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  1. Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel

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    May 28, 2024, 1:45 p.m.
    ...overlap. Figure 4 compares the spectra of enhanced GFP (eGFP) and FITC, the latter being a commonly used fluorophore...to fuse them with a fluorescent reporter, such as GFP or mCherry, through genetic modification. As your... you can also use fluorescent reporters, such as GFP, and fluorophore-conjugated antibodies together in...while wavelengths over 700 nm make up the infrared (IR) spectrum. When photons are absorbed by matter, they...vector also encodes for eGFP, which serves as a transduction reporter. Note that eGFP is not fused to CD45...-Cy7. Next comes our transduction reporter, eGFP. As eGFP emits fluorescence by itself and does not need...cytometer which channel to use to detect eGFP. As you saw in Figure 4, eGFP strongly overlaps with FITC, hence...
  2. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    Jan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m.
    ...pSpCas9(BB)). The 2A-GFP allows for screening of transfected cells. Find pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP (PX458). lentiCRISPR...pSpCas9n(BB)-2A-GFP (PX461) - Similar to pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX458), pSpCas9n(BB)-2A-GFP (PX461) expresses...requested plasmid of 2017. Find pMD2.G. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP (PX458) - This plasmid from the Zhang lab expresses...nick, rather than cleave DNA. Find pSpCas9n(BB)-2A-GFP (PX461). pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) - This mammalian...lab that contains the gag and pol genes. It also requires pRSV-Rev and the envelope expressing plasmid pMD2...
  3. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...dim GFPs The availability of the three dimensional structure of GFP, its brighter mutant S65T-GFP, and...and GFP shRNA. Mice carrying the R26DsRedR; CRUSH-GFP; and Nestin-Cre alleles showed efficient GFP knockdown...identified a family of GFP proteins in the cephalochordate Branchiostoma floridae, named bfloGFPs. They went on...and demonstrate that they can successfully create GFP fusion proteins with a variety of genes across the...enabled scientists to engineer a wide variety of GFPs with diversity in fluorescence brightness, intensity...Cas9 gene editing. Dr. Masahito Ikawa has created a GFP reporter plasmid for scientists to validate the efficacy...plasmid undergoes HR or SSA to reconstitute functional GFP, and the cells will turn green. Mashiko et al.,...
  4. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    May 9, 2017, 2:12 p.m.
    ...array plus a GFP tag. Four weeks post-infection, there was strong expression of Cpf1 and GFP in the targeted...4 targets when an array of 4 crRNAs, Cpf1, and a GFP tag were transfected on a single plasmid. This is...~75% of neurons were co-transduced with Cpf1 and GFP.  Of these neurons, ~15% had indels at all 3 targeted...transduction One vector expresses Cas9, eGFP, and up to 4 gRNAs Each gRNA requires its own promoter   Kabadi et ...crRNA/gRNA length gRNA: ~100 nt crNA: ~42 nt Requires tracrRNA? Yes No dsDNA cleavage Blunt end 5'...vector expresses Cas9 and up to 7 gRNAs Each gRNA requires its own promoter Sakuma et al   Multiplexed...gRNAs expressed from a polycistronic transcript  Requires co-transfection of Cas9 Nissim et alTsai et al...
  5. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    Feb. 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...signal to noise ratio of the system, they modified GFP-dCas9 and the gRNA scaffold to enhance complex assembly...the amount of background fluorescence from unbound GFP-dCas9. With these improvements, labeling efficiency...sequences, which recruit fluorescent proteins BFP, GFP, and RFP fused to the respective hairpin binding ...Fluorescent Proteins Control Protein Activity with GFP Resources on Asddgene.org Find Fluorescent Protein...of these orthologs is key: since each ortholog requires a different PAM sequence, a gRNA designed for ...color is specified by PAM sequence, each color requires a different Cas9 ortholog, and the target sequence...in combination with gene editing. CRISPRainbow requires very short, 11-mer gRNAs, which do not induce ...
  6. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...MSCV-IRES-EGFP IRES Retroviral pMSCV-pBabeMCS-IRES-RFP IRES Retroviral pMSCV-IRES-YFP II IRES Retroviral...pCMMP-MCS-IRES-Puro IRES Retroviral pEF1a-IRES-Neo IRES Mammalian MSCV-IRES-Luciferase IRES Retroviral...plasmids for research purposes are described below. IRES Elements Translation in eukaryotes usually begins... element called an Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) to allow for initiation of translation from an ...mRNA. In the figure above, you can see that the IRES element acts as another ribosome recruitment site...co-expression of two proteins from a single mRNA. IRES was originally discovered in poliovirus RNA, where...in eukaryotic cells.1,2 Since then, a variety of IRES sequences have been discovered - many from viruses...
  7. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    June 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...TOPO E17TAG GFP and pGEX-6P-1. The pCRT7 NT TOPO vector contains a mutant pSer-containing GFP that can be...during optimization experiments. This version of GFP will contain a phosphoserine at amino acid 17 instead...instead of a stop codon, which will allow full length GFP to be translated), and second, through a gel shift...protein. Up to 80% p-Ser incorporation into E17TAG GFP has been achieved with the Rinehart system (6); however...bacterial strain – Addgene #68306 pCRT7 NT TOPO E17TAG GFP plasmid - Addgene #68295 SupD plasmid – Addgene #... The generation of pSer-incorporated proteins requires a molecular toolkit containing the OTS, an appropriate...
  8. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    Aug. 15, 2017, 1:24 p.m.
    ... to track where GFP labelled B cells were in mounted slices of these organs. These GFP labelled cells ...enabled by fluorescent proteins The optimization of GFP and its derivatives by the late Roger Tsien changed...stimulus. Using an epifluorescence microscope and GFP fusion proteins controlled by promoters specific ...the immune lineage, scientists could easily track GFP expressing cells. For example, by harvesting lymph... the infiltration of neutrophils expressing LysM-GFP (green) into a draining lymph node after infection...Laser include: Blue-green fluorescent proteins like EGFP Yellow-orange fluorescent proteins like TagRFP, ...auto-fluorescence (Drobizhev et al. 2011). But this requires other lasers than the standard Ti:Sapphire laser...
  9. Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging

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    Oct. 9, 2014, 3 p.m.
    ...imaging with this set are mTagBFP2, EGFP or one of the improved GFP variants, mRuby2 or TagRFP-T, and an... / em 527 nm) can be imaged together but CFP and GFP (ex 488 nm / em 507 nm) show some crosstalk between...simultaneously. To do so with fluorescent protein labels requires multiple fluorescent proteins whose excitation... means that the choice of fluorescent proteins requires some thought. The first step in choosing fluorescent...fluorescent proteins can be separated from each other requires knowledge of their excitation and emission spectra...mammalian cells, one of the improved folding variants of EGFP like mEmerald or Clover is probably best; mNeonGreen...and have reported brightness measurements. Here, EGFP outperforms the improved folding variants, presumably...
  10. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...both the GFP and the RFP proteins in the nucleus. During the first round of translation, the GFP proteins...Compartment mCherry-Rab5 BFP-Rab5 GFP-Rab5B Vacuolar & Budding Compartment GFP-Rab4B Mitochondria mito-BFP...GTPase in division) GFP-Mff (outer membrane protein) Late Endosome mCherry-Rab7A GFP-Rab7A     ...protein Knock-off, is made up of three components: a GFP protein that binds to the coding region of a reporter...reporter mRNA via a PP7 coat protein (NLS-PCP-GFP) a RFP protein that binds to the 3’ UTR of the reporter...these dCas9s with one of three fluorescent proteins (GFP, BFP and mCherry), the authors were able to visualize...monoclonal antibodies against them, fused them to GFP, and compared them to popularly used epitopes tags...
  11. Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius

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    April 18, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
    ...each recruits a different fluorescent protein (BFP, GFP, or RFP) to the genomic loci of interest. Pairs of...hairpin sequence (sgRNA-Sirius-8XPP7) to recruit GFP to the loci of interest. To determine how the sgRNA-Sirius...different chromosomes in living cells, the system requires high-copy chromosome-specific loci in the genome...
  12. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    June 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...binding scFv that’s fused to GFP. When the multiple copies of the scFv-GFP fusion bind the SunTag scaffold...scFv that’s fused to a fluorescent protein such as GFP. The HA frankenbody works just like an antibody-based...for the scFv (Gaciarz and Ruddock., 2017), but requires an oxidizing environment to form. When expressed...
  13. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    Feb. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...anti-FLAG-FB-GFP binding to FLAG-tag H2B for nuclear localization. (c) Applications of anti-FLAG-FB-GFP labeling...This set of new anti-FLAG frankebodies includes mEGFP, mRuby2, iRFP713, SNAP-tag, and HaloTag fusions,...fusions, while the anti-HA frankenbodies include mEGFP, mCherry, and HaloTag. Figure 1: (a) Anti-FLAG...label your favorite protein! While the target only requires a small epitope tag (FLAG is eight amino acids...
  14. Nanoblades: Tiny CRISPR Ninjas for Genome Editing Difficult Cells

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    Sept. 26, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
    ...hiPSCs  EMX1  67% Mouse BM cells from GFP transgenic mouse  GFP  ~60-65% Human hepatocytes  Myd88  ~...with CRISPR components. However, this sometimes requires intracellular injections into the cytoplasm or...
  15. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    Dec. 17, 2020, 1:30 p.m.
    ...drug resistance (Chen et al., 2013), fluorescence (GFP; Tzur et al., 2013), or rescue of mutant phenotypes...homology arms to knock in large epitopes, such as GFP (Paix et al., 2014). A further development of this...efficiencies, obtaining as many as 100 independent GFP knock-ins from a single injected animal.  PAM sequence...sequence added, leaving a 34 bp “scar”, but currently requires additional experimental manipulation. In some ...
  16. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    Sept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...chemistry! The discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) sparked a renaissance in biological imaging. Suddenly...advances lead to an obvious question: In this age of GFP and its ilk, why should cell biologists talk to chemists...the frontiers of fluorescence microscopy often requires more photons. For example, moving from transient...
  17. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    Dec. 11, 2014, 4:26 p.m.
    ...protease protection. Thus far Plasmids 101 has covered GFP and its related fluorescent proteins, which are sometimes... I Use? Plasmids 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Fluorescent Protein Guide Expression Vectors from...cytometry, but rarely used for purification as elution requires low pH poly His HHHHHH  0.8 Affinity and Purification...
  18. Antibodies 101: Affinity Tags

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    Sept. 19, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ... (FLAG, Myc, etc.) and fluorescent protein tags (GFP, mCherry, etc.). Fluorescent tags are primarily used...must be performed after primary purification and requires a second clean up step to remove the cleaved tag...Also, purifying GST by affinity chromatography requires proper folding of the tag, which prevents insoluble.... Mammalian purification is still possible but requires optimization and often more stringent washing....
  19. New Viral Vectors - March 2024

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    March 5, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Biosensor Looger New serotype pAAV-CAG-DIO-NLS-mRuby3-IRES-eGtACR1-ST AAV9 Optogenetics Adesnik New viral vector...vector pENN.AAV.EF1a.eGFP.WPRE.rBG AAV PHP.eB Controls Wilson New serotype pAAV-CaMKIIa-EGFP AAV PHP.eB...Chemogenetics Deisseroth New viral vector pAAV.CMV.PI.EGFP.WPRE.bGH  AAV PHP.eB Controls Wilson New viral ...
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