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  1. Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius

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    ...candidates for further development. They inserted an octet of MS2 hairpins into the gRNA tetraloop and went through...-head against CRISPRainbow. Both tools were targeted to the FBN3 intronic repeat which contains 22 copies...the genomic loci of interest. Pairs of identical hairpins within one gRNA will result in a blue, green, ...red readout. But gRNAs containing two different hairpins will produce a secondary color (yellow, cyan, ...hairpin combination. A gRNA containing all three hairpins produces a white color. While CRISPRainbow allows...CRISPRainbow labeling. Two MS2, PP7, or boxB sequences inserted into the sgRNA generates blue, green, or red colors...induce its fluorescence. They found that aptamer insertion in the gRNA tetraloop (a four base hairpin loop...
  2. K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion

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    ...recombinant proteins a cinch. This is because it doesn’t secrete its own endogenous proteins, making the...affordable, and it grows fast to boot. The yeast strains S. cerevisiae and S. pombe have dominated the research... between two of the most frequently used yeast strains: S. pombe (fission) and S. cerevisiae (budding)...established in yeast, including a widely used Parkinson’s experimental model. In fact, approximately 25%...differences between K. phaffii and other yeast strains.     S. cerevisiae S. pombe K. phaffii...and bears more similarity to the ancient yeast strains and metazoan cells.   Applications for K. phaffii...was co-opted for the expression of recombinant proteins by the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as...
  3. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    ...podcast segment The human proteome contains a breadth of modular domains that facilitate protein-protein ...for RNAi. The Vellai lab’s new plasmid, T444T, contains T7 terminators adjacent to the T7 promoters to...TurboID and miniTurbo Article contributed by Eric Perkins  Listen to the TurboID and miniTurbo podcast segment... study of the distribution and interactions of proteins within these structures. Enzyme-catalyzed proximity...distribution and interaction networks of specific proteins in living cells. Until recently, the enzymes most...APEX2 and BioID. APEX2 is fast, tagging proximal proteins within minutes, but requires H2O2, which can be... tailored for the detection of other norovirus strains and even other viruses by modifying the sequence...
  4. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    ...majority of Type VI-D loci contain accessory proteins with WYL domains (named for the three conserved amino acids...domain-containing proteins may be broader regulators of Cas13d activity. This property makes WYL proteins an intriguing... near a putative effector nuclease. The Cas13d proteins they identified have little sequence similarity...Cas13a-c orthologs, but they do include HEPN nuclease domains characteristic of the Cas13 superfamily. Yan et...advantages, including Cas13d-specific regulatory proteins and high targeting efficiency, both of which are...intriguing counterpart to anti-CRISPR proteins that negatively modulate the activity of Cas enzymes, some...specific editor in mammalian cells Not all Cas13d proteins are functional in mammalian cells, but Konermann...
  5. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    ...possible to generate antibodies against many types of molecules including proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates... post we’ll focus on antibodies that recognize proteins. Figure 1: Steps in the generation of hybridomas...hybridomas come from animals that were immunized against the target protein. Animals are first injected ...special medium called HAT. This medium selects against unfused myeloma cells and antibody-producing B ... will exhibit off-target binding to unintended proteins. This is because monoclonal antibodies recognize...amino acid sequence will be shared across other proteins. Conversely, polyclonal antibodies - which are...recognize epitopes that are also present in other proteins. Because of the specificity of monoclonal antibodies...
  6. Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones

