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  1. Antibodies 101: Choosing the Right Isotype

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    ...on the target protein they tend to have a strong signal and to work in a variety of applications. The desired... to a monoclonal primary antibody (A). To boost signal, consider using subclass specific secondary antibodies...primary/secondary antibody binding and therefore the signal strength (Fig. 1). Monoclonal primaries If you ... have been cross-adsorbed to reduce off-target signals. Use isotype- or subtype-specific secondary antibodies...
  2. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    ...than plasmids without this DNA. They eventually designated this fragment as the ccdB region (for “coupled... specific nucleotide sequences, preventing the cognate restriction enzyme from cleaving the DNA. A role...regulated by antisense RNA, which base pairs to cognate mRNA to inhibit its translation. The hok/sok system...presence of liver metastasis by producing a detectable signal in urine. The bottom line with plasmid addiction...
  3. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    ...cross-talk is high and your background signal may be higher than the signal generated by the energy transfer...complementary pair of fluorophores. To maximize the FRET signal you should choose the highest quantum yield donor...excited by a specific wavelength of light and the signal is collected by using emission filters chosen for...
  4. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI

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    ...essential cell surface receptors involved in complex signaling pathways and the linkage of intra- and extracellular...processes, including cell adhesion, migration, and signaling, as well as immune response, tissue repair, and...new tools to identify integrin presence, study signaling mechanisms, or ascertain which integrins are responsible...adhesion and migration, initiating intracellular signal cascades, and allowing agile responses to mechanical...
  5. Bacterial Expression Systems

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    ...protease cleavage sites. Other protein tags and signal peptides are used to enhance protein solubility...purification. Commonly used tags, cleavage sites, and signal peptides include: Epitope tags: 6xHis, Flag, Strep...TEV protease, factor Xa, enterokinase, thrombin Signal peptides for periplasmic localization: PelB, MalE...
  6. Plasmids for Stem Cell Research

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    ...cells with unique epigenetic and gene expression signatures. Cell Res. 2011 Mar;21(3):518-29. Cheng piggyBac...cells via temporal modulation of canonical Wnt signaling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 May 29. Palecek...Chemical modulation of transcriptionally enriched signaling pathways to optimize the conversion of fibroblasts...
  7. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    ...bind to intracellular proteins. The fluorescence signal is detected by the flow cytometer and functions... as a proxy for protein expression. Because the signal comes from the antibody-fluorophore conjugate, ...cytometry is the ability to use multiple fluorescent signals (up to a dozen or more!) to measure the relative...applications are typically used for investigating signaling pathways or developing therapeutics. Experimentally...
  8. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    ...you to measure the intensity of signal over an entire cycle. Since signals are produced by the presence ...double-stranded DNA, when temperatures are high, signal intensity should be low, reflecting the presence...errors and allow for well-to-well normalization of signal. They are often included in commercial sets and...
  9. Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion

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    ...the expression level necessary to observe a signal. Red signal intensity increases with GFP concentration...For low-abundance GFP fusions, a photoconversion signal may not be observed. Sattarzadeh et al. found that...
  10. Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius

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    ... increased brightness, they also found that the signal to noise ratio can be increased from 2-fold (by.... Of these, 26 of the 46 loci gave a detectable signal in human U2OS cells. Based upon this, they chose...Hanhui et al. “CRISPR-Sirius: RNA scaffolds for signal amplification in genome imaging.” Nature Methods...
  11. Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level

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    ...nuclear localization signal, NLS-PCP-GFP then returns to the nucleus to bind cognate untranslated mRNAs....displacement leads to a change in the fluorescent signal: untranslated RNAs appear yellow, and translated...
  12. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ... do it (i.e. where the signals come from and what implications their signaling is likely to have). Anterograde...neuron to another at synapses resulting in faint signals (Schwab et al., 1979; Buttry & Goshgarian, 2015...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4678200.  Kohara, K., Pignatelli, M., Rivest, A.J., Jung, H.-Y., Kitamura, T.,...
  13. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases

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    ...assays have lower background levels and improved signal sensitivity. Another advantage: luciferase reporters... Cofactors/substrates Required Not required Signal strength Lower Higher Sensitivity Higher Lower... similar approach can be used to analyze cell signaling pathways or miRNA knockdown. BRET for the best...
  14. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    ...various labels to antibodies that produce detectable signals like light or color. In this post, we’ll go over...is not visible or capable of producing a visible signal, but it has a strong affinity for avidin and streptavidin... molecule. These properties allow for efficient signal amplification, making biotin conjugated antibodies...
  15. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    ...one minute BASU generated a strong streptavidin signal (~250-fold enrichment) when compared to a scrambled...scrambled RNA motif control). BioID2 had no detectable signal at the same time point. E. coli’s BirA* was tested...timescale, such as during drug action or cell signaling. Limitations of RaPID Like other BirA*-based proximity...
  16. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    ...polyclonal, as their function is to amplify the signal from a primary antibody; the ability of polyclonal...their target protein thereby greatly increasing signal amplification.  When to stay away from polyclonal...positive control across experiments to be aware of signal strength. In general, polyclonal antibodies produce...
  17. MAPK Plasmids

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    ...protein kinases (MAPKs), also known as extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs), are serine/threonine-... an integration point for multiple biochemical signals. In collaboration with numerous research labs from...
  18. Fluorescent Protein Guide

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    ...inhibit engineered receptors that affect cell signalling pathways. Luciferase Plasmids Use bioluminescent...bioluminescent reporters for studying gene expression, signaling pathways, and more. Learn More and Explore Addgene...
  19. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...at Addgene! Knock-in: Introducing tags or stop signals Once Cas9 generates double-strand breaks, a new...2021). For example, inserting a polyadenylation signal downstream of the transcription start site will... insertion of a synthetic polyadenylation (spA) signal. Figure and caption adapted from Hazan and Bester...
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