Skip to main content

We narrowed to 322 results for: Mut

Showing: 21 - 30 of 322 results
  1. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Dec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m.
    ...variants or mutations have been reported in people, we can use this kit to knock in those mutations. Once that's...efficiently generate human stem cells edited to carry mutant versions of 15 different disease-associated genes...homology-directed repair by flooding the cell with a mutant template and fooling the cell into using that template... you can either knock out a gene or knock in a mutation. Addgene: How do you use this kit to target a ... done in stem cells, we can differentiate those mutant and wild type stem cells into any cell type relevant...adipocytes or neurons, for instance – to see how those mutations influence the disease process. In the Cell Stem...The TALEN kit is quite useful in generating the mutant cell lines that one needs to do disease modeling...
  2. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...expressing plasmid to generate a population of mutant cells. The mutant cells were treated with WNV at a dose ...well as a dominant-negative mutator allele of the E. coli MMR protein MutL, all under the control of the...The temperature-controlled expression of the MutL mutant enables transient suppression of DNA repair during...sufficient to kill all control cells and surviving “mutant” colonies were deep sequenced to identify the gRNAs...differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis. In humans, mutations that permanently activate Ras are found in one...vivo expression, and/or produce vectors to make mutant cell lines or transgenic animals.   Wall, et al...MAGE in otherwise unmodified bacterial strains (5). MutL is highly conserved in distant relatives of E. coli...
  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    May 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
    ... and their mutations relative to wildtype GFP. Although not listed here, many permutations within each... and the mutation definitions found in Table 2 may not apply. Table 1: The specific mutations comprising...2: Functional role of specific mutations in GFP derivatives Mutation Known Function S65T Increased...little truncation is tolerated, however, point mutations are acceptable. GFP's main advantage over conventional...began engineering new versions of GFP through mutagenesis in order to improve its physical and biochemical...In 1995, Roger Y. Tsien described an S65T point mutation that increased the fluorescence intensity and ...facilitating its widespread use in research. Many other mutations have since been introduced to GFP and new iterations...
  4. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    June 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...phosphomimetic dual mutant) elevated kinase activity over 70-fold over dual phosphomimetic mutation. This emphasizes...phosphoserine-incorporation mutant for a residue that wasn’t originally a serine (e.g. mutating a threonine residue...residues. The phosphorylated residue of interest is mutated to a negatively charged residue, aspartate or glutamate...charge in the phosphate group. Additionally, these mutations are not reversible, and thus cannot reflect the...made constitutively active through phosphomimetic mutation of these residues. Due to the limitations previously...previously mentioned, phosphomimetic mutations on the activation loop do not fully activate MEK1. In fact...recombinant proteins as an alternative to phosphomimetic mutation. Creating phosphoserine-incorporated proteins ...
  5. Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Dec. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
    ...biotin ligase, BirA*, with a site mutation (R11G). This site mutation destabilizes the ligase, allowing...evolution to generate two mutants, the 35 kD TurboID, which has 15 mutations compared to BirA and the ...compared to the standard E. coli BirA* mutant. RapID consists of this mutant BirA* and an RNA component that ...the E. coli version. It also contains a single mutation (R40G) in a conserved residue in the biotin catalytic...rounds of directed evolution until they identified a mutant with significantly increased sensitivity that did...original APEX (Lam et al. 2014). They named this mutant APEX2.  Find the APEX2 plasmids! TurboID and minturbo...which has the N-terminus domain deleted and 13 mutations compared to wild type BirA. TurboID and miniTurbo...
  6. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Jan. 13, 2025, 9:49 p.m.
    ...engineered a dominant-negative mutant of the protein MLH1, a component of the MutSαMutLα mismatch repair (MMR)...likely recognized as an MMR intermediate, and the MutSαMutLα complex may either selectively excise the edited... PE6e-g editors with mutations to the Cas9 domain but found that these mutations only improved efficiency...created and evaluated 19 PE1 variants with RT mutations known to increase activity, enhance binding between...came out on top? The Cas9 nickase fused to a pentamutant of M-MLV RT. They called this system PE2, which...additional nuclear localization sequences; and two mutations in Cas9 previously shown to improve nuclease activity...effective prime editor proteins, but found that the mutations that emerged depended strongly on the target edit...
  7. Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Aug. 18, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...heterogeneous population of mutant cells, with each cell or set of cells containing a mutation in a different gene...example, mutant cells can be used in drug screens to identify genes that confer drug-resistance. Mutant cells...library plus Cas9 to generate the mutant cells, respectively (C). Mutant cells are screened (D) and "hits... (NHEJ), usually results in a loss-of-function mutation within the target gene. CRISPR can also be used...experiment is to generate and screen a population of mutant cells to identify genes involved in a particular...system in which Cas9 must be delivered separately.  Mutant cells are enriched using either drug selection ...correspond to genes that confer drug resistance when mutated. Findings from this type of experiment can shed...
  8. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Dec. 17, 2020, 1:30 p.m.
    ...dominant mutation, known as co-conversion (Arribere et al., 2014). In both cases, the selected mutation must... of lethal mutation co-selection. Only animals rescued for the conditional lethal mutation survive the...Cas9 allows us to delete sequences and introduce mutations and epitopes with unprecedented ease. These new...fluorescence (GFP; Tzur et al., 2013), or rescue of mutant phenotypes (unc-119) (Dickinson et al., 2013). ...approach relying on repair of a conditional-lethal mutation to identify edits with minimal screening effort...effort. Selecting for repair of a lethal mutation should remove much of the unedited “haystack”, facilitating...selection for repair of a temperature-sensitive pha-1 mutation significantly enriches for knock-in of 2x and ...
  9. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Dec. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...frameshift mutation. The majority of cellular repair events will generate these types of mutations, making...recognition sequence is destroyed via mutation. By introducing a mutation in either the PAM or the guide recognition...mishaps in this class of genome edit. Knock-in mutations and gene editing Targeted genome editing events... this is not the case for knock-ins. Knock-in mutations typically require an exact DNA sequence to be ...cells. It is important to know that HR is often mutated in cancer cells, specifically in breast and ovarian...recommended you check your cell lines for HR-related mutations before attempting knock-ins by HDR.   ... with some success (Yu et al., Nat Chem Biol). Mutate the PAM or sgRNA sequences Cas9 likely goes through...
  10. RUBY-Red Siliques

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    March 1, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...with an Arabidopsis mutant that can’t set seeds. I study the development of the mutant plants, but the seeds...unfamiliar with these mutant plants. Using RUBY to simplify the identification of these mutants will speed up ...containing the desired mutation but lacking both RUBY and the construct that rescues the mutation. I will be able...identified by a phenotype caused by the segregating mutation. Selecting these plants is a learned skill that...up my work and make it easier to study these mutants.   Fig. 2: (A) Betacyanin is produced from ...do this by expressing a gene that rescues the mutations, using RUBY as a selection marker. These plants...because they will no longer show the effects of the mutation. But ¼ of the offspring from these plants will...
Showing: 21 - 30 of 322 results