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  1. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins

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    March 19, 2019, 1:31 p.m.
    ...function of Acr. This allows CRISPR-Cas9 to function on its target.  They name their most potent Acr-LOV fusion...2in1 Plasmid Toolkit consists of 4 plasmid toolkits generated with 4 different, binary 2in1 vectors with...sativa into a loop region of the Acr protein AcrIIA4. In the dark, AcrIIA4 inhibits CRISPR activity.   With... to the anti-CRISPR podcast segment Anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins potently inhibit type II CRISPR systems...Rauch et al., 2017, Hynes et al., 2017). However, Acr inhibition is spatially and temporally ubiquitous... controlling CRISPR. To bring greater control to Acr activity as a biological tool, Niopek and colleagues...combinations of tag orientation (NN, NC, CN, and CC). The 4 kits also contain the two entry vectors pUC-L1L4 and...
  2. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    July 23, 2020, 1:20 p.m.
    ...editing from ~30% in control samples to 0-10% in Acr samples. Acr proteins can also be used to prevent dCas9...might not be as effective. This is where Acr proteins come in. Acr proteins are small enough that they could...tissues (Li et al., 2018). 4. Selection marker while engineering viruses Acr genes can be used as positive..., 2018). For example, AcrIIA4 mentioned above indicates that it’s the fourth Acr protein discovered that...in 2012 (Bondy-Denomy et al., 2012). Anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins are phage-derived small protein inhibitors... the CRISPR-Cas immune system of bacteria. These Acr proteins were originally found in type I CRISPR-Cas...Cas9, Cas12, and Cas13 (Marino et al., 2020). Some Acr proteins are specific to a particular Cas protein...
  3. REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods

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    Feb. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...recombination. In most recombineering strategies, only 3-4 phage proteins are needed and these can be provided...vitro recombination. Across all modifications described in Trehan et al., REPLACR-mutagenesis’ median ...efficiency is 75%. If these numbers hold up across labs, REPLACR-mutagenesis could save busy scientists a... time. Let us know how REPLACR-mutagenesis works in your hands!     REPLACR-Mutagenesis Megaprimer ...costly in vitro assembly methods. A new method, REPLACR-mutagenesis, harnesses the power of bacterial recombineering...to find out how to replace your SDM method with REPLACR (Recombineering of Ends of Linearized Plasmids ...secondary structure or too much sequence similarity. REPLACR-mutagenesis: Letting bacteria do the work If you...
  4. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    May 9, 2017, 2:12 p.m.
    ....4% of HEK293T cells had edits at 4 of 4 targets when an array of 4 crRNAs, Cpf1, and a GFP tag were transfected... Cpf1 Components crRNAtracrRNACas9 crRNACpf1 Endonuclease size spCas9: ~4 kbsaCas9: ~3 kb ~3.9kb...transduction One vector expresses Cas9, eGFP, and up to 4 gRNAs Each gRNA requires its own promoter   Kabadi... this by showing that Cpf1 can cleave an array of 4 crRNAs in vitro and when expressed in 293 cells. This...Lastly, an AAV vector was used to multiplex edit 3-4 genes in a primary culture of mouse neurons and in...gRNA length gRNA: ~100 nt crNA: ~42 nt Requires tracrRNA? Yes No dsDNA cleavage Blunt end 5' overhang...more streamlined vectors which are easier to use across multiple expression platforms: transfection, lentiviral...
  5. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    March 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ... BRAF sites targeted by my specific gRNAs (Figure 4). The most difficult part of the assay was designing...surveyor assay itself was relatively easy. Figure 4: Detection of edited BRAF genomic loci in Cas9-expressing... cells transduced by the control GFP-gRNA (Figure 4, 5). When the gel was overexposed, I could even also...results. (Figure 5). The digestion product (Figure 4, lanes 0.3 % 3.0, Figure 5, lane 2) is faint, so comparing... comparing it to the undigested control (Figure 4, lane 0, Figure 5, lane 1) is what confirms it’s a real... control (GFP gRNA-targeted) BRAF sites (lanes 3, 4) were used as controls. Duplexes were generated from...amplification products (GFP-GFP duplex) as a control. 4. After optimizing the reaction and confirming the ...
  6. pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs

