...replication, OriP and the EBNA-1 sequence that encodes for the DNA binding protein EBNA-1 [7]. These two sequences...are based on the Epstein-Barr Nuclear Antigen-1 (oriP-EBNA-1) system where each vector contains a viral ...extra plasmid, pCXWB-EBNA-1 is used in the reprogramming cocktail. pCXWB-EBNA-1 lacks oriP and is unable...expressing additional EBNA-1 transiently. The transiently expressed EBNA-1 increases protein expression...pCXLE vectors listed below in Table 1 are available at Addgene. Table 1: List of pCXLE episomal plasmids,...obtained and the subsequent reprogramming success [1]. Fibroblasts need to be cultured and expanded in ...reprogramming factor cocktail, and viral protein EBNA-1. Methods for reprogramming hiPSCs from PBMCs While...

...unusual cases was either 1) a physiological effect of SARS-CoV-2 toward destabilizing one’s natural immune...an AdV transfer plasmid with the E1 and E3 (Early 1 and Early 3) genes deleted. These genes’ functions...certain contexts (Bauzon et al., 2003).        Figure 1: The adenovirus life cycle. Image reused from Kremer... review of the evidence. Emerg Microbes Infect, 8(1), 1679–1687. https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2019.1690953...adenoviral vector infected cells does not require de novo viral gene expression: Implications for gene...574–580. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05949-1. PMID: 36996871. Tatsis, N., Fitzgerald, J. C., Reyes-Sandoval...viruses infecting humans (from seven species, designated as letters A–G) exist. The life cycle of AdVs...

...regulation of endogenous RNA. J Biol Eng. 2014 Mar 1;8(1):7. doi: 10.1186/1754-1611-8-7. PubMed.  Related Resources...targeting specific sequences of RNA is highly desirable for extending the complexity of genetic circuits...Zhao and colleagues, we now have just the tool…designer PUF proteins! A newly available PUF Assembly Kit...In a single step, researchers can now assemble designer PUF domains for RNA specificity engineering. “...proteins The tool she and her colleagues led by Zhao described and demonstrated in a report published in The ...translational repressor. In principle, however, designer PUF proteins can be fused to other components ...standard BsaI in place of the high fidelity version (despite what the original paper says). In their hands, ...

...different plasmids to produce AAV: 1) the RepCap plasmid which provides the AAV replication (rep) and capsid...plasmid. This whole process takes ~3 hours to complete: 1 hours hands-on time and 2 hours for the qPCR run and... Special thanks for Dr. Dan Stone and Harshana de Silva Feelixge at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center for...about AAV production and purification! References 1. Aurnhammer, C., Haase, M., Muether, N., Hausl, M.... repeat sequences. Human gene therapy methods, 23 1, 18-28. PubMed PMID: 22428977. 2. Choi, V.W., Asokan...replication; and 3) the transfer plasmid which encodes a transgene of interest that’s packaged into the...

...type of choice in vitro is known as reprogramming [1]. The process can be divided into two stages: Dedifferentiation...//www.linkedin.com/in/kmukherjeephd/.  References 1. Hochedlinger, K. and R. Jaenisch, Nuclear reprogramming...from human peripheral blood. Cell Stem Cell, 2010. 7(1): p. 15-9. PubMed PMID: 20621044. PubMed Central PMCID...induced pluripotent stem cells. Hepatology, 2010. 51(1): p. 297-305. PubMed PMID: 19998274. PubMed Central... pluripotent stem cells. Nat Biotechnol, 2014. 32(1): p. 84-91. PubMed PMID: 24291815. PubMed Central ...keratinocyte lineage. Methods Mol Biol, 2014. 1195: p. 1-12. PubMed PMID: 24510784. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4096605...induced pluripotent stem cells. PLoS One, 2010. 5(1): p. e8763. PubMed PMID: 20098701. 31. Tang, Z.H.,...

...Table 1 below outlines a few of the more common genetic changes found in E. coli strains. Table 1: Common...amber (UAG) stop codon by tyrosine insertion λ-thi-1 or thi1 Mutation in thiamine metabolism Requires exogenous... all based on E. coli K-12 and are considered BSL-1. Table 2: Lab strains of E. coli Strain Natural...plasmids, blue/white screening. F- endA1 glnV44 thi-1 recA1 relA1 gyrA96 deoR nupG Φ80dlacZΔM15 Δ(lacZYA-argF...) recA13 leuB6 ara-14 proA2 lacY1 galK2 xyl-5 mtl-1 rpsL20(SmR) glnV44 λ- JM109   General cloning and...strain for cloning repetitive DNA. endA1 glnV44 thi-1 relA1 gyrA96 recA1 mcrB+ Δ(lac-proAB) e14- [F' traD36...of an E. coli K-12 strain. F- λ- ilvG- rfb-50 rph-1 NEB Stable   For cloning into and storage of lentiviral...

