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  1. Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel

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    ...transgenic protein for the HEK 293T cells to express: CD45. Upon expression, CD45 is incorporated into the plasma...CD45, but is separately expressed. (The reason for having a separately expressed transduction reporter ...manage to express CD45. Thus, if transduction efficiency is much higher than CD45 expression, this could... example, point at issues with the double-expression vector.) In our flow experiment, we'll want to identify...CD45+ cells (CD45 expression) and assess our transduction efficiency (eGFP expression).     The first ...detected through a cell surface label. The viral vector also encodes for eGFP, which serves as a transduction...rest of our panel. Lastly, we want to detect the expression of our protein of interest: CD45. I am using ...

  2. Addgene Receives NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant to Create Open-Access Recombinant Antibody Resource

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    ...Bradbury et al., 2018), and hybridomas can lose gene expression of the mAb-encoding genes, die, or fail to revive...research materials, such as plasmids and viral vectors. However, it typically takes a few years for a ...antibodies are not monospecific: Hybridomas frequently express additional functional variable regions. mAbs 10...these issues by creating immortal antibody-producing cell lines (hybridomas) that secrete antibodies in ...Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative, will allow Addgene to create a much needed open-access recombinant antibody/...School of Medicine on this grant. Dr. Trimmer has created thousands of high-quality antibodies/nanobodies...reagent batch. To supplement this, Addgene will be creating a crowdsourced Data Hub (built off of the concept...

  3. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    ...2018) HDAd5/35++ Adenovirus Vector Expressing Anti-CRISPR Peptides Decreases CRISPR/Cas9 Toxicity in Human...genome editing, activating gene expression, repressing gene expression, and much more. But there’s one... means they can be delivered in vivo using AAV vectors. Having a way to shut off CRISPR-Cas systems prevents... off-target effects Prolonged Cas activity can increase the chance of off-target editing particularly ...

  4. Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation

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    ...genes is from Proteobacteria to mammalian expression vectors. And more broadly, their data revealed that...a distantly related organism, the gene may not express well because of these different codon usage biases...closely resembles that of the host organism, it may express protein more efficiently. To classify gene sequences...rare codons, sometimes intentionally modulating expression in ways we don’t quite understand yet,” Kunjapur...synthetic. They also found out that the most common expression system within the Addgene repository is mammalian...series of simulations and machine learning, they created a classifier that predicts whether a gene was natural...

  5. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    ...fluorescently labeled. Using lentiviral vectors to stably or inducibly express tagged iPAK4 from different promoters...reprogram delivery vehicles like lentiviral vectors, CreVLPs, and eVLPs for in vivo and in vitro applications...the Wu Lab is working to create a three-dimensional atlas of protein expression in the adult mouse brain...activation events as bands of induced GFP-iPAK4 expressed under promoters like the tet-responsive element...enable the creation of CAR-T cells directly within the body. Overall, DIRECTED can increase on-target .... The Ting lab recently made two deposits that increase the utility of this technique.  By engineering... O’Neill The Cohen lab and colleagues recently created a system for recording the transcriptional history...

  6. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    ...can be expressed in a single vector, pCRISPRainbow-DONOR1, with dCas9 supplied by a separate vector. ...CRISPRainbow gRNA will permit labeling, but a newly expressed standard length gRNA would “switch” the system...scaffold to enhance complex assembly, thereby decreasing the amount of background fluorescence from unbound...CRISPR to label multiple loci in distinct colors. To create a colorful Cas9 toolbox, Ma et al. turned to SpCas9...was fused to a different fluorescent protein to create three distinct colors. The specificity of these...distinct hairpin sequences produces white light. Created with BioRender.com. With this rainbow of colors...combination, for example, with a far-red FP, would increase the available colors to 15! They also envision...

  7. Tagging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics Receptors: Fluorescent Proteins and Other Options

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    ...interest. In our studies, we used AAV viral vectors to express hM4Di in neurons of rhesus monkeys or mice...successful expression of the protein of interest, an alternative could be bicistronic expression of the fluorescent...the fluorescence expressed in the neuropil conceals identification of opsin-expressing cells). For other...proteins provide a versatile method to identify the expression of transgenes of interest. Furthermore, fluorophore...can be a roadblock, rather than an aid, in the expression of the protein of interest. The green fluorescent...’ tags to identify proteins Given the limited expression of hM4Di‐mCherry at the plasma membrane in monkey... mCherry with the HA tag resulted in abundant expression of hM4Di in plasma membranes in both species ...

