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  1. Plasmids 101: The Wide World of Natural Plasmids

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    Oct. 8, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ....2024.01.039 Garcillán-Barcia, M. P., Redondo-Salvo, S., & de la Cruz, F. (2023). Plasmid classifications. Plasmid...difference is virulence plasmids! This category includes genes that help bacteria invade hosts, including...resistance to toxic substances like heavy metals or pesticides, enabling their hosts to survive where others...found on an E. coli fertility plasmid that also encodes a toxin, CcdB, and the resistance to that toxin...
  2. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    Aug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Green, Alexander A., et al. "Toehold switches: de-novo-designed regulators of gene expression." Cell 159.4...Specifically this includes primer directed isothermal RNA amplification, new toehold switch designs, CRISPR/Cas9...is an Assistant professor at the Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics and the School of...development of diagnostics. Mostly transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes (aegypti and albopictus) and, aided by... toehold switches, which allow for the rational design of RNA sensors that can detect virtually any RNA...areas conducive to the spread of the virus by the Aedes mosquito (Messina et al, 2016). We quickly assembled...spread out the risk for the project by initially designing and ordering several dozen versions of the toehold...
  3. No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins

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    June 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.16.045419.  Wrapp D, De Vlieger D, Corbett KS, Torres GM, Wang N, Van Breedam...Zimmermann et al., 2020). This selection platform was designed so that any standard lab can quickly select for...strongly to your target protein. The Seeger lab designed 3 different mRNA sybody libraries for use in the... randomized with a defined set of different trinucleotides (corresponding to different amino acids) in...for binding to the target protein. The protocol describes going through two rounds of phage display to increase...interest. The Seeger lab used the ELISA technique described in their protocol because it is less susceptible...
  4. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    Dec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ... JA, Han Y-C, Ogrodowski P, Crippa A, Rekhtman N, de Stanchina E, Lowe SW, Ventura A (2014) In vivo engineering...targeted organs or tissues with Cas9 and a gRNA designed to target a mutated gene. In a Scientific Reports...Center are now available at Addgene along with a description of their experimental protocol. The three plasmids...plasmid tools, find more plasmids, CRISPR technology guides, FAQs, and CRISPR resources on Addgene's CRISPR...Additional resources on the Addgene blog How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing by John Doench...
  5. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    Sept. 12, 2017, 1:44 p.m.
    .... When contamination is suspected, we proceed to de novo assembly of the unmapped reads, employing our...transduced cells whenever possible. This post will describe our workflow for viral genome sequencing (VGS)...
  6. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    Oct. 23, 2018, 11:49 a.m.
    ... Special thanks for Dr. Dan Stone and Harshana de Silva Feelixge at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center for...plasmids to produce AAV: 1) the RepCap plasmid which provides the AAV replication (rep) and capsid (cap) genes...replication; and 3) the transfer plasmid which encodes a transgene of interest that’s packaged into the...
  7. Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene

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    Sept. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...392–400. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41434-018-0028-5 de Backer, M. W. A., Brans, M. A. D., Luijendijk, M....of negative data.  Negative AAV data is highly desirable  In a survey we conducted to improve our Addgene...every researcher experiences and that it often provides incredibly valuable insight into one’s work. As... Hub is here to help!  The Addgene Data Hub is designed to help scientists understand how our vectors ...standards (clear and detailed methods and image descriptions, a minimum n = 2, and well labeled high- and...the Data Hub. These minimum data standards are designed specifically to allow scientists to evaluate how...
  8. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    May 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...to sickle cell disease. Hoban MD, Orkin SH, Bauer DE. Blood. 2016 Feb 18;127(7):839-48. PubMed PMID: 26758916... but without sustained transgene expression. To design a viral vector system that could do both, Addgene...infect. Finally, the transfer plasmid encoded the desired transgene flanked by HIV-1 long terminal repeats... knockout cell lines. Many CRISPR plasmids are designed for lentiviral use, including Addgene’s top requested... check out our lentiviral plasmid and biosafety guides before beginning your experiment. Let us know how...
  9. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...science.aaq0180  Fine EJ, Appleton CM, White DE, Brown MT, Deshmukh H, Kemp ML, Bao G (2015) Trans-spliced ...as potent and specific? The two AAV strategies described above showed successful target modification, indicating...from Streptococcus thermophilus and a rationally-designed truncated Cas9. Unfortunately, certain drawbacks... approximately 1350 amino acids in size, which includes SpCas9, and shortern orthologs approximately 1000...Split inteins are a pair of naturally occuring polypeptides that, when at the ends of two proteins, mediates... proof-of-concept split intein SpCas9 which had modest editing rates in HEK-293T cells when compared to...capabilities of full-length SpCas9. This set of plasmids includes AAV-Cas9C-VPR for targeted gene activation. Split...
  10. Harnessing TnpB for Genome Editing: A Compact and Versatile Tool for Your Research

