...organized and boost your productivity in 2014. Tip 1: Use color coding, labels, and post-its to make finding...lab earlier, to read that stack of papers on your desk, and to tackle some new experiments before the next...gathering that pile of lab notebooks and binder on your desk. Arrange them in chronological order (or by project...labels. Color code your Post-its and write brief descriptions on each. Place the notes sticking up out of ...colleagues. Start small by identifying the protocols, guides, or references that your labmates ask to borrow...

...base editors with editing windows as small as 1-2 nucleotides. To reduce off-target effects associated with...or one pyrimidine base to the other. Figure 1: Base transition editors catalyze purine-to-purine...engineering and protein delivery. Nature Communications, 8(1), 15790. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15790 Richter...DNA bases without breaking the DNA backbone, sidestepping the problem of HDR vs. NHEJ entirely. The first...fourth-generation base editors, BE4, reduce the undesired C→G or C→A conversions that can happen with BE3s...named ABEmax. In 2020, two papers were published describing additional ABEs evolved from ABE7.10 that have...cytosine and adenine base editing, called CABE-Ts and TadDEs without additional fused components (Lam et al....

...individually or as a complete kit from Addgene. References 1. Goulas, Theodoros, et al. "The pCri system: a vector...subtilis and Pichia pastoris pCri also includes plasmids designed for protein expression in systems other...construct, most often in special E. coli strains designed for protein expression. Cultures are then lysed...plasmids are divided into two sets, each of which includes plasmids with different varieties of tags, both...other eukaryotes better than E. coli. Plasmids designed for these systems may include a signal peptide...can improve disulfide bond formation. pCri also includes a special feature for difficult-to-purify membrane...membrane proteins. pCri vector pCri-13a, designed for use in B. subtilis, contains the MISTIC (membrane-...

...target cell line or organism (Presented in figure 1). More information on Agrobacterium-mediated transformation...mediated cloning of your gRNA of interest. Figure 1: Simplified schematic of agrobacterium-mediated transformation... While it is certainly possible to select for desirable traits using traditional plant breeding approaches...modification of known or suspected genes that regulate a desired phenotype. In fact, CRISPR has already been used...wheat, mushroom, and rice (Khatodia et al., 2016). Despite the almost universal functionality of the CRISPR...genes in plants using the same general experimental design principles developed in other model organisms (...nanostructures (Zhang et al., 2019) or cell-penetrating peptides (Santana et al., 2020) and plants viruses (barley...

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...to western blotting  In a western, proteins are: (1) separated by size, (2) transferred to a membrane,...  (3) detected using antibodies.   Figure 1: Overview of the Western blot process. The sample,...protein analyses using ELISA. Peptides 72:4–15 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peptides.2015.04.012 Burnette WN ... Figure 2: The western blot dry apparatus includes a stack of filter paper, a copper anode/iblot ...blocking buffers, and incubation times. If the vendor includes publications that cited the antibody, consider...abundance In addition, the thickness of the band provides information about the relative abundance of the...

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...science.aaq0180  Fine EJ, Appleton CM, White DE, Brown MT, Deshmukh H, Kemp ML, Bao G (2015) Trans-spliced ...indel formation and phenotypic changes as early as 1 week post-injection. Livers from these mice were histologically...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...

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..., or CaURA3 selection marker. Lee et al.(1) assessed many of these fluorescent tags in S. cerevisiae, ...protein products is desired, as multiple selection markers can ensure that all desired tags have been integrated...integrated. Simply design your amplification primers with the desired targeting homology—in frame, of ...These tagging vectors are based on previously described pFA6a-link vectors and include a Kan, SpHIS5, ...former lab at UNC Chapel Hill. Bähler et al.(2) describe a modular collection of plasmids for a wide variety...3xHA, 13xMyc, GST, or GFP). Longtine et al.(3) describe a complimentary set of plasmids for use in S. ...

...depends on what you are looking to study. Figure 1: A schematic showing the differences in chemogenetics... Roth BL (2015) DREADDs (Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs): Chemogenetic Tools...less invasive and more flexible as it relies on designer ligands that can be simply introduced by injection...lab and Takafumi Minamimoto’s lab known as deschloroclozapine (DCZ) has been developed to meet these requirements...should be carefully controlled for in experimental design.   Optogenetics Chemogenetics Timing Fast ...Find our chemogenetics and optogenetics science guides ...

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...problem - see our recap below! Day 1: gRNA design tools: How to Design your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing...given our CRISPR Plasmids and Resources a fresh new design, sorting the plasmids we have available by category...capabilities. Epigenetics: CRISPR has made it possible to design programmable epigenome editing tools, and the field...cleavage in bacteria. In mammalian systems, Cas13a degrades only the specified RNA target. Bonus: It displays...

...  Figure 1: Overview of the parts of CRISPR. The bacterial chromosome encodes a tracrRNA (in some...DNA sequences. In laboratory settings, an sgRNA includes the crRNA and tracrRNA sequences in a “single-... sequences in the CRISPR array that will become guides for future targeted degradation. Before integration...biology of Cas9. Want a simpler guide to keep at your desk? We’ve got a CRISPR cheat sheet for that! Resources...

... if the name was the correct one!)    Fig. 1: HeLa cells. Image courtesy of Josef Reischig.  ...database describing nearly 145,000 cell lines. Cellosaurus Cellosaurus seeks to identify and describe all ...authors of the paper in which the cell line was described. Using Cellosaurus Cellosaurus is searchable by...Cellosaurus received a report that HT-55, which was described as a colon cancer cell line, is actually a rectal...