...outgrowth volumes described in Figure 3, with calculated yields from entire outgrowth built from 2 µl of the ...Golden Gate Assembly is commonly used to assemble 2–10 DNA fragments in a single “one-pot” reaction to...the transformants onto the selection plate. Figure 2 shows representative transformation plates obtained...fidelity studies conducted by Potapov et al. at NEB (1, 2). While T4 DNA Ligase, the mainstay of most biotechnological... (percent correct) Calculated colony totals Per 2 μl assembly reaction Per full assembly reaction** ...fidelity and bias profiling." bioRxiv (2018): 322297. 2. Potapov, Vladimir, et al. "A single-molecule sequencing... push the test system, we redesigned for 12 and 24 fragments.  This redesign was guided by both advances...

... first panel! Designing a Panel In this example, I will describe a basic panel (Table 2, Figure 5) for.... To understand why that is, let's look at Figure 2. The blue laser excites at a wavelength of 488 nm ... of PE's excitation spectrum (dotted line, Figure 2). The yellow/green laser, however, excites at 561 ... stronger — or brighter — signal.   Figure 2: Excitation and emission spectra for PE. The excitation...efficiency (eGFP expression).     The first item in Table 2 is a standard and should always be included—the live...from the other fluorophores to avoid bleeding and 2) BV421 is a very bright fluorophore, which makes it...case the CD45 expression turns out to be weak. Table 2: A simple flow panel to detect live, transduced, and...

...dynamic range that typically spans 2–5 orders of magnitude, which includes a wide dynamic range for fluorescent.... The most common options are 4 °C overnight or 1–2 hours at room temperature (RT). Most people choose...overnight at 4 °C and their secondary antibody for 1–2 hrs at room temperature, which allows them to reduce...Tris-glycine 6–400 kDa Tris-glycine 100 V, 1–2 hours Easy and cheap to handcast Short shelf-life...–40 kDa Tris-tricine 30 V, 1 hour or 100 V, 1–2 hours Good separation, quality, and stability ...separation of proteins of different sizes.  Table 2: Recommended gel percentages for various protein sizes...are consistent and stable at room temperature for 1–2 years and are available in formulas specific to your...

... greater toxicity than guides that had zero mismatch off-targets. Guides with 2-bp mismatch off-targets... dsDNA breaks. Figure 2: Non-targeting vs. safe-targeting guides. The genome-wide CRISPR screen...protein-coding genes present in the genome; 2) non-targeting guides (red), which target no sequence in the genome...tolerated than mismatches more distal to the PAM, and 2) guides with high GC content have greater off-target activity...PMID: 28474669. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC5424143. 2. Tsai, Shengdar Q., et al. "GUIDE-seq enables genome-wide...safe-targeting guides vs. non-targeting guides on screen analysis and hit calling. 5,644 non-targeting guides and...safe-targeting guides were included in the library. Safe-targeting guides were designed to target genomic...

... Moosa M-YS, Lessells RJ, de Oliveira T, Sigal A (2021) Escape of SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 from neutralization...months, we’ve seen the emergence of several SARS-CoV-2 variants coincide with increased vaccination efforts...They were able to tweak this assay to study SARS-CoV-2 spike variants. “We created a series of spike expressing...relative ability to neutralize.”   Figure 2: Sera used in the study came from individuals who ...This sera was used in the high-throughput SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus neutralization assay. Neutralization was...viruses are quite genetically distinct from SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. Yet, the B.1.351 variant, which ...effectiveness of current vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 variants, this study was the first to compare so many...

...the cells will still appear green despite having active Cas9 (see tip 2). Pro-Tips 1. To quantify Cas9 activity...I got clear bands using the conditions above. 2. Design your primers so that the digestion site isn’t ...transductions and use a range of reasonable MOIs. 2. Create a monoclonal Cas9-expression cell line. Especially...doing a screen. I made a few monoclonal lines (Figure 2) and I was surprised at how variable Cas9-expression...across the different cells (Figure 3).   Figure 2: Cas9 expression in monoclonal cell lines generated... expression Overview: By Western blotting (Figure 2, pool), I knew the cells expressed Cas9, but I didn...Western blotting against GFP expression, but I didn’t. 2. In the original publication they see GFP expression...

