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  1. Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion

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    Aug. 4, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...process worked well with the common GFP variants EGFP, mGFP4-T, and S65T GFP, and no red color was observed...exciting GFP-labeled plant cells at 405 nm instead of 488 nm, Sattarzadeh et al. noticed that GFP had turned...cytosol-targeted GFP. White circles represent the irradiated area. Photoconverted GFP spreads through ...Applications and limitations of GFP photoconversion One concern with photoconverting GFP is the expression level...intensity increases with GFP concentration and saturates around 30 uM. For low-abundance GFP fusions, a photoconversion...repurpose GFP is great news for microscopy enthusiasts! Addgene has empty backbones containing GFP variants...Since the first research applications of GFP were published in the 1990s, biologists have spent a lot...
  2. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    May 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
    ...Bioluminescence and fluorescence from proteins such as Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) has likely existed...scientists to begin to study GFP and deduce its biochemical properties. Now GFP and its fluorescent derivatives...common applications in the lab. Why Green Fluorescent Protein? GFP is a ~27 kDa protein consisting of ...Fluorescent Protein Mutations Relative to Wildtype GFP EGFP F64L; S65T EYFP S65G; V68L; S72A; T203Y mYFP...Find FRET plasmids here. Split EGFP: An alternative to FRET, split EGFP has also been used to study protein-protein...halves of EGFP undergo folding, maturation, and fluorescence. Biosensors: A wide array of GFP-based fluorescent...expressing GFP from cells that are not. Developmental/transgenic uses: Because of its stability, GFP can be...
  3. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    Nov. 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...GBPs/GFP. The new system, CRE-DOG (Cre Dependent On GFP), is activated by GFP and derivatives GFP and ...to bind GFP. The idea of using GFP as a scaffold suddenly seemed very realistic. Envisioning GFP as a substrate...presence of GFP. These systems, known as T-DDOG and Cre-DOG, respectively, repurpose popular GFP reporter...lines expressing GFP in specific cell types to do more than just label cells. If GFP could be co-opted...tested pairs of their GFP-binding proteins (GBPs) to find those that could co-occupy GFP. Once they’d found...culture system. In cells cotransfected with GFP and the GBPs, GFP linked the two GBPs together to create a...electroporated T-DDOGs, GFP, and a reporter construct into the mouse retina. GFP expression robustly activated...
  4. Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection

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    April 9, 2019, 1:13 p.m.
    ...  Protein size and shape matters The green fluorescent protein (GFP) from Aequorea victoria and its variants...the limitations is the size of GFP: ~240 amino acids or about 28 kDa. GFP and its homologues have a beta-barrel...interference is known as steric hindrance. For instance, GFP may occlude catalytic sites or obstruct binding sites...post-translational modifications. Despite these potential issues, GFP has been used successfully in countless fusion proteins... an inert light emitting module, any tendency of GFP to homodimerize should be avoided because it will...Keep the linker sequence short In the early days of GFP applications, many were concerned with steric hindrance...fluorescent proteins derived from Aequorea victoria GFP sticks out and can be considered a linker (figure...
  5. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    June 28, 2016, 10:59 a.m.
    ...homology dependent repair by enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) reconstitution. (a) Scheme of validation...halves of EGFP to recombine by homology directed repair, and resulting in the expression of EGFP. Using ...This post was contributed by guest blogger Samantha Young. The use of CRISPR/Cas9 for gene editing has expanded... this gene. Should you cut it at the beginning of the coding sequence to delete the entire gene? Perhaps...validation for DSB mediated EGFP expression cassette reconstitution. When the target sequence was digested...strand annealing) took place and reconstituted the EGFP expression cassette. (b) pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid...pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid contains overlapping 5′ and 3′ EGFP fragments under the ubiquitous CAG promoter. The...
  6. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    Feb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... the GFP-Puro will be inserted just upstream of a stop codon. One potential concern is if the GFP-Puro...Target Chromosomes). Using their PITCh plasmids, GFP knock-in cell lines can be created in about a month...detailed protocol for MMEJ-mediated knock-in of a GFP-Puro cassette into a given locus, just upstream of...microhomology to the insertion locus flanking the GFP-Puro cassette. Three double stranded breaks are necessary...necessary for knock-in: one on either side of the GFP-Puro cassette and one in between the 5’ and 3’ microhomologies...microhomologies (5’ and 3’) to anneal, knocking the GFP-Puro cassette into the locus (see figure below). ... overview of PITCh. The PITCh plasmid contains a GFP-Puro cassette flanked by 5' and 3' microhomology ...
  7. An Interview with Connie Cepko - Gene Therapy, Plasmid Tools and Insights to Success

