...therapy had fallen - plummeted really -  from grace 2 years prior with the death of Jesse Gelsinger in an... the whole field to a grinding stop and only now, 2 decades later, is it finally back in the limelight...the other hand, have broad tropism in the eye. AAV-2, the first identified serotype and the one used in...reading 1. FDA approves gene therapy for blindness 2. Gene Therapy emerges from disgrace to be the next...retinal cells - AAV - were becoming available. At the same time advances in human genetics led to the identification...24664759. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4267879. 10. Samulski RJ, Muzyczka N., 2014. AAV-Mediated Gene Therapy...

...is excised from the donor vector.   Figure 2: The Gateway system adopts phage integration into ...our website to search for your favorite gene! STEP 2: Generate an Expression Clone When making the expression...expression construct in only 1 day, as opposed to 2+ days with traditional restriction and ligation cloning...Clon Transgen 4:138. doi:10.4172/2168-9849.1000138 2. Hartley JL. Use of the Gateway System for Protein...possible to set up the BP and LR reactions in the same tube, speeding up the cloning of the attB-PCR products...multiple DNA fragments into many vectors at once in the same tube. You can clone up to 4 DNA fragments, in a ...

...plasmid-based expression requires serial transfection of 1 or 2 plasmids that express the reprogramming factors of...for generating iPSCs by plasmid transfection where 2 of 11 clones tested had plasmid integration. Another...understanding the mechanisms of reprogramming, and 2) studies with clinical endpoints. In the first scenario...PubMed PMID: 27764162. PubMed Central PMCID: 5072705. 2. Sommer, Cesar A., and Gustavo Mostoslavsky. "The ...challenges." Journal of Cellular Physiology 228, no. 2 (2012): 267-75. PubMed PMID: 22767332.  3. Kim, Dohoon...PubMed PMID: 23546745. PubMed Central PMCID: 4176696. 2. Yusa, Kosuke, Roland Rad, Junji Takeda, and Allan...generation. Expert opinion on biological therapy, 10 2, 231-42. PubMed PMID: 20088717. PubMed Central PMCID...

...of conventional gene targeting is lowered to about 2-3 months. But certain models remain more difficult...included in the final ssDNA template. Figure 2: Overview of ivTRT to generate an ssDNA repair template... floxed conditional allele requires you to target 2 loxP sites to intronic regions 0.5 - 0.8 kb apart....Typically, Easi-CRISPR works best with insertions of 2 kb or less. Luckily, most of the commonly used cassettes... induction systems (ttA or rtTA) are between 1 to 2 kb in length. There are plenty of Addgene plasmid ...create the ssDNA construct as described in Figure 2.  You can also use Addgene plasmids to purify Cas9...They have successfully used guides targeting the same or complementary strands, as well as guides facing...

...experimental samples. Let's look at an experimental example in Figure 2. Figure 2A shows the sample prior to... Figure 2: Compensation example based on experimental sample. Flow plots showing a sample before (A)...in Figure 2, following compensation. Figure 3: Flow plot for a double positive sample. The cell... your experimental samples In order to do compensation on your experimental samples, you will first need...apply to your experimental samples as they did with your single control samples: if the population needs...fluorescent channel to another. When you label your samples with multiple antibodies, the fluorescent probes...general, if two fluorescent markers are read by the same laser, they will need to be compensated for one ...

...//doi.org/10.1002/1096-8628(200022)97:2<147::aid-ajmg6>3.0.co;2-o Baker SA, Chen L, Wilkins AD, Yu P, ...Caused by a mutation in the methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene, Rett Syndrome is a rare, progressive...X-linked MECP2, encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2. Nat Genet 23:185–188 . https://doi.org/10.1038/13810... (2000) Rett syndrome: Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 mutations and phenotype-genotype correlations. Am ...https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.00625 McGraw CM, Samaco RC, Zoghbi HY (2011) Adult Neural Function Requires...

