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  1. Technical Design of a Western Blot

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    Aug. 22, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...chemicals, and are not always consistent. Precast gels, while expensive, reduce protocol time, can be ...chemical-based blockers, while much more expensive, are consistent and stable at room temperature for 1–2... Direct detection method Less sensitive; usually more expensive Nitrocellulose or low-fluorescence...Multiplex Fluorescent proteins Less sensitive; more expensive Strip/Reprobe PVDF membrane Increased...specificity, lower cross-reactivity, and are more consistent lot-to-lot. The highest reproducibility comes...quantitative assays. On the other hand, they are not as sensitive to lower amounts of protein, and can require more...  Lysis buffer When choosing your lysis buffer, consider the subcellular location of your protein. Proteins...
  2. RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions

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    April 10, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ...antibody is less sensitive than HRP RANbody detection, it is approximately as sensitive as detecting the...detection is less sensitive than HRP RANbody detection but approximately as sensitive as antigen detection...approximately as sensitive as detecting antigen with a standard primary/labeled secondary Less sensitive than HRP-RANbody...approximately as sensitive as detecting antigen with standard primary/labeled secondary   Less sensitive than HRP-RANbody...antibody and a ≥100-fold increase in signal over intrinsic fluorescence. Increased signal is likely due to...secondary antibody. Chicken IgY This RANbody reporter consists of two chicken IgY domains. Chicken IgY domains...detected enzymatically with HRP substrate More sensitive than detecting antigen with a primary/ labeled...
  3. Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot

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    Sept. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...      Figure 1: A protein gradient. The density of the bands, which increase as protein concentration... buffers and strengths. If that’s not working, consider using a subcellular fractionation kit or a lysing...re seeing protein aggregation, you may want to consider changing your incubation temperature. Some proteins...aggregate at 95 °C, a common lysis temperature, so consider a longer incubation (10–20 minutes) at 70 °C, ...If you need very accurate protein measurements, consider using an unstained protein ladder, which will ...ladder on the lefthand side. Whatever you do, be consistent and document it.   Did it work? Save yourself...reversible staining method of choice is appropriately sensitive. If using a PVDF membrane, you can dry the membrane...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    Jan. 30, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...detailed below. Voltage Sensitive Domain (VSD) GEVIs Simply put, VSD-based sensors consist of a VSD fused to...gated ion channels all depend on transmitting and sensing electrical potential. Thankfully, there is a tool... These tools have two main elements: a voltage-sensing component and a fluorescent output. The GEVI family...divided up structurally into 2 main groups: voltage sensitive domains and Rhodopsin containing GEVIs. Chemigenetic...fluorescent reporter and the mechanism of their voltage sensing component, which separates them into two distinct...indicator, which can make the kinetics of voltage sensing to signal output slightly slower than other approaches...approaches. Functionally, the voltage sensitivity of the available VSDs has been successful even at the...
  5. SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas

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    May 5, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Specific ​H​igh ​s​ensitivity ​E​nzymatic ​R​eporter un​LOCK​ing) technique Sensitivity: Single molecule...Two-step-SHERLOCK has a sensitivity in the zeptomolar range while One-step-SHERLOCK has a sensitivity in the femto-aptomolar...for rapid, ultrasensitive and visual detection of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Sensitivity: 4.6-11 copies...SARS-CoV-2 using a CRISPR based DETECTR assay Sensitivity:10-100 copies of RNA per microliter Time: ~40...two crRNAs that bind to two regions improves sensitivity of the assay. This reaction also contains SSB...one-temperature reaction, and is nearly single-molecule sensitive. In the case of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 detection...detection of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material (CREST) Sensitivity: 10 copies of RNA per microliter Time: Not mentioned...
  6. Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots

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    April 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the loading control: the intensity of each POI band is divided by the intensity of the loading control ...band intensity measurements become extremely susceptible to error, since tiny changes in intensity can ...membrane, which would be directly reported by band intensity. Researchers use later steps in this chain (blue...trust Assumption #1, any change in the normalized intensity of your POI could reflect either a genuine change...relationship between protein abundance and band intensity is an S-shaped curve. Sparse proteins may not ...problems for proteins of very different abundance, consider the following example gel. Figure 5: An... on the plot of protein abundance versus band intensity (right). Created with BioRender.com. On this...
  7. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    Sept. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...conditions. The use of low intensity light solves each of these problems; inexpensive tools such as LEDs can...precise, consistent, and controllable pulses of light. Complicated patterns of light intensity and wavelength... low-intensity light, so off-target effects should be limited. Phytochromes are light-responsive systems...Tabor have been working on making E. coli light responsive since 2005, when Tabor was working in Voigt's... heading of two-component systems (TCSs). TCSs consist of a histidine kinase that phosphorylates a response...Christopher Voigt’s lab created the first E. coli light-sensitive two-component system (TCS). Levskaya et al. fused...Tabor et al. subsequently engineered a second photosensitive TCS activated by green light; these two systems...
  8. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...published Aug 30, 2018 and updated April 16, 2020. Sensitive and specific nucleic acid detection is crucial...nucleic acid detection however, either lack the sensitivity or the specificity to detect nucleic acids at...at low concentrations and/or are too expensive, time-consuming, and complex to use outside of standard...and Cas12a, to develop simple, portable, and inexpensive platforms to reliably detect nucleic acids at...and optimize the method termed Specific High Sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter UnLOCKING (SHERLOCK and SHERLOCKv2...CRISPR-based diagnostics. SHERLOCK- Specific High Sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter UnLOCKING Cas13 (C2c2) was... your targeted nucleic acid. To increase the sensitivity of the assay, targeted DNA or RNA from a sample...
  9. Antibodies 101: The Four ELISAs and When to Use Them

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    July 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...are not as sensitive, however, so those studying low abundance antigens may want to consider alternative... ELISAs for their accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity (a good ELISA can detect picogram quantities ...advantages and disadvantages of each, and some considerations when using the method. ELISA basics All ELISAs...detectable product. Scientists compare the signal intensity of the sample to that of a standard curve to extrapolate... themselves, the process can be laborious and expensive. In some cases, conjugation methods can interfere...Incorporating a secondary antibody increases the sensitivity of the assay, since multiple secondary antibodies...sandwich ELISAs, in a competitive ELISA the signal intensity is inversely proportional to the amount of antigen...
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