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  1. Plasmids 101: The Wide World of Natural Plasmids

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    ...transduction (viral infection by bacteriophages), or conjugation (direct transfer from one cell to another). Bacteria...need special fertility genes to be capable of conjugation, and these are encoded by certain kinds of plasmids...to a recipient through direct contact. That’s conjugation! F factors can also be integrated into the bacterial...also have more than one function: for example, Gateway cloning relies on genes found on an E. coli fertility...contain this F plasmid is critical for successful Gateway cloning. In addition, scientists have engineered...101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection Resources on Addgene.org Addgene's...
  2. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    ...though most MoClo reactions use Golden Gate cloning, not all Golden Gate cloning is MoClo. That’s because MoClo...Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD Interview with Nicola Patron on MoClo Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning...hierarchy. MoClo originally developed from Golden Gate Cloning, in which a type IIS restriction enzyme ...MoClo that relies on Gibson and other non-Golden Gate cloning methods. MoClo’s organization schema MoClo...
  3. Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot

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    ...incomplete lysing/insoluble proteins, and protein aggregation. Protein degradation, which would result in low...from their binding. If you’re seeing protein aggregation, you may want to consider changing your incubation...incubation temperature. Some proteins aggregate at 95 °C, a common lysis temperature, so consider a longer...incubation (30–60 minutes) at 37 °C, if you suspect aggregation in your prep. If your proteins are the wrong ...binding site, allowing you to visualize them with a conjugated antibody. If you do not need such precise measurements...of alcohol. The increased SDS will increase the negative charge on the protein, allowing it to move more...Blot Doctor page, or robust discussions, like ResearchGate’s western blot forum.  Blocking Don’t skimp on...
  4. Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry

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    ...it allows for better resolution of positive and negative populations, Careful panel design In both conventional... your fully stained samples. If you are using conjugated dyes, it is critical that your controls and your...variation. Tandem dyes (two fluorescent molecules conjugated together) can be especially sensitive to batch...batch effect. For example, when a PE molecule is conjugated with a Cy7 molecule, there is no telling exactly... (positive population) or won’t bind anything (negative population). It is strongly recommended that when...AntibodiesAntibodies 101: Buffers, Storage, and Conjugates Resources on Addgene.org Addgene's Antibody GuideAddgene's...
  5. When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells

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    ...to dimerization (i.e. EGFP) [1, 2] or even form obligate tetramers (i.e. DsRed) [3]. This is a problem ...localization, dynamics, and behavior of a POI. As an investigator, you want a fusion tag to be inert, to not produce...has gone into making FPs monomeric, yet many investigators remain ignorant of FP dimerization. Equally ...and difficult to ignore [1, 2]. 2. Fusion to an obligate dimer or oligomer Several cell proteins normally... is sedimentation equilibrium analytical ultracentrifugation [2]. Some affinity assays used in the papers...moderately dimerizing FPs such as EGFP, but not for obligate oligomers such as DsRed or high affinity FPs such...
  6. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    ...Plasmids from the Tsuyoshi Nakagawa lab are binary gateway vectors and can be used for promoter swapping and... al., 2007). Alternatively, if you prefer Golden Gate assembly, there are a series of plasmids from the...transformant with a single insertion because it will segregate 3:1 in the T2 generation. You also have no control...genotype in T1 than T2. Your transgene should not segregate in T1, but it probably will in T2. Laura Lee...Dinneny, J. R. (2013) ‘A robust family of Golden Gate Agrobacterium vectors for plant synthetic biology...PMC4426443. 4. Nakagawa, T. et al. (2007) ‘Improved Gateway Binary Vectors: High-Performance Vectors for Creation...
  7. Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy

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    ...of the first BiFC studies used the method to interrogate the subcellular localization of interactions ... may also work. You will also need to generate negative control constructs — more on this later. For more...fluorescence intensity of your BiFC constructs to your negative control to determine whether your PIPs actually...actually do interact. Choosing the right negative control is critical to the success of BiFC experiments. The... The FP fragments themselves cannot be used as negative controls because their expression level, stability...BiFC competition analysis can be used in lieu of negative controls (Kerppola, 2006). Here, one of the endogenous...
  8. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ...a clear separation between positive (blue) and negative (gray) droplets. The no template control wells...The ddPCR software uses the ratio of positive to negative droplets is used to calculate the concentration...getting a clean separation between positive and negative droplets with these parameters, here are a few...leading to greater separation of your positive and negative droplets. No more than 50 cycles is recommended...but you can go as low as 1C/s. Increasing the elongation time to 2 minutes and the denaturation time to... Witte, Anna Kristina, et al. "A systematic investigation of parameters influencing droplet rain in the...
  9. Harnessing TnpB for Genome Editing: A Compact and Versatile Tool for Your Research

