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  1. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    ...Addgene’s plasmids are used with a wide variety of restriction enzyme-based cloning methods. Each method...Entry DNA overhangs may be present in the original plasmid (Option 1) or added using PCR-based amplification...fragments to create TAL effector nucleases. These plasmids were designed to utilize the BsaI and BsmBI Type... a gRNA target sequence into a Cas9-containing plasmid such as pX330. This cloning strategy not only makes...makes it easy to create a single gRNA-expressing plasmid, but it can also be adapted to express multiple...create CRISPR/Cas9 constructs, assemble standard plasmids parts in different combinations, or other new ...amplification of cloned DNA as tandem multimers using class-IIS restriction enzymes. Lee JH, Skowron PM, Rutkowska...
  2. Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening

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    ...This post is part of our ongoing Plasmids 101 series. Plasmids 101 will provide you with an overview ...of the Plasmids 101 posts here. Now that we have covered antibiotic selection here at Plasmids 101, we...α-complementation plasmid. This way you can quickly and easily identify colonies that not only have your plasmid (antibiotic...rescued by genes supplied on the transformed plasmid. Such plasmids may contain genes that allow for the use... able to select for colonies that contain your plasmid is a great start when cloning, but how about being...being able to choose those that contain plasmid with an insert? Blue-white selection is a widely used ...far, so good, but how does this help us screen plasmids? Blue-white screening in the lab Scientists discovered...
  3. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ... Hot Plasmid list. Other popular plasmids & blog posts @Addgene: The 10 Most Distributed Plasmid Technologies...inducible inactivation. Find the Robinson plasmids or the Royle plasmids and get to work! Robinson et al...designed the pOSIP (one-step integration plasmid) series of plasmids, vectors that convey both the sequence...mGRASP plasmids. Additionally, the lab recently described the use of another set of mGRASP plasmids in their... favorite plasmid technologies? Email us at [email protected]  and let us know what plasmids you would ...sgRNA libraries expand upon the CRISPR family of plasmids by offering a lentivirus-based mechanism for sgRNA...new CRISPR screening tools, see our CRISPR/Cas Plasmids: Pooled Libraries webpage or read our blog post...
  4. Hot Plasmids: FRET-Based Biosensors

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    ...) Interested in More Hot Plasmids from Addgene? Check out our Hot Plasmid page, where we highlight some...popular & newly available plasmids at Addgene. If you're interested in plasmids for in vivo imaging, check...the greatest challenges of neuroscience.”  Hot plasmids: Twitch sensors Griesbeck’s recent contribution...
  5. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    ...four different plasmids into the producer cells (two packaging plasmids, an envelope plasmid, and the lentiviral...generation systems consist of an envelope plasmid and a packaging plasmid encoding HIV proteins gag, pol, rev...generation systems require an envelope plasmid, and two packaging plasmids, one encoding gag and pol and a second...transfer plasmids replication competent? What is SIN? A6: Most (if not all) Addgene transfer plasmids are ... 30% of the transfer plasmid. Many transfer vectors are SIN. Packaging plasmid(s) contain the minimal...Addgene's most popular lentiviral plasmids Overview of Lentiviral Packaging Plasmids Lentiviral Protocols and ...Addgene has an extensive collection of lentiviral plasmids created for a variety of applications including...
  6. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...Once you've gotten to know what a plasmid is in general, it's time to take a look at some of its parts...origin of replication are necessary to replicate plasmids and make sure the cells maintains it. Here, we'll...the promoter, which is necessary for getting the plasmid express our gene of interest. This element is responsible.... This means that the promoter present in your plasmid backbone must to be compatible with the type of...transcript, you will also need to make sure your plasmid has a promoter suited to working in your host organism...development-specific promoters available to scientists. Plasmids are oftentimes put to therapeutic uses, and in...Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Browse All Plasmids 101 Posts Learn about Mammalian Vectors Read about...
  7. Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes

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    ...those bacteria with a pressure to keep your plasmid. Viva la (bacterial) resistance!  What are antibiotics... presence of a plasmid is disadvantageous from the bacterium's perspective – a plasmid-containing cell...to maintain the plasmid. Adding an antibiotic resistance gene to the plasmid solves both problems at once...Biology Reference Pages View our Plasmid Protocols Find Your Perfect Plasmid Backbone ...think about how much easier it makes our lives. Plasmid transformation into E. coli is a fairly inefficient... which cells successfully received the correct plasmid, scientists would spend hours to days trying find...cell must replicate the plasmid in addition to its own chromosomal DNA, costing additional resources to ...
  8. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    ...between CRISPR components expressed from different plasmid backbones. They noted that backbone differences... as the order, or distance in the placement of plasmid elements can impact expression levels and consequently...system was used to assess how different lentiviral plasmid backbone elements impact viral titer and to compare...plants, and animals (Chiasson et al., 2019). Many plasmid elements such as promoters or fluorophores are ...Collection More resources on the Addgene blog Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning High Complexity Golden...
  9. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    ...resistance DNA plasmids are traditionally grown in bacteria as a way to produce more of the plasmid, isolate...isolate individual plasmids, or express a gene contained in a plasmid. During the propagation and/or transformation...receive a copy of the plasmid or will lose it during division. These non-plasmid-containing bacteria can...Over-Agar Antibiotic Plating Plasmids 101 eBook Resources on the Addgene blog Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance...Resistance Plasmids 101: Blue-White Screening Choosing Your Perfect Plasmid Backbone  ...Plasmids need antibiotic resistance genes so that you can specifically isolate bacteria containing your...your experiment — to grow, express, or isolate plasmids. The presence of an antibiotic resistance gene...
  10. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    ...in the Lab Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections Plasmids 101: Knockout /Knock-In Plasmids ...the Lab Bench Plasmids 101 e-book Additional resources on the Addgene blog Plasmids 101: Using Transposons...
  11. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    ... circularized plasmids from plexWell™ NGS data. Once Addgene produces plates of plasmid DNA, they are ...blogger Joe Mellor, Founder and CEO of seqWell Inc. Plasmids and PCR products are the bread and butter of molecular...using these methods for routine processes like plasmid validation. At seqWell, Inc., our mission is to...Addgene’s large and growing collection of curated plasmids from all over the world. The rest of this piece...partnership with Addgene to sequence large numbers of plasmids. plexWell™ technology overview For any NGS experiment...individual input DNA samples (e.g. a collection of 96 plasmids on a plate) will typically have a wide range of...to, for example, assemble hundreds of different plasmids from a single Illumina MiSeq® run. As shown in...
  12. Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells

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    ...Designing the donor plasmid Figure 2: Donor plasmid design strategy. A donor plasmid contains 1 kb homology...found within the homology areas of the plasmid to prevent the plasmid from being cut and destroyed by CRISPR... the tag. Created with BioRender.com. Plasmids, plasmids everywhere To find out more about gene edited...Last updated on Oct 14, 2020 by Seth Kasowitz. This post was contributed by the gene editing team at ...Allen Institute website at alleninstitute.org. A classic challenge in cell biology is making sure that what...expensive for many labs. We’ve created and tested plasmids that use CRISPR/Cas9 to endogenously tag a wide...wide variety of genes with GFP. These plasmids are available through Addgene, and the stem cell lines we...
  13. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    ...deposits with more than 10 plasmids is to use our deposit spreadsheet?  Our plasmid deposit process can be... Send plasmid information to Addgene Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) approval  Send plasmids to Addgene...spreadsheet and copy and paste your plasmid data directly into our file, one plasmid per row, as outlined by the... Data Field Description Plasmid Name Use a descriptive plasmid name and match the name as it ...application of the plasmid and will help a scientist outside your field understand if this plasmid will work for...possible, we propagate plasmids in the standard cloning strain DH5α. For plasmids with highly repetitive...lentiviral, retroviral, and AAV plasmids, choose the NEB Stable strain. For plasmids containing the ccdB gene...
  14. "Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach

