...of working with fruit flies is their ability to escape their habits and live in the lab itself. Many of...Light Interval System, or FLIS, incorporates a bioluminescence protein into the chitin that can be activated...everywhere find and re-contain any specimens that escape during routine lab activities.  Here, we demonstrate...plasmid-based system for locating and containing escaped flies. Nature 4:1-22. https://doi.org/4.01.2022...

...process of mouse model generation simpler, as described in an earlier post on generating CRISPR mouse ... make. For example, large insertions, like a fluorescent protein knock-in, suffer from low efficiency ...with your desired insertion feature (e.g., a fluorescent protein), you can amplify the desired region ...most of the commonly used cassettes, such as fluorescent proteins (EGFP, mCherry etc.), recombinases (...'d use ivTRT to create the ssDNA construct as described in Figure 2.  You can also use Addgene plasmids...

...delivering shRNA, CRISPR/Cas9 components, and fluorescent sensors. Retroviral vector background Until ...lentivirus-derived vectors are capable of transducing certain quiescent or terminally differentiated cells such as macrophages...interest is expressed together with a marker (Fluorescent protein or selection marker) allowing for selection...process is to test several protocols that have been described (protocol 1, protocol 2, protocol 3) to find the...quantify viral RNA. All of these methods have been described in a previous Addgene blog Once you know your ...

...Specific C-to-U Exchange, or RESCUE. Read the paper in Science Find RESCUE plasmids If you have a new... toolkit for targeted genomic integration of fluorescent tags in neurons. Their toolkit named ORANGE (...Editing) mediates targeted genomic integration of fluorescent tags in neurons.  Read the paper in bioRxiv ...

...camelids too, though not just for the reasons the UN describes. In honor of the Camelid family, I wanted to take...of times on this blog over the years and have described how they compare to other antibodies and affinity...single-domain antibodies genetically fused to fluorescent proteins and used to visualize target antigens...sdAbs in diagnostic applications. For example, fluorescently and radioactively labeled sdAbs have become ...

...database describing nearly 145,000 cell lines. Cellosaurus Cellosaurus seeks to identify and describe all ...authors of the paper in which the cell line was described. Using Cellosaurus Cellosaurus is searchable by...Cellosaurus received a report that HT-55, which was described as a colon cancer cell line, is actually a rectal...

...(FLAG, Myc, etc.) and fluorescent protein tags (GFP, mCherry, etc.). Fluorescent tags are primarily used...protein for downstream applications Below, we describe a few of the most common tags available. Maltose...via applications such as western blot and immunofluorescence. GST  Glutathione S-Transferase (GST) is ...

...mCherry fluorescent protein followed by a stop codon and the coding sequence for a green fluorescent protein...representation of cell-free system, capable of producing fluorescent proteins and enzymes. Image from Moore et al....validated through monitoring the expression of fluorescent proteins and oxytetracycline enzymes. Next, this...

...used for western blot, flow cytometry, and immunofluorescence . However, protein purification is not ideal...for immunoprecipitation, western blot, and immunofluorescence with some success for protein purification...and can serve as an epitope tag as well as a fluorescent marker. The GFP tag is ideal for live cell imaging...imaging, FRET, flow cytometry, or immunofluorescence where an antibody can’t be used or that step can ...

...recent contribution to the field is a series of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based calcium...with a solution: they devised self-associating fluorescent domains whose association is disrupted in the...Robust red FRET sensors using self-associating fluorescent domains. ACS Chem Biol. 2013 Oct 18;8(10):2133...et al. MagFRET: The First Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Mg(2+) Sensor. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 2;8(12):e82009...

...see: Uhlen et al., 2016). In this post, we will describe the approaches that can be used to determine selectivity... cells were labelled with a green or violet, fluorescent dye, respectively. WT and KO cells were mixed...through an epitope tag such as FLAG/His/GFP. Fluorescent protein tags, which correlate closely with target...recognized by either antibody was not shared. Tables describe that the antibodies both recognized the target...use in western blot, immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence and flow cytometry. F1000Research, 13, 817...

...Choose the Brightest Fluorescent Protein Resources on Addgene.org Find Fluorescent Protein Plasmids Check...mRNA this displacement leads to a change in the fluorescent signal: untranslated RNAs appear yellow, and ..., which contains the tethering sites for the fluorescent proteins and is driven by an inducible promoter...

...speed of light over the last decade, but the fluorescent proteins (FPs) necessary for many of these applications...light and electron microscopy and observed high fluorescence resilience to these preparations. After crystalizing...    Fig. 4: hfYFP retains folding and fluorescence in high molarity GdnHCl, at high temperatures...!   Campbell, B.C., et al. Chemically stable fluorescent proteins for advanced microscopy. Nat Methods...

...containing two fluorescent proteins and four repeats of a miRNA target site. One fluorescent protein (EBFP2...location and function of microbes rely heavily on fluorescent protein genes. These optical reporters have limited...successfully visualized in vivo using ultrasound in Escherichia coli and Salmonella Typhimurium. This work demonstrates...

... factors, including limitations of number of flourescent proteins that can be inserted into a cell without...application. Each visual barcode consists of a fluorescent protein coupled to a specific subcellular localization...different localization peptides with four different fluorescent proteins, and inserting each visual barcode into...and reporters that drive the expression of the fluorescent protein by a specific transcription response ...

...Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9 described the PAM specificity of Cas9s isolated from different..., and NGCG). Since then, the Osamu Nureki Lab described a rationally engineered Cas9, SpCas9-NG, which...Nishimasu et al., 2018). The David Liu Lab similarly described xCas9, which displayed the ability to target multiple...post on choosing a Cas9, the Feng Zhang Lab had described eSpCas9, while the Keith Joung Lab had developed...

...process is called α-complementation. The system described above was put to practical use in the following...α-complementation cloning MCS): pGEM-T, pUC18 and pUC19, and pBluescript are a few common vectors. Blue-white screening...dependent on certain media components, and are rescued by genes supplied on the transformed plasmid. Such...complement auxotrophic cell lines), or genes which rescue a lethal phenotype. Resources on the Addgene Blog...

...locus-specific knock-in of FKBP12F36V. Detailed protocols describing the use of these plasmids are available here....al. and Weintraub et al.), chemical and genetic rescue experiments (Nabet et al.), proteomics (Nabet et...degradation, and lead author on the recent paper describing the dTAG technology. Follow him on twitter @behnamnabet... 29581585. This reference contains the full description of the dTAG system. The dTAG system was employed...

...includes overview information, key dates, funding description, research plan, award information, eligibility...aspects are understood. While reading the funding description, pay attention to the keywords used and think...grant applications restrict the space available to describe the proposed work. Thus, every single sentence...project are clearly stated and align with the description of the RFA and funding institution. Emphasizing...

...works best with western blots that use chemiluminescent or fluorescent detection, like horseradish peroxidase...that involves adding fresh chemiluminescent substrate or imaging your fluorescent probe. Then, if you don...