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  1. Rabies and Neuronal Tracing

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    ...it first infects one cell (the “starter cell”). It then replicates within that cell, and nascent RABV cross...connections to the starter cell, RABV was modified to only infect user-defined starter cell types, as well as ...dictate infection of target cells through their interactions with target cell surface receptors (Callaway...Callaway 2008). Based on this, cell type specificity of the starter cell can be achieved by using EnvA-pseudotyped...studied biological processes, like how our stem cells are housed in specific locations and give rise to...Tracers Due to their ability to efficiently enter cells and deliver a variety of cargoes, genetically engineered...replicate, and for a virus to cross a synapse from one cell to another, it must replicate. Modified Rabies Virus...
  2. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    ...Calcium phosphate Cells Transformed cell lines Transformed cell lines Transformed cell lines Cargo Nucleic...identify and enrich positive cells or a selection marker to generate stable cell lines. Transient or stable...and enrich positive cells. Likely contains a selection marker to generate stable cell lines. Packaging and...wide variety of mammalian cell lines. Useful for difficult to transfect cell types and can be used in ...protein are degraded within the cell.   Delivery methods for mammalian cell lines As mentioned above, the...components into your target cells. Delivery of these components into mammalian cell lines is quite broad and...Electroporation / Nucleofection Microinjection Cells Many types Single cells Cargo Nucleic acids or protein Nucleic...
  3. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    ...transgenic cell lines? One of the major uses of the piggyBac™ system is to create stable transgenic cell lines...efficiency is likely to be cell line-dependent, and should be tested in the cell line of interest. Importantly...If the cell’s chromatin structure undergoes significant rearrangement (such as when a stem cell initiates...manipulations in animal models or cells lines, including stem cells, without leaving behind any accessory...applications, including making transgenic cell lines and genetically-modified cell lines. Furthermore, the use of...years of research experience with stem cells to Transposagen's cell engineering team.     Mathew Goodwin... in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Choosing the Correct Path.,” J. stem cell Regen. Biol., vol. 1, no. ...
  4. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    ...on or in these cells: antibodies can bind to proteins on the cell surface, or the cell membrane can be...fusing B cells that have been extracted from animals injected with protein antigen to myeloma cells. The ... measurement of protein expression in cell lysates, whole cells, or tissue samples. Many experiments that...heterogeneous mixture - for example, cell lysate or media from cultured cells. ELISA can be used to quantitatively...same cell simultaneously as well as compare between samples. Learn more about flow cytometry. Cell and ... (immunohistochemistry) or cells (immunocytochemistry). This could be cells or tissue slices mounted to...an animal, to directly label circulating cells or other cells that are accessible from the bloodstream...
  5. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    ...infected cells, the other using wild-type Cas9 to remove the HIV-1 genome from infected cells. Read on...1 reservoirs HIV-1 infects cells in the immune system, notably CD4+ T-cells, and eventually leads to acquired...percentage of cells with activated HIV-1, measured via HIV-1 promoter-driven GFP expression. In cell lines that... genome from every infected cell and 2. prevent reinfection of those cells. Kaminski et al. designed gRNAs...Kaminski et al. observed no negative effects on cell viability, cell cycle progression, or apoptosis with Cas9...in HIV-1 infected T-cells to see if they could be rescued by CRISPR. CD4+ T-cells were isolated from healthy...1 is limited to a subset of T-cells, but it is unclear if enough T-cells could be reached to ablate a ...
  6. What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science

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    ...including Trends in Cell Biology, Cell, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, and Cell Stem Cell.  She was the...inception and launch of other Cell Press journals, including Cell Metabolism, Cell Reports and Joule. In September...Deborah Sweet from Cell Press. Deborah Sweet is the Vice President of Editorial at Cell Press.  She trained...the founding Editor-in-Chief of Cell Stem Cell, a role she held for 10 years, and played a major role in...by Deborah Sweet, Vice President of Editorial at Cell Press. Almost everyone who works in a lab struggles...communication of science very seriously. That’s why at Cell Press we developed STAR Methods to improve the structure...trained originally in cell biology, completing her PhD at the MRC LMB in Cambridge UK and then a postdoc...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems

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    ...packaging cell line. γ-Retroviruses can transduce target cells, but the transduced target cell does not...using helper-free packaging cell lines This method utilizes a packaging cell line that stably expresses... packaging cell line. For example, Phoenix, a second generation γ-retrovirus packaging cell line developed...and rat cells), or an amphotropic envelope, Phoenix-AMPHO (for the infection of mammalian cells.) Using...transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells because once in the host cell cytoplasm, the viral components are...for efficient gene delivery to mammalian cells using 293T cell-based systems. Curr Protoc Immunol. 2001...γ-retroviruses (gamma-retroviruses) in cancer and stem cell research has prompted the development of multiple...
  8. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    ...resistant cancer cells exist prior to drug treatment. They infected a non-small cell lung cancer cell line containing...same parent cells that represent the preexisting resistant subpopulation 2. Resistant cells among the separate... target cell population at low multiplicity of infection (MOI) such that each individual cell receives...researchers to individually label millions of mammalian cells through lentiviral infection and to monitor their...quantify the take rate of mouse xenografts after cell implantation. Their goal was to figure out how to...ClonTracer library to determine whether or not cancer cell populations resistant to drug treatments arise during...They hypothesized that, if they labeled the parent cell population using the library, propagated it, separated...
  9. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    ... fluorescent proteins. In-cell labeling strategies The majority of in-cell labeling strategies have two...and oligonucleotide labels for fixed-cell imaging, not for live-cell applications. Thus, these fluorophores...). These cell-permeable Janelia Fluor (JF) dyes have excellent properties inside living cells, especially..."Imaging live-cell dynamics and structure at the single-molecule level." Molecular cell 58.4 (2015): 644...sparked a renaissance in biological imaging. Suddenly, cell biologists were no longer beholden to chemists and.... Add a dash of DNA with an electrical jolt and cells become perfectly capable of synthesizing fluorophore...question: In this age of GFP and its ilk, why should cell biologists talk to chemists? One reason is something...
  10. Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping

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    ... the detection of cell-cell interactions EXCELL is an enzyme-mediated proximity cell labeling strategy...a bait protein fused to BirA* in cells and then incubate those cells with exogenous biotin. After a few...strategy to detect cell-cell interactions in vivo (Ge et al., 2019). This technique relies on an S. auerus transpeptidase...displayed on the surface of a cell of interest, where it can label interacting cell surface proteins with a ...-protein interactions, and even more recently cell-cell interactions. If you’re looking to identify interactions...Intercellular Proximity Labeling for Detecting CellCell Interactions." Journal of the American Chemical...proximal and interacting proteins in mammalian cells." J Cell Biol 196.6 (2012): 801-810. PubMed PMID: 22412018...
  11. Hassle-free 96-well Format Epitope Tagging Using Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein

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    ...transfected cells, we count the number of tag-positive cells (tag ICC) as a percentage of total cells in the...Deliver csRNP into cells: Prepare cells for transfection, add csRNP and ssODN to the cell suspension, transfect...csRNP plus ssODN, is then transfected into stem cells. Cells are allowed to recover for 2-5 days and then...efficiently these components are delivered into cells; for each cell type, the transfection/delivery step needs...provides a solution Proteins - the workhorses of the cell – never work alone in the cellular milieu. It is...DNA) to perform diverse biochemical tasks in the cell. One of the most popular approaches to study protein...with its associated protein complexes - from the cell-lysate using antibodies against the target protein...
  12. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    ...unstable, meaning that the cells must continually produce antitoxin to avoid cell death. In the case of plasmids...addiction systems” require dividing cells to retain plasmids - if a cell does not inherit plasmid due to ...will be degraded leaving the cell to be killed by the more stable toxin. Cells only survive if they retain...10% of cells while plasmids containing the plasmid addiction system were retained in 75% of cells. They...designated this fragment as the ccdB region (for “coupled cell division”). The encoded toxin-antitoxin system consists...cleaved complex. This results in DNA breakage and cell death. Conversely, CcdA binds to and blocks the ... replaced by the gene of interest. As a result, cells that retain the ccdB gene die off and a higher percentage...
  13. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ...cancerous cells Luckily, there are several safety mechanisms in place to protect us from rogue cells when ...process of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is one such mechanism. When a cell or its genetic material... directly inhibit the ability of a cell to undergo programmed cell death while simultaneously stimulating...eliminate every cancerous cell. Even so, to pose the greatest threat, cancerous cells still need to successfully...proteins that, when expressed, normally encourage cell survival, growth and proliferation, while tumor ... suppressors perform the opposite task, keeping cells from dividing out of control. One may compare the... vehicle or, in the case of cancer, uncontrolled cell proliferation. Hence it is imperative to the health...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: Integrase-Deficient Lentiviral Vectors

