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...proteins in ten ddifferent cell types, including difficult-to-manipulate primary cells, achieving knockdown ...stable cell lines overexpressing TRIM21, finding that TRIM21 overexpression did not affect cell proliferation...electroporated cells re-adhered to the culture plate within 4 hr of treatment. In some primary cell lines, endogenous...proliferation. These cells also did not contain changes in expression of TRIM21-associated genes, indicating...multiple methods for TRIM-Away delivery. For small cell populations, co-microinjection of TRIM21 protein...protein and the target antibody works well. In larger cell populations, you can deliver these components together...together using electroporation. In these bulk cell experiments, Clift et al. observed no stress or damage...

...for neurons. Non-neuronal cells do this too. It's just that for non-neural cells, ion-based communication...between many cells (through gap junction proteins which connect the cytoplasm of two cells) can also affect...more depolarized (positive) the cell is, the more embryonic, stem cell-like, or cancerous it is (Levin...happens at a slightly slower scale.  All living cells with a membrane possess an electrical state. This...charge between the inside and the outside of the cell. This imbalance is maintained by ion channels and...proteins cx43 GJB1 GJB2 Bioelectric states can alter cell types and patterning There is mounting evidence ...more polarized (negative) the action potential of a cell, the more differentiated and quiescent it is, and...

...Time to expression AAVs have to infect cells, hijack host cell machinery, and synthesize a second strand...that can be used to express genes of interest in cell and animal models. AAVs are non-pathogenic, do not...be specifically targeted to a number of different cell types even when systemically administered in an ...ranging from transient gene expression in a particular cell type to CRISPR genome editing, optogenetics, and...application of AAV is delivery of genetic cargo to a host cell. In order to make room for a gene of interest, AAVs...allow the virus to infect (or not infect) different cell types with some specificity. There are a lot of ...ability of AAV to drive gene expression in specific cells and/or tissues is one of its biggest advantages....

...mammalian cells. dDetermined as effective NIR fluorescence in transiently transfected live HeLa cells with ...Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins in Mammalian Cells. Cell Chem Biol 24, 758-766 e753 (2017). Baloban, M...developers and users, BV is present in eukaryotic cells as an intermediate of heme metabolism (Shemetov ...to GFP-like probes by supplying a single gene to cells. Still in bacteria, which do not produce BV, an ... to consider effective brightness of NIR FPs in cells, in addition to their molecular brightness (a product...the concentration of BV-containing molecules in a cell and depends on the efficiency of BV incorporation...biosensors can be imaged at spatial scales from sub-cellular to whole-body in small animals, such as mice (...

...offer scientists a simple yet powerful way to tag cellular proteins and investigate protein localization,...continuously synthesized and degraded within the cell, so at any given time, an FP-chimeric protein may...Since emission of green light is more phototoxic to cells, most scientists working on in vivo imaging models... this is not ideal for experiments in mammalian cells. Dendra2 is another monomeric PA-FP which unlike...tetrameric. Tetrameric PA-FPS are better for whole cell imaging and studying organelle trafficking. Monomeric... chimeric protein will oligomerize, disrupting cellular function and localization, or leading to protein...the photoactivation step can actually harm your cells before your experiment even begins! If you are performing...

...illumination of neighboring cells evokes action potentials (APs) in patched cells expressing wild type CoChR...techniques for live-cell imaging of the dynamic changes in biochemical activity within the cell. Their Fluorescence...distribution of clusters without accumulation in subcellular compartments such as nuclear speckles. Furthermore...OptoSTIM1), caused two-fold faster changes in intracellular Ca2+ levels than the original version containing...CRY2clust should prove a useful tool to further probe cellular function. The CRY2clust Plasmid can be found here...28646204. soCoChR: A novel opsin that enables single-cell optogenetics Article contributed by Meghan Rego ...wild type CoChR, soCoChR localizes primarily to the cell body with very little signal detected along the ...

...modified zygotes or embryonic stem cells. Modified embryonic stem cells are injected into a blastocyst which...engineered cells. Similar to transgenic mice, knockout mice are engineered during the embryonic stem cell stage...not all cells in the blastocyst were successfully edited by the injection of embryonic stem cells. Also,...controls the cell types in which the conditional recombination can occur based on the cells in which Cre... interest into a zygote, or into embryonic stem cells that are then injected into a blastocyst. There ...of interest into a zygote or into embryonic stem cells. Non-homologous recombination incorporates this ...targeting vector is electroporated into embryonic stem cells and this will insert the gene at a specific site...

