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  1. Virus Protocol - Generating Stable Cell Lines

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    ... as opposed to transiently-transfected cells, increases reproducibility, as it eliminates the variation...deliver mammalian antibiotic resistance (e.g., puromycin, blasticidin), which enables selection of a stable...L-alanyl-L-glutamine (or alternative stable glutamine such as glutaGRO, Corning 25-015-CI) Heat-inactivated FBS Polybrene...preparation Appropriate antibiotic for selection (e.g. puromycin, blasticidin) Reagent Preparation DMEM Complete...L-alanyl-L-glutamine (or stable alternative, such as glutaGRO) To a 500 mL bottle of DMEM high glucose, add ... 55 mL of heat-inactivated FBS and 5mL of 100X glutaGRO. Store at 4 °C. Pro-Tip Different brands and FBS...obtaining accurate results. Check the cells for mycoplasma (Link opens in a new window) regularly Do not...

  2. Hot Plasmids Spring 2024

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    ... baseline voltage), the investigators found that administering these AAVs with a dilute Cre-expressing... Ace2N-mNeon-A122D and Voltron2 are available as Cre-dependent AAV1 vectors and are suitable for extended...CRISPR screens By Emily Bentley Building on their CROPseq method for optical pooled CRISPR screening, Paul...pooled screens in human cells. Addgene offers vectors for CROPseq-multi using selection by Puromycin, Zeocin...Voltron2 voltage sensors By Brian O’Neill New viral vector preps expressing the Voltron2 voltage indicator...variant has increased signal-to-noise ratio and better ability to record subthreshold voltage fluctuations...Multiplexed perturbation and decoding in pooled CRISPR screens Improved prime editor PE7 Antibodies to facilitate...

  3. Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning

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    ...backbone contains a kanamycin resistance cassette, you would plate the cells on kanamycin-containing agar....positive selection, negative selection, and/or screening. We’re focusing on positive and negative selection...in this blog post, but don’t worry, we’ll cover screens in a future post. Positive selection: Cells that.... Only cells carrying plasmids that contain a kanamycin resistance cassette will grow. However, often ...with or without your inserted DNA) and further screening will help you determine if the plasmid backbone...successful uptake of your DNA of interest by taking advantage of bacterial characteristics such as prototrophy...arises in yeast. For example, Markus Ralser’s lab created a yeast prototrophy kit containing 23 plasmids ...

  4. Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes

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    ... ug/mL Bleomycin glycopeptide Induces DNA breaks Bactericidal 5-100 ug/mL Erythromycin macrolide...Additionally, the presence of a plasmid is disadvantageous from the bacterium's perspective – a plasmid-containing...Class Mode of Action*   Working Concentration** Kanamycin aminoglycoside Binds 30S ribosomal subunit; ...mis-translation Bactericidal 50-100 ug/mL Spectinomycin aminoglycoside Binds 30S ribosomal subunit;...protein synthesis Bactericidal 7.5-50 ug/mL Streptomycin aminoglycoside Inhibits initiation of protein...Plasmids 101 Posts Learn How to Use Blue White Screening to Simplify Your Cloning Experiments See Where...

  5. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    ...different selection markers (blasticidin, neomycin, puromycin, hygromycin) and fluorescent protein reporters ... both of these cases, transposons combine the advantages of viruses and naked DNA while eliminating some... then degraded by the cell.4.) The transposase creates a double strand break in the DNA and allows the...transposase gains its name from the fact that it was recreated from a defective transposase found in fish. This...transposases. Improvements have been made since then by increasing the consensus between a greater number of extinct...primary cells. In 2009, Zsuzsanna Izsvak’s lab screened many SB tranposase variants for hyperactivity ...

  6. CRISPR Plasmids - Drosophila

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    ... Editing Other Applications Purify Tag Visualize dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors... in the DNA. Indels often lead to frameshifts, creating loss of function alleles. To introduce specific...breaks in DNA instead of the double-strand breaks created by wild type Cas enzymes. To use a nickase mutant...your DNA in close proximity. These double nicks create a double-strand break (DSB) that is repaired using...fused to a transcriptional activator peptide can increase transcription of a specific gene. Design your ...Port 49330 pAc-sgRNA-Cas9 dU6 BspQI Transfection Puromycin yes, cut Ji-Long Liu 45946 pU6-BbsI-chiRNA dU6...

