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  1. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    March 24, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Before you jump straight into the exciting new experiments that you’ve been planning, it is a good idea ...yourself have to perform extensive validation experiments for every antibody that you receive; citing existing...However, it is your responsibility to determine what counts as adequate validation. If you are not convinced...your sleeves and perform some extra validation experiments yourself.  Goal of Antibody Validation  As you...assess existing data or plan your own validation experiments, it’s important to know what you are aiming to...expected in another. You’ll need to validate that points 1 and 2 hold true under your specific experimental... that your new antibodies will work for your experiments. Capture MS Strategies This approach uses immunoprecipitation...
  2. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    April 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Greek for “self-eating”) is induced by a lack of nutrients and targets cytosol and organelles to the vacuole...double-membraned structures containing undigested cytoplasmic contents. Autophagosomes that have fused with the vacuole...lysosome are trickier to identify because their contents can be at various stages of degradation. Additionally...Atg8p or LC3 doesn’t provide information about the contents of the autophagosome nor does it provide information...sequence. Under normal growth conditions, both variants are excluded from the vacuole and emit red and...the cytosol-targeted and mitochondria-targeted variants are available from Addgene. References 1. Rosado... L. K., Graham, T. E. (2015). Rapid parallel measurements of macroautophagy and mitophagy in mammalian...
  3. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    Feb. 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...line./ Each color represents a gRNA targeting a specific chromosome. This image represents the composite ...composite of fluorescent measurements from red, blue, and green channels overlaid on a bright-field image. Image...fluorescence from unbound GFP-dCas9. With these improvements, labeling efficiency was similar to that of ... other orthologs. Ma et al. tested their dCas9 variants using gRNAs specific for telomeric sequences and...distance! To the authors’ knowledge, this work represents the first mapping of intrachromosomal loci, a... live cells. However, they note that certain improvements could make CRISPRainbow even better. Adding ...
  4. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    Dec. 8, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...specific components that are key to the cloning reaction. Understanding the specific components is essential...choosing the correct cloning method for your own experiments, and here we will focus on a unique gene that...on to find out how ccdB can make your cloning experiments a little easier. One of the most time-consuming...choose the most appropriate method for your own experiments. Please check out Addgene’s Choosing a Molecular...these resources further. Feel free to offer your comments and suggestions, and even to submit a guest blog... al. “F plasmid CcdB killer protein: ccdB gene mutants coding for non-cytotoxic proteins which retain ...
  5. dTAG - You're it!

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    June 21, 2018, 2:06 p.m.
    ...washout experiments (Nabet et al. and Weintraub et al.), chemical and genetic rescue experiments (Nabet... for degrading targets in different cellular compartments, and in vivo utility. dTAG molecules will be... line of interest prior to starting knock-in experiments. Test dTAG molecule toxicity in new cell lines...is recommended, while quantitative proteomics experiments will provide the best confirmation of selective...-substrate degradation with dTAG-13. Example experiments See our recent papers noted below for examples...Nabet et al., Erb et al., Weintraub et al.), assessments of fusion chimera functionality (Nabet et al....
  6. Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools

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    April 23, 2018, 2 p.m.
    ...deliver these components together using electroporation. In these bulk cell experiments, Clift et al. ...proteins, and it can even distinguish between protein variants when used with a variant-specific antibody. TRIM21...need to deliver the target antibody. TRIM-Away reagents and reporters are available from Addgene - we ...down the difficulty of your protein knockdown experiments! The TRIM-Away plasmids can be found here. Clift...varying which sgRNAs are used with FIRE-Cas9, experiments can be designed to target multiple loci at once...factor. They then induced cultures of these transformants with various concentrations of estradiol and...
  7. Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load

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    June 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...professor who once decided that to teach high school students PCR, they first had to understand hydrogen bonds...every project, time, attention, and/or length restraints mean you will have to pick and choose what concepts...when needed. The trick is to communicate your key points well enough that the audience can take that knowledge...Different modes of communication take up different amounts of mental bandwidth - if not exactly cognitive ... audience, ask! They are experts in what their students know.   Ask the learners themselves for feedback... about the questions you’ve received, read the comments, seek feedback from others, and listen quietly...simpler presentation than I had planned; other times students were fired up and enthusiastic and needed a faster...
  8. Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology

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    Oct. 21, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...complicated — so many different parts and species, with components quickly losing activity. I set out to collect... a good tool for sticking together biological components. Nearly all of us played with LEGO as a child... another component bearing an alkyne; the two components lock together rapidly and selectively in all ...generating product without a lot of left-over starting components. High rate constant— time is money and things...utilization and development of genetically engineered components, like protein tags (Figure 2). Through the work...insertion tagging Kit; integration of large DNA fragments at user-defined locations NEB Cell-Imaging Collection... different organisms, targeted to particular compartments, or fused to other effectors from nanobodies...
  9. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    March 18, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...transposase (CAST) that can insert large fragments of DNA. The V-F variants, which are among the smallest Cas...on main function and composition; subtypes and variants are typically based on species of origin. There...currently two classes, six types, 33 subtypes, and 17 variants. Figure 1: Overview of the CRISPR classification...mechanisms, with the biggest differences being the components present in the Cascade complex. Figure... Cas2, which are critical for inserting short fragments of foreign DNA into the CRISPR array. Lastly, ...CRISPR–Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 18(2), 67–83. https...Insights from CRISPR Loci in Integrative Conjugative Elements of Acidithiobacillia. The CRISPR Journal, 4(5)...
  10. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    July 23, 2020, 1:20 p.m.
    ... CRISPR-Cas technology is constantly evolving. Variants of Cas proteins can be used for genome editing...In this study, the labs found that anti-CRISPR prevents Cas9 activity in HEK293 by reducing editing from... AcrIIC2 interactions with Cas9 interferes and prevents the correct assembly of the crRNA-Cas complex ...binds to the HNH endonuclease domain of Cas9 and prevents target DNA cleavage (Harrington et al., 2017)....   Five ways to anti-CRISPR proteins in your experiments 1. Reduce off-target effects Prolonged Cas activity...shut off Cas activity? Using inhibitor timing experiments, the Doudna lab found that at least 50% of on-target...vectors. Having a way to shut off CRISPR-Cas systems prevents the off-target effects and cytotoxicity that result...
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