...can actually infect cells. These assays typically involve infecting a target cell line with your virus...distinguish between a cell that has had one viral particle integrated into its genome and a cell that has had ...arrived; you’ve painstakingly cared for your packaging cell line, prepped your DNA, transfected and harvested...move ahead with your infection and make your stable cell line. While we’ve all experienced the pressure to...viral copies that have integrated into the target cell’s genome. Physical titer The two most common assays...functional titer uses FACS to count the number of target cells that are positive for vector encoded transgene expression...resistance genes carried on transfer plasmids. Target cells are transduced with serial dilutions of a viral ...

...packaging AAV is transfecting HEK293 cells with AAV packaging plasmids. The cells need three different plasmids...precipitation. Instead of sonicating the cell pellet, I lyse the cells with this AAV lysis buffer and freeze...bath to release the virus particles from the cells. Cell lysates are then treated with benzonase immediately...five days after transfection, the AAV-containing cells and media are harvested and purified. In total, ...not counting the time needed to expand the HEK293 cells. Check out the Addgene AAV Production protocol for... strains, like NEB Stable. NEB Stable competent cells lack RecA, a protein that aids in the homologous... AAV. I skip the PEG precipitation of the HEK293 cell culture supernatant because it’s time consuming ...

...co-expression among cellular markers You’ll also need to know if markers are co-expressed in your cells when designing...immunologists, allowing for the rapid analysis of cell populations within a heterogenous tissue type, such...methods, the identification and isolation of rare cell types. In recent years, full spectrum flow cytometry...detector to detect one fluorophore and therefore one cellular marker. However, emission spectra of certain fluorophores...Spectral flow allows for autofluorescence extraction Cells produce a low level of fluorescence called autofluorescence...your panel. If you have two highly overlapping cellular markers, it is important to pair them with two...similarity index of 0.87; therefore, two overlapping cellular markers should not be paired with these dyes, ...

...Proteins in Living Cells Using Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation. Molecular Cell 9:789–798. https...directly visualize PPIs that regulate numerous cellular functions, including ubiquitinoylation, kinase...BiFC studies used the method to interrogate the subcellular localization of interactions between basic leucine...fusion proteins it requires can lead to aberrant subcellular localization of the studied PIPs. The straightforward...involves three steps: fusion protein construction, cellular expression, and quantification (Kerppola, 2006...Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection. Cellular expression Whether BiFC constructs are expressed...endogenous counterparts using western blotting. The subcellular localization of BiFC constructs should also be...

...genome-wide interrogation of the genes required for cellular processes. For a successful screen, it is necessary... on the method used to introduce the gRNAs into cells. Most CRISPR pooled libraries have been created ...the chance of transducing a only a single gRNA per cell. The viral DNA containing the gRNA then integrates...next-generation sequencing of the genomic DNA. However, some cell types are poorly transduced by lentivirus, and thus...CRISPR libraries was not possible. Primary murine T cells cannot be transduced by lentivirus and have been...library was used to transduce T helper type 2 (Th2) cells from mice that constitutively express Cas9 and screen...CRISPR pooled library can be used for screening of cells that are refractory to lentiviral transduction, ...

...4,000 cell lines. Seventeen of these cell lines were used to investigate the susceptibility of cells from... now important for accelerating research into this virus. One such example is cell lines. The American...additional cell line used in this study came from the Japanese Collection of Research Bioresources Cell Bank...that SARS-CoV, which entered human cells via hACE2, could not enter cells expressing murine ACE2 (Subbarao...repositories that distribute mouse strains, plasmids, cell lines, and much more have been critical for pandemic...from Reproducibility for Everyone. Case study 1: Cell lines Many of the reagents used to investigate SARS-CoV...of this pathogen. The sharing and distribution of cell lines from repositories on opposite sides of the...

