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  1. Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection

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    ... into cells in the lab. The introduction of foreign DNA or RNA into bacteria or eukaryotic cells is a ...application of an electrical charge to cells, to increase cell membrane permeability and thus transformation...introduce foreign DNA into eukaryotic cells, like mammalian cell lines. This can be done with lentiviral...the genome and stable cell lines, where foreign DNA is incorporated into the cell’s genome and is thus passed... pokes holes in the cell membrane so DNA can be introduced directly into the cell. Microinjection requires...multiple ways foreign DNA can be introduced into cells including transformation, transduction, conjugation...genetic material from the environment by bacterial cells. In nature, this genetic material often comes from...
  2. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    ...Love your cells and they'll love you back A successful lentiviral infection begins with your cells, both ...both your packaging cells and your target cells. Poor tissue culture practices can lead to low titers and... promote cell growth. Overgrown cultures stimulate quiescence, the resting phase of the cell cycle; quiescent...quiescent cells do not take up nucleic acid or express transgenes as well as actively dividing cells resulting...reaching 108 cells per ml before the media becomes cloudy. Mycoplasma compete with host cells for nutrients...consumption due to the high cell density of the culture. In addition to benefitting your cells, medium exchanges...therefore titers obtained in one cell type may not translate well to other cell types. To overcome this issue...
  3. Multiplexed Overexpression of Regulatory Factors (MORF) collection

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    ...human embryonic stem cells. Transduced stem cells were differentiated and single cell RNA-seq was performed...transduced human embryonic stem cells with the viral TF library, with each cell receiving only 1 TF expression...construct. Cells were cultured following a differentiation protocol before performing single-cell RNA sequencing...differentiation.   Fig. 2: Single cell RNA-seq clustering of cells transduced with the TF pooled library... clusters of individual cells along with color coded nominated reference cell types.  (Adapted from Joung...delivered to each cell, future applications could deliver multiple TFs to each cell, allowing for combinatorial...generate unique cell types. Of the 24 TFs they tested, 22 expressed markers consistent with the cell type that...
  4. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ...-dividing cells. The ability to infect non-dividing cells is not restricted to in vitro cell culture as...target cells. If you are transducing non-adherent cells you might need to centrifuge your cells with the...favourite gene into your favourite cell line or into primary cells, this blog article will give you some...infect both dividing and non-dividing cells, including stem cells. These properties make lentiviral vectors...immortalized cells lines but reach their limits when it comes to transferring DNA into primary cells or non-...non-dividing cells. To target these un-transfectable cells, labs use viral vectors and particularly retroviral...will first need to transfect producing cells, usually 293T cells, with your transfer plasmid and your packaging...
  5. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    ...model systems: either human cells or mice. In a recent issue of Cell Stem Cell, Musunuru, Chad Cowan and...done in stem cells, we can differentiate those mutant and wild type stem cells into any cell type relevant...system for generating human stem cell-based disease models." Cell Stem Cell. 12, 238-251 (7 February 2013...homology-directed repair by flooding the cell with a mutant template and fooling the cell into using that template for...mutations influence the disease process. In the Cell Stem Cell paper, for example, we generated hepatocytes...generating the mutant cell lines that one needs to do disease modeling in stem cells. Addgene: Tell me about...Kiran Musunuru's lab in Harvard's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology is to understand the basis...
  6. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    ...producing cells. After FACS, return the cells to doxycycline-free media and expand the cells. Use a subset...white inclusions in cells with GVs via phase contrast microscopy, GVs visible in cells via TEM, and purified... heterogeneity required single cell screening to isolate a clonal cell line capable of producing ultrasound...expression homogeneity, as the cells could be batch-sorted to isolate a polyclonal cell line with strong gas vesicle...transient transfection in rtTA+ cell lines (such as HEK293-TETOn cells), or they can also be integrated...PiggyBac transposase. In rtTA-cell lines, it is better to first engineer the cell line with rtTA, then integrate...own mARGAna cell line. (c) Z-projected phase contrast images of GV expressing MDA-MB-231 cells (top, scalebar...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: Transductions

