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  1. Inntags: Innovative Protein Epitope Tagging

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    ...that inntags IT5, IT6, and IT10 expressed well in cells and did not form undesirable aggregates. Using budding...tags. Impressively, IT6-GFP did not reduce yeast cell size or viability compared to untagged GFP overexpression...multiple other proteins. Again, little to no change in cell morphology was observed with IT5 and IT6 fusions...and HA tags had especially detrimental effects on cell size and growth rate, indicating that they compromised...correlation for protein localization in mammalian cells." Nature methods 10.4 (2013): 315-323. Pubmed PMID...
  2. CRISPR Antimicrobials

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    ...reach essentially every cell or else small pools of antibiotic resistant cells could repopulate the environment...strategies are nonspecific - they harm any bacterial cell without a resistance gene, allowing resistant bacteria...antibiotics target one of three essential processes: cell wall synthesis, DNA replication, or protein synthesis...eliminated from the bacterium, which may also induce cell death. CRISPR also enables increased specificity...Treating a mixed population, represented here by cells of different colors, specifically targets bacteria...bacteria. Targeting a genomic sequence results in cell death. Plasmid targeting may result in plasmid loss...and antibiotic resensitization, or may also cause cell death. Image from Beisel et al., licensed under ...
  3. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    ...choose cell lines that are highly transfectable.  The amounts of each plasmid transfected into cells are ... polymerase gene or using cells that stably express T7 (e.g. BSR T7/5 cells) (1). We hope that minigenomes...capable of being replicated and transcribed in the cell when the appropriate viral proteins are provided... RNA-dependent RNA polymerase into the infected cells. The EBOV polymerase replicates the viral genome...on separate plasmids and are co-transfected into cells alongside a plasmid encoding the minigenome. These...the minigenome) are efficiently transfected into cells. All of these components are necessary to efficiently... RNA polymerase also needs to be present in the cells to transcribe the viral mRNAs and minigenome. This...
  4. Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...orthologs that display cleavage activity in mammalian cells. Like Cas9 nucleases, Cpf1 family members contain...the PAM. With this information, they turned to a cell culture system to see if any Cpf1 nucleases would...would exhibit in vivo activity in mammalian cells. From 16 diverse Cpf1 candidates, Zetsche et al. found...particularly helpful for targeting non-dividing cells, which are difficult to modify through homology-... Cpf1 orthologs known to be active in mammalian cells, LbCpf1 and AsCpf1. In both reports, on target editing... (RNPs) failed to induce off-target editing in a cell culture model. The application of Cpf1 to genome...RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system." Cell (2015). PubMed PMID: 26422227. Find plasmids from...
  5. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    ...mCherry for FACS sorting of the weaponized T-cells (CAR-T cells) - and then delivering them to a tumor - ...effectively as standard CAR-T cells, but it reduces the off-target effects caused by T cell migration.  CAR expression...reducing the on-target off-tumor activity of CAR–T cells was recently devised by the Yingxiao Wang lab.  ...above can be made for expressing your favorite T-cell receptor, or perhaps any other tool that can benefit...  Wu Y, et. al. Control of the activity of CAR-T cells within tumours via focused ultrasound. Nat Biomed...
  6. Building and Validating Recombinant Antibodies: A Case Study

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    ...cryopreserved hybridomas, immortalized cells created by fusing an activated B cell that produces the antibody of...of interest with a myeloma cell. This RNA was then used to generate cDNA, which  was used as a template...of hybridoma generated mAbs is that if the frozen cell line becomes non-recoverable, the stock of the mAb...hybridoma stocks, without having to grow up the cells. This RNA could then be used to generate functional...immunofluorescence-immunocytochemistry (IF-ICC.) This method was chosen because cells transfected with a plasmid to express the target... could be screened in a high-throughput manner. Cells were labeled with both a hybridoma generated mAb...
  7. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - Protein Variants, a Serotonin Sensor, and an Artificial Leaf Replica System

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    ...non-growing cells are orange, slow growing cells are orange-green, and fast growing cells are green. A...fluorescence. Cells expressing the library are then sorted by fluorescence-activated cell sorting into ...population. Last, Bernach will simultaneously monitor cell cycle and growth rate using TIMER and an unstable...reporter under the control of promoters that control cell cycle gene expression.  Additional Resources on...
  8. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life