...   Figure 2: Synthetic promoters can be paired for targeted expression. This same pairing of synthetic...retinal cell-type specific genes from mice. Strategy #2 (ProB): Create promoters using phylogenetically conserved...1345-1356. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0431-2  Neff, E.P. An AAV library for retinal cell expression...different synthetic promoter driving expression of the same transgene: an optogenetic reporter, channelrhodopsin...in mice is not a good predictor for targeting the same cell class in NHPs (R=0.38) and humans (R=0.32),...), but the odds of that promoter targeting the same cell class in all three species are still greater ...in monkeys was a good predictor for targeting the same cell class in humans (R=0.67).  A database of the...

...phosphorylation events in the proteomes of higher mammals (2). How can we begin to understand the importance of... the open reading frame (ORF) of interest (Figure 2). 1. The phosphoserine OTS The backbone of the phosphoserine...optimized Sep-OTSλ and can recommend its use (6).  2. C321, a specialized bacterial host strain for pSer-incorporation...biology4.5 (2002): E127-E130. PubMed PMID: 11988757. 2. Hornbeck, Peter V., et al. "PhosphoSitePlus, 2014... purified from the system, researchers can run samples on SDS-PAGE gels containing Phos-Tag, a small molecule...non-phosphorylated serine at the TAG codon of the same expression vector used for phosphoserine incorporation...incorporation of serine) population of protein using the same expression plasmid. This is a particularly important...

...design primers to detect the presence of your insert; 2) set up a standard PCR reaction (primers, dNTPs, polymerase...strategies for primer design: 1) insert-specific primers, 2) backbone-specific primers, and 3) orientation-specific...negative clone (-) will not. Backbone-specific primers (2) give larger sized products for positive clones (+...briefly boiling the sample before use or by directly adding a small volume of the sample to the PCR reaction...enzyme digest; however colony PCR can accomplish the same thing in less time and for less money. The key steps...also great for screening clones created with the same backbone but that contain different inserts. When...sequence of the insert is, allowing you to use the same primer pair to screen for the presence of many different...

...purify IVT sgRNA in the lab. Figure 2: Cas9 RNP complexed with 2-part cr:tracrRNA tags genes more effectively...into stem cells. Cells are allowed to recover for 2-5 days and then analyzed for tagging efficiency using...IVT sgRNA) approach (Dewari et al. 2018 and Figure 2). Not only is the cr:tracrRNA approach highly efficient...cell suspension, transfect and let cells recover for 2-5 days.Note: We use the Nucleofection method for delivery...success was ~%50. If you get low knock-in efficiency (<2% positive by ICC for the tag) or do not see any cells...PMID: 28096221. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5312033. 2. Dewari PS, Southgate B, Mccarten K, Monogarov G, ...turnaround time 5-7 days); because the tracrRNA is the same in all csRNP experiments, it can be ordered in bulk...

... Multiple Introns.” Plant Communications, vol. 2, no. 2, Elsevier BV, Mar. 2021, p. 100135. Crossref, ...Constructs.” PLoS ONE, edited by Jean Peccoud, vol. 6, no. 2, Public Library of Science (PLoS), 18 Feb. 2011, p... vol. 5, no. 10, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2 May 2016, pp. 1059–69. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1021...of Plant Genomes.” The Plant Genome, vol. 16, no. 2, Wiley, 9 Mar. 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1002...Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02388-2. Stuttmann, Johannes, et al. “Highly Efficient Multiplex...Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46171-2. Resources on Addgene.org Modular Cloning (MoClo...unique genomic targets or multiple sgRNAs against the same target to ensure efficient cutting. Beyond sgRNAs...

...transcription factors 1 and 2. See Aranda-Díaz et al. for more information. The El-Samad lab predicts that this...difficult-to-manipulate primary cells, achieving knockdown within 1-2 hr of reagent delivery. TRIM-Away is suitable for ...factor 1 controls expression of transcription factor 2, which directly controls expression of a reporter ...Factors Podcast Segment Researchers from the El-Samad lab recently deposited plasmids encoding synthetic...encoding these synthetic transcription factors, the El-Samad lab has deposited plasmids encoding fluorescent ...

