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  1. Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics

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    ...-invasive gene delivery and optogenetic excitation. Excitation of neurons deeper in the brain may still...makes them light-responsive. When light shines on excitatory channelrhodopsin-expressing neurons, the channelrhodopsins...action potential (Figure 1). This light-induced excitation can take place in a tissue culture dish but can... as compared to direct injection. This lower multiplicity of infection (MOI) makes it challenging for ...

  2. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    ...: Summary of Rosella’s excitation and emission spectra. Component Excitation Emission pH Range DsRed.T3...DsRed.T3. See Table 1 for a summary of Rosella’s excitation and emission spectra. DsRed is the permanent ... 508 nm ~6.5 - 9 *Optimal sequential excitations wavelengths as determined by Rosado et al: see... a signal sequence and to the mitochondria via citrate synthase’s mitochondrial targeting sequence. Under...

  3. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    ...but also basic research. To improve cell-type specificity of AAV, work has focused on modifying the outside...recently took a different approach to enhance specificity in retinal cells. To do this, the group developed...genes with high expression and high cell-type specificity.  Strategy #3 (ProC): Create promoters by repeating...synthetic promoters replicated the expression specificity of the wild-type promoters they were derived ...promoters did, however, tend to loosely match the specificity of their source genes, i.e. if a synthetic promoter...

  4. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    ...you'll find in this post: Tools for labeling excitatory inhibitory synaptic proteins Fluorescent protein...corner New from the viral service Labeling excitatory and inhibitory synaptic proteins with FingRs ...developed AAV vectors to selectively visualize excitatory and inhibitory synapses in the brain.  ...scaffolding proteins PSD95 and gephyrin to label excitatory and inhibitory synapses, respectively. Once expressed... fluorescent proteins targeting inhibitory or excitatory synapses or that are Cre-inducible, researchers...

  5. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    ...counterparts, so they will be easier to deliver in low-capacity vectors like AAV. AAV (adeno-associated viral ... for in vivo gene delivery due to their low immunogenicity and range of serotypes allowing preferential...tissues. However, these vectors have a low genetic capacity of ~4.5 kb. At 4.1 kb, SpCas9 barely fits into...Yoon SH, Kim JS. Genome-wide analysis reveals specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol...Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., et al. "Genome-wide specificities of CRISPR-Cas Cpf1 nucleases in human cells....

  6. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    ...truly be pitted against CRISPR head-to-head.  Exciting features of NgAgo First, unlike Cas9, NgAgo does...target any sequence of DNA. Second, NgAgo target specificity is dictated by a DNA guide sequence rather than...globe nearly 400 times. Researchers have been excitedly testing NgAgo's genome editing applications. So..., those who have been lucky with NgAgo should explicitly share tips and protocol details with the scientific...Learn More about NgAgo Enhance CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9 and SpCas9-HF1 See How Cpf1 Stacks...

  7. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    ... of chemical dyes combined with the ease and specificity of fluorescent proteins. In-cell labeling strategies...property for small-molecule labeling strategies is fluorogenicity, meaning the ligand exhibits low fluorescence... from fluorescent proteins given the relative simplicity of the system and the availability of fluorescent...different spectral properties, exhibit high fluorogenicity, are photoactivatable, and function in vivo...systems—smaller tags, brighter conjugates, higher fluorogenicity, photoactivation etc.—can further increase ...

  8. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    ...photostability of GFP. This also shifted its major excitation peak from 395 nm to 488 nm, effectively ameliorating... mYFP S65G; V68L; Q69K; S72A; T203Y; A206K Citrine S65G; V68L; Q69K; S72A; T203Y ECFP F64L; S65T...fluorescence, photostability, and a shift of the major excitation peak to 488 nm F64L Increased folding efficiency...Typically, two fluorescent proteins with overlapping excitation/emission spectra are used; one fused to each ...stability, GFP can be used in lineage tracking capacities in cell fate studies. It can also be used, when...

  9. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...viral systems due to its large cargo capacity, minimal cytotoxicity, and broad host-tropism. These tools...variant are used to excite a fused fluorescent protein, eliminating the need for an excitation light source....gene activation using this system in the article cited below. Scientists can obtain dCas9-trCIB1, CRY2PHR-p65...mRNA will be red. This system achieves great specificity and resolution by using 6-12 phage PP7 coat protein...UAAs via a re-assigned stop codon (TAG). This polyspecificity enables the site-specific introduction of many...order to avoid complicating effects from global toxicity due to loss of splicing. To this end, destabilizing...use of optogenetic tools, where light used for excitation can cause unintended activation of the optogenetic...

  10. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    ...antibody collection grows By Ashley Waldron We are excited to highlight the Anti-V5 tag antibody produced ...first use of CRISPR/Cas9 in M. abscessus. The simplicity and efficiency of this dual-plasmid approach ...advancing our understanding of its biology, pathogenicity, and resistance mechanisms.     Figure...because bioluminescent markers do not need to be excited by an external light source, they have lower background... can be used in light-sensitive systems. Most excitingly, assembly of the split luciferase is reversible...

