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TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 15, 2019, 12:30 p.m.... requires selection. These two steps are (Figure 1): The initial plasmid integration step (the so-called...antibiotic resistance marker from the vector (abR, Figure 1). The resolution step (“double crossover”) which leads... loss of a specific phenotype (using sacB, Figure 1, further discussed below). Counter-selectable marker...Current protocols in molecular biology 106.1 (2014): 1-16. PubMed PMID: 24733238. Additional resources on...strong transcriptional terminator BBa_B1002 (from IGEM) upstream of the MCS to reduce transcriptional readthrough...rely on exogenous enzymes, require multiple transformation and plasmid curing steps, and can generate ...worked too. Rhamnose induction relies on the transcriptional activator rhaS. To allow manipulation of bacteria...
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Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.... employing HDR. Ma et al. moved forward with gRNA 1 to conduct microinjection experiments in S phase zygotes...instead from the mother’s wild type allele (Figure 1). 72.4% of embryos carried two wild-type copies of...proceeded through NHEJ rather than HDR. Figure 1: Homology-directed repair in targeted zygotes proceeds...the embryos underwent repair not from the single-stranded oligonucleotide (ssODN) template supplied by Ma...maternal allele rather than the supplied single-stranded oligonucleotide (ssODN) template. Embryos also...off-target effects, but this advantage likely won’t transfer to all genes we’d like to target. In addition,... -
Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 8, 2016, 3:30 p.m....succumb to the toxicity of CcdB. Figure 1: Image from Bernard, P., et al. showing the pKIL 18...submit a guest blog entry of your own! References 1. Bernard, P. “Positive Selection of Recombinant DNA... plasmid ccdB killer gene”. Gene. 1994 Oct 11;148(1):71-4. PubMed PMID: 7926841. 4. Bernard, P., et al...poison, locking up DNA gyrase with broken double stranded DNA and ultimately causing cell death. ccdA, another...gene in frame with an MCS. E. coli that were transformed with the empty vectors expressed the ccdB gene... that ccdB Survival™ can be more difficult to transform, depending upon the specific plasmids being used... -
Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 31, 2016, 2:30 p.m....destabilize the transcription complex, initiating cleavage of the transcript. Figure 1: A predicted... monkey virus constitutive RNA transport element lead to enhanced HIV-1 Gag expression in a context-dependent...prokaryotic terminators and deposited several with Addgene (1). Prokaryotic polyadenylation Although mostly thought...initiation step of gene transcription; today we'll provide an overview on how transcription stops, or termination...from the transcription machinery. Terminators are found downstream of the gene to be transcribed, and typically...generally serves to promote transcript longevity in eukaryotes and promote transcript degradation in prokaryotes...Hepatitis Virus Posttranscriptional Regulatory Element Enhances Expression of Transgenes Delivered by ... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 18, 2022, 2:15 p.m....yourself in a creative rut, read on! Fig 1: Blugene using creative problem-solving in the lab...Blog Transferable Skills Guide: Problem-Solving Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork Transferable Skills...feel they lack formal training in a variety of transferable skills. At Addgene we're helping to fill this...both helping researchers recognize their MANY transferable skills learned while working in the lab and ...Today, we’re highlighting an oft-underlooked transferable skill: creativity. I’ve heard quite a few scientists..., it’s clear that creativity is absolutely a transferable skill developed during PhD training. Creativity...problem. In a study outlined in Originals by Adam Grant, a creativity expert at Stanford conducted an experiment... -
Michael Koeris' Journey from Grad Student to Entrepreneur: The Story of Sample 6
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 21, 2016, 4:52 p.m....Podcast breakdown (Time : Topic) 0:00 - 1:25 : Introduction 1:25 - 6:19 : Dr. Koeris' graduate work in...Novophage's successful transformation into Sample 6 and Dr. Koeris' own transition from graduate student...37-36:53 : Was It difficult for Dr. Koeris to transition from developing therapeutics to developing a ... -
Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 12, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... DNA that were transcriptionally active in retinal cell types in mice. Figure 1: The four strategies...used four different design strategies: Strategy #1 (ProA): Create promoters with sequences upstream of...highest rate of targeted expression. Surprisingly, <1% of synthetic promoters replicated the expression ...mouse cell type specific transcription factor binding sites interspaced with random sequences. Strategy...synthetic promoters. Legend: TSS: transcription start site. TFBS: transcription factor binding site. Image from...particular cell type is important not only for translational research, such as gene therapy, but also basic... using naturally occurring promoters to drive transgene expression, the Roska lab built synthetic promoters... -