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    ...purposes, like creating stable cell lines, delivering CRISPR/Cas9 to cells for genome editing, and introducing...viral entry into the host cell.  Transfecting these three plasmids into cells enables the production of...lost through cycles of cell division, though the rate of loss greatly depends on cell turnover. Why use ...be different for each transduced cell, there’s no telling which cells may harbor these unwanted interruptions...expression in non-dividing cells IDLVs can also be useful for transducing non-dividing cells, as they avoid the...have become indispensable tools for manipulating cells and organisms. They can be used for a variety of...introducing inducible systems into cells, among many other uses. Lentiviral vectors can be produced easily...
  15. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...restoring mCherry expression. Cells can then be sorted using Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) and the...easily determined by comparing cells expressing only eGFP expression to cells expressing eGFP and mCherry...expressed in cells. mCherry is constitutively expressed to identify successfully transfected cells. C-to-T ...eGFP and mCherry positive cells by the number of only mCherry positive cells (Martin et al., 2019). ...TREE) to purify single base edited cells without the need for single cell isolation and downstream sequencing...fluorescence and cell sorting using FACS which could limit their use across different cell types and systems...sgRNA targeting the GFPACG to the cells. As expected, only the cells that contained the cytidine base ...
  16. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    ...lines expressing GFP in specific cell types to do more than just label cells. If GFP could be co-opted to ...reporter output was observed in their 293 cell culture system. In cells cotransfected with GFP and the GBPs,...expression was induced in ~76% of GFP+ cells, and 100% of DsRed+ cells also expressed GFP. Using AAV constructs...fluorescent proteins as scaffolds for cell-specific gene manipulation.” Cell 154(4) (2013): 928-939. PubMed ...wanted to express a variety of proteins in single cell types in the mouse, but knew it would take years...could then selectively manipulate only GFP-labeled cells. Once Tang and Cepko found a description of GFP-...heavy chain, and they are small and stable inside cells. Nanobodies binding GFP were designed in 2009. Subsequent...
  17. Improving Transduction Efficiency with Exosome AAVs

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    ...the producer cells and purification protocols often describe a process that begins with cell lysis to release... steps to separate cell culture supernatant containing exo-AVVs from producer cells, and then to enrich...effectively target less accessible cells, such as brain tumor stromal cells in a mouse model of glioblastoma...Standard AAV vectors are generated with a producer cell line like the widely used 293T. During vector production... to be spontaneously released from the producer cells into the supernatant during the production phase... look at the AAV vectors that are released from cells during production (Maguire et al., 2012). They saw... number of AAV particles is able to infect more cells (as demonstrated in different cellular environments...
  18. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...with live host cells Now you can proceed with incubating this membrane with your cells of interest and...membranes well with PBST to remove unbound cells. To detect bound cells, simply lay each membrane on an agar...structure(s) a given phage will recognize on a host cell. To make matters even more interesting, much of...of what a phage faces as it approaches a host cell surface are complex polysaccharide structures, many...many of which are easily varied by the cell and whose structures are just beginning to be understood. Therefore...their bases in order to protect their DNA from host cell nucleases (4). To further complicate matters, even...within a sequenced genome that encode for functional cell-binding proteins in the (all-too-common) event that...
  19. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    ...improved cell-free system to examine biosynthetic pathways A new tool for enriching ABE-targeted cells The ...interest, and cell extract.    Graphical Abstract: Schematic representation of cell-free system,...successfully reconstituted in this cell-free system. In summary, this cell free system allows for a relatively...multiplexed and can be used in human pluripotent stem cells, a cell type that has been difficult to modify in the... Corner New ready-to-use viral preps   Improved cell-free transcription/translation system to examine...biosynthetic pathways  By Gabrielle Clouse Recently, cell-free transcription/translation systems (also referred....0c00581   New tool for enrichment of ABE-targeted cells By Ellie Adams Single base modifications through...
  20. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    ...demonstrated its use to probe cell mechanics, vesicle transport, and cell division, but given the long ... expressed in a monolayer of endothelial cells, showing cell protrusions and overlaps (arrows) after blue...2016). Rho GTPase signalling in cell migration. Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 36, 103–112. https://doi.org...Optogenetics gives you the power to control cells or organisms with the flip of a switch. You may be ...optogenetic tools to control the cytoskeleton and cell membrane dynamics. First, a quick refresher.  The...important components of the cytoskeleton. They provide cells with physical structure, separate chromosomes during...strategies are available to disrupt microtubules in cells, they have various disadvantages and limitations...
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