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    ...gel and purify the digested vector. Step 4: Ligation Ligate the annealed oligos into the digested vector...blog post was written by Dr. Kutubuddin Molla, investigator at ICAR-Central National Rice Research Institute...radiodurans (Dra2TnpB) recognizes the TAM sequence 5′-TTGAT-3′, while TnpB from Deinococcus geothermalis (Dge10TnpB...the 20-nt Guide Sequence Identify a TAM site (5′-TTGAT-3′) in your target gene. Choose a 20-nt sequence...account: @Kutub_joy). Dr. Kutubuddin Molla is an investigator at the ICAR-Central National Rice Research Institute...
  10. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    ...the cytoplasm. That is, unfortunately, some investigators realize too late that they have missed the impact...confound quantitative imaging experiments or even negatively impact cells (see Figure 1). When behaving properly... properly, FPs enable researchers to investigate the localization and dynamics of fluorescent protein ...environment where it will localize [4]. Most investigators are surprised to learn that FPs are often poorly...overestimation of fusion protein activity. We encourage investigators to characterize FP-fusion proteins functionally...chloroplasts, the extracellular milieu, and gram negative bacteria periplasm. Efforts to tag endogenous ...
  11. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    ... mutated to a negatively charged residue, aspartate or glutamate, imparting the negative charge associated...smaller, and carry only a single negative charge as opposed to a double negative charge in the phosphate group...charges this tRNA with phosphoserine A specialized elongation factor that allows proper extension and translation...Sep-tRNA synthetase, and EF-Sep – an optimized elongation factor that accepts Sep-charged tRNAs during ...
  12. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ... recombination has not occurred. This powerful negative selection system ensures high editing efficiency.../gRNAs are easily inserted using BbsI and Golden Gate Assembly. Either plasmid can be also linearized ...repress transcription by physically blocking the elongation complex from binding the DNA or extending the...activation of the system. Mobile CRISPRi for Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria Jason Peters, Oren ...different genetic systems, targeting either Gram-negative bacteria or Gram-positive firmicutes, to bring...introduced (Tn7 in Gram-positives and ICEbs1 in Gram-negatives) but share the common CRISPR-dCas9 system for ... Sharp JD, Xu R, Prisic S, Husson RN (2016) Investigating essential gene function inMycobacterium tuberculosisusing...
  13. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    ...electric current applied to the gel causes the negatively charged proteins to migrate toward the positive...binding.  Whenever possible, include positive and negative controls. Positive controls typically include ...relevant levels (not overexpression systems) while negative controls are those that do not naturally express... on the membrane the antibodies are typically conjugated to an enzyme, such as horseradish peroxidase ...protein of interest, is not labeled. Instead, a conjugated species-specific secondary antibody is used to..., take care to include the proper positive and negative controls, choose antibodies that are validated...
  14. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    ... of CRISPR technologies, one might incorrectly relegate RNAi to history. The straightforwardness of RNAi..., gene knockout strategies cannot be used to investigate essential genes. Historically, gene silencing...present at the first stage of an RNAi-based investigation. Creation of the RNAi trigger requires a few... which allows easy creation of long hpRNA with Gateway-based cloning and straightforward positive selection...assembly of intron-spliced hpRNAs through Golden Gate cloning. Artificial micro RNA and short hairpin ...from Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he investigated how plants achieve polarized cell growth in ...
  15. SunTag and Fluorescent Imaging

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    ...Overexpressed proteins also have the potential to form aggregates and may be toxic to the cell. Here comes the ...Initially, Tanenbaum et al. observed some GFP aggregation, which they reduced by using superfolder GFP ...expression levels of SunTag constructs would avoid negative effects on cell physiology. Having seen that mitochondrial...Since the v4 system does not display protein aggregation, it’s recommended for most imaging applications...with SunTag. v1 SunTag exhibits some scaffold aggregation (v4 Suntag does not.) It’s up to you to determine...
  16. Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors

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    ...resistant to a toxin), whereas negative selection would be the picking up of a negative trait (i.e. the plasmid...below we focus on positive selection; however, negative selection techniques can be used in conjunction... polypeptide synthesis at 80S; inhibits chain elongation 100-800 ug/mL Hygromycin B hygB HeLa, NIH3T3... polypeptide synthesis at 80S; inhibits chain elongation. 50-500 ug/mL Puromycin pac HeLa, 293HEK, Jurkat...
  17. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    ...Distribution Please indicate which strain Addgene should propagate your plasmids in: DH5α, NEB Stable, or ccdB Survival...Survival.­ Whenever possible, we propagate plasmids in the standard cloning strain DH5α. Please indicate...indicate if your plasmid cannot be propagated in DH5α. For plasmids with highly repetitive sequences (which...For plasmids containing the ccdB gene, such as Gateway vectors, we recommend the ccdB Survival strain....correct. You can easily update the information by navigating to the previous pages using the links at the ...deposit, associate the plasmids with a Principal Investigator (PI), provide us with your shipping address ...
  18. Plasmids 101: Inducible Promoters

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    ...Inducible promoters can be regulated by positive or negative control. Positive inducible In the OFF state, ...turning it ON and initiating transcription.     Negative inducible In the OFF state, the promoter is inactive...most commonly used prokaryotic promoters is the negative inducible pLac promoter. This promoter requires...is found in many bacterial expression vectors. Negative inducible promoter pBad is another popular prokaryotic...pGGA008 (AlcA) and pGGC011 (AlcR) from red flame GreenGate kit Steroid-regulated LexA promoter XVE (synthetic...
  19. CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining

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    ...paired end complex The paired end complex then ligates compatible DNA ends together, thus repairing the...need to be processed. Processing occurs prior to ligation as incompatible DNA ends interfere with that step...that function to make ends better substrates for ligation. Although we do not describe these steps here,... sequence (“microhomologies”). NHEJ doesn’t obligatorily introduce indels. Given the end structure of...Hendrickson EA, Ramsden DA (2014) The fidelity of the ligation step determines how ends are resolved during nonhomologous...
  20. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    ... activity. 2. Studying negative feedback loops of signaling pathways Negative feedback loops are a common...Additionally, dimeric Dronpa is less prone to aggregation in cells compared to the tetrameric Dronpa it...pulses of kinase activity. Zhou et al studied the negative feedback on endogenous MEK1/2 phosphorylation ...suggesting PP1/PP2A is responsible for this MEK1/2 negative feedback. 3. Studying signaling pathways in vivo...
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