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    July 29, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Voytas, D. F. (2019). Plant gene editing through de novo induction of meristems. Nature Biotechnology... Vectors The vectors pK-TnpB1 and pK-TnpB2 are designed for plant genome editing using TnpB. The main ...step-by-step guide for using a Dra2TnpB. Step 1: Design the 20-nt Guide Sequence Identify a TAM site (...plant-specific tools for predicting efficiency of guides are currently unavailable, you can use TEEP — a...schematic of pKb-TnpB1 and pKb-TnpB2, and guide design rules.   Step 3: Vector Digestion Digest either...
  11. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    Oct. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...adenoviral vector infected cells does not require de novo viral gene expression: Implications for gene...a physiological effect of SARS-CoV-2 toward destabilizing one’s natural immune response to Adenovirus ...viruses infecting humans (from seven species, designated as letters A–G) exist. The life cycle of AdVs...short-lived. It is worth noting that it is possible to design a vector that achieves persistent transgene expression...
  12. Thoughts on the Future of Research 2015 Boston Symposium

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    Nov. 25, 2015, 4 p.m.
    ... out to me were: Decrease the Number of Postdocs De-incentivize going into PhD programs as the standard...environments. Slide from Paula Stephan’s Talk (All slides can be found here). Importantly, the panel offered... joining long programs if it is obvious that a desired career outcome is not easily achieved. Of note...clearly not equitable to that of other trainees despite the fact that the underrepresented individual is...
  13. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    Nov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
    ...26224555. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4884002. 10. Boer, E. de, Rodriguez, P., Bonte, E., Krijgsveld, J., Katsantoni...Northern blotting Cell surface labelling Attaching polypeptides to a substrate Flow cytometry/fluorescence-activated...your downstream application. Biotin labelled oligonucleotides can be used in a multitude of applications...commonly used this method to attach proteins or polypeptides to a solid substrate (Holden and Cremer, 2003...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: Integrase-Deficient Lentiviral Vectors

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    May 13, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Brugman, M. H., Pike-Overzet, K., Chatters, S. J., de Ridder, D., Gilmour, K. C., Adams, S., Thornhill,...been a staple in molecular biology for over three decades. Widely used across various research applications...and human papillomavirus (HPV), to name a few (Desfarges & Ciuffi, 2012). One family of viruses, retroviridae... an example.  The lentiviral transfer plasmid encodes your insert of interest, flanked by long terminal...Specifically for our knowledge here, the Pol gene encodes three separate enzymes that are proteolytically...lentiviral particles.  The envelope plasmid typically encodes the vesicular stomatitis virus G protein (VSV-G...the retroviral life cycle for a more detailed description). Since the integrated portion does not contain...
  15. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI

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    March 28, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... 26 recombinant antibodies (rAbs) either produced de novo using yeast display technology or produced from...response, tissue repair, and kidney development. Despite their ubiquity and significance, these receptors...available through Addgene’s repository. The collection includes 26 unique antibodies that bind discrete subunits...and migration, initiating intracellular signal cascades, and allowing agile responses to mechanical forces...
  16. Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE

