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  1. Measuring Kinase Activity at the Single-Cell Level with Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs)

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    July 26, 2018, 12:46 p.m.
    ...less phosphatase-accessible. Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs) Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs...fluorescent kinase reporters. A KTR is comprised of a fluorescently-tagged substrate for a kinase of interest...proxy for kinase activity.  Advantages of KTRs When compared to FRET reporters for measuring kinase activity...Kinases: they regulate many proteins, with ~1/3 of human proteins predicted to be phosphorylated on at...for regulating signal transduction and measuring kinase activity at the single-cell level can aid in drawing...phenotype. One method for monitoring live single-cell kinase activity is FRET, but FRET reporters are challenging...Covert Lab provides an alternative tool with their Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs) whose cellular localization...
  2. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    July 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
    ...inherited retinal degenerative disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa. I quickly became fascinated by this ...has limited tropism in the retina, primarily infecting cells of the retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE)...field of gene therapy, more specifically AAV-based retinal gene therapy. The year was 2001 and I started a...grinding stop and only now, 2 decades later, is it finally back in the limelight. On December 19, 2017 the...delivery, and they had been shown to to transduce the retina but only transiently. However new viral vectors...capable of providing long-term gene expression in retinal cells - AAV - were becoming available. At the same...AdV) and lentivirus (LV) are known to transduce retinal cells, AAV quickly became the vector of choice ...
  3. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    Aug. 13, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...measured. Contaminating bands lower the purity of your antibody prep. If you have multiple contaminating bands...available from several sources, fewer sources of recombinant antibodies (rAbs) exist (though Addgene has a... ready-to-use rAbs and rAb plasmids!). Since recombinant antibodies conveniently allow for unlimited production...experiments. It is possible to produce your own recombinant antibodies with some molecular biology and cell... over the basics of making rAbs. Production Recombinant antibody production can take place in bacterial...produce.  The most common yeast strain used for recombinant antibody production is Komagataella phaffii (...Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. (L'Abbé et al., 2018).  Recombinant antibodies can be produced through a single or...
  4. Addgene Begins Distribution of Recombinant Antibodies

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    March 28, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
    ...plasmid-based and recombinant. Learn more about recombinant antibodies here. Finally, Addgene is a nonprofit...can participate: If you make recombinant antibodies or other recombinant affinity reagents, share your...the launch of our latest community resource: Recombinant Antibodies! In addition to plasmids and viral...building our antibody resource, which includes recombinant antibodies, educational materials, protocols,... 2016). It’s also been well established that recombinant antibodies are excellent for reproducibility ...and tool users. We encourage you to share your recombinant antibodies via Addgene to maximize the reach ...Additionally, many of the hybridomas from which the recombinant antibodies are derived were tested for specificity...
  5. Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Innovations

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    March 7, 2019, 2:39 p.m.
    ... the second in a series of posts on bringing sustainable practices in the lab. The first post focused ...learn about some creative approaches to lab sustainability, and find ways to further reduce our consumption...consumption beyond recycling.     Choosing more sustainable products Recycling is great for rerouting waste... reused. This might sound risky in terms of contamination, but consider flow cytometers. These fluidic... grant agencies), we can shift toward a more sustainable one. The math on this is pretty simple: wash ...
  6. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    July 25, 2017, 1:20 p.m.
    ...Protein kinases deliver messages to the next members of their pathways, but where the kinases are located...subset of kinases. The Problem:  There is no common method for creating optically controlled kinases. The ...design for creating photoswitchable kinases and use MEK1 as a model kinase. In this system, light is used ...photoswitchable kinases: psMEK2, psRaf1, and psCDK5. MEK2 is a serine/threonine kinase with a similar ...photoswitchable kinases good for? There are a number of potential applications for photoswitchable kinases.  Below...Zhou et al. 1. Testing kinase inhibitors Zhou et al examined the ability of kinase inhibitors to alter Raf1... by intermediate messengers. Optical control of kinase activity can provide greater spatiotemporal resolution...
  7. Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Recycling

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    Feb. 14, 2019, 2:35 p.m.
    ...more lab sustainability tips, check out our other articles in this series: Bringing Sustainable Practices...Encourage your workplace to become a leader in sustainability. Sign up for blog posts and updates from ...individuals, companies, and universities to be sustainability leaders. Take initiative to bring ideas to ... A lot of places have small or non-existent sustainability offices, so it’s up to all of us to work on...Practices to the Lab: Innovations Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Easy Action Items References...
  8. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    March 31, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...high-efficiency terminators such as T0. Rho-independent termination is also known as intrinsic termination, and ...with plasmids! What are termination and polyadenylation? The role of the terminator, a sequence-based element... promoter strength as a determinant of gene expression levels, the terminator also plays an important ...degradation in prokaryotes.  Prokaryotic termination   Prokaryotic termination mechanisms fall under two general... RNA polymerase in the termination of the transcript. Rho-dependent terminators are not usually employed...plasmids use Rho-independent terminators, which include naturally occurring terminators, such as T7 and rrnB,...engineered terminators come close (>95%). For most purposes, however, any common terminator will suffice...
  9. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    Nov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...have very different disease phenotypes, are two fascinating examples of epigenetics in the form of imprinting...lead to excessive eating and obesity. What is fascinating is that both syndromes can present without any... of chromosome 15. They both result from the inactivation of genes on one copy of chromosome 15 (the maternal... genes from both copies of chromosome 15 are inactivated, but different phenotypes result depending upon...suppressor genes can repress their transcription and inactivate them. Global hypomethylation, on the other hand...are known to be involved in repression and X-inactivation. The K9 reporter uses the HP1 chromodomain to...improving patients lives. References 1. Ong-Abdullah, Meilina, et al. "Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies...
  10. Building and Validating Recombinant Antibodies: A Case Study

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    April 5, 2022, 1:20 p.m.
    ...recently announced the launch of an open-access recombinant antibody resource called NABOR (Neuroscience ...The antibodies distributed through NABOR are recombinant antibodies expressed from plasmids that have ...RNA could then be used to generate functional recombinant monoclonal antibody (R-mAb) expression plasmids...preserve and share their own collections. Why Recombinant Antibodies?  One of the benefits of using a plasmid...including subclasses that were not produced by the original hybridoma. By using subclass specific secondary...Multiplex immunolabeling with subclass-switched recombinant antibodies in adult rat brain. Figure from Andrews...publicly available. The lab has also expanded their recombinant affinity reagent tools to include nanobodies....
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