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  1. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    Sept. 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Purification Process with pCri Cell-free protein expression kit Cell-free expression systems have been...SITS to create the pCell-Free vectors, Gateway-compatible backbones that enable cell-free expression of...testing and comparison of different cell-free expression systems; the Cell-free expression test kit represents...: FX Cloning Kit BIOFAB Plasmid Set pCri System Cell Free Protein Expression Kit FREQ Seq PUF Assembly...facilitate gene expression in bacteria, yeast, mammalian cells, insects, and even Xenopus oocytes. The expression...of proteins in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell extracts (Gagoski et al 2015). He has also constructed...represents a set of 88 clones in a pCellFree vector that enables protein expression in any in vitro translation...
  2. Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags

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    April 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Bewersdorf, J. (2016). Two-colour live-cell nanoscale imaging of intracellular targets. Nature Communications,...opening up new applications.   Figure 1: Live-cell labeling strategies. The green structure represents...organelle interactions. a) Labeling scheme. b) COS-7 cell ER labeled with Halo-Sec61β with SiR-CA (magenta... HaloTag for their "ticker tape" method for intracellular recordings, switching between different colored...viral particles with BG-linked antibodies to drive cell type-specific delivery of a viral vector (Strebinger...specialized ligands is more expensive than letting the cells make a fluorescent protein for you. And some ligands...certain probes are not very good at crossing the cell membrane. So, you should investigate your options...
  3. BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development

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    June 26, 2018, 1:33 p.m.
    ...are being awarded free plasmids form Addgene to accelerate their research. Read on to learn how these researchers...the physiological and pathological roles of human cell glycans. Accordingly, she joined efforts with the...aspect of immunology, participating in events such as cell development, recognition and migration, the immune... is not surprising. However, the molecular and cellular mechanisms behind the immune defects in CDG patients...plasmids to immortalize CDG patient-derived immune cell lines and use these lines to study how immune processes...and other pathological conditions. References: Monticelli, M., Ferro, T., Jaeken, J., dos Reis Ferreira...McMurray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado...
  4. Plasmids 101: The Wide World of Natural Plasmids

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    Oct. 8, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...spread. They can be inherited by daughter cells during cellular reproduction, similar to the host’s chromosome...elements in the human gut. Cell, 187(5), 1206-1222.e16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.039 Garcillán-Barcia...transfer can occur naturally through transformation (cellular uptake from the environment), transduction (viral...bacteriophages), or conjugation (direct transfer from one cell to another). Bacteria need special fertility genes... of a plasmid benefiting its host. For example, cells with a penicillin resistance plasmid can grow in...also carry the necessary resistance genes to help cells survive their own secretions. Pro tip! Historically...bacteria invade hosts, including attaching to host cells and evading the host immune system, and those that...
  5. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    Jan. 5, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) helps researchers sift through thousands of cells to identify cells exhibiting...target single cells. Now, Francois St-Pierre’s lab developed a new form of FACS-based cell screening, Single-cell...individual cells with unique spatiotemporal phenotypes from large heterogeneous cultures.  HeLa cells expressed... conformational changes in a protein.    Cells expressing an RFP reporter plasmid for recombinase...is active in vitro as well as in human and plant cells. Casɸ from Biggiephage can eliminate competing... Single-cell Phenotypic Observation and Tagging with Light (SPOTlight) as a way to isolate individual ...of keratin with mGold (top) and mVenus (bottom). Cells were imaged every 30 seconds for 3 hours. Image ...
  6. Three Key Considerations for Precise Neuronal Targeting Using AAV Technologies

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    Nov. 27, 2019, 2:03 p.m.
    ...Table 1 from the paper. 2. Manipulate your cell of interest: Cell-type specific expression of molecular tools...in their cell bodies. Optical stimulation in a different brain area can then reveal the cells bodies of...with AAV: 1. Getting your viral vector into your cell of interest: AAV tropism and route of administration...transduction, the viral capsid proteins bind to the target cell’s surface proteins and this interaction determines...efficiency of the AAV serotype used for a specific cell type. Find some transduction characteristics of ...by restricting expression to genetically defined cell types. Specific transgene expression can be also...different approaches can increase the specificity of cell targeting even further. For example, injecting AAVs...
  7. Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries Enable Genome-Scale, Knockout Screening

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    Feb. 20, 2014, 4:57 p.m.
    ...identify genes essential for cell viability in cancer and pluripotent stem cells. In a melanoma model, they...high representation of library within cells and aimed for 300 cells per construct, but in some biological...were able to produce a very diverse population of cells within a lab dish in a matter of a few days. Their...pooled libraries include enrichment against kinases, cell cycle proteins, and more.  “In the past, genome ... delivered via lentiviral infection into target cells that have previously been stably transfected for...conduct systematic genetic screens in mammalian cells,” David Sabatini, a senior author of one of the ...’s also important that you infect enough target cells. What’s “enough” depends on your experiment and ...
  8. Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning

