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  1. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    ...are under control of a T7 RNA polymerase promoter sequence. Thus, T7 RNA polymerase also needs to be present...containing the T7 RNA polymerase gene or using cells that stably express T7 (e.g. BSR T7/5 cells) (1). ...system Similar to other RNA viruses, EBOV brings its own RNA-dependent RNA polymerase into the infected cells... The RNA genome is encapsidated by the nucleoprotein, NP. NP associates with the viral polymerase, which... negative sense, single-stranded RNA minigenome. The viral polymerase complex then recognizes the encapsidated...to replicate the minigenome, the viral polymerase initiates RNA synthesis at the 3’ end of the minigenome...transcription performed by the viral polymerase. Alternatively, the mRNA can be detected directly by Northern...
  2. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...      The RNA polymerase(s) RNA is transcribed from DNA using an RNA polymerase (RNAP). In bacteria...expression in plants. H1 small RNA expression shRNA From the human polymerase III RNA promoter Constitutive  ...bacteriophage Constitutive, but requires SP6 RNA polymerase. SP6 polymerase has a high processivity. When used ...Constitutive, but requires T7 RNA polymerase. When used for in vitro transcription, the promoter drives either...insert into RNA. In practice, the term "promoter" describes the combination of the promoter (RNA polymerase...promoter region controls the binding of the RNA polymerase and transcription factors, therefore promoters...eukaryotes have muliple polymerases which are each responsible for a specific subset of RNAs. To gain this specificity...
  3. Open Enzyme Collection

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    ... to top RNA Polymerases Addgene ID Plasmid Gene/insert 165505 pOpen-T7gene1 T7 RNA Polymerase 165516 pOpen-SP6rpol... pOpen-SP6rpol SP6 RNA Polymerase 165576 pOpen-T3gene1 T3 RNA Polymerase Return to top Other Enzymes Addgene... DNA Polymerase I 165533 pOpen-TthpolA Tth DNA polymerase 165534 pOpen-T7gene5 T7 DNA Polymerase (unmodified... Ligases DNA Polymerases Restriction Endonucleases Reverse Transcriptases RNA Polymerases Other Enzymes... of molecular biology, including DNA polymerases, RNA polymerases, DNA ligases, reverse transcriptases... DNA Polymerases Addgene ID Plasmid Gene/insert 165500 pOpen-9N7polA 9 degrees N-7 DNA polymerase 165501...
  4. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    ...lysogen/T7 promoter combination is the most popular induction system. The DE3 lysogen expresses T7 RNA polymerase..., or membrane proteins  T7 Express   IPTG-inducible expression of T7 RNAP from the genome; does not...addition of IPTG. T7 RNAP is then available to transcribe the gene of interest from a T7 promoter on the...(DE3)   Basic IPTG-inducible strain containing T7 RNAP (DE3) F- ompT lon hsdSB (rB- mB-) gal dcm (DE3...Tetracycline Arabinose-inducible expression of T7 RNAP; IPTG may still be required for expression F- ...DE3)* Chloramphenicol (pLemo) Rhamnose-tunable T7 RNAP expression alleviates inclusion body formation....transcription from a hybrid promoter. Although the DE3/T7 RNAP system works well for most experiments, the lac...
  5. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...types of RNA: Polymerase I is responsible for ribosomal RNA, Polymerase II is responsible for mRNA and miRNAs...transcription, eukaryotes have three RNA polymerases (Polymerases I, II, and III), each responsible for...noted that each eukaryotic RNA polymerase terminates differently. Polymerase III, for example, relies on...mechanism, whereas Polymerase II termination is more complex and involves two RNA polymerase-associated proteins...miRNAs, and Polymerase III transcribes tRNA and other short RNAs. Although not as well studied as prokaryotic...plays an important role in RNA processing and contributes to variability in RNA half-life, and ultimately...rho-independent. Rho factor is a helicase which assists RNA polymerase in the termination of the transcript. Rho-dependent...
  6. Ghanaian Researchers to Receive Plasmid Awards from Addgene and Seeding Labs

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    ...produce molecular biological tools like Taq polymerase, T7 polymerase, EcoRI, and various fluorescent proteins...construction of new plasmids. Dr. Duedu will also use polymerases produced using plasmids from Addgene to test ...Learn About Addgene's Mission Check Out Our International Shipping Pages ...
  7. Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors

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    ...gene III. Gene III is under the control of a T7 RNA polymerase and cannot be expressed until the base editor...Through molecular biology teamwork. The guide RNA (gRNA) specifies the editing target site on the DNA,...editor corrects early stop codons within T7 RNAP. A phage encoding the deaminase TadA-7.10 A mutagenesis...ABE8e showed increased off-target DNA and off-target RNA activity. To mitigate this drawback, the lab introduced...maintaining the lower off-target DNA and off-target RNA editing rate of ABE7.10. Find the ABE8e plasmids ...
  8. Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR

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    ...thioredoxin-binding domain (TBD) from bacteriophage T7 DNA polymerase increased the processivity of PolI3M, and ...growth conditions. Expression of an error prone polymerase I (PolI3M) is capable of mutagenesis in E. Coli...with error prone PCR, EvolvR uses an error prone polymerase to introduce mutations. However, by using nCas9...Halperin, Shakked O., et al. "CRISPR-guided DNA polymerases enable diversification of all nucleotides in ...for targeted mutagenesis of a site of interest. A gRNA is used to direct the PolI3M-nCas9 complex to a ...window also increased the likelihood that a single gRNA would introduce more than one mutation near the ...
  9. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    ...expression of genes. Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-mediated RNA interference (RNAi) to knockdown expression of specific...Evaluating Gene function by RNA interference (RNAi) RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful tool for performing...biologists have to extract RNA from their organism of interest, use the RNA to create a complementary ...appropriate plasmid and dsRNA expression is activated through the  induction of T7 polymerase encoded in the E... as small interfering RNAs (siRNA) and they bind to a class of Argonaute proteins. The Argonaute proteins...site flanked by T7 promoters to allow for bidirectional transcription to create dsRNA. Students can produce... The technique involves using synthetically made RNA (riboprobes) with modified nucleotides (for example...
  10. Boxem Lab CRISPR Plasmids