  11. Twenty Years of Sharing: Addgene's Viral Vector Service

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    ...Viral Vectors 101 2nd edition — I was incredibly excited when we picked our viral vector service as one ... is where it’s being delivered. Since target specificity is determined by the capsid of the AAV, many ...approach and involves reading primary literature, soliciting information from requestors and depositors, and...published with a DOI, allowing others to reference and cite the data when deciding on which viral vectors to...to guides to protocols, which was why I was so excited to delve into this data as we updated our Viral...

  12. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...  Lowering cytotoxicity. Different envelope proteins have different levels of cytotoxicity and the mechanisms...mechanisms behind the cytotoxicity can vary. For example, the popular VSV-G envelope protein causes cells... form syncytias that cause the cells to die. Cytotoxicity can also be cell type dependent: if a cell has...connectivity. However, because of rabies virus’s toxicity, it made more sense to pseudotype another virus...

  13. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    ...neurogenesis, neuronal survival, and synaptic plasticity. Several studies have found reduced BDNF levels...showed that the activity of a particular subset of excitatory neurons (Drd1) in mPFC is responsible for the...tune gene expression temporally and spatially, exciting times are ahead for behavioral neuroscience to...volume transmission shapes cortical noradrenergic excitability upon acute stress." The EMBO journal 37.21 (...Huijstee AN, Mansvelder HD. Glutamatergic synaptic plasticity in the mesocorticolimbic system in addiction....

  14. Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks

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    ...Lox-Stop cassette, resulting in the neurological deficits observed in Rett Syndrome. Restoring the MECP2...it, regardless of age or symptom severity. This exciting finding injected hope that a similar reversal ...MECP2 mutant alleles, in particular, have shown exciting and promising results for repairing mutations ...wild-type MECP2 is made inside the cells, but this is exciting progress in tackling the root cause of Rett Syndrome...the Survival of MeCP2-Null Mice without Apparent Toxicity after Intracisternal Delivery. Molecular Therapy...

  15. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...extracellular space; they also have low immunogenicity and cellular toxicity. AAV vectors can be equipped with... having the added advantage of lower toxicity, higher specificity and reduced technical variability compared...system where it replicates, spreads, causes neurotoxicity, and is lethal if left untreated (for review...Wang, Y., and Harvey, B.K. (2008). Tropism and toxicity of adeno-associated viral vector serotypes 1,2,5,6,7,8,9...

  16. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    ...legacy of each government and generation is in the veracity of its work. Alina Chan is a postdoctoral researcher... can follow him on twitter at @thompn4. New York City, NY, USA 40.7128°N 74.0059°W – Deanna McLafferty...that we often find it difficult to convey the excitement and importance of our research to family and ...outside of academia. But the fact is that we are citizens first and scientists second and that it is our...are that we, as a society, need to: 1) use more citations for out data so our sources are readily available...

  17. X-CHIME: Context Dependent Germline Knockout in Immune Cells

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    ...Knocks out a pair of genes pXPR_219 Violet-excited GFP (vex) Rosa26-Cas9 I-CHIME Inducible... knockout of a single gene pXPR_068 Violet-excited GFP (vex) Rosa26-FlpO-ERT2; H11-Cas9 L-CHIME...cell types (lineage-based) pXPR_070 Violet-excited GFP (vex) Lineage-Cre; Rosa26-Cas9 S-CHIME...pairs of genes sequentially pXPR_220 Violet-excited GFP (vex) Rosa26-FlpO-ERT2; H11-Cas9 Table...

  18. Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion

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    ...discoveries, this one was made by accident. After exciting GFP-labeled plant cells at 405 nm instead of 488... GFP could be imaged in the green state after excitation at 488 nm, photoconverted with 405 nm light, ..., and then captured in the red state after excitation at 561 nm. This imaging process worked well with...S65T GFP, and no red color was observed after excitation at 488 nm, indicating that spontaneous conversion...

  19. Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP

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    ...to a protein of interest thereby giving it the capacity to enter cells. One such CPP was discovered in...protein entry into cells! After verifying the specificity of their luciferase assay, they concluded that...editing. The small molecule NSDB and Na+ hypertonicity are key elements of iTOP. iTOP can be used to... by nature transient, which may lower nuclease toxicity or the potential for off-target effects. Third...

  20. Hot Plasmids - December 2019 - CRISPR pooled library, LipoGlo, CRISPRa, and Voltage Imaging Tools

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    ...screen, it is necessary to identify the gRNAs that elicit the phenotype, and this depends on the method used...fluorescence changes or a requirement for very high excitation light intensities have made these indicators ...surveyed a range of microbial rhodopsin GEVIs in excitable cells of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. ... as the eFRET sensors, QuasAr-mOrange and MacQ-mCitrine. All of these sensors can detect action potentials...
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