the flick of a light switch...images, you can see just how spatially precise the activation is.   Figure 2: A bacteriograph of Michelangelo's...References Romano E, Baumschlager A, Akmeriç EB, Palanisamy N, Houmani M, Schmidt G, Öztürk MA, Ernst L, ...

  7. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    ... understand their activity and visualize the effects of alterations to this activity. Learn more about...protein-protein interactions, visualizing promoter activity, and much more. Read on to learn more about GFP...additional co-factors, substrates, or enzymatic activity – it only requires the presence of oxygen during...almost completely required to maintain fluorescent activity; very little truncation is tolerated, however,...conjuction with FACS (see below). Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS): This is a type of flow cytometry...developmental stage at which these promoters are active. Further, GFP can label transgenically modified...that of the gene of interest, or expressed from the same transcript as the gene of interest, but after an...

  8. Rett Syndrome

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    ...transcriptional repression, activity dependent de-repression, chromatin remodeling, gene activation, and more. How ...and aggressive plan to use gene editing, MECP2 reactivation, RNA editing, gene replacement therapy, RNA ...syndrome can be inherited. In females, random X inactivation results in approximately half of cells expressing...expressing mutant MECP2 . Skewing of these X inactivation ratios can affect disease severity. The MECP2...variability in symptoms even within patients with the same mutation, the location and type of MECP2 mutation...cell line repository (Link opens in a new window) Sampled - one of the world's largest biorepositories (Link...direction and degree of skewing of X-chromosome inactivation. J Med Genet . 44, 148–152. (Link opens in a...

  9. Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...characterization of two Cpf1 orthologs that display cleavage activity in mammalian cells. Like Cas9 nucleases, Cpf1 ...see if any Cpf1 nucleases would exhibit in vivo activity in mammalian cells. From 16 diverse Cpf1 candidates... et al. found two that display robust cleavage activity similar to that of Cas9. These two nucleases, ...editing efficiency of two Cpf1 orthologs known to be active in mammalian cells, LbCpf1 and AsCpf1. In both ...-base sequence. Double mismatches ablated Cpf1 activity, except when they were present in the 3’ end of... as Kleinstiver et al. saw no decrease in Cpf1 activity with 4-6 base deletions at the 3’ end of the target...found that both orthologs show lower off-target activity than that previously observed with SpCas9. Kleinstiver...

  10. Hot Plasmids September 2018 - Optogenetics, RNA Localization, Fluorescent Protein, and Base-editing Tools

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    ...and mCherry fluorescence is activated when APOBEC-Cas9n-UGI-mediated activity edits out a frame-shift mutation...this episode of Hot Plasmids! Light controls the activity of a microtubule-associated protein to regulate...quantification of base-editing and Cas9 cleavage activity Article contributed by Angela Kaczmarczyk  Listen... utility in quantifying multiple gene editing activities. Click here to find the ACE reporter plasmid...and as a consequence, EB1 protein function is inactivated by the separation of its synergistic domains....imaging with broccoli aptamers or MS2 tags using the same number of fluorophores. You can find plasmids containing...

  11. Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping

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    ...genome editing tool. However, Cas9’s endonuclease activity can be limited by the need for a specific PAM ...SpCas9, they also fused the SpCas9-NG with the activation-induced cytidine deaminase  Target-AID-NG, which...are ion channels that can be used to silence the activity of neurons. Earlier this year, the Hegemann lab...valuable optogenetics feature when studying neuronal activity. The researchers identified MerMAIDS from their... the Phillips-Cremins lab developed the light-activated-dynamic-looping (LADL) system. The group fused...SpCas9) requires an NGG PAM to recognize the target. Osamu Nureki’s lab engineered SpCas9 (SpCas9-NG) with ...

  12. Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations

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    ...roseus, but processes specific to photosynthetic active tissues cannot be studied in hairy roots, as functional...been transformed. But caution: check for GUS-like activity of your tissue. Run a control with Agrobacterium...gene since plants can have endogenous GUS-like activity (Hu et al., 1990). We commonly use pSB161 - pL2...therefore good temporal reporters to measure promoter activity, for example. Useful positive controls could include...115. Hu, Ching-yeh, et al. "Intrinsic GUS-like activities in seed plants." Plant cell reports 9.1 (1990...thanks to our guest blogger Samuel Mortensen from Northeastern University. Samuel Mortensen is a PhD candidate...This post was contributed by Samuel Mortensen, a PhD candidate at Northeastern University. Working with...

