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  1. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    Jan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m.
    ...kanamycin cassettes and were carefully designed to allow for easy removal of the resistance cassette via Cre...the transcription factors from a polycistronic cassette. However, it was unknown whether variations in...in gene expression from these polycistronic cassettes could lead to comparable experimental results. Using...compared different variants of the polycistronic cassettes and discovered reprogramming discrepancies, which... Klf4 isoform (KLF4s or KLF4L). Polycistronic cassettes that contained KLF4s had overall diminished KLF4...global gene expression patterns. Polycistronic cassettes that contained the KLF4L isoform had more robust...-positive assay) as well as stabilization (Nanog-GFP reporter activation and silencing of factor-linked...
  2. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
    ...translation-blocking STOP cassette immediately following the promoter. The STOP cassette includes a mutant YFP...-2.1 construct can express one of four colors (n-GFP, RFP, YFP or M-CFP.) The construct contains two tandem...eliminating two color possibilities. The remaining cassette can invert as long as Cre remains expressed; once... and sequence overlap (coral mOrange2, jellyfish EGFP, and sea anemone mKate2.) They then successfully... is retained in Brainbow-3.0, but with mOrange2, EGFP and mKate2 as the fluorophores; mOrange2 is the ...
  3. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...considerably faster, with expression levels comparable to GFP during early embryogenesis (Figure 3). mScarlet-I3...through the middle of each embryo are shown, comparing GFP, wrmScarlet (mScarlet), and the new mScarlet3 and...This strain is then transformed with the sgRNA cassette on a plasmid expressing mCherry and resistance... focal adhesion marker paxillin (visualized with GFP). Reprinted with permission from Zhong et al, 2024...shorter than many popular fluorescence markers like GFP (510 nm), allowing co-imaging. And because bioluminescent...
  4. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins

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    April 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...reported was PA-GFP. PA-GFP was derived from Jellyfish (Aequorea victoria) GFP (wtGFP) by mutating Threonine...mutation in PA-GFP generates a chromophore population that is more neutral, causing PA-GFP to display almost...Markus, and Wei‐Lih Lee. "Photoactivatable GFP tagging cassettes for protein‐tracking studies in the budding...example, by engineering PA-GFP tagged to a mitochondrial matrix protein (mito-PAGFP) the Youle Lab was able...the neutral to the anionic form, which allows PA-GFP to exhibit up to a 100-fold increase in fluorescence...when illuminated with blue light (1). Similar to PA-GFP, scientists later developed red fluorescent PA-FPs...in vivo imaging models perfer the PA-RFPs over PA-GFP. Another class of irreversible PA-FPs are the photoconvertible...
  5. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    June 30, 2015, 2 p.m.
    ...2) a transposon containing the gene-expression cassette that can translocate within the genome. The Sleeping..., hygromycin) and fluorescent protein reporters (GFP, BFP, RFP, no FP). The vectors each contain two SfiI...
  6. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    March 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
    ... from the default GFP (green) to RFP, CFP, or YFP fluorescence. In Brainbow 2.1, GFP is tagged with a ...and activate fluorescence of the downstream OFP, GFP, or RFP. Cells that express the construct but do ... same XFP transgene in an adult fly. As a stop cassette is located directly upstream of the fluorescent...generates cells that randomly express either nuclear GFP, membrane CFP, cytoplasmic YFP, or cytoplasmic RFP...incorporates the highly photostable fluorophores mOrange2, EGFP, and mKate2 (red) to solve the problematically low...
  7. Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene

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    Sept. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...containing an expression cassette with an ubiquitous promoter to express GFP in a group of young rats....label norepinephrine (NE) expressing neurons and GFP (green) to label neurons transduced by each serotype...
  8. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    June 28, 2016, 10:59 a.m.
    ...protein (EGFP) reconstitution. (a) Scheme of validation for DSB mediated EGFP expression cassette reconstitution...annealing) took place and reconstituted the EGFP expression cassette. (b) pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid and pX330...MCS) between EGFP fragments. The pX330 plasmid contains humanized Cas9 expression cassette and sgRNA expression...expression cassette. The target sgRNA can be cloned directionally into the BbsI site. (c) The pCAG-EGxxFP...halves of EGFP to recombine by homology directed repair, and resulting in the expression of EGFP. Using ...pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid contains overlapping 5′ and 3′ EGFP fragments under the ubiquitous CAG promoter. The...indicates where your target is inserted, disrupting the EGFP fluorescent signal, for details on this plasmid,...
  9. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...individual expression cassettes, having the genes expressed from the same cassette is sometimes advantageous...and you can then insert the whole multicistronic cassette into a backbone as a single unit. Although it ...Multicistronic Element Expression Type MSCV-IRES-EGFP IRES Retroviral pMSCV-pBabeMCS-IRES-RFP IRES Retroviral...
  10. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...markers were not increased compared to a control AAV-GFP. Not only did the AAV-SaCas9-sgRNA constructs mediate...genes in human cells using compact expression cassettes. Sci Rep 5: . https://doi.org/10.1038/srep10777...
  11. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    April 17, 2018, 1:37 p.m.
    ...peptide polycistronic cassette comprised of OCT4, SOX2, LIN28, NANOG, and a GFP reporter. Minicircles ... This makes it possible to use a polycistronic cassette that expresses multiple reprogramming factors ...
  12. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    April 5, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
    ..., most of the commonly used cassettes, such as fluorescent proteins (EGFP, mCherry etc.), recombinases..., we’ll use the example of inserting a 2A-FlpO cassette into the Fgf8 gene. Miura et al. (2018) suggest...
  13. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    Dec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...enough to carry the Cas9 gene and a gRNA expression cassette in one single viral particle. The earliest explorations... pAdSh.PGK.Cas9, pAdSh.U6.gRNAS1, and pAdSh.U6.gRNAGFP. Gonçalves says that advantages of AdVs include...guide RNA constructs, pAdSh.U6.gRNAS1 and pAdSh.U6.gRNAGFP, and also Adeno Cas9 and Adeno EA. Or if you're...
  14. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ..., Hess et al. successfully evolved wild type GFP to EGFP using CRISPR-X and subsequent FACS sorting. They...with unique tissue-specific promoters expressing GFP, tetracycline response elements, and shRNAs many ...backbone to target a CAG-driven loxP-stop-loxP cassette into the Rosa26 locus, allowing for Cre-dependent... of DsRed connected to a pH-sensitive variant of GFP (SEP) by a 9 amino-acid linker (see Figure 1). The...
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