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    Dec. 8, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...Methods for Delivering Multiple Genes to Cells for Gene Therapy 28:40-35:10 : GFP Activatable Tools Being Developed...about Professor Cepko's recent work on developing GFP-activated proteins, read our recent blog post. Check...Strategies to Make Gene Therapies More General (more than correcting a defect in a single gene) 26:00-28:39 ...C.Y., et al. “Cell type-specific manipulation with GFP-dependent Cre recombinase.” Nat. Neurosci. 18(9) ...on the Addgene Blog Read our Recent Blog Post on GFP Activable Plasmid Tools Being Developed in the Cepko...We recently sat down with Addgene Board Member, depositor, and Harvard Medical School researcher Connie...on the Eye 9:05-10:16 : Cell Targeting in Retinal Gene Therapies 10:17-14:34 : Progress in Treating Macular...
  8. Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells

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    April 6, 2017, 1:02 p.m.
    ... Figure 1: Gene editing is the addition of a useful coding sequence (i.e. GFP) into a gene while leaving...features of the gene intact. Here, we show an example gene targeted for tagging with GFP at the C terminus...allele, or gene copy. The coding sequence for GFP is transcribed and translated along with the gene, producing.../Cas9 to endogenously tag a wide variety of genes with GFP. These plasmids are available through Addgene..., we inserted a linker and GFP tag at the end of the last exon of the gene to ensure it would be transcribed... kb homology arms matching the gene of interest, a linker, and the GFP tag sequence to be inserted. Created...insertion of the GFP tag precisely where we need it, in this example, at the C-terminus of the gene of interest...
  9. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    Sept. 28, 2017, 2:01 p.m.
    ... comparison, capsids were packed with a GFP transgene and GFP intensity and transduction efficiency of...AAV.PHP.eB and AAV.PHP.S had 1.5- to 2-fold higher GFP intensity compared to the strains they were derived...also transduced a higher number of neurons overall (GFP+ cells that also stained for a neuronal marker). ...efficiency of AAV-PHP.B versus AAV-PHP.eB in the CNS. A GFP transgene was packaged into either an AAV-PHP.B or...mouse and the level of transduction, measured via GFP expression, was determined 3 weeks later. Table was...efficiency of AAV.9 versus AAV.PHP.S in the PNS. A GFP transgene was packaged into either an AAV.9 or an...
  10. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    May 2, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...modifying the gene of interest in any way. For example, if green fluorescent protein (GFP) was the reporter...exon of a gene, and thus they do not disrupt the gene expression of the gene they monitor. Gene traps Gene...expression of a nearby gene. The reporter gene serves as a proxy for the endogenous gene – its expression levels... infer that the gene which GFP was monitoring was being expressed in the same pattern. These systems suggest...predicted genes have unidentified roles as well (Vanni, et al). Is it true that this many genes are truly...measure the function of a gene. For example, they eliminate the expression of the gene (by CRISPR knockout,...biologically relevant situations. Tissue-specific genes – the genes of interest may not be expressed in the tissue...
  11. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    March 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ... by the virally-delivered GFP gRNA, will edit out the virally-delivered GFP gene. So, cells with no Cas9...from BRAF-edited and GFP-edited amplification products (BRAF-GFP duplex) and from GFP-edited amplification...the most efficient for gene editing. A virus encoding GFP plus a gRNA targeting GFP (pXPR_011, 59702-LV)...I thought I could see GFP expression with a fluorescence microscope, but the GFP expression was so low...expressed GFP) that I couldn’t get a good image. You could probably also do Western blotting against GFP expression...amplification products (GFP-GFP duplex) as a control. 4. After optimizing the reaction and confirming the presence...Surveyor nuclease cleavage product indicates a gene edit. GFP gRNA-transduced Cas9-A549 cells are used as...
  12. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    Sept. 4, 2018, 12:53 p.m.
    ... constitutive promoter upstream of GFP increased expression of GFP six-fold, but a stabilized promoter...of where the genes were expressed. What’s the use of stable gene expression? Constant gene expression can...Researchers express genes of interest from plasmids in order to study gene function or to engineer cells...input and gene expression is the output. The input, plasmid copy number, directly influences gene expression... varied in size or carried different genes. In these cases, gene expression also remained stable regardless...media and growth stage can both affect gene copy number. Moreover, gene copy number is affected differently...the levels of gene expression from stabilized promoters were equivalent whether the genes were expressed...