...recombineering system has three components (Figure 1): 1) Exo, 2) Beta, and 3) Gam. All three are required...frequency between 0.1% to 1%, and can be increased to as high as 25-50% by designing oligos that avoid activating...activating MMR: 1) use a strain of bacteria that has key MMR proteins knocked out or 2) specially design ssDNA ...  These changes can be 5’ or 3’ of the desired change.   Table 1: Overview of ds- and ss-DNA Uses in Recombineering...Considerations dsDNA Insertion or deletion of >20 nucleotides 1 out of 104 to 105 Use a high fidelity Taq polymerase... ssDNA Point mutations or changing a few nucleotides 0.1-1% or 25-50% when activation of MMR is avoided...from the 5’ end and generate 2 possible products: 1) a partially dsDNA duplex with single-stranded 3’ ...

...nervous system (CNS). AAVs are popular tools because: 1) their genomes are easy to manipulate, 2) they have... stained for a neuronal marker). Check out tables 1 and 2 below for a summary of the quantified transduction... AAV vectors. What can these AAV’s be used for?  1. Multi-color labeling of neurons Multi-color labeling... dendrites extend to. The keys to this method are 1) high levels of color diversity so that cells are ...AAV.PHP.eB 69 +/- 4% 55 +/- 7% 76 +/- 5% Table 1: Transduction efficiency of AAV-PHP.B versus AAV-PHP.eB...expression into a two part system (figure 4d):  Part 1: A cocktail of three AAV vectors expressing RGB proteins...neuronal transduction efficiency, as shown in tables 1 and 2, with a cell-type specific promoter or enhancer...

...three-step approach for designing an experiment to identify the critical NANOG binding sites: 1. Find Enhancers...in combination with the techniques from Table 1, provides us with powerful GPS-like techniques to explore... chromosome, start, and stop. For instance (chr3, 1, 10) indicates a stretch of DNA at the very beginning...genetic elements like protein, RNA, and DNA (Table 1). As with GPS in the real world, coordinates alone...genomic coordinates into meaningful experiments. Table 1: An emerging family of "GPS for the genome" techniques...histones with “GPS for proteins,” ChIP-seq from Table 1. Because of DNA’s 3D geometry and the chemical properties... In order to denote the NANOG enhancers from step 1 with genome math, we’ll need a bit of shorthand from...

...) element and the cis-acting EBNA-1 from Epstein-Barr virus. EBNA-1 binds oriP and allows for replication... cell reprogramming factors and wait for cells to de-differentiate. However it’s difficult, especially...Difficult to purify reprogramming proteins. Table 1: Key Features of Different Methods for Generating ...-based expression requires serial transfection of 1 or 2 plasmids that express the reprogramming factors...  Replicating oriP/Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen-1 (EBNA1) based episomes: These plasmids carry the origin...method Most iPSC research falls into two categories: 1) studies focused on better understanding the mechanisms...iPSCs experiences in the comments below! References  1. Sano, Masayuki, Minoru Iijima, Manami Ohtaka, and...

...was around 33% of that observed between Jan. 1 and Mar. 1, 2020. Figure 2: A simple approximation...paper. Green and red lines depict the sum of mean +1 and -1 std for each paper, respectively. The fitted...complication in the China data – there is a period of 1 month, from 1/22/20–2/23/20, where there were zero plasmid... from 5/22/14 to 5/19/20). Each paper has between 1–32 plasmids and a total of 2–2,590 requests. We received...correspond to publications of popular papers. Figure 1: Plasmid requests by date. Parentheses depict the ...China. However, it is evident that if we believe that 1/22/20–2/23/20 are the more accurate dates of lockdown...are no exception to this effect -- meticulously designed experiments in labs around the world were put ...

...loops 1 and 6 resulted in light controlled binding, but with opposite effects: insertion into loop 1 caused...experiments.  AsLOV2 Inertion Site mCherry #1 mCherry #2 GFP Loop 1 dark-induced dark-induced dark-induced...favorite protein (YFP). You have two options:  Option #1: Affinity tag purification You tag YFP and use an ...and one against GFP. Insertion of AsLOV2 into loop 1 always generated OptoNBs with dark-induced binding... induced dark-induced blue-light induced Table 1: Summary of the effect of AsLOV2 insertion site on...purification is now a reality thanks to OptoNBs. Recently designed by the Toettcher Lab, OptoNBs are photoswitchable... put AsLOV2 because here it was less likely to destroy the nanobody’s function than if inserted into the...

...assembly. Journal of biological engineering. 2010;4(1):1. Pubmed PMID: 20205762. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2822740...with minimal spectral overlap between them (Table 1). In each construct, 3 copies of the fluorescent protein... enabled labeling of particular structures (Table 1). Each construct was flanked with a CMV promoter (...construct was then introduced to HeLa cells (Figure 1). The resulting HeLa cells show robust labeling, with...fluorophore at the respective subcellular structure (Figure 1). Here, MXS Chaining gave researchers the ability ... all four constructs into one 15 kb insert. Table 1: MXS Constructs for Labeling Cellular Structures ...maxima Tethering partner Subcellular localization 1 TagBFP 399nm/ 456nm histone 2B (H2B) Chromatin 2...

