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  1. Institute for Protein Innovation

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    ... Collection Institute for Protein Innovation Antibody Collection Welcome to the Institute for Protein ...and secreted proteins from a collaboration between Addgene and IPI. Antibodies... Antibodies Institute for Protein Innovation...targeting families of cell surface and secreted proteins. The majority of antibodies in the collection ...IPI to generate antibodies to highly conserved proteins and other difficult-to-target antigens that are...Link opens in a new window) Integrin Antibodies Integrins are a family of mechanotransduction receptors,...-beta subunit heterodimers. The IPI collection contains antibodies that uniquely: Bind to the alpha subunit...
  2. Synthetic Biology - Strains

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    ...Signaling Strains Browse Addgene's collection of synthetic biology related bacterial strains. SynBio Bacterial...Strains for use in Synthetic Biology. Plasmid... Plasmid Collections Synthetic Biology Bacterial Strains Synthetic...Synthetic Biology: Bacterial Strains SynBio Resources SynBio Home Browse All SynBio Assembly Standards SynBio... Bacterial Strains Search the table by keyword or sort by the table headings. Click on the publication... this depositor's lab. Plasmid Description Gene/Insert Antibiotic Resistance PI Publication Back to Top...
  3. Brzezinski Lab CRISPR Collection

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    ...Collections Brzezinski Lab CRISPR Collection Brzezinski Lab CRISPR Collection The Brzezinski lab investigates...empty backbones that utilize Golden Gate cloning to insert the desired guide RNA sequence by digestion of...utilizing one of the dual guide shuttle plasmids to insert a second guide within a U6-guide cassette. This...Cloning Protocol 237.2 KB Dual guide cloning: Brzezinski Lab Dual Guide Protocol 967.2 KB Plasmid and ...Schneider SR, Abraham J, Hensley A, Jones KL, Brzezinski JA Development. 2021 Jun 15;148(12). pii: 269198...PMID 34143204 Goodson NB, Kaufman MA, Park KU, Brzezinski JA 4th Development. 2020 Jul 3;147(13). pii:...
  4. Plasmids for monoclonal antibodies to zebrafish proteins

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    ...receptors and secreted proteins. The plasmids encode both the light and heavy chains of mouse monoclonal ... zebrafish cell surface receptors and secreted proteins. Plasmid...monoclonal antibodies to zebrafish proteins and the antibodies are produced by transfecting mammalian cell lines...
  5. Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmid Collection

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    ...Allen Institute for Cell Science has deposited plasmids to generate fluorescently tagged proteins of key...Depositor Collections Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmid Collection Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmid... from the Allen Institute for Cell Science Cell Catalog. Protocols The Allen Institute for Cell Science...Background Plasmids Protocols Background The Allen Institute for Cell Science has produced the first publicly... will be able to generate fluorescently tagged proteins of key cellular structures in human cell lines...Tagging in Human Cells on the Addgene Blog. Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmids Find additional cell...cell line information from the Allen Institute for Cell Science data portal: View data and images from the...
  6. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...FP-chimeric proteins. Photoactivatable fluorescent proteins (PA-FPs) are fluorescent proteins that display...Fluorescent proteins (FPs) offer scientists a simple yet powerful way to tag cellular proteins and investigate...Threonine 203 to Histidine (T203H) (1). wtGFP normally contains a mixed population of neutral (protonated) and...irreversible PA-FPs are the photoconvertible fluorescent proteins (PC-FPs). PC-FPs can convert from one fluorescent...Selected Irreversible Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins Protein Oligomeric State Activating Light ...Selected Reversible Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins Protein Oligomeric State Activating Light ...actually harm your cells before your experiment even begins! If you are performing multicolor experiments, ...
  7. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ... like chromoproteins, fluorescent proteins, and luminescent proteins. While fluorescent proteins and luminescence...fluorescent proteins? Before going into the difference between chromoproteins and fluorescent proteins, it’s...whereas chromoproteins do not fluoresce at all or fluoresce at very low levels. Chromoproteins in nature... history of fluorescent proteins in molecular biology research, chromoproteins have a shorter history....do these organisms have chromoproteins? One reason may be that chromoproteins protect corals from solar... Advantages of using chromoproteins for molecular biology Because chromoproteins absorb visible light ...substrate, chromoproteins don’t require other substrates for screening. Thus chromoproteins can be used...
  8. Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...the light they emit. Proteins that give off light include chemiluminescent proteins, like luciferases, ...Nobel Prize for fluorescent proteins The importance of fluorescent proteins was recognized in 2008 when... discovery of GFP The story of how fluorescent proteins like GFP came to be used as research tools is ...Using these samples, he was able to isolate two proteins from the jellyfish’s photoorgans; the first, which...and shift its emission spectrum. New fluorescent proteins with new colors Around the same time, researcher...vibrantly colored. He hypothesized that GFP-like proteins could be responsible and began studying these ... fell into place, as they, taken alongside the insights provided by the studies in Tsien lab, covered ...
  9. No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins

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    ...generating sybodies against membrane proteins Developing antibodies against proteins embedded in membranes...and Y-shaped because it contains two large heavy chains and two small light chains that stick out to form...trying to develop antibodies against unstable targets like membrane proteins that may unfold due to camelid...the process for selection of sybodies against membrane proteins. Image from Zimmermann et al., 2018. ...2020) Generation of synthetic nanobodies against delicate proteins. Nature Protocols 15:1707–1741. https:...identified nanobodies that bind to coronavirus spike proteins (Wrapp et al., 2020), which sit on the surface...special camelid antibodies that bind to the spike proteins in cell culture, and inhibit these viruses.  ...
  10. Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection

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    ...applications of fluorescent proteins. These fusion proteins enable the observation of proteins in living cells and...successfully in countless fusion proteins. Choose monomeric proteins and avoid a sticky situation Next...oligomerization of fluorescent proteins is a concern. The propensity of fluorescent proteins to oligomerize is known...requirement is that the site of insertion does not interact with other proteins or biomolecules. Examples of...create functional, fluorescent fusion proteins: random insertion of GFP with an in vitro transposition...blog Read our fluorescent proteins blog posts Download the fluorescent proteins 101 eBook Read our plasmids...they like, the design and engineering of fusion proteins is relatively straightforward. However, generating...
  11. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...fluorescent proteins. Additional fluorescent protein tools Photoactivable fluorescent proteins (proteins that... Blue-green fluorescent proteins like EGFP Yellow-orange fluorescent proteins like TagRFP, tdTomato, DsRed...danger. In this post we’ll focus on how fluorescent proteins can and have been used to monitor cellular movements...specimen. It allows the visualization of fluorescent proteins expressed in the specimen.  2. Fluorescence Activated...that have been tagged with different fluorescent proteins or dyes. 3. Two-photon microscopy Two-photon excitation...Cellular trafficking studies enabled by fluorescent proteins The optimization of GFP and its derivatives by...changed everything. For the first time, fluorescent proteins gave researchers the ability to track immune cells...
  12. #DeckTheLab with Tinsel and Test Tubes, Fa La La La La La La La La

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    ...AnltWfKuQg pic.twitter.com/OOrwo9feyJ — BTC Institute (@BTCInstitute1) December 23, 2020 Contest 2: Deck ... to #DeckTheLab with virus snowflakes from @CVRHutchinson #SciArt #STEAM #WinterWonderlab @Addgene Make...picture or video for either contest on Twitter or Instagram by December 31, 2021. Let us know which contest...and the winners will be revealed on Twitter and Instagram shortly after. Have fun, be creative, and enjoy...celebrates and decorates, follow us on Twitter and Instagram as we share pictures of our decked out spaces....
  13. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferase

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    ...Luciferase Can Be Used In Concert with Fluorecent Proteins in Nano Lanterns Reporter gene assays A reporter...reporters are generally less bright than fluorescent proteins, but have the advantage of lower background levels...
  14. In Vivo Biotinylation of Bacterial Fusion Proteins

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    ...Backstrom, a biochemist in the Vanderbilt Eye Institute and Tonia Rex's lab. A common strategy to determine...Historically, glutathione-S-transferase (GST) fusion proteins have been immobilized on a reduced glutathione...protein. However, oligomerization of biotinylated proteins on avidin can be controlled easier than formation...biotinylation selectivity A common strategy to biotinylate proteins involves amine-reactive biotin derivatives that...incorporation and to a lesser extent, the number of added biotins per molecule cannot be well-controlled. The lack...and HisTag, which were “buried” in a few of our proteins that lacked TEV. Although we were unable to cleave...we tested, it may be possible with other fusion proteins - but it would remove both the AviTag and HisTag...
  15. An Inside Look into Addgene's Dev Team

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    ... plant, grow, and harvest grains every time you want to bake a cake. Instead, you go to a store and purchase...start with writing demo details, step-by-step instructions on how to demonstrate the feature. For example...
  16. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ...aeruginosa. These toxins were a mix of Type VI secreted effector toxins, toxin-antitoxin type toxins, and phage...Bacterial toxins for counter-selection In 2015, the Chen lab harnessed a group of bacterial toxins to facilitate...cassette with one of three toxins from the Khetrapal paper. We selected the three toxins so that at least one...sacB-based allelic exchange vector. This vector contains sacB, an chloramphenicol resistance cassette, ...phage holins. They hypothesized that genes that had evolved specifically for toxicity would allow stronger...i.e. sacB). Importantly, to prevent activation of toxins before the second crossover step, they tested their...enabled very efficient recombineering.     We were inspired by this work and sought to develop these negative...
  17. Addgene Begins Distribution of Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...reproducibility, and community-building. The transparency begins with sharing sequence information for the antibodies...community demand. Figure 1: Antibody against PSD-95 from the Trimmer Lab. Information about ... represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health....
  18. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    ...acceptor proteins is not optimal, FRET may not occur or be detected even if the two proteins form a complex...Circular permutation and receptor insertion within green fluorescent proteins." Proceedings of the National...Imagine being able to determine whether two proteins are within 10 nanometers of each other, or measure...with fluorescent molecules, including fluorescent proteins, has led to the alternative acronym Fluorescence...microscopy. Don't FRET - Use these FRET resources instead! As the choice of fluorophore pairs is a key consideration...overwhelming given the large assortment of fluorescent proteins available. Fortunately, several excellent reviews...Many empty vectors containing these fluorescent proteins are available on our FRET Resource page and can...
  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors

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    ... fluorescent HPLC (proteins or other molecules) Isolate or quantify cells, proteins or other molecules...created by Roger Tsien’s lab contain two fluorescent proteins (a FRET pair) separated by CaM and M13. When calcium...increases FRET transfer between the fluorescent proteins. FRET is highly amenable to biosensor creation... experimental setup? Consider what kind of instrumentation you have available, and the conditions of your... fluorescent proteins...
  20. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ...its unbound state contains a fluorophore and a quencher in close proximity. For instance, the fluorophore...flexibility is their broad range of targets, including proteins, peptides, amino acids, drugs, metal ions, and...One of the advantages of oligonucleotides over proteins is their modularity, which is lost as soon as ...paved the way to new biosensor possibilities. For instance, further selection of Spinach with a target metabolite...applications that lend themselves to aptamer-based instead of protein-based fluorophores, including: Environments...Environments with higher temperatures, since proteins can denature while aptamers are more stable and can...Nucleotides, in general, are far less immunogenic than proteins. Assays that require recognition of ions or ...
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