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    ...’re saving trees! The Earth thanks you. 2. Gibco Cell Culture by Gibco Whenever I start to learn a new...spectrometry app. I digress. When I started learning proper cell culture technique, I tried to find an app that could...calculations. This is how I came across the Gibco Cell Culture app. Gibco organizes its app into four categories...tools are a lifesaver when your research requires cell culture and include a counter, lab timer, dilution...educational section. This section holds the Gibco Cell culture manual and basic instructional videos. The... Overall, it’s a great tool for someone starting cell culture work. 3. NEB Tools by New England BioLabs...alternative, similar apps: Findings Lab Notebook Cell Culture Split Calculator by DRDP Restriction Enzyme...
  9. AAV Purification by Iodixanol Gradient Ultracentrifugation

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    ...suitable for virus purification and isolation of cells, organelles, lipoproteins, and macromolecules. Importantly..., iodixanol is inert and non-toxic to mammalian cells. Therefore, and unlike other density gradient media...
  10. Coomassie Purity Stain of Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...samples may not have been processed correctly in the cell (e.g., failure to cleave the signal peptide) and...Scatter chart. Change the data range and select the cells where the x-axis is represented. Add a linear trendline...
  11. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    ...human T cells and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC)s to ~40% expression in the K562 cell line...gene to airway epithelial cells in mice. This vector transduced ~10% of cells, similar to the transduction... then independently packaged into an AAV. When a cell is co-infected with both part A and part B AAVs,... always.  The combination of serotype and tissue/cell type could have a big impact on the rate of transgene...since both of these variables influence whether cells will be co-transduced with multiple copies of both... followed by the 3’-end of the transgene. When a cell is transduced by both viruses, if the AAV genomes...optimal sequences, the group achieved ~80% of muscle cells expressing mini-dystrophin.  3. Hybrid  Overview...
  12. CRISPR 101: Drug discovery and CRISPR

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    ...knock out, etc. – CRISPR can be used to generate cell line or animal models which have the precise disease...Since CRISPR has been adapted for use in primary cells, many tissue types, and across species, it enables... phenotype. CRISPR can also be used to generate cell line knock-ins of patient mutations which are variants...CRISPR has revolutionized the generation of knockout cell lines which has made this control step extremely...in a cancerous background and treat the parental cell line and the X knockout with your drug(s). If a ...the Addgene blog CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line Using CRISPR-Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the...
  13. Quick Guide to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...mammalian cells. dDetermined as effective NIR fluorescence in transiently transfected live HeLa cells with ...Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins in Mammalian Cells. Cell Chem Biol 24, 758-766 e753 (2017). Baloban, M...developers and users, BV is present in eukaryotic cells as an intermediate of heme metabolism (Shemetov ...to GFP-like probes by supplying a single gene to cells. Still in bacteria, which do not produce BV, an ... to consider effective brightness of NIR FPs in cells, in addition to their molecular brightness (a product...the concentration of BV-containing molecules in a cell and depends on the efficiency of BV incorporation...Photo-stabilityc, t1/2, s pKa Brightness in HeLa cells vs. iRFP713, % d Ref BphP-based FPs miRFP670...
  14. Top Requested Plasmid of 2017 - pMD2.G

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    ...used to deliver Cas9 and other genes to mammalian cells. For this reason, the top requested plasmid of 2017... coat the virus and help determine the types of cells that it can infect. The VSV-G envelope is widely... lentiviruses to infect many different types of cells. This means researchers who use VSV-G can deliver...deliver their genes of interest to a variety of cells and study their effects. To date, nearly 900 articles...in studies of the secretome, ubiquitin ligase, cellular senescence, autophagy, CRISPR, and so much more...
  15. Measuring Kinase Activity at the Single-Cell Level with Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs)

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    ... the single-cell level can aid in drawing connections between signaling activity and cell phenotype. One...Covert, M.W. (2018). Live-cell measurements of kinase activity in single cells using translocation reporters... One method for monitoring live single-cell kinase activity is FRET, but FRET reporters are challenging...their Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs) whose cellular localization serves as a proxy measurement of ... used to measure kinase activity in specific subcellular compartments. Second, because KTRs shuttle between...
  16. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    ...proteins in cells. Homeostatic regulation of protein abundance is essential for normal cell function, and...one particular protein in neurons or in any other cell type. However, we cannot distinguish new from old...facilitate the visualization of specific proteins in cells. Tagged protein can easily be overexpressed from...techniques to follow translation in living single cells. However, before CRISPR-Cas9 these techniques were... turnover of specific endogenous proteins in any cell type. Exciting! Many thanks to our guest blogger... how small molecule fluorophores can be used for cell labeling Check out other protein tagging strategies...interests, suspected to interact, are added to a cellular sample. Both antibodies have a short antibody ...
  17. Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors

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    ...type of cells the viral particles infect. This can direct your biosensor to specific tissues or cell (sub...the caffeine of the cell!)—ATP. There are biosensors for intracellular, extracellular, and even the ADP:...blog we will focus on those which can be applied in cell culture and animal models primarily. Fun fact: Almost...vivo, in tissue preps, in multiple species, and in cell culture models. Some of them have even been expanded... as actinin. When tension is high vs. low in the cell the donor and acceptor of a FRET pair on actinin...many biosensors need to be in specific tissues or cells to monitor their target analyte. This can be difficult... as proxies for a cellular process or directly measure a cellular process. Cellular phenomena such as ...
  18. CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining

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    ...Translocations in Human Cells Are Generated by Canonical Nonhomologous End-Joining. Molecular Cell 55:829–842 . ...Genome Editing Specificity. Cell 154:1380–1389 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.08.021 Waters CA, Strande... chromosomal DSBs. It is important to know that cells possess two major repair pathways – Non-Homologous... steps Unlike HDR, NHEJ is active throughout the cell cycle and has a higher capacity for repair, as there...should take less than an hour, thus a population of cells constitutively expressing a targeted Cas9 should...CRISPR Protocol for Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines [Video] Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide...
  19. Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags

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    ...Bewersdorf, J. (2016). Two-colour live-cell nanoscale imaging of intracellular targets. Nature Communications,...opening up new applications.   Figure 1: Live-cell labeling strategies. The green structure represents...organelle interactions. a) Labeling scheme. b) COS-7 cell ER labeled with Halo-Sec61β with SiR-CA (magenta...viral particles with BG-linked antibodies to drive cell type-specific delivery of a viral vector (Strebinger...specialized ligands is more expensive than letting the cells make a fluorescent protein for you. And some ligands...certain probes are not very good at crossing the cell membrane. So, you should investigate your options...Microscopy: A Comparison between HaloTags and SNAP-tags. Cell Chemical Biology, 26(4), 584-592.e6. https://doi.org...
  20. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ...infects host cells through binding the human angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) cell-surface receptor...antigenic drift.    Starr et al Cell. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.08.012  Starr et al Science...Library generation and sequencing. From Starr et al Cell., 2020. (B) Mapping antibody-escape mutations with... SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD is displayed on the yeast cell’s surface. The Bloom lab used the library to identify... candidates were validated by IP-MS using HEK293 cell lysate where the antigens would be in their native...immunoprecipitate the entire complex in three different cell lines. The Gräslund lab plans to continue their ...protect proteins from unfavorable interactions in the cell, improving biosynthetic pathway yields by stabilizing...
  21. Sonic Hedgehog? Sleeping Beauty? Learn About the Genes Behind Addgene’s Conference Room Names

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    ... are filled with early mitotic cells as well as necrotic or dead cells (Jiang and White-Cooper, 2003)....interact with each other to generate forces that cause cells and muscles to contract depending on the context...context. Contraction is critical for processes such as cell movement/motility, development, cytokinesis, and...scientists who discovered comr thought the sperm cells in mutant flies looked like a “whole bunch of cookie...are part of a genetic cascade that determines the cell fate of the dorsal mesoderm in developing Drosophila... and bagpipe: two homeo box genes that determine cell fates in the dorsal mesoderm of Drosophila." Genes...required for oogenesis in Drosophila." The Journal of cell biology 139.7 (1997): 1805-1819. PubMed PMID: 9412474...
  22. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    ...expanded since its adaptation for use in mammalian cells in 2012-2013. Researchers are now using this system...plasmids containing sgRNA sequences into HEK293T cells. The fluorescence intensity was classified into ...is then a simple matter of transfecting HEK293T cells with your modified pCAG-EGXXFP plasmid along with...incubation, you assess the level of fluorescence in your cells under a fluorescence microscope. The higher the ...you’ve validated your gRNAs for use in mammalian cells, it’s time to use them in mouse embryos. When researchers...developed as the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in mammalian cells was being explored and it allowed control over each... the mutation will be homozygous for it in every cell; however, if the microinjection was done as the ...
  23. Rewiring Metabolic Circuitry with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds [Video]