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    ... This means recombinant proteins can aggregate or precipitate out as insoluble granules. We overcame this...decidedly uncomfortable 45°C). Their more adventurous cousins are the extremophiles - the legends who not only...of processes. The food processing industry, for instance, employs psychrophilic enzymes for milk processing...enzymes for the host The expression of recombinant proteins for industrial or research purposes requires stable... standard conditions. However, one of the many proteins which are not compatible with regular mesophilic...temperatures suitable for the expression of psychrophilic proteins. The primary problem we wanted to overcome was...folding and expression of recombinant psychrophilic proteins. As the figure below shows, E. coli expressing...
  7. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    ...available here for free!) contains strategies, hints, anecdotes, and insights. After I wrote the first ... at the National Institutes of Health, was an Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine...Hughes Medical Institute. His interests include the quality control of secretory proteins in the Endoplasmic... and mentoring to several people that found my insights helpful. All went on to get faculty positions ...specific questions and experiments. Nobody EVER complains that a seminar was too easy to understand. Make... Distinguishing correctly folded and misfolded proteins is essential for human health. Failure to do so...terms. "Implications for human disease" is vague. Instead, consider "A mechanistic understanding of this ...
  8. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    ... HIV so that infected cells will produce viral proteins and die, either through cytotoxicity or the immune...transcription, but with two additional activation domains (MS2 and p65) to enhance transcriptional activation...expression. In cell lines that can produce HIV-1 toxic proteins, CRISPR/Cas9 SAM caused apoptosis, indicating ...cell and 2. prevent reinfection of those cells. Kaminski et al. designed gRNAs to target the HIV-1 5’ and...Importantly, no off-target effects were detected. Kaminski et al. observed no negative effects on cell viability...up to 7 mismatches to the gRNA target sequence. Kaminski et al. next tested their procedure in HIV-1 infected...expanded, and infected with HIV-1. For two HIV-1 strains, Cas9/gRNA lentiviral expression significantly ...
  9. dTAG - You're it!

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    ...endogenous proteins is an exciting strategy, it is difficult to apply this technique to oncoproteins that lack..., a postdoctoral fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Targeted protein degradation In the Bradner and...synthesize compounds that enable selective removal of proteins-of-interest from the proteome. Rather than inhibiting...degraders” recruit the proteasome to destroy targeted proteins. We previously developed small molecule degraders...that achieve selective degradation of endogenous proteins (notably, BRD2/3/4, CDK9, TRIM24, FLT3, BTK, and...linking small molecules that bind these target proteins to other small molecules that bind an E3 ligase... molecule) and expression of FKBP12F36V-tagged proteins. The dTAG molecule induces ternary complex formation...
  10. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    ...these three kinases, photoswitchable Dronpa domains were inserted at sites homologous to the locations they... other kinases and proteins. Zhou et al suggest that more photoswitchable proteins could potentially be... be created by inserting pdDronpa domains into loops of a protein of interest. If you plan to try this...ninja term for vanishing, and pa= photoactivation) domains on either side of the active site of a constitutively... Learn More about Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins Control Protein Expression with Cre-lox Control...reporter plasmids Find photoactivatable fluorescent proteins in empty backbones in the Michael Davidson Collection...Photoswitchable Fluorescent Proteins ...
  11. Antibodies 101: Fab Fragments