  13. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    Jan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Reporter Genes (ARGs)? Fluorescent and bioluminescent reporter genes are widely used to study gene expression...for visualizing gene expression in vivo.  But what ultrasound lacked was reporter genes that could produce...Lab - developed Acoustic Reporter Genes (ARGs), which are sets of genes that, when expressed, enable cells...vesicles gene clusters from a diverse set of gas vesicle-expressing species. The gas vesicle genes from Serratia...structural gene gvpA marked with EBFP2 and the second cassette contains the P2A-linked accessory genes gvpNJKFGWV...gvpNJKFGWV marked with Emerald GFP. These plasmids can be used directly in transient transfection in rtTA...gating for the top quartile (or higher) of BFP and GFP producing cells. After FACS, return the cells to ...
  14. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ...comparing gene activation when enhancers were active or silent, they could identify the target genes of previously...) Vlatka Zoldoš’ lab has deposited pdCas9-DNMT3A-EGFP and pdCas9-DNMT3A-PuroR for targeted cytosine methylation...methylation in mammalian cells. Co-expression markers EGFP and PuroR enable sorting and selection of transduced...Goodell's lab has deposited pcDNA3.1-dCas9-MQ1(Q147L)-EGFP, a fusion of dCas9 to a small DNA methyltransferase...epigenome-editing tools. pLV hUbC-dCas9-MQ1(Q147L)-EGFP is also available for lentiviral transduction. Lysine-specific...Originally published Feb 14, 2017 and updated Jun 24, 2020. Epigenetic modifications are an additional...additional layer of control over gene expression that go beyond genomic sequence. Dysregulation of the epigenome...
  15. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    Sept. 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...leader sequence. Using a variety of GFP and RFP fusions as their test genes, the researchers at the BIOFAB ...various combinations of protein tags (His, Avi, and GFP) as well as protease sites to facilitate protein ...terminators of varying strengths centered within GFP/RFP bicistronic reporters characterized in Cambray...et al 2015). He has also constructed a library of eGFP-tagged human ORF clones to allow testing and comparison...be conveniently performed through the N-terminal eGFP tag carried on all constructs. The Cell-Free Protein...restriction enzymes and standardized primers to clone your gene of interest into both sequencing (pInitial) and ...abundance (meaning they are unlikely to be found in your gene of interest) and prevent incorporation of extensive...
  16. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    Jan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m.
    ...pSpCas9(BB)). The 2A-GFP allows for screening of transfected cells. Find pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP (PX458). lentiCRISPR...pSpCas9n(BB)-2A-GFP (PX461) - Similar to pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX458), pSpCas9n(BB)-2A-GFP (PX461) expresses...requested plasmid of 2017. Find pMD2.G. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP (PX458) - This plasmid from the Zhang lab expresses...nick, rather than cleave DNA. Find pSpCas9n(BB)-2A-GFP (PX461). pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) - This mammalian...lab that expresses the HIV gag, pol, rev, and tet genes. It can be used with 2nd or 3rd generation lentiviral...packaging plasmid from the Trono lab contains the rev gene. It’s meant to be used with pMDLg/pRRE and the envelope...from the Trono lab that contains the gag and pol genes. It also requires pRSV-Rev and the envelope expressing...
  17. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    Oct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.
    ...Since the discovery of GFP over 50 years ago, the growing spectrum of fluorescent proteins (FPs) has ...repair pathway, a new user-defined DNA sequence (like GFP) can be inserted at the DSB. CRISPR has allowed scientists...library containing several types of fluorescent (EGFP, tagRFP, mCherry) and nonfluorescent (Halo, SNAP...toolkit offers C- and N-terminal tagging vectors (eg GFP, Flag, YFP, Strep, TEV-V5) with either blasticidin...protein fusions is to replace the genomic copy of your gene of interest with a fluorescent protein fusion. CRISPR... scientists to tag and light up endogenous genes of interest to better understand normal protein function... modified strains that contain your newly tagged gene. Most insertions can only be detected by labor-intensive...
  18. A New Optogenetic Tool Based on AraC Controls Gene Expression with Blue Light

