...segment on the B. subtilis libraries. Hot Plasmid 2: Transcription factor fusions modulate iPSC reprogramming...Check out additional microbiology resources Stem cell models for disease and open science: Interview with...

...somewhere else (Fig. 2). Class II TEs have LTRs on both of their ends.    Figure 2: Overview of DNA...has four major components: 1) a CRISPR RNA (crRNA), 2) four proteins (TniQ, Cas8, Cas7, Cas6) that forms... yeast, plant, insect, and mammalian cells, including human cells. piggyBac is biased to integrate at ...is active in vertebrates and integrates in human cells at rates similar to retroviral vectors. The hyperactive...piggyBac has an integration efficiency in human cells similar to retroviral vectors. The hyperactive PB...transposase (hyPB) is ~10-fold more active in mammalian cells compared to the codon-optimized wild-type piggyBac...G/C)TNA. Tol2 can deliver 10-11 kB to mammalian cells without decreased efficiency, with a maximum cargo...

...from another within a fully stained sample. Figure 2 is an example of the emission spectra for two fluorophores...another during spectral unmixing.     Figure 2: The full emission spectra for BV421 and BV711 on ...co-expression among cellular markers You’ll also need to know if markers are co-expressed in your cells when designing...immunologists, allowing for the rapid analysis of cell populations within a heterogenous tissue type, such...methods, the identification and isolation of rare cell types. In recent years, full spectrum flow cytometry...detector to detect one fluorophore and therefore one cellular marker. However, emission spectra of certain fluorophores...Spectral flow allows for autofluorescence extraction Cells produce a low level of fluorescence called autofluorescence...

...targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discov 2, 16009. https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9.   ...Hrit et al. 2018, Kaas et al. 2013). Figure 2: CRISPR TET-based epigenetic editing. In reality, ...its oxidized derivatives. Cell 152, 5 P1146-1159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.02.004.  Xu X, Tao...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...

...from animals or hybridomas.   Figure 2: (Left) Figure 2: (Left) The light chain and heavy chain genes... be introduced into host cells, such as bacterial, yeast, or mammalian cells, for antibody production ...Nanobodies and recombinant binders in cell biology. Journal of Cell Biology 209:633–644 . https://doi.org...animals and bleed dates and even clonal hybridoma cell lines can produce more than one mAb (Bradbury et...plasmid or from an integrated sequence in a stable cell line. The genes encode the heavy chain and light...antibody protein binds an antigen. Image from Fvasconcellos.     How are Recombinant Antibodies Made...

...FRET signal back again. The Ting lab constructed 2 versions of this reporter to target the K9 (pcDNA3... 525.7570 (2015): 533-537. PubMed PMID: 26352475. 2. Bygren, Lars O., et al. "Change in paternal grandmothers...genes should be ‘read’ by the cellular machinery. This is how most cells in the body contain the same ...complex of DNA and histone proteins that compacts cellular DNA into chromosomes and reduces the risk of dangerous...the more compacted it becomes. This prevents the cellular machinery from physically interacting with the...visualise changes in histone methylation in living cells. Essentially this reporter construct consists of...recognise lysine 27 methylation. When tested in living cells where methylation of these sites was controlled,...

...due to the presence of additional helper sequences (2-3). As alluded to above, termination and polyadenylation...and translation processes as well.   Figure 2: The conserved eukaryotic polyadenylation signal directs...Plasmids designed to express genes in a given host cell type are generally broken down into two broad categories...purpose and mechanism of polyadenylation vary across cell types, but polyadenylation generally serves to promote... thought that poly(A)s are used to control the cellular concentration of regulatory RNAs and may additionally...additionally act as a quality control mechanism to rid the cell of mis-folded RNAs. Eukaryotic termination and polyadenylation...signal by using in vitro analyses. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 1992. PMID: 1333042. PubMed Central PMCID...