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    ...composed of four peptide chains (two identical heavy chains and two identical light chains) each with a constant... The chains are covalently linked to one another by disulfide bonds between the two heavy chains and between...are composed of just the variable domains of the heavy and light chains of an antibody. Arguably not a “...chain and one light chain. When assembled, the four chains make a Y-shaped protein that can be divided into...portions of the constant regions of the two heavy chains. In the lab, this is the region that determines...fragments are produced by proteolytic digestion that retains an antibody’s disulfide bonds within the hinge ...the fragment could bind not only the endogenous proteins you are trying to block but your primary antibody...
  12. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    ...transversion editors. New DNA repair proteins fused to CGBEs Instead of using UNG, the Wei Leong Chew Lab...repair proteins fused to CGBEs The David Liu lab also experimented with adding different proteins to the...approach to improving C → G editing. Instead of fusing DNA repair proteins to the base editor, they added the...inhibit BER during cytosine-to-uracil editing, and instead introduced its opposite, a uracil DNA N-glycosylase...excising the freshly edited U bases — but E. coli instead filled those abasic sites with A's, producing C...Mycobacterium smegmatis, termed UdgX, they found three proteins whose fusion improved the CGBE: DNA polymerase...(RBMX) (Koblan et al., 2021). Several of these proteins had additive effects when multiple were included...
  13. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    ...fluorescent proteins system for Caenorhabditis elegans By Jennifer Tsang Fluorescent proteins (FPs) traditionally...Tools for labeling excitatory inhibitory synaptic proteins Fluorescent protein system for C. elegans Fluorescent... Labeling excitatory and inhibitory synaptic proteins with FingRs By Jason Nasse Since the pioneering...neurotransmitters. Using genetically encoded fluorescent proteins coupled with Fibronectin intrabodies generated...FingR constructs target the synaptic scaffolding proteins PSD95 and gephyrin to label excitatory and inhibitory...neuron, the FingRs bind to the endogenous synaptic proteins allowing them to localize to the synapse and minimize...combining vectors expressing different fluorescent proteins targeting inhibitory or excitatory synapses or...
  14. CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!

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    ... process. When using zinc finger proteins or TALE proteins, proteins had to be re-engineered for each ...that bind to MS2 proteins. These MS2 proteins then recruit additional activation domains (HS1 and p65). ...transcriptional activators: some methods rely on fusion proteins while others re-engineer components of Cas systems...method is its construction: it relies on antibody chains, which are relatively large and are not expressed...epitope tag of SunTag with the P65-HSF activation domains used in SAM. This method has been shown to activate...Davidsohn N, Housden BE, Perrimon N, Weiss R, Aach J, Collins JJ, Church GM (2015) Highly efficient Cas9-mediated...Kowal EJK, Buchthal J, Housden BE, Perrimon N, Collins JJ, Church G (2016) Comparison of Cas9 activators...
  15. 3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9

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    ...images of proteins. But they are still flat. To truly appreciate the 3D structure of these proteins, it is...Molecular Designs, we create physical models of proteins using 3D printing technology. The tagline for ...to create stunning, interactive images of their proteins. Since the 1980’s, journal articles have been ...structure? We have been creating physical models of proteins for researchers for the past fifteen years. On...expressed purpose of creating physical models of proteins and other molecular structures for use in professional...Under the guidance of a trained educator, these instances of focused attention become magical teaching moments...their research while creating physical models of proteins that are being investigated in their labs. Soon...
  16. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    ...elements anymore. The kit contains sequences for several different fluorescent proteins. Visualizing fluorescence...Nicola Patron is Head of Synthetic Biology at the Sainsbury Laboratory, where she often feels more like an... between plants and their pathogens. As Patron explains it, her work has always been focused on gene transfer...Cloning (MoClo) Kit. What does it include? Patron: Sainsbury has a mandate to share and educate and enable ...chlorophyll, so we looked at newer fluorescent proteins that get around that problem. MoClo is really ...straightforward really and we’ll be producing an instructional video soon to make it easier for people to use...for plants? Patron: Our lab and others at the Sainsbury are working on a lot of CRISPR tools for editing...
  17. Six Spooky Science Stories and Halloween at Addgene

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    ...forces its insect host to dive into water. There, the worm emerges to find a mate, leaving the insect dead ...infected grasshoppers expressed different proteins in their brains compared to uninfected grasshoppers, including...Plasmid pumpkins, team costumes, and spooky science stories. Yes, please! At Addgene, we love finding...addition to the Halloween contest, we’ve also carved pumpkins (yes, Blugene made an appearance there too) and...base of the tongue where it pierces the tongue and drains all the blood out. Once the blood is depleted, ... the tongue atrophies and falls off. The louse remains becoming the fish’s new “tongue” (Brusca and Gilligan...Spinochordodes tellinii‘s larvae makes its home inside grasshoppers and crickets. When it’s ready to transform...
  18. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...lentivirus, but instead is contained by a capsid which is comprised of the viral proteins VP1, VP2, and ...Maday et al., 2014). It is currently unclear which proteins facilitate transport of neuronal tracing compounds...peroxidase (HRP; Kristensson and Olsson, 1971), plant lectins (wheat germ agglutinin WGA, Schwab et al., 1978...iontophoresis (applying small electric currents via inserted electrodes) may be applied, but these methods ...neuroanatomy and neural connectivity, providing valuable insights for neuronal communication. Viral vectors and...methods such as electrophysiological recordings. The origins of these methods are naturally occurring viruses...engineered to have differences in their capsid proteins. For a brief overview see Addgene’s AAV guide....
  19. Who Gives a Tweet? 9 Facts About Scientists on Twitter

