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  1. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    ...to reduce basal expression levels; expression vector cannot have p15A origin of replication F- ompT lon...) pLysE has higher T7 lysozyme expression than pLysS; expression vector cannot have p15A origin of replication...Rhamnose-tunable T7 RNAP expression alleviates inclusion body formation. Expression vector cannot have p15A origin...for recombinant protein expression. Many challenges can arise when over-expressing a foreign protein in ...to avoid them. Why do I need an expression strain? Protein expression from high-copy number plasmids and...Addgene's curated list of Bacterial Expression Systems Table 1: E. coli expression strains  Note: All strains ...General protein expression BL21 (DE3) pLysS* Chloramphenicol (pLysS) pLysS expresses T7 lysozyme to ...
  2. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - December 2019

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    ...pAAV.hSynapsin.SF-iGluSnFR.A184S Viral vectors coming soon! These vectors should be packaged and available ... of our viral vectors blog posts Find tips for preparing AAVs Download our viral vectors 101 eBook Resources...new tools to our inventory of ready-to-use viral vectors. Here are some of the AAV we have released in the...pAAV-hSyn Con/Fon hChR2(H134R)-EYFP that is both Cre and Flp dependent. Plasmid Serotype Name 124603...only interpret their results, but also confirm expression in target cells. While the various AAV serotypes... can be used to achieve different patterns of expression, researchers often need to determine these transduction...under control of the CAG promoter for ubiquitous expression. (For more details on this technology, see our...
  3. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ...Yeast Expression Vectors Find Bacterial Two Hybrid Plasmids Read our Blog Post About Yeast Vectors Read...activation. Vary the expression levels of bait and prey proteins - overexpression can lead to false interactions...interactions. Lowered expression levels will increase the stringency of your binding. And most importantly...ends’ of your protein are screened for binding. Using a variety of expression levels and systems can alleviate...produce a more vigourous screen is to use a number of different bait and prey vectors. This has been shown...During this period, proteins were successfully expressed as fusions that retain their individual activities...see Figure 2a) (4). These fusions are then co-expressed in a yeast strain that also contains a reporter...
  4. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ...that have excised the vector backbone. Vectors pTOX4, pTOX5, and pTOX6 express the YhaV, MqsR, and Tse2...excision of the vector backbone. To do this, rhamnose is added which induces expression of the toxin. Any...encode the amilCP chromoprotein. Vectors pTOX7, pTOX8, and pTOX9 express the YhaV, MqsR, and Tse2 toxins...chromoproteins to create negative selection markers for allelic exchange. These vectors contain a toxin ...gfasPurple) (Figure 2). Figure 2: Chromoprotein expression from bacteria on agar plate. Image: Liljeruhm...intensities, maturation times, and fitness cost of expression. They found that the cellular fitness cost varied...lost color overnight in liquid culture, though expressing the chromoproteins from the chromosome could ...
  5. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    ...selectable markers that are only expressed when the targeting vector is inserted downstream of a functional...them sequentially into the chosen acceptor vector. The vectors are then packaged into AAV virions via transient...Check out our Viral Service Find AAV Vectors Browse all Viral Vectors ...fantastic gene delivery vehicles for episomal gene expression and are particularly useful for gene delivery...well understood, researchers have been using AAV vectors for gene editing in mammalian cells since 1998....when delivered via AAV infection, gene targeting vectors with relatively short (1 kb) homology arms underwent...orders of magnitude higher than identical targeting vectors delivered through transfection of naked DNA. Other...
  6. Using Addgene's New Viral Service for Your Research

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    ...Expanding the viral vector knowledge base: You can help! We’ve been expanding our viral vector educational resources...Beginners Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview AAV: A Versatile Tool for Gene Expression in Mammals Additional...gene, replace it, modulate its expression, or perform a genome-wide screen, we’ve got viruses to help you...spending time and money producing virus from select vectors in the repository yourself, you can now order ready-to-use... production process while still ordering viral vectors. Virus production can be a frustrating process ...Lentivirus As some of the most popular lentiviral vectors in the repository are used to produce CRISPR tools...experiments, while rtTA can be used to activate expression of a gene under the control of the tet operator...
  7. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    ...yeast expression, worm expression, insect expression, plant expression, mouse targeting, CRISPR, TALEN,...mammalian expression, bacterial expression, lentiviral, retroviral, AAV, RNAi, luciferase, cre/lox, yeast...biosensor affinity for calcium.”  Primary Vector Type The vector type should describe how your plasmid ...indicate type in “Vector Type Other” column. For example, you may enter “donor template vector”. Cloning...plasmids containing the ccdB gene, such as Gateway vectors, choose the ccdB Survival strain. For plasmids ...and Organization where your plasmids were first created. From there, we’ll use the information in the ...