...and scholarships in different subject areas!    2. Resume and cover letter know-how  Tailor your resume...4. Letters of recommendation wisdom  Reach out to 2-3 individuals in your professional circle to vouch...college. Prior to March 2020, internships were a fiercely competitive endeavor. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic...

...The groups in these programs typically consist of 1-2 mentors and 3-5 mentees who meet together for an 8... together. If you all work at the same place, a 1-2 hour lunch on a regular schedule might work. If not...do once you are in a mentoring relationship.  Celebrate your successes and support each other as you transition...

... Zetsche et al., Nat Biotechnol. 2015 Feb 2;33(2):139-42. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3149. Light-inducible ...and on your favourite signalling pathways (Figure 2). They are all available now at Addgene. 1 Lungu...20;19(4):507-17. 10.1016/j.chembiol.2012.02.006. 2 Guntas et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2015 Jan 6; ...Nihongaki et al., Chemistry and Biology. 2015 Feb 19; 22(2):169-74. High efficiency cloning for enzyme screening...inducible, gene knockdown with shRNA or shRNA-miR30, (2) tamoxifen-inducible CreERT2 gene deletion, (3) simultaneous...different fluorescent proteins, 8 constitutive promoters, 2 includible promoters, 3 polyA terminators and various...of plasmids required for each input/output system; 2) removing all chemically inducible promoters; 3) improving...

...Central PMCID: PMC3760253. 2. Rohwer, Forest. "Global phage diversity." Cell 113.2 (2003): 141. PubMed ... digest and compare it to some reliable controls. 2. Viral stocks may be sensitive to freeze thaw cycles...contaminating your transduction with the packaging cells. Packaging cell debris can be removed either by filtration... you can reduce the volume of cell culture medium on the packaging cells immediately following transfection...efficiency in cells that are sensitive to the toxicity of polybrene (e.g., hematopoietic or primary cells), and... the packaging cells after 1–3 days of selection. A lower percentage of surviving cells may be the result...adeno-associated virus transduction of cells." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 291.2 (2006): C386...

...Indicators GEVIs can be divided up structurally into 2 main groups: voltage sensitive domains and Rhodopsin...depending on your experimental system.   Figure 2: General overview of chemigenetic tools. A genetically...Cellular communication and function depend on potential energy. Cellular activities like action potentials...Indicators As previously mentioned, cellular voltage is measured at the cell membrane, and this voltage is ...endocrine cells. It follows that the specific targeting of these voltage indicators needs to be cell type ...electrical events! Voltage indicators are voltmeters for cells! In this blog we will review how these indicators...related to the electrical impulse of the cardiac cells. To study this phenomenon you will likely want to...

...from GFP and the mutation definitions found in Table 2 may not apply. Table 1: The specific mutations comprising..., V163A EBFP F64L, S65T, Y66H, Y145F   Table 2: Functional role of specific mutations in GFP derivatives...measure, and control molecular signals, cells, and groups of cells in order to understand their activity...Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS): This is a type of flow cytometry that separates mixtures of cells into distinct...Thus, FACS can be used to separate cells expressing GFP from cells that are not. Developmental/transgenic... localization profiles, acting as a biosensor or cell marker, studying protein-protein interactions, visualizing... was non-toxic and could be expressed in living cells, enabling the study of dynamic, physiological processes...

...membrane integrity (Fig. 2). For example, saponin interacts with cholesterol in cell membranes and leaves ... at too high a concentration.      Figure 2: Examples of different permeabilization strategies...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...structure of your samples, the relationships between cellular components, and the accessibility of your target...cross-linkers work by (as the name suggests) cross-linking cellular proteins. Cross-linking is a chemical reaction...

