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  1. Plasmids 101: A Brief History of Plasmids and an Improved eBook!

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    Oct. 29, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...factors that could be transferred between cells. At the time, these extranuclear agents of heredity were...was proposed a few years later by Élie Jacob and François Wollman and became the widely adopted name for...-factors. Like F-factors, R-factors could be transferred between bacteria via cell-to-cell contact; however...pSC102, with EcoRI and selected for E. coli transformants that were resistant to both. When this proved...Chizuko Ogata, and Sachiko Sato. “EPISOME-MEDIATED TRANSFER OF DRUG RESISTANCE IN ENTEROBACTERIACEAE VIII:...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC314833. Datta, Naomi. “Transmissible Drug Resistance in an Epidemic Strain of Salmonella...

  2. Hot Plasmids: FRET-Based Biosensors

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    May 6, 2014, 1:07 p.m.
    ...field is a series of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based calcium biosensors. Perhaps most ...developed and published in 2010 for visualizing the transcription factor cAMP-responsive element-binding protein...really important and when? That is not known.” Transition Metals Maarten Merkx of Technische Universiteit...particularly for the intracellular imaging of transition metal ions, such as zinc, copper, and iron. “...the sensors involves plenty of trial and error. Transition metals also present challenges in that they are... way to make a FRET sensor with a large dynamic range,” he says. Merkx recently applied this “trick” to...red-shifted FRET sensor for zinc using variants of mOrange2 and mCherry as donor and acceptor domains. He ...

  3. Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning

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    Feb. 18, 2016, 3:42 p.m.
    ...contamination from uncut plasmid. 4. Transformation Transform your ligation reaction into your bacterial...perform, at minimum, two transformations after a ligation: 1. Control Transformation containing the ligation... how many colonies you should expect in the transformation due to background re-circularization and contamination...competent cells. For most standard cloning, you can transform 1-2μl of your ligation reaction into competent...ligation mixture with backbone alone; 2. Transformation containing ligation mixture with insert and backbone...conduct a positive control to ensure that your transformation worked. You should also verify that you are...

  4. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 2: Controlling Gene Expression in Flies with Gal4/UAS

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    July 21, 2017, 12:48 p.m.
    ...more detailed level, the Gal4/UAS system is a transcription activation system co-opted from yeast (1). It...workhorse to turn genes on or off. Gal4 is a transcriptional activator that binds to UAS enhancer sequences...sequences found in DNA. It then recruits transcription machinery to the site to induce gene expression. Thus...reads “#” as a “pound symbol”. References 1. A. H. Brand, N. Perrimon, Targeted gene expression as a means...15262411. 4. T. D. Southall, D. A. Elliott, A. H. Brand, The GAL4 System : A Versatile Toolkit for Gene ...Lai, T. Lee, Genetic mosaic with dual binary transcriptional systems in Drosophila., Nat. Neurosci. 9, 703...The Q system: a repressible binary system for transgene expression, lineage tracing, and mosaic analysis...

  5. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    Oct. 26, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ... seems straightforward: E. coli bacteria are transformed with the library DNA, they grow and replicate... Each Addgene library has its own depositor transformation and amplification protocol, but the overall...Maintain representation of the library during transformation First, use enough DNA and competent bacteria...and we use electroporation to ensure a good transformation efficiency. For a typical library, Addgene ...growing the cells on solid plates, where each transformant forms its own colony, uninfluenced by the growth...concern, but Addgene still recommends plating the transformation mixture on solid media. The colonies are then...that were amplified preferentially). You can also rank the plasmids by abundance, scaled to 1, to create...

  6. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    Sept. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...responses are varied; one outcome is directed transcription from a given promoter. To harness the power ...the RR (OmpR) via phosphorylation, promoting transcription (see figure below). Subsequent exposure to red...response regulator via phosphorylation, promoting transcription of a GFP reporter. Subsequent exposure to red...activity persisted in the inactive state. The dynamic range, defined as the difference between the lowest and... reduced system leakiness and increased dynamic range to around 100-fold. These improvements will allow...Applications of these systems The large dynamic range of these systems ensures that they can be used with...types of proteins, including Cas9 and dCas9-transcription factors, for which low expression levels are...