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    ...coordinated by the eukaryotic cell for the execution of many complex cellular behaviors, such as differentiation...toxic intermediate buildup as well as controlling cell fate decisions. By using an orthogonal dCas9 protein...for sequence-specific control of gene expression. Cell, 152(5), 1173-1183. (2013). PubMed. Zalatan, J...Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds. Cell, 160(1), 339-350 (2015). PubMed. Find the Plasmids...crispr/qi/ Plasmids described in  Zalatan et al. Cell  (2015) can be found here: https://www.addgene.org.../article/9593/ Plasmids described in Qi et al. Cell  (2013) can be found here: https://www.addgene.org...or metabolism. Our attempts to manipulate these cellular behaviors often fall short with the generation...
  24. Hot Plasmids: FRET-Based Biosensors

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    ... there is one problem: how to get that into the cells of interest,” Griesbeck said. Because they are chemical...advantage for observing events taking place inside cells that are on the move, such as T lymphocytes. Griesbeck...-binding protein, troponin C (TnC), from muscle cells. They identified a toadfish TnC variant which had...cAMP-responsive element-binding protein (CREB) in living cells. “Now we are making this really good,” Griesbeck...also present challenges in that they are found in cells at much lower concentrations than calcium, requiring...Friedrich et al. Imaging CREB activation in living cells. J Biol Chem. 2010 Jul 23;285(30):23285-95. doi:...understand the connection between molecular- and cellular-level events and behavior. It’s a problem that...
  25. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    ...expression and needing to work with a transfectable cell line. 2) They require larger expression vectors... of 4 crRNAs in vitro and when expressed in 293 cells. This allows for a single promoter to drive expression... were used.  With transfection, 6.4% of HEK293T cells had edits at 4 of 4 targets when an array of 4 crRNAs...transfected on a single plasmid. This is versus 2.4% of cells transfected with a pool of plasmids that contained...processing of the crRNA array when expressed in cells, but notice how Zetsche et al reverses the orientation...mouse neurons and in vivo. For these experiments, cells were infected with a 1:1 ratio of two AAVs,  one...RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell,163(3), 759-771. PubMed PMID: 26422227. PubMed Central...
  26. RNA Extraction Without A Kit