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    Nov. 6, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...University of Oviedo, the European University Miguel de Cervantes, the University of Navarra, and the University...together with the universities, a bright future. IMP provides matched one-on-one international mentorship, with...recommended, a mentor with international experience provides his/her mentees with a broader, first-hand vision...
  17. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    Sept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...doi.org/10.1002/emmm.201302948 Trapani I, Toriello E, de Simone S, Colella P, Iodice C, Polishchuk EV, Sommella...physical size of the genomes is still ~4.7kb. But despite this, larger functional transgene products were...HDR event can’t occur. Lastly, depending on its design, donor A may be capable of expressing a truncated...
  18. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ...oncogenic silencing in vivo by programmable and targeted de novo DNA methylation in breast cancer. Oncogene 34...which uses light to regulate transcription, also includes light-regulated histone methyltransferases and...histone modifications. Like the TALE-LSD1 system described above, dCas9-LSD1 inactivates targeted enhancers...certainly not the only CRISPR-based technology designed to alter gene expression. Fusing dCas9 to a transcriptional...epigenetic modifiers? As with any experiment, your desired outcome will determine the tool that you should...
  19. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07852-7 De Boer, Herman A., Lisa K. Comstock & Mark Vasser. ...to the promoter and turning transcription OFF. Despite their bacterial origins, Tet systems function well...promoters can be used in the repressible manner described above, as well as the inducible manner detailed...30 years since the original Tet-Off system was described by Gossen and Bujard, both the promoter and transactivator...cells, and can be used in the repressible manner described above, as well as the inducible manner detailed...tissue- or developmental stage-specific promoter and design a UAS reporter construct, the reporter will only...simple answer is that sometimes it is necessary or desirable to control or look at multiple genes at the same...
  20. Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence

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    May 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Brewer, M., McDonough, L., Zhu, Y., Neumann, E., De Caestecker, M., Gutierrez, D., & Spraggins, J. (2022...between the targets. Or, it might be sufficient to describe or classify the labeled structures visually; for...will vary depending on your specific experimental design. Like selecting an antibody, some of the requirements...
  21. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    July 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Green, Alexander A., et al. "Toehold switches: de-novo-designed regulators of gene expression." Cell 159.4...also be used to design primers to read states by qPCR or Sanger sequencing as described in the Material...hammerhead ribozyme parts are described in Nielsen et al (3) and Lou et al (4). Despite choosing proper register...machine design space is highly degenerate and often times there are multiple register designs that may...recognition sites from the register. If the RSM is designed in such a way that each possible order of inputs...segments in each state of a register enables the design of primer pairs that PCR amplify in some states...registers within a sample using a metric that we describe in the Materials and Methods section of our paper...
  22. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...bacterial mutagenesis or gene targeting Victor de Lorenzo's lab has engineered a modular mini-Tn5 vector...on channelrhodopsins – Chronos & Chrimson Through de novo sequencing of 127 algal transcriptomes, as well...components into a destination vector in a predefined order. Finally, the destination vectors are used ...engineering approach, they designed Opto-RTKs, which activate signaling cascades on exposure to low-intensity...years of distributing his Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADD) plasmids ...minimizing confounding secondary effects? An approach described as “knocksideways” (a British idiom for “taking...recombination elements such as FRT or Lox sites, and provides a modular system for easier exchange and re-use...
  23. Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers

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    Jan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Strausbaugh LD, Gray P, Vartak NB, Brown M, Talbot D, Berg DE. pBR322-derived multicopy plasmids harboring large...confirmations like linear and nicked plasmids, as described in this article.   Long-read sequencing Addgene...bacterial colonies using one of the detection methods described above can help ensure the isolation of the monomeric...copy number plasmids causes instability: CoIE1 encodes a determinant essential for plasmid monomerization...Carnes AE, Hodgson CP. Plasmid DNA vaccine vector design: impact on efficacy, safety and upstream production...
  24. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    Dec. 17, 2020, 1:30 p.m.
    ...https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku289 Chen C, Fenk LA, de Bono M (2013) Efficient genome editing in Caenorhabditis... DNA double-strand breaks up to 54 bp from the desired insertion site result in efficient editing. Repair...available through Addgene. In 2019, Farboud et al. described another similar co-conversion marker (repair of...whether it be by improved gRNA or repair template design, delivery, screening, and more. Here are some highlights...highlights from the past few years:  Repair template design The Meyer lab meticulously characterized several...of editing. First, they devised guidelines for designing single-stranded repair templates (Farboud et al...Tools such as SapTrap Builder greatly simplifies design of these constructs, allowing novice researchers...
  25. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    Oct. 24, 2017, 1:54 p.m.
    ...policies that “muzzle” government scientists to the de-funding of crucial environmental research programs...and minority communities, where these issues hit hardest. According to the Guttmacher Institute, most women...was supremely proud of Nashville that morning. Despite the rain, about 4,000 supporters of science showed... an agenda that halts current data collection, destroys existing data, and guts future funding.I marched...science belongs to the taxpayers who fund it, and we deserve to know the truth about our world. Jonathan Aguilar...
  26. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    April 17, 2018, 1:37 p.m.
    ... cell reprogramming factors and wait for cells to de-differentiate. However it’s difficult, especially... with peptides that help mediate their transduction, such as the polyarginine peptide described in Zhou...reprogrammer, to decide which method to use. This post provides a brief overview of reprogramming methods with... Paramyxoviridae family of viruses, which also includes measles and mumps. Sendai transduces a wide range...in practice integration can occur. Okita et al describes a protocol for generating iPSCs by plasmid transfection...
  27. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    April 5, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
    ...using in mouse transgenics. Designing an Easi-CRISPR knock-in allele To design a knock-in allele at a given... PAM or guide mutation. Designing an Easi-CRISPR conditional allele The design for a floxed conditional...successfully used guides targeting the same or complementary strands, as well as guides facing towards or...How to design a conditional allele with Easi-CRISPR. As in the knock-in example, you’ll design your ...with your desired insertion feature (e.g., a fluorescent protein), you can amplify the desired region using... Figure 5: How to design Easi-CRISPR repair templates using Addgene plasmids. Design PCR primers to add...arduous. First, you’d construct a plasmid with your desired changes, long homology arms and a selection marker...
  28. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...relaxed gRNA design parameters. To demonstrate the effectiveness of their library design, Moffat laboratory...-strand DNA (ssDNA) oligonucleotides (oligos), and thereby rapidly create desired allele combinations ... pCAG-T7-TALEN(Sangamo)-Destination series, pCAG-Golden-Gate-Esp3I-Destination Takashi Yamamoto pcDNA-TAL-NC2...vector, and besides being used for restoring strain prototrophy, can also aid in designing self-establishing...assay. In their recent publication, Kroeze et al. describe their enhanced TANGO arrestin recruitment assay...optimized, expression validated GPCR sequences to any desired backbone.  Kroeze, et al. Nat Struct Mol Biol....plasmids with the Cross-disciplinary Integration of Design Automation Research lab Moduclar Cloning (CIDAR...
  29. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    Jan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...clone in their desired DNA sequences. Gateway technology relies on the two reactions described below: The ...pLenti CMV Puro DEST (w118-1) or the doxycycline-inducible pLIX_403. The chosen attR destination vector will...between the entry clone and destination vector creates two products: the desires expression clone and a byproduct...produce the desired expression clone. This is possible thanks to the Gateway vectors’ design. They have...vector systems. With the appropriate entry and destination vectors, one can use Gateway to clone a gene ...generated entry clone and the attR sites of the destination vector. This reaction is catalyzed by the LR ...containing the ccdB gene is excised from the destination vector.  Once the BP and/or LR reactions are ...
  30. Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering

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    Dec. 15, 2016, 3:57 p.m.
    ....  These primers are typically ~70 nucleotides long (20 nucleotides that anneal to the DNA sequence of..., the substrate should be ~70-100 nucleotides long with the desired alteration(s) located in the center...genomes. 2) Designing ssDNA oligos that avoid MMR activation:  There are two ways to design oligos that...tube. The donor DNA substrate only requires ~50 nucleotides of homology to the target site for recombination... be explained in greater detail. Substrate DNA design and generation Expression of lambda red recombination...antibiotic resistance cassette.   Substrate DNA Design and Generation Whether you use a linear dsDNA or...insertions or deletions greater than approximately 20 nucleotides, while ssDNA substrate is best for point mutations...
  31. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    Feb. 27, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...preprint title or a general description of the deposit. Select your desired distribution status: Hold...choose from one of the following descriptions for your plasmid: Encodes insert(s) A plasmid with one or...should describe how your plasmid is intended to be used. For instance, if your plasmid is designed to allow...Unpublished or pre-publication plasmids" and set a desired distribution status. You can submit "Published ...plasmids with the original publication where you described them. Search for your article as you would search...distribute, or Addgene finds your journal publication describing the plasmids, or (for deposits submitted after...selected your publication or entered your deposit description, the next page will allow you to add plasmids...
  32. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    March 13, 2014, 4:08 p.m.
    ...template vector design guidelines? A7: A few notes below are considerations for designing HR donor. Generally...usually pick 3–6 guides around the region to find the most efficient guide (most guides would work, but... this ‘split RNA’ design is not as efficient in genome editing as the second design (in pX330/PX335), ... CRISPR plasmid tools and numerous experimental design decisions to make, it makes sense that scientists...CRISPR forum's most popular questions and answers. Designing your CRISPR genome editing experiment Q1: Should...comparable efficiency to the optimized chimeric design but with better accuracy (in other words, lower...nickase system is based on the Cas9 D10A nickase described in Figure 4 of the Cong et al. (2013) Science ...
  33. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    Aug. 29, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...list of Fragmid destination vectors currently available. Table 1: Fragmid destination vectors Organism...website, which breaks the design process down into four easy steps, provides the real value for the user...potential of them not working, or spend a few weeks designing and cloning the vectors you actually want. But... Fragmid is a modular vector assembly process designed for a quick, plug-and-play approach to cloning...et al., 2024). It reduces the amount of time to design and create a new vector to four days for an experienced...high school interns, were able to use Fragmid to design and clone their vectors in five days. Did you say...s modular assembly structure takes a lot of the design work out of the plasmid creation process. Each ...
  34. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    Sept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.
    ...ligated into Cas9 or dCas9-containing destination vectors. Destination vector options include humanized wt...cell that gets the plasmid contains all of the desired gRNAs. This increases the chance that all the edits...promoters. To use this plasmid, you simply order oligonucleotides for your chosen gRNA target sequences and ...ordered assembly of multiple components into a destination vector. The first step in CRISPR/Cas9 Golden ...Golden Gate multiplexing is to clone the oligonucleotides specifying each gRNA target sequence into distinct...together to allow for ordered assembly into a destination vector that expresses Cas9. This is illustrated...rectangles) are cloned into various plasmids using oligonucleotides. These plasmids contain Type IIS restriction...
  35. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    Sept. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...primer design Design primers for Goldengate cloning   Design primers for In-Fusion Cloning Design primers...traces, while the paid version provides more tools for plasmid mapping and design (Figure 1). Benchling: While...academic users. Serial Cloner: Free desktop-based software for plasmid design and mapping. ApE (A plasmid Editor...Primer design tools Many of the above-listed plasmid mapping tools have built-in primer design tools, ...stand-alone sites for general primer design, as well as primer design for different cloning applications...characteristics. NEB Data-optimized Assembly Design (DAD): This tool designs overhang sets for high complexity Golden...Primer design. Plasmid mapping. DNA sequence analysis. We all have our favorite tools for tackling these...
  36. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...vectors in a Multisite Gateway reaction with a desired destination vector expressing a separate reporter gene... can't give all of them attention they righlty deserve, but, in this post, we'll provide a small sampling...-2xNLS-VP64 and dCas9(N)-FRB-NES). This system provides users greater temporal control over CRISPR/Cas9...cell events Three years ago, Brian Kuhlman’s lab designed photoswitchable dimers by fusing the SsrA peptide...the authors recently used computational protein design, phage display and high throughput binding assays...transcription of downstream genes. Nihongaki et al describe the targeted activation of endogenous genes and... a gene-specific forward primer containing the desired restriction site (the MCS has several options) ...
  37. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    Aug. 27, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...customized to direct assembly of DNA fragments. When designed correctly, the recognition sites do not appear... scheme is as follows: the gene of interest is designed with Type IIS sites (such as BsaI or BbsI), that...and do not appear in the final construct. The destination vector contains sites with complementary overhangs...ligation can be done in one 30-minute reaction. The destination vector and entry vector(s) are placed in a single...IIS enzyme and ligase. Although the original destination vector + insert may spontaneously religate, this... be re-digested. In contrast, formation of the desired ligation product is irreversible because this construct...a single reaction! These overhangs specify the desired order of fragments, and the loss of enzyme recognition...
  38. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    Nov. 29, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... reference?  The CRISPR guides used in the screens they analyzed were designed to have a perfect match...African descent have approximately 20% more single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that map to guides in the...accounted for in the CRISPR guides they used, leading to mismatches between the guides and the lines’ genomes...modify the CRISpick algorithm to prevent guides from being designed that target regions with high genomic...coming through an unexpected source: the CRISPR guides, short pieces of RNA that bind to a cell’s DNA,...x-axis) which SNPs map to thetargeting sequences of guides across 8 CRISPR libraries. Samples are divided ...are more common in individuals of African descent.Correcting the bias  While their thorough analysis uncovered...
  39. 10 Steps to a Perfect Science Talk