  7. Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers

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    Dec. 18, 2014, 4:06 p.m.
    ...Wondering how you can develop more transferable skills? See Developing Transferable Skills During Science Training...of the University of British Columbia. When transitioning from an academic science career path to a non-academic...advantage over other candidates. Write about your transferable skills Some of the skills you developed might...research. For example, did you help put together a grant application? Are you familiar with the publishing...have presented in some public lectures? These transferable skills could be meaningful for your potential...Originally on track for a research career, she transitioned into a communications role instead after she...

  8. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases

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    July 22, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...luminescent) worlds Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) is the transfer of energy from an excited donor fluorophore...Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) works the same way, except that energy is transferred from a luminescence... elements — such as promoters, enhancers, or untranslated regions — on gene expression. The regulatory... fluorescent protein close enough, energy is transferred by BRET and the fluorescent protein emits light...as the most efficient means to disrupt the cell membrane and deliver the substrate; however, secreted luciferase...

  9. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    June 1, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...brightness When a dish of mammalian cells is transiently transfected with a plasmid containing a fluorescent...fluorescent proteins, e.g. see Chudakov et al (2010), Cranfill et al (2016) or Thorn (2017). However, the theoretical...developed in our lab uses a reference protein that is translated from the same open-reading frame and separated...reference protein) under identical conditions, a ranking of the practical brightness can be made (Goedhart...repeating this with another fluorescent protein, a ranking of practical brightness can be made. This strategy...the comparison of the practical brightness of two orange fluorescent proteins, differing by only a single...

  10. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    June 6, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...synaptic transmission. Cleavage of VAMP2 renders it inactive, thus inhibiting neurotransmitter release....Plasmids podcast Light-mediated block of synaptic transmission Article contributed by Klaus Wanisch  Listen...enable VAMP2 cleavage, and suppresses neuronal transmission within minutes. Constructs using the photodimerizer...utility of light-mediated suppression of synaptic transmission in brain slices from mouse, and showed that ...recognized as important regulators of post-transcriptional gene expression across the majority of cellular...an unregulated fashion and thus a marker for transfection. The other (mKate2) is regulated in the 3’ UTR...

  11. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    Dec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m.
    .... elegans. These dsRNAs target specific mRNA transcripts for degradation. Despite how easy these experiments...often completely ineffective or results in low penetrant phenotypes that are hard to study. To overcome...target gene between two inverted T7 promoters. Transcription from each promoter progresses past the specific...podcast segment A fundamental approach to studying membranes, organelles, and other subcellular compartments...enzymes function across a much broader temperature range than BioID, which only functions optimally at 37...and C. elegans.   Find the TurboID plasmids here! Branon et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2018 PubMed PMID: 30125270...This tetramer cleaves chlorophenol red-b-D-galactopyranoside on the assay paper turning it purple, allowing...

  12. Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags

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    April 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the filament from (a-b), showing the appearance and disappearance of 649-mDia1 or 549-CP (upper, middle...takes is a bit of chemistry magic to produce a wide range of useful molecules linked to that substrate. If... with SiR-CA (magenta) and outer mitochondrial membrane labeled with SNAP-OMP25 with Atto590-BG (green...separately with different dyes. b) mDia1 and CP appearance at the filament tip from (a). c) Intensity traces... probes are not very good at crossing the cell membrane. So, you should investigate your options and weigh...are typically 230–250 aa. Smaller size isn’t a guarantee that a tag won’t disrupt the function of the target...https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth749 Strebinger, D., Frangieh, C. J., Friedrich, M. J., Faure, G., Macrae, R...

  13. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    Nov. 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Cas9 fused to the reverse transcriptase (RT), which induces two double-strand breaks and deletes the intervening...They further develop a version of SEND for gene transfer with pseudotyped viral particles, expanding options...enzyme from the Liu lab to target opposite DNA strands and specify a large intervening deletion. Not only...deletions and introduce epitope tags and RNA transcription start sites. The lab further demonstrated that...uses paired pegRNAs targeting complementary DNA strands to program large genomic deletions with or without...PEDAR is capable of correcting larger genomic rearrangements as demonstrated in a mouse model of tyrosinemia...

