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...to fuse the activators instead of at the protein’s C terminus. With that new design in place, Konermann...Brigham MD, Trevino AE, Joung J, Abudayyeh OO, Barcena C, Hsu PD, Habib N, Gootenberg JS, Nishimasu H, Nureki...Adamson B, Villalta JE, Chen Y, Whitehead EH, Guimaraes C, Panning B, Ploegh HL, Bassik MC, Qi LS, Kampmann ...nucleolytically inactive Cas9-VP64 fusion; 2. A sgRNA incorporating two MS2 RNA aptamers at the tetraloop and stem-loop...knockout screening). As the Zhang lab's Nature paper reports, “Here we have shown that the SAM system is robust...size of the backbone, transformations require electroporation. References & Further Reading: For more ...

...Oh S, Tomkinson AE, Hendrickson EA, Giovannangeli C, Jasin M, Brunet E (2014) Chromosomal Translocations.../10.1016/j.molcel.2014.08.002 Ran FA, Hsu PD, Lin C-Y, Gootenberg JS, Konermann S, Trevino AE, Scott DA... Yan M-Y, Li S-S, Ding X-Y, Guo X-P, Jin Q, Sun Y-C (2020) A CRISPR-Assisted Nonhomologous End-Joining...process involve repairing chromosomal DSBs. It is important to know that cells possess two major repair pathways...chance of causing a frameshift mutation. Of some importance, the deletion can be less heterogeneous when ...

...Annealing temperature should be 60-65°C For qPCR, the important primer variable is the annealing temperature... the primers.  Melting temperature should be ~60°C (between 50 and 65, with no more than 3 degrees between...curve will show multiple peaks.    (a) (b)  (c)   Fig. 1: Melt curves showsing (a) a single peak...dimers. (b) A shoulder peak indicating primer dimers. (c) A double peak indicating 2 amplicons. Image credits...02217-xTaylor, SC; Nadeau, K; Abbasi, M; Lachance, C; Nguyen, M; Fenrich, J. The Ultimate qPCR Experiment...Zuo J, Dong X, Zhang M, Hu G, Fang F. Fudenine, a C-terminal truncated rat homologue of mouse prominin...step. Scorpion chemistry in particular has been reported to work well in the Lightcycler while being relatively...

... N- or C-terminal tagging in Drosophila cells. N terminal tagging in Drosophila cells 3.2 MB C terminal...gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila Plant C. elegans Yeast Zebrafish Xenopus CRISPR Resources ...lab deposited a plasmid which introduces an N- or C- terminal affinity tag (3xFLAG-2xSTREP) on endogenous...CRISPR-based knock-in of EGFP-2A-PuroR cassette to the C-terminus of endogenous proteins. The PITCh system ...CRISPR targeting vectors to insert genetic tags in the C. elegans genome. The SapTrap reaction produces a single...genome modification. This system can be used to create C- and N-terminal epitope tags. The plasmids in the ...terminal tagging in Drosophila cells 3.3 MB Seydoux C. elegans Tagging System Geraldine Seydoux's lab has developed...

...mDia1 and CP appearance at the filament tip from (a). c) Intensity traces at the tip of the filament from ...10.1021/cb900062k Gautier, A., Juillerat, A., Heinis, C., Corrêa, I. R., Kindermann, M., Beaufils, F., & Johnsson...https://doi.org/10.1126/science.281.5374.269 Jing, C., & Cornish, V. W. (2011). Chemical Tags for Labeling... M. G., Hartzell, D. D., Karassina, N., Zimprich, C., Wood, M. G., Learish, R., Ohana, R. F., Urh, M.,...doi.org/10.1038/nmeth749 Strebinger, D., Frangieh, C. J., Friedrich, M. J., Faure, G., Macrae, R. K., &...amino acids to directly incorporate a fluorophore in your protein or to incorporate an alkene to be labeled... self-labeling tools: Tetracysteine: The first reported chemical labeling tag, from Roger Tsien’s lab ...

