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  1. What’s in Your Tube?: A Quick Guide to Measuring DNA by Spectrophotometry

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    July 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...residual guanidine thiocyanate. Phenol is a unique case, as pure phenol absorbs strongly at ~270 nm and...experiments. The usual suspects, such as proteins, phenol, or guanidine salts, exhibit their own characteristic...ones most likely to impact absorbance readings are phenol, guanidine salts, and detergents (Figure 1C-D; ...means that even samples with quite high levels of phenol (up to 600 ppm according to Loughrey and Matlock...yield “good” A260/280 and A260/230 ratios. Instead, phenol is more likely to shift the peak of your sample's...towards 270 nm. If your purification protocol uses phenol, then it is important to confirm that your sample...— if the peak is closer to 270 nm, you may have phenol in your sample.  RNA contaminants DNA samples can...
  2. Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR

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    Aug. 18, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Aug 20, 2020. What genes are important in your phenotype of interest? Many scientists study diseases for.... Identifying which genes are important for a phenotype can lead to a wealth of additional experiments...identify genes that are essential for a given phenotype. Image Credit: www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] to identify genes involved in a particular phenotype. CRISPR can be readily scaled up for genome-wide...fluorescence-based cell sorting and screened for a particular phenotype. For example, mutant cells can be used in drug...particular gene is actually important for a given phenotype. Each hit from the screen should be independently...ensure that the desired modification produces the phenotype you screened for in the first place. With the ...
  3. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    Oct. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...effects. This conclusion was based upon numerous phenotype discrepancies between gene silencing and knockout...skipping, alternative start codons, and/or the phenomenon of transcriptional adaptation (Smits et al., ...delivering the RNAi trigger characterizing the RNAi phenotype. Although all these steps are areas of active...use and capacity to generate a long-term RNAi phenotype. Long hairpin RNA The easiest approach to induce...easily identified and have readily observable phenotypes quantified. Fluorescent reporter-based RNAi constructs... RNAi plants. With a visual reporter of RNAi, phenotypes, such as morphological parameters, can be easily...consuming, as RNAi mutants with a reduced growth phenotype will require additional plants to have enough ...
  4. RNA Extraction Without A Kit

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    March 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...acid-guanidinium-phenol solution that combines the homogenization solution and phenol addition of the ...extraction protocol with guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform. In this method, samples are still homogenized...using cesium-chloride gradients, water-saturated phenol, sodium acetate, and chloroform are added to the...centrifugation (not ultracentrifugation!), the layers of phenol and chloroform separate, and RNA is retained in...of RNA Isolation by Acid Guanidinium Thiocyanate–Phenol–Chloroform Extraction. Analytical Biochemistry ...of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate–phenol–chloroform extraction: twenty-something years on...
  5. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

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    July 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...genes you’d like to test for phenotypic effects. Typically the phenotype would be studied in vitro, but...growth properties, migration abilities, or other phenotypes that can be efficiently measured at the single... candidates for being involved in the studied phenotype. For robustness of a screen, each gene is not ...in a gene expression dataset are causal for a phenotype of interest. Selected pathways  I attended a great...With a custom CRISPR screen and the appropriate phenotypic readout, similar mapping could be rapidly performed...which signaling molecules were involved in the phenotype. Surface proteins  My group works on immune cells... a screen with an easily measureable cellular phenotype (e.g. survival of a cancer cell as a cytotoxic...
  6. Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor

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    July 23, 2019, 12:46 p.m.
    ...between these two mice might drive their divergent phenotypes. Two labs, the Deverman lab at the Broad Institute... deletions (indels) most likely to have large phenotypic effects such as those that affected gene expression...genes were associated with the PHP.B permissive phenotype, but only one, Ly6a, showed differential protein... variant responsible for the PHP.B permissive phenotype in mice. They took a classic genetics approach...versions or alleles that was driving the PHP.B phenotype. Exome sequencing of related hybrid mice narrowed...candidate due to its strong linkage to the PHP.B phenotype and its expression pattern in the mouse brain....RNA expression patterns, the PHP.B permissive phenotype of mouse strains beside C57BL/6J and BALB/cJ, ...
  7. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    April 9, 2015, 3:29 p.m.
    ... observed phenotype associated with the independent variable and helps ensure the phenotype isn’t singular...control plasmids help to ensure that the observed phenomenon in your experiment is specifically associated...plasmids should produce a null effect (i.e., no phenomenon is observed). In any plasmid-based experiment... control plasmids should produce the expected phenomenon. One example of a positive control, the internal...properly controlled experiments. The observed phenotype associated with the independent variable should...reproducibility or consistency of the observed phenotype associated with the independent variable. Biological...
  8. Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection

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    May 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...exciting computational algorithms, such as SIFT or PolyPhen to approach this challenge, using attributes of...molecular signatures of variant function and cancer phenotypes. Broad Institute Target Accelerator Plasmid ...measuring a variety of molecular signatures or cancer phenotypes. These assays were designed to complement the... cancer variants and genes: High-throughput Phenotyping of Lung Cancer Somatic Mutations. Berger AH, ...mutations and map other cellular functions and phenotypes. Since time is of the essence in clinical settings...recently demonstrated the power of this approach: Phenotypic Characterization of a Comprehensive Set of MAPK1...
  9. Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections

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    Nov. 10, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...organisms) and then assaying for a functional or phenotypical outcome. In forward screens, there is random... population possessing a specific mutation or phenotype. For example, a drug screen may be performed on...enhance or suppress the previously defined disease phenotype. These screens employ the same downstream manipulations...the culture temperature to exacerbate a mutant phenotype, very similar to enhancer/suppressor screens. ...way, only cells or organisms with the desired phenotype will survive and be assayed at the end of the ...finish with the characterization of a function or phenotype in the surviving population. Selections do require...
  10. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    May 24, 2018, 1:20 p.m.
    ... easy to buy, cultivate, and have interesting phenotypes to study. In addition, the Sánchez lab has made...paste, and feed the mixture to the worms. The phenotypes of RNAi knockdown treatment should be apparent...apparent after three dsRNA feedings. Some of the phenotypes are not evident until after amputation. For example...example, the dramatic “two-headed” phenotype is observable in post-amputation planarians after knockdown...knockdown results in an observable “sidewinder” phenotype that disrupts wildtype locomotion.   Create your...
  11. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    May 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...and effect hypotheses between gene function and phenotypes in diverse plants, animals, microbes, viruses...to include clear plans to connect Genotype to Phenotype thus making progress on the NSF “G to P grand ...programs via Addgene. New organisms for genotype to phenotype studies New organismal systems described at this...to develop tools to study their genotypes and phenotypes were presented in a series of quick (10 minute...model for plant adaptation and speciation. Their phenotypes are diverse and they inhabit all habitats - even...
  12. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    Feb. 10, 2015, 3:06 p.m.
    ...General protein expression BL21 (DE3) pLysS* Chloramphenicol (pLysS) pLysS expresses T7 lysozyme to reduce...Expression of toxic proteins BL21 (DE3) pLysE* Chloramphenicol (pLysE) pLysE has higher T7 lysozyme expression...Expression of insoluble proteins  Rosetta2 (DE3)* Chloramphenicol (pRARE) Good for “universal” translation; contains...Expression of eukaryotic proteins Lemo21 (DE3)* Chloramphenicol (pLemo) Rhamnose-tunable T7 RNAP expression...T7 expression. The pLys plasmid contains a chloramphenicol resistance cassette for positive selection ...
  13. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    Dec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m.
    ...completely ineffective or results in low penetrant phenotypes that are hard to study. To overcome this, most...genetic pathways making it difficult to link a phenotype to the gene being targeted via RNAi. Recently ...RNAi vector that leads to significantly stronger phenotypes than standard RNAi protocols without the need...active LacZ tetramer.  This tetramer cleaves chlorophenol red-b-D-galactopyranoside on the assay paper...
  14. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 1: Getting Started with Flies

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    July 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...meaning, there’s more of a chance of seeing a phenotype since additional genes that can do the same function...balancer chromosomes is that they produce dominant phenotypes visible on the flies. For example, second chromosome...stubble (sb). For a better reference of various fly phenotypes, check out the Classical Genetics Simulator website...whether stocks of mutant flies exist, whether any phenotypes have been observed from mutations in the gene...
  15. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Sept. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...sequences give rise to the same phenotype in order to conclude that the phenotype is due to an on-target effect...functional screens to identify genes involved in a phenotype of interest. This blog post will discuss differences...back to the original in order to prove that the phenotype was really due to the intended edit rather than...
  16. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...for p-azido-l-phenylalanine E. coli pEVOL-pBpF synthetase for p-benzoyl-l-phenylalanine E. coli pAcBac1...pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase Mammalian Cells pCMV-DnpK dinitrophenyl hapten Mammalian Cells pANAP AnapRS Mammalian... PubMed PMID: 19823671. 5. Griffin, B. Albert, Stephen R. Adams, and Roger Y. Tsien. "Specific covalent...
  17. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    May 2, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...same pattern. These systems suggest the type of phenotype to look for with an uncharacterized gene. The...The actual reporter construct can be something phenotypic (such as a fluorescent protein or something species-specific...knockout, shRNA depletion, etc.) and ask what the phenotype is without that gene product. These are effective...
  18. Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans

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    July 7, 2015, 3:36 p.m.
    ...hygromycin resistance and the Roller movement phenotype. To make these markers easy to remove after injection...then be further screened based on their Roller phenotype. If SEC is inserted at the 5’ end of a gene, the... are screened based on the loss of the Roller phenotype. These animals contain a fluorescent protein fusion...
  19. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    Nov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...genome’). Epigenetic modifications can result in phenotypic changes without any change in genotype. Epigenetic...Prader–Willi syndrome, which have very different disease phenotypes, are two fascinating examples of epigenetics ... chromosome 15 are inactivated, but different phenotypes result depending upon whether the improperly ...
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