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  1. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    Feb. 8, 2018, 12:17 p.m.
    ...process known as bioluminescent resonance energy transfer (BRET). The fluor then emits light at a tissue-penetrating... consists of NLuc fused to the more penetrative orange fluorescent protein fusion (OgNLuc). Both fluorescent...for excitation. The result was the cyan-excitable orange fluorescent protein, CyOFP1. CyOFP1 was molecularly...and improved maturation time compared to similar orange fluorescent proteins. In their work, the authors...great imaging tools generate cyan, yellow, green, orange and red fluorescence. The paper reports a wide ...Plasmid #85199), Yellow (YeNL; Plasmid #85201), Orange (OeNL; plasmid #85202) and Red (ReNL; plasmid #85203...have been made using fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET) probes. These probes generally consist ...

  2. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    Aug. 15, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...concentration lies within the dynamic range of the curve. The dynamic range is the linear span between the lowest...the dynamic range of your standard curve, so if your sample does not fall within this range, it may be ... of the series dilutes by 1:2 for a series that ranges from 1:2–1:32. The specific dilution series used...Figure 1: A 1 mg/mL control is diluted in a series ranging from 1:2 to 1:32. Each individual step of the series... how well the data points fit the trendline. R2 ranges from 0 to 1 with 1 being a perfect fit and 0 indicating...that the curve can accurately measure.  Dynamic range depends on a number of factors, including the dilution...being used to measure the response. The dynamic range needs to be wide enough to cover all possible concentrations...

  3. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    April 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
    ...members to the Board of Directors: Khandan Baradaran, Frank Stegmeier, and Luk Vandenberghe. We’re excited...members and get to know them! Khandan Baradaran, PhD Khandan Baradaran’s expertise in viral safety, gene therapy... with health authority regulations,” Baradaran says.  Baradaran’s path to science began in high school... getting these reagents is profound.” Frank Stegmeier, PhD Frank Stegmeier is the Chief Scientific Officer...in viral genetics. In regards to open science, Baradaran thinks the best way to solve problems is to work...think will get the research funded,” she says. Baradaran met Addgene Executive Director Joanne Kamens several...the targets that have the biggest potential to transform patients' lives. Previously Stegmeier was the ...

  4. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    Jan. 3, 2019, 1:35 p.m.
    ...72 hours post-transformation/transfection in a transient assay. For stable transformation, regenerated ...Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. We also constructed smaller vectors suitable for transient assays using ...changes a single base with an efficiency typically ranging from 25-75%, while the success of precise change...creates a nick in the DNA by cutting only a single strand, dramatically reducing the likelihood of detrimental...of the desired T-A base pair. Figure 1: Transition mutation (C>T, G>A, A>G, and T>C) installation...deaminases (ecTadA), fused it with dCas9, and transformed it into E. coli harboring the defective CamR ...using protoplast transformation. Cytosine base editors for plant There are several CBEs available for plant...

  5. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    July 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... affecting protein translation of different reporter proteins. Protein translation requires the start ...compared to CRISPR/Cas9 edits that rely on double strand DNA breaks. Due to this inefficiency it is crucial...constitutively expressed to identify successfully transfected cells. C-to-T editing by the APOBEC-Cas9 editosome...that results in the restoration of fluorescence. Transient reporter for editing enrichment (TREE) The Wang...Wang and Brafman lab developed a transient reporter for editing enrichment (TREE) to purify single base... to cells segregated solely by a reporter of transfection, which only report the efficiency of plasmid...frequency of base edits of interest than solely transfected cells. “Gene On” (GO)- a functional reporter ...

  6. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    April 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...attractive due to the ease of transduction in difficult-to-transfect cell types ranging from primary to embryonic... traditional transfection and random genomic integration of a plasmid. Viral transduction is also generally...integrated into the genome of the target cell or transiently expressed. It’s important to note that for all...vector can express your construct in target cells transiently or constitutively depending on the virus used...generally less toxic to cells than transfections, preserving cell viability. Library delivery Screening... entire genome, overexpression of all human transcription factors, barcoded libraries to trace cell lineage... with viral vectors instead of a traditional transfection method. This is because viral systems have a...

  7. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ...Efficient gene transfer in C. elegans: extrachromosomal maintenance and integration of transforming sequences...easily manipulated with tools like CRISPR to make transgenic lines. The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster... in only 6 weeks compared to months to make a transgenic mouse line. Over the years the fly has become...DNA or RNA to edit their genomes or to create transgenic animals. Zebrafish are an ideal model organisms...development studies as their embryos are completely transparent. Thus scientists can easily observe early developmental...can be difficult in other vertebrate species. Transparency also allows scientists to easily observe fluorescently... control the temporal expression of different transgenes, the Stainer group determined that there are ...