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    ...tweet URLs with scientific domains <10% of the time. Figure 3: Top 20 Domains Tweeted by Scientists. 6....scientific domains more often than other scientists   Figure 5: Portion of Tweets with Scientific Domains, Categorized.... The #1 (re)tweeted domain by scientists was Instagram Social media and news sites were also popular....6. The top scientific domains tweeted by biologists were: Nature, Sciencemag, Wiley, Cell and Scientific...Scientific American Figure 4: Top Scientific Domains Tweeted by Biologists. 7. Biologists, neuroscientists ...(orange box) post tweets containing scientific domains more often than other disciplines. The majority...tweets for most disciplines contain scientific domains between 0-10% of the time; however, ~20% of life...
  20. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ...encoding the insert of interest as well as sequences necessary to encapsulate that insert into a viral... psi signal, the genes encoding the structural proteins could not be integrated into the new viral particles... one with the exception that the HIV accessory proteins that are not essential for the production of the...its activity. A CMV or an EF1α promoter has been inserted in this LTR so you don’t need Tat to transcribe...RCL) Efficient gene transfer Potential for insertional mutagenesis: Replication-incompetent lentiviruses...human tropism can still infect the researcher and insert into her/his genome - this is a biosafety risk ...dividing and non-dividing cells No immunogenic proteins generated Stable integration into host genome...
  21. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    ...editor can install all possible point mutations, delete short stretches of DNA and even insert new DNA at...advancements and the noteworthy work of fiction that it inspired. CAUTION: Spoilers alert! Pre-DNA Era  H.G. ...enzymes, meganucleases, were discovered. These proteins are characterized by large DNA recognition sites... successful in the box office, indicating the insatiable appetite of the moviegoers for dinosaurs wreaking... In this movie Ethan Hawke’s character revolts against class divide that is created by genetics.    Zinc...DNA-cleaving strategy similar to the ZFNs, but instead of recognizing nucleotide triplets, the components...target new genomic sites. The discovery of the Cas proteins in 2005 was a major breakthrough in the world ...
  22. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    ... is present even in common lab cloning strains. This intrinsic bacterial recombination pathway, referred...region (calculated using Oligo Calculator). Insertions - To insert short sequences of up to 100 bp, such as...referred to as recA-independent recombination, joins together pieces of linear DNA through short homologous...recombination reported in all laboratory E. coli strains tested so far. The use of this pathway as a cloning...the PCR mix to remove parental DNA (37 °C for 15 mins). This enzyme specifically cuts methylated DNA, ...used to perform any plasmid modification, from insertions, deletions, and point mutagenesis to complex ...template binding regions to amplify away from the insertion site. Encode half the new sequence at the 5’ end...
  23. Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!