  8. Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning

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    ...instance, if you were cloning a gene into an expression vector, you would want the start of the gene to end...Your Insert and Vector by Gel Purification     Now that you’ve cut your insert and vector, unfortunately...unsuccessful 1), in a vector alone plate with many more colonies than the vector + insert plate (unsuccessful... ligation step. 3. Ligate Your Insert into Your Vector In the ligation step, you mix your purified, cut...Resources on Addgene.org Find the Perfect Empty Vector for Your Cloning Experiments Browse Our Molecular... 2 ligations for each plasmid you are trying to create, with varying ratios of recipient plasmid to insert...

  9. Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones

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    ... compared to the E. coli strain expressing the empty vector. And thus was born ELSA - our happy lil’ cold-tolerant...decided to focus on a special class of enzymes expressed by psychrophilic (cold-loving) bacteria. These...recombinant psychrophilic enzymes for the host The expression of recombinant proteins for industrial or research...mesophilic, for example E. coli, carrying a plasmid expressing a protein of interest). Mesophilic microbes are...enzymes face very similar issues when forced to express in mesophilic host systems. The so-called “regular... to grow at low temperatures suitable for the expression of psychrophilic proteins. The primary problem...Factor), that would allow the stable folding and expression of recombinant psychrophilic proteins. As the...

  10. The Michael Davidson Collection: One-Stop Shop for Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...years, he and his colleagues built a Molecular Expressions collection including some 3,300 plasmids along... Baird said. “They are all designed in the same vector backbone with very similar restriction enzymes....shutter its doors. “We wanted to give all of these vectors to the scientific community and contribute in a...proposition, explained Michelle Baird, who has created plasmids as a technician in the Davidson lab for...prompted him to deposit the tools he and his team created with the research community at large, "[Fluorescent...

  11. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    ...individually expressed proteins run in separate lanes. B: individually expressed and coexpressed proteins ...through two polycistronic expression vectors (3570 lanes/50 mLs) coexpressing a set of either 10, 30, 50...editing within a single expression cassette is advantageous to Cas9’s larger expression requirements (Figure... Figure 2: comparison of Cas 9 vs. Cas 12a expression cassettes when encoding multiple guides. While...opportunity for lab members or students new to protein expression and purification. Figure 3: The Penn State...Santilli, et al. 2021 Plasmids are used to express 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80 and 100 kD proteins...expanded the genetic screening toolkit by optimizing a Cas12a-based method for screens. Cas12a’s ability ...

  12. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    ...excellent start (#22988, #137884). Both vectors allow the creation of amiRNAs based upon miRNA precursors...transgene. Typically, the desired target of RNAi is expressed as inverted repeats separated by a loop region...considerations, such as the starting material (DNA-based vector or purified RNA) and the initial state of the dsRNA... easiest approach to induce RNAi involves the expression of long hairpin RNA (hpRNA). This method is facilitated...construct has unique features, such as inducible expression of the hpRNA and/or fusing your gene target sequence... Although downstream work is required, several vectors can be found at Addgene that could serve as an ...ones? Here, I’ll cover some screening methods to identify them. Visual screening Regardless of the RNAi-trigger...

  13. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    ...then easy to package in low-capacity vectors like AAV, a popular vector due to its low immunogenicity. But...in size and are easy to package in low-capacity vectors! These small, but mighty type VI-D enzymes are ...collateral cleavage does not occur when Cas13d is expressed in a mammalian system. Since Cas13d is functionally...RspWYL1 increases both targeted and collateral RNA degradation by RspCas13d. RspWYL1 also increased EsCas13d...Cas13d, both groups used very general bioinformatic screens that looked for a CRISPR repeat array near a putative... WYL-domain-containing accessory protein WYL1 increases RspCas13d and EsCas13d cleavage activity The majority...

