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  1. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    ... same orientation, the SSR will excise the DNA fragment. By manipulating the number, orientation, and ...the sense orientation, followed by the mCherry coding sequence in the antisense orientation (Figure 1,...Introduction of a conditional point mutation or functional mutation in vivo: Similar to a conditional rescue...-specific recombination events, and that the orientation of the flanking loxP sites directs the Cre recombinase...recombination. The FLEx switch takes advantage of the orientation specificity of the site-specific recombinases...flanked by target sites (floxed) in opposing orientations, a SSR will invert the DNA sequence between ...wild-type pair (loxP, black arrowheads) and one mutated pair (for example- lox511, white arrowheads). It...
  2. Which Fluorescence Microscopy Technique is Best for Me?

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    ...metal disk containing a number of holes rotates through the excitation light path. Each hole corresponds to...traditional confocal due to limitations in light penetration mentioned above (5). Thick static samples Ex: Fixed...detector or restricting fluorescence to specific excitation volumes to enhance spatial contrast (i.e. optical...microscopy. Collimated (non-converging or diverging) excitation light exits the microscope objective evenly illuminating... CT scanner. This is accomplished by focusing excitation light to a point in the sample and raster scanning...First, widefield and confocal microscopy project excitation light through the entire axial volume of a sample...signal intensity. 2-Photon microscopes restrict excitation (and bleaching) to a single focal point. This...
  3. Exploring Applications of the Bioluminescent HiBiT Tag

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    ...with an R175H mutation to match a frequent mutation in early-onset GC and one with a mutation at R273H to...neighboring cells with pro-oncogenic traits, facilitating metastatic spread. The authors used NanoBiT assays...blotting, methods that are low-throughput, semi-quantitative, and provide only snapshots rather than continuous...continuous views of protein activity. Together, these limitations create challenges for measurements needed to ...with the native function of tagged proteins and facilitates precise CRISPR-based tagging, or low-levels of..., work across cell models, and even introduce mutations. This vector-based use of HiBiT provides a means...obscure weak signals; photobleaching from the excitation light, causing the signal to gradually diminish...
  4. Plan Your Experiment

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    ...Furthermore, in cells containing two mutated alleles, each mutated allele may be different owing to the...many different types of edits, including point mutations, base changes, and large insertions or deletions...increases specificity but is less efficient Each putative knockout allele must be experimentally verified...) Generate specific genomic edits, like point mutations or small tag insertions, by copying from a DNA...Generate targeted insertions, deletions, and point mutations using a prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA) Prime... alternative splicing, and an early frameshift mutation is more likely to result in a non-functional protein...as there are for viral vectors — the only size limitation is what you can efficiently transfect. However...
  5. REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods

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    ...Types of Mutations Insertions, deletions, point mutations Insertions, deletions, point mutations Insertions...inactivating/activating mutations. In biomedical research, modeling patient mutations using SDM can help determine... make a point mutation, you design two oligonucleotide primers with the desired mutation, then use those...Insertions, deletions, point mutations Insertions, deletions, point mutations PCR Reactions 1 1 1 per fragment...commercial kits are available for making small point mutations, large deletions/insertions require complicated...PCR amplify the template plasmid. The parental, nonmutated DNA is digested with methylated DNA-specific ...express phage recombination machinery, which facilitates easy genetic modification by homologous recombination...
  6. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    ... to indel mutations that plagued CRISPR editing at the time. KJ was born with a C→T mutation on one allele...tested Cas9 mutations that imposed a preference for an NGC PAM. Although all the tested mutations produced...editors to problematic mutations would need to change to target different mutations in different patients...gene editing therapy personalized to his genetic mutation. “Baby KJ” was diagnosed with a rare and dangerous...mean researchers can fix any problematic C or A mutations in the genome. Off-target effects, editing efficiency...and developed a deaminase variant with a V106W mutation, which reduced RNA editing to background levels...cost of reducing editing efficiency. The V106W mutation was an important addition. Improved activity of...
  7. Plasmids 101: Common Lab E. coli Strains

