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

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    April 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... A flexible chemical tag. Nature Methods, 2(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth749  Strebinger...HaloTags and SNAP-tags. Cell Chemical Biology, 26(4), 584-592.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2019.01.003...Proximity-Induced Reactivity. ACS Chemical Biology, 4(7), 547–556. https://doi.org/10.1021/cb900062k  Gautier..., Frangieh, C. J., Friedrich, M. J., Faure, G., Macrae, R. K., & Zhang, F. (2023). Cell type-specific ...
  2. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    Dec. 16, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...DNA, then they could diminish off-target cutting (4). However, instead of weakening interaction sbetween...PMID: 25079318. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4176945. 4. Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., et al. "High-fidelity CRISPR–Cas9...fewer off-target cuts when compared to WT SpCas9 across a variety of genomic sites. Knowledge of Cas9’s...activity and similar or decreased off-target activity across the sites tested when compared to eSpCas9(1.1) ...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    Oct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Cardiovascular Research, 1(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44161-022-00046-4 Kumar, S. R., Miles, T... fold change in RNA and DNA levels (~25-fold and ~4-fold respectively) relative to AAV9 in the pigtail...nervous system. Current Research in Neurobiology, 4, 100086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crneur.2023.100086...106–115. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00969-4 Goertsen, D., Goeden, N., Flytzanis, N. C., & Gradinaru...enhanced transgene expression in the macaque CNS. Med, 4(1), 31-50.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2022.11.002...capsids, when writing this post, we didn’t come across a broadly used working definition of systemic capsids...expression (EGFP, in the depositing manuscript) across the brain. AAV-BI-28 has been tested in C57BL/6J...
  4. Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Oct. 14, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...approach using a single crRNA array to express up to 4 crRNAs. Zetsche et al. also suggest that Cpf1 may ...Kleinstiver et al. saw no decrease in Cpf1 activity with 4-6 base deletions at the 3’ end of the target sequence...and requires only one RNA rather than the two (tracrRNA and crRNA) needed by Cas9 for cleavage. In certain...differently. Since Cpf1 loci are widely distributed across bacterial species, Zetsche et al. hypothesized ...target. Cpf1 also does not require an additional tracrRNA. Once they had determined the minimal elements...favored by SpCas9. Since Cpf1 doesn’t require a tracrRNA, crRNA guides are only ~42 nt long. Direct synthesis...significantly cheaper than that of the ~100 nt crRNA/tracrRNA hybrid guides needed for Cas9 function. Since ...
  5. Flow Cytometry Readouts: Yes, No, and Everything in Between

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    Aug. 20, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... they do for yes-no readouts.      Figure 4: A histogram plot for a smeary antibody readout. The... four populations in the histogram plot in Figure 4 compared to the dot plot in Figure 2. Quantification...interest: two clear populations or a huge smear across your FSH vs reporter plot. In this post, I’ll walk...
  6. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    Sept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...2015). The unexhausted potential of E. coli. ELife, 4. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.05826 Blum, M., & Ott...ecological context with Arabidopsis thaliana. ELife, 4. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.06100 Liu, L. S., Zhao...organisms. Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research, 37(4), 237–245. https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2016.4.237...regulate regeneration and wound healing are conserved across species, studying the axolotl may reveal the potential...
  7. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Thousands of Reporters Integrated in Parallel. Cell, 154(4), 914–927. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CELL.2013.07.018... 149–157. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1711-4 Chen, P. J., & Liu, D. R. (2023). Prime editing for...2023), their predictive power is sometimes limited across different targets due to variations in chromatin...chromatin substantially affects prime editing outcomes across many genomic locations. In our study, we used the...learning prediction of prime editing efficiency across diverse chromatin contexts. Nature Biotechnology...
  8. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    Oct. 4, 2018, 12:44 p.m.
    ...library consists of 77,441 sgRNAs with an average of 4 sgRNAs per gene and 1,000 non-coding control sgRNAs...PMID: 25307932. PubMed Central PMCID: MC4253859.  4. Konermann, Silvana, et al. "Genome-scale transcriptional... method (Tanenbaum et al., 2014). The sgRNA or tracrRNA sequences can also be modified to include RNA ...transcription factors. The Root and Doench labs utilized tracrRNAs with two PP7 stem loops to recruit additional ...the targeted region (Sanson et al., 2018) . This tracrRNA was combined with the sgRNA expression vector ...
  9. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 3: Genome Engineering in Flies

