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TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 9, 2019, 1:13 p.m....proteins enable the observation of proteins in living cells and organisms. Both components of the chimera are...However, these may not reflect the situation in cells. Therefore, the localization of critical fusions...currently the standard for assessing oligomerization in cells. In addition to measuring stickiness, several researchers...fluorescent proteins that behave as monomers in mammalian cells include: mTurquoise2, mEGFP, mNeonGreen, mScarlet...protein to the existing pool of protein within a cell and may lead to over-expression artifacts. This ...heterotrimeric G protein Gq activation in living cells." BMC biology 9.1 (2011): 32. PubMed PMID: 21619590...activation of heterotrimeric G-proteins in living cells." Science 291.5512 (2001): 2408-2411. PubMed PMID...
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Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m....its oxidized derivatives. Cell 152, 5 P1146-1159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.02.004. Xu X, Tao...targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discov 2, 16009. https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9. ...enzymatic activity cause demethylation? Dividing cells depend on DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) to copy...methylate sites blocked by dCas9. Within a few rounds of cell division, the original methylated strand is diluted...dCas9 expression and pLM-CMV-R-Cre. Selection for cells stably and highly expressing these constructs can...can be achieved by fluorescence-activated cell sorting, and stable gRNA expression can be achieved using...TETs compete with DNMT3 activity in pluripotent cells at thousands of methylated somatic enhancers. Nat... -
Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... used HEK293T cells in our first study, but we're planning to soon expand to other cell types, including...26 of the 29 SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins in human cells and used these viral “bait” proteins to fish for...human proteins that the virus interacts with in cells. Because viruses rely on the help of human proteins...monkeywrench into the virus’ hijacking of human cells. Even better, more than half the drugs hitting these...they have an IRES-Puro marker to facilitate stable cell clone selection. Expression is driven by a fairly... -
DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 7, 2022, 1:15 p.m....different types of human cells, including T cells and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Now with the DAP...to enable multiplex gene editing in a variety of cells and organisms. However, lengthy genetic payloads... over 50% averaging editing efficiency in human cells. MBE with DAP array also exhibited reduced Cas9-... editing, and nuclease editing, in virtually any cell type or organisms of interest with only minimal ... -
Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 11, 2020, 1:34 p.m....expression targeted to specific tissues, cell types or even subcellular regions of a neuron. Optogenetic approaches...approaches excel at discrete cell or tissue-subregion targeting down to the limits of light delivery. ...-wide targeting, as the ligand can reach target cells throughout the body. Controlling Stimulation Some... and chemogenetic tools need to be delivered to cells, commonly through viral delivery by AAV. You can...Further restricted to illuminated region Impacts all cells expressing receptors Invasiveness Mice require... -
SunTag and Fluorescent Imaging
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 28, 2017, 2:30 p.m....potential to form aggregates and may be toxic to the cell. Here comes the SunTag How does SunTag fix these...enables single molecule tracking within living cells without affecting protein function, thereby creating...attempted single-molecule imaging deep inside the cell, in the nucleus and cytoplasm. Again, they found...SunTag constructs would avoid negative effects on cell physiology. Having seen that mitochondrial tracker...amplification in gene expression and fluorescence imaging.” Cell 159(3) (2014):635-46. PubMed PMID: 25307933. PubMed...time to get enough signal. This workaround risks cellular phototoxicity and eliminates the possibility of...creating a single-molecule reporter of intracellular processes. Initially, Tanenbaum et al. observed some... -
Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 4, 2015, 2:30 p.m....shown to work in plant, Drosophila and mammalian cells, and it may find wide use in biological research...turnover rate. In many cases, however, a GFP-tagged cell line or organism has already been made, and it would...made by accident. After exciting GFP-labeled plant cells at 405 nm instead of 488 nm, Sattarzadeh et al. ...spontaneous conversion did not occur. Tobacco suspension cell culture with cytosol-targeted GFP. White circles...photoconverted in plant, Drosophila, and mammalian cells. Photoconverted GFP is compatible with other FPs... are you’ve used a GFP derivative to conduct subcellular localization studies or make a reporter construct...this technique may not be appropriate for high-pH cellular compartments. Sattarzadeh et al. have shown that... -
Celebrating Outstanding CRISPR/Cas9 Achievements at the Dr. Paul Janssen Award Dinner
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 15, 2014, 6:05 p.m....already available today to cure sickle cell anemia in stem cells but this can’t be used in people until... audience discussed how J&J is already modifying cell and animal genomes to test hypotheses of disease...and more about the how to use genome edited stem cells to treat disease. As for me, I continue to be amazed... much we have yet to learn. As Dr. Mello said, “Cells have been in the information age for billions of... -
The Michael Davidson Collection: One-Stop Shop for Fluorescent Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 29, 2014, 6:16 p.m....of fluorescent proteins and their use for imaging cell biology, Michael Davidson’s lab at Florida State...blue, and orange spectra. A comprehensive list of cell markers all tagged with mEmerald. Plasmids to monitor...From F-Actin to mitochondria, from the nucleus to cell membrane, this collection has fluorescently tagged... where your protein of interest localizes in the cell, use these markers as your guide. As Michael Davidson...Fluorescent proteins are] a whole new way of seeing cell biology, seeing what interacts with what, what affects...of many proteins known to localize to specific cellular structures.The Davidson lab even included some...everywhere to get a clearer picture of that intracellular world, even as the Davidson lab prepares to ... -
Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 30, 2022, 1:15 p.m....holes in the cell membranes of your sample to allow antibodies better access to intracellular targets. If...allowing antibodies into the cell where they could bind to intracellular epitopes. C) Permeabilizing with...method for visualizing molecules of interest within a cell or tissue. In that introduction, we broke down the... large proteins that need a little help crossing cell membranes as they are not able to diffuse across...target protein that is still on the inside of the cell. However, assuming you do need to permeabilize, ...For example, saponin interacts with cholesterol in cell membranes and leaves many membrane-associated proteins... organic solvents. However, detergents can lyse cells or cause you to lose soluble proteins from the sample... -
Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m....CRISPR-Cas System. Cell. 2015 Sep 23. pii: S0092-8674(15)01200-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.038. PubMed...RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system." Cell (2015). PubMed PMID: 26422227. Potential ...particularly helpful for targeting non-dividing cells, which are difficult to modify through homology-... Cpf1 orthologs known to be active in mammalian cells, LbCpf1 and AsCpf1. In both reports, on target editing... (RNPs) failed to induce off-target editing in a cell culture model. What we still don't know about Cpf1...reveals specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jun 6. PubMed PMID: 27272384...specificities of CRISPR-Cas Cpf1 nucleases in human cells." Nature Biotechnology (2016). PubMed PMID: 27347757... -
Drew Endy Introduces the Biobrick Public Agreement Plasmid Collection
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 12, 2013, 3:35 p.m....metabolite in a cell. The only way to do that at scale right now is to grow up a bunch of cells, sacrifice ...capable of storing data and computing inside living cells. He's also a co-founder of the BioBricks Foundation...as an operating system for engineering an entire cell. Typically when people use plasmids, they are trying... you could imagine engineering the entirety of a cell. That's a big long-term technical challenge. We ...That's central to everything that goes on inside a cell. Until we get a handle on precise, forward engineering...scale, it's going to be tricky to tame the rest of a cell. The BIOFAB plasmids represent the first systematic...transistor-like digital genetic switches that enable cellular computing. These logic gates built from transcriptors... -
Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 17, 2020, 1:32 p.m....gives a talk at the Cell Symposia: Gene- and Cell-based Therapies: CRISPR, Stem Cells, and Beyond meeting...III product is produced and can infect bacterial cells. If a phage does not deliver an active variant, ...passage from the infected to a fresh uninfected host cell culture). This dilution step represents the major...but gets manually passaged from an infected host-cell culture to an uninfected culture which results in... -
Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 30, 2017, 2:30 p.m....to quantify rates of mutation in a bulk or single cell-derived genomic DNA sample as part of a precision... successfully analyzed gDNA from a few thousand cells from single wells of a 96-well plate without prior... that they are easily able to distinguish single-cell derived samples with mono-allelic mutations versus...Isolation of single-base genome-edited human iPS cells without antibiotic selection. Nat Meth 11, 291–293... and Highly Specific Screening of Genome Edited Cells. PLoS ONE 11, e0153901–17 (2016). PubMed PMID: 27089539...mutagenesis induced by CRISPR-Cas nucleases in human cells. Nature Biotechnology 31, 822–826 (2013). PubMed... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2023, 1 p.m....genetic cargo, typically an expression construct, to cells/organisms. This is often cDNA, shRNA, or something...perform very similar functions to infiltrate the host cell and deposit viral cargo. Gene expression While AAV...what will be delivered and expressed in the host cell from the transfer plasmid. Viral packaging and entry...altered tropism of AAV to target different tissue or cell types. AAV also requires some back up from adenovirus...promoter that you wish to deliver to your target cells. In adenovirus, the ITRs serve as a type of origin...deficient. This is typically supplied by the production cell line (HEK-293) during production. Fun fact: There... -
Plasmids 101: Cre-lox
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 13, 2015, 3:47 p.m....transgenic animals, embryonic stem cells, and/or tissue-specific cell types: Cre-lox recombination. What...downstream of promoters that are active only in certain cell or tissue types, during certain stages of development... recombinase can be expressed only in specified cells or at specified times. Combining this with some ...has been used to successfully introduce Cre into cells of interest. What if I need two separate recombination...2. Site-specific DNA recombination in mammalian cells by the Cre recombinase of bacteriophage P1. Sauer... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m....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...the photoactivation step can actually harm your cells before your experiment even begins! If you are performing...optical live imaging of proteins, organelles, and cells. Similar to FPs, PA-FPs allow for non-invasive labelling...dynamics of mitochondria in healthy and apoptotic cells (9). PA-FPs have helped to revolutionize the field... -
Some Like it Hot: Thermostable GeoCas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 14, 2017, 12:40 p.m....mammalian cells. Harrington et al tested GeoCas9’s editing skills by transfecting HEK293 cells with GeoCas9...choice for a number of model organisms: mammalian cells, yeast, drosophila, plants, worms, zebrafish, frogs... 45 °C 50 - 70 °C Genome Editing in Mammalian Cells? Yes Yes Longevity in Serum?* No Yes Table ...experimental results. GeoCas9 RNP editing in mammalian cells Besides being able to take some heat, GeoCas9 can... -
Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m...., or express the insert they carry in the target cell. These vectors allow you to test the function of...If you are planning to track your protein in the cell or purify it – and you do not have a specific antibody...selection cassette to screen for positive transfected cells. The addition of an in-frame fluorescent fusion ...get away with generating transiently transfected cells, you will not need a mammalian selection cassette.... Other vectors can be expressed in fly culture cells like S2 and carry the metallothionein promoter (... -
What's New in CRISPR - Spring 2019
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 21, 2019, 12:47 p.m....temperature incompatible to genome editing in human cells. The Feng Zhang lab identified a Cas12b from Bacillus...can block Cas12a-mediated genome editing in human cells. Read the paper in Science Find the anti-CRISPR...anti-CRISPR expression plasmids CRISPR-based method for cell lineage tracing Valcyrie is a CRISPR-based marker...marker excision method for marking distinct cell clones developed by the Michalis Averof lab. It’s an alternative...