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    June 17, 2021, 1:17 p.m.
    ...this plasmid with your gene of interest, you would replace mCherry with your gene of interest. pBLADEONLY...already have a pBAD33-based plasmid expressing your gene of interest, all you have to do is co-transform ...co-transform pBLADEONLY. That way, a previously cloned gene of interest, under the pBAD promoter, can be controlled...strain transformed with pBLADE expressing superfolder GFP instead of mCherry under the PBAD promoter. They ...
  19. Viral Production at Addgene

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    Oct. 24, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... later, Cre-dependent GFP expression was detected with direct fluorescence. GFP was not detected in the...viral genomes (vg)/cell, pAAV-CAG-FLEX-rc [Jaws-KGC-GFP-ER2] (Addgene 84445-AAVrg) alone at 1.1E6 vg/mL, ...prep # 55632-AAVrg). pAAV-CAG- FLEX-rc [Jaws-KGC-GFP-ER2] was a gift from Edward Boyden (Addgene viral... plasmid encoding rep and serotype-specific cap genes, and a plasmid encoding adenoviral helper sequences...viral vectors are tested in vitro and in vivo for gene expression and/or function. These data are sometimes...copies of the lentiviral Rev responsive element (RRE) gene and the cellular ribonuclease P/MRP 30 kDa subunit...vector genome titers by droplet digital PCR. Human Gene Therapy Methods, 25(2), Article 2. https://doi.org...
  20. pSiM24: Simplifying Plant Genetic Engineering

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    Sept. 29, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Arabidopsis, and corn. For both β-glucuronidase (GUS) and GFP reporters, as well as multiple transient and transgenic...ideal for large gene transfer. The M24 promoter provides constitutive, high-level gene expression and ...further customizing gene expression. Sahoo et al. have tested the system with genes up to 4 kb in length...versatile gene expression vector for transient assays as well as stable expression of foreign genes in plants...As previous blogs have noted, plants are an important foundation for life on Earth. Selective breeding...Scientists have worked to optimize this system for gene transfer, studying the stability of modified Ti ...versatile binary Ti vector for both transient and stable gene expression applications in plants. This smaller,...
  21. Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins

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    Aug. 7, 2017, 1:58 p.m.
    ..., as well as fluorescent ones, like Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). These molecules occur naturally in...laboratory. The discovery of GFP The story of how fluorescent proteins like GFP came to be used as research...their work on GFP. This great honor serves to highlight how useful fluorescent proteins like GFP really are...He began to study the A. victoria gene responsible for encoding GFP, and, in 1992, he reported its sequence... calcium ions, and the second, which we now call GFP, absorbs that blue light and glows green. In the ... Prasher’s collaborator Martin Chalfie expressed GFP in exogenous organisms (E. coli, and later C. elegans...work, scientists really started to take notice of GFP, and began to realize its potential as a research...
  22. SunTag and Fluorescent Imaging