  8. Working with Nuclear Receptors

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    July 15, 2014, 4:03 p.m.
    ...The development of the transient transfection platform for assaying transcriptional activity, for example...such as p300 and CBP histone acetyltransferases or CARM1 methyltransferase. This attendant signaling feature...dietary origin) that are diffused or actively transported from cells, traverse the body through the bloodstream...ligands NRs represent the largest family of transcription factors found in metazoans. The superfamily ... govern expression of genes involved in a broad range of reproductive, developmental, metabolic, and immune...multiple cell signaling systems. Activation of membrane receptors and signaling cascades conceivably allows...profiling datasets in to our data mining tool, Transcriptomine. We are currently nearing the completion of...

  9. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    July 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., expressing Ad E1A and E1B, can be transfected with your transfer plasmid, carrying your gene of interest... performed 12–18 hours post-transfection to help remove toxic transfection reagents and keep the cells...helper plasmids, commonly called “triple plasmid transfection” (Figure 1).    Figure 1: Overview of key steps...cells happy. Harvesting virus Once you have transfected your cells, wait 2–5 days and then collect the supernatant...the concentration of viral particles that can transduce cells, which can vary based on target cells and... capsids, thus leading to an overestimate of transducible units in the virus preparation.  rAAVs  Now...Whitney, O., Walther, N., & Maurer, A. C. (2023). Transgene Expression in Cultured Cells Using Unpurified ...

  10. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    Aug. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...respondents (transfection method, amount of each component per transfection etc.). Take Pooran's NgAgo Survey...Doudna Lab Many thanks to our Guest Blogger Pooran Dewari! Pooran Dewari is a postdoc at the MRC Centre for...TOOL This post was contributed by guest blogger Pooran Dewari. Any views in this post are those of the...an ssDNA guide. Therefore, researchers must co-transfect cells with 5’-P-ssDNA guides and an NgAgo expression...delivery methods. Researchers can conveniently transfect/inject cells with in vitro preassembled Cas9/gRNA...). View the Complete and Up-to-Date Results of Pooran's NgAgo Survey The take-home message While most ...researchers will have to carry out repeated transfections with the ssDNA guide, although many may find...

  11. Build Your CRISPR Vocabulary

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    July 2, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...target and nontarget DNA strands upstream of the PAM site found in the nontarget strand. Protein Cas: ...sequences and keeping the array organized. Target strand: The strand of foreign DNA that Cas proteins recognize...recognize using an RNA guide. Non-target strand: The paired strand of foreign DNA cut by Cas9, whose sequence... and variable spacer sequences. The array is transcribed and processed into crRNAs, each including one...protospacer-adjacent motif” present in the non-target strand of DNA to be cut, which varies between CRISPR systems...from Addgene!   RNA crRNA: “CRISPR RNAs” are transcribed from the CRISPR array and include a spacer and...track down its suspect—the target DNA. tracrRNA: A “trans-activating CRISPR RNA” base pairs to the repeat ...

  12. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    Oct. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...between the edited strand and wild-type strand of the host DNA. When these strands hybridize, the nuclease...nuclease can detect strands with mismatches and cleave them. The results are then visualized using gel electrophoresis...is also key to perform these validations as translational researchers begin to use CRISPR as a therapy... search criteria are not exhaustive. Mismatch tolerance settings are often limited to off-target sites...nucleotides) that may still lead to off-target double-stranded breaks (Tsai et al. 2015). Additionally, current... genome-wide, unbiased identification of double-strand breaks (DSBs) evaluated by sequencing (GUIDE-seq...et al. 2013). GUIDE-seq and BLESS detect double-stranded breaks and do not require high sequencing read...

  13. Plasmids 101: TOPO Cloning

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    Oct. 27, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...different DNA strand comes along, it can attack this covalent bond thus joining the two DNA strands and releasing...planning to transform right away OR you can store the reaction at -20C overnight. 4. Transform TOPO Cloning...DNA sequence 5´-(C/T)CCTT-3' and digests double stranded DNA at this sequence. The energy from this breakage...stored as a covalent bond between the cleaved 3′ DNA strand and a tyrosyl residue of topoisomerase I (1). If...researcher to perform blue-white screening after transformation - self joining of the vector ends results in... minutes will not significantly improve the transformation efficiency).  5. Select and Analyze 10 White...add will depend on whether you are planning on transforming your reaction into chemically or electro-competent...