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    Aug. 22, 2019, 12:43 p.m.
    ... and zap the mixture of DNA into cells. Unfortunately, not every cell successfully takes up plasmid DNA...selection: Cells that have gained a specific gene survive In positive selection, only cells that contain...cassette, you would plate the cells on kanamycin-containing agar. Only cells carrying plasmids that contain...Therefore, your cloning strategy needs to identify cells containing the plasmid construct you’re seeking....resistance marker. After transformation, plate the cells on medium containing the corresponding antibiotic...these cases, antibiotic selection will select for cells that have been transformed with the plasmid backbone...plasmids to complement auxotrophy. Negative selection: Cells that have lost a specific gene survive Unlike positive...
  9. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    Feb. 17, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...no detectable effect on cell viability – meaning there was no measurable cell toxicity – using Cas7-11...such as mouse embryonic stem cells and glioblastoma cells. PASTE Development and discovery The first ...observed in non-dividing cells, meaning that this system wasn’t dependent on the cell’s intrinsic machinery...turning potential into impact. In molecular and cellular biology, this happens through the development ...exclusively on this space — developing tools for cellular targeting. Lately, they’ve been working on two... shRNA and Cas13 systems in a range of mammalian cell lines. However, in those same comparisons, the AbuGoot...11. This included tests done in cell lines known to be more sensitive to toxicity from RNA editing, such...
  10. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ...thought to activate programmed cell death or a dormant state for bacterial cells that have been infected with...bacterial cells, LwaCas13a does not display nonspecific RNA cleavage activity in eukaryotic cells. They arrived...target RNAs, although its usefulness in bacterial cells will likely be limited by the propensity of Cas13a...pool of RNAs) or studying RNA processing in live cells. Indeed, groups have utilized dCas13 fusion proteins...genotype human DNA, identify tumor mutations within cell-free genomic DNA, and detect COVID-19 (Joung, Ladha...Ladha et al., 2020). Cas13a in mammalian cells The Zhang lab made the exciting discovery that some Cas13a...Cas13a orthologs can function in mammalian and plant cells (Abudayyeh et al., 2017). They characterized Cas13a...
  11. Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More

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    Aug. 13, 2019, 12:58 p.m.
    ...development. Single cell sequencing-based lineage tracing Recently, gene expression in all cells of the developing...proportions of otherwise normal cell types are produced, rather than novel, abnormal cell types. Sequencing-based...understanding how genes control biology (a fact celebrated by the Nobel prize committee). But as the field...applications. For example, specific tissues such as blood cells or neurons can be fluorescently labeled, allowing...divisions, and movements of each of the thousands of cells in the developing zebrafish embryo have been tracked...developing zebrafish embryo has been mapped using single cell RNA sequencing approaches (Harland, 2018). Several...sequenced zebrafish genome. One study profiled 38,731 cells from 694 embryos over multiple stages and reconstructed...
  12. Viral Production at Addgene

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    Oct. 24, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... preparations are added to cells in culture. Three to five days later, cell cultures are inspected for...a new vial of early passage cells. Approximately two weeks post-thaw, cell culture supernatant is tested...section for images).     Figure 2: AAV Pro cells were transduced with either pAAV-Ef1a-mCherry-IRES-Cre... (55634-AAVrg) alone at 1.7E6 viral genomes (vg)/cell, pAAV-CAG-FLEX-rc [Jaws-KGC-GFP-ER2] (Addgene 84445...preparations ("-LV” catalog items) are produced in 293T cells using the 2nd generation psPAX2 and pMD2.G packaging...packaging system developed by the Trono lab. Cell culture medium (OptiPro SFM) containing lentivirus is first...modified from Wang et al., 2018). Briefly, 293T cells are transduced with serial dilutions of a lentiviral...
  13. Creating accessible biology activities in schools with BioBits

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    Aug. 2, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ...on freeze-dried, cell-free (FD-CF) components. Making proteins outside of a cell - cell free extracts Typically... into a host cell (through a process called transformation), essentially giving the cell all the instructions...to dispose of the live cells. The alternative is to express the protein in a cell-free manner. This is ...biology, especially those at the molecular and cellular level. The reason for this is cost and complexity...electrophoresis to separate DNA or transforming cells with green fluorescent protein, these activities...transcription and translation. Unfortunately, having live cells in a classroom presents equipment needs, such as...operating the rest of the car as well. Similarly, cell free expression systems contain all the parts needed...
  14. Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer

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    July 6, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...cancers. It was inspiring to participate in the 2017 Cell Symposium on Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity and...recent findings in basic immunology, cancer-immune cell interactions, cancer immunotherapy, as well as new...immunosurveillance. The presented study analysed a model of hepatocellular carcinoma, a cancer which can develop from ...example the upregulation of the immunosuppressive cell surface receptor PD-1. This immunosuppressive environment...follow the interactions between tumor and immune cells in real time. Addgene depositor Professor Max Krummel...effect of PD-1 blockade.“ (Ref 4). PD-1 helps tumor cells evade the immune system - COX inhibitors like aspirin...therapeutics such as  (Chimeric Antigen Receptors) CAR T cells and PD-1 modulators. An exciting development in ...
  15. Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening

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    June 4, 2015, 1:03 p.m.
    ...gets interrupted as shown in cell A, and thus will not complement the cell's β-galactosidase mutation. An...therefore the cell will have a functional β-galactosidase enzyme through α-complementation (cell B). As shown... plasmid-containing cells without using antibiotic resistance. These rely on cell lines susceptible to...without which the cells cannot reproduce to form colonies (used to complement auxotrophic cell lines), or genes...called the α-peptide) to a lacZΔM15-mutant bacterial cell in trans complements the mutation allowing for a...screening process. It does not select only those cells that have taken up a plasmid and thus should be ...white due to successful cloning and not because the cell failed to take up the α-complementation plasmid....
  16. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    Aug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...epigenome editing. Cell, 184(9), 2503–2519.e17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.025.    Recombinant...tissue is identifying the cells you are studying. Antibodies can help reveal cellular identities by targeting...particles (eVLPs) offers an option to transduce cells directly with ribonucleoprotein cargo. eVLPs contain... will only be transiently present in transduced cells, limiting off-target editing. Cargo size limits ...01133-w Pandey, S., Gao, X. D., Krasnow, N. A., McElroy, A., Tao, Y. A., Duby, J. E., Steinbeck, B. J.,...site-specific integration of large genes in mammalian cells via continuously evolved recombinases and prime ... Recombinant antibodies for marking cell types in the nervous system By Ashley Waldron The mammalian nervous...
  17. Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology

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    Oct. 21, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...building-blocks of living cells, rapidly forming covalent bonds to specific partners under cell-friendly conditions...using the reactive groups naturally present in a cell? By analogy to Click Chemistry, Click Biology can...the diverse kinds of proteins that one finds in cells. High yield of reaction — generating product without...reduced; in the ER and Golgi apparatus and outside the cell, most cysteines are oxidized in disulfide bonds....temperature and on ice, when we have cracked open the cells. The tools should react in all of these situations... for connecting proteins in the test tube or in cells. There are also SNAP-tag and HaloTag modules, which...functionalities, such as fluorescence or triggering new cellular behavior like degradation or electrophile signaling...
  18. Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production

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    Aug. 7, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...transfected into a packaging cell line, usually a derivative of 293T. Packaging cells are incubated and after...fine-tuning selection and expression in your target cell line, researchers often find themselves faced with...impact the transfection efficiency of the packaging cell line and thereby affect the titer of the virus. ...layer flask will require some initial optimization; cell number, media volume, and plasmid concentrations...larger vessel to the 10 cm2 dish and adjusting the cell number, plasmid concentration, and experimental ... consideration when titering a lentivirus is the cell line that is used for titering. Typically researchers...researchers will choose a relatively permissive cell line for titering in order to obtain the best titer possible...
  19. Viral Vectors 101: Calcium Sensors

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    Aug. 10, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ... defined population of cells (e.g., a neuron subtype) and specific subcellular compartments for measurements...calcium concentrations and transients in living cells and organisms. Unlike chemical indicators, these...Localization The calcium concentrations in different subcellular compartments can vary greatly. Additionally, ... violet light and (2) exposure to increased intracellular calcium. It has been applied to mark active ...neuron-specific expression (hSyn promoter) and pan-mammalian cell expression (CAG promoter). An improved version named...neuron-specific, astrocyte-specific (GCaMP6 only) or mammalian cell expression, and compatible with constitutive or ...measure changes in calcium specific to the neuronal cell body or the axon (GCaMP6 only). The genetic elements...
  20. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    March 8, 2021, 2:41 p.m.
    ...readout for subcellular fractionations, a procedure that isolates proteins from different cellular compartments...interest from Addgene, transfected it into your target cells, now what? How can you tell if the protein you are... are so keen to study is expressing in your cells? Immunoblotting or simply the western blot, or western...specific protein within the complex mix derived from cells or tissues. Westerns are useful not only to detect...protein levels relative to standards, detect the cellular location of proteins, and can be a readout for...immobilized onto a membrane, usually composed of a nitrocellulose or polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) in a step...step called protein transfer. While both nitrocellulose and PVDF are commonly used, PVDF tends to be slightly...
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