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    ... antibody against PARIS, a zinc finger protein involved in neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Knowing...rather than producing and purifying it in your lab. Instead of starting a new search or clicking through to...when we changed from searching for viral preps instead of plasmids? The available filtering options now...types of searches including depositing labs and institutions. For example, search for “Melina Fan” and you...Flame is more than an award for depositors and inspiration for our updated mascot, it’s also a convenient...Species: Specify the source organism for a gene insert. (e.g. S. cerevisiae) Plasmid Type: Choose an empty... empty backbone if you intend to clone your own insert, or use the other options to find plasmids matching...
  24. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    ...Director of the Merkin Institute and Vice-Chair of the Faculty at the Broad Institute; Professor of Chemistry...Harvard University, and David R. Liu from the Broad Institute and Harvard University. Over the course of the...papers (data was provided by Addgene on 5/26/20 and contains requests from 5/22/14 to 5/19/20). Each paper ...data with a 7-day rolling mean gave us a crude insight into the magnitude of the effect COVID-19 had on... analytical expression for the data likelihood contains an intractable integral of the product of a Poisson... least impacted. These results highlight the instability and uncertainty in estimating parameters from...important additional caveat is that our dataset contains plasmid orders from just one lab, which limits...
  25. CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics

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    ...to modified proteins called histones. We can detect modified histones with “GPS for proteins,” ChIP-seq... coordinates: chromosome, start, and stop. For instance (chr3, 1, 10) indicates a stretch of DNA at the...techniques Technique What It Locates ChIP-seq Proteins (for our example later, histones) ChiRP-seq ...For details on DNA compaction and the structural proteins that make it possible, see the appendix DNA is... you run a ChIP-seq experiment (think “GPS for proteins”) for NANOG, an essential transcription factor...epigenomics: H3 – one of NANOG’s associated histone proteins K4 and K27 – locations of the amino acid lysine...enhancers, lncRNAs, repetitive elements, repressors, insulators, and more. We know that this matter exists, but...
  26. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    ...locus-specific ChIP). These methods consist of insertional chromatin immunoprecipitation (iChIP) and engineered...interactions. For this purpose, we developed the insertional chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) (iChIP) ...purification, in 2009. However, iChIP requires insertion of recognition sequences of an exogenous DNA-binding... DNA-binding molecule technologies such as TAL proteins and CRISPR became available, I was very excited...easily isolated for identification of associated proteins, RNAs, and other genomic regions. I believe that...genome functions in the hope of developing drugs against intractable diseases. Currently, a number of labs...analyze signal-induced nuclear translocation of proteins in 2004. In addition, we have recently developed...
  27. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    ...lines. Identifying less toxic envelope proteins or envelope proteins that target specific tissues are areas... lentiviral expert) Didier Trono's lab webpage explains how lentiviral particles are produced by co-transfecting...that's gag, pol, and env), the isoforms of these proteins, as well as the viral long terminal repeats (LTRs...envelope plasmid and a packaging plasmid encoding HIV proteins gag, pol, rev, and tat. 3rd generation systems...In addition the deletion reduces the risk of insertional mutagenesis by limiting the interaction between...components are HIV-based? A7: No single plasmid contains all the components necessary to produce viral ...vectors contain gag, pol, and rev. Second-generation contains those three genes plus tat. The envelope plasmid...
  28. CRISPR 101: Cas9 Nickase Design and Homology Directed Repair

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    ...Place intended insert in between nick sites Use 40 nt homology arms for small insertions or tags (ssODN...By mutating one of two Cas9 nuclease domains, researchers created the CRISPR nickase. Nickases create... creates a non-target strand-cleaving nickase. Instead of cutting both strands bluntly with WT Cas9 and...deletions, while H840A is biased towards large insertions. These profiles are likely due to the distinct...can’t find a good gRNA that cuts close to your insertion site, you can’t obtain high HDR efficiency. Nickases...and Yan designed a PAM-out nickase experiment to insert an EcoRI site using a single-stranded oligonucleotide...oligonucleotide (ssODN) donor. Using a D10A nickase to insert an EcoRI site in various spots between the nick...
  29. Antibodies 101: Affinity Tags