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    Dec. 14, 2017, 2:08 p.m.
    ...pCXLE-hUL 27080 L-MYC and LIN28 pCXLE-hOCT3/4-shp53-F 27077 OCT3/4 and shRNA against p53 pCXWB-EBNA1 37624...the expression of the reprogramming factors- OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, and C-MYC [1]. For the derivation of ...and remains a safety concern in the clinical field [4]. Three major reprogramming methods are considered...mixture of two vectors that encoded six factors - OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, C-MYC, LIN28 and SV40 large T antigen...PMID: 21243013. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3193421. 4. Hacein-Bey-Abina, S., et al., LMO2-associated clonal...activated T cells and Sendai virus. Nat Protoc, 2012. 7(4): p. 718-28. PubMed PMID: 22422317. 6. Diecke, S.,...induced pluripotent stem cells from CD34+ cells across blood drawn from multiple donors with non-integrating...
  7. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    Jan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m.
    ...transduced area. Gene Ther. 2003 Feb;10(4):337-47. PubMed PMID: 12595892. 4. Sanjana NE, Shalem O, Zhang F. Improved...contains a double floxed human muscarinic receptor 4 (Gαi-coupled) DREADD fused to mCherry, all under the...feeding behavior in mice. J Clin Invest. 2011 Apr;121(4):1424-8. PubMed PMID: 21364278. PubMed Central PMCID...CRISPR screening. Nat Methods. 2014 Aug;11(8):783-4. PubMed PMID: 25075903. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4486245...patterns of transduction and transgene expression across different cell types (Aschauer et al., 2013). Expression...
  8. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    March 13, 2014, 4:08 p.m.
    ...based on the Cas9 D10A nickase described in Figure 4 of the Cong et al. (2013) Science paper. For example..., will they also be targeted? A4: The Cas9 cuts 3–4 bp upstream of the PAM sequence. There can be some...Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) (see Figure 4 of the Cong et. al (2013) Science paper). If you detect...extraction solution, runs the protocol, then uses around 2–4 µl in each 50 µl PCR reaction. The gDNA extracted ...Zinc-Finger Nucleases. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, 3(4), 657–664. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.112.005439  ...regulating and targeting genomes. Nature Biotechnology, 32(4), 347–355. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2842  Soldner...CRISPR/CAS-Mediated Genome Engineering. Cell, 153(4), 910–918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.04.025...
  9. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    Aug. 28, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...enhanced photostability — 25-fold over mVenus and 4-fold over the previous best performer mGold — while... of leukemic driver mutations. Cell Stem Cell, 32(4), 564–580.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2025.01.012...tracing and other neuroscience applications (Figure 4). Check out our blog post on AAV serotypes for more...tropism of these and other AAVs. Figure 4: AAV6 and AAV11 tropism and applications. A) AAV6 ...regions in mice, ATLAS mediated anterograde labeling across single synapses, a key attribute for neuronal tracing...nontoxic and activity-dependent, with more labeling across active synapses. In addition, ATLAS itself could...
  10. AAV Q&A with Tim Miles

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    May 17, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...codelivery efficiency at different doses. See Figure 4 in this paper for more information.   Q6 & Q7: We ...organism such as mice, e.g. first at 2 months, then at 4 months? Or do antibodies become a prohibitive problem...: CAP-B10 and CAP-B22 were tested individually in 4 marmosets each. Brain potency for each individual ...reliable quantitation. Differences in sample treatment across methods can affect reported titer by either method...advise that users keep titering method consistent across samples within a project. Targeting Your AAV Q4...
  11. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    April 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...vacuole and emit red and green fluorescence. After 4 hours of nitrogen starvation to induce autophagy, ...turnover of cytosol and organelles in yeast. Autophagy,4(2), 205-213. doi:10.4161/auto.5331. PubMed PMID: 18094608...PMID: 20144757. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2852113. 4. Klionsky, D. J., Cuervo, A. M., & Seglen, P. O. (...unless autophagy is induced. Then non-selective macroautophagy of the cytosol leads to accumulation of Pho8Δ60.... E. (2015). Rapid parallel measurements of macroautophagy and mitophagy in mammalian cells using a single...
  12. Podcast: A Malawian Professor's Path to Biotech Research