  7. Fluorescence Titering Assay

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    ...this protocol uses microscopy to determine the percentage of fluorescent cells, these cells can still be...L-alanyl-L-glutamine (or alternative stable glutamine such as glutaGRO, Corning 25-015-CI) Heat-inactivated FBS Polybrene...L-alanyl-L-glutamine (or stable alternative, such as glutaGRO) To a 500 mL bottle of DMEM high glucose, add ...55 mL of heat-inactivated FBS and 5 mL of 100X glutaGRO. Store at 4 °C. Pro-Tip Different brands and lots...obtaining accurate titers. Check the cells for mycoplasma (Link opens in a new window) regularly Do not... after 20–30 passages. Do not add penicillin/streptomycin to the media, as it can affect viability and... remove cells and debris. Lentiviral titer can decrease during cycles of freeze-thaw. If you are freezing...

  8. Harnessing TnpB for Genome Editing: A Compact and Versatile Tool for Your Research

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    ...downstream of the TAM, creating staggered double-strand breaks like those created by Cas12a. Applications...plasmids contain a hygromycin resistance gene as the plant-selectable marker and a kanamycin resistance gene...TnpB from Deinococcus radiodurans (Dra2TnpB) to create a genome editing system for plants (Karmakar et... like Cas9. This is where TnpB offers a clear advantage. At approximately one-third the size of Cas9 or... proteins with additional enzymes or domains (increasing the overall size), using TnpB as the core nuclease... using your method of choice. Step 5: Colony Screening Use Primer 92F (5′-cattacgcaattggacgacaac-3′)...′) and Oligo 2 (specific to your target) to screen colonies via PCR. A 354-bp product confirms successful...

  9. CRISPR Plasmids - Prime Edit

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    ... Editing Other Applications Purify Tag Visualize dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors...another round. Figure 1: Overview of prime editing. Created with BioRender.com. The original prime editing ...-Puro Mammalian, piggyBac hU6 pegRNA BsmBI No Puromycin Jacob Giehm Mikkelsen 173222 pPBT-PE2-PuroTK-pegRNA_GG...

  10. Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors

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    ...yet they still share many of the same technical advantages that come with working with prokaryotes. This...primarily pertains to ORIs in budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae; however, we’ve also noted some features...required for the replication of fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, vectors at the end.) In a previous...must be utilized or a new combination needs to be created in advance of the experiment. The marker provided...physiological levels due to high copy numbers. This creates a potential metabolic burden on the yeast cells...

  11. CRISPR Plasmids - Plants

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    ... Editing Other Applications Purify Tag Visualize dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors... in the DNA. Indels often lead to frameshifts, creating loss of function alleles. To introduce specific...adenine to inosine, which is replaced by guanosine to create A->G (or T->C on the opposite strand) mutations...breaks in DNA instead of the double-strand breaks created by wild type Cas enzymes. To use a nickase mutant...your DNA in close proximity. These double nicks create a double-strand break (DSB) that is repaired using...fused to a transcriptional activator peptide can increase transcription of a specific gene. Design your ... As Cpf1 Qi 91715 pKEE401 yes, cut S. pyogenes Neomycin Chen Do you have suggestions for other plasmids...

  12. Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level

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    ...contains 24 copies of SunTag, a synthetic scaffold that can recruit GFP fused to the SunTag-specific antibody...Imaging by Coat protein Knock-off) instead takes advantage of the ribosome’s movement. When the ribosome ...Using translation inhibitors cycloheximide and puromycin, Halstead et al. verified that translation is ...indicating translational repression. During later stages, single RFP-labeled osk and Oskar protein were ...scFv. Each time the reporter is translated, the SunTag sites on the nascent polypeptide recruit scFV-GFP...translationally silent. Both of these methods increase our understanding of translation dynamics, but...but they come with a few caveats. In both cases, creating a reporter mRNA requires inserting multiple hairpin...

