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  1. Addgene’s Top 10 Blog Posts from 2014

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    ...Competent Cells By Melina Fan Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go! By Kendall Morgan Plasmids...the experts in the CRISPR/Cas field, have been extremely helpful for scientists that are looking for more...on “Making Your Own Competent Cells” has been extremely popular, generating many additional questions....
  2. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    ...studies have shown that one base change in the promoter region of gamma hemoglobin (HGB1/2) leads to continuous.... ABE8 efficiently edited the fetal hemoglobin promoter and caused persistent expression of fetal hemoglobin... domain can edit the short single-stranded DNA stretch that is accessible. Image from Gaudelli et al.,...
  3. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ... toxin gene (regulated by a rhamnose-inducible promoter) and a chromoprotein gene. Allelic exchange occurs...it is under the control of a rhamnose-inducible promoter. The resolution step leads to the desired mutation... the loss of their symbiotic algae, during heat stress. For other organisms, like the sea anemone, scientists...
  4. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    ...a chimeric 5’ LTR containing a Tat-independent promoter. Although safer, this system may be more cumbersome... vectors integrate into the genome, they could promote oncogenesis by altering local gene expression. ...HIV-1 envelope. As of 2013, 65 patients had been treated with this therapy, which lowered viral load and...15(2):78-82. PubMed PMID: 23322669. 6. Genetic treatment of a molecular disorder: gene therapy approaches...
  5. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ...that also contains a reporter gene cloned downstream of a promoter containing the target sequence of the ...as the “prey”) in close enough proximity to the promoter of the reporter gene to activate expression (Figure...fusion protein shown is still able to bind to the upstream activation sequence (UAS) of its target gene, ...
  6. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    .... MazF expression is under control of the AOX1 promoter whose expression is induced by methanol. Once ...luciferase-expressing plasmids to examine in vivo-induced promoters in the Vibrio cholerae vaccine strain CVD 103-...However, the sok antisense-RNA binds a sequence downstream of the mok SD resulting in a double stranded ...
  7. Synthetic Biology, Artificial Chromosomes, iGEM & More - Interview with Tom Ellis

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    ...screening direct interactions between drugs and promoters of oncogenes. He returned to academic research...Podcast features guest host and Addgene European Outreach Scientist, Benoit Giquel. Traveling from our offices...in Academia. Will it all pay off? Chapter 2: The Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation - A shared...Tom Ellis! Dr. Ellis is a lead researcher at the Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial ...project. His team also investigates bacteria and extremophiles for biotechnology and has been directly involved...
  8. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    ...transcription by placing the aptamer downstream of a known promoter. Addgene’s Plasmids 101: Aptamer Fluorophores... RNA Polymerase III. By expressing Corn under promoters for transcripts uniquely transcribed by RNA Polymerase...for imaging in live cells. By placing Spinach downstream of a riboswitch, metabolite binding to the riboswitch...ability to track RNA dynamics in a model of Fragile-X tremor/ataxia syndrome (Strack et al., 2013). Since then...
  9. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    ...Cas9 would have an off-target that lands in the promoter of another gene, thereby driving aberrant transcription... said, we generally pick guides by putting the promoter of the gene into a gRNA finder such as WU-CRISPR...targeting the guides to a region less than 200 bp upstream of TSS for best results but up to 400 bp works...10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.029 Konermann S, Brigham MD, Trevino AE, Joung J, Abudayyeh OO, Barcena C, Hsu PD, Habib...
  10. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    ...the targeting vector is inserted downstream of a functional promoter (gene traps). The resultant gene ...pAAV-TK-Acceptor has a conventional heterologous promoter-driven TK-neoR gene. To modify these tagging vectors...pAAV-SEPT-Acceptor, the preferred vector, contains a promoterless splice acceptor-IRES-neoR gene, which enhances...AAV preps generally used for gene editing are low titre, and are therefore able to infect only a small subset...
  11. Plasmids 101: Common Lab E. coli Strains

