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  1. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - Spring 2019

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    ...Name 104496  AAV1  GP-AAV-CAG-FLEX-jGCaMP7f-WPRE AAV1 with a CAG promoter exhibits high specificity for... 59462  AAV2  pAAV-CAG-tdTomato (codon diversified) 37825  AAV8*, AAV9*  pAAV-CAG-GFP 50465  AAV8*...pAAV-FLEX-tdTomato pAAV-GFAP104-mCherry pAAV-mDlx-NLS-mRuby2 CAG-NLS-GFP pAAV-hSyn-mCherry Read on to learn more...pAAV-FLEX-tdTomato, pAAV-GFAP104-mCherry, pAAV-mDlx-NLS-mRuby2, CAG-NLS-GFP,and pAAV-hSyn-mCherry at Addgene. Viral vectors...hM4D(Gi)-mCherry (CD68 is a  microglia/macrophage promoter) 121539  AAV5  pOTTC1596 - pAAV SYN1 HA-hM3D...
  2. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - September 2019

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    ...Synapsin promoter directs broad, neuronal expression. AAV pCAG-FLEX-EGFP-WPRE (51502-AAV5): The CAG promoter...pGP-AAV-syn-FLEX-jGCaMP7b-WPRE (104493-AAVrg) pGP-AAV-CAG-FLEX-jGCaMP7s-WPRE (104495-AAVrg) pGP-AAV-CAG-FLEX-jGCaMP7f-WPRE (104496...serotypes. This collection is now complete! pAAV-CAG-GFP (plasmid 37825) and pAAV-hSyn-EGFP (plasmid 50465... to give scientists access to a wide array of promoters and fluorophores for validating and testing purposes...-EGFP (112677-AAV5 and 112677-AAVrg): The EF1a promoter directs strong, ubiquitous expression. This is...
  3. New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor

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    ...protein CAG: Generic strong promoter. Formulated as AAV-DJ for neuronal expression. CAG-FLEX: CAG promoter...Human Synapsin-1 promoter. Good for neuronal expression. hSynap-FLEX: Synapsin-1 promoter, FLEXed for expression...Synapsin-1 promoter, FLP-dependent expression GFAP: Glial fibrillary acidic protein (promoter). Good for...Podgorski Lab has provided a brief breakdown of the promoter systems you can use to express the iGluSnFR3 variants...
  4. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - December 2019

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    ...potentials, is now offered under control of the CAG promoter for ubiquitous expression. (For more details...pGP-AAV-syn-FLEX-jGCaMP7b-WPRE 104496 AAVrg pGP-AAV-CAG-FLEX-jGCaMP7f-WPRE 104495 AAVrg GP-AAV-CAG-FLEX-jGCaMP7s-WPRE 105714...collection! Plasmid Serotype Name 51502 AAV5 pCAG-FLEX-EGFP-WPRE 114471 AAV1, AAV5 pAAV-Ef1a-fDIO...
  5. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    ...pyogenes (Sp) Cas9 from a Cbh promoter. Cbh is a modified version of CAG promoter that the Zhang lab has tested...imporant is that, upstream of the Cbh promoter, this plasmid has a U6 promoter followed by BbsI restriction sites...
  6. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    ...interest. Promoter The promoter drives the expression of the AAV transgene. On a plasmid map, promoters are ...location. Promoters can also drive different levels of expression. For example, CAG is a strong promoter that...synapsin 1 promoter is neuronal specific (Haery et al., 2019). Most AAV transfer plasmids have a promoter, but...are upstream or 5’ of the gene they control. Promoters can be organism or tissue type-specific, which can...nuclear export of RNA and RNA translation, and promotes RNA transcript longevity. The polyA is located...for the perfect AAV tool Learn about synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type expression in retinal cells...
  7. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ... trying to pick your perfect promoter! Eukaryotic Promoters   Promoter   Primarily used for RNA     ...commonly used in promoter hybrids. CAG General expression mRNA Strong hybrid mammalian promoter Constitutive.... In practice, the term "promoter" describes the combination of the promoter (RNA polymerase binding site...recognize and bind to specific promoter elements. This means that the promoter present in your plasmid backbone...RNAP II promoter, whereas small RNAs (such as shRNA) are transcribed from the RNAP III promoters. This ...post on viral vector parts. Promoter specificity Aside from choosing a promoter based on type of RNA transcript...cell types or organisms, promoters must be similarly variable. Bacterial promoters only work in prokaryotic...
  8. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - May 2020

