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  1. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ...that it appears “newly synthesized” to the cell. Thus, the cell repairs the DNA using the U-containing strand..., which may lead to cell death rather than NHEJ repair, thus removing these cells from the edited population...target modification in primary T cells, making them a promising tool for cell therapy applications. Dual base...relatively low frequency, especially in nondividing cells. Scientists everywhere wistfully imagined being ...editing efficiency, Komor and team wanted to force the cell to use the deaminated DNA strand as a template. ...frequency to above 30% for a variety of targets in human cell lines, with an average indel frequency of only 1.1%...modifications. CRISPR base editing persists through multiple cell divisions, indicating that this method produces ...
  2. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    ...millions of cells. For every individual sgRNA, you recover a minimum of 1,000 targeted cells to sequence...trying to generate a knockout cell line, with the goal of isolating single cell clones to use for multiple...generate a ssDNA break which can easily be repaired by cells with a near zero likelihood of mutation arising.... a level of, say 5%, then the majority of single cell editing events will be on target. Thus, if you isolate...example, if your goal is to generate a knock-out cell line to perform downstream characterization of, ...downstream experiments. You only successfully generate 1 null clone and proceed with it. In this case, the ...there are 10 putative off-target locations you can 1) determine if editing at those sites would confound...
  3. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    ...This novel tool is practical in cell and organ culture, as well as cell lineage studies. Eisenhoffer and...CreLite for cell tracing using the transgenic zebrafish model, ubi:zebrabow. In this system, cells express... Figure 1: The base editor is split into two plasmids and co-transfected into cells for reconstitution...fast-splicing split intein and co-infected into the cell. Intein splitting removes any exogenous sequences...red-light inducible optogenetic tool for precision in cell lineage tracing Article contributed by Erin Sanders...fluorescent proteins controlled by Cre recombination. Each cell can have multiple copies of the transgene that recombine..., such as the brain, eye, muscle and epithelial cells, as well as in different stages of development, ...
  4. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    ... Guide RNA and Target DNA. Cell 156:935–949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.001  Ran FA, Cong ... Delivery by AAV Vectors. Cell 181:136–150 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.023 Additional Resources...acids) displayed cleavage activity in mammalian cells. SaCas9 produced indels at a similar efficiency ...package each piece into an individual AAV. When a cell is transduced by both AAVs, the full length gene...SpCas9 which had modest editing rates in HEK-293T cells when compared to the full-length SpCas9. In 2016... allows cleavage of HBB and CCR5 genes in human cells using compact expression cassettes. Sci Rep 5: ....indel formation and phenotypic changes as early as 1 week post-injection. Livers from these mice were histologically...
  5. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...mammalian cells. Co-expression markers EGFP and PuroR enable sorting and selection of transduced cells. Grant...in the Mammalian Genome. Cell 167:233–247.e17 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.056 Find plasmids...targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discovery 2: . https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9 Find plasmids from...for targeted cytosine demethylation in mammalian cells. This plasmid is used with pcDNA3.1-MS2-Tet1-CD ...vectors and targeted delivery into hard-to-manipulate cell types. They have also fused LSD1 to x-Cas9(3.7)....modifiers may be more frequently inherited by daughter cells. For example, KRAB induced silencing was transient...enhancers. As the effects of these tools are likely cell type- and context-dependent, it may make sense to...
  6. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    ...target cells; you also have to consider how to keep it there. In fast-growing populations of cells, the ...into the host cell’s genome, so no special sequence is needed to retain the vector as cells divide. In transient...Alternatively, some slow-growing cells, particularly mammalian cells like neurons, may not replicate during...transfect the vector a viral ori in a compatible cell line cells that replicate slower than the duration of ...is delivered to your target cells, you still need to select for the cells that contain it. Antibiotic ...penicillin and ampicillin inhibit cell wall synthesis. Eukaryotes, with no cell walls, can grow alongside these...synthesis machinery, and the cells are switched to minimal media, allowing cells that contain the vector to...
  7. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    ...activity in cells (Jiang & Doudna, 2017). Within an interior cavity, Cas9 grips nucleotides 1-10 of the ...Guide RNA and Target DNA. Cell, 156(5), 935–949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.001 Osuka, S., Isomura... basic parts of the Cas9 enzyme.   Figure 1: A cartoon depiction of Cas9’s two major lobes, REC...the CRISPR system (Nishimasu et al., 2014). Table 1. Summary of Cas9 domains, the lobe each domain belongs...state (PDB ID 4CMP) with domains colored as in Figure 1. HNH, red; RuvC, orange; CTD, yellow; REC lobe, light... on itself at the bottom of the image. Stem loops 1 and 2 extend horizontally across both lobes. The guide...outside of the protein, spanning both lobes. Stem loop 1, nestled between the REC and CTD domains, is required...
  8. Understanding GPCR Signaling Using TRUPATH