Transferable Skills Guide: External Collaborations
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 19, 2018, 1:25 p.m....! References 1. Sinche, Melanie, et al. "An evidence-based evaluation of transferrable skills and job...Page Read Other Posts in the Transferable Skills Guide Developing Transferable Skills During Science Training...that they lack formal training in a variety of transferable skills. At Addgene we've set out to fill this... highlighting that researchers do learn MANY transferable skills while working in the lab and by offering...where you might need some help. Today in our transferable skills guide: Collaborating with others outside... had to overcome some hesitation to ‘approach strangers’ and learn how to communicate outside my scientific...message and to keep it short. Soon, discussing with strangers stopped feeling weird and started to be fun. I... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m....various cyan fluorescent proteins is depicted in figure 1. Of note, the photobleaching rate does not depend ...to be used with the fluorescent protein. In figure 1 we provide an example of such a comparison between...the variants is comparable (lower panel of figure 1). To avoid changes in excitation power, it is important...fluorescent proteins in the same spectral class (Cranfill et al, 2016). This non-linear dependence on excitation...the conclusions reached at high power may not translate to real applications in which far less power is... -
Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m...., including those found at Addgene! Figure 1: Strategy for assembling the barcoded gRNA library...pool-clone them into the pAWp28 storage vector (Figure 1): Forward oligo: 5’- CACCGNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGTTTGGGTCTTCGAGAAGACCTATTCXXXXXXXXC... He can be contacted at [email protected]. References 1. Cheng, Allen A., Huiming Ding, and Timothy K. Lu....expression of other genetic elements including transcription factors (Cheng et al., 2014) and microRNAs (.... Konermann, Silvana, et al. "Genome-scale transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex... -
Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m....functioning T cell repertoire (1). In this example, it was possible to transduce the T-cells outside the body...significant improvements in vision over a period of 1 to 3 years – the treatment appears to be both safe...research and science communication. References 1. Gaspar, H. B., S. Howe, and A. J. Thrasher. "Gene...their mutations corrected, and the T-cells were transferred back into the infants. Almost all patients have...techniques may hold the key. In the simplest form, translating gene therapies from conceptual design to clinical...that carries a small, approximately 4.7 kb single stranded genome. AAV belongs to the family Parvoviridae...AAV vectors are also capable of infecting a wide range of cell types including but not limited to muscle... -
Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 18, 2015, 2:30 p.m...., check out Addgene's CRISPR Guide. Figure 1: Like this jar of jellybeans, a pooled CRISPR library... selecting a CRISPR library for your experiments. 1. What species are your cells derived from? Currently...a different gene. Libraries may be available in a 1-plasmid system, in which Cas9 is included on the gRNA-containing... non-specific endonuclease (Cas9) and a single stranded guide RNA (gRNA). The ~20 nucleotide targeting...of wild-type Cas9 and a gRNA generates a double-strand break in the target DNA, which, when repaired through...scaled up for genome-wide screening due to the broad range of potential target sequences and ease of generating...heterogeneous population of gRNA-containing lentiviral transfer vectors, each targeting a specific gene within... -
Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m....Bacillus. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2019 Jan;103(1):303-313. doi: 10.1007/s00253-018-9485-4. Epub 2018...and clonal analysis in Drosophila.” Nat Methods 9(1) (2011): 47-55. PubMed PMID: 22205518. PubMed Central...Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1478:53-78. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6371-3_3. PMID: 27730575; PMCID: PMC5270762. ... and lac promoters.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 80(1) (1983): 21-5. PubMed PMID: 6337371. PubMed Central... polymerase and transcription factors. Since the promoter region drives transcription of a target gene...repressor then prevents transcription from occurring, which means that transcription is now OFF. We’ll...tetracycline-controlled transactivator (tTA). They fused TetR with the transcriptional activation domain VP16... -
Antibodies 101: Validation
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 24, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... when (1) other strategies may not be feasible and (2) large-scale proteomic and transcriptomic datasets...expected in another. You’ll need to validate that points 1 and 2 hold true under your specific experimental conditions...application and available resources. Figure 1: Table summarizing the IWGAV five proposed antibody...validation: A view from the mountains. New Biotechnol 45:1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2018.08.002 Uhlen...Interest (GOI), and transfect it into your favorite cell line. In parallel, you transfect cells with another...antigen - Recognition of an immunogen does not guarantee recognition of the target antigen. You want to...Antibody-independent methods may include analysis of transcriptomic or proteomic data from several different tissues... -
Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m....Zhang et al., 2015). In this system a modified TIR-1 protein can degrade degron-tagged proteins in an auxin...splitting cGAL4 in two and binding each half to a gp41-1-N-intein. Split inteins are protein domains that naturally...mutations with unc- 119 + selection." MicroPublication 1 (2018): 2–3. Wang, Han, et al. "cGAL, a temperature-robust...neurons from each class to fully characterize the transcriptome. The first data release for CeNGEN is planned... The 3’UTRs of mRNA are important for post-transcriptional regulation in C. elegans. To study the role...using a split intein for refined spatiotemporal transgene control in Caenorhabditis elegans." Proceedings... -
Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m....and P. mirabilis, had only ~1 transfer per 1,000,000 colonies. Higher transfer rates are better suited for...non-selective plate. Most bacteria tested had 1 transfer in every ~100 to 1,000 colonies, but some bacteria...active for greater than 50 generations. Figure 1: Mobile-CRISPRi's modular components. Image from Peters...protocols can transfer CRISPRi into a single bacterial strain, such as a B. subtilis, or a narrow range of bacterial...can be introduced into a broader range of bacteria. Once transferred, Mobile-CRISPRi stably integrates...bacterial Tn7 transposon system. This system has two parts: a plasmid expressing the Tn7 transposition genes ...chromosomal copy of the RP4 transfer machinery mobilize these plasmids for transfer to recipient cells during... -
CrispyCrunch: High-throughput Design and Analysis of CRISPR+HDR Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 7, 2019, 2:16 p.m.... (which range between 0 and 100) are then converted to a weight (which ranges between 0 and 1) so that...values (ranging from -40 bp to 40 bp) are also converted to a weight (which ranges between 0 and 1) (shown...distance) This gives each guide a score ranging between 0 and 1. The cutting frequency determination (CFD...summary per batch. Ranking guides for HDR in-depth In other tools, guides are ranked by specificity of ...genome by eye. We came up with a ranking formula that does just this: Rank = (compressed CFD score) * (gaussian...interactions (e.g., scores >80) are transformed to 100. This transformation (illustrated in the graph below...employs biological best practices. For example, it ranks guides by CFD score, and it mutates HDR donor templates... -
22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m....activating kinase 1 (MEK1) with either one or two phosphoserine residues cotranslationally inserted in their...directionally assembled into a Level 1 vector creating a single transcriptional unit (Ex: a promoter, 5’UTR, ...expression. Brown et al., Genesis 2014 Jan;52(1):39-48. APEX2 for proteomic mapping and electron...engineering cells that lack release factor one (RF-1; Bacterial strain EcAR7) and minimizing the set of...comprised of three sets of cloning vectors (Level 0, 1, or 2) which can be utilized in three successive assembly...coding region, and terminator). Next, up to six Level 1 modules can be similarly assembled into a Level 2 ...vectors to allow for additional iterations of Level 1 assembly if necessary. Combining multiple Level 2 ... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m....Please see Figure 1 for commonly used markers for major mammalian organelles and transport pathways. It is...cell with the images from the Allen Cell Explorer (1). When studying the function of a protein or its role...Subcellular Localization Poster here! References 1. Allen Institute Plasmid Pages 2. Cooper GM. 2000....can be gained by understanding the location and transport of the protein within a living cell. Analyzing...Analyzing differences in protein localization and transport between healthy and diseased states can also provide...endoplasmid reticulum, modified in the golgi and then transported in vesicles via the secretory pathway to their...the end of their life cycle, proteins may be transported through the vesicles to the lysosome where they... -
PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m....homologies. Abbreviated protocol for PITCh Step 1: Generate microhomologies in the PITCh vector ~20...editing possibilities MMEJ can enable. References 1. Sakuma, Tatsushi, et al. (2016). “MMEJ-assisted ...CRISPR-Cas9 with the PITCh systems.” Nat Protoc. 11(1): 118-33. PMID: 26678082. Find the plasmids from ...genome edits. But have you heard of another double-stranded break repair mechanism: MMEJ (microhomology-mediated...primary methods for repairing DNA after a double-stranded break. HDR copies the sequence from a repair template...are chewed back to reveal homology, allowing the strands to anneal. DNA synthesis then fills in the gaps...5-25 bp) regions of homology flanking a double-stranded break yield precise deletion of the sequence between...