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TypeCollection...foreign antigens to adaptive immune cells, such as T cells and B cells. About a week following the initial...presenting cells. B cells in secondary lymphoid organs recognize specific antigens through the B cell receptor...have been described. NK Cell Signaling Natural killer (NK) cells can kill cells that have been infected... within an infected cell membrane, triggering cell death. TCR Signaling The T cell receptor (TCR) engages...through effects on numerous immune cell types including T cells and B cells. It also impacts the development...function of innate immune cells including NK cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, and granulocytes. TLR ...
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Rabies and Neuronal Tracing
TypeBlog Post...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... -
CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line
TypeBlog Post...varying across cell types. Variance can be caused by cell cycle rates; rapidly diving cells will have higher... of your cells. Enrich S-phase cells HR operates predominantly in S and G2 phase of the cell cycle, when...HDR events, ensure cells are actively cycling through the cell cycle stages. If cells are overly confluent...way to make a knock-in cell line is to utilize the built-in repair pathway cells already have for repairing...than quiescent cells. It is important to know that HR is often mutated in cancer cells, specifically in...keeping an eye on those cells! To take this one step further, you can inhibit cell cycle regulatory proteins...negative outcomes on viability if cells are arrested too long. Prolonged cell cycle arrest can lead to apoptosis... -
Plan Your Experiment
TypeCollection...difficult-to-transfect cells. You can direct expression to specific cell types by using cell-specific promoters...human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK293) cells. For more difficult cell types, you may need to look into other...are good choices for more difficult cell types like primary cells. For CRISPR delivery, lentiviral and...deliver to target cells through microinjection or electroporation. The target cells translate the mRNA...complexes directly into your target cells. In this case, your target cells are not transcribing DNA to mRNA...possible genotypes within the resulting cell population. Some cells may remain wild type due to either (1...modifications . Cell Population The first step of validation is determining the type of cell population you... -
PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field
TypeBlog Post...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... in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Choosing the Correct Path.,” J. stem cell Regen. Biol., vol. 1, no. ...cytotoxic for proliferating cells and provides a simple tool for conditional cell ablation.,” Proc. Natl. ... -
Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies
TypeBlog Post...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... -
What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science
TypeBlog Post...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... -
Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems
TypeBlog Post...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... -
New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library
TypeBlog Post...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... -
Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR
TypeBlog Post...heterogeneous population of mutant cells, with each cell or set of cells containing a mutation in a different...separately. Mutant cells are enriched using either drug selection or fluorescence-based cell sorting and screened...mutant cells can be used in drug screens to identify genes that confer drug-resistance. Mutant cells are ...generate lentivirus (B). Cas9-expressing cells or wild-type cells are treated with lentivirus containing...plus Cas9 to generate the mutant cells, respectively (C). Mutant cells are screened (D) and "hits" are ...lead to skewed results. Selecting a cell type - Theoretically, any cell type can be used in a CRISPR screen...requires a massive amount of cells as starting material. Therefore, cell types that are of low abundance...