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  1. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    May 2, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...species-specific) or a selectable marker. Each insertion line can then be isolated and screened. Depending...constructs that contain splice acceptors. They require insertion into an intron of a gene, where they can be spliced...promoter traps. While this system does not require insertion into an exon, like promoter traps, it will still...enhancer traps are the top trap – they don’t require insertion in a highly specific gene region and they don’...integrated into it. Enhancer traps do not need to be inside of a gene’s open reading frame, in fact, they can...decided on the type of trap, there are many ways to insert your construct to generate a collection of monitored... Wood, V., et al., Hidden in plain sight: what remains to be discovered in the eukaryotic proteome? Open...

  2. Hot Plasmids - October 2022

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    Oct. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... of light-gated potassium channelrhodopsins, named Kalium channelrhodopsins (KCRs), from a fungus-like...-2P Novel class of light-gated potassium channelrhodopsins Myc-tag antibody anti-c-Myc [9E10] now available...   Novel class of light-gated potassium channelrhodopsins by: Mike Lacy New work from the labs of Mingshan... attempts to engineer potassium-selective channelrhodopsins. HcKCR1 has a maximum absorption of 540 nm...plasmids here!   Govorunova EG, et al. Kalium channelrhodopsins are natural light-gated potassium channels...than 50 antibodies target neuroscience-related proteins, but we recently added several broadly useful ...

  3. History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution

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    Nov. 25, 2013, 10:12 p.m.
    ...Cas as a powerful and adaptive defense strategy against life-threatening viruses. Evolving to survive ...clustered repeat sequences operated as a safeguard against bacteriophages did not come to light until 2007...re-exposure (2, 3). More specifically, specialized Cas proteins snip the foreign DNA into small fragments approximately...paste them into the CRISPR sequence. Separate Cas proteins then express and process the CRISPR loci to generate...out these functions using slightly different Cas proteins and PAM sequences. A total of eight evolutionarily...Cas systems provides powerful lines of defense against invading phages. Rising to the challenge - Evolution...Genome engineering and future directions CRISPR/Cas inspired genome editing was initially described by Cong...

  4. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    Aug. 11, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...which contains the structural and packaging genes, the adenoviral helper plasmid which contains the proteins... to replicate,  and the transfer plasmid which contains the viral genome. In today’s blog post, we’ll...palindromic nature, and high GC content. This instability can cause partial loss of an ITR during routine...constructs in recombination-deficient bacterial strains, such as Stbl3s. ITR loss can be detected by restriction...include a reporter like GFP, some smaller CRISPR-Cas proteins such as SaCas9, CRISPR gRNAs, or your gene of ...

  5. Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux

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    Jan. 22, 2019, 2:41 p.m.
    ...comprised of two tandem fluorescent proteins: a relatively pH-insensitive RFP variant, DsRed.T3, that’s connected...biosensor contains mRFP and GFP fused to the autophagy-related microtubule-associated proteins 1A/1B light...lysosome, and degradation of autophagic substrates inside the lysosome. Historically, methods for studying...the absence of autophagy, the untargeted Rosella remains in the neutral pH cytoplasm where it emits red ...PE due to a C-terminal glycine deletion, so it remains in the cytosol acting as an internal control. Autophagic...

  6. RUBY-Red Siliques

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    March 1, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...techniques require you to select against the presence of a transgene instead, which can’t be done if your ...antibiotic/herbicide resistance and fluorescent proteins. Selection using resistance genes usually involves...are currently used in these situations to select against CRISPR positive plants, but screening these can...purple plant pigments found in all other plants, anthocyanins.   Figure 1: An adult plant expressing...different transformation events likely due to insertional effects in the genome. (Bottom panel, right) ... editing, then green offspring can be selected instead of red ones. Other innovative uses of RUBY are ...

  7. A New Optogenetic Tool Based on AraC Controls Gene Expression with Blue Light

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    June 17, 2021, 1:17 p.m.
    ...lab and Mustafa Khammash's lab at ETH Zürich. “Instead of a graphical abstract, it’s a musical abstract...turns expression on and off with blue light.   Inspired by @UriAlonWeizmann, here my song about our paper...applications.   Figure 1: With blue light, the VVD domains of the BLADE dimerize and activates transcription...This construct, built from the pBAD33 backbone, contains BLADE, the PBAD promoter, and a mCherry reporter...your gene of interest. pBLADEONLY: This plasmid contains only BLADE and is based on the pTRC99a plasmid...transformed with pBLADE expressing superfolder GFP instead of mCherry under the PBAD promoter. They created...Engineering AraC to make it responsive to light instead of arabinose. Nat Chem Biol. https://doi.org/10.1038...

