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  1. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...PMC3725456. Schwarz H, Zhang Y, Zhan C, Malm M, Field R, Turner R, Sellick C, Varley P, Rockberg J, Chotteau...aliquot of our recombinant antibodies is stored at 37 °C for a period of two weeks. After this time, quality...33151027; PMCID: PMC7665837. L'Abbé D, Bisson L, Gervais C, Grazzini E, Durocher Y. Transient Gene Expression...Sederstrom D, Steinmann D, Mozziconacci O, Schöneich C, Freund E, Ricci MS, Carpenter JF, Lengsfeld CS. Do...antibodies conveniently allow for unlimited production, reliable expression, and easy distribution as DNA (Trimmer...
  2. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ...El-Bakkoury, M., Hamacher, T., Cappellaro, C., Vilarino, C., Fleischer, C., Ellerbrok, H., Kamuzinzi, R., Ledent...organisms, including bacteria, alternative fungi (C. albicans, pC2HB) (7) and mammalian cells. If the ... prey libraries can be screened using both N- and C-terminal fusions of these proteins. This way both ...set up, conducted and analysed with care to get reliable information. Although two-hybrid systems are a...
  3. Hassle-free 96-well Format Epitope Tagging Using Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein

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    ...Kalantzaki M, Gangoso E, Matjusaitis M, Garcia-Diaz C, Blin C, Grant V, Bulstrode H, Gogolok S et al. 2017. ...available for human and mouse genomes only and deals with C-terminus epitope tagging. If you work with other model...your crRNAs using other web-based design tools (for C-terminus tagging, pick a crRNA that cuts 8-15 bp downstream...insertion site (within ~8-15 bp from the stop codon for C-terminus tagging) GC content of the crRNA (aim for... genotyping can tell if HDR completely failed. If C-terminus tagging potentially disrupts protein function... O'Duibhir E, Quinn N, Tyrer A, Leitner MC, Plumb C, Kalantzaki M et al. 2018. An efficient and scalable...epitope-tagged clonal cell lines remains a challenge as it relies on inefficient homology-directed repair (HDR) to...
  4. Water Bath Protocol

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    ... your experiment. Water baths tend to heat up relatively slowly. Place the water bath cover on the top... refrigerators to achieve a temperature between 4°C and room temperature. This general protocol suits ...
  5. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    ...rise of literary giants such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, James Blish, and John W. Campbell. This period...combination of the four bases of DNA – A, T, G, and C. In this movie Ethan Hawke’s character revolts against...editors (CBE) use a cytidine deaminase to introduce a C→T change at precise locations in the genome. This ...JR, Sousa AA, Koblan LW, Levy JM, Chen PJ, Wilson C, Newby GA, Raguram A, Liu DR (2019) Search-and-replace...Correction: Programmable base editing of A•T to G•C in genomic DNA without DNA cleavage. Nature 559:E8...420–424 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17946 Lenay C (2000) Hugo De Vries: from the theory of intracellular...for dinosaurs wreaking havoc in a theme park.  Released in 1997, GATTACA is an American SciFi film starring...
  6. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    ...02708-5 Hrit J, Goodrich L, Li C, et al. (2018) OGT binds a conserved C-terminal domain of TET1 to regulate...89–92. https://doi.org/10.1038/301089a0. Galonska C, Charlton J, Mattei AL et al (2018). Genome-wide tracking...https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34870.  Kaas GA, Zhong C, Eason DE, Ross DL, Vachhani RV, Ming G-L, King JR...   Epigenetics nation stuck with methylation correlation  In the 1980s, a lot of things were cool: Walkmans...problem is that many of these studies report correlations without clearly testing whether a certain methylation... dCas9-TET, allowing one to study the causal relationship between DNA demethylation and gene expression...
  7. Deisseroth INTRSECT Collection

