...vectors include the germline expression compatible tbb-2 3’UTR. For both the eft-3 and hsp-16.48 vectors we...Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts We adapted the S. pyogenes CRISPR/Cas9 system for use in C...

...gene-specific CRISPR and donor vectors as well as pX330S-2-PITCh, expressing a generic gRNA targeting the PITCh...Protocols, 2016 . Yamamoto Tagging Plasmids: pX330S-2-PITCh - expresses Cas9 & PITCh-gRNA pX330A-FBL/PITCh...Tools CRISPR Blog Posts The CRISPR system has been adapted to allow tagging of proteins expressed from their...

...dCas9VP64 and sgRNA from separate promoters. Table 2. pmax dCas9 Activator Expression Plasmids ID Plasmid...Lifetechnologies Gateway Destination Vectors ) to adapt to different systems by LR clonase reaction. These...

...Figure 2. PSAM4-based LGICs, their effect, and outcome in neurons. Please see the text or table 2 for details... Reference Rq(R165L) Human M3 muscarinic Arrestin-2/-3 CNO* Increase Arrestin translocation Arrestin signalling...hM1Dq hM5Dq Human M3 muscarinic G αq CNO* Increase Ca 2+ Neuronal burst firing Armbruster et al, 2007 rM3D... details. Table 2. Descriptions of PSAMs and their activity in neurons PSAM Ion Pore Domain Ligand(s) ...Forbes SL, Liggett SB (2001). Modification of the beta 2-adrenergic receptor to engineer a receptor-effector...Chem Neurosci 6:476–484. PMID: 25587888 Coward P, Wada HG, Falk MS, Chan SD, Meng F, et al (1998). Controlling...451–460. PMID: 15765260 Farrell MS, Pei Y, Wan Y, Yadav PN, Daigle TL, Urban DJ, Lee H-M, Sciaky N, Simmons...

...fusing NanoLuc® and Venus fluorophore to Troponin C Ca 2+ binding domain. Nano-lanterns , Enhanced Nano-lanterns...transfection Feng Zhang 21471 pLenti PGK V5-LUC Neo (w623-2) Firefly PGK Lentiviral expression of firefly luciferase...Insertion of 5' promoter/enhancer regions. Lentiviral Nadav Ahituv 106292 pLS-SV40-mP-Rluc Renilla Insertion...Insertion of 5' promoter/enhancer regions. Lentiviral Nadav Ahituv 108228 pGreen2x35SLUC Firefly/Renilla Creation...

...Sequences Glossary Publications CRISPR Overview Class 2 C lustered R egularly I nterspaced S hort P alindromic...systems enable researchers to target anywhere from 2 to 7 genetic loci by cloning multiple gRNAs into a... is included on the gRNA-containing plasmid, or a 2-plasmid system in which Cas9 must be delivered separately...library (panel E ). Remember - if you are using a 2-vector system, you will need to transduce cells that...Cas enzymes? CasPEDIA is an encyclopedia of Class 2 CRISPR systems with wiki entries describing enzyme...either (1) a lack of gRNA and/or Cas9 expression or (2) a lack of efficient target cleavage in cells expressing...off-target effects by using a single Cas9 nickase and 2 different gRNAs, which bind in close proximity on ...

... gRNA_DNMT3b A gRNA to DNMT3b Yeast System: Table 2 To function in yeast cells, we designed Cas9 protein...CRISPR Blog Posts Bacteria and archaea have evolved adaptive immune defenses termed clustered regularly interspaced...CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems that use short RNA to direct degradation of foreign nucleic acids. We have engineered ...

...Table 2 for more details on the effect of pH on the fluorescent properties of Rosella.   Table 2: Effect...in yeast. Autophagy,4(2), 205-213. doi:10.4161/auto.5331. PubMed PMID: 18094608 2. Sargsyan, A., Cai, J...environment like the vacuole or lysosome. See Table 2 for a summary of what color fluorescence Rosella emits...fluorescence accumulates in the vacuole. See Figure 2 for an example of what fluorescence looks like for...assays Long-lived protein degradation: This approach measures the degradation rate of radio-labeled long-lived...this is indicative of protein degradation). To control for protein degradation due to other pathways, it ...cytosol and organelles to the vacuole/lysosome for degradation and recycling. The key to Rosella’s autophagy-sensing...

...comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 virus-human interaction network in which we expressed 26 of the 29 SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins...all became acutely aware of the threat of SARS-CoV-2. Like many in the science community, we’ve been motivated...identifying these potential human helpers of SARS-CoV-2 (especially the ones that are druggable) is a key ...just at the beginning of understanding how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with human proteins. For example, we used... joining in this worldwide fight against SARS-CoV-2. As we’ve all been affected in various ways by the...details. Our set of constructs comprises all SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins except for Nsp3 and Nsp16, and includes...is going on there!).  Find the Krogan Lab SARS-CoV-2 plasmids (Note: The Nsp6 construct is undergoing QC...

...same site, is 2’-fluoro (2’-F), which substitutes a fluorine for the hydroxyl group at the 2’ position. ...most common of these is 2’-O-methylation, where a methyl group is added to the 2’ hydroxyl group of the...them together, for example phosphorothioates with 2’-O-methyl modifications, proved more stability than...generated by introduction of a single photocleavable 2-nitrobenzyl linker in the 20-bp targeting region of..., gRNAs can be chemically modified to resist degradation while still effectively serving their function...recognized as foreign RNA. To protect the RNA from degradation, several simple methods have been employed which...stability.  Nature has evolved ways to prevent degradation of important cellular RNA molecules with post...

...Biosciences and UCSF recently adapted the DETECTR platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 using a lateral flow strip... can be used to diagnose the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA, but inadequate access to reagents and equipment...named this system SHERLOCKv2 for SHERLOCK version 2. Here are some of the improvements: SHERLOCKv2 uses... a protocol for using SHERLOCK to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA. The test is started using RNA purified from patient...CY (2020) CRISPR–Cas12-based detection of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587... and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems. Molecular Cell 60:385–397 . https...Cpf1 Is a Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell 163:759–771 . https://doi....

...sequence YFP Thorben Dammeyer 54520 mCherry-Peroxisomes-2 Peroxisome Peroximal Targeting Signal 1 (PTS1) mCherry...Centrin2 Centrioles (dependent on cell cycle) Centrin-2 EGFP Erich Nigg 41151 pEGFP Cep170 C-term Centrioles...cfSGFP2-N Extracellular milieu cfSGFP2-N EGFP Ikuo Wada 73208 pcDNA3.1-COXIV-COX8-dL5-2XG4S-mCer3 Mitochondria...

...Illustration of SARS-CoV-2 from Philippa Steinberg for the IGI.   What SARS-CoV-2 plasmids from Ginkgo ...Bioworks to synthesize and share over 1,850 SARS-CoV-2 plasmids to help academic and industrial labs accelerate...request? Currently, plasmids containing all SARS-CoV-2 protein coding genes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae ...bacterial expression systems, Ginkgo synthesized SARS-CoV-2 expression plasmids in a high copy backbone with a...high level expression and purification of SARS-CoV-2 proteins for downstream experiments and offer flexibility...optimized, full length and truncated versions of SARS-CoV-2 S (spike protein) cloned into a CMV driven expression...first deposited set of plasmids containing SARS-CoV-2 protein coding genes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae ...

...Golden Gate TALEN Kit and are used in place of pTAL1, 2, 3, or 4. For both plasmids sequence positions 1214...method. Validated in multiple organisms. Dan Voytas Adam Bogdanove Joung Lab TAL Effector Engineering Reagents...

...severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus may acquire mutations to escape ... SARS-CoV-2 infects host cells through binding the human angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) cell-surface...Pooled library to study antibody escape in SARS-CoV-2 Recombinant antibodies for aminoacyl tRNA synthetases...viral preps Mapping antibody escape in SARS-CoV-2 by mutational scanning By Seth Kasowitz As multiple...viral spike protein.   Figure 1. (A) SARS-CoV-2 RBD DMS Library generation and sequencing. From Starr... binding ACE2 is the target of most anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. In the library, each plasmid encodes the...and a barcode, and is designed so that the SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD is displayed on the yeast cell’s surface...

...kinetics which are illustrated in figures 2 and 3.  Figure 2: Glutamate titration curves for the different...iGluSnFR variants. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al…, Supplementary Figure 2.   Improved trafficking...signals upon sensing glutamate using both 1-photon and 2-photon imaging.   Figure 1: 1P and 2P excitation...SF-Venus-iGluSnFR.A184V, iGluSnFR3 v82, and iGluSnFR3 v857. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al., Figure 1   Increased... different iGluSnFR variants. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al…, Supplementary Figure 3.   ... PDGFR, GPI, and SGZ display constructs. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al… Figure 4. PDGFR is a C-terminal...

... that results in a polymerase error rate of up to 2% per nucleotide position. The “sloppy” PCR reaction...modifications: 1) increased concentration of Taq polymerase, 2) increased PCR extension time, 3) increased concentration...to synthesize a complementary mutant strand (step 2 and 3). Then the uracil-labeled template strand is...restrict site matter? Most of the time no, but there are 2 instances where it does. 1) When the backbone vector...ExoIII. See the below figure for an example like this. 2) When your gene of interest has a BbvCI site(s). If...saturation mutagenesis method are 1) ease of use, 2) time savings, and 3) ability to perform single site...PMID: 23766324. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4409680. 2. Mccullum, E. O., Williams, B. A., Zhang, J., & Chaput...

...repeated multiple times (2-4 rounds) at increasing scale over the course of 1-2 weeks. Each round of amplification...creating adenoviral vector constructs. It consists of 2 plasmids: a shuttle vector (in which the transgene...Addgene’s Adenoviral Guide webpage, and references 1, 2.*Pro-Tip*: once the correct recombinant pAdV plasmid...sequenced to confirm its integrity. Initial production (2-3 weeks) - Here you’ll produce the primary recombinant...media will turn yellow. Do NOT change the media (add 2-3 mL of fresh media once a week), and do NOT harvest...it will result in very low titer. Amplification (1-2 weeks) - The rAdV-S is used to infect more HEK293 ...in a 10-100-fold increase in virus. Purification (2 days) - Purification is required if rAdV is to be ...

...CRISPR to detect SARS-CoV-2, including many with plasmids deposited at Addgene! 2. DNA Purification Without...detection methods, synthetic nanobodies, SARS-CoV-2 protein expression, and more. We also highlighted ...empty backbones, fluorescent protein tags, SARS-CoV-2 plasmids, etc. It is our hope that by providing cloning...RNA and extracting RNA without a kit. 3. SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas by ...protein family and they generate color! They've been adapted for many molecular biology methods such as allelic...

... to a mutant TadA (TadA*) that satisfactorily accepts DNA as its substrate (see figure 2).          The...NNNRRT 8 ABE SpCas9 TadA-TadA* NGG 9-12 SpCas9-VQR TadA-TadA* NGA 8 SaCas9 TadA-TadA* NNGRRT 9 SaCas9...available for plant systems. Target-AID based (CBE-2)-  and rAPOBEC based (CBE-1)-  CBEs are successful...based CBEs are known to deaminate cytosine placed in 2-6 bp and 4-8 bp, respectively, of the protospacer....PMID: 27096365. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4873371.  2. Nishida, Keiji, et al. "Targeted nucleotide editing...SaCas9-KKH TadA-TadA* NNNRRT 8 SpCas9-VRER TadA-TadA* NGCG 8  Tips for designing base editing experiments... of different basic BE technologies and their adaptation for plant genome editing. Cytosine base editors...