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    ...synthetic guide RNA in vitro from T7 promotor. 47943 pMB70 : Can be used to express a CRISPR guide RNA in C. elegans...the regulatory sequences of an RNA polymerase III transcribed U6 snRNA. In both vectors, the target site...EGFP fusion. For the sgRNA, vector pMB60 allows in vitro production of RNA from the T7 promoter, while pMB70...vectors for the delivery of the synthetic guide RNA (sgRNA). Each of the Cas9 vectors contains the Cas9 ...CRISPR Cas9 gRNA plasmids from Dr. Mike Boxem's lab. CRISPR...You may also like... CRISPR Guide CRISPR Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts We adapted the S....
  11. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    ...translation machinery. These include ribosomes, RNA polymerase, tRNAs, ribonucleotides and amino acids. Cell-free...must first be transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA). mRNA can then be translated at the ribosome into polypeptide...The central dogma in molecular biology is DNA→RNA→Protein. To synthesize a particular protein DNA must...purified for use in molecular biology research (eg. polymerases and other enzymes might be purified and used ...Of all the vectors, pET, under the control of the T7 lac promoter and induced by lactose, provides the... of this process: the synthesis of proteins from mRNA and the addition of post-translational modifications...
  12. FlyCRISPR

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    ...the regulatory sequences of an RNA polymerase III transcribed U6 snRNA. In both vectors, the target site...recombination. For the sgRNA, vector pMB60 allows in vitro production of RNA from the T7 promoter, while pMB70...Genome engineering of Drosophila with the CRISPR RNA-guided Cas9 nuclease. Gratz SJ, Cummings AM, Nguyen...targeting chiRNAs Targeting chiRNAs are easily cloned by annealed oligos into the pU6-BbsI-chiRNA plasmid...pU6-BbsI-chiRNA : Plasmid for expression of chiRNA under the control of the Drosophila snRNA:U6:96Ab promoter...-att). 51026 U6-BbsI-crRNA : Generates crRNA for use in combination with tracrRNA. 51434 pHD-DsRed : vector...Browse CRISPR Cas9 gRNA plasmids for drosophila research from the O'Connor-Giles, Wildonger, and Harrison...
  13. Bacterial Expression Systems

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    ...with a 6x His tag. Requires a strain with T7 RNA polymerase. Amp resistant. More expression vectors for...western blotting or staining, and RNA transcript tags to monitor RNA localization. Using these plasmids...Philippe Cluzel RNA localization: Contains a 2x array of the binding sequence for RNA-binding protein,...Philippe Cluzel RNA localization: Contains a 2x array of the binding sequence for RNA-binding protein ...one of the pB1H2w derivatives as a fusion to RNA polymerase subunit ω. Transcription factor binding to ...see here . pgRNA-bacteria 44251 CRISPR Stanley Qi Expression of customizable guide RNA (gRNA) for bacterial...Tagging If you’d like to know where your protein or RNA ends up when it's expressed, you’ll likely need to...
  14. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...downstream manipulations. Phi29 polymerase is a phage-derived polymerase that can perform whole genome ...into E. coli BL21 (DE3) cells (these have the T7 polymerase and a few proteases knocked out making them ...fragmentation, repair sheared ends with T4 DNA polymerase (to create blunt ends) and ligate into a bluntly...manipulation, amplifying phage DNA with phi29 polymerase prior to fragmentation can greatly facilitate...freeze/thaw cycles to facilitate cell lysis: alternating between 5 min at -20°C (or -80°C) followed by...
  15. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    ...as an RNA guided RNase (Abudayyeh et al 2016). Cas13 can be guided by a single CRISPR RNA (crRNA) to cleave...targeted DNA or RNA from a sample is first amplified using RPA (recombinase polymerase amplification) ...using SHERLOCK to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA. The test is started using RNA purified from patient samples and...2016) C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector. Science 353:aaf5573...CRISPR-associated protein Csm6. RNA 22:318–329 . https://doi.org/10.1261/rna.054098.115 Shmakov S, Abudayyeh...respectively. RPA is coupled with T7 transcription to convert amplified DNA to RNA for subsequent detection by... in combination with the ssRNA reporter enables SHERLOCK to detect DNA or RNA with atomolar sensitivity...
  16. Promoters

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    ...Expression Description T7 Constitutive but requires T7 RNA polymerase Promoter from T7 bacteriophage Sp6 Constitutive...control the binding of RNA polymerase to DNA. RNA polymerase transcribes DNA to mRNA which is ultimately ...transcription factors in order for RNA polymerase II (a eukaryote-specific RNA polymerase) to bind to a promoter....contains the RNA polymerase binding site, TATA box, and transcription start site (TSS). RNA polymerase will bind...binding of the RNA polymerase. A transcription complex is constructed from the RNA polymerase and several...lac and trp Types of RNA Polymerases Promoters control the binding of RNA polymerase to DNA to initiate ...are three types of RNA polymerases that all transcribe different genes. RNA polymerase I transcribes genes...
  17. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...Promoters control the binding of RNA polymerase and transcription factors. Since the promoter region ...be produced. Many commonly-used promoters, such as T7, CMV, EF1A, and SV40, are always active and thus ... expression from one promoter with transgene or siRNA expression from the other. The Q system Potter et...
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