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    March 28, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...al. observed some GFP aggregation, which they reduced by using superfolder GFP (sfGFP) with the small solubility...scaffold fully occupied with GFP has a molecular weight of 1,400 kDa vs 24 kDa for GFP alone. Although traditional...nomenclature throughout the rest of this blog post, GFP refers to sfGFP-GB1.   Tanenbaum et al. examined the power... copies of the short epitope GCN4. GCN4 recruits GFP fused to the cognate scFV antibody, which is expressed...physiology. Having seen that mitochondrial tracker GFP-mitoNEET can impair mitochondrial function, they ...they examined the effects of mitoNEET-SunTag-GFP. As expected, they obtained bright images of mitochondria...In biology as in life, more is often better. More transcription factor binding sites in a promoter lead...
  23. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    March 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...levels similar to that of a single AAV expressing GFP. The lab tested the base editors in vivo and achieved...voltage indicators, however, fall short compared to GFP-based sensors in terms of response and brightness...Article contributed by Jennifer Tsang AAVs are a great gene therapy delivery mechanism, but their small packaging...larger transgenes, such as base editors which have a gene size of ~5.2 kb. To overcome this problem, David...dosage comparable to those currently used in human gene therapy trials. They further tested the base editors...expression levels from different promoters, and inhibited gene expression using CRISPRi. The kit functions in the...that increases temporal and spatial precision of gene expression and reduces toxicity as compared to previous...
  24. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    July 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...section. The GFP story has its own Franklin in Doug Prasher, who originally isolated the GFP gene but was...middle-aged scientists, the identification of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and its development into an essential...years, but lay readers may be less familiar with gene drives and their ramifications. Readers unfamiliar...
  25. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    Sept. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...As optogenetics turns 10 years old, it’s easy to forget that this technique isn’t limited to neuroscience...via phosphorylation, promoting transcription of a GFP reporter. Subsequent exposure to red light rapidly...optimized by Tabor’s lab, making light-controlled gene expression in E. coli easier and more robust. Synthetic...used to engineer new pathways with sophisticated gene expression controls. Most cell types do not respond... can be coexpressed for sophisticated control of gene expression. An E. coli light-sensitive two-component... was only about 10-fold, precluding the study of gene expression at very high or very low levels. Schmidl...researchers to better fine-tune the level of output gene expression based on the input light intensity. In...
  26. Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene

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    Sept. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... cassette with an ubiquitous promoter to express GFP in a group of young rats. We found that, in this ...label norepinephrine (NE) expressing neurons and GFP (green) to label neurons transduced by each serotype...Adeno-Associated Viral Vector-Mediated Gene Delivery to the Hypothalamus. Human Gene Therapy, 21(6), 673–682. https...conditions commonly encountered in human gene therapy trials. Human Gene Therapy Methods, 26(2), 71–76. https...Grames, M. S., & Klein, R. L. (2018). More expansive gene transfer to the rat CNS: AAV PHP.EB vector dose–...dose–response and comparison to AAV PHP.B. Gene Therapy, 25(5), 392–400. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41434-018...Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype 9 (AAV9) Preparations. Human Gene Therapy Methods, 30(6), 214–225. https://doi.org...
  27. Using Ultrasound to Image Bacteria in vivo: Acoustic Reporter Genes

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    June 19, 2018, 1:38 p.m.
    ...tools The luciferase reporter gene The green fluorescent protein reporter gene Resources on Addgene.org ... Acoustic reporter genes (ARGs) Acoustic Reporter Genes (ARGs) are engineered gene clusters that encode...for expression in E. coli: acoustic gene 1 (arg1) and acoustic gene 2 (arg2). The key difference between... reporters has its drawbacks. Acoustic reporter genes (ARGs) overcome these limitations by using gas vesicle...and high spatial resolution. By piecing together genes from gas vesicle operons from two different bacteria...their ultrasound signal. Using acoustic reporter genes for in vivo imaging Following in vitro characterization...S.P., & Shapiro, M.G. (2018). Acoustic reporter genes for noninvasive imaging of microorganisms in mammalian...
  28. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    June 6, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...non-immunogenic violet-excited GFP variant Vex. To understand the impact of this gene editing tool on the immune...developed four acoustic reporter gene (ARG) plasmids to better monitor gene expression in vivo using ultrasound...2019. PubMed PMID: 30704911. Acoustic reporter genes for noninvasive imaging of microbes in mammalian...by Lukas Morgan  Listen to the acoustic reporter gene podcast segment In recent years, scientists are ...through a host organism, the expression of some genes can change depending on the location. Current methods...of microbes rely heavily on fluorescent protein genes. These optical reporters have limited deep-tissue...ultrasound. These ARG plasmids contain genes for “gas vesicles,” a gas-filled protein structure that water-bound...
  29. Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation

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    May 21, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...read-through transcripts of the effector gene. Effector genes, any gene that you want to control the expression...transcription activation systems, such as LexA/p65 or mCD8/GFP, to allow sparse labeling in a variety of fly cell...heat-shocking the system or using chemical inducers of gene expression (del Valle Rodríguez et al., 2011).  ...truncated attP sites to control recombination of the gene construct. A predictable number of cells will express...binds to the UAS binding motif, driving downstream gene expression. attP and attB, recombination sites. ...side of a stop cassette, upstream of an effector gene. In cells where the stop cassette is removed during...expression of either a stop cassette or an effector gene. HDVR (2X Hepatitis Delta Virus Ribozyme), a self-cleaving...
  30. Tag Your Favorite Yeast Genes with Ease