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    ...uptake, iron uptake receptor mutation. T1/T5 Phage resistance gal Mutation in galactose metabolism pathway...DNA, preparing unmethylated DNA, and more. Many mutations that make these features possible are present ...present in most commercial strains, especially mutations that make major improvements such as those that increase...found in E. coli strains. Table 1: Common gene mutations found in E.coli strains Gene(s) Description...Functional Consequence dam DNA adenine methylase mutation (GATC) Preparing unmethylated DNA, important when...ex: ClaI or XbaI) dcm DNA cytosine methylase mutation (CCWGG) Preparing unmethylated DNA, important ...enzymes that are methylation sensitive. dnaJ Mutation in a chaperonin gene Increases the stability of...
  8. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    ...wildtype protein and facilitating its widespread use in research. Many other mutations have since been introduced... and their mutations relative to wildtype GFP. Although not listed here, many permutations within each... and the mutation definitions found in Table 2 may not apply. Table 1: The specific mutations comprising...2: Functional role of specific mutations in GFP derivatives Mutation Known Function S65T Increased...little truncation is tolerated, however, point mutations are acceptable. GFP's main advantage over conventional...In 1995, Roger Y. Tsien described an S65T point mutation that increased the fluorescence intensity and ...photostability of GFP. This also shifted its major excitation peak from 395 nm to 488 nm, effectively ameliorating...
  9. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    ...span the knock-in gene. For making mutations, one good way is to mutate the PAM 'NGG' sequence in the HR...silent mutation. Q9: When attempting to use the CRISPR/Cas9 system to create specific mutations or insertions...possible. For introducing small mutations (<50 bp) or a single-point mutation, the best HR template for transfection...the introduction of a mutation into the genome, how can cells with that mutation be selected/screened?...on each side flanking your desired insertion or mutation. Each arm is around 800 bp. For transfection in...the HR template, you usually would need to make mutations of the HR template to avoid this donor plasmid...being degraded by Cas9 in cells. One good way is to mutate the PAM 'NGG' in the HR template, like change it...
  10. Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice

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    ...commonly used to introduce multiple mutations. This is because as more mutations are introduced into a single...arise when crossing mice with multiple mutations is if the mutations are on the same chromosome. Homologous...engineering should be used to separately introduce each mutation independently into different mice, and then these...production of offspring that have a combination of the mutations engineered into each of their parents. Here’s ...mice that are each homozygous for one of the two mutations that you want combined in your offspring. Genotyping...producing mice with your desired combination of mutations. Assuming your parental mice were all homozygous... to a mouse that is homozygous for a different mutation, the F1 offspring will be either hemizygous or...
  11. Plasmids 101: Colony PCR

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    ... about the orientation of the insert Orientation-Specific Tells you the orientation of the insert... provide information about the orientation of the insert. Orientation-specific primers: If you need ...information about insert orientation, then you might consider designing orientation-specific primers. Blunt...primers, 2) backbone-specific primers, and 3) orientation-specific primers.       Insert-specific primers...insert is present but not if it’s in the correct orientation or even if it’s in your plasmid backbone. Backbone-specific...an example of when you might want to know the orientation of the insert. One member of this type of primer...or no" test results Doesn't tell you the orientation of your insert or if the insert is in your plasmid...
  12. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    ...dominant mutation, known as co-conversion (Arribere et al., 2014). In both cases, the selected mutation must...repair of a lethal mutation should remove much of the unedited “haystack”, facilitating recovery of edited... of lethal mutation co-selection. Only animals rescued for the conditional lethal mutation survive the...determined optimal PAM orientation for editing using two Cas9 targets. An orientation where the 5’ ends of...Cas9 allows us to delete sequences and introduce mutations and epitopes with unprecedented ease. These new... homozygous, outcrossed knock-in ready for experimentation. In 2014, several manuscripts published in ...approach relying on repair of a conditional-lethal mutation to identify edits with minimal screening effort...
  13. Antibody Guide

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    ...protein complexes. Includes: Immunoprecipitation (IP) Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) Visualization - ...Capture methods such as immunoprecipitation (IP) and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) allow you to isolate...which emit a specific wavelength of light after excitation by light of a specific wavelength. While more...interactions in a specific timeframe or context. Immunoprecipitation (IP) IP uses immobilized antibodies to isolate... on the same general strategy. Figure 5: Immunoprecipitation using bead-based antibody capture to isolate...isolating protein from serums. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) This variation of IP uses antibodies...for individual assays. Clear cell debris by sedimentation. Proceed with IP using a primary antibody for...
  14. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ...models with mutations in human-relevant exons 45-55, rather than in the traditional exon 23-mutated mouse model... genetic diseases, the mutational landscape is broad and varied, necessitating the development of many...modification, to repair or add in disease-causing mutations, but, until recently it hadn’t been used to treat... males. DMD is caused primarily by frameshift mutations in dystrophin, a protein essential for proper ...sequence appears to be nonessential. Within the mutational hotspot for dystrophin, exons 45-55, there are...partially functional protein. Individuals with these mutations are often asymptomatic, or have only mild symptoms... oligonucleotide exon skipping (OEN) to remove mutated exons from the dystrophin transcript. Unfortunately...
  15. CrispyCrunch: High-throughput Design and Analysis of CRISPR+HDR Experiments