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    May 24, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... and education 3:49-4:35 : Kingdom on opportunities to go into science in Malawi 4:36-5:46 : How Kingdom...thoughts on the need for more scientific collaboration across the globe. Listen here! Podcast Breakdown (Time...
  13. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    June 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Depending on the protocol, samples can be expanded to ~4-10x linearly! This expansion physically separates ... cases, labels are added after this stage.  Step 4: Expand! (Typically by just adding water.)  Step 5...quite so much. Created with biorender.com Steps 2-4 are not found in standard IHC/ICC protocols and you...16:33–41. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-018-0219-4  Yu C-C (Jay), Barry NC, Wassie AT, et al (2020) Expansion... of protocols and examples of applications from across disciplines now available. In this post, we’ll ...
  14. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    May 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Neuroscience. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00969-4.   Increased neuronal expression using Cre-mediated...Neuroscience. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00969-4.   dCas9-SSAP with reduced error rate for long sequence...to be deconvoluted using freeware.    Fig. 4: Images of 12 visual barcodes in use in A375 cell ...rate of less than 0.3%, both on and off target. Across all loci tested, error rates overall ranged from...
  15. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...expression. When using these constructs to tag the GOLG-4 protein, mScarlet3 was 50% brighter than the original... Figure 3: Expression of fluorophore-tagged GOLG-4 through eight stages of embryonic development. Representative...knockouts limits further cutting and errors (Figure 4). This work marks the first use of CRISPR/Cas9 in ...pathogenicity, and resistance mechanisms.     Figure 4. Overview of the dual-plasmid CRISPR/Cas9 workflow...mycobacteria, but such systems don’t always work across species due to differences in natural DNA repair...
  16. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    July 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...had a tremendous impact on our world -- as of June 4, 2020, COVID-19 has caused an estimated total of 380,000...deaths worldwide (statistics provided by Google on 6/4/20). Many countries entered lockdown for weeks to ...during weekends and significant holidays. Figure 4: Plasmid request trajectories suggest an exponential...in the rate of scientists placing orders per day across regions, with Europe most impacted and China least...in the rate of scientists placing orders per day across regions. Our investigation of model fit revealed...
  17. Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis

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    Feb. 22, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...extension time, 3) increased concentration of MgCl2, 4) increased concentration of dNTP, and/or 5) the addition...glycosylase (UDG) and Exonuclease III (ExoIII) (step 4). UDG recognizes uracils that are in DNA and ExoIII...Methods 13.11 (2016): 928-30. PubMed PMID: 27723752.  4. Fowler, Douglas M., Jason J. Stephany, and Stanley...this technique uses mutagenic primers that tile across a region of interest, generating multiple mutants... given codon site and multiple primer sets tile across the protein or region of interest. A low primer-to-template...
  18. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    Feb. 4, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ... ShadowR, a novel FLIM-FRET acceptor Figure 4: ShadowR is used as a FRET acceptor to mRuby2 or mScarlet...energy transfer (FLIM-FRET) in living cells (Figure 4). They created ShadowR by modifying the surface of...Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48604-4 Salih A, Larkum A, Cox G, Kühl M, Hoegh-Guldberg O...the Pink and Blue Pigments of Pocilloporid and Acroporid Corals. The Biological Bulletin 189:288–297 . ...
  19. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    Jan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...an attL-containing entry vector.   Figure 4: Method B to create an entry clone: TOPO cloning the...vectors at once in the same tube. You can clone up to 4 DNA fragments, in a specific order and orientation...Technology: Advantages and Drawbacks. Clon Transgen 4:138. doi:10.4172/2168-9849.1000138 2. Hartley JL. ...sequence of interest, you can move this DNA fragment across any expression system in just one recombination...
  20. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    March 18, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...VI-B, and VI-D being the most common. Figure 4: Overview of the general CRISPR type VI mechanism....Elements of Acidithiobacillia. The CRISPR Journal, 4(5), 656–672. https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2021.0051...competition between plasmids. Nucleic Acids Research, 48(4), 2000–2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz1197 Samai... type I CRISPR system. Gene and Genome Editing, 3–4, 100013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ggedit.2022.100013...seems. There is not a single gene that is shared across all CRISPR types; the fast evolution of these adaptive..., L., Kocalar, S., Oshiro, R., Makarova, K. S., Macrae, R. K., Koonin, E. V., & Zhang, F. (2023). Uncovering...
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