  14. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    ...in a single vector. In addition, the pol III promoter is relatively weak, and low expression of gRNAs from...III transcription, potentially increasing the levels of gRNA expression. Since tRNAs are among the most... confirming gRNA cleavage, they examined gRNA expression levels and indel generation for two PTG constructs...protoplasts. Compared to matching traditional gRNA-expressing constructs, transcript levels of PTG1 and PTG2...Xie et. al are specifically designed for plant expression, PTGs will likely be adaptable to many different...capacity. Still confused about the various tRNA expression strategies? No worries, I've summarized the three...research? Check out the PTG plasmids or plant expression systems available from Addgene. If you have any...

  15. K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion

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    ...Model Organisms Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors Tips for Screening with the Yeast Two Hybrid System ...Phillips made the decision to release the K. phaffii expression system to the general research community in the...different uses for the phaffii-lous strain. Protein expression   K. phaffii first gained attention for its powerful...This gene promoter, AOX1, was co-opted for the expression of recombinant proteins by the pharmaceutical...pharmaceutical and biotech industries as a protein expression workhorse. This yeast can also give more protein bang...Saccharomyces cerevisiae to human: The important gene co‑expression modules. Biomedical Reports 7.2 (2017): 153-158...protein secretion, making harvesting recombinant proteins a cinch. This is because it doesn’t secrete its ...

  16. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    ...interest: Plasmid Color Expression Description pPROEX Aqua Cyan Bacterial Expresses Aquamarine with N-terminal...Cyan Mammalian Expresses mammalian optimized Aquamarine mCerulean N1 Cyan Mammalian Express a gene of interest...Cyan Mammalian Expresses mammalian optimized CyPet pCyPet-His Cyan Bacterial Expresses CyPet with C-terminal... Mammalian Expresses mammalian optimized YPet pYPet-His Yellow Bacterial Expresses YPet with C-terminal...Mammalian Express a gene of interest fused to the C-terminus of SYFP2 Clover Green Mammalian Expresses Clover...Cyan & Yellow Bacterial Gateway-compatible vector to express a gene of interest fused between ECFP and ...monomeric Cerulean mCerulean C1 Cyan Mammalian Express a gene of interest fused to the C-terminus of monomeric...

  17. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    ...viral vectors.  Caspedia: A data repository for Cas enzymes.  Open repository of CRISPR screens Cellosaurus...enzyme cut sites Open reading frame finder  Addgene vector database: Find sequences for plasmids assembled... sequence and functional information, such as expression patterns, post-translational modifications and...plasmid analysis tool including editing, annotating, creating maps, and more. This tool is maintained by M. ...University of Utah.   Figure 1: A plasmid map created in SnapGene of Blue Flame plasmid pET21a-BirA. ...

  18. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    ...of robust expression of high G+C content genes, as validated through monitoring the expression of fluorescent...different vectors and flow cytometry is used to sort populations by mCherry and GFP expression to check... be seen through the success of the change in expression of GFP, for the stop codon should have changed...different biochemical secondary energy sources to increase protein yields from 36 μg/mL to 266 μg/mL. The...oxytetracycline enzymes. Next, this system was used to recreate natural biosynthetic pathways. Biosynthetic pathways...

  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases

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    ...gene expression. The regulatory element is cloned upstream of the luciferase gene, and expression of luciferase...backbones with the luciferase gene, a variety of expression vectors, and literally thousands of reporter constructs...wavelength of light they emit or to optimize their expression in mammalian systems. Our luciferase collection...luciferase assays have become a gold standard in gene expression analysis to investigate the effect of regulatory...interactions Split luciferases, such as NanoBiT, are expressed in two subunits and only catalyze a luminescent...reaction catalyzed by luciferase, releasing light. Created with BioRender.com. Bioluminescent reporters...Peak emission (nm) Size (kDa) Substrate Cofactors Secreted North American firefly (Photinus pyralis) Natural...

  20. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    ...in viral vectors, but easily fit in a TE. Transposons are also less likely than viral vectors to induce...Non-autonomous transposons, however, need another TE to express a transposase or reverse transcriptase so they ...transposon’s LTRs, similar to when packaging viral vectors.   Let’s take a closer look at three different ... in human cells at rates similar to retroviral vectors. The hyperactive version of the SB transposase,...efficiency in human cells similar to retroviral vectors. The hyperactive PB transposase (hyPB) is ~10-fold...transfer Transposons are an alternative to viral vector delivery of transgenes, like for iPSC reprogramming... piggyBac, which is a big advantage over viral vectors (~5 kB payload for AAV and ~8 kB payload for lentivirus...