  14. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    Jan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m.
    ...scientists to quickly and easily generate zebrafish transgenic lines to study neurobiology and neuorodgenerative...pluripotent stem cells) through the expression of transcription factors OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-MYC is the... method for generating iPSCs to express the transcription factors from a polycistronic cassette. However...comparable experimental results. Using PiggyBac transposons, the Woltjen Lab compared different variants ...reprogramming discrepancies. The polycistronic piggyBac transposon vectors tested in this work are available at ...approach Genetically modified organisms like transgenic mice are important tools for understanding the...a donor in FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) and FLIM (Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy...

  15. 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.
    ...hiPSCs for clinical purposes: mRNA transfection- this allows transient expression of the reprogramming factors...cells, thus expressing additional EBNA-1 transiently. The transiently expressed EBNA-1 increases protein expression...insertional mutagenesis, which is the integration of transgenes into the genome that can cause disruption of ...express reprogramming factors To date, the mRNA transfection method has not been used successfully to derive...using PBMCs as the source of somatic cells. This translates to only about 16 hiPSC colonies per 100 ml of...such low efficiency of reprogramming is a major hindrance in using PBMCs as a source of somatic cells for...system thus provides a practical way to generate transgene-free, virus-free clinical grade hiPSCs from easily...

  16. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    April 20, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
    ...lentiviral vector to be transported retrograde and also has higher neuronal transduction efficiency and a better...virus to either restrict or broaden the host cell range (tropism). Pseudotyping is only done on enveloped...Lentiviral production uses three plasmids: (1) The transfer plasmid, (2) the envelope plasmid, and (3) the...the packaging plasmid. These are transfected into target cells which produce lentiviral particles.   ... titer is one of the reasons VSV-G is used to transduce stem cells and neurons. However, VSV-G’s broad...for off-target infectivity as it can bind and transduce many cell types before reaching the target cells...find tables and information on different viral membranes, tropism, and advantages and disadvantages: Table...

  17. Plasmids 101: Gram Negative and Positive Bacteria

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    Aug. 2, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...diderms, have a thinner peptidoglycan membrane and an outer lipid membrane. Common gram negative bacteria include...within their membrane, while the stain is washed from the gram negative bacteria’s thinner membrane. Procedure...destroys the outer lipid membrane, and the thin inner peptidoglycan membrane is unable to retain the stain...expanded on Gram’s discovery, adding a second stain, safranin, as a counterstain to help visualize the bleached...or monoderms, have a single thick peptidoglycan membrane. Common gram positive bacteria include staphylococci...and immediately rinse. Flood the smear with the safranin counterstain for 30 - 60 seconds. Rinse the slide...interaction of CV+ and I- in the thick multilayered membrane of the gram positive bacteria. In a gram negative...

  18. Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing

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    March 24, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... of the four strands of the cleaved duplex, while the fourth strand (the released strand in Figure 1 below...discovered that single stranded donor DNA: Complementary to the released strand, 127bp in length, With...single or double stranded donor DNA with other design parameters. Example single stranded donor DNA and ...presented in Figure 2. Figure 2: Single-stranded donor DNA interaction with the Cas9-DNA duplex...accessible to anneal with complementary single stranded DNA. We thus wondered if such a structure could... that are an order of magnitude greater than transfection approaches. Moreover, the cost of reagents is...relatively modest, requiring expressed Cas9 protein, transcribed sgRNA, and optional donor DNA. Chris Richardson...

  19. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    Jan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m.
    ...AAV5, AAV8) enable different patterns of transduction and transgene expression across different cell types..., Rumpel S. Analysis of transduction efficiency, tropism and axonal transport of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5...expressed from your cell line of choice after transduction with this virus. While various Cas9 mutants ...classic Cas9 nuclease, which introduces double stranded DNA breaks, can be expressed from lentiCas9-Blast...single stable Cas9-expressing cell line and then transduce this line with lentiviruses expressing various...experiments and over time (as compared to separate transductions with a single-vector system). Tips for using...is used to attain cell-specific expression in transgenic animals, where cre expression is restricted to...

  20. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    June 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Retroviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses that use reverse transcriptase to synthesize complementary...for most experimental needs, and can transduce (infect) a wide range of cell types with a high efficiency... such as a heterologous envelope or a post-transcriptional regulatory element can be used for either type...Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a small, single-stranded DNA parvovirus. AAV can infect humans and some...response as retroviruses. This virus can also transduce dividing and non-dividing cells, making it conducive...issue. Adenovirus Adenovirus has a linear, double stranded DNA genome which is non-enveloped. It can infect...Adenovirus is an effective option if you need high, transient expression of a genetic cargo or have a very large...
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