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    ... to environmental conditions, cells must be able to detect extracellular stimuli. One way they do so is...complex converts a signal received by a GPCR on the cell’s surface into action that can result in the initiation...protein transducers. To use the TRUPATH system, cells are transfected with plasmids expressing the GPCR... and the appropriate Gγ-GFP2 and Gβ constructs. Cells are then treated with the luminescent enzyme substrate...updated version of BRET called BRET2. Figure 1: TRUPATH measures heterotrimeric G protein dissociation...bound to the intracellular surface of the GPCR. Binding of a ligand to the extracellular surface of the...number of signaling cascades, inducing different cellular responses. One of the biggest advantages of such...
  9. 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...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...generations (Figure 1). These so called “plasmid addiction systems” require dividing cells to retain plasmids...plasmids - if a cell does not inherit plasmid due to improper plasmid partitioning, it will still inherit...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 ...
  10. Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ... into a mouse embryonic stem cell (ESC) line, enrich and select for cells that had successfully incorporated...gets exciting – the cell sends out an “SOS” signal and cellular repair mechanisms rush in to repair the...Cas-Mediated Genome Engineering. Cell 154:1370–1379 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.08.022 Yoon Y, Wang ...Cas-Mediated Genome Engineering. Cell 153:910–918 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.04.025 Zhang X, Liang...develop into chimeric mice (with a fraction of the cells in the adult mice derived from the engineered ESCs...Humanization (25-kbp) Created Using Embryonic Stem Cell/Blastocyst and CRISPR/Zygote Injection Approaches...Last updated on Oct 1, 2020 by Aliyah Weinstein. This post was contributed by guest bloggers, Wenning...
  11. 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... contact her at [email protected]. References 1. Dieterich, Daniela C., et al. "In situ visualization...
  12. How Exercise Purges Stress and Keeps Depression at Bay

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    ... how it works. The findings in a recent issue of Cell demonstrate how PGC-1a1, a transcriptional coactivator... in a commentary about the new work published in Cell Metabolism. But, they note, there is plenty more...’ve come to the right place. Get started with PGC-1 plasmids from Addgene. References: Skeletal muscle...depression, and now researchers have reported a mechanism based on studies of transgenic mice that helps...JR, Erhardt S, Lindskog M, Ruas JL. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.07.051. PMID: 25259918 Muscle over mind. Moon...
  13. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    ...vectors (right) are transduced to target cells. Within target cells, Cas9 machinery is transiently expressed...in order to facilitate its entry into the target cells (Beatty et al., 2012). These features make AdV an... complexes into transformed and non-transformed cells yielded rates of targeted mutagenesis similar to...nuclease-induced gene disruption frequencies in the various cell types ranged from 18% to 65% (Maggio et al., 2014... leads to a vast majority of AdV-modified human cells being subjected to scarless homology-directed genome...therapeutically relevant, non-transformed mammalian cells. These viral vector systems also work equally well... dividing and quiescent, post-mitotic mammalian cells. Applications of CRISPR delivery by adenoviral ...
  14. Plasmids 101: Degron Tags