  8. 10 Great Guest Posts We're Thankful For

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    Nov. 18, 2016, 3 p.m.
    ...from Erik Snapp, Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to learn how problematic ...Research Campus reminds us that, although fluorescent proteins are incredibly useful, chemical fluorophores can...Zika virus and, upon binding, produce reporter proteins. These toehold switches can be used to quickly...and Alexander Green (both formerly at the Wyss Institute) to learn how these amazing tools may be used ...different pH’s and some that are fused to fluorescent proteins. She also showed that R-bodies can rupture E. ... but, even with CRISPR, it isn’t always easy to insert a section of DNA into the genome of your target...Casilio, a system that uses modular RNA binding proteins, dCas9, and a modified gRNA to direct a variety...

  9. Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility

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    May 18, 2018, 7:32 p.m.
    ... well characterised antibodies against all human extracellular proteins with community-based validation...18:45 - Reagent Development - Steven C. Almo, Institute for Protein Innovation  1:18:45 - 2:01:18 (end...have a reproducibility “crisis” on our hands and instead provide a brief conceptual framework for the causes...ll see in Steve Almo’s talk about work at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI) (49:45 - 1:18:45)...while FPbase curates information about fluorescent proteins so you can best apply these technologies to your...formal systems, individual labs can certainly institute better experimental design practices including...Scientific Figures into Dashboards and Share Your Insights Who gives a tweet? 9 facts about scientists on...

  10. Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    July 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Last updated on Oct 1, 2020 by Aliyah Weinstein. This post was contributed by guest bloggers, Wenning...into the mouse zygote (Qin et al., 2015).  When inside the zygotes, the gRNA will seek out its target ...pathway (HDR), be it a single nucleotide change, insertion of a reporter gene, or replacement of the murine...case, we saw that 2 out of 3 mice carried a 5 kb insertion in the ROSA locus as assessed by Southern blot...conventional methods. First, one can work with almost any strains of mice, as compared with conventional gene targeting...targeting, which is limited to a few strains, including 129 and C57BL/6, for which we have germline competent...with its human ortholog (greater than 5 kb), it remains to be seen whether CRISPR is as robust as conventional...

  11. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    March 1, 2018, 2:11 p.m.
    ...constructs with AAV. In the case of channelrhodopsins, fewer channel proteins are required for the transduced...these tubes. Rinse off the filter - When using a concentration filter column, make sure to rinse off the surface...our Concentrating AAV Protocol (Step 10) for instructions on how to do this. Concentrating your virus ...necessary to visualize expression of fluorescent proteins, for example, as many viral particles must infect...cell to become light responsive than fluorescent proteins required to get a good fluorescent signal. It ...

  12. Addgene Welcomes John Doench to the Advisory Board

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    Aug. 13, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...the Broad Institute here Read other blog posts about CRISPR Learn more about the Broad Institute and the...the Genetic Perturbation Platform at the Broad Institute and has worked with many Addgenies to help improve...research is still relevant to his work at the Broad Institute today, where he helps researchers in a variety...own research questions. Starting at the Broad Institute For his post-doc, Doench worked on using RNAi... School and then applied to work at the Broad Institute: “The model that the Broad was building that had...development under the Platform model at the Broad Institute because they are “not just developing technology...

  13. Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection

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    June 25, 2019, 12:54 p.m.
    ...take a look at these different methods of DNA insertion. Transformation Transformation is the uptake ...inject their genetic material into the cell. Once inside, phages can follow one of two different life cycles...particular integration site. The integrated phage remains dormant until it is triggered to enter the lytic...referred to as transduction. Transferred DNA once inside the infected bacterium can either exist as transient...commonly use phagemids, a DNA cloning vector that contains both bacteriophage and plasmid properties. The...recombination between two nutritional deficient E. coli strains that resulted in a wild type E. coli (Griffiths...bacterium through direct contact. The donor bacterium contains a DNA sequence called the Fertility factor (F-...