... PMID: 27136078. 2. Burgess, Shawn., et al. "Questions about NgAgo." Proteins & Cell (2016). 3. "NgAgo...engineering methods have their own pros and cons (2). The NgAgo DNA guide is inexpensive and can be 5’...degraded by the cellular machinery, leaving a small amount of active NgAgo/ssDNA complex in the cell. As proposed...results of Gao et al 2016 in a letter to Protein & Cell. Update (August 3rd, 2017) THE ORIGINAL NgAgo ARTICLE... guide, it cannot be produced from a plasmid in cells. Additionally, in vitro assembly of NgAgo/ssDNA ...dangerous, non-physiological temperature for mammalian cells and one which diminishes the endonuclease activity...guide. Therefore, researchers must co-transfect cells with 5’-P-ssDNA guides and an NgAgo expression plasmid...

...amilCP, tsPurple, and gfasPurple) (Figure 2). Figure 2: Chromoprotein expression from bacteria on... them into your cells, you can simply look for blue colonies to determine which cells have taken up the... that the cellular fitness cost varied greatly between chromoproteins. In some cases, cells containing... mScarlet as the donor in HeLa cells.   Find ShadowR for mammalian cell expression here   Now that you...cloning experiment worked just by looking at the cells on the plate. For example, if your plasmid contains...Here, the chromoprotein is expressed and gives the cell a magenta (amilCP) or purple (tsPurple) color. Though...added which induces expression of the toxin. Any cells that grow after this point will be those that have...

...estimate transformation efficiency (Figure 2).    Figure 2: Example of a serial dilution to estimate...Genome-wide Inhibition Library. DNA and cell amounts After deciding on a cell type, you will need to determine...DNA and how many cells to use for your transformation(s). The amount of competent cells you need total ... generally electroporated into electrocompetent cells to ensure the highest possible transformation efficiency...efficiency. Using Stbl4 or other ultra-high efficiency cells ensures that plasmid diversity in the library is...transformation may vary depending on the particular type of cells you are using, as well as other factors, such as...transformations, such as splitting 400 ng of DNA in 100 μL of cells over four individual electroporations. The specifics...

...Joachim ended up at the University of Amsterdam Chapter 2 - Joachim’s Academic and career goals. Career advice...Fluorescent Protein Plasmids 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures and Organelles Resources at Addgene.org...Plasmids Find Plasmids for FRET Find Plasmids for Subcellular Localization ...

...gene activation, with some genes experiencing around 2-fold activation levels. Although other methods have.... This method has been shown to activate genes at 2- to 3-fold higher than SAM, SunTag, and VPR (Zhou ...Control of Gene Expression. Cell 152:1173–1183 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.02.022 Sajwan S, Mannervik...and Fluorescence Imaging. Cell 159:635–646 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.039 Zhou H, Liu J,...from when looking to activate genes across diverse cell lines.   dCas9-VP64 Description CRISPR activation...large and are not expressed consistently throughout cells. VPR Description VPR fuses a tripartite complex ...activation levels than SAM in some loci across Drosophila cell lines (Sajwan et al., 2019). SPH SPH combines components...

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... PITCh vector via In-Fusion or SLIC cloning. Step 2: Design an insertion locus-specific gRNA The gRNA ...Find the plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Dalvai, Mathieu, et al. (2015). “A Scalable Genome-Editing... for Mapping Multiprotein Complexes in Human Cells.” Cell Rep. 13: 621-633. PMID: 26456817. Find plasmids...Chromosomes). Using their PITCh plasmids, GFP knock-in cell lines can be created in about a month and a half...locus-specific gRNAs Step 4: Select for puromycin resistant cells Step 5: PCR amplify and sequence the locus to verify...crispr.mit.edu. They tested their system in HEK293 cells, integrating the GFP-Puro cassette into the FBL ...

...required components are 1) a SMASh-tagged protein and 2) asunaprevir (small molecule). dTAG The degradation...gone through an additional round of evolution (AID-2) to reduce some of the leakiness associated with the...uses a small molecule, a tag, and the endogenous cellular degradation machinery to function. The dTAG is...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  ...