...//doi.org/10.1002/1096-8628(200022)97:2<147::aid-ajmg6>3.0.co;2-o Baker SA, Chen L, Wilkins AD, Yu P, ...Caused by a mutation in the methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene, Rett Syndrome is a rare, progressive...in transcriptional repression, activity dependent de-repression, chromatin remodeling, gene activation...X-linked MECP2, encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2. Nat Genet 23:185–188 . https://doi.org/10.1038/13810... (2000) Rett syndrome: Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 mutations and phenotype-genotype correlations. Am ...Tillotson R, Selfridge J, Koerner MV, Gadalla KKE, Guy J, De Sousa D, Hector RD, Cobb SR, Bird A (2017) Radically...that MECP2 binds to methylated CpG dinucleotides and CAC trinucleotides during neuronal maturation (Tillotson...

...postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL) and one of the coordinators...mammal called alpaca could neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But while the early results were promising,...receiving dozens of requests every day.    Figure 2: When a researcher needs a collaborator for a specific...Crowdfight will: 1) Find an expert with the right skill; 2) Confirm the expert’s suitability and availability... illustrates the power of collaboration, which despite the competitiveness of cutting-edge research, is...physics. Even non-scientists, such as lawyers, designers and other professionals, joined the platform; ...

...thanks to our guest blogger, Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Harshana S De Silva Feelixge is a researcher whose... post was contributed by guest blogger Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Gene therapy technologies hold ...AAVs in the clinic Thus far, AAV vectors AAV1, AAV-2, AAV1-AAV2 hybrids, AAV-6, AAV-7, AAV-8, AAV-9 and...neutralizing antibodies against some AAV types, AAV1, 2, 3 and 5 are thought to be as high as 70% among the... 10.24 (2003): 1999-2004. PubMed PMID: 14566358.  2. Hirsch, M. L., et al. "Self-complementary AAV mediates...form, translating gene therapies from conceptual design to clinical trials involve identifying a therapeutic...

...SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudotyping, visit the SARS-CoV-2 Pseudotyped Virus collection page. SARS-CoV-2 detection...of SARS-CoV-2 entry and become upregulated during viral infection.  Expression of SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins...McLellan JS (2020) Structure-based design of prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spikes. Science 369:1501–1505....labs in over 75 countries. Figure 1: SARS-CoV-2 proteins and other components. Image from Maya Kostman... protein, variants, and pseudotyping The SARS-CoV-2 virus depends on its spike protein to bind ACE2, the...of infection and how to interfere with it in a BSL-2 lab instead of a BSL-3 lab. Jesse Bloom’s lab published...reagents for pseudotyping lentivirus with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. They deposited the plasmids used for...

...goals when designing and testing your AAV.  Figure 2: Comparison of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8,...) your experimental conditions and measurements; (2) the cells you’re targeting; (3) how much expression...as your titer changes, so may your needed volume (de Backer et al., 2010).  Second, high efficiency transduction... Tropism and Axonal Transport of AAV Serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 in the Mouse Brain. PLOS ONE, 8(9),...–10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0106472 de Backer, M. W. A., Brans, M. A. D., Luijendijk, M.... Comparison of four promoters. Gene Therapy, 28(1–2), 56–74. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41434-020-0169-1...analyses of adeno-associated viral vector serotypes 1, 2, 5, 8 and 9 in marmoset, mouse and macaque cerebral...

...nucleases. Genome Res. 2010 Jan;20(1):81-89. PubMed. 2. Bauer DE, Kamran SC, Lessard S, Xu J, Fujiwara Y, Lin ...with TALENs, in collaboration with the Porteus lab [2]. With the advent of CRISPR/Cas9, we began to explore...11;342(6155):253-257. PubMed. 3. Canver MC, Bauer DE, Dass A, Yien YY, Chung J, Masuda T, et al. Characterization...and Bauer lab's related paper describes their methods for CRISPR design, cloning, and delivery, as well...