  14. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 3: Genome Engineering in Flies

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    July 28, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
    ...geneticists to study gene function. In this final installment, I’ll provide a brief introduction as to how ...overexpression and knockdown. Addgene also has a number of insect vectors to consider. An easy way to see what is...available is to browse Addgene’s Collection under the insect expression system or by filtering by fly as species...which locus your transgene ends up (1): Random insertion has the advantage that you can get varying expression... inherited on the same chromosome. Targeted Insertion allows for direct comparisons between lines expressing...would you like your flies ready for use? Random insertions take longer because you need to determine in ...chromosome lines but is not necessary with targeted insertions (here you would know beforehand on which chromosome...

  15. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    April 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...variety of cargo, and even handle a variety of terrains. They are, in fact, a choice delivery vector from...permanently. Viral vectors can also be used to express proteins. Viral expression cassettes typically contain ...from scratch! Why deliver these systems virally instead of by another method? Viral delivery is attractive...thousands of elements simultaneously in your system instead of just one at a time. Many of these libraries ... are packaged and delivered with viral vectors instead of a traditional transfection method. This is because...the actual virus to which immunity is desired. Instead, components of the virus are now delivered in other...immunogenicity of attenuated, nef-deleted HIV-1 strains in vivo. Retrovirology. 2007 Sep 23;4:66. doi: ...

  16. Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems

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    Aug. 6, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...packaging (Gag, Pol, and Env), the isoforms of these proteins, as well as the viral LTRs, differ. As a result...developed by Garry Nolan at Stanford (Swift, 2001) contains Gag-Pol and either an ecotropic envelope, Phoenix-ECO... just a few days. Another variant, Phoenix-gp, contains only Gag-Pol and enables additional flexibility...transduction are not encoded by the transfer plasmid, but instead are provided in trans by other plasmids or the ...Cloning capacity between the LTRs is ∼8.5 kb, but inserts bigger than ∼3 kb are packaged less efficiently...found at both the 5' and 3' ends of the provirus). Contains sequences necessary for activation of viral genomic... Acts as an RNA pol II promoter. The transcript begins, by definition, at the beginning of R, is capped...

  17. A Deep Dive into BioBuilder

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    Oct. 11, 2017, 1:44 p.m.
    ...students in real-world lab activities? I’m trying to inspire them and also keep up with all the new biotechnology...being asked in MIT’s research labs, BioBuilder inspires students and teachers to apply engineering principles...final project. BioBuilder’s open-access curriculum begins with students reading comic strips and watching...droppers, centrifuge tubes, circuit parts, and lab-strains of bacteria to study — to conduct their hands-on...breakdown, production of fire-resistant housing insulation, and cleaning up salt runoff from winter icing.BioBuilderClub...summer teacher professional development program that trains nearly 100 teachers each year, with workshops held...BioBuilder's open-access curriculum available on Amazon Inspire.    Many thanks to our guest blogger, Mary Tamer...

  18. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    Oct. 8, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Kaustubh Kishor Jadhav, a Research Assistant at MGMs Institute of Biosciences and Technology. If you are reading...subculturing processes or from the air if the cell line remains exposed for a longer time. The aerosols are invisible... be detected by a luminometer. Non-specific DNA stains can be added in the infected culture medium to ... DNA staining alternative. This method uses DNA stains like DAPI and Hoechst 33258 to stain all DNA. Some...sneezing or coughing in the lab. The human mouth contains a wide variety of mycoplasmas and these can enter... sure to change the gloves and masks regularly instead of keeping them in the pockets of your lab coats...you keep all the required equipment and reagents inside the laminar airflow before and while you are working...

  19. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    March 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) are proteins that detect and output the voltage changes in ...green-fluorescent GEVIs and blue-light-sensitive channelrhodopsins. Find the Ace-mScarlet voltage indicator plasmids...of the MoClo system in cyanobacteria. This kit contains 96 parts including terminators and promoters, ...half with PhyB or PIF6, phytochrome-like fusion proteins from the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. In the presence... light or PCB is no longer present, the fusion proteins separate, inactivating Cre. This is critical for...this system, cells express various fluorescent proteins controlled by Cre recombination. Each cell can...colors depending on the combination of fluorescent proteins expressed. CreLite-mediated recombination was ...

  20. RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions

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    April 10, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ...produced in animals instead of via recombinant DNA, they can’t be genetically tagged and instead are conjugated...reporter consists of two chicken IgY domains. Chicken IgY domains are especially useful for multi-color...’t require a secondary antibody for detection. Instead they are detected with tyramide signal amplification...antibody and a ≥100-fold increase in signal over intrinsic fluorescence. Increased signal is likely due to... et al can be found here. Can’t find a RANbody against your favorite protein? No worries! As more nanobodies...
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