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  1. Our Most Popular Blog Posts from 2019

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    ...fusion location, there are many choices to make. 2. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to...introduction of nucleic acids into bacteria or eukaryotic cells is a common technique in molecular biology and scientific...
  2. Antibodies 101: Fc Effector Functions

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    ...affinity and specificity. Trends in Immunology, 29(2), 91–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2007.11.004 ...animation.)  Many types of immune cells, from mast cells to B cells, express Fc receptors that bind to...) antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) c) antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (ADCP). ...opened in the pathogen’s cell membrane (Dunkelberger & Song, 2010). As cells cannot survive when holes...die.  Antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) Antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) is...(NK) cells expressing Fcγ receptors binds to IgG and release cytotoxins that kill the target cell. If ...response, by binding to Fc receptors on other immune cells. (psst! Need a quick review of the different immune...
  3. Why Add Sucrose? Improved Yields for Adeno-associated Virus Preparation

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    ...bioengineering 94.2 (2006): 322-329. PubMed PMID: 16528756. 2. Oh, Steve KW, et al. "Substantial overproduction ...at bioRxiv. AAV2 interacts with the packaging cell's cell membrane When packaging adeno-associated viral...of the packaging cells (Vandenberghe, 2010). Rather than being released into the cell culture supernatant... particles associate with the cell membrane and are taken into the cell via endocytosis. In our study,...AAV2 viral particles by our packaging cells by treating the cells with the endocytosis inhibitor sucrose...target cells is blocked following sucrose treatment. Moreover, several reports have shown that cells treated... yields approximately 1.8-fold without affecting cell viability. This effect appears to be serotype specific...
  4. A Tour of Addgene's Most Popular Pooled Libraries

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    ...knockout cells can be used to identify genes that underlie a particular phenotype. Figure 2: Schematic...single-cell level. CRISPR libraries CRISPR screening has become a popular tool for probing cellular pathways...barcodes allow researchers to identify specific cells — as well as their descendants. This makes them ... for lineage tracing, among other applications. Cells can be identified using fluorescence, like in the...pooled library. Created with BioRender.com. The CellTag libraries from the Samantha Morris lab use a combinatorial...barcoding approach to observe clonal dynamics and cell lineage. Variations of this library allow tracking...genome-wide knockout screens in mouse and human cells, respectively. Last month, the David Root and John...
  5. Easing the Protein Purification Process with pCri

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    ...PMID: 25386923. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4227841. 2. Young, Carissa L., Zachary T. Britton, and Anne S...doing some research, notably determining the subcellular localization and the number of disulfide bonds...
  6. Zebrafish as a Model for Behavior: Swimming into the Optogenetic Spotlight

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    ...light sensing proteins. Furthermore, during the first 2 weeks of life, larvae already exhibit distinct behaviors... light sensitive proteins (opsins) to manipulate cell activity, enables researchers to silence or incite...channels that allow charged particles to cross the cell membrane when exposed to light. Neuronal firing ...channel LiGluR both cause ion movement that results in cell depolarization. They therefore function as a neuron...in negative chloride ions which hyperpolarize the cell. It therefore functions as a neuron “off switch....They found that photostimulating the Kolmer-Agduhr cells was sufficient to trigger the symmetrical tail movement...forward swimming. Furthermore, only Kolmer-Agduhr cells on one side of the body required photostimulation...
  7. Understanding GPCR Signaling Using TRUPATH

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    ...dissociation by bioluminescence resonance energy transfer 2, or BRET2. With binding of the drug, the alpha and... to environmental conditions, cells must be able to detect extracellular stimuli. One way they do so is...bound to the intracellular surface of the GPCR. Binding of a ligand to the extracellular surface of the...complex converts a signal received by a GPCR on the cell’s surface into action that can result in the initiation...number of signaling cascades, inducing different cellular responses. One of the biggest advantages of such...protein transducers. To use the TRUPATH system, cells are transfected with plasmids expressing the GPCR... and the appropriate Gγ-GFP2 and Gβ constructs. Cells are then treated with the luminescent enzyme substrate...
  8. CRISPR 101: Drug discovery and CRISPR

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    ...development and therapy. Nat Rev Drug Discov (2017) 16(2):89-100. DOI: 10.1038/nrd.2016.238 Additional resources...identification of potential targets by CRISPR can accelerate the drug pipeline. High-throughput CRISPR screens...knock out, etc. – CRISPR can be used to generate cell line or animal models which have the precise disease...Since CRISPR has been adapted for use in primary cells, many tissue types, and across species, it enables... phenotype. CRISPR can also be used to generate cell line knock-ins of patient mutations which are variants...CRISPR has revolutionized the generation of knockout cell lines which has made this control step extremely...in a cancerous background and treat the parental cell line and the X knockout with your drug(s). If a ...
  9. Some Like it Hot: Thermostable GeoCas9

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    ...remained active in up to 30% plasma. Figure 2: Human plasma longevity of SpCas9 vs GeoCas9. SpCas9...mammalian cells. Harrington et al tested GeoCas9’s editing skills by transfecting HEK293 cells with GeoCas9...choice for a number of model organisms: mammalian cells, yeast, drosophila, plants, worms, zebrafish, frogs... 45 °C 50 - 70 °C Genome Editing in Mammalian Cells? Yes Yes Longevity in Serum?* No Yes Table ...experimental results. GeoCas9 RNP editing in mammalian cells Besides being able to take some heat, GeoCas9 can...
  10. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    ... gamma (IFNγ) - and eliminate cancer cells. 2. Equilibrium - In a process analogous to the development...PMID: 25818339. 2. Curiel, Tyler J., et al. "Specific recruitment of regulatory T cells in ovarian carcinoma...activity, and consists of other cell types, especially immune cells and cells of epithelial origin. Suppressing...turns off T cell function upon interaction with APCs. Furthermore, tumor cells alter their cell-surface proteome...molecules needed for T cell effector function. Cancer cells also produce programmed cell death ligand (PD-L1... activity of CTLs and NK cells. These cells would normally kill cancer cells but are directed not to through...to use whole cell therapeutics consisting of various types of immune cells. Dendritic cells (DCs) are particularly...
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