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    ...are commonly found in cells, and without something to block RNase activity upon cell lysis, RNA is degraded...RNases such as RNaseZAP. When harvesting tissues, cells, plants, fungi, or bacteria, keep samples cold and...before RNases had a chance to break down RNA upon cell lysis.  In the late 1970’s, Chirgwin and colleagues...keeping your samples cold until homogenization and cell lysis. This can be challenging depending on your...developed ways to “stabilize” RNA within tissues before cell lysis. These products, namely RNAlater®  from Thermo...solutions that work by inhibiting RNase activity within cells or tissues- they don’t actually chemically stabilize...
  27. Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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    ...if the cell dies from injury, this protein leaks out into the cytoplasm, migrates out of the cell, and ...Keytruda) causes T-cells to more easily recognize and cause the destruction of cancer cells. Pembrolizumab...cause inflammation, which can cause mesothelial cells to mutate and ultimately form cancerous tumors.  ...resection), systemic chemotherapy to kill cancerous cells that may have spread beyond the point of origin,...successful in killing many (if not all) of the cancer cells that may be left behind after surgery, while being...and binds cells that can begin an immune response. This important biomarker can be used to distinguish between...
  28. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...used. The Fujii lab demonstrated this in mammalian cells by expressing dCas9 with an N-terminal 3xFLAG tag...studies (Fujita et al., 2018). In addition to the "in cell" form of this method, in which an engineered DNA-binding...molecule such as the CRISPR complex is expressed in cells to be analyzed, the Fujii lab also developed another...recombinant CRISPR ribonucleoproteins." Genes to Cells 21.4 (2016): 370-377. PubMed PMID: 26848818. Fujita...‐dC as9 protein for enCh IP analysis." Genes to cells 23.4 (2018): 318-325. PubMed PMID: 29480524. Gilbert...RNA-guided regulation of transcription in eukaryotes." Cell 154.2 (2013): 442-451. PubMed PMID: 23849981. PubMed...of chromatin interactions by biotinylated dCas9." Cell 170.5 (2017): 1028-1043. PubMed PMID: 28841410. ...
  29. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ...entire proteome of a particular cell type, or a subset based on a cellular compartment or growth stage)....extensively to screen for molecular interactions in the cell, including protein-protein, protein-DNA and protein-RNA...field of eukaryotic transcriptional activation and cell biology. During this period, proteins were successfully...The reporter gene then allows detection of those cells where binding between the proteins of interest has...alternative fungi (C. albicans, pC2HB) (7) and mammalian cells. If the problem is that your proteins are not post-translationally... DNA and activate a reporter gene in eukaryotic cells, fusion proteins must gain access to the nucleus... the DNA specificity of a prokaryotic repressor. Cell. 1985; 43:729-736. PubMed PMID: 3907859. 4. Fields...
  30. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    ...epigenome editing. Cell, 184(9), 2503–2519.e17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.025.    Recombinant...tissue is identifying the cells you are studying. Antibodies can help reveal cellular identities by targeting...particles (eVLPs) offers an option to transduce cells directly with ribonucleoprotein cargo. eVLPs contain... will only be transiently present in transduced cells, limiting off-target editing. Cargo size limits ...site-specific integration of large genes in mammalian cells via continuously evolved recombinases and prime ... Recombinant antibodies for marking cell types in the nervous system By Ashley Waldron The mammalian nervous... nervous system is composed of myriad cell types and subtypes, and a familiar challenge for anyone who...
  31. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ... by ~3,300-fold in Drosophila cells and ~24,000-fold in human HeLa cells as compared to basal expression...origins, Tet systems function well in mammalian cells, and TRE-containing promoters can be used in the...cumate switch system functions well in mammalian cells, and can be used in the repressible manner described...While originally developed for use in mammalian cells, this system has also been implemented in a variety...transgene permits directed expression of that gene in cells that also express GAL4. Usage of this system revolutionized...reversible by the addition of quinic acid to Drosophila cells. Work by Wei et al. from Kang Shen’s lab has also.... Tight control of gene expression in mammalian cells by tetracycline-responsive promoters. Proc Natl ...
  32. Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection

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    ...proteins enable the observation of proteins in living cells and organisms. Both components of the chimera are...However, these may not reflect the situation in cells. Therefore, the localization of critical fusions...currently the standard for assessing oligomerization in cells. In addition to measuring stickiness, several researchers...fluorescent proteins that behave as monomers in mammalian cells include: mTurquoise2, mEGFP, mNeonGreen, mScarlet...protein to the existing pool of protein within a cell and may lead to over-expression artifacts. This ...heterotrimeric G protein Gq activation in living cells." BMC biology 9.1 (2011): 32. PubMed PMID: 21619590...activation of heterotrimeric G-proteins in living cells." Science 291.5512 (2001): 2408-2411. PubMed PMID...
  33. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    ...its oxidized derivatives. Cell 152, 5 P1146-1159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.02.004.  Xu X, Tao...targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discov 2, 16009. https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9.   ...enzymatic activity cause demethylation?  Dividing cells depend on DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) to copy...methylate sites blocked by dCas9. Within a few rounds of cell division, the original methylated strand is diluted...dCas9 expression and pLM-CMV-R-Cre. Selection for cells stably and highly expressing these constructs can...can be achieved by fluorescence-activated cell sorting, and stable gRNA expression can be achieved using...TETs compete with DNMT3 activity in pluripotent cells at thousands of methylated somatic enhancers. Nat...
  34. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    ... used HEK293T cells in our first study, but we're planning to soon expand to other cell types, including...26 of the 29 SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins in human cells and used these viral “bait” proteins to fish for...human proteins that the virus interacts with in cells. Because viruses rely on the help of human proteins...monkeywrench into the virus’ hijacking of human cells. Even better, more than half the drugs hitting these...they have an IRES-Puro marker to facilitate stable cell clone selection. Expression is driven by a fairly...
  35. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    ...different types of human cells, including T cells and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Now with the DAP...to enable multiplex gene editing in a variety of cells and organisms. However, lengthy genetic payloads... over 50% averaging editing efficiency in human cells. MBE with DAP array also exhibited reduced Cas9-... editing, and nuclease editing, in virtually any cell type or organisms of interest with only minimal ...
  36. SunTag and Fluorescent Imaging