  13. RNA Extraction Without A Kit

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    ...                 Allewell NM, Sama A (1974) The effect of ammonium sulfate on the activity of ribonuclease A. Biochimica...in cells, and without something to block RNase activity upon cell lysis, RNA is degraded. To effectively...-based solutions that work by inhibiting RNase activity within cells or tissues- they don’t actually chemically... RJ, Rutter WJ (1979) Isolation of biologically active ribonucleic acid from sources enriched in ribonuclease...tissues, cells, plants, fungi, or bacteria, keep samples cold and work quickly to mitigate RNA degradation...using DEPC-treated water, autoclave the water to inactivate the DEPC.  Ensure that plasticware or glassware...180°C for at least 4 hours.   If your final RNA sample(s) are resuspended in water or TE buffer, store...

  14. What's the Best Way to Elute and Store Your Plasmid DNA?

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    ...been removed/mutated to neutralize the nuclease activity. For strains that still carry this gene, there... purification protocol to remove endonucleases activity. For these reasons choosing the correct solution...any divalent cations like Mg2+, preventing the activity of DNase. While this is very important to preserve... last step will influence the stability of your sample over time and determine which experiments you can...there are usually extra steps like heat inactivation, protein degradation, and/or the use of chelating agents... impact the time you will be able to store your sample without having substantial degradation and which... DNA, it will limit what you can do with these samples. This is because divalent cations are essential...

  15. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    ..., easily purified protein with easily measured activity, MDH is particularly amenable to in-class labs...   It is important to note that research activities in a CURE must be authentic – students should...to take ownership of their work and become more actively involved in the learning process. As trainees ...give up the control embedded in “cookbook” lab activities (follow the recipe, and you get a predetermined...using a 6XHis tag, and compared their specific activities by measuring NADH production.   CUREs are...sciences by making a greater number of students active participants in the research process – so if this...happened in the lab, and he wanted to provide the same kinds of opportunities for his students. But he ...

  16. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...Virus Constitutive  Active in dicots, less active in monocots, with some activity in animal cells. Ubi...eukaryotic cells. Some promoters are constitutively active and on all the time while others are more carefully...Typically contains a minimal promoter with low basal activity and several tetracycline operators. Transcription...Specific Requires the presence of Gal4 gene to activate promoter. Ac5 General expression mRNA Strong...work in prokaryotic cells and typically only in the same or closely related species from which they were ...can be turned on or off depending on what tet transactivator is used. UAS General expression mRNA Yeast...

  17. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    ...using stretches of DNA that were transcriptionally active in retinal cell types in mice. Figure 1:.... The lab deposited AAV plasmids containing the active promoters at Addgene. Performance of synthetic ...borrowed elements from a natural promoter that was active in the outer part of the retina.  Find the AAV ...human retinas Next, the 113 AAV promoters that were active in mouse retinas were injected into macaques and...different synthetic promoter driving expression of the same transgene: an optogenetic reporter, channelrhodopsin...in mice is not a good predictor for targeting the same cell class in NHPs (R=0.38) and humans (R=0.32),...), but the odds of that promoter targeting the same cell class in all three species are still greater ...

  18. Using Addgene's New Viral Service for Your Research

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    ...delivery of Cas9 endonuclease, Cas9 nickase, Cas9 activators, Cas9 repressors, select gRNAs, and CRISPR pooled...variety of experiments, while rtTA can be used to activate expression of a gene under the control of the ...available allowing you to chemically control neuronal activity while studying your phenotype of interest. Optogenetic...Optogenetic tools for similarly controlling neuronal activity with light will be available soon. We’re also ...titering, and testing viral preps for them. At the same time, we’re developing ourselves as a knowledge ...

  19. Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools

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    ...binding domains and the MSN2 transactivation domain. Transcription factor activation via the appropriate ligand...that TRIM21 overexpression does not aberrantly activate the proteasome. Clift et al. tested multiple methods...variety of protein modules to repress or activate gene expression, sometimes incorporating chemically inducible...binding to the appropriate promoter sequence and activation of gene expression. In addition to plasmids encoding...study epigenetic modulation. While catalytically inactive cas9 (e.g. dCas9) has been fused to a variety ...Factors Podcast Segment Researchers from the El-Samad lab recently deposited plasmids encoding synthetic...encoding these synthetic transcription factors, the El-Samad lab has deposited plasmids encoding fluorescent ...

  20. When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity

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    ...and is active over a range of elevated temperatures (37–75 °C). T4 DNA ligase is highly active in nick... applications, there cannot be any end-joining activity, and for others, there is a need for the exclusive...ligate mismatches to a significant degree, and very active ligases, such as T4 DNA Ligase, can ligate nicks...and A:C mismatches. Thermostable DNA ligases are active at elevated temperatures, allowing further discrimination...combination of the intrinsic selectivity of the ligase active site and careful balance of reaction conditions...Bruce Wallace. "Specificity of the nick-closing activity of bacteriophage T4 DNA ligase." Gene 76.2 (1989...Watson-Crick base pair, are joined with nearly the same efficiency as a correct base pair. DNA ligases have...
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