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...26000849. 2. Grimm, Jonathan B., et al. "A general method to improve fluorophores for live-cell and single-molecule...expressed as a fusion with your favorite protein and (2) a synthetic fluorophore-contianing “ligand” that ...). These cell-permeable Janelia Fluor (JF) dyes have excellent properties inside living cells, especially... fluorescent proteins. In-cell labeling strategies The majority of in-cell labeling strategies have two...and oligonucleotide labels for fixed-cell imaging, not for live-cell applications. Thus, these fluorophores..."Imaging live-cell dynamics and structure at the single-molecule level." Molecular cell 58.4 (2015): 644...sparked a renaissance in biological imaging. Suddenly, cell biologists were no longer beholden to chemists and...

...suppress Zeocin-induced DNA cleavage in human cells. Mutagenesis, 20(2), 111–114. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage...antibiotic selection. Essentially, this gene is a 2-in-1 providing both bacterial and eukaryotic selection...prevent cell death. One of the cool things about amp is that it's exclusively toxic to dividing cells. The... continuous cellular processes (e.g., protein synthesis), while amp only affects the cell wall synthesis...Check icon" %} Spectinomycin Excellent No Just bacteria Not SHuffle cells {% icon icon_set="fontawesome...icon" %} Zeocin Excellent No Bacteria, plants, and eukaryotes Not Tn5-containing cells {% icon icon_set..., penicillin, and is a beta-lactam that inhibits cell wall synthesis. The AmpR (amp resistance) gene produces...

...linear region to solve for total expression time. 2. Timer functionality with a single gene Although it...290.5496 (2000): 1585-1588. PubMed PMID: 11090358. 2. Tsuboi, Takashi, et al. "Age-dependent preferential...to monitor cell, organelle, and protein localization. For instance, you might dye your cells and look at...either in whole cells or as a pool of fusion proteins localized to a specific region of the cell. For example...the relationship between the age of a cell, protein, or cellular structure and a particular biological...trafficking to a subcellular location, start of gene expression, development of a cell structure, etc)....timers, researchers can look at a single image of a cell and understand how protein localization changes ...

...detection, and control. Int J Pharm. 2018 Oct 25;550(1-2):251-268. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2018.08.043. Epub...and particle formation. J Pharm Sci. 2015 Feb;104(2):602-11. doi: 10.1002/jps.24259. Epub 2014 Nov 21....and yeast cells are cost-effective and faster-growing than mammalian cells, but mammalian cells can perform...your cells with your plasmid(s), and then wait 7-14 days (in mammalian cells) to collect the cell culture...production system, cell lines typically used include Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK) cells and Chinese Hamster...recombinant antibodies with some molecular biology and cell culture experience. Let’s go over the basics of ... place in bacterial, yeast, plant, or mammalian cells. Each of these systems has their advantages and ...

...with neuron-specific expression of dCas9-VPR (Figure 2), a popular Cas9 activator developed by the Church...ubiquitous ones such as EF-1α and CAG. Figure 2: Dual lentivirus system with ubiquitous expression...fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) to isolate differentiated from undifferentiated cells at the end of ...these cell types are used. The lack of good flow cytometric antibodies for many CNS-resident cell types...that drive neuronal fate and reprogramming." Cell stem cell 23.5 (2018): 758-771. PubMed PMID: 30318302...CRISPRa screening approach in embryonic stem (ES) cells to determine which transcription factors promote...antibodies, downstream of the TUJ1 coding sequence. ES cells that stably express the dCas9-Suntag activator were...

...retain their individual activities when separated (2), and that DBD and TAs from different systems could... Enzymol. 1983;100:293-308. PubMed PMID: 6312261. 2. Keegan, L., Gill, G., and Ptashne, M. Separation ...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...