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    ...potential to form aggregates and may be toxic to the cell. Here comes the SunTag How does SunTag fix these...enables single molecule tracking  within living cells without affecting protein function, thereby creating...attempted single-molecule imaging deep inside the cell, in the nucleus and cytoplasm. Again, they found...SunTag constructs would avoid negative effects on cell physiology. Having seen that mitochondrial tracker...amplification in gene expression and fluorescence imaging.” Cell 159(3) (2014):635-46. PubMed PMID: 25307933. PubMed...time to get enough signal. This workaround risks cellular phototoxicity and eliminates the possibility of...creating a single-molecule reporter of intracellular processes. Initially, Tanenbaum et al. observed some...
  37. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

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    ...expression targeted to specific tissues, cell types or even subcellular regions of a neuron. Optogenetic approaches...approaches excel at discrete cell or tissue-subregion targeting down to the limits of light delivery. ...-wide targeting, as the ligand can reach target cells throughout the body. Controlling Stimulation Some... and chemogenetic tools need to be delivered to cells, commonly through viral delivery by AAV. You can...Further restricted to illuminated region Impacts all cells expressing receptors Invasiveness Mice require...
  38. Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion

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    ...shown to work in plant, Drosophila and mammalian cells, and it may find wide use in biological research...turnover rate. In many cases, however, a GFP-tagged cell line or organism has already been made, and it would...made by accident. After exciting GFP-labeled plant cells at 405 nm instead of 488 nm, Sattarzadeh et al. ...spontaneous conversion did not occur. Tobacco suspension cell culture with cytosol-targeted GFP. White circles...photoconverted in plant, Drosophila, and mammalian cells. Photoconverted GFP is compatible with other FPs... are you’ve used a GFP derivative to conduct subcellular localization studies or make a reporter construct...this technique may not be appropriate for high-pH cellular compartments. Sattarzadeh et al. have shown that...
  39. Celebrating Outstanding CRISPR/Cas9 Achievements at the Dr. Paul Janssen Award Dinner

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    ...already available today to cure sickle cell anemia in stem cells but this can’t be used in people until... audience discussed how J&J is already modifying cell and animal genomes to test hypotheses of disease...and more about the how to use genome edited stem cells to treat disease. As for me, I continue to be amazed... much we have yet to learn. As Dr. Mello said, “Cells have been in the information age for billions of...
  40. The Michael Davidson Collection: One-Stop Shop for Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...of fluorescent proteins and their use for imaging cell biology, Michael Davidson’s lab at Florida State...blue, and orange spectra. A comprehensive list of cell markers all tagged with mEmerald. Plasmids to monitor...From F-Actin to mitochondria, from the nucleus to cell membrane, this collection has fluorescently tagged... where your protein of interest localizes in the cell, use these markers as your guide. As Michael Davidson...Fluorescent proteins are] a whole new way of seeing cell biology, seeing what interacts with what, what affects...of many proteins known to localize to specific cellular structures.The Davidson lab even included some...everywhere to get a clearer picture of that intracellular world, even as the Davidson lab prepares to ...
  41. KLF Research Plasmids

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    ...regulators with diverse roles in processes such as cell proliferation, differentiation, inflammation, metabolism...
  42. Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence

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    ...holes in the cell membranes of your sample to allow antibodies better access to intracellular targets. If...allowing antibodies into the cell where they could bind to intracellular epitopes. C) Permeabilizing with...method for visualizing molecules of interest within a cell or tissue. In that introduction, we broke down the... large proteins that need a little help crossing cell membranes as they are not able to diffuse across...target protein that is still on the inside of the cell. However, assuming you do need to permeabilize, ...For example, saponin interacts with cholesterol in cell membranes and leaves many membrane-associated proteins... organic solvents. However, detergents can lyse cells or cause you to lose soluble proteins from the sample...
  43. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    ...CRISPR-Cas System. Cell. 2015 Sep 23. pii: S0092-8674(15)01200-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.038. PubMed...RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system." Cell (2015). PubMed PMID: 26422227.   Potential ...particularly helpful for targeting non-dividing cells, which are difficult to modify through homology-... Cpf1 orthologs known to be active in mammalian cells, LbCpf1 and AsCpf1. In both reports, on target editing... (RNPs) failed to induce off-target editing in a cell culture model. What we still don't know about Cpf1...reveals specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jun 6. PubMed PMID: 27272384...specificities of CRISPR-Cas Cpf1 nucleases in human cells." Nature Biotechnology (2016). PubMed PMID: 27347757...
  44. Drew Endy Introduces the Biobrick Public Agreement Plasmid Collection