  8. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    ...easier to clone, express, and purify compared to antibodies. Nanobodies are easily expressed in the cytosol...#140702) The pMAK461-64 plasmids were expressed in SHuffle T7 Express competent E.coli (NEB) using IPTG induction...approaches rely on continual expression of both dCas9 and the gRNA. This expression can vary significantly ...fluorescently labeled piggyBac vectors for uniform and sustained expression of single or multiplexed gRNAs...and track cells expressing both dCas9 and gRNAs. The multi-gRNA piggyBac vector integrates into ...First, the authors created the pMAK backbone by modifying pMAL-T-Avi-His/BirA, a vector commonly used for... the mCitrine gene. mCherry is constitutively expressed. Cells are then cultured and FACS sorted. Image...
  9. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ...counterselection vector is the pDS132 sacB-based allelic exchange vector. This vector contains sacB, an...Tight control of toxin expression is absolutely necessary, because leaky expression of toxin could select... interfering with expression of surrounding genes. However, there are ways to create scarless mutations...recombineering (Khetrapal et al., 2015). They created vectors for Lambda Red that contained one of eight ...introduce a mutation in the chromosome is to disrupt expression of a gene with an antibiotic resistance cassette...selecting for an antibiotic resistance marker from the vector (abR, Figure 1). The resolution step (“double crossover...leads to the desired mutation and excision of the vector backbone. This step requires “counter-selection...
  10. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    ...Vital component for expression vectors: determines which cell types the gene is expressed in and amount of... referred to as “vectors” or “constructs.” To insert a gene of interest into a vector, scientists may ...plasmid with its elements described below.   Vector Element Description Origin of Replication (ORI...sites allowing for the easy insertion of DNA. In expression plasmids, the MCS is often downstream from a ...Regardless, once the cloning steps are complete, the vector containing the newly inserted gene is transformed...Generally, scientists use plasmids to manipulate gene expression in target cells. Characteristics such as flexibility...common plasmid types include cloning plasmids, expression plasmids, gene knock-down plasmids, reporter ...
  11. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    ...plasmids and expressed via cells cultured with the vectors. This allows the viral vectors to reproduce...Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools Viral Vectors 101:...able to create far safer viral vectors that can be used in BSL-1 or BSL-2 labs. Viral vectors are viruses..., just to increase the viral vector’s carrying capacity. In order to allow the viral vectors to reproduce...of Viral Vectors 101 posts about each type, so be sure to check our blog, or our Viral Vectors 101 eBook...As a bonus, this increases the carrying capacity of the viral vector, increasing both safety and usefulness...removed. This means the vector can deliver a genetic payload to a cell but cannot create new particles. As ...
  12. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    ...About Viral Vector Elements Learn How to Do Genome-Wide Screens with CRISPR Lentiviral Vectors Additional...often employed to establish cell lines that stably express a gene of interest. While the general approach ...quiescent cells do not take up nucleic acid or express transgenes as well as actively dividing cells resulting...compete with host cells for nutrients and can alter expression of receptors, ion channels, and growth factors...on a variety of factors such as the transgene expressed, the viral storage buffers used, and other experimental... by the envelop protein. Many times lentiviral vectors are engineered with non-native envelopes, a process...will be able to overcome differences in receptor expression. It's all in the mix Even before the lentiviral...
  13. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    ...Cas9. Adenoviral CRISPR vectors (left) or CRISPR vectors and donor DNA vectors (right) are transduced ...need to use a two viral vectors system: one vector for Cas9/sgRNA and one vector for your specific DNA ...gRNA and Cas9 using adenoviral vectors As compared to other viral vectors, AdVs can provide a large transgene...than AAV vectors. This capacity is large enough to carry the Cas9 gene and a gRNA expression cassette ...adenoviral vectors Since then, other groups have successfully developed and used AdV vectors to edit genes...to labs wishing to create this kind of animal models. Start using adenoviral vectors with your CRISPR/Cas9...updated Dec 10, 2020 by Benoit Giquel.   Adenoviral vectors (AdVs) have been used for many years for in vivo...