... or (2) a lack of efficient target cleavage in cells expressing both Cas9 and gRNA. Edited cells may be...expressed in your target cells. For easy-to-transfect cell types (e.g. HEK293 cells), transfection with standard... CRISPR machinery. For more difficult cells (e.g. primary cells), viral delivery of CRISPR reagents may...identify and enrich positive cells, or selection marker to generate stable cell lines (for details, see Plasmids...wide variety of mammalian cell lines Useful for difficult to transfect cell types, can also be used in...possible genotypes within the resulting cell population. Some cells may be wild type due to either (1) a ...will use the example of CRISPR/Cas9 in mammalian cells, many of these principles apply to using CRISPR ...

...maybe label) your sample (i.e. cultured cells or tissues).  Step 2: attach anchors to your sample that will...quite so much. Created with biorender.com Steps 2-4 are not found in standard IHC/ICC protocols and ... for EM is not something you find in the average cell and molecular biology lab, and EM is limited in ...ultrastructural relationships that influence everything from cell division to memory, but don’t have access to the...properties of the sample itself. For example, cultured cells are typically easier to expand than mouse brain ..., Mohar B, Eddison M, et al (2022) Visualizing cellular and tissue ultrastructure using Ten-fold Robust... Zwettler FU, Guennec ML, et al (2019) Imaging cellular ultrastructures using expansion microscopy (U-...

...from this publication at Addgene. 2. Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. “Cell type-specific manipulation with ...fluorescent proteins as scaffolds for cell-specific gene manipulation.” Cell 154(4) (2013): 928-939. PubMed ...Cepko Interested in Working on the Eye 9:05-10:16 : Cell Targeting in Retinal Gene Therapies 10:17-14:34 ...28:39 : Methods for Delivering Multiple Genes to Cells for Gene Therapy 28:40-35:10 : GFP Activatable Tools...

...diffusion test or Kirby-Bauer susceptibility test (Figure 2), and requires at least 18-24 hours to obtain results...." London: Wellcome Trust & HM Government (2016). 2. CDC Information Pages on Antibiotics 3. WHO Antimicrobial... attack the cell wall of bacterial cells; however, Mycoplasma species do not possess cell walls. As a ...bacteriophage (viruses that only infect bacterial cells), or a bacterium picking up resistance genes from...conserved, non-negotiable process within the bacterial cell, antibiotic resistance is very likely to develop...

... reduce the background staining (Table 2).      Table 2: Secondary antibody selections for a four-antibody...for Light and Electron Microscopy. In Methods in Cell Biology (pp. 283–310). Elsevier. https://doi.org...

...enables efficient knockout (KO) of genes in immune cells; (2) is not immunogenic, a necessity for in vivo studies...activated T cells, precluding analyses of T cell differentiation beginning with naïve T cells. The Framework...screens have been used to interrogate T cells, an important immune cell type, in more complex and physiological...naïve T cells. More broadly, this system can be used to perform in vivo screens in other cell types. A...screens to assess T cell responses and clonal dynamics in lymph nodes (LN) and tumor cells. Figure used with...FITS In vitro CRISPR screens in immune cells have identified many putative regulators of immunity. However...screens cannot faithfully model the complex spatial, cellular, metabolic, and cytokine microenvironment that...

...ability to easily cure cells of the plasmid after integration. Figure 2: (A) Streamlined VchINT...et al., 2020). Genomic targets require an upstream 2-bp PAM sequence for recognition by QCascade; although...into the mini-transposon Transform plasmid(s) into cells and plate overnight Screen colonies phenotypically...distinct biological elements, CRISPR-transposons excel at programmable insertions of even very large genetic...

...green squares, purple circles and blue triangles. 2) An antibody immobilized on a bead binds specifically...protein G, a novel IgG-binding reagent. J Immunol 133(2):969-974. Hjelm H, Hjelm K, Sjöquist J (1972) Protein... . Steps of an IP: 1) Protein extracts from cells or tissues contain a complex mix of proteins seen...common immobilization methods utilizes bacterial cell wall proteins, Protein A and Protein G, which bind...does not. Common negative controls include knockout cell lines or tissues that do not express the protein...

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