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    Aug. 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...suspense. Notice the simplicity of their slides and how the slides complement the spoken message. Learn from...speak to start creating slides or thinking about content. Create a Google.slides or Powerpoint file right...how these speakers talk without looking at their slides or notes. Listen to their stories and narratives...listeners to be thinking “What happens next?”  Describe how you pushed to a solution or overcame obstacles...term, but are worried that this might sound condescending, consider explaining the term on a slide but...talk will really take and to adjust content and slides to better suit the target time frame.   I suggest...peers than a less supportive audience? 7. Hone Your slides Use big images that are easy to see (and for heavens...
  40. Plasmids 101: Walkthrough of Addgene’s Snapgene-Powered Quality Control Process

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    Feb. 1, 2018, 3:07 p.m.
    ...experiments that can be partially designed using the Snapgene desktop software. If a plasmid contains a...sequencing results with reference sequences To design experiments for further plasmid verification Identifying... contents of the resulting FASTA file into the desktop version of Snapgene to visualize the sequence and...in Snapgene’s extensive database. Snapgene also provides easy visualization of open reading frames, which...any known sequences for the insert. The Snapgene desktop software allows us to quickly align multiple sequences...verification experiments: Primer and restriction digest design Some regions of plasmids are difficult to sequence...region with a high amount of guanine and cytosine nucleotides, we might need to send it for Sanger sequencing...
  41. Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility

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    May 18, 2018, 7:32 p.m.
    ...experimental designs and we need to be transparent about the reasons we alter these designs if we do so...experimental design to a journal prior to performing the experiment (or set of experiments), the design would...from the event can be found below along with a description of the program beneath it. You can jump to the...the different time stamps in the description to watch any sections you’re particularly interested in, ...JoVe, and Bio-protocol all work to provide more descriptive and interactive protocols that make it much easier...and not just impact. Cause #3: Poor experimental design It’s easy to get excited about positive results...experiments to work, but part of good experimental design is recognizing that we’re biased and taking steps...
  42. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