  21. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    ...plant We developed plant adenine base editor (ABE) vectors to install A>G or T>C mutations in the plant genome...genome. We constructed three versions of the vector (pKABE6.3, pKABE7.9, and pKABE7.10) so that the user...are better suited (Gaudelli et al., 2017). Our vectors have two Bsa1 sites to clone the single guide RNA...scaffold) in a pol-III (OsU3) promoter driven expression system. We use a single polycistronic tRNA-gRNA... genomic site simultaneously.     These binary vectors could be used to generate stable genome edited ...Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. We also constructed smaller vectors suitable for transient assays using protoplast ...cytosine deaminase with Cas9 nickase (nCas9). nCas9 creates a nick in the DNA by cutting only a single strand...

  22. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    ...LinkedIn.   References 1. Yin, R., et al. "Gene expression profiling analysis of bisphenol A-induced perturbation...cytoskeletal disorganization, apoptosis, and gene expression disregulation on HeLa cells." Journal of applied...with the Agarose Method Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors Resources on Addgene.org Find mammalian plasmids...plasmids for your research Find viral vectors for infecting mammalian cells ...making their surrounding media acidic through the secretion of lactic acid (a by-product of cellular metabolism...

  23. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...determined by comparing cells expressing only eGFP expression to cells expressing eGFP and mCherry. ACE was...mCherry and a T2A site and expressed in cells. mCherry is constitutively expressed to identify successfully...that can be repaired by NHEJ restoring mCherry expression. Cells can then be sorted using Fluorescence-...BFP variant, a BE4am-Cas9 base editor, and sgRNA vectors for the BFP-to-GFP conversion and to target specific...integrated it into human and mouse cells that expressed either Cas9 or an optimized cytidine base editor...antibiotic resistance markers, and other enzymes such as Cre-recombinase drastically expanding the base-editing... of a mutated start codon to initiate protein expression, it can be used for an array of detectable proteins...

  24. Plasmids 101: The Wide World of Natural Plasmids

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    ...other molecules to host organisms. For instance, vectors derived from the Agrobacterium Ti virulence plasmid...especially when combined with natural inducible expression systems that allow tuning of metabolic pathways...developing new cloning techniques based on these vectors (Shareck et al., 2004). Plasmid categorization..., Y., Lee, B., & Miguez, C. B. (2004). Cloning Vectors Based on Cryptic Plasmids Isolated from Lactic ...Figure 1: Common functions of natural plasmids. Created with BioRender.com. Resistance (R) plasmids...resistance genes to help cells survive their own secretions. Pro tip! Historically, colicin-producing plasmids...years, and new classifications are still being created as whole-genome sequencing becomes more relevant...

  25. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...plasmids with low to medium copy numbers can still express massive amounts of protein given the proper promoter...the table below for more details.   Common Vectors Copy Number+ ori Incompatibility Group Control ...Relaxed This table defines common cloning vectors, their copy number, ori, and incompatibility groups...R6K, and 15A. Not all origins of replication are created equal. Some will produce many plasmid copies and...because they will compete for the same machinery, creating an unstable and unpredictable environment. As ...plasmids if they contain large inserts or genes that create a toxic product. The E. coli strain Most E....

  26. BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development

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    ...use plasmids from Addgene to construct NFIX expression vectors as well as reporters of NFIX function. They...interactions and how these interactions regulation gene expression. Recent studies have shown that the conditions...delete the functional portion of the Nfix gene using Cre recombinase and to generate Nfix-negative neural ...interactions and how these interactions regulation gene expression.     ...burden of immune symptoms on CDG patients and to increase their quality of life by reducing their risks ...ligand binding sites in T4 lysozyme by deficiency-creating substitutions." Journal of molecular biology 277.2...

  27. Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis

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    ... Congratulations, you have a plasmid expressing your gene of interest (YGOI) and are ready to dive into...confirm the presence of an insert in a particular vector by excising the insert from the backbone. To do...will need to know both the approximate size of the vector backbone as well as the predicted size of the insert...time-intensive, so we recommend a variety of ways to screen and verify your plasmids. Here, we'll cover restriction...500bp to 10kb, with the 3.0kb fragment having increased intensity to serve as a reference band. The uncut...