...interactions New auxin inducible degron system for C. elegans New CRISPR plasmids New items from the viral...tool-kit for the auxin inducible degron (AID) system in C. elegans By Alyssa Cecchetelli The auxin inducible... degron (AID) system has been extensively used in C. elegans since 2015 to conditionally degrade proteins...length can and should be varied as it can have important implications for the fusion protein effectivity...upon these original tools that allows for both spatiotemporal protein degradation and quantification of this...et al., 2021.   The AID system relies on a transport inhibitor response 1 (TIR1) expressed under a ...a desired promoter with a specific spatiotemporal expression pattern and an auxin inducible degron (AID...

...at 95 °C, a common lysis temperature, so consider a longer incubation (10–20 minutes) at 70 °C, or a truly... Additionally, protein lysis should be done at 4 °C or on ice, whichever is more practical. If your lysing... truly lengthy incubation (30–60 minutes) at 37 °C, if you suspect aggregation in your prep. If your proteins...protein-based blockers degrade fairly quickly, even at 4 °C, so when in doubt, make up a fresh batch.  Antibodies...and time. Though the most common conditions are 4 °C overnight or room temperature for 1–2 hours, there...sample loaded Incubate primary antibody at 4 °C overnight Incomplete washing Ensuring wash is...under-transferring.  Membrane pore size Membranes come in different pore sizes for different proteins:...

...conformations: (A) bent-closed, (B) extended-closed, and (C) extended-open. When a ligand binds, it typically ... with much lower affinity than their open states (C). Figure courtesy of IPI. IPI anti-integrin toolset...and resources References Hao, Y., Yan, J., Fraser, C., Jiang, A., Anuganti, M., Zhang, R., Lloyd, K., Jardine...Jaumouillé, V., Hao, Y., Coppola, J., Yan, J., Waterman, C. M., Springer, T. A., & Ha, T. (2022). Single-molecule...in competition with other similar integrins, as reported by IPI and the Springer lab (Hao et al., 2024)...In this study, we, along with the Springer lab, reported the binding specificity, kinetics, and affinity...belief that αVβ3 would be the most functionally important integrin on these cells. What’s next IPI is working...

...-target binding. Currently supports: Drosophila, Arabidopsis, zebrafish, C. elegans, mouse, human, rat...activation). Genome support for bacteria ( E. coli, B. subtilis ), yeast ( S. cerevisiae ), worm ( C. elegans )...-target binding. Currently supports: Drosophila, Arabidopsis, zebrafish, C. elegans , mouse, human, rat..., and HDR. Reference genomes include Arabidopsis, C. elegans , sea squirt, cavefish, Chinese hamster, ...and X. laevis), zebrafish, sea squirt, Drosophila, C. elegans, Arabidopsis, rice, sorghum, silkworm, and...genome-wide gRNA libraries. PubMed PMID 28348817 . CRISPOR This tool helps design (10 different prediction...

.../000504294 Wang, T., Guan, C., Guo, J., Liu, B., Wu, Y., Xie, Z., Zhang, C., & Xing, X.-H. (2018). Pooled...doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2016.4.237 McCusker, C., & Gardiner, D. M. (2011). The Axolotl Model for ...elife.50651 Vieira, W. A., Wells, K. M., & McCusker, C. D. (2019). Advancements to the Axolotl Model for ... areas of microbial research like metabolism. Transport, biofilms, and much more. Because of it’s BSL-...designed for use in Arabidopsis. There are also important tips for plant transformations and the use of ...

...store them in a -80°C freezer to prevent RNA degradation. They will degrade in a -20°C freezer.   RNA extraction...DEPC. Alternatively, glassware can be baked at 180°C for at least 4 hours.   If your final RNA sample(s...extractions- if you need really clean RNA, it’s important to make sure that when extracting, to only take...

...cloning method with high throughput capability. Engler C, Kandzia R, Marillonnet S. PLoS One 2008;3(11):e3647..., Doyle EL, Christian M, Wang L, Zhang Y, Schmidt C, Baller JA, Somia NV, Bogdanove AJ, Voytas DF. Nucleic...2011 Apr 14. PubMed.   Golden Gate cloning. Engler C, Marillonnet S. Methods Mol Biol. 2014;1116:119-31...like Gateway cloning or Gibson assembly. Another important consideration is the design of flanking overhangs...