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    Nov. 19, 2013, 2:37 p.m.
    ...proteins (FPs) to a yeast gene of interest. These fluorescently tagged genes are expressed under native...either the N- or C-terminus (3xHA, 13xMyc, GST, or GFP). Longtine et al.(3) describe a complimentary set...a protein modification sequence and a selectable gene product for isolation of successful transformants...be interested in attaching epitope tags to their genes of interest, allowing for easy capture and detection...modifications in S. Pombe, including full and partial gene deletion, overexpression (by promoter substitution...
  31. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    Sept. 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...constructs from Addgene to gene-edit mutations into XP genes and other genes involved in photosensitivity... University with David Goldstein’s lab, will use GFP-ATP1A3, FLAG-ATP1A3, and ATP1B3 plasmids to explore...researchers identified the gene responsible for the disease as ATP1A3. The gene encodes a sodium-potassium...genetic disease caused by mutations in the OCRL1 gene that leads to the early death of young patients ...studies on OCRL1 already underway in his lab. The gene appears to play a role in many cell processes involving... learned there was a disease associated with the gene, it piqued their interest. They obtained cells from...McSweeney says they now think that mutations in the gene may prevent neurons from returning to basal conditions...
  32. Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection

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    June 25, 2019, 12:54 p.m.
    .... For example, this plasmid encodes a green fluorescent protein gene which makes the bacterium fluoresce...Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the movement of genetic material between organisms. It plays a key ... comic, when a bacterium uptakes a plasmid, the genes on the plasmid can give them different phenotypes...used to create both transient cell lines, where a gene of interest is expressed but not integrated into...Conjugation was the first extensively studied method of gene transfer and was discovered in 1946 by Joshua Lederberg...
  33. Addgene’s Expanding Collection of Research Tools for Industry Scientists

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    Jan. 13, 2026, 2:15 p.m.
    ...mTagBFP2-Farnesyl-5, and EGFP-Tubulin-6.  CRISPR OpenCRISPR-1, an AI-generated gene editor deposited by Profluent...-tag labeling system. These plasmids allow for a gene of interest to be cloned into the pSNAP-tag (m) ...over 600 plasmids such as luciferase reporters for gene expression analysis and tools for tracking and detecting...
  34. Improved Plasmid Maps Powered by SnapGene

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    June 29, 2017, 1:06 p.m.
    ...ampicillin resistance gene, you’ll find the full name of the gene, the name of its gene product, and a description...few nucleotides, such as the fluorescent proteins EGFP and mEGFP. Many of these features, such as Cas9,... plasmid features such as antibiotic resistance genes, selectable markers, promoters, origins, tags, and...
  35. Using Addgene's New Viral Service for Your Research