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    ... educational tools Playing BUILD YOUR PLASMID BUILD YOUR PLASMID is a game where you need to apply basic... videos to teach basic lab techniques Plasmid Land: The plasmid cloning game ...Barcelona wanted to develop strategies to make our classes more practical and hands-on. Students in these ...daughters playing with some cards and I had a quick flashback to time spent playing a card game called “Magic... gene and Selection Markers) and one “Transfer Plasmid” game board. Once they agreed on each element to...minutes to develop a strategy and build a transfer plasmid that could be used to genetically manipulate human...for the disease to be openly discussed with the class. In this way, the students also had to practice ...
  15. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    ...RNA-sequencing to identify neuronal class and deep sequencing of neurons from each class to fully characterize the... CRISPR plasmid can be created in a single tube. You can also find additional SapTrap plasmids used for...elegans Browse our Plasmids 101 blog posts Resources on Addgene.org Visit our worm plasmids and resources... databases for scientists including Wormbook, Wormatlas and Wormbase. And scientists have been continuously...discussed at the meeting, in addition to useful plasmids and toolkits available at Addgene.  C. elegans...is to establish a comprehensive gene expression atlas of every C.elegans  neuron. Scientists are currently... development (Kyoda et al., 2012).  C. elegans plasmid tools at Addgene In addition to the wealth of open...
  16. Plasmids 101: Gram Negative and Positive Bacteria

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    ...Addgene blog Plasmids 101: What is a plasmidPlasmids 101: Blue-white screeningPlasmids 101: Common lab...bacteria are permeable to different classes of antibiotics. The classification system is also useful in a laboratory... the plasmid should change based on bacteria type. The gram positive and negative classification system...ll be talking about the ins and outs of this classification system, including its history, biology, and...repeatable phenomenon, Gram began using it as a classification system. Eventually, any bacteria that retained...laboratory setting. When designing a plasmid to be inserted into a specific bacterium, it can be important...
  17. New FLIS Plasmid (April Fools 2022)

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    ...inconspicuous coloring.  FLIS plasmid Recently, the Phuels lab deposited a plasmid that will forever change...lab References Abril, U.N.O., et. al. (2022) A plasmid-based system for locating and containing escaped...
  18. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    ...subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need... CRISPR plasmids are always being added to the repository. To find all of the CRISPR plasmids available... Xiao Wang Lab has recently deposited a set of plasmids that helps identify base edited cell populations...populations without end-point sequencing assays. These plasmids use “Cas9-mediated adenosine transient reporter...available from Addgene, head over to our CRISPR Plasmids and Resources page. Here are some highlights from the...Nasse We regularly add new viral aliquots from our plasmid collection to provide ready-to-use viral preps....
  19. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021

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    ...subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need... CRISPR plasmids are always being added to the repository. To find all of the CRISPR plasmids available...EasyTag workflow combines thoughtfully designed plasmid components with Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting...further demonstrated that when tested in tobacco protoplasts, the enzymatic biosensor retains its catalytic...available from Addgene, head over to our CRISPR Plasmids and Resources page. Here are some highlights from the...Nasse We regularly add new viral aliquots from our plasmid collection to provide ready-to-use viral preps....
  20. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ...subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...highlights from recent CRISPR plasmids. To find all of the CRISPR plasmids available from Addgene, head...Hutchinson Cancer Research Center developed a pooled plasmid library encompassing all possible amino acid mutations...anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. In the library, each plasmid encodes the mutated spike protein and a barcode...head over to our CRISPR Plasmids and Resources page.  A new system uses light to deactivate photocleavable... accumulation of indels to measure time. These plasmids with different promoters driving expression of...
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