  14. Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids

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    ...be used to create recombinant vectors that can replicate in different bacteria and express proteins within... S. (2011). Broad-host-range plasmid vectors for gene expression in bacteria. Methods in Molecular Biology...Gill, R. T. (2010). Broad-host-range vectors for protein expression across gram negative hosts. Biotechnology...Cloning Vectors for Gram-Negative Bacteria. In R. L. Rodriguez & D. T. Denhardt (Eds.), Vectors (pp. 287...in nature can inform us on how to create better recombinant vectors. In this blog post, we’ll define plasmid...can harness those features to create broad host range recombinant vectors.  A plasmid’s host range is ...range replicons, recombinant vectors can be modified further to increase the range of hosts in which proteins...
  15. Adenoviral Vector Production and Troubleshooting

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    ...method for creating adenoviral vector constructs. It consists of 2 plasmids: a shuttle vector (in which...Adenoviral vectors (AdV) are attractive vectors for research applications and gene therapy: they can ...Three generations of adenoviral vectors: the first generation vectors are deficient in the E1 and E3 regions... second generation vectors are deficient in E1, E2, E3, and E4. Gutless Ad vectors (helper-dependent (...therapy due their increased cloning capacity (up to 36 kb!), long-term transgene expression and negligible...death of transduced cells and loss of transgene expression (Interestingly, the strong immunogenicity of ...Adenovirus type 5. Three generations of adenoviral vectors The adenovirus virion is a non-enveloped particle...
  16. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    ...System Application Mammalian expression vector Promoter driving Cas9 expression can be constitutive or inducible...electroporation. Transient expression of CRISPR components, expression decreases as RNA is degraded within...cationic lipids. Transient expression of CRISPR components, expression decreases as gRNA and Cas9 protein...included with each expression system as well as suitable applications. Expression System Components ... in a single lentiviral transfer vector or separate transfer vectors. May contain reporter gene (e.g. ... AAV transfer vector and used to generate AAV particles. Transient or stable expression of SaCas9 and/...repress gene expression? Are you trying to create a single point mutation? Do you want to create a fusion ...
  17. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    ...target cells that are positive for vector encoded transgene expression following transduction with serial...target cell line with your virus and assaying for expression of a gene carried on the transfer plasmid or ...primers that target the common features of viral vector backbones; once validated these universal primers...higher than for functional assays depending on the vector backbone. When using qPCR based methods for viral...plasmid which can over-inflate results. A packing vector deficient in reverse transcriptase will produce... prep. This method is particularly useful when vectors carrying fluorescent markers are used as it eliminates...addition, promoter choice can also impact transgene expression. The most accurate method of lentiviral titration...
  18. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...Description Expression Additional considerations CMV General expression mRNA Strong mammalian expression promoter...lower expression than U6. May have better expression in neuronal cells. U6 small RNA expression shRNA...promoter with somewhat weak expression. lacIq mutation increases expression of the repressor 10x, thus ...some cell types. EF1a General expression mRNA Strong mammalian expression from human elongation factor ...give consistent expression regardless of cell type or physiology. SV40 General expression mRNA Mammalian...  Commonly used in expression systems for Drosophila. Polyhedrin General expression mRNA  Strong insect...Constitutive  Commonly used in expression systems for insect cells. CaMKIIa Gene expression for optogenetics mRNA...
  19. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    ... minimize expression levels of your gene of interest, as needed. Controlling the expression levels of ...quickly transfer a DNA sequence from the transposon vector to one of many TTAA sequences distributed throughout...encourage you to deposit your piggyBac™ transposon vectors with us to help us expand this useful resource....may be particularly useful when the gene being expressed has threshold effects, such as with signaling ... can also mitigate the deleterious effects of expression of certain genes, such as those that have negative...piggyBac™, you could use recombinase technology (Cre/loxP) to remove the donor cassette. While this method...edit of interest. With the larger piggyBac™ donor vector, it is possible to make the ITR and selection cassette...
  20. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ...low off-target activity; mammalian expression vector Rees H, et al. Nature Communications. 2017. PubMed...and ribozyme systems for multiplex gRNA expression. Expression of toolkit components can be controlled...gene editing. The bacterial and mammalian expression vectors for these CRISPR inhibitors are listed in...Species Bacterial Expression Construct SpCas9 Inhibition (E. coli) Mammalian Expression Construct SpCas9...observed reprogramming discrepancies. The polycistronic piggyBac transposon vectors tested in this work ...TagRFPt, EGFP, mVenus, mCerulean3, mKOFP2) and empty vectors that have standard cloning sites or gateway compatible...neuronal tools to the expanding gateway compatible vectors currently shared amongst the zebrafish community...
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