...DNA and processed the mixed sample in our pipeline (see Figure 2, sample 2). When we blindly analyzed ...look for potential contaminants. The analysis is a 2-step process using Geneious software: First, the individual... mean the sample is contaminated? No - what really matters is the number of hits to the same sequence ...these known impurities, as was the case for clean sample AAV-44362. In addition to these expected hits, ...sequence (gene). In a clean sample, there are typically fewer than 10 hits to a given sequence, and we believe... the contaminant we mixed into the original AAV sample at 5%. Detecting 5% contamination is a good start...low we could go. We prepared a range of spiked samples from 0.1-20% and discovered that, with a high enough...

...are many docking sites available for integration. 2. How soon would you like your flies ready for use?...beautiful immunofluorescent images like in this paper (2). Metabolic assays such as Seahorse can be employed...PMID: 16547094. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1526508. 2. H. Jiang,  et al. Cytokine/Jak/Stat signaling mediates...recombination so that the transgenes can be inherited on the same chromosome. Targeted Insertion allows for direct...variants of YFG because the transgenes are found in the same locus across fly lines (i.e. there won’t be positioning...

...proteoglycan (HSPG)3 AAV receptor (not strictly required)2 Human fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1... AAV2, so they are formally called rAAV2/1, rAAV2/2, and so on, although we often use abbreviated nomenclature...suggest these serotypes as a good place to start. Table 2: AAV tissue tropism for mice in vivo. To target... tropism and axonal transport of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 in the mouse brain. PloS One, 8(9),...Retrograde Access to Projection Neurons. Neuron, 92(2), 372–382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2016.09.021...diabetes.55.04.06.db05-0927 Wu, Z., Asokan, A., & Samulski, R. J. (2006). Adeno-associated virus serotypes....2006.05.009 Wu, Z., Miller, E., Agbandje-McKenna, M., & Samulski, R. J. (2006). Α2,3 and α2,6 N-Linked Sialic Acids...

...required to make a plasmid. In 2023 (and at closer to 2 million plasmids shared than not!), we think it’s ...time does it take to make a plasmid? Figure 2: Survey results from a Twitter poll run in 2023, n...go wrong, replace them for free. Plasmids ship out 2-3 days after ordering, making it a toss-up as to whether...overall inflation of USD has gone up 19.8% in the same time period. For ease of calculations*, let’s split...inflation at… roughly 34.9%, which means that the same plasmid would cost $155.25 in reagents and consumables...

...by a factor of 2. This means that if you set up two identical assays with the same sample, you could end...amplitude measured for each droplet in each well (Figure 2). A clean ddPCR should have a clear separation between...as low as 1C/s. Increasing the elongation time to 2 minutes and the denaturation time to 1 minute has ...standard curve is giving an accurate readout of your samples.  Of course, if qPCR were perfect there would be...must serially dilute your virus before adding your sample to a mastermix. At Addgene, we typically load 3... a wide range of titers. We usually dilute our samples 1:6 million to 1:25 million.  After making the ...and droplet oil that you use should come from the same manufacturer. Otherwise you will end up with poor...

...or non-homologous end joining (see Figure 2).  Figure 2: Schematic representation of integration...due to insertional mutagenesis (Howe et al., 2008). 2. Transient expression of transgenes/shRNAs If you ...vectors: progress and applications. Gene Therapy, 17(2), 150–157. https://doi.org/10.1038/gt.2009.135. PubMed...efficiently during infection. Journal of Virology, 70(2), 721–728. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.70.2.721-728.1996...performing quantitative PCR titration of vector DNA in samples harvested 24 hours post-transduction (Wanisch and...

...the absence of genome editing (Fig. 2 and 3) (5, 3). Figure 2: Gene activation with nuclease-competent...shown to exhibit more limited activity than SpCas9 (2). In many cases this is due both to lower relative...PMID: 24076762. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3844869. 2. Chari, Raj, et al. "Unraveling CRISPR-Cas9 genome...2015): 823-826. PubMed PMID: 26167643. 3. Kiani, Samira, et al. "Cas9 gRNA engineering for genome editing...

...human transcription factors such as PAX7, PAX6, AP-2 alpha and ISLET-1. In addition, we distribute monoclonal... example through the use of less toxic adjuvants; 2) generating complex antibody chips that allow assessment...assessment of many protein targets in a single sample; 3) producing recombinant, partially humanized rabbit...