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TypeBlog Post...studying chemical engineering. Mengtong "Tom" Duan is a PhD student studying bioengineering. They are both...smaller genetic footprint, and nonlinear acoustic scattering. The best candidate for this was the Anabaena...was sufficient to saturate expression. When engineering a cell line, cotransfect the mARG cassettes 2...acoustic reporter genes for real-time in vivo monitoring of tumors and tumor-homing bacteria. Nat Biotechnol...
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CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)
TypeBlog Post...pyogenes (SpCas9), is truly an exceptional genome engineering tool. It is easy to use, functional in most species... cell stress, and RNA size distribution. When comparing LwaCas13a to shRNA, they found that LwaCas13a ...vivo RNA imaging. In short, the Cas13a molecule brings a much anticipated element of diversity to the ... the CRISPR field. We feel that the culture of sharing within the CRISPR community is an essential part...scientific community. Note: Cary Valley and Mary Gearing contributed to the update of this post. References... -
Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)
TypeBlog Post...unfamiliar, scFvs are often the building blocks for engineering proteins. So let’s get acquainted with scFvs....CD3 on T cells and a tumor-specific antigen, it brings T cells to a tumor site. ScFvs can also be fused...viral vectors like AAV, which could be useful for delivering scFvs that inhibit HIV. References and Resources...Bruccoleri RE, Haber E, Crea R (1988) Protein engineering of antibody binding sites: recovery of specific...more about antibodies Read about another reagent sharing platform for antibodies, the Developmental Studies... -
The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
TypeBlog Post...proven useful in the engineering of riboswitches. Riboswitches are naturally occurring regions in the 5’ ...into the content of Addgene’s aptamer soup by exploring the development and applications of fluorescent...Warner et al., 2014); its length reduces artefacts during live cell imaging. Bunch of baby spinach, or BoBS...transcribed by RNA Polymerase III (5S, tRNA and U6) and measuring Corn fluorescence by flow cytometry, the Jaffrey... -
Plasmids 101: Biotinylation
TypeBlog Post...also ideal for signal amplification during these experiments. During detection, a biotinylated reporter... biotin. Thus something in the egg white was sequestering biotin from being absorbed. In 1940 Esmond E...can be added to either terminus of a DNA sequence during a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) by using a biotinylated.... Biotin can also be enzymatically incorporated during PCR using a biotin labelled dUTP. There are multiple... -
Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis
TypeBlog Post...then used to measure the frequency of each variant during the selection process. Each variant is assigned...of MnCl2. Disadvantages of this method include favoring of certain types of mutations, difficulty controlling...then both strands of the plasmid will be nicked during the first BbvCI digest and the whole plasmid will...direction, both strands of the plasmid will be nicked during the first BbvCI digest and the whole plasmid will...Douglas M., Jason J. Stephany, and Stanley Fields. “Measuring the Activity of Protein Variants on a Large Scale... -
Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene
TypeBlog Post... nonprofit institution, you can order plasmids covering a wide range of fields from Addgene. What you ...4740. You can find more info on pCri in Mary Gearing’s blog post on the system Easing the Protein Purification...Seq kit has been used in microbiology studies monitoring sequence dynamics under various selective pressures... can lead to surprisingly large fitness effects during adaptive evolution of antibiotic resistance." Proceedings...2016): 895-899. Choudhury, Rajarshi, et al. "Engineering RNA endonucleases with customized sequence specificities... -
Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation
TypeBlog Post...post-translational modifications, identifies a staggering ~250,000 phosphorylation events in the proteomes... led to the eventual discovery of a naturally occurring phosphoserine-tRNA synthetase that serves as an...elongation factor that accepts Sep-charged tRNAs during translation. Many ‘flavors’ of Sep-OTS plasmids...pSer-containing GFP that can be used as a positive control during optimization experiments. This version of GFP will...dephosphorylate the pSer-incorporated protein, ideally bringing the phenotype assayed closer to that of the wild... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
TypeBlog Post... require anaerobic conditions. In experiments requiring anaerobic conditions, proteins that bind endogenous...bilirubin (Kumagai, 2013). Next to these naturally occurring co-factor binding proteins, systems wherein a ...proteins can be accurately determined in vitro by measuring the fluorescence intensity of purified protein...usually dim relative to fluorescent probes, recent engineering efforts have increased the brightness of these..., Marieke, et al. "A FRET-based biosensor for measuring Gα13 activation in single cells." PloS one 13.3... -
Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping
TypeBlog Post...Proximity labelling relies on the labelling of neighboring proteins within a cell with biotin. Biotin, is...promiscuous biotin ligase that can efficiently label neighboring proteins The first biotin based proximity labelling...from the ligase and bind to exposed lysines on neighboring proteins. Thus to capture protein complexes, ...electron-rich amino acids such as tyrosine on neighboring proteins resulting in their biotinylation. The...The advantage of APEX is its speed, labeling neighboring proteins in minutes rather than hours like BioID...