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    ...Optimal mutation in-depth One the most sophisticated features of CrispyCrunch is how it mutates guide sequences...region, the mutation may cause side-effects. Further, work by John Doench et al. shows that mutating a single... After each mutation, it will check the CFD score. If it is below 0.03, it stops mutating. (Note: the ... example, it ranks guides by CFD score, and it mutates HDR donor templates to avoid re-cutting when needed...for TagIn. HDR requires the additional step of mutating guide sequences in a way that prevents re-cutting...do it best. Scientists are typically advised to mutate the PAM to which the guide binds. However, if the...implemented the following algorithm for optimal mutation in CrispyCrunch: If the guide PAM resides outside...
  16. Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the Genome

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    ...developing anti-CRISPR proteins aid the limitation of these mutations, to control the CRISPR system activity...could be used to edit several autosomal-dominant mutations that have been connected to the early onset of... CRISPR/Cas9 corrects Alzheimer’s disease mutation in basal forebrain cholinergic neurons derived...Academy of Sciences found that mice with a dominant mutation in a gene that causes cataracts could be rescued...demonstration of use of genome editing to correct point mutations in two diseases with real phenotypic effect.” ...noted that CRISPR/Cas9 has been used to generate mutations in a wide range of organisms, but its potential...phase of crisis where they 'collect' a number of mutations.” Cystic fibrosis may not be the most likely candidate...
  17. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    ...inappropriate statistical methods, omission of some data, etc.  The firestorm that followed implementation of the...condensed into a statistically evaluated set of values.  However, to evaluate the interpretation of the experiment...Instead, selected images are said to be representative or the statistical variation is calculated and placed...overnight revelation, rather it was the result of consultations between researchers and publishers. Nonetheless.... The PLOS policy on data access is a formal statement that is already practiced or required by many ...means that supporting datasets must be logically annotated and arranged, as in an actual publication and ...efficient science. Improvements in our discipline for annotation and archiving of data are likely to improve research...
  18. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ...number of limitations that you may run into if you choose to use it. Several of these limitations and possible...protonated and a deprotonated state (Tsien, 1998). The deprotonated state has an absorbance maximum around...protonated state, however, does not absorb light at 488 nm. The ratio between the two states is reflected...encoded probe, but there are limitations. Being aware of the limitations is important for the successful...mEGFP. This variant was made by introducing two mutations (F64L, S65T) in the original jellyfish GFP (AvGFP...with improved brightness (Tsien, 1998). Another mutation (A206K) is necessary to generate the strictly ...autofluorescence is less of a problem when the excitation wavelength is shifted to longer wavelengths. ...
  19. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ...astounding number of ways to create chromosomal mutations in bacteria, so many that it may be difficult ...path to take. A quick and easy way to introduce a mutation in the chromosome is to disrupt expression of ...genes. However, there are ways to create scarless mutations, ones that don’t leave any undesired scars in ...technology has also aided in the creation of scarless mutations, both in stand-alone systems (Jiang et al., 2013...plasmid curing steps, and can generate off-target mutations. Modifying bacterial genomes using counter-selectable...is frequently called allelic exchange. Here, a mutated allele introduced from a conjugative plasmid replaces...versatile technique, and is less prone to off-target mutations. Ultimately, successful allelic exchange requires...
  20. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    ...understand Lowe Syndrome, a devastating genetic disease caused by mutations in the OCRL1 gene that leads...different mutations in a gene called SOX10. To understand the functional role of those mutations, they now...to work to explore the effect of various OCRL1 mutations on cell behavior in greater detail. The goal is...sensitive to sunlight and prone to developing metastatic melanomas and other cancers. Joshua Wang (bottom...CRISPR-Cas9 constructs from Addgene to gene-edit mutations into XP genes and other genes involved in photosensitivity...plasmids to explore the functional differences among mutations responsible for the disease known as Alternating...the brain. McSweeney says they now think that mutations in the gene may prevent neurons from returning...
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