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    ...proper folding of the tag, which prevents insoluble fusion proteins from being purified by GST (maybe try ...between – now all you need are some of your favorite proteins purified to carry out your plan. With a little...purification a cinch. Types of affinity tags, the proteins they work best attached to, and the species they...will be expressed along with all other cellular proteins within the expression system (bacteria, yeast,...tags also have commercially available antibodies, resins, beads, and other purification aids readily available...for detection and/or purification of MBP-tagged proteins. The antibody is an alternative to amylose resin...Nickel, Cobalt, Copper, etc.), allowing His fusion proteins to be purified by single step metal affinity chromatography...
  30. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    ...segment of DNA which contains several restriction sites allowing for the easy insertion of DNA. In expression... Produce proteins that glow so that scientists can track their location or quantity inside a cell ...2014 and updated Apr. 14, 2020. Any newcomer who joins a molecular biology lab will undoubtedly be asked... a plasmid by recruiting replication machinery proteins Antibiotic Resistance Gene Allows for selection... the MCS is often downstream from a promoter. Insert Gene, promoter or other DNA fragment cloned into...commonly referred to as “vectors” or “constructs.” To insert a gene of interest into a vector, scientists may... are complete, the vector containing the newly inserted gene is transformed into bacterial cells and selectively...
  31. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    ...vague and "what proteins regulate the Z pathway?" is an open-ended list of proteins. Instead, consider "how... at the National Institutes of Health, was an Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine...Hughes Medical Institute. His interests include the quality control of secretory proteins in the Endoplasmic... Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Are you currently on or planning to go on the..."how do proteins X and Y regulate the Z pathway?" A well-defined outcome makes it easier for the search...favor a different model. Finding evidence for or against a model is a standard scientific strategy. However...Endoplasmic Reticulum, optimization of fluorescent proteins,  and live cell imaging approaches. Erik is also...
  32. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...used for an array of detectable proteins including fluorescent proteins, antibiotic resistance, and luciferase...monitors APOBEC (a family of cytidine deaminase proteins) and Cas9-mediated editing in real time (St. Martin...inactive mCherry, the lab introduced a 43 base-pair insertion that disrupts fluorescence due to a frameshift...TCA-to-TUA) found within the 43 base-pair mCherry insertion. Editing of these motifs generates lesions that... editing capability of the seven human APOBEC3 proteins, finding that APOBEC3A and APOBEC3bctd are the...populations. To develop this method the lab was inspired by work that used an integrated GFP reporter that...DNA editor. Specifically the BFP mutant (BFPH66) contains a histidine at amino acid 66. This histidine is...
  33. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...making copies.     Types of origins of replication There are lots of origins of replication out there so...: The insert Bacteria tend to maintain fewer copies of plasmids if they contain large inserts or genes...elements. The ori is the place where DNA replication begins, enabling a plasmid to reproduce itself as it must...known derivatives), pSC101, R6K, and 15A. Not all origins of replication are created equal. Some will produce...whether the ori is positively regulated by RNA or proteins, respectively. A plasmid's copy number has to ...mutations in the replicon. For example, the pMB1 ori maintains about 20 copies per cell, while pUC – which differs...toxic product. The E. coli strain Most E. coli strains can be used to propagate plasmids, but endA- E....
  34. Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level

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    ... reporter mRNA, which contains the tethering sites for the fluorescent proteins and is driven by an inducible... to monitor local translation and determine if proteins are targeted to their destination co- or post-...Translating RNA Imaging by Coat protein Knock-off) instead takes advantage of the ribosome’s movement. When... along an mRNA, it displaces other RNA-binding proteins to allow translation to occur. For a TRICK reporter...only a red FP bound to the reporter. Because it contains a nuclear localization signal, NLS-PCP-GFP then...mRNAs and their corresponding newly synthesized proteins. As in the TRICK system, the 3’ UTR of the reporter...labeled by PCP-mCherry (Figure 2). The 3’ UTR also contains a CAAX sequence to bind the mRNA to the plasma...
  35. The MTA at Addgene

