...and they had been shown to to transduce the retina but only transiently. However new viral vectors capable.... PubMed PMID: 29868583. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5960719. 8. Trapani I and Auricchio A., 2018. Seeing... years ago when completing her PhD and medical training in Ophthalmology. Gene therapy was in its infancy...adenovirus (AdV) and lentivirus (LV) are known to transduce retinal cells, AAV quickly became the vector of...due to its considerable immunogenicity and its transient expression. LV results in long term expression... packaging capacity is well suited for larger transgenes. Unfortunately it has limited tropism in the ...and the one used in Luxturna™, can efficiently transduce various types of retinal neurons. Nowadays a toolbox...

...column or an ultrafiltration concentrator. As the name suggests, you may also concentrate your prep to...mammalian cells can perform human-like post-translational modifications that bacterial and most yeast ...protein you need to produce.  The most common yeast strain used for recombinant antibody production is Komagataella...be produced through a single or dual-plasmid transfection, depending on whether the heavy and light chain...they’ve been separated onto two. You’ll first transfect your cells with your plasmid(s), and then wait...to the desired concentration using these columns. If you are conjugating your antibody in a downstream...Whatever you choose, you’ll want an accurate concentration to give your downstream applications the best...

... protein translation. Its genome consists of “early” (E) and “late” genes, and the transition between ...makes sense that vectorization strategies include creating an AdV transfer plasmid with the E1 and E3 (Early...sequence (transgene) instead.    Although the late genes are usually present in the transfer plasmid for... for any virus, we will see that they are very central determinants of how AdVs behave, and in fact, of...Borkenhagen et al., 2019). AdVs are non-enveloped double-stranded DNA viruses, with a linear genome between 26–45... (and therefore between early and late gene transcription) is demarcated by viral genome replication (...cells that are infected by the vector, only the transgene will be expressed, since the early genes are absent...

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...30644390. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6333924. Howerton, Alexis R., Alison V. Roland, and Tracy L. Bale. "Dorsal..., inhibiting, or modulating. Viral vectors, in contrast, are considerably more versatile and specific ... circular corridor apparatus using a camera or tracking software. Locomotion is a highly complex process...project to the NAc, where enhanced glutamate transmission leads to locomotion sensitization. (for review... Channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2) reduced glutamate transmission from the mPFC projections to the NAc and decreased...risky). Taking advantage of these characteristic traits, rodents can be used to study anxiety levels in...injected Cre-expressing AAV-5 into the DRN of a transgenic mouse harbouring a Cre-dependent IL-1 beta overexpression...

...opportunity to discover and evolve your transferable skills. Transferable skills are the non-technical skills...employee who's coming directly from grad school. The transition has been a bit rough for her (3 weeks in and ...there are any resources that can help with the transition.” The lab-to-desk-job culture shock is a real...scientist colleagues have as well. Making the transition from the bench can be jarring for the unprepared...resources out there for scientists making this transition. In this installment of the Addgene career guide...formulate hypotheses and conduct experiments. You transfer liquids between tubes, look through microscopes...What should you expect during the lab → office transition? I’ve already provided a few counterpoints to...

...is codon usage important? Translation and protein synthesis relies on transfer RNAs (tRNAs). tRNAs bind...rate of translation and thus protein expression. In fact studies have shown that translational efficiency...on an organisms codon usage bias to increase translational efficiency and thus protein expression without...conformation, folding and stability, change post-translational modification sites and even affect protein function...Mauro and Chappell, 2014). Different rates of translation by different tRNAs, including those that exhibit...actually be critical for determining the rate of translation. The ribosome may slow and pause during elongation...optimization may disrupt the fine-tuned timing of translation and ultimately protein function.  In addition...

... Retroviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses that use reverse transcriptase to synthesize complementary...alternative virus, or other strategies may need to be considered if size constraints are an issue. Adenovirus...ample room for most experimental needs, and can transduce (infect) a wide range of cell types with a high... 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...replicate episomally, essentially remaining an extrachromosomal part of the host genome that can replicate...response as retroviruses. This virus can also transduce dividing and non-dividing cells, making it conducive...