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    Nov. 17, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...also have lentivirus for delivering control shRNAs, GFP, and rtTA from the Tet-on system. The first two can...pooled libraries. Whether you’d like to knockout a gene, replace it, modulate its expression, or perform...while rtTA can be used to activate expression of a gene under the control of the tet operator. AAV AAVs ...Vector Uses and Overview AAV: A Versatile Tool for Gene Expression in Mammals Additional Resources on Addgene.org...
  36. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    Dec. 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...tag an endogenous protein with GFP, as seen in blue flame plasmid OCT4-eGFP-PGK-Puro from the Jaenisch lab...marker. In order to both knockout a given gene and insert GFP into the genome, we’d create a plasmid similar...where the sequence of GFP is cloned together with the Neomycin resistance (NeoR) gene between exon 1 and ...and 3 of the targeted gene. Upon recombination, the GFP/NeoR cassette is inserted in place of exon 2. Thus...Thus, the targeted gene is disrupted (knocked out) but the inserted GFP is expressed (knocked in). As ...you can remove a floxed resistance gene using Cre recombinase. If GFP is under control of an endogenous...strategies to investigate a gene's function is to inactivate, or "knockout", the gene by replacing it or disrupting...
  37. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    Dec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Addgene has several great options: pLV hUbC-dCas9-T2A-GFP for removable dCas9 expression and pLM-CMV-R-Cre....investigation into the regulation of your favorite gene. But have no fear - I’m here to introduce you to...genome – could be affected, leading to unpredicted gene expression changes (Sapozhnikov and Szyf 2021, Charlton...interact with transcriptional machinery to modify local gene expression, confounding any potential conclusions...causal relationship between DNA demethylation and gene expression (Sapozhnikov and Szyf 2021).    ... expressing blasticidin or puromycin resistance genes.  It’s that simple! Good luck and happy editing...Vogelstein B (1983) Hypomethylation distinguishes genes of some human cancers from their normal counterparts...
  38. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    Feb. 27, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Entrez Gene matches to your insert. Select the appropriate gene if it appears in the Entrez Gene list, ...correct Entrez Gene does not appear in the auto-populated list, try entering the gene's Official Full ...known as" aliases in the Gene/Insert box. Once you have selected the appropriate gene from the list, save ...Please describe any tags or fusions (e.g. His, FLAG, EGFP, etc) on your insert. Use the drop-down menu to ...At Addgene, it is our mission to make it easy for you to share plasmids. To achieve this goal, we will... Encodes insert(s) A plasmid with one or more genes, protein coding sequences, or other elements inserted...Empty backbone A plasmid designed for cloning a gene/insert into it. Empty backbones often contain epitope...
  39. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    March 12, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...channelrhodopsin, fused to a fluorescent GFP marker (CatCH-GFP). The lab deposited AAV plasmids containing... a Cre-dependent fluorescent CatCH-GFP reporter. Expression of GFP will only result in cells where Cre-mCherry... popular tool for gene delivery, but it has a drawback: how do you ensure your gene goes where you want...mice to test for cell type-specific expression of GFP. Half (113) expressed in retinal cells four weeks...photoreceptors and horizontal cells, and Cre-dependent-GFP expresses in horizontal cells and ganglion cells,...transduced by both AAVs would express Cre-mCherry and GFP.   Figure 2: Synthetic promoters can be paired...want it to? Knowing that a gene is expressed in a particular cell type is important not only for translational...
  40. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    May 20, 2014, 2:06 p.m.
    ...years ago, with the discovery of the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), a protein from the jellyfish Aequorea... of GFP, it's variants, and their relevant mutations, check out Marcy's post from last week on GFP. Additionally...affected by the temperature. For instance, enhanced GFP (EGFP) was optimized for 37°C, and is therefore...sheets on many FP variants Plasmids 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Three Review Articles on the Different...below (or emission wavelenght range).  By mutating GFP, the variants blue FP (BFP), cyan FP (CFP), and yellow...photoactivatable or photoconvertible proteins are PA-GFP, Dendra2, and the mEOS proteins. Some proteins are...be found at Addgene. Split FPs – some FPs (e.g. GFP, Venus) can be split into two halves, which are non-fluorescent...
  41. X-CHIME: Context Dependent Germline Knockout in Immune Cells

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    Jan. 16, 2024, 6:13 p.m.
    ... C-CHIME Knocks out a pair of genes pXPR_219 Violet-excited GFP (vex) Rosa26-Cas9 I-CHIME ... Inducible knockout of a single gene pXPR_068 Violet-excited GFP (vex) Rosa26-FlpO-ERT2; H11-Cas9... out a single gene in defined cell types (lineage-based) pXPR_070 Violet-excited GFP (vex) Lineage-Cre...S-CHIME Knocks out pairs of genes sequentially pXPR_220 Violet-excited GFP (vex) Rosa26-FlpO-ERT2;...time-consuming, as it only changes one gene at a time. CRISPR-based systems enable gene knockout in immune cells in... to create mice with gene knockouts in their immune systems. However, many genes have different functions...combination with different genes. Having CRISPR systems for assessing genes in defined contexts would ...
  42. Fluorescent CRISPR Reporters: SRIRACCHA and GEmCherry2