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    ...window) Poulin JF, Caronia G, Hofer C, Cui Q, Helm B, Ramakrishnan C, Chan CS, Dombeck DA, Deisseroth K...Navarro M, Burnham N, Cristiano C, Dorrier CE, Tipton GJ, Ramakrishnan C, Kozicz T, Deisseroth K, Thiele...Markovic M, Wolff SB, Ramakrishnan C, Fenno L, Deisseroth K, Herry C, Arber S, Lüthi A. 2016. Midbrain ... in order to enable three-feature cell targeting. C) Example of viral targeting of cells expressing Cre...processing, producing a functional molecular tool (C,F). Implementation The following resources may be ...Vcre No References Fenno LE, Mattis J, Ramakrishnan C, Hyun M, Lee SY, He M, Tucciarone J, Selimbeyoglu ...Grosenick L, Zalocusky KA, Bernstein H, Swanson H, Perry C, Diester I, Boyce FM, Bass CE, Neve R, Huang ZJ, Deisseroth...
  8. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...alternating between 5 min at -20°C (or -80°C) followed by 5 min at 37°C (each repeated 5 times) works well...with any protein purification, but overnight at 30°C is a good start. Prepare a lysis solution containing... PMCID: PMC4971087. 3. Simpson, David J., Jessica C. Sacher, and Christine M. Szymanski. "Exploring the...PubMed PMID: 27319741. 3. Simpson, David J., Jessica C. Sacher, and Christine M. Szymanski. "Development ...membranes will then be exposed to a lysis buffer to release recombinant proteins directly onto the nitrocellulose...
  9. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    ... synaptic proteins Fluorescent protein system for C. elegans Fluorescent timers for studying cell cycle...native locus, but introducing large genetic changes in C. elegans with CRISPR can be difficult since it requires...can you use CRISPR to introduce large FP genes into C. elegans? By using a split FP approach. Split-wrmScarlet...together, they fuse and fluoresce. The team engineered C. elegans cell lines to express wrmScarlet1-10 unattached...cell cycle. Cells that had IL-3 withdrawn became entirely red as they could not proliferate. Eastman et...human glycosyltransferase genes and other proteins related to cellular glycosylation. Get the library at ...
  10. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ... when the genome editing frequency is low, the relative abundance of exon-skipped mRNA is high, likely...disorder of glycosylation, and Niemann-Pick disease type C. Although the three DMD studies referenced here represent... 2015 Dec 31. doi:10.1126/science.aae0169 2. Long C, Amoasii L, Mireault AA, McAnally JR, Li H, Sanchez-Ortiz...K, Cheng JK, Chew WL, Widrick JJ, Yan WX, Maesner C, Wu EY, Xiao R, Ran FA, Cong L, Zhang F, Vandenberghe...and large animal models with mutations in human-relevant exons 45-55, rather than in the traditional exon...
  11. Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation

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    ...labeling of the cell population. Figure 2: Dense (c), intermediate (d), and sparse (e) labeling of the...References: del Valle Rodríguez A, Didiano D, Desplan C (2011) Power tools for gene expression and clonal ...Feng Q, Zhou Y, Zeng S, Ren M, Jiang S, Ni H, Zhou C, Gong H, Luo M (2018) Cell-type-specific and projection-specific...these labor-intensive and invasive techniques to reliably label any post-mitotic cells in Drosophila. SPARC... be labeled in a given population is directly correlated to the length of the truncated attP site. The...
  12. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    ...Wilkinson P, van der Meer D, Dow D, Buser-Doepner C, Bertotti A, Trusolino L, Stronach EA, Saez-Rodriguez...-019-1103-9 Bialek JK, Dunay GA, Voges M, Schäfer C, Spohn M, Stucka R, Hauber J, Lange UC (2016) Targeted...Adamson B, Villalta JE, Chen Y, Whitehead EH, Guimaraes C, Panning B, Ploegh HL, Bassik MC, Qi LS, Kampmann ...Brigham MD, Trevino AE, Joung J, Abudayyeh OO, Barcena C, Hsu PD, Habib N, Gootenberg JS, Nishimasu H, Nureki..., Weir BA, Hahn WC, Marsh JA, Tsherniak A, Kadoch C (2018) Interrogation of Mammalian Protein Complex ...providing a new gRNA rather than engineering an entirely new protein. This makes it much cheaper to use...
  13. A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression

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    ...particles or relatively short expression times, where as others, such as hSynapsin, are relatively weak and...this study were packaged at Addgene and had a relatively low recombination rate (0.1% and 0.13% respectively...neuronal phenotype in a mixed population (Burger, C. 2004, Aschauer, DF. 2013, O’Carroll, SJ. 2021). This...https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076310 Burger C, Gorbatyuk OS, Velardo MJ, Peden CS, Williams P, Zolotukhin... require gene expression in a specific cell type rely on transgenic models that express recombinases like...sites and the open reading frame is inverted in relation to the promoter, hence the name, double-floxed...homologous pairs, and that the degree of homology is correlated with the level of spontaneous recombination. ...
  14. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    ...fragment of CIB1 and it was fused to both the N- and C-termini of dCas9; and 2) CRY2FL-VP64, a fusion of ...fragmented Cas9 into N-terminal (residues 2-713, N713) and C-terminal (residues 714-1368, C714) halves, rendering...split-Cas9 (FAST) system constitutively expresses the C-terminal fragment of Cas9 while transcription of the...used the bacterial phytochrome BphS which produces c-di-GMP in response to far-red light (730 nm). This...VP64 which in turn transcribes N-Cas9. The N- and C-Cas9 fragments then dimerize to form a functional ... from A. sativa (Bubeck et al., 2018). LOV2 has a C-terminal helix that unfolds when stimulated by blue...Bietz A, Waldhauer MC, Börner K, Fakhiri J, Schmelas C, Dietz L, Grimm D, Correia BE, Eils R, Niopek D (2018...
  15. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    ...References and Resources References Braun, C. J., Adames, A. C., Saur, D., & Rad, R. (2022). Tutorial: design...Sousa, A. A., Tsai, S. Q., Bengtsson, N. E., Lööv, C., Ingelsson, M., Chamberlain, J. S., Corey, D. P.,...M. J., Joung, J. K., Breakefield, X. O., Maguire, C. A., & György, B. (2019). High levels of AAV vector... activation, and knockout. Most CRISPR screens rely on lentiviral systems, a fact supported by the wide...still beats lentivirus. In mice, AAV is almost entirely non-immunogenic — meaning when conducting in vivo...not integrate into the host genome. AAV instead relies mainly on episomal expression. Episomes are circular...It is important to note, however, that while AAV rarely integrates into the genome, CRISPR may increase...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    ...4355596 King, S. R., Duggal, N. K., Ndongmo, C. B., Pacut, C., & Telesnitsky, A. (2008). Pseudodiploid Genome...34372494. Prussin, A. J., Garcia, E. B., & Marr, L. C. (2015). Total Virus and Bacteria Concentrations in...Xiao, H., Conway, J. A., Hunter, E., & Kappes, J. C. (1997). Functional RT and IN incorporated into HIV...tools in molecular biology. “Retroviruses” is an umbrella term which encompasses 1.) the gamma-retroviruses...After uncoating, reverse transcription follows the release of the two strands of viral RNA and of the viral...The genome of viral tools are often not virology related at all, and you will instead get expression of ...genome can direct the production, packaging, and release of progeny viral particles. And there you have ...
  17. Multifunctional Neural Fibers: Modulation from Gut to Brain

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    ... the digestion of food, while brain tissue is relatively static). To operate both types of implanted ...it - the device has a rechargeable battery, is relatively small, and can be detached easily whenever necessary...Antonini, M.-J., Rosenfeld, D., Park, J., Garwood, I. C., Yan, W., Niroui, F., Fink, Y., Chandrakasan, A.,...monitor multiple systems. Ideally this tool would be wireless, able to monitor outcomes of interest, and stimulate...outputs for the system. Success! They also observed reliable optically evoked neuron activity for at least .... P. (2020). Modular Optoelectronic System for Wireless, Programmable Neuromodulation During Free Behavior... Multifunctional microelectronic fibers enable wireless modulation of gut and brain neural circuits. Nature...
  18. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...cells. For example, Henry Lester’s lab optimized the C. elegans GluCl ion channel genes for expression in...Santana-Quintero LV, Katneni U, Simonyan V, Kimchi-Sarfaty C (2017) A new and updated resource for codon usage ...–34 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb1031 Gustafsson C, Govindarajan S, Minshull J (2004) Codon bias and ...doi.org/10.1093/nar/28.1.292 Sauna ZE, Kimchi-Sarfaty C (2011) Understanding the contribution of synonymous...usage important? Translation and protein synthesis relies on transfer RNAs (tRNAs). tRNAs bind to and deliver...studies have shown that translational efficiency is correlated with codon bias across all endogenous genes in...you want to express may contain codons that are rarely used in the host you are using or come from an ...
  19. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    .... Time Viral production in mammalian cells is relatively quick. After transfection, HEK-293T cells start...https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.01-0995fje. Tan, E., Chin, C. S. H., Lim, Z. F. S., & Ng, S. K. (2021). HEK293 ...doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2021.796991. Urabe, M., Ding, C., & Kotin, R.M. (2002). Insect cells as a factory ... cells, and its lifecycle ends in cell lysis, releasing the virus to the supernatant. The virus will reach...
  20. CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics

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    ... use next-generation sequencing to measure the relative proportion of guide RNAs (gRNAs) across the population...our example later, histones) ChiRP-seq RNA Hi-C DNA (genome-to-genome interactions) DNase-seq DNA...commonly think of DNA as a linear polymer of A,T,G, and C nucleotides arranged in a double helix. People are...die or differentiate Step 3 reveals which NANOG-related genes are critical to stem cell survival. Knowing...
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