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    ...With regard to target cells or organism, some primary cells and differentiated cell types are picky when...packaging plasmids into a viral production cell line, usually HEK-293 cells. When all of these viral plasmids ... easy. Producer cell media can be collected, centrifuged to remove any producer cells floating in it, ... rogue HEK-293 cell). This virus-containing media can then be placed on whatever cells you would like ...just zapping your cells? That really depends on two things. First, what type of cell or organism context...process of transferring foreign nucleic acid into a cell by a viral agent. Transductions are similar to transfections...processes which introduce foreign nucleic acid into cells by any means, but are unique in that they require...
  8. p53 Pathway

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    ...p53 are in promoting cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, or senescence in damaged cells. The p53 name arose ...or E2 Cyclin G CCNG1 CCNG2 Cyclin G1 or G2 CDC25 Cell division cycle 25C Cdk4/6 CDK4 CDK6 Cyclin-dependent...member 10b E2F-1 E2F transcription factor 1 Fas Fas cell surface death receptor Gadd45 GADD45A GADD45B GADD45G...
  9. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    ...by source cell based on single-cell RNA-seq data. In addition to unique proteins on each cell type, the...regions, cell types, and tissues. Find cell-surface HRP plasmids here! Wu, L., et al. (2025) The cell-surface...this post: Cell-surface protein labeling tools for neurons and astrocytes Nerve-to-cancer cell mitochondrial...AAV-CRISPRa-engineered fat cells fight cancer Frugal CRISPR kit for classrooms Cell-surface proteomics for...for neurons and astrocytes By Mike Lacy Cell-cell interactions underlie many kinds of tissue function,...switch to turn recipient cells from red to green fluorescence (Figure 2). Donor cells express iCre with a ...the delivery of mitochondria from nerve cells to cancer cells in both breast cancer and melanoma models...
  10. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    ...target cells; you also have to consider how to keep it there. In fast-growing populations of cells, the ...into the host cell’s genome, so no special sequence is needed to retain the vector as cells divide. In transient...compatible cell lines that express viral machinery. Alternatively, some slow-growing cells, particularly...transfect the vector a viral ori in a compatible cell line cells that replicate slower than the duration of ...is delivered to your target cells, you still need to select for the cells that contain it. Antibiotic ...penicillin and ampicillin inhibit cell wall synthesis. Eukaryotes, with no cell walls, can grow alongside these...synthesis machinery, and the cells are switched to minimal media, allowing cells that contain the vector to...
  11. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    ...levels in your cell lines, you can consider a cell treatment approach. If there is a cell treatment (e....select a candidate cell line (e.g. DepMap) – you’ll need to ensure that the parental cell lines of your chosen...the parental cell line, but not in the iso-genic knockout control. This can involve cell surface labeling...present on the cell surface. The presentation of antigens can also be affected by cell fixation and permeabilization...SYT1 KO cells were labelled with a green or violet, fluorescent dye, respectively. WT and KO cells were ...) compared to the WT cells (green histogram). The unfilled histograms show cells that have only been stained...the antibody’s labeling of the cell lines to the -omics data. The cell lines with higher expression of...
  12. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...infecting most cells, but not all. For example, LDLR expression in hematopoietic stem cells, T cells, and B cells... host cell. Some of these envelope-receptor pairings are broad, allowing delivery into many cell types...delivery to only a few cell types.  If you’re looking for more control in the cell types your lentiviral...protein causes cells that it infects to fuse together and form syncytias that cause the cells to die. Cytotoxicity...Cytotoxicity can also be cell type dependent: if a cell has few receptors for a specific envelope protein...lipoprotein receptors (LDLRs) on a cell surface to endocytose into the cell. The reason VSV-G is so commonly... cells is low. Infection of these cells with VSV-G pseudotyped virus requires the upregulation of LDLR...
  13. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    ...determine cell cycle length by examining the ratio of blue to red cells. Cells undergoing rapid cell cycles...’s difficult to observe the cell cycle in vivo, particularly if the cells are migratory or in deep tissues... BaF3 cells were transduced with H2B-FT virus and grown in varying concentrations of IL-3. Cells grown...proportion of blue fluorescence, indicating cell proliferation. BaF3 cells maintained in media without IL-3 show...H2B-FT consistently predicted the cell cycle speed across these different cell types. In one example, H2B-FT...expressed in murine B cells (BaF3), which depend on IL-3 to proliferate. The cells cultured with a low ...and had a greater number of red cells as measured by flow cytometry. Cells grown in high IL-3 showed mostly...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools

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    ...Non-Dividing Cells Transient Gene Expression Low Tropism for Mouse Cells and Hematopoietic Cells Low Packaging...fuses with the target cell’s membrane, allowing the viral particle access into the cell. The viral envelope... of cell the virus will target and fuse with. In nature, this determines which organisms and cells they...viruses can be engineered to be cell type specific. Once inside the host cell, the virus unleashes its cargo...wide range of cell types that are typically ‘difficult to transfect’, such as primary cells. They can also... them to easily deliver their “cargo” to target cells and organisms, and when that cargo is designed to...Viruses as biological tools In nature, viruses infect cells and organisms (which we refer to as hosts) via viral...
  15. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    ...Making contact with a cell Although an individual AAV particle’s ability to infect a cell is dependent on its...construction and the cell it’s infecting, getting these particles to infect cells is also very titer-dependent... particle to infect a cell, it has to come into physical contact with that cell. Since there is a limited...of surface area on each cell, the way to get more AAV in contact with the cell is to increase the AAV ...between the cell and any individual AAV particle is rare. But simply getting into the cell may not always...particles that have entered the cell now have to travel up the axon, through the cell, and potentially spread ...particles per cell, you may not be able to detect AAV-mediated gene expression in a target cell. Practical...
  16. SARS-CoV-2 Pseudotyped Virus

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    ...particles can then be used to infect permissive cells that express ACE2, the cellular receptor for SARS-CoV...firefly luciferase to simultaneously measure the # of cells containing reactivated latent provirus and the overall...strength of viral transcriptional response in these cells. Warner Greene 105621 Lenti-luciferase-P2A-Neo Lentiviral...
  17. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    ...contaminating your transduction with the packaging cells. Packaging cell debris can be removed either by filtration... you can reduce the volume of cell culture medium on the packaging cells immediately following transfection...efficiency in cells that are sensitive to the toxicity of polybrene (e.g., hematopoietic or primary cells), and... the packaging cells after 1–3 days of selection. A lower percentage of surviving cells may be the result...adeno-associated virus transduction of cells." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 291.2 (2006): C386...vector, collecting virus, and transducing target cells, one may have the unfortunate experience of witnessing...witnessing…nothing. For some unclear reason, cells are not getting transduced. Here, I will share five hail...
  18. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) Plasmids

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    ...or genetic elements of interest to introduce in cells. A packaging plasmid (or Rep/Cap plasmid) containing...or herpes simplex virus, to replicate in the host cell and complete the lytic cycle. To avoid the use of...provided by helper plasmids and specific packaging cell lines. Helper plasmids generally encode the adenoviral... General Transfection AAV Production in HEK293T Cells AAV Purification by Iodixanol Gradient Ultracentrifugation...
  19. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    ...Winslow’s lab to label cells after cell-cell interactions. Using G-baToN, “sender” cells express GFP on the... and “receiver” cells express an anti-GFP nanobody on the cell surface. When the cells interact, GFP is...the receiver cell, and the receiver cell turns green. This system can be used in many cell types including...engineering with single-pot assembly Tracking cell-cell interactions New auxin inducible degron system....brgcm3sw     New system developed to track cell-cell interactions By Jennifer Tsang GFP-based Touching...including endothelial cell-pericyte, neuron-astrocyte, and cancer-stromal cell pairs.   Figure 2: Schematic...of the interaction between the sender cell and the receiver cell. Image from Tang et al., 2020.   ...
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