...look at the subcellular localization of a protein of interest. Conveniently, you found a cell line in which...antibody binding in the transfected cells but not in control cells. But (there is always a ‘but’), you...transfect it into your favorite cell line. In parallel, you transfect cells with another plasmid not encoding...the cells transfected with your protein of interest and show just the faintest band from the cells transfected...when you start using complex samples such as whole cell lysate or tissue sections. It is important to confirm...proteomic data from several different tissues or cell types. If your antibody indeed binds to your target...You perform immunocytochemistry on these mutant cells as well as a non-mutant line and see a great antibody...

.... Nat Cell Biol. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-021-00836-1 Visual barcodes for live cell clonal...with one visual barcode per cell and up to 200-plex with two barcodes per cell. The researchers validated...long sequence knock-ins Visual barcodes for live cell clonal multiplexing Improving flexibility for ... powerful approach for proteomic mapping in both cell culture and whole organisms (see our 2019 overview...reduced risks of unwanted mutations in mammalian cells. Long sequences traditionally have higher risks ...multiplexing by: Rachel Leeson Multiplexed images in live cells remains a challenge due to multiple factors, including...flourescent proteins that can be inserted into a cell without disrupting its functions. Recently, Ravid...

...difficult-to-transfect cell types ranging from primary to embryonic stem cells. Viral integration of a... also generally less toxic to cells than transfections, preserving cell viability. Library delivery Screening...Viral applications Viruses work by infecting a host cell (the target of viral infection) and delivering a...to be anything you want delivered to your target cells. This delivered DNA/RNA can then be either permanently...permanently integrated into the genome of the target cell or transiently expressed. It’s important to note...This vector can express your construct in target cells transiently or constitutively depending on the virus...transcription factors, barcoded libraries to trace cell lineage, and so much more! Libraries allow you to...

...within an E. coli cell, but vectors can be widely utilized across many different cell types and each one... the yeast cell. These elements control not only the number of plasmids found in each cell, but also whether...are eukaryotes and thus contain complex internal cell structures similar to those of plants and animals...components to allow shuttling between E. coli and yeast cells. To be useful in the lab, the vectors must contain...replication (ORI) and a means of selection in yeast cells, in addition to the bacterial ORI and antibiotic...determines plasmid copy number within the bacterial cell. Similarly, the specific ORI elements included within...plasmid) allows for 50+ copies to stably propagate per cell. The copy number of these vectors can also be controlled...

... into AAV particles for delivery into mammalian cells, especially when fused to effector proteins for ..., base editing, and genome editing in mammalian cells. The “V4” version (named CasMINI) had the highest...an active nuclease.  Read the paper in Molecular Cell Find the CasMINI plasmids Efficient CRISPR editing...effective in genome editing in both bacteria and human cells using various delivery methods, including plasmid...plasmids   Selective endogenous encapsidation for cellular delivery of RNAs By Mike Lacy The retroviral-like... called Selective Endogenous eNcapsidation for cellular Delivery (SEND). They demonstrate SEND as a modular...mRNA or Cas9 mRNA and sgRNA, in human and mouse cells. They further develop a version of SEND for gene...

... that are diffused or actively transported from cells, traverse the body through the bloodstream, and ...understanding of how these processes are regulated at the cellular, tissue and organ level by nuclear receptors (...corepressors depending upon a context defined by ligand, cell type, and promoter, organizing the expression of... coactivator proteins individually contribute to cell regulation in a coherent manner. Because coregulators...that coactivators may be integrators of multiple cell signaling systems. Activation of membrane receptors...sense the impact of the total environment on the cell. The NURSA Consortium Now in its third phase of ...purification proteomic profiling of coregulators in HeLa cells was the first comprehensive analysis of the interactome...

...number of cells have been edited. For many experiments, the end goal is to generate a clonal cell line, so...designed your gRNA and introduced it into your target cells with Cas9. Hooray! Now it’s time to make sure your...blog post we’ll explain how to verify that your cells were appropriately edited for your desired mutation...important to know a few things about your target cells and the desired edits. First, you will need to know.... Validating knockout mutations When a knockout cell line is desired, any mutation that introduces a ...input is sequencing trace files of WT and edited cell lines. Then decomposition analysis is performed ...both an unedited population and your Cas9-targeted cells. Simply upload both trace files to the TIDE tool...