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    May 26, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... the supplied donor plasmid will express GFP. If there’s GFP expression, presumably the endogenous target...that contains a puromycin resistance gene linked to an in-frame H2B-GFP. This visual read out allows for ...experiment that targeted the gene NFE2L2, the Madison lab found that H2B-GFP expressing cells exhibited ...stably integrate a reporter gene that contains a puromycin resistance gene followed by the target site...in the genome) and an out-of-frame H2B (histone)-GFP reporter into the genome of mammalian cells.  ...that targets your desired gene (whose sequence is also found in the reporter gene). A control RFP expression...and repaired by NHEJ as well. The ratio of RFP to GFP expressing cells provides a real-time read out of...
  43. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    July 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...This created three inactivated eGFP reporters- eGFP L202, eGFP L138, and eGFP L93. The modified eGFPs were...comparing cells expressing only eGFP expression to cells expressing eGFP and mCherry. ACE was used to identify... To create the eGFP reporters the Harris lab individually mutated three codons in eGFP to eliminate fluorescence...editisome complexes. The eGFP reporters rely on the correction of point mutations in eGFP that results in the...engineered BFP variant that converts to GFP after a base editing event. GFP positive cells can be sorted and ... their hypothesis with GFP fluorescence. To do this they generated a silent GFP construct, that contains...without relying solely on GFP (Katti et al., 2020). They named this reporter “Gene On” or GO. GO works by...
  44. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
    ...This blog post was originally written by Caroline LaManna, published Mar 8, 2016. The updated and expanded... Cas9 and a photo-dissociable dimeric green fluorescent protein (pdDronpa) (Zhou et al., 2018). pdDronpa...sphaeroides Cas9, dCas9 Gene editing Zhou et al., 2018   pdDronpa Cas9, dCas9 Gene editing, transcription...a system that would use light to turn on and off gene expression while imparting spatiotemporal control...and move the activator into position to activate gene transcription. The researchers tested a variety ...researchers showed that expression of the human ASCL1 gene could be spatially controlled in a reversible and... to develop an optimized photoactivatable CRISPR gene activation system, but settled on a different optimal...
  45. Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research

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    July 24, 2018, 12:51 p.m.
    ...technology CAG-GFP-IRES-CRE (Plasmid #48201) This retroviral vector from the Gage lab encodes GFP and Cre-recombinase...gamma-Retroviral Transfer Vectors   Expressing your gene of interest pMKO.1 GFP (Plasmid #10676) Retroviral vector for...for cloning and expressing your gene of interest with GFP expression.  Cloning and expressing RNAi pMKO...among other things) gene delivery, generating pluripotent stem cells, and developing gene therapies for monogenic...and lentiviral vectors that are used for gene regulation, gene of interest expression, knockout, and screening...Experimental uses include: Cre-dependent gene expression, gene knockout, and selection marker removal. ...Expressing your gene of interest pLenti-puro (Plasmid #39481) You can clone your gene of interest into...
  46. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - May 2020

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    May 28, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...pAAV EF1a Nuc-flox(mCherry)-EGFP Brandon Harvey 50457 AAV2 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-EGFP Bryan Roth 50459 AAV1 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-mCherry...respectively of a GFP dependent Cre. The two segments come together in the presence of GFP to form a functional...cells expressing both Cre and GFP. The GFP dependent FLPo, Flp-DOG (75469), is also available in AAV1. ...supply a variety of GFP expression patterns, thus allowing you to further restrict gene activation to cells...-2 proteins ChR2 for targeted expression DREADDs GFP dependent Cre and FLPo And more!  New lentiviral...in new serotypes, as well as a new Cre dependent GFP control plasmid for expression in forebrain GABA-...pAAV-hSyn-DIO-mCherry Bryan Roth 50457 AAV1 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-EGFP Bryan Roth 114472 AAVrg pAAV-hSyn-mCherry Karl...
  47. Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative

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    June 2, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    .... https://doi.org/10.1101/788679 A destabilized GFP reporter for calcineurin activity in yeast Article...reporter consisting of a quickly-degraded destabilized GFP variant fused to a 4X CDRE repeat. In addition to... Ca2+ (bottom panels) equipped with destabilized GFP calcineurin reporter (blue) and stained with PI (...death. Image from Diessl et al., 2020. Find the GFP reporter calcineurin activity here Diessl et al.,... They created plasmids for purification of tTALE-eGFP and tTALE-mCherry. In comparison to intercalating...the sgRNAiBAR library covers every annotated human gene, it enables genome-wide screening with a high MOI...a stop cassette upstream of an effector/reporter gene. In cells where the stop cassette is removed, the...
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