... pair has focused considerable attention on transcription factors, starting with an established method... relies on antibodies to recognize and bind transcription factors directly, but that’s a slow-going process... it doesn’t work in many cases. In an effort to track down every last one of those gene regulatory proteins...ENCODE project is to look at all 1,500 or 1,600 transcription factors and figure out where they bind to the... ChIP-seq, but it’s really hard for lots of transcription factors. Our groups got together to adapt CRISPR...big difference. We can now look at many more transcription factors. Addgene: How does the system work? ...second plasmid to target an epitope tag onto the transcription factors. By the way, you can actually use this...

... was on the right track. The next insight was to assemble a synthetic transcription activation complex...after natural transcription activation processes. Konermann and her colleagues demonstrated the new system... sgRNAs for each transcription start site in 15,977 human genes. The transcriptional repressor (CRISPRi...each transcription start site in those 15,977 human genes. Weissman and his colleagues demonstrated in ...SAM is an engineered protein complex for the transcriptional activation of endogenous genes and it consists...sgRNA incorporating two MS2 RNA aptamers at the tetraloop and stem-loop 2; 3. The MS2-P65-HSF1 plasmid which...consequences of repressing or inducing individual transcripts. The activator (CRISPRa) sgRNA library uses the...

... its fluorescence emission spectra changes when it goes from a more neutral pH compartment, ­­like the...the mechanisms behind autophagy by tracking what’s being transported to the yeast vacuole (i.e. cytosol...Electron microscopy: Electron microscopy is a traditional method for studying autophagy. This method relies...autophagosomal membranes, so tagging it with GFP allows for tracking the localization or accumulation of pre-autophagosomal...an autophagy-independent manner. Additionally, tracking Atg8p or LC3 doesn’t provide information about...color-emission biosensor named after the brightly-coloured Australian parrot. It’s comprised of two tandem fluorescent...a summary of Rosella’s excitation and emission spectra. DsRed is the permanent fluorescent tag portion...

... and recent advances have allowed scientists to track multiple genomic loci over time using all the colors...CRISPRainbow. Figure 1: CRISPRainbow was used to track the localization of 6 chromosome-specific loci in...labeled dCas9 to a given genomic locus, you can track the localization and movement of this locus in live...depositor Stanley Qi and used in Chen et al. to track telomere dynamics throughout the cell cycle. To ...distances from 2-75 Mbp. Labeling multiple, intrachromosomal loci Building on the work of Chen et al., ...turned their attention to mapping pairs of intrachromosomal loci. The technique successfully resolved ... this work represents the first mapping of intrachromosomal loci, a major benchmark in characterizing ...

...membrane localization of transmembrane proteins, like rhodopsins, are highly constrained and poorly understood...delivered ChRgers by intravenous injection of PHP.eB, an AAV capsid capable of broad transduction of the nervous... to perform in vivo optogenetic experiments. Intracranial injections of AAV are commonly used to deliver...channelrhodopsins to the brain. This delivery route concentrates lots of channelrhodopsins in one region of the...channelrhodopsin, such as cell localization, kinetics, and spectral properties, must be optimized simultaneously in...channelrhodopsins with desired characteristics. The model was trained to predict if a channelrhodopsin sequence would...neurons and mouse brain slices collected following intracranial injection of an AAV expressing a ChRger. In ...

...the co-transduction by two viruses would lower editing efficiency, the split editors transduced at levels...colleagues evaluated CreLite for cell tracing using the transgenic zebrafish model, ubi:zebrabow. In this...capacity of 4-5 kb limits the delivery of larger transgenes, such as base editors which have a gene size ...base editor is split into two plasmids and co-transfected into cells for reconstitution. Image from Levy...causes Niemann-Pick disease type C, directly demonstrating the therapeutic potential for the split base... of response and brightness. They also do not spectrally separate from green sensors and blue-light-activated...Image from Beck and Gong, 2019. Broadening the spectral diversity of GEVIs can enable resolving single...