...for Tet transregulators. Krueger C, Pfleiderer K, Hillen W, Berens C. Biotechniques . 2004 Oct;37(4):546...developed. tTA was created by fusing tetR with the C-terminal domain of VP16 (virion protein 16), an essential...encoded tetracycline resistance. Hillen W and Berens C. Annu Rev Microbiol . 1994;48:345-69. PubMed . Transcriptional...cells. Yao F, Svensjö T, Winkler T, Lu M, Eriksson C, Eriksson E. Hum Gene Ther . 1998 Sep 1;9(13):1939...biomedical research. Bockamp E, Maringer M, Spangenberg C, Fees S, Fraser S, Eshkind L, Oesch F, Zabel B. Physiol...virus). In the absence of tetracycline, the tetR portion of tTA will bind these tetO sequences and the activation...identify which amino acid residues of tetR were important for tetracycline-dependent repression. Mutating...

...fragments: N-terminal BirA* (N-BirA*) and C-terminal BiraA* (C-BirA*). These two fragments are fused to...also which fragment of BirA*, either the N- or the C-terminus, the bait proteins were tagged with. It’s...interacting proteins. No spatiotemporal control. Many PPI detection methods lack spatiotemporal control or an “... lysate fractionation. Important considerations for Split-BioID It’s important to remember that with Split-BioID...this limitation by creating Split-BioID, a spatiotemporally controllable version of the proximity-dependent...The Split-BioID method Enter Split-BioID, a spatiotemporally controllable version of the BioID protocol... other PPI methods, including BioID, is its spatiotemporal controlled labeling of interacting proteins...

...construct, grown at the permissive temperature (32°C) to allow transposition, and the construct is then... by growing at the non-permissive temperature (42°C). Transposition is efficient enough that selection...TALEN Gang Bao Gateway cloning and expression of a C-terminally His-tagged TALEN fused to an E. coli codon...protein fusion: contains empty vectors with N and C-terminal fluorescent protein tags that can be used... pET15-MHL 26092 T7-lacO (lactose/IPTG inducible) C-terminal TEV cleavable 6x His Cheryl Arrowsmith Empty...Lactose/IPTG inducible) Various combinations of N and C-terminal Strep and His tags Thorben Dammeyer Lactose...expressed in B. subtilis Various combinations of N and C-terminal Strep, His, MBP, TRX, GST, SUMO, MISTIC, ...

...requested! Fire Lab C. Elegans Kit - Our first popular "kit," Andrew Fire's set of vectors for C. elegans research...added to the repository, including beta-catenin reporter M50 Super 8x TOPFlash, scramble shRNA for use ...

...length of your assay. The most common options are 4 °C overnight or 1–2 hours at room temperature (RT). Most...to incubate their primary antibody overnight at 4 °C and their secondary antibody for 1–2 hrs at room temperature...the DIY method. As some proteins aggregate at 95 °C, you may want to check for any available data on the...expensive, reduce protocol time, can be stored at 4 °C, and are very consistent gel-to-gel.  Ladder Whatever...stored at your bench during the procedure and at 4 °C when you’re not running a western. They are not very...will noticeably degrade after several months at 4 °C.  Pro tip! If you get a speckled image, your protein-based...variety of pore sizes. If your protein of interest is small, you may want to consider a smaller pore size (...

...Williams, Eric J. Ross, Sofia M. C. Robb, Sarah A. Elliott, Kimberly C. Tu, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado,...discovered and characterized in an unrelated worm (C. elegans) [2]. Delivering dsRNA matching a specific...Hybridization (WISH) WISH is a technique that detects the temporal and spatial localization of mRNA transcripts in...

...still unexpectedly affect nearby genes (Figure 1A-C). Find CRISPR plasmids at Addgene! Knock-in: Introducing...site (TSS) deletion. (B) Mutations of splice sites. (C) Removal of an exon or a large genomic fragment. (... doi:10.1080/15476286.2014.996067 Basak J, Nithin C. Targeting Non-Coding RNAs in Plants with the CRISPR-Cas...experiments are important for visualizing ncRNA localization and function, but directly incorporating very long...transcribed but do not encode proteins. They play important roles in many cellular and regulatory processes...complex and not yet fully understood, so it is important to carefully select the target locations of knock-in...nuclease-dead Cas9 protein (dCas9) and a sgRNA to temporarily block the transcription machinery of a target...