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    ...tag and small molecule. It does work in mammalian cells, mice, and even yeast, though (we have a kit!). ...and complete degradation of proteins in mammalian cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Dec 4;109(49):E3350...Tags Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells Antibodies 101: Epitope Tags  ...systems reviewed here. The only required components are 1) a SMASh-tagged protein and 2) asunaprevir (small ...tag size, which can also be handy!   Fig 1. dTag molecules induce dimerization of an FKBP12F36V...CRISPR, siRNA, etc. Firstly, they are reversible mechanisms of control. Protein degradation can be induced...uses a small molecule, a tag, and the endogenous cellular degradation machinery to function. The dTAG is...
  15. Technical Design of a Western Blot

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    ...Tris-tricine 2.5–40 kDa Tris-tricine 30 V, 1 hour or 100 V, 1–2 hours Good separation, quality, and stability...’ll likely want to use a mechanical method before your enzyme lysis. For cell cultures, enzyme lysis is...proteins easily available in the cytoplasm or whole-cell lysate. A harsher, SDS-containing lysis buffer, ...while semi-dry transfers require a semi-dry transfer cell. Dry/electroblot transfers only work in the proprietary...lot to cover, so let's dive in!      Figure 1: The technical decisions to make when designing a ...assay. The most common options are 4 °C overnight or 1–2 hours at room temperature (RT). Most people choose...overnight at 4 °C and their secondary antibody for 1–2 hrs at room temperature, which allows them to reduce...
  16. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    ...successfully infected/expressing cells by flow cytometry. The isolated cells were injected into mice and imaged...to changes in intracellular calcium and is useful for direct imaging of events in cells and brain explants...packaged into a retrovirus for infection of host cells. The fluorescent moiety of the BRET reporter was...imaging multiple proteins at the same time in live cells using fluorescent proteins (FPs) can be problematic...available through Addgene (Plasmid #83926). Live-Cell Voltage Sensor  Ingaki and colleagues (8) were interested... in supporting Promega cellular analysis products at Promega.     References 1. Hall, M.P., et al. (2012...furimazine by Promega’s Chemistry group is a good story (1). From a deep sea shrimp to a compact powerhouse of...
  17. Addgene's Top Blog Posts from 2020

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    ...multiple plasmids in one cell, it might be that you can't stably maintain them in the cell. This blog post features...five methods for extracting DNA without a kit too. 1. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular...features two mechanisms that cause plasmids to be incompatible. 4. RNA Extraction Without A Kit by Leah...
  18. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...neuroscience where specific tissues, cell types, or even subcellular regions of a neuron need to be targeted...disease, neuroscientists need to be able to probe cells and circuits without disrupting normal brain function...it provides a noninvasive method for manipulating cell activity, especially neuronal firing. What is chemogenetics...drugs. Once activated, chemogenetic receptors hijack cell signaling pathways and can lead to such responses...requires successfully introducing receptors to target cells. Targeted and specific delivery becomes especially...ability of agonists to successfully reach target cells while resulting in minimal off target effects. For...can elicit different responses depending on what cell type it is expressed in. The most common target ...
  19. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    ...no detectable effect on cell viability – meaning there was no measurable cell toxicity – using Cas7-11...such as mouse embryonic stem cells and glioblastoma cells. PASTE Development and discovery The first ...observed in non-dividing cells, meaning that this system wasn’t dependent on the cell’s intrinsic machinery... shRNA and Cas13 systems in a range of mammalian cell lines. However, in those same comparisons, the AbuGoot...11. This included tests done in cell lines known to be more sensitive to toxicity from RNA editing, such...integrases with efficient integration activity in human cells. Moreover, they optimized the specific attachment... of plasmids, works in non-dividing and primary cells, and can be easily programmed for new genes. In ...
  20. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    ...mycoplasma contamination in your cell culture or you are about to begin a new cell culture project. If mycoplasmas...present in most of the cell culture facilities, tissue culture labs and every cell culturist has to deal...cost-effective (Sung, 2006). The sensor cell-based method uses specialized cells that can detect the presence of... should be made available for cell culturing and maintenance of the cell lines. Providing such an environment...Photo by Kate Harten DeMaio. Cell lines and reagents Examine your cell line stock for mycoplasma contamination...cryopreserved vials of the cell lines even though the viability of cryopreserved cells decreases with every ...cause mycoplasma infection from one cell line to another. Multiple cell lines should not be stored in a single...
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