  14. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    Jan. 16, 2018, 3:20 p.m.
    ... has recently published techniques to follow translation in living single cells. However, before CRISPR-Cas9...the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She presented a novel technology...to be invited to learn from them at the MPI in Frankfurt am Main and perform similar experiments. Visualizing...Both antibodies have a short antibody specific DNA strand added to them. Only if the proteins of interest...are in close proximity to each other can the DNA strands take part in rolling circle DNA amplification. ...microscope she likes to travel, discover new restaurants, go to concerts and bake. you can contact her...neurons reveals a mechanism for regulating its translatability." Science 343.6169 (2014): 419-422. PubMed ...

  15. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    Nov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...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...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...disease-associated mutations. AAV vectors maintain persistent transgene expression over many years in postmitotic, long-lived...targeting and enhances endonuclease delivery for double-strand break repair." Gene therapy 17.9 (2010): 1175-1180...

  16. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... efficient double stranded templates, rather than the more efficient single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotide...generally very small, and can contain different neurotransmitters. Using genetically encoded fluorescent proteins... them to localize to the synapse and minimize extraneous fluorescence from other regions of the cell. ...synaptic maturation pattern of hippocampal adult-born granule cells over time that were not previously possible... al., 2020). Figure 3: BaF3 cells were transduced with H2B-FT virus and grown in varying concentrations...lentiviral CRISPR library that targets human glycosyltransferase genes and other proteins related to cellular...

  17. CRISPR 101 eBook...en español

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    Jan. 18, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...receiving the translation, Addgene contracted with a professional scientific translator, L. Denise Roche...101: Una herramienta de edición Addgene tiene una gran audiencia internacional, incluido trabajando con...101 eBook is now available in Spanish!  This translation was gifted to Addgene by Daniel Mejías Sánchez...Roche, to edit the translation. We are pleased to announce that CRISPR 101: Una herramienta de edición ...  Many thanks to:  Daniel Mejías Sánchez, PhD, translator  Denise Roche, PhD, MD, editor, ldeniseroche@...

  18. Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields

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    May 26, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...over for other applications, like PCR, cloning, transfection, or long-term storage. But what about those ...inverted terminal repeats. We use NEB Stable to transform and prep high quality DNA that contains these ... in a protein expression strain, we suggest retransforming the plasmid into a strain meant for DNA purification...prepping. Be sure to stay within the recommended range of the filter or you might inadvertently lower the...concentration Low copy plasmids produce fewer transcripts of their antibiotic resistance genes and can ...for high copy plasmids in standard growth strains range from 12-16 hours, but cultures with lower copy plasmids...to Quantify Your DNA Learn to Do a Bacterial Transformation Learn How to Perform a Diagnostic Restriction...

  19. 3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9

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    Oct. 17, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
    ...this surface”….where the complex is docked on the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum. And graduate students...reported cleavage site on the complementary DNA strand. And this is why we love working with researchers...”. Jacob computationally added the non-template strand to the Jinek structure so that the resulting physical...protein must have in order to scan along the double-stranded DNA, recognize a PAM sequence, allow the complementary...pairing between the guide RNA and the target DNA strand, and then activate two different endonuclease active...structure captures the displaced non-target DNA strand and shows the HNH nuclease domain swung around ...juxtaposition to its cleavage site on the target DNA strand. In addition, this model also displays the several...

  20. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    Dec. 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... mechanism to accurately repair harmful double stranded breaks, in which nucleotide sequences are exchanged...selection marker HSV-tk is used to select against random recombinants.   Design your targeting construct...selecting for cells in which the construct has randomly integrated into the genome, a negative selection...step will kill off many of the cells that have randomly integrated all or large portions of the plasmid...negative selection marker selects against improper, random recombination into a different locus. Correctly...contain the negative selection marker, but cells with random recombination may incorporate the negative selection...and animal models, their efficiency is very low, ranging from undetectable to 0.1%. In contrast, new genome...
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