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  1. CRISPR Plasmids - Prime Edit

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    ...(M-MLV) reverse transcriptase. Engineering of the PE enzyme and related components have helped to improve...exploring new sources for the reverse transcriptase. Many PE enzymes and related tools are available: PE2 - introduction...degradation For more in-depth information on these PE tools, check out our prime editing blog post . Need...Mammalian hU6 epegRNA BsaI No mRFP1 David Liu 176901 U6-pe RNA-H1-nick sgRNA-mCherry Mammalian,...
  2. AAV Production in HEK293 Cells

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    ...other than PES. AAV particles stick to many other surfaces, but do not stick to PES. Using a PES filter will...polyethersulfone (PES) filter system, Nalgene, 565-0010 (or for larger volumes 1000 mL 0.45 µm Rapid-Flow PES Filtration...supernatant as follows: Filter through a 0.45 μm PES membrane. Add 40% PEG such that the final PEG concentration...sodium bicarbonate, Corning 25-035-CI (optional) 1 M HEPES, HyClone SH30237.01 (optional) L-alanyl-L-glutamine..., 7.5 mL of 7.5% Sodium Bicarbonate, 7.5 mL 1 M HEPES to 750 mL DMEM + 1 g/L glucose. 1 mg/mL polyethylenimine...Often AAV2 are harvested at 48–72 h, while other serotypes are harvested at 96–120 h. Optional: perform a...
  3. Transfection for Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...filter, VWR 431229 0.22 µm PES filtering system, 1000 mL, VWR 431098 0.45 µm PES filtering system, 500 mL...2 mg/mL) Mix well and sterilize through a 0.2 µm PES syringe filter. Aliquot and freeze upright at -20... cells. Filter the supernatant through a 0.45 µm PES filter. Add 1X protease inhibitor cocktail to the...
  4. Affinity Purification of Recombinant Antibodies with Protein A or Protein G

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    ...Microcentrifuge tubes, VWR 89126-724 Filtering system 0.2 µm PES, VWR 431098 Sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate...T2819-1L 250 mL sterile bottle, VWR 430281 0.45 µm PES complete filtration unit, 500 mL, rapid-flow, VWR...aprotinin Mix well and sterilize through a 0.2 µm PES filter. Aliquot and freeze upright at -20 °C Procedure...
  5. Antibodies 101: Isotypes

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    ...Why do they matter? And how do antibodies switch isotypes? What is an isotype? An isotype is a class of ...Antibodies for a refresher). There are five antibody isotypes that each have a unique heavy-chain constant region...region, and variable region.   Why are antibody isotypes important? To your immune system, an antibody’... help destroy and remove a pathogen. Different isotypes also appear at different stages of an immune response...constant regions of antibodies, although not all isotypes have the same ability to activate each of these...recognize the Fc portion of different antibody isotypes. Binding to complement system proteins, which ...immunocytochemistry, ELISAs, and Western blotting.  The five isotypes of antibodies Differences in their heavy chain...
  6. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    ...and can transduce (infect) a wide range of cell types with a high efficiency. However, gamma-retrovirus...cells, making it conducive to targeting all cell types. Altogether, AAV has many excellent features for...as in mouse experiments. AAV also has multiple serotypes (12 naturally occurring and more synthetic capsids...from, which can target the virus to specific cell types of interest. This is a particularly nice feature...been identified in humans to date. Over fifty serotypes of human-infecting adenovirus have been identified...efficiently with adenovirus and AAV.   Table 1: Types of viruses and their features Choosing a virus...
  7. Lentivirus Production

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    ... acid Sodium hydroxide 0.22 μm polyethersulfone (PES) filter Transfection grade DNAs Reagent Preparation...harvesting. Filter supernatant through a 0.45 μm PES filter. The viral supernatant can be stored at 4 ...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Serotypes and Tissue Tropism

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    ...opposite: AAV serotypes with varying tissue tropism, allowing them to target particular cell types. ...from one another. Common serotypes We’ll cover the most commonly used serotypes in this post. However, ...vector’s genetic material, and variations between serotypes can change how the viral particle sneaks its way... way into cells. Generally, AAV serotypes have a primary cellular receptor and sometimes one or multiple...coreceptors, which may be present on different cell types and sometimes vary between target species or even...how you count, there are up to thirteen natural serotypes of AAV identified so far, numbered AAV1, AAV2,...addition, researchers have created many engineered serotypes by mixing, matching, and modifying capsid and ...
  9. Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry

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    ...signal is spilling over into the primary detector for PE. In order to correct for this, compensation has to... 1: The emission spectra and filters for FITC and PE on a conventional flow cytometer.   Spectral...similarity index. In figure 3, we can see that PerCP and PE/Cy5 have a similarity index of 0.87; therefore, two...difficulty when trying to resolve those populations. PE/Cy7 and BB515, on the other hand, have a similarity...especially sensitive to batch effect. For example, when a PE molecule is conjugated with a Cy7 molecule, there...difficulty in unmixing if your sample is stained with a PE/Cy7 antibody from a batch that is not the same as..., the identification and isolation of rare cell types. In recent years, full spectrum flow cytometry (...
  10. Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel

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    ...Figure 1. For example, the chart tells us that PE and PE-Cy7 are "very bright" when they are excited by... Blue (488 nm) BD Horizon™ BB515BD Horizon™ PE-CF594Pe-CyBD™5 PEPE-Cy7 FITC Alexa Fluor 488PerCP-CY5.5... PerCP Yellow/Green (561 nm) PEBD Horizon™ PE-CF594PE-Cy5PE-Cy7       Red (640 nm) ...488 nm (Table 1), which is near a local maximum of PE's excitation spectrum (dotted line, Figure 2). The... 561 nm, which is close to the global maximum of PE's excitation spectrum where the excitation efficiency... Figure 2: Excitation and emission spectra for PE. The excitation spectrum shows two maxima, one local...
  11. Antibodies 101: Flow Compensation

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    ...compensation between APC and APC-Cy7; PE and PE-Cy7; APC-Cy7 and PE-Cy7; or BV421 and BV51. It is a good...flow cytometer reads out the fluorophores FITC and PE on the same laser, you will need to compensate between...
  12. Viral Production

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    ...by filtration through a 0.45 µm polyethersulfone (PES) membrane. The preparations are then aliquoted, frozen...
  13. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...editing in dicots By Emily P. Bentley Prime editing (PE), initially developed in human cells, has been uniquely...dicots. But Jae-Yean Kim’s lab recently "broke the PE efficiency barrier in tomatoes" by combining several...Their optimized strategy uses new combinations of PE protein components (Figure 1), an altered epegRNA...platform to assay dozens of GPCRs across many cell types in varying conditions, revealing context-dependent...
  14. Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux

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    ...GFP-LC3 is conjugated to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and recruited to autophagasomal membranes, which... The RFP-LC3∆G, however, can not be conjugated to PE due to a C-terminal glycine deletion, so it remains...
  15. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    ... and orange photons while PE emits yellow and orange photons. If FITC and PE were being used together ...fixation-sensitive fluorochromes such as phycoerythrin (PE) and allophycocyanin. If assaying a secreted protein...contribution of yellow and orange from FITC and that from PE. During compensation the signal arising from a specific...help you overcome these challenges and make these types of experiments easier and faster to perform. Introduction...thus preserving the protein structure and keeping epitopes intact. It does not, however, permeabilize cells...the cell membrane. In some cases, this can mask epitopes such that immune complexes will no longer recognize... differences in size and complexity, these cell types will separate into distinct populations on a FSC...
  16. CRISPR References and Information

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    ... a webtool that provides models for prime editor (PE) pegRNA design. PMID 37119812 (Link opens in a new...Brachypodium distachyon, Oryza sativa, Oryzias latipes CasFinder: Flexible algorithm for identifying specific...
  17. Antibodies 101: Buffers, Storage, and Conjugates

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    .... You don’t want a super-bright fluorophore, like PE, on an abundant target, as you risk getting so much...much signal that you’ll flood out other signals. But PE can be very helpful if you're trying to find a relatively...
  18. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    ...specific applications! Delivering prime editors (PEs) via engineered virus-like particles (eVLPs) offers...than other viral delivery methods, allowing all the PE components to be delivered in a single package. In...genetic disease phenotype in an animal model. Find PE-eVLP plasmids here! The lab’s other recent deposit...nervous system is composed of myriad cell types and subtypes, and a familiar challenge for anyone who ....2021.03.025.    Recombinant antibodies for marking cell types in the nervous system By Ashley Waldron The mammalian...as well as antibodies for identifying other cell types in the nervous system!  Find recombinant anti-GFAP...
  19. General Transfection

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    ... acid Sodium hydroxide 0.22 μm polyethersulfone (PES) filter Syringes for filtering Reagent Preparation...
  20. CRISPR Guide

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    ...RNA-binding protein to stabilize pegRNAs Twin PE - two PEs make complementary edits to opposite strands...stability PEmax - optimized PE architecture; increased synergy between PE enzymes and epegRNAs for enhanced... Overview of prime editing Popular prime editing (PE) tools include: PE2 - improved RT enzyme efficiency...employed to knock out target genes in various cell types and organisms, but modifications to various Cas ...are rare cases where Acr can work with multiple types, such as AcrVA3.1, which inhibits both Cas12a and...about 8 bp, specified by a gRNA. There are two main types of base edits: Base transitions - edit to same classification...then carries out integration of donor DNA. Both types of CASTs have been found to achieve donor DNA integration...
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