  28. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    ...My lab's vector of choice is AAV, with nearly every experiment requiring AAV. Before joining my lab, ...shell, or capsid; 2) the pHelper plasmid which expresses adenovirus genes which help mediate AAV viral ...Production of recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors for in vitro and in vivo use. Current protocols... out what makes AAV a versatile tool for gene expression in mammals Use the PEI calculator for planning...transfer plasmid at 30 °C instead of 37 °C and then screen for ITR recombination with a SmaI or XmaI restriction...duplicated regions like the ITRs. Restriction digest screening for ITR deletion is still necessary. To save time...mL of my AAV transfer plasmid cultures and then screen with SmaI digests. I freeze the bacterial pellet...

  29. Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools

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    ...in patched cells expressing wild type CoChR, these APs are absent in soCoChR-expressing cells. Finally,...C-terminus of the protein. Unlike the diffuse neuronal expression observed with wild type CoChR, soCoChR localizes...stimulation are largely absent in the soCoChR-expressing system. Taken together, Shemesh et. al. describe...Pseudomonas putida CBB5 and has been tailored for expression in E. coli. This operon is under the transcriptional...strong constitutive promoter (BBa_J23100) and expresses N-demethylases and other required enzymes, including...Moreover, a caffeine “addicted” E. coli strain expressing this operon can serve as a living biosensor for...FRET reference page for many other common FRET vectors. Murakoshi H, et al. Sci Rep. 2015. Pubmed PMID...

  30. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    ...Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Fluorescent Protein Guide Expression Vectors from the Berkeley QB3 MacroLab Eric thanks...box of tags and fusion proteins to aid in the expression and purification of recombinant proteins. Tags...purification to get your protein as pure as possible? Vectors that offer different combinations of tags are readily...Biochemists and molecular biologists who need to overexpress and purify proteins can face any number of technical... some of the hurdles to overcome in order to overexpress a recombinant protein? It is not generally in...in a cell’s best interest to overexpress a protein. Energy and cellular resources are being spent to make...stabilization, as can maltose-binding protein (MBP). Overexpression can also lead to insolubility, and aggregated...

  31. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

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    ...epitope tags, low FP expression may be insufficient for monitoring a weakly expressed POI. Spaghetti Monster...antibody-based detection, smFPs create much brighter signals for weakly expressed proteins than standard tags...cytotoxicity, low immunogenicity, and the long-term expression of AAV delivered genes. AAV serotypes have been.... Thanks to this work it is now much easier to express molecules in your favorite neuronal population ...insufficient for detection when the POI is weakly expressed. As these epitopes tags have no intrinsic visual... be fused to scaffold proteins in order to be expressed stably in neurons. As compared to epitopes tags...labeling of neurons. As discussed above, weakly expressed proteins in particular are difficult to track ...

  32. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles

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    ...protein of interest into a vector encoding a fluorescent tag. Once expressed as a fluorescent protein fusion...bacterial components. For example, the Rainbow Vectors from the Mariette Barbier Lab can be used to fluorescently...Barbier, Mariette, and F. Heath Damron. "Rainbow Vectors for Broad-Range Bacterial Fluorescence Labeling... to its final destination. As an example, most secreted proteins are produced in the endoplasmid reticulum...golgi and then transported in vesicles via the secretory pathway to their subcellular or extracellular ... they are finally degraded (2, 3). Once you've created your fusion protein, it's important to validate...subcellular structure or protein complex. By coexpressing both the marker protein and the protein of interest...

  33. Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design

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    ... library via a lentiviral vector to cell lines that either stably expressed Cas9 or that had been lentiviral...control for many of the effects of gRNA and Cas9 expression, they fail to account for the effects of Cas9...sites should control for the effects of guide expression and dsDNA breaks. Figure 2: Non-targeting...biological process. These screens provide an alternative to genome-wide RNAi screens, which although highly...similar pitfalls exist for CRISPR screens and how best to design these screens to controls for flaws. Recently...CRISPR knockout screen to analyze the following unanswered questions about CRISPR screen design. Unanswered...CRISPR/Cas9 screen design Are non-targeting guides an appropriate control? Many CRISPR screens use non-targeting...