...on opposite sides of the world shows that science is truly a global endeavor. Case study 2: Plasmids Another...repository provides. Repositories around the world facilitate the rapid pace of SARS-CoV-2 research by...fast access to the tools required to study SARS-CoV-2, but with many academic research labs closed during...biobanks, are crucial for the advancement of SARS-CoV-2 research because they provide rapid access to validated...Many of the reagents used to investigate SARS-CoV-2 were developed for broad use and are now important...susceptibility of cells from different organisms to SARS-CoV-2 (Chu et al., 2020). An additional cell line used in...applications but have proven useful to the study of SARS-CoV-2 are the lentiviral production and packaging vectors...

...suggestions, like alternative word suggestions. De-jargonizer The De-jargonizer can identify jargon in your writing...episode 2 "Organizing Literature" : I found out about Zotero here Dear Grad Student podcast episode 2 "Essential...This paper talks more about the development of the De-jargonizer.   Academic Phrasebank  The Academic Phrasebank... of the suggestions Hemmngway makes (it wasn’t designed for technical writing), it’s great at flagging... Just enter the DOI of a paper and select your desired formatting style. This tool is great for generating...library in Microsoft Word. Mendeley has a web and desktop version that works with Windows, Mac, and Linux...easier to work with collaborators. Zotero is a desktop based program that’s compatible with Mac, Windows...

...upstream of an opsin gene (e.g., channelrhodopsin-2, ChR2) fused to a reporter gene (e.g., mCherry) to...the correct orientation to be transcribed (Figure 2) (Sharma and Zhu, 2014). How does FLEx enable strong... rather than aversive stimuli. In a recent paper, de Jong and colleagues used rAAV FLEx-based vectors ...brain regions associated with motivated behaviors (de Jong et al., 2019). FLEx vectors represent, therefore...developmental biology at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Her love for educational science led her to... Abdallah, Khaled, et al. "Adeno-associated virus 2/9 delivery of Cre recombinase in mouse primary afferents...Deniz, et al. "A FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range ...

....9 (parental) 46 +/- 0.7% AAV.PHP.S 82 +/- 2% Table 2: Transduction efficiency of AAV.9 versus AAV.PHP.S...figure 2) to allow for efficient IV delivery of virus to the CNS or PNS (figure32, tables 1 & 2). These...variants for widespread gene transfer to the adult brain. Nature biotechnology. 2016;34(2):204-209. PubMed...because: 1) their genomes are easy to manipulate, 2) they have long-term expression; and 3) they have ... On average, AAV.PHP.eB and AAV.PHP.S had 1.5- to 2-fold higher GFP intensity compared to the strains ...stained for a neuronal marker). Check out tables 1 and 2 below for a summary of the quantified transduction...cells are labeled with their own unique color; and 2) low levels of labeling so that a cell’s projections...

...the image can be acquired more quickly. 2-Photon Microscopy 2-Photon Microscopy attempts to solve two ...Fluorescence microscopy. Nature methods 2, 910-919 (2005). PubMed PMID: 16299476. 2. Conchello JA, Lichtman JW. Optical...enhance spatial contrast (i.e. optical sectioning (2) or super-resolution (3). Fluorescence microscopy...photobleaching and a reduction in signal intensity. 2-Photon microscopes restrict excitation (and bleaching...can be seen exiting through the tissue. Therefore, 2-photon allows for deeper imaging into thick tissues...imaging objective that collects fluorescence. Like 2-photon microscopy, only a single focal plane of the...relying on raster scanning as is done in confocal or 2-photon microscopes. Total Internal Reflection Microscopy...

...repository of tools for SAR-CoV-2 research. Two new antibodies, Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein [mBG17...Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein [mBG86], target distinct epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 nucelocapsid ...Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies here! Terry, J.S., et al. (2021). Development of a SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid ...prime editor PE7 Antibodies to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 research New viral vector preps of Voltron2 voltage... incorporates La’s N-terminal domain, PE7 (Figure 2).  PE7 shows enhanced editing efficiencies in a number...editor. Find PE7 plasmids here!     Figure 2: PE7 improves prime editing. A) Schematic of PE7 prime...PMID: 38570691. Antibodies to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 research   By Ashley Waldron Ready-to-use recombinant...