... GFP scaffolds for transcriptional activation The project began with a frustration many researchers have... to create a complete transcription factor, activating luciferase transcription. Tang et al. coined this...Connie Cepko’s lab allow researchers to activate transcription or Cre recombinase activity only in the presence...suddenly seemed very realistic. Envisioning GFP as a substrate promoting dimerization, Tang et al. tested pairs... in their 293 cell culture system. In cells cotransfected with GFP and the GBPs, GFP linked the two GBPs...this system T-DDOG (Transcriptional Devices Dependent On GFP). In testing the specificity of their system... dsRed, mCherry, and TdTomato do not induce transcription. Thus, T-DDOGs can be used in combination with...

...competent bacterial strain (e.g. DH5α which is dam+). Methylation deficient bacterial strains can be identified...homology-directed repair (HDR) of a CRISPR/Cas9 induced double-stranded break. This site-directed genome editing requires...methylation-dependent endonuclease (i.e. DpnI), and bacteria are transformed with the nuclease-resistant nicked plasmid (the...products of the PCR reaction are pieces of double stranded, circular DNA with staggered nicks, recent data...final PCR products are pieces of linear, double stranded DNA with homologous ends. These homologous ends... In addition, you may want to try different concentrations of template (e.g. 0.1-1.0 ng/μl). Smaller plasmids...to the PCR reaction (usually around 3% final concentration). The DMSO reduces secondary structures of the...

...nicking of the unedited strand and encourage the cell to use the edited strand as a template during DNA...on a fusion enzyme of Cas9 nickase + reverse transcriptase and a prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA). The ...) complementary to the genome and a reverse transcriptase (RT) template including the desired edit. ...by the type of edit, genomic context, delivery strategy, cell type, and goal of the experiment. Now, onto...., 2019). Test different lengths of reverse transcriptase template, starting with about 10–16 nucleotides...pegRNA primer binding site (PBS) and reverse transcriptase template (RTT). Created with BioRender.com. ...from re-binding and nicking the newly synthesized strand before heteroduplex resolution, which can lead ...

...bacterial transformation One protocol that has been automated is high throughput transformation. With our...platforms that fit 48 well q- trays allowing us to do up to 96 transformations in one run compared to doing... be useful if you’re transferring samples from 96 wells plates onto agar q-trays where the samples must...easier and more efficient. Here, I’ll discuss transformation, DNA purification, and filling vials with agar...deposits (over 100 deposits per month!), manual transformations were taking a lot of time. Enter the Biomek... We wanted a machine that would improve our transformation protocol and, after looking at a few options...doing about 50 transformations in the same amount of time by hand! Setting up a basic protocol on the...

...their mutations corrected, and the T-cells were transferred back into the infants. Almost all patients have...repertoire (1). In this example, it was possible to transduce the T-cells outside the body and thereby correct...techniques may hold the key. In the simplest form, translating gene therapies from conceptual design to clinical...deliver it and identifying a suitable route of administration. However, until recently safe delivery of nucleic...that carries a small, approximately 4.7 kb single stranded genome. AAV belongs to the family Parvoviridae...disease-associated mutations. AAV vectors maintain persistent transgene expression over many years in postmitotic, long-lived...2008. Following a single dose of subretinal administration of rAAV2 carrying the human gene RPE65, patients...

...and called for the fast-tracked development of diagnostics. Mostly transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes (aegypti...international travel, the Zika virus is expected to expand into heavily populated regions of South, Central, and...between global strains of the Zika virus (Asian-, African- and American-lineages). Strain discrimination...room temperature (Pardee et al, 2014). As a demonstration of the diagnostic potential of these combined... for the detection of antibiotic resistance and strain-specific diagnostics for the Ebola virus. Our original...and electronic companion technologies that has transformed the assay’s capabilities. Specifically this includes... now detects samples at clinically relevant concentrations (1-3 fM; 1x106-fold lower than before), and...