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    ...Plasmid Serotype Name Depositor 75470 AAV1 pAAV-CAG-FLEXFRT-ChR2(H134R)-mCherry Connie Cepko 83898 ...activated, this DREADD acts through the Gq pathway and promotes neuronal firing. Plasmid Serotype Name Depositor...more accurate cell and tissue targeting. While promoters and AAV serotypes can sometimes be used to target...
  9. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    ...rat neurons over other promoters, including ubiquitous ones such as EF-1α and CAG. The Day Lab used their...plasmids used to express Cre under neuron-specific promoters, including calmodulin-dependent kinase II alpha...excitatory neurons) and Synapsin-1 (pan-neuronal) promoters (Figure 1b), and sgRNAs can be found here. Neuron-optimized...expression is mediated by the synapsin 1 (SYN) promoter, which was superior in its ability to induce CRISPRa...consequently regulates neuronal physiology by promoting the development of neurons and synapses as well...cells to determine which transcription factors promote neuronal differentiation (Liu et al., 2018). The...
  10. Viral Vectors 101: Calcium Sensors

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    ...neuron-specific expression (hSyn promoter) and pan-mammalian cell expression (CAG promoter). An improved version ...
  11. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter

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    ...your experiment site or circuit can occur. Promoters The promoter controls how the gene of interest will ...selective, or inducible.  Ubiquitous promoters  These often-strong promoters offer the most flexibility for ...large number of different cells. Promoters such as chicken-beta-actin or CAG can drive strong early gene expression...vitro) or months (in vivo).  Selective promoters Selective promoters, such as synapsin, glial fibrillary ...International License.   Inducible promoters  This type of promoter allows you to decide when to turn ...three key variables of an AAV vector: serotype, promoter, and titer.     Figure 1: Flow chart depicting...depicting a) steps for selecting serotypes and promoters to test in your AAV system and b) steps for testing...
  12. A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression

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    ...the injection site. Test the promoter It is also essential that the promoter be thoroughly tested in your...your cells.  Some promoters, such as CAG are very strong and may require less viral particles or relatively...cell-type specific” promoter, such as the truncated tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) promoter for catecholamine...open reading frame is inverted in relation to the promoter, hence the name, double-floxed inverted open-reading...what can we do about it?  Test the serotype and promoter The first step is to know how the AAV vector you...includes a thorough testing of both the serotype and promoter with in vivo experiments to determine the optimal...expressing TH protein indicating that there is promoter activity. Additionally, some neurons express low...
  13. Caltech Systemic Capsids

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    ...Gradinaru 104055 pAAV-CAG-eYFP CAG EYFP Control Gradinaru 104061 CAG-NLS-GFP CAG NLS-GFP Control Gradinaru...pGP-AAV-CAG-FLEX-jGCaMP7s-WPRE CAG Calcium sensor, Cre-dependent GCaMP Kim , GENIE 104496 pGP-AAV-CAG-FLEX-jGCaMP7f-WPRE... PHP.V1 AAV ID Name Promoter Description Category PI 104052 pAAV-CAG-DIO-EYFP CAG EYFP, Cre-dependent ...Available MaCPNS1 AAV ID Name Promoter Description Category PI 37825 pAAV-CAG-GFP CAG GFP Control Boyden MaCPNS2...Available MaCPNS2 AAV ID Name Promoter Description Category PI 37825 pAAV-CAG-GFP CAG GFP Control Boyden CAP-...Available CAP-B10 AAV ID Name Promoter Description Category PI 37825 pAAV-CAG-GFP CAG GFP Control Boyden CAP-...Available CAP-B22 AAV ID Name Promoter Description Category PI 37825 pAAV-CAG-GFP CAG GFP Control Boyden Citation...
  14. Brain Armamentarium

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    ...Gradinaru 37825-CAP-B10 pAAV-CAG-GFP AAV expression of GFP from the CAG promoter Edward Boyden Viviana Gradinaru...Gradinaru 37825-CAP-B22 pAAV-CAG-GFP AAV expression of GFP from the CAG promoter Edward Boyden Viviana Gradinaru...Gradinaru 37825-CAP-MaCPNS1 pAAV-CAG-GFP AAV expression of GFP from the CAG promoter Edward Boyden Viviana Gradinaru...Gradinaru 37825-CAP-MaCPNS2 pAAV-CAG-GFP AAV expression of GFP from the CAG promoter Edward Boyden Viviana Gradinaru...
  15. Brain Initiative Collection