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    ...your plasmid – you carefully selected the optimal promoter for your gene of interest, painstakingly cloned...Plasmids 101 Posts: Origin of Replication The Promoter Region – Let's Go! Mammalian Vectors Looking ..., and may have even put a fluorescent protein downstream, separated by an IRES element. You did a lot ...subunit S12 of 30S ribosome Confers resistance to streptomycin Tn10   Confers resistance to tetracycline ...galK rpsL (StrR) endA1 nupG fhuA::IS2 DB3.1 Streptomycin  HB101 derivative. For propagating plasmids ...lacY1 proA2 rpsL20(Smr) xyl5 Δleu mtl1 DH10B Streptomycin MC1061 derivative. General cloning and storage...lacZYA-argF)U169, hsdR17(rK- mK+), λ– HB101 Streptomycin Hybrid of E. coli K12 and E. coli B (mostly ...
  12. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    ... pages, we added curation fields for purpose, promoters, expression types, and more, all of which help...How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Editing The Promoter Region - Let's Go! How to Verify Your Plasmid ... easier access to export-controlled items by streamlining permissions and paperwork. Through updating ...
  13. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    ...following changes. In pCas9, we 1) replaced the promoter of gRNA-pMB1 with PrhaB, 2) changed the replicon...pCutamp cures the plasmids by targeting the ampR promoter in all three plasmids. pCutamp is then removed... B strains, 1 E. coli W strain, and 1 Tatumella citrea, with a total of 70 sites edited. We optimized ...
  14. Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids

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    ...resistance cassettes (Prior et al. 2010), inducible promoters with different degrees of stringency and inducibility...Development of constitutive and IPTG-inducible integron promoter-based expression systems for Escherichia coli ...spheroides, Salmonella spp., Serratia marcescens, Streptomyces lividans, Synechococcus spp., Thiobacillus ferrooxidans...
  15. Luciferase Plasmid Collection

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    ...renilla_polyA Firefly/Renilla Insertion of 5' promoter/enhancer regions upstream of Firefly luciferase. Renilla luciferase...pSGDlucV3.0 Firefly/Renilla Insertion of 5' promoter/enhancer regions upstream of Firefly luciferase. Renilla luciferase...investigate the effect of regulatory elements, such as promoters, enhancers and untranslated regions, or the effect...available that are driven by a strong constitutive promoter and can be used to monitor transfection or viral...plasmids by using the bacterial ORI as the core promoter, which was a source of false positives with the...Description PI 16539 pBV-Luc Firefly Insertion of 5' promoter/enhancer regions Bert Vogelstein 12178 pIS0 Firefly... Renilla luciferase under the control of a CMV promoter is present for normalization William Kaelin 71248...
  16. Empty Backbones - Choosing Your Perfect Plasmid Backbone

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    ...Representative Empty Backbones Promoter Measure promoter strength pBV-Luc - Luciferase ...plasmid with a promoter that will be functional in your host organism. Host Relevant Promoters Representative...vector (PGK1 promoter, 2μ) pXP316 - Yeast expression vector (TEF1 promoter, CEN/ARS) pAG304GAL-ccdB...vector (PGK1 promoter, CEN/ARS) pXP222 - Yeast expression vector (PGK1 promoter, 2μ) pAG305GAL-ccdB... vectors with various markers, promoters, etc pRS420 - Yeast expression ... expression under the metallothionein promoter pACU2 - Modified pUAST vector containing... transgenes Worm unc-54, variety of worm gene promoters C. elegans vector kit - Collection...
  17. Bacterial Expression Systems

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    ...expression. pCW-LIC 26098 3x Tac promoter (hybrid of trp and lac promoters with higher expression upon induction...trp and lac promoters (Lactose/IPTG inducible) Various combinations of N and C-terminal Strep and His tags...function, structure, and interactions! Plasmid ID Promoter Epitope Tag(s) ID Purpose pDEST-HisMBP 11085 Tac...with your gene/protein of interest. Plasmid ID Promoter Inducer(s) PI Purpose Murray Lab pBEST plasmids... from Promega. Contain a variety of inducible promoters, their associated transcription factors, and reporter...by the quorum sensing molecule, 3OC6HSL, from a promoter repressed by EsaR. Designed to be used with the... sensitivities to 3OC6HSL. The EsaR-responsive promoter can be found in pCS-PesaRlux controlling luciferase...
  18. What's New in CRISPR - December 2019

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    ...this system is tunable via a rhamnose-inducible promoter. While this system was optimized for Burkholderia...deaminase (TadA) to a catalytically impaired Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9. They called this editor Target-ACE...
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