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    ...majority of research institutes.  Pro tip! In most academic and nonprofit institutes, the Tech Transfer ...materials are requested, instead of coordinating signatures from two different institutes. Our online portal...commonly used ones for transfers between academic institutions.  What is the UBMTA, you ask? Well, organizations...signatory) to the MTAs for plasmids in our repository. Instead, we facilitate the signing of MTAs by the Provider...people think our MTAs are different than other institutes. But they’re not! The vast majority of our plasmids...that plasmid facilitated by Addgene — basically, instead of having to sign individual MTAs for each request...Recipient Scientist Acknowledgment (RSA), which contains the terms of use for the requested material. Once...
  36. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    ...product to insert, and tools for primer design, so it’s always best to check in with the instructions from ... Gibson and colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute in 2009. Here at Addgene we added this option ...fragments, but can also be used in basic cloning of an insert into your vector of choice as shown in the figure...incubated together with an enzyme master mix, which contains three different enzymes: an exonuclease, which...using Gibson assembly, imagine that you want to insert your gene of interest into a vector with a large...included in the vector you want to use. If you inserted these two pieces of DNA by restriction enzyme ...fragments. However, by using Gibson assembly, you can insert both the gene of interest and the tag sequences...
  37. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...allowing a spacer-repeat “brick” to be inserted. The BsaI site remains intact, allowing subsequent “bricks...make sure that each cell that gets the plasmid contains all of the desired gRNAs. This increases the chance...the Ventura lab. pX333, a modification of pX330, contains humanized wtCas9 and two U6 promoters. To use ...available from the Bullock lab, and gRNAs can be inserted using Gibson Assembly or SLIC cloning methods....)-containing plasmids. Each destination vector contains GFP, enabling you to select cells with high GFP...enables users to express up to 7 gRNAs. The kit contains different destination vectors depending on the...through Golden Gate or Gibson Assembly. gRNAs are inserted into the pCBC vectors using BsaI, and promoter-gRNA...
  38. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    ... 100 kD proteins or 20, 40, 60, and 80 kD proteins. Plasmids containing 150 or 250 kD proteins are also...expressed proteins run in separate lanes. B: individually expressed and coexpressed proteins run as ladders...the Genetic Pertubation Platform at the Broad Institute have expanded the genetic screening toolkit by...express 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80 and 100 kD proteins in E. coli, either individually (~20,000 lanes...also available separately. The proteins, which are purified via histidine tags, are optimized for SDS-PAGE...Western blots via engineered immunoglobulin binding domains.  Santilli, R.T., et al. Sci Rep (2021). https... large size of CRISPR-Cas effectors and fusion proteins, such as Cas9 and Cas12a, creates challenges for...
  39. Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems

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    ...include proteins like nonstructural proteins 1 to 16, spike proteins, envelope small proteins, and membrane...membrane proteins. Although all viral components are available in bacterial expression plasmids, glycoproteins...glycoproteins and other proteins that require post-translational modification may not be easily expressed ...level expression and purification of SARS-CoV-2 proteins for downstream experiments and offer flexibility... doing things. These new processes have been instrumental in achieving our mission to help science move...Virus Entry Mediated by SARS Coronavirus Spike Proteins. In: Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press...
  40. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    ...mice, exosomes expressed specific integrins (cell-adhesion proteins) targeting different organs. This ...action outside of tumor cells, and recent studies (Martins et al., 2018 and Xing et al., 2010) revealed precisely...physiology is deeply connected to these 3 stages and contains multiple cell types: fibroblasts, myofibroblasts...whole, microenvironments promote tumor durability instead of repressing them, making it even harder to cure...possibly inducing the secretion of growth promoting proteins, such as human growth factor, vascular endothelial...microenvironment itself. They deliver compounds like proteins and nucleic acids from cancer cells to the microenvironment...microenvironments! Take myoepithelial cells for instance. They retard tumor formation by inhibiting cell...
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