...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...target of most anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. In the library, each plasmid encodes the mutated spike protein...protein and a barcode, and is designed so that the SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD is displayed on the yeast cell’s 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...

... State University. Since its appearance, SARS-CoV-2 has spread to almost every part of the world manifesting...Rapid detection of 2019 novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 using a CRISPR based DETECTR assay Sensitivity:10-...primers that target the E and the N2 gene of SARS-CoV-2. If the Cas12a-sgRNA complex binds to the target sequences... method has been optimized to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus directly using saliva without having to perform...and visual detection of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Sensitivity: 4.6-11 copies/microliter of RNA targets...single-molecule sensitive. In the case of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 detection, AIOD-CRISPR without preamplification was...easy-to-deploy, protocol for Cas13-based detection of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material (CREST) Sensitivity: 10 copies of...

... discovery, 2, 952326. https://doi.org/10.3389/fddsv.2022.952326Joubert, M. K., Deshpande, M., Yang, J...various components of the immune system. Figure 2: In-vitro models for immunogenicity prediction of ...drug reaction. This system would somewhat act like a 2-step verification. All approaches have their own limitations...Terry, F. E., Roberts, B. J., Rosenberg, A. S., & De Groot, A. S. (2022). In silico Immunogenicity Assessment...in vivo animal models. In these cases, they are designed to mimic the human lymphatic system or even the...

...either SARS-CoV-2, Adenovirus type 41 (AdV-41), or Adenovirus-Associated Virus type 2 (AAV2) – or some...either 1) a physiological effect of SARS-CoV-2 toward destabilizing one’s natural immune response to Adenovirus...Adenovirus (and/or to its partner, AAV) or 2) a sociological effect of the COVID-19 lockdowns causing a lack...adenoviral vector infected cells does not require de novo viral gene expression: Implications for gene...… Chiu, C. Y. (2023). Adeno-associated virus type 2 in US children with acute severe hepatitis. Nature...viruses infecting humans (from seven species, designated as letters A–G) exist. The life cycle of AdVs...short-lived. It is worth noting that it is possible to design a vector that achieves persistent transgene expression...

...identification.   Fig. 2: Gel image of Plasmid 61564: pBAMD1-2 (~4.7 kb) digested with SpeI and... at ~3.6 kb and ~1.1 kb (lane 3). Uncut DNA (lane 2) has a band at <3 kb, which corresponds to the supercoiled...formation of plasmid multimers. Cell. 1976 Dec;9(4 PT 2):707-16. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(76)90134-3. PMID: ...Strausbaugh LD, Gray P, Vartak NB, Brown M, Talbot D, Berg DE. pBR322-derived multicopy plasmids harboring large...dimers in Escherichia coli K-12. Plasmid. 1989 Mar;21(2):138-41. doi: 10.1016/0147-619x(89)90057-7. PMID: ...Plasmids and Chromosomes. Microbiol Spectr. 2014 Oct;2(5). doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.PLAS-0025-2014. PMID...Behavior of Plasmid DNA. Microbiol Spectr. 2015 Apr;3(2):10.1128/microbiolspec.PLAS-0036-2014. doi: 10.1128...

...published an article on BioRxiv describing a comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 virus-human interaction network ...comprises all SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins except for Nsp3 and Nsp16, and includes an additional catalytically...all became acutely aware of the threat of SARS-CoV-2. Like many in the science community, we’ve been motivated...network in which we expressed 26 of the 29 SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins in human cells and used these viral “bait...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...

... non-physiological, and difficult to ignore [1, 2]. 2. Fusion to an obligate dimer or oligomer Several...Biol, 2003. 163(2): p. 257-69. PubMed PMID: 14581454. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2173526. 2. Zacharias, D....changes that the biosensor is designed to detect resulting in false positives [2, 4]. Solutions to the polymer...an A206K mutation [2]. Addgene has many of these constructs and they are designated mEGFP, mVenus, etc...analytical ultracentrifugation [2]. Some affinity assays used in the papers describing the FPs above including... nature are prone to dimerization (i.e. EGFP) [1, 2] or even form obligate tetramers (i.e. DsRed) [3]....form dimers in a cell. The Kd of EGFP is 0.11 mM [2]. Following the simple logic outlined above, you might...

