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  1. Progress Towards a PAM-Free CRISPR

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    March 7, 2024, 2:39 p.m.
    ...how close is close enough for the desired edit to still occur if the cut site is sub-optimal? As with everything... cut site is just 10 bps away from the site in question (Kwart et al, 2017). To add insult to injury, ...same PAM preference of NG was isolated by the Kleinstiver Lab (read more on this lab's other developments...Nonetheless, in an AT-rich region, these Cas9s may still leave you choosing between efficiency and location...location.   Nearly PAM-less editing   The Kleinstiver lab sought to address the PAM problem through structure-guided...

  2. Plasmids 101: The Wide World of Natural Plasmids

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    Oct. 8, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...penicillin resistance plasmid can grow in spite of a hostile Penicillium fungus trying to kill them off. While...resistance to toxic substances like heavy metals or pesticides, enabling their hosts to survive where others... This ability to endure a harsh environment is distinct from the benefit of resistance plasmids, which...shifted over the years, and new classifications are still being created as whole-genome sequencing becomes...Plasmids Isolated from Lactic Acid Bacteria:Their Characteristics and Potential Applications in Biotechnology...

  3. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    March 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...a risk that they may underestimate viral titer as these assays cannot distinguish between a cell that ... based off of p24 quantification tend to be overestimates since they can include free p24 and defective...assay, titering via measurement of viral RNA can overestimate the amount of infectious virus in a prep as ...integration events, reducing the possibility of underestimating the viral titer. The main drawback of this ...

  4. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    Oct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...engineered precursor of the systemic capsid in question (or both). Therefore, a high-efficiency systemic...These are only starting recommendations; you will still need to experimentally determine the best titer ...your experiment, it’s time to start selecting and testing systemic capsids! Figure 2 contains a decision ...reduced efficiency, and is not neutralized by pre-existing antibodies against AAV9-based vectors (and vice...AAV-PHP.S, with a bias toward segments of the small intestine (Chen et al., 2022). Systemic capsid for alveolar...Cre-dependent selection yields systemic AAVs for targeting distinct brain cell types. Nature Methods, 17(5), 541–550...

  5. Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity

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    Oct. 11, 2018, 12:30 p.m.
    ...in 5’ four base overhangs after cutting. The destination vector receives the assembly after similar Type...re-digested and "eligible” for ligation into the destination construct. Reactions are often cycled between...acquisition of antibiotic selectable markers by the destination plasmid. Antibiotic selection allowed for high...very occasional uncut or cut/re-ligated pGGA destination plasmids. A final validation of the 5-, 12- or...is dependent on the presence of every module, destination construct and functioning Type IIS restriction...

  6. Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team

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    Jan. 30, 2018, 2:42 p.m.
    ...discuss the work, set expectations, answer any questions, and (most importantly) decide on a timeline. ...regularly, make yourself available, and encourage questions. Unless you’re delegating a recurring task to ...to a seasoned report, there should be questions! Remember that delegating is not just a way to create more...team members by giving them new opportunities. I still need to check myself sometimes to make sure I am...major problem. But I also learned to ask specific questions. “How’s everything going?” is likely to get you...

  7. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    Sept. 12, 2017, 1:44 p.m.
    ...the prep during the production process? These questions are especially important when producing multiple...we have analyzed hundreds of viral vectors and estimate that recombinase-independent recombination occurs...below to let us know if you have any specific questions about viral DNA NGS you’d like us to discuss. ...by phone or at [email protected] to answer your questions about our quality control process! The images...Vector Characterization Methods for Quality Control Testing of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Viruses. In: Methods...

  8. Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression

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    Jan. 10, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
    ...Lance-Byrne and Alex Chavez, researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. CRISPR/...protospacer. The resulting double strand break (DSB) stimulates DNA repair mechanisms that can be exploited to...are limitations to a system that relies on two distinct Cas9 variants—nuclease-competent or nuclease-null—in...bacterial species, each of which interacts with a distinct gRNA that allows users to decide which Cas9 protein.... When complexed with a truncated gRNA, Cas9 is still able to bind DNA but is no longer competent to cut...

  9. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    May 30, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...protocol for your pooled library deposit. When a requesting scientist receives a pooled library from Addgene...colonies, you’ll likely rely on serial dilutions to estimate transformation efficiency (Figure 2).    ... Figure 2: Example of a serial dilution to estimate transformation efficiency. Figure used with permission...protocol paper by the Zhang lab, and the Broad Institute’s general pDNA Library Amplification protocol are...depositing it with Addgene. If you have any specific questions about designing your library amplification protocol...

  10. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
    ...other split systems where light is required to reconstitute enzymatic activity. Photoactivatable genome ...(Kawano et al., 2015). Nicknamed paCas9-1 and consisting of the fusion proteins N713-pMag and nMagHigh1...far-red light-activated split-Cas9 (FAST) system constitutively expresses the C-terminal fragment of Cas9 while...Michael Lin, who developed a chimeric protein consisting of Cas9 and a photo-dissociable dimeric green... prevent DNA binding in the dark. Upon light stimulation, the pdDronpa moieties move apart, allowing DNA...LOV2 has a C-terminal helix that unfolds when stimulated by blue light. When fused to the catalytic site...