...in the immune system. Nature Immunology, 25(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01689-6 ... strains and lentiviral expression vectors (Table 1). The four systems Name Function Plasmid ... GFP (vex) Rosa26-FlpO-ERT2; H11-Cas9 Table 1: X-CHIME systems Proof of Concept These systems were...was lethal (LaFleur et al., 2024).   Figure 1: Schematic showing the X-CHIME approach. Figure from...genes in the immune system. Nature Communications, 10(1), 1668. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09656-2...LaFleur, et al. 2024.   The X-CHIME deposit also includes pXPR_071, a plasmid that leads to higher titer...blog CRISPR101: Validating Your Genome Edit How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing CRISPR Cheat...

... mutagenic primers to introduce all desired codon changes (step 1 in the image above). A second universal...Supplementary Note 1 in Wrenbeck et al for details on how nicking was optimized. How should I design my mutagenic...making some or all of the following modifications: 1) increased concentration of Taq polymerase, 2) increased...introduced, and scalability (see Supplementary Table 1 of Wrenbeck et al). It uses a uracil labeled wild-...strand is nicked by the BbvCI variant not used in step 1. Then this strand is degraded with ExoIII and ExoI... the first digest (step 1 in above diagram). Remember that the BbvCI enzymes nick the DNA strand that ...time no, but there are 2 instances where it does. 1) When the backbone vector has multiple BbvCI sites...

...interaction fades away the longer we are on it – so it is important to take breaks. After 1 hour (or another...those ideas and build from those.   Figure 1: Virtual lab meeting? No problem! You can still creatively...salmon_phd References Frassl MA, Hamilton DP, Denfeld BA, de Eyto E, Hampton SE, Keller PS, Sharma S, Lewis ASL...in scientific research and in any workspace. Re-design lab meetings with a focus on discussion and brainstorming...pivotal in writing publications/grants too. As described by several works (Wuchty et al., 2007, Vicens ...another designated time) of meeting, someone could raise their hands or signal the approach of a brain...prepares a coffee, or simply moves away from the desk to switch off a few minutes. The host could also...

...vectors without specific facilities (Biosafety Level-1). Other possible tools, lentiviruses for example, ...suspected cases of insertional mutagenesis in humans (1) and AAVs are non-enveloped viruses, so they are resistant...Subscribe to Viral Vector Blog Posts from Addgene 1. Location, location, location! What do buying real...important factors related to location. Location (1): What tissue? Location (2): Where in the tissue/which...the right serotype? Keep asking questions!  Table 1: AAV Serotypes and Tropism Experiment  Detection...the vicinity of the injection. Examining serotypes 1, 8 and 9, not only do they undergo retrograde and ...types of research may be enabled by the use of AAVs? 1) Combined functional and anatomical mapping of circuits...

...these situations in cells are described below (See Figure 1).   Figure 1: Each problem with dimerizing... in nature are prone to dimerization (i.e. EGFP) [1, 2] or even form obligate tetramers (i.e. DsRed) [...dimerizing fluorescent proteins is illustrated. 1) Membrane proteins fused to FPs that dimerize can form dynamic...active state due to closure by FP dimerization.   1. Transmembrane fluorescent protein fusions Transmembrane...bright, non-physiological, and difficult to ignore [1, 2]. 2. Fusion to an obligate dimer or oligomer Several... For a more detailed discussion see [5]. Problems 1 and 2 depend on protein concentrations. An imperfect... distance runner, gardner, and cook.   References 1. Snapp, E.L., et al., Formation of stacked ER cisternae...

...approximately 1 in 16 mice that harbor homozygous alleles at both of your genes of interest. About 1 in 4 mice...In Part 1 of our mouse modeling blog series, we covered techniques that can be used to introduce genetic...mice in your experiment. As you’ve learned in Part 1, there are many types of genetically engineered mice..., and assuming Mendalian patterns of inheritance: 1. Genotype your parental mice In order to ensure that...example of mice that are derived from crosses. In Part 1, we explained how genetic recombination in mice expressing...expressed, or inducible (this is explained more in Part 1 of this series). In any case, Cre is a dominant phenotype... allele decreases. Crossing mice to generate a desired phenotype Instead, genetic engineering should be...

...7.1 (2014): 1–7. PubMed PMID: 26224555. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4884002. 10. Boer, E. de, Rodriguez, ...attach proteins or polypeptides to a solid substrate (Holden and Cremer, 2003). References 1. Chapman-Smith... of the biotin-avidin interaction   Figure 1: Biotin is enriched in egg yolk while its binding ...matrices.” Journal of Nanobiotechnology 13.1 (2015): 1–14. PubMed PMID: 25980573. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4461904...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...