  13. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    ...should have a fitness advantage over proteins with single PAM recognition. Created with BioRender.com...genome-wide off-targets, since increasing PAM flexibility might also increase off-target activity. Surprisingly...gone one step further, using directed evolution to create xCas9, an enzyme recognizing a broad range of PAMs...PAMs like NG, GAA, and GAT, but also displaying increased editing specificity. We’re excited to learn more...easy, right? Yes and no. If you’re just trying to create a knockout, you might be happy targeting anywhere...precise edits or knock-ins. Editing efficiency decreases drastically once your cut site is more than 10...insertion site. Base editing, another method to create point mutations, also has a strict editing window...

  14. CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining

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    ...Wyatt and Dale Ramsden, UNC at Chapel Hill. One advantage to using the CRISPR/Cas system for genome engineering...Persistence of a Chromosome Break Diminishes Its Mutagenic Potential. PLoS Genet 5:e1000683 . https://doi.org...End-Joining Strategy for Efficient Genome Editing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mBio 11: . https://doi.org/10.1128...Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens        ...

  15. What's New in CRISPR - March 2020

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    ... in yeast Base editing CRISPRi in Caulobacter crescentus Multiplexed gRNA for human pluripotent stem cells...that controls repression of gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The system consists of dCas9, the...editing. Using several rapid and cost-effective screening methods, David Liu’s lab identified and validated... base editor plasmids CRISPRi in Caulobacter crescentus Figure 1: Serial dilutions of CRISPRi in...adapted from Guzzo et al., 2020. Caulobacter crescentus is a popular model organism for studying the ...ctrA sgRNA and saw that the levels of ctrA mRNA decreased after 20 minutes in xylose (which controls expression... 2: The components of Casilio-ME1. Image from Taghbalout et al., 2019. Fusing epigenetic modifiers...

  16. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    ...Figure 2: CRISPR R-loop. Created with BioRender.com. Base editors take advantage of this single-stranded...nucleobase component of the nucleoside inosine. Created with BioRender.com. Although it was a huge ...have scientists solved this problem? By taking advantage of repair pathways within the cell — in some cases...it finds a PAM, Cas9 unwinds the adjacent DNA to create a region of separate strands called an R-loop (...activity window restricted to the stretch of ssDNA created by Cas9 binding. Pro tip! In CRISPR, the non-target...BER process was excising the incorrect U base, creating an “abasic,” or empty, DNA site, and then replacing...in the same journal on the same day.) This team created a similar construct that they called a Glycosylase...

  17. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    ...the human gut bacteria B. thetaiotaomicron, Mycobacterium, Pseudomonas, and E. coli. However, many non-model...for CRISPRi transfer Mobile-CRISPRi offers two advantages over existing bacterial CRISPRi methods. First...better suited for genome-wide CRISPRi library screening experiments where maintaining library diversity...of antibiotics are often essential genes which creates a challenge when studying them since their complete...

  18. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...DNA end of the break is resected by nucleases to create a ssDNA 3’ overhang. This will serve as both a ...considerations for designing a repair template to create mutations HDR donors can contain insertable sequences...circular plasmid templates is generally low; to increase the frequency of edits, researchers have designed...complementary ssDNA. Easi-CRISPR was shown to increasing editing efficiency from 1-10% with dsDNA to 25... chromosomal aberrations. Pfeiffer P, et al. Mutagenesis (2000). PubMed. Multiple Pathways of Recombination...Recombination Induced by Double-Strand Breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Paques F and Haber JE. Microbiology...Frequency of Homology-directed Repair (HDR) for Increased Efficiency of CRISPR/Cas-mediated Transgenesis...

  19. Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples

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    ...majority of plasmids contain either an ampicillin or kanamycin resistance gene. Every step along the way involves...and prepare fresh media with antibiotics at each stage. The barcodes and LIMS help us track each sample...deposit. Using barcoded tubes is part of Addgene’s secret to success. It helps us quickly process samples...

  20. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...promoters and create sophisticated patterns of UAS-driven gene expression. To further increase the complexity...system into a repressible system, Gossen and Bujard created the tetracycline-controlled transactivator (tTA...bacterial operons. A chimeric transactivator, cTA, was created by fusing CymR to the activation domain VP16. cTA...GAL4 gene downstream of a tissue- or developmental stage-specific promoter and design a UAS reporter construct...state, and co-expression of the inducer QF can increase QUAS driven expression by ~3,300-fold in Drosophila...genes for metabolic engineering applications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” FEMS Yeast Res. 12(2) (2012): 197...
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