...nanobody. As a proof-of-principle the Toettcher Lab monitored how AsLOV2 insertion into mCherry or GFP nanobodies... Sevenless (SOS), a guanine nucleotide exchange factor that activates Ras. They expressed this OptoNB-...purified. More OptoNBs that bind cell signaling receptors would offer more levers to pull to control signaling... example, if the OptoNB could bind and block a receptor or a ligand’s activity, then a flip of a light...

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...Engineering gut microbes in situ While the ability to monitor the microbiome with sequencing is vast, the ability...upon the Yeast Toolkit by replacing the backbone vector’s high-copy number bacterial ColE1 origin with the...origin with broad host-range (Meyer, 2009). The vector retains the oriT for delivery into recipients by... Counting cell division in the gut microbiota Monitoring microbial population dynamics in the gut can ...

...Addgene.org Browse all viral vectors available at Addgene Visit our viral vectors guide Find our chemogenetics...makes them light-responsive. When light shines on excitatory channelrhodopsin-expressing neurons, the channelrhodopsins...non-invasive methods to the neurons in the right secondary motor cortex (M2). Since M2 is located on the surface ...

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...into mammalian cells, especially when fused to effector proteins for gene activation or gene editing. ... efficient Cas system with very compact genome editors and a gRNA down-sized by almost 40%. The activity...architecture and amino acid sequence of the prime editor, yielding PEmax, to work synergistically with epegRNAs... within the FAH gene was precisely corrected, restoring expression in the liver.  Read the paper in Nature...

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