  34. Zebrafish as a Model for Behavior: Swimming into the Optogenetic Spotlight

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    ... channels, such as ChR2 and NpHR, can even be expressed simultaneously and still be individually activated... like spontaneous swimming. To do so, the lab expressed the LiGluR opsin in different subsets of spinal...optogenetics blog posts Read blog posts about viral vectors Subscribe to the Addgene blog Resources on Addgene.org...spinal cord neurons using the Gal4/UAS system. This created fish lines with different groups of neurons that...

  35. AAV Production in HEK293 Cells

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    ...Cells You may also like... AAV Viral Service Viral Vector Guides Virus Blog Posts Molecular Biology Reference...transfection: pHelper; pRC (Rep-Cap), plasmid expressing your gene of interest Triton X-100 Benzonase/...harvesting. The addition of sorbitol has been shown to increase viral titers by up to 1.8-fold ( Rego et al., ...sodium bicarbonate, sorbitol has been found to increase viral titers by up to 1.8-fold. See the recipe...

  36. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    ...to induce the expression of a Cre recombinase contained within the knock-in. Including Cre-mediated marker...kilobases of additional sequence being introduced. Cre-mediated excision of the selective cassette minimizes...experimental manipulation. In some cases, injection of Cre is required, however the development of the self-...modular toolkits build single plasmid targeting vectors that encode the gRNA transcript and the repair ...using modified Cas9 proteins to regulate gene expression (CRISPRi/CRISPRa), visualize specific genomic....114.170423 Schwartz ML, Jorgensen EM (2018) SapTrap vectors for introducing point mutations with unc-119+ selection...variable amounts of experimental manipulation and screening.  A co-selection strategy for CRISPR editing in...

  37. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...drive gRNA expression is dependent upon the cell type in question. In plant cells, gRNA expression is achieved...Cas9 expression is commonly driven by plant-derived RNA pol II promoters which regulate expression of longer...mRNAs for gene expression). Examples of commonly used RNA pol II promoters for Cas9 expression include the...carries several useful CRISPR toolkits for creating plant expression plasmids, including plant CRISPR plasmids...system in plant cells. Like other model systems, expression of S. pyogenes Cas9 or Cas9 variants (hereafter...OsU6 or OsU3, which are commonly used to drive expression of small RNAs in their respective species. Addgene...with other model systems, multiple gRNAs can be expressed to modify several genomic loci at once (get more...

  38. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    ...plasmid contains humanized Cas9 expression cassette and sgRNA expression cassette. The target sgRNA can...a) Scheme of validation for DSB mediated EGFP expression cassette reconstitution. When the target sequence...annealing) took place and reconstituted the EGFP expression cassette. (b) pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid and ... PX330 plasmids (or similar plasmids for gRNA expression), one gRNA at a time. After 48 hours of incubation...homology directed repair, and resulting in the expression of EGFP. Using this technique, you can assess...clone the PCR products into a pBluescript cloning vector and sequence the resulting plasmid. It can take...mice by pronuclear injection of circular plasmid expressing Cas9 and single guided RNA." Scientific reports...

  39. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    ...tracrRNA was combined with the sgRNA expression vector allowing the screen to be conducted with only two constructs...gain of function screens. These screens can help reveal the function of lowly expressed genes or genes ...regulate gene expression. Some CRISPR libraries contain many sgRNAs per gene to increase confidence in... sgRNA library In addition to inhibiting gene expression, dCas9 can also be used for transcriptional activation...protein-tagging system for signal amplification in gene expression and fluorescence imaging." Cell 159.3 (2014):...Calabrese library to screens performed with open reading frame (ORF) overexpression libraries for resistance...large-scale functional screens Read this blog post about genome-wide screening using CRISPR Resources...

  40. Multifunctional Neural Fibers: Modulation from Gut to Brain

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    .... They started by delivering an AAV construct expressing channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), a blue light sensitive...potential afterwards. This measurement trended with expression of the opsin in the target neurons, validating...studies Channel rhodopsins for optogenetics Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics ... intestines known as neuropods. They observed increased vagus nerve firing in response to both of these...
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