...-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain. BioRxiv.  https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.16.045419.  Wrapp D, De Vlieger...select for optimal sybody candidates. Figure 2: Outline of the process for selection of sybodies ...identify and isolate sybodies targeting the SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Binding Domain found on the membrane-bound...Generation Toolbox kit. Find the Seeger lab's SARS-CoV-2 sybodies! References Geertsma ER (2013) FX Cloning...Zimmermann et al., 2020). This selection platform was designed so that any standard lab can quickly select for...strongly to your target protein. The Seeger lab designed 3 different mRNA sybody libraries for use in the... randomized with a defined set of different trinucleotides (corresponding to different amino acids) in...

...References Akhtar, W., De Jong, J., Pindyurin, A. V., Pagie, L., Meuleman, W., De Ridder, J., Berns, A....some of the best designs (e.g., top 5) and test them in their labs. Figure 2: Guidelines to predict... flanking sequences to their input string (Figure 2). This string can then be used as input for the prediction...Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02268-2 Schep, R., Brinkman, E. K., Leemans, C., Vergara, ...this means we could design hundreds to thousands of different pegRNAs for each desired edit, it simply becomes...via GitHub (which includes prediction in batch mode). To predict the best pegRNA design for a specific edit...or offline via GitHub. The model provides users with different designs of pegRNAs, ranked by their PRIDICT...

...Currently available from the Kim lab are 2 presynaptic and 2 postsynaptic targeting mGRASP plasmids. Additionally...bacterial mutagenesis or gene targeting Victor de Lorenzo's lab has engineered a modular mini-Tn5 vector... cells were pulsed with 2µg/ml of Doxycycline for 2 hours, and imaged on the Keyence BZ-9000 fluorescence...work! Robinson et al., Dev Cell 2010 Feb 16;18(2):324-31. Cheeseman et al., J Cell Sci 2013 May 1...promotes the formation of an isopeptide bond between 2 peptide tags, SpyTag and KTag. The group demonstrated...on channelrhodopsins – Chronos & Chrimson Through de novo sequencing of 127 algal transcriptomes, as well... of three sets of cloning vectors (Level 0, 1, or 2) which can be utilized in three successive assembly...

...status of MEK1/2 was tracked at 5 minute intervals via Western blot. Phosphorylation of MEK1/2 peaks at just... phosphorylated MEK1/2 levels, suggesting PP1/PP2A is responsible for this MEK1/2 negative feedback. ...PubMed PMID: 28232577. Figures 2-4 were modified from this reference. 2. Regot, Sergi, Jacob J. Hughey...precisely control the timing of kinase activity. 2. Studying negative feedback loops of signaling pathways... studied the negative feedback on endogenous MEK1/2 phosphorylation by creating a short pulse of psRaf1...activity. They did this by exposing psRaf1 to a short 2 minute pulse of 500 nm light (turn on psRaf1) followed...Solution: In Zhou et al, the Lin lab present a generic design for creating photoswitchable kinases and use MEK1...

...then packaged into AAV’s protein shell, or capsid; 2) the pHelper plasmid which expresses adenovirus genes...takes ~3 hours to complete: 1 hours hands-on time and 2 hours for the qPCR run and data analysis. Refer to... Special thanks for Dr. Dan Stone and Harshana de Silva Feelixge at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center for...quantification of adeno-associated virus serotype 2-derived inverted terminal repeat sequences. Human ...therapy methods, 23 1, 18-28. PubMed PMID: 22428977. 2. Choi, V.W., Asokan, A., Haberman, R.A., & Samulski...plasmids to produce AAV: 1) the RepCap plasmid which provides the AAV replication (rep) and capsid (cap) genes...replication; and 3) the transfer plasmid which encodes a transgene of interest that’s packaged into the...