  11. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    Oct. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...inactivation of the vector can still occur even in the case of no previous immunity existing for that adenoviral ...challenges remain (Wold & Toth, 2013).  While the pre-existing toolbox for adenoviral vectors in Addgene’s repository... – and we hope that it inspires further use of existing vectors, as well as research into the development...M. (1999). Ovine Adenovirus Vectors Overcome Preexisting Humoral Immunity against Human Adenoviruses In...

  12. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    Oct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
    ...student at Stanford University. Arabidopsis is a fantastic model organism for many reasons, not the least...Agrobacterium tDNA insertion likely precipitated domestication of sweet potatoes (Kyndt et al., 2015)! It sounds...too old to transform. This transformation could still work, but the efficiency will be low. Tips: Use...plants: If you transform early, your plants will still have plenty of time to produce seeds after you expose... plant’s flowers inside. 50 mL falcon tubes or plastic weigh boats are both great options for this, depending...

  13. Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor

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    July 23, 2019, 12:46 p.m.
    ...phenotypes. Two labs, the Deverman lab at the Broad Institute and the Wilson lab at the University of Pennsylvania...the brains of C57BL/6J mice and BALB/cJ mice, suggesting it was a likely player in PHP.B permissiveness...receptor (AAVR). Cell lines lacking galactose were still transduced by PHP.B but only if Ly6a was expressed...with PHP.eB, an enhanced version of PHP.B, virus still reached the brain endothelial cells of these mice... available from Addgene. References Holmes, Christina, and William L. Stanford. "Concise review: stem...

  14. Lab to Office Culture Shock

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    Feb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m.
    ...was applying. I probably did not respond to her question as well then as I would now. I would have to repress... repress laughter if I was asked that question today, because I sometimes wish for a stretch of time that...me, “I find that at a desk, it is much easier to stick to timelines. This is probably because you don't...careers and desk jobs “alternative careers.” Realistically, based on the numbers of PhDs and available ...into science in the first place. Finally, if you still find the idea of not holding a pipette again upsetting...

  15. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    April 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...synthesis (those of us who have used antibodies for diagnostics know how frustrating it can be to get a “bad ...the bound protein fluorophores and quenchers are still relatively bulky. One of the advantages of oligonucleotides...stable and brighter version of the aptamer, but it still had limitations in vivo. Using a combination of ... a lower magnesium dependence. Though initially still unstable in eukaryotes, the Jaffrey lab has since...et al. “Aptamer-based assay for prion diseases diagnostic”. Procedia Environmental Sciences. Volume 12,...

  16. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...full length gene and/or protein is reconstituted. One way to reconstitute a split protein like Cas9 is to...allow for more room for regulatory sequences while still fitting Cas9 and its gRNAs into one AAV, Cas9 must...confirming its suitability for in vivo studies. Testing AAV-SaCas9 in vivo To test the efficiency of AAV-SaCas9...Nogales E, Doudna JA (2019) CasX enzymes comprise a distinct family of RNA-guided genome editors. Nature 566...

  17. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    Oct. 13, 2022, 1:45 p.m.
    ... 1–9 (2017).Walton, R. T., Christie, K. A., Whittaker, M. N. & Kleinstiver, B. P. Unconstrained genome... effects. The SpG variant, discovered by the Kleinstiver group has a PAM of NGN (Walton et al., 2020)....Don’t want to permanently modify the genome but still want to affect gene expression? dCas9 can be used... and antibody-activator fusion proteins. The Synergistic Activation Mediator complex, generally the strongest...

  18. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    Feb. 17, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ..., black pellet was sent to the AbuGoot lab for testing, they weren’t sure what they would find… but it...new CRISPR effector protein they named Cas7-11. Testing showed that Cas7-11 cut RNA with unprecedented ...insertions, and deletions. But CRISPR’s uses were still limited to small deletions and small insertions,...that gap. Consider, for instance, a disease like cystic fibrosis, which can be caused by thousands of different... Yarnall, Cian Schmitt-Ulms, Rohan N. Krajeski, Justin Lim, Lukas Villiger, Wenyuan Zhou, Kaiyi Jiang,...

  19. Tips and Tricks for Using Golden Gate Modular Cloning (MoClo)

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    July 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... during the early stages of the process. Some questions to start with are: Is your sequence of interest...opposite (reverse) orientation? The answers to questions like these will determine which acceptor vectors...assembly efficiency. This can be done through domestication, which is the modification of a DNA sequence... the synonymous mutation of a codon. You can domesticate the sites yourself using PCR, but gene synthesis...gene synthesis, you can request the sites to be domesticated through the process, and request your sequence...

  20. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    May 20, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... plasmid is delivered to your target cells, you still need to select for the cells that contain it. Antibiotic... approach in a mammalian cell experiment should still include an antibiotic resistance gene for growth...express your protein of interest. However, you do still need a species-compatible promoter for expressing... consider the viral vectors themselves to be a distinct gene delivery method. We focused this post on ...between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Conclusion I still think it’s pretty incredible that my cells “speak...
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