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  1. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    .... At the time, adenoviral vectors were the most commonly used viral vectors for gene delivery, and they... better vector for ocular gene therapy: Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) While other viral vectors such as...gene can be targeted to RPE cells using a lentiviral vector and a clinical trial is ongoing. Moving forward...AdV) and lentivirus (LV) are known to transduce retinal cells, AAV quickly became the vector of choice...technician in a lab using adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) to treat an inherited retinal degenerative...tolerate the presence of antigens (such as viral vectors) without triggering a destructive inflammatory ...retina but only transiently. However new viral vectors capable of providing long-term gene expression ...
  2. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    ...expressing Cas9 via transduction with Cas9 lentiviral vector, lentiCas9-Blast (52962-LV, Figure 1). Some...primers flanking my edits in genomic DNA and doing PCR on genomic DNA. The surveyor assay itself was relatively...that Surveyor nuclease cleaves double stranded DNA (dsDNA) at basepair mismatches. To use this tool to ... denature and renature the dsDNA. Upon renaturation, you will generate DNA duplexes with one strand from...performing and analyzing a gene edit using Addgene’s lentiviral CRISPR tools. Schematic overview of CRISPR...gRNA-transduced Cas9-A549 cells are used as a control. DNA was analyzed by PAGE. The basis of the Surveyor...these mismatches are indicated by the presence of DNA cleavage products. The appearance of the 428 bp band...
  3. Export Control Regulations Lifted for Plasmids Containing Rabies and VSV-G Genes

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    ...producing lentiviral and MuLV retroviral particles. Use in conjunction with a packaging vector such as ...as pCMV-dR8.2 dvpr (lentiviral) or pUMVC (MuLV retroviral). Bob Weinberg pMD2.G VSV-G envelope expressing...paper for more information Miguel Sena-Esteves pcDNA-SADB19L Contains rabies viral RNA polymerase; ...
  4. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    ...roughly half the packaging limits of lentiviral and adenoviral vectors. While many transgene will fit within... overviews of three split vector strategies plus one additional split vector strategy for increasing the...homology directed repairs (HDR). Split AAV vector approaches Split vector approaches increase the size of the...copies of both vectors. Examples of use: Halbert et al., 2002 used an overlapping vector with 440 or 1000bp... hybrid vector, as measured by β-galactosidase activity, was 81% of that from a single vector, but significantly...ideal split vector system. Overall the efficiency of transgene expression from split vectors has been inconsistent..., Duan D (2008) A Hybrid Vector System Expands Adeno-associated Viral Vector Packaging Capacity in a Transgene-independent...
  5. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    ...known or suspected to be involved in DNA damage response and DNA repair.  A new CRISPR pooled library ...only required three components: a master mix, the DNA of interest, and cell extract.    Graphical...They allow single-nucleotide modifications to edit DNA without requiring a double-stranded break. The Xiao... a) Cells are transfected with three different vectors and flow cytometry is used to sort populations ... 10 guide RNAs per gene. The lab modified the lentiviral backbone to encode the CD90.1 selection marker...
  6. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    ...Baradaran’s expertise in viral safety, gene therapy vector development, vaccine development, and assay technologies...she says. In 11th grade she heard a talk about Z DNA that inspired her to major in molecular biology in...Harvard Medical School, he developed the first lentiviral microRNA-based system for polymerase II-regulated...Melina Fan and former Associate Director of Viral Vectors Karen Guerin for the journal Molecular Therapy....
  7. CRISPR Plasmids - Empty gRNA Vectors

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    ... Empty Vectors Many gRNA empty vectors have been deposited at Addgene. To find the gRNA vector for your...genome engineering from a single lentiviral vector Mammalian Lentiviral expression of Cas9, dCas9, or dCas9...Mammalian/Lentiviral BbsI none S. pyogenes Puro, TagBFP Yusa lentiGuide-Puro 52963 Mammalian/Lentiviral BsmBI...Mammalian/Lentiviral BsmBI none S. pyogenes Zhang pL-CRISPR.EFS.GFP 57818 Mammalian/Lentiviral BsmBI yes...Mammalian/Lentiviral BfuAI none S. pyogenes Puro Wolfe pL-CRISPR.EFS.tRFP 57819 Mammalian/Lentiviral BsmBI...Mammalian/Lentiviral BsmBI none S. pyogenes ccdB Wei pLKO5.sgRNA.EFS.PAC 57825 Mammalian/Lentiviral BsmBI ...Mammalian/Lentiviral BsmBI yes, cut S. pyogenes Puro Ebert pL-CRISPR.SFFV.PAC 57829 Mammalian/Lentiviral BsmBI...
  8. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    ...protein. Mammalian vectors One of our most popular mammalian expression vectors, c-Flag pcDNA3, comes from the...will need accessory packaging vectors to generate the virus. Bacterial vectors This system is great for overexpressing...cases bacterial expression vectors are inducible (e.g. pBAD LIC cloning vector (8A)) and have an epitope...folding assays. Yeast vectors There are several types of yeast expression vectors. Consider your applications...shuttle vectors. You may prefer the more traditional approach of an autonomously replicating vector that ...conduct your custom experiment. Fly vectors The vast majority of fly vectors are based on p-element, random... to reporter vectors (e.g. pBV-Luc) and gene silencing (e.g. pLKO.1 - TRC cloning vector). Check out our...
  9. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    ...pandemic, the Krogan lab at UCSF generated lentiviral vectors expressing SARS-CoV-2 open reading frames...which all but one are cloned into pLVX vectors (for lentiviral packaging) and contain an IRES-Puro marker...(2020) Protocol and Reagents for Pseudotyping Lentiviral Particles with SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein for Neutralization...published a protocol and reagents for pseudotyping lentivirus with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. They deposited...qPCR and antigen tests.  Labs including Jennifer Doudna’s lab and Feng Zheng’s lab had already developed...
  10. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    ...Addgene.org Browse Our Viral Vector Plasmids Read Our Lentiviral Vector Guide Read Our AAV Guide  ...of producing infectious virus (similar to lentiviral vectors) because they do not encode all of the necessary...on the Addgene Blog Read Other Posts on Viral Vectors Check out Our Scientist's Guide to Ebola Contribute... viral vector...of bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) from cDNA: BRSV NS2 is not essential for virus replication...
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