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    July 28, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
    ...adaptive immune responses, which flies do not have!) (4). The power of Drosophila as a model organism is in...PMID: 22038952. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3677821. 4. J. R. Huh et al. Digoxin and its derivatives suppress...because the transgenes are found in the same locus across fly lines (i.e. there won’t be positioning effects...
  10. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    June 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Retroviruses and cancer. Rev Infect Dis. 1982 Sep-Oct;4(5):1015-25. DOI: 10.1093/clinids/4.5.1015 Lee C.S....Era of Personalized Medicine. Genes Dis. 2017 Jun;4(2):43-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2017.04.001 Maetzig...adenoviruses are known to cause respiratory disease across species, as well as cancer in hamsters, although...
  11. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ... Figure 4: AAV9-X1 and AAV9-X1.1 efficiently transduce brain endothelial cells across diverse mice...StayGold fluorescent protein. Nature Biotechnology, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-02018-w. PMID:... et al. (2023). Functional gene delivery to and across brain vasculature of systemic AAVs with endothelial-specific...
  12. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    July 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Kleinstiver et al. saw no decrease in Cpf1 activity with 4-6 base deletions at the 3’ end of the target sequence... Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 4. Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Alkhnbashi OS, Costa F, Shah...and requires only one RNA rather than the two (tracrRNA and crRNA) needed by Cas9 for cleavage. Now, two...require HDR over NHEJ, so comparing HDR efficiency across CRISPR nucleases and NgAgo is an important next...
  13. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...microenvironment produce CTL associated protein 4 (CTLA-4), a receptor that turns off T cell function upon...immunology 3.11 (2002): 991-998. PubMed PMID: 12407406. 4. Weiner, George J. "Building better monoclonal antibody-based... produces modified dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages (M1 and M2) that help create welcoming environments...over-express CD47 to escape recognition by circulating macrophages. Tumor cells also downregulate the expression...
  14. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    Nov. 11, 2025, 2:14 p.m.
    ...populations at single-cell resolution. PLoS Biol. 23(4): e3003048. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003048...fusion protein using an anti-GFP nanobody (Figure 4). Once incorporated into a condensate, the killswitch...adenovirus particles (Zhang et al., 2025). Figure 4: Schematic of the killswitch-nanobody system. A cell...that can concentrate and sequester specific macromolecules to serve cellular functions. Along with collaborators...
  15. Deaminet 2026: Breakthroughs in Base Editing, Deaminase Biology, and Therapeutic Translation

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    March 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
    ...plasmids deposited as early as 2013 still account for ~4% of all 2025 distributions. At the same time, several...potentially scalable therapeutic strategy. Figure 4: Schematic of PERT. Reproduced from Pierce et al. ...for PM577a is on track for the first half of 2026. 4. RNA editing comes into its own RNA editing has moved...together researchers studying deaminase enzymes across disciplines: from structural biologists resolving...advancing base and prime editing toward the clinic. Across talks spanning mechanism, off-target biology, and...characterization of hundreds of base editor proteins across kinetics, editing windows, sequence preferences...premature stop codons. By screening 18,000 pegRNAs across all 418 human tRNAs, they identified the strongest...
  16. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    March 12, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...sites interspaced with random sequences.   Strategy #4 (ProD): Create promoters with the help of epigenetic...different promoter designs, promoters from strategy #4 had the highest rate of targeted expression. Surprisingly...retinas. By comparing the performance of promoters across these three species, the Roska lab concluded that...
  17. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    March 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...that should work well. Quickly after transfection (4-8h), cells start releasing viral particles into the...after transfection. This supernatant can be stored at 4 °C or can be directly added to your target cells. ...Dr. Ke Xu (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-539-6, InTech. 4. Walter, W., and U. Stein. "Viral vectors for gene...quiescent or terminally differentiated cells such as macrophages and microglia. This property makes the lentivirus...
  18. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    March 8, 2021, 2:41 p.m.
    ...peptide/protein analyses using ELISA. Peptides 72:4–15 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peptides.2015.04.012... theory, and trouble shooting. North Am J Med Sci 4:429 . https://doi.org/10.4103/1947-2714.100998 Additional...vary the acrylamide content of the gel. For small proteins, use a higher percentage of acrylamide to increase... protein mix by size Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) is the first...resolving gel composed of the crosslinked polymer acrylamide. In addition to the samples, a protein standard...Smaller proteins encounter less resistance in the acrylamide matrix and migrate faster through the gel. For... For large proteins, reduce the percentage of acrylamide. To further improve resolution, use a stacking...
  19. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    June 4, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the sequence isn’t in place yet.     Figure 4: S. pyogenes Cas9 in the apo state (PDB ID 4CMP, top...641–656. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-022-00739-4 References Bravo, J. P. K., Liu, M.-S., Hibshman, ...sequence. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 29(4), 395–402. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-022-00756...with a guide RNA — whether it’s an sgRNA or a crRNA:tracrRNA duplex — Cas9’s two lobes move toward each ...the image. Stem loops 1 and 2 extend horizontally across both lobes. The guide RNA in this structure does...
  20. Build Your CRISPR Vocabulary

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    July 2, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...641–656. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-022-00739-4 More resources on addgene.org  Addgene's CRISPR Guide...CRISPR is a sleek acronym for a real mouthful of a phrase: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic...parts! If you’re still a bit confused by CRISPR acronyms, this post is for you. We’ll cover the common ... of CRISPR. The bacterial chromosome encodes a tracrRNA (in some systems including Cas9), Cas proteins...here). The repeat sequence base pairs with the tracrRNA, and the spacer sequence is used to target complementary...laboratory settings, an sgRNA includes the crRNA and tracrRNA sequences in a “single-guide RNA” that performs...uses to track down its suspect—the target DNA. tracrRNA: A “trans-activating CRISPR RNA” base pairs to...
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