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    ...fluorescent protein EYFP from the CAG promoter Viviana Gradinaru 104055-AAV2 pAAV-CAG-eYFP An AAV genome that ubiquitously...fluorescent protein eYFP from the CAG promoter Viviana Gradinaru 104055-AAVrg pAAV-CAG-eYFP An AAV genome that ...fluorescent protein eYFP from the CAG promoter Viviana Gradinaru 104055-PHPeB pAAV-CAG-eYFP An AAV genome that ...fluorescent protein eYFP from the CAG promoter Viviana Gradinaru 104061-PHPeB CAG-NLS-GFP AAV expression of nuclear...expression of dLight1.1 under CAG promoter Lin Tian 111067-AAV5 pAAV-CAG-dLight1.1 To generate Adeno-Associated...Li 158757-AAV8 pAAV-CAG-SomaGCaMP6f2 Cell body-targeted GCaMP6f, under CAG promoter: GCaMP6f followed by...Boyden 158757-AAV9 pAAV-CAG-SomaGCaMP6f2 Cell body-targeted GCaMP6f, under CAG promoter: GCaMP6f followed by...
  16. Cre-lox system

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    ...active promoter like CAG, or expressed only in a subset of cells under a more specific promoter (e.g. ...Goldstein 48201 CAG-GFP-IRES-CRE Cre and GFP coexpression CAG Retroviral Gage 49054 CAG-GFP/cre Cre-GFP...pCAGGS-pac-T2A-iCre iCre CAG Mammalian Capecchi 116879 CAG-Cremyc-2A-GFP GFP and Cre CAG Mammalian Lu 117148 Hiv7CMV-Cremyc...Fuchs 26646 pCAG-Cre-IRES2-GFP Cre and GFP coexpression CAG Mammalian Chenn 26647 pCAG-Cre Cre CAG Mammalian...Heller 112619 pCAG-EHC Emerald, Cre-ERT2 CAG Mammalian Heller 112620 pCAG-mTHC TFP, Cre-ERT2 CAG Mammalian ... Cre CAG Mammalian Imai 125577 pCAG-iCre iCre CAG Mammalian Imai 125748 pCAG-sfGFP-GSAx9-iCre-ERT2 iCre-ERT2...HIV-TAT - promotes cellular uptake of recombinant Cre Bacterial Rajewsky 13775 pCAG-Cre Cre-Myc CAG Mammalian...
  17. Control AAV Preps

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    ...104055 pAAV-CAG-eYFP CAG EYFP Constitutive 2, 5, rg*, PHP.eB Gradinaru 104061 CAG-NLS-GFP CAG NLS-GFP Constitutive...general promoters. These AAV can be used to compare the activity of different serotypes. Promoter CAG CaMKIIa...pAAV-CAG-FLEX-EGFP CAG EGFP Cre dependent 1 Wickersham 104052 pAAV-CAG-DIO-EYFP CAG EYFP Cre dependent PHP.V1 Gradinaru...51502 AAV pCAG-FLEX-EGFP-WPRE CAG EGFP Cre dependent 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, rg* Zeng 59331 pAAV-CAG-FLEX-EGFP ...dependent (constitutive) expression 37825 AAV-CAG-GFP CAG GFP Constitutive 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, rg*, PHPeB, CAP-B10...GFAP104 mCherry Constitutive 5 Boyden 59462 pAAV-CAG-tdTomato CAG tdTomato Constitutive 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, rg*, ...tdTomato Flp dependent 1 Jensen 99133 pAAV-CAG-fDIO-mNeonGreen CAG mNeonGreen Flp dependent 1 Gradinaru INTRSECT...
  18. Chemogenetics Plasmids

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    ...hM4Dnrxn (Gi) CAG mCherry No Sternson 52521 AAV-CAG::FLEX-rev:: ChR2HA-2a-hM4D hM4Dnrxn (Gi) CAG ChR2-2a Yes...Sternson 52520 CAG:: ChR2HA-2a-hM4D hM4Dnrxn (Gi) CAG ChR2-2a No Sternson 159457 AAVS1-pur-CAG-Bi-DREADD hM3D...PSAML141F,Y115F-GlyR CAG ChR2 2A Yes Sternson 32482 CAG::PSAMQ79G:GlyR-IRES-GFP PSAMQ79G-GlyR CAG IRES-EGFP No...hM4Dnrxn (Gi) CAG mCherry Yes Sternson 52525 CMV:: HA-hM4Dnrxn hM4Dnrxn (Gi) CMV No Sternson 52523 CAG:: mCherry... hM3D(Gq), KORD CAG mCherry No Chen 32483 rAAV-CAG::FLEX-rev:ChR2HA:2a:PSAML141F,Y115F:GlyR PSAML141F,...IRES-EGFP Yes Sternson 32480 CAG::PSAML141F,Y115F:GlyR-IRES-GFP PSAML141F,Y115F-GlyR CAG IRES-EGFP No Sternson...IRES-EGFP Yes Sternson 32478 CAG::PSAML141F:GlyR-IRES-GFP PSAML141F-GlyR CAG IRES-EGFP Yes Sternson 32477...
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