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    July 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... massive amount of descriptive transcriptomics data. Custom CRISPR screens designed to target differentially...Institutet, in Sweden. It can be very time consuming to design 5 guide RNAs (gRNAs) targeting each of the 1000...). Green Listed is a new software tool used to design gRNAs for custom CRISPR screens targeting a (long...moment, 13 full genome SpCas9 knockout libraries designed by different academic labs, targeting mouse, human...drug targets  Another interesting approach is to design screens against known druggable targets, preferentially...library from Addgene, and then use Green Listed to design a smaller validation screen using selected gRNAs... could also be combined. For example, you could design a screen targeting all differentially expressed...
  43. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    Dec. 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...often use the Cre/Lox system described earlier. In this case, you design your targeting vector such that...replacing it or disrupting it with an piece of DNA designed in the lab. Specially constructed plasmids can...template with the endogenous gene. Here, we'll describe the techniques and the plasmids used to inactivate...inactivate specific genes in mammalian cells. Despite the popularity of CRISPR-based knockout/knock-in systems...locus with homologous sequence using a specially designed vector that contains sequence homology to the ... the process, we’ll walk through an experiment designed to knock out exon 2 of a given gene.   ... Figure 1: A knockout targeting vector designed to insert a resistance gene. The vector contains a neomycin...
  44. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...adapted "self-cleaving" 2A peptides into their muliticistronic vectors. These peptides, first discovered in ...plasmids) are designed to have one or more of the genes replaced.  Additionally, 2A peptides could be PCR-cloned...PDF that you can save on your desktop. The Plasmids 101 eBook is designed to educate all levels of scientists...incorporated into plasmids for research purposes are described below. IRES Elements Translation in eukaryotes...the specific genes cloned into the vector.3  2A Peptides To overcome some of the disadvantages of the IRES...self-cleaving" is not entirely accurate, as these peptides are thought to function by making the ribosome...Proline.  The table below lists the four common 2A peptides employed by scientists. 2A cleavage is universal...
  45. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    Blog Post
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    March 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... friends on the Cambridge 2010 iGEM team that describes the basics of Gibson assembly as a parody of “...assembly The Gibson assembly technique was first described by Dr. Daniel Gibson and colleagues at the J. ... Both Snapgene and NEB have tools that help you design primers for PCR amplification of fragments to incorporate...demonstration of how to use Snapgene’s program to design primers for Gibson Assembly. For a simple example...without scars as depicted below. First, you need to design primers to amplify the two fragments while also...the process works best with fragments over 200 nucleotides. This may be because the exonuclease could chew... through an entire fragment shorter than 200 nucleotides before the annealing and polymerization steps...
  46. Hassle-free 96-well Format Epitope Tagging Using Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein

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    Blog Post
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    June 28, 2018, 3:01 p.m.
    ...knock-in. Another good design tool can be found at Desktop Genetics .For ssODN design, remember to incorporate... systems, you will have to design your crRNAs using other web-based design tools (for C-terminus tagging... not work in pull-down assays: Epitope tagging provides a solution Proteins - the workhorses of the cell...to mention frustrating. One elegant solution to sidestep the antibody problem is to tag the protein of ...sequences at the intended target site. With the widespread adoption of CRISPR/Cas9 technology and rapid ...bioinformatics tool for guide RNA and donor DNA design, and implemented our optimised protocols into a...genome browser: https://www.ensembl.org/index.html Design crRNA/ssODN: Using Ensembl Transcript ID(s) as ...
  47. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...rules of thumb for designing your overhang sets. But are those rules the best way to design GGA overhang sets...overhangs with the same three nucleotides in a row; (4) no more than two nucleotides in the same position; (...data-optimized assembly design (DAD) to build out three tools to help researchers design high-fidelity Golden...the traditional rules of thumb for overhang set design allowed for high-fidelity assembly for sets of ... overhangs that violate some of the traditional design rules) for successful high-complexity Golden Gate...with a high potential for mismatches, so you can redesign individual pieces as needed to improve fidelity... a stochastic search algorithm rather than pre-designed sets, so identical searches can return multiple...
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