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    ...metabolite in a cell. The only way to do that at scale right now is to grow up a bunch of cells, sacrifice ...capable of storing data and computing inside living cells. He's also a co-founder of the BioBricks Foundation...as an operating system for engineering an entire cell. Typically when people use plasmids, they are trying... you could imagine engineering the entirety of a cell. That's a big long-term technical challenge. We ...That's central to everything that goes on inside a cell. Until we get a handle on precise, forward engineering...scale, it's going to be tricky to tame the rest of a cell. The BIOFAB plasmids represent the first systematic...transistor-like digital genetic switches that enable cellular computing. These logic gates built from transcriptors...
  45. Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR

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    ...to quantify rates of mutation in a bulk or single cell-derived genomic DNA sample as part of a precision... successfully analyzed gDNA from a few thousand cells from single wells of a 96-well plate without prior... that they are easily able to distinguish single-cell derived samples with mono-allelic mutations versus...Isolation of single-base genome-edited human iPS cells without antibiotic selection. Nat Meth 11, 291–293... and Highly Specific Screening of Genome Edited Cells. PLoS ONE 11, e0153901–17 (2016). PubMed PMID: 27089539...mutagenesis induced by CRISPR-Cas nucleases in human cells. Nature Biotechnology 31, 822–826 (2013). PubMed...
  46. Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors

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    ...gives a talk at the Cell Symposia: Gene- and Cell-based Therapies: CRISPR, Stem Cells, and Beyond meeting...III product is produced and can infect bacterial cells. If a phage does not deliver an active variant, ...passage from the infected to a fresh uninfected host cell culture). This dilution step represents the major...but gets manually passaged from an infected host-cell culture to an uninfected culture which results in...
  47. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    ...genetic cargo, typically an expression construct, to cells/organisms. This is often cDNA, shRNA, or something...perform very similar functions to infiltrate the host cell and deposit viral cargo. Gene expression While AAV...what will be delivered and expressed in the host cell from the transfer plasmid. Viral packaging and entry...altered tropism of AAV to target different tissue or cell types. AAV also requires some back up from adenovirus...promoter that you wish to deliver to your target cells. In adenovirus, the ITRs serve as a type of origin...deficient. This is typically supplied by the production cell line (HEK-293) during production. Fun fact: There...
  48. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    ...transgenic animals, embryonic stem cells, and/or tissue-specific cell types: Cre-lox recombination. What...downstream of promoters that are active only in certain cell or tissue types, during certain stages of development... recombinase can be expressed only in specified cells or at specified times. Combining this with some ...has been used to successfully introduce Cre into cells of interest. What if I need two separate recombination...2. Site-specific DNA recombination in mammalian cells by the Cre recombinase of bacteriophage P1. Sauer...
  49. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...continuously synthesized and degraded within the cell, so at any given time, an FP-chimeric protein may...Since emission of green light is more phototoxic to cells, most scientists working on in vivo imaging models... this is not ideal for experiments in mammalian cells. Dendra2 is another monomeric PA-FP which unlike...tetrameric. Tetrameric PA-FPS are better for whole cell imaging and studying organelle trafficking. Monomeric...the photoactivation step can actually harm your cells before your experiment even begins! If you are performing...optical live imaging of proteins, organelles, and cells. Similar to FPs, PA-FPs allow for non-invasive labelling...dynamics of mitochondria in healthy and apoptotic cells (9). PA-FPs have helped to revolutionize the field...
  50. Some Like it Hot: Thermostable GeoCas9

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    ...mammalian cells. Harrington et al tested GeoCas9’s editing skills by transfecting HEK293 cells with GeoCas9...choice for a number of model organisms: mammalian cells, yeast, drosophila, plants, worms, zebrafish, frogs... 45 °C 50 - 70 °C Genome Editing in Mammalian Cells? Yes Yes Longevity in Serum?* No Yes Table ...experimental results. GeoCas9 RNP editing in mammalian cells Besides being able to take some heat, GeoCas9 can...
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