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  1. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases

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    July 22, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Plasmid Collection, including tools using NanoLuc®, NanoBiT, and more. Which luciferase and assay have...blog Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns  Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase Fluorescent Proteins... engineered a variety of improved luciferases. NanoLuc® Luciferase is the best known: it’s derived from...gracilirostris) Natural 455 19 Coelenterazine None Yes NanoLuc®(derived from Oplophorus gracilirostris) Engineered... (fluorescent and luminescent) worlds Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) is the transfer of energy...which then emits it as light. Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) works the same way, except...protein-protein interactions Split luciferases, such as NanoBiT, are expressed in two subunits and only catalyze...
  2. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    Jan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m.
    ...microenvironment’s malignancy but also incite different organs to become malignant. Exosomes also contain...on the conversion of non-malignant forms of cancer to invasive and malignant forms and noticed that myoepithelial...that when there’s less caveolin 1, there’s less malignancy because there’s less proliferation. However, ...exosomes are tools of communication and provide malignancy to the microenvironment itself. They deliver ...myoepithelial cells prevented progression to malignancy, concluding that these cells may be considered...PMC4788391. Kogure, Takayuki, et al. "Intercellular nanovesicle‐mediated microRNA transfer: A mechanism of environmental...Central PMCID: PMC3310362. Martins, Diana, and Fernando Schmitt. "Microenvironment in breast tumorigenesis...
  3. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    June 7, 2018, 1:17 p.m.
    ...through the use of protein tags and separated from contaminants using a variety of purification methods. Deciding...expression systems are very powerful for high level recombinant protein expression. These systems enable high...cheap and low-tech means of mass expression of recombinant proteins. Many cells from various types of plants...modifications. Extraction and purification of recombinant proteins from plants however can be expensive...biochemicals and proteins through plant roots. Tagging recombinant proteins with a naturally secreted plant peptide...expression system to generate large quantities of recombinant eukaryotic proteins. Although many species of...using S. cerevisiae, researchers often place recombinant proteins under the control of the galactose inducible...
  4. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    Sept. 12, 2017, 1:44 p.m.
    ...serotype of the packaged DNA and look for potential contaminants. The analysis is a 2-step process using Geneious...total reads are most likely to correspond to the contaminant. Each contig is then BLASTed against the NCBI...contaminated. For AAV-68544, the best match for the contaminant is Addgene plasmid #44362. Method validation,... were easily able to identify AAV-44632, the contaminant we mixed into the original AAV sample at 5%. ...software looks for and quantifies the presence of recombinants in recombinase-dependent sequences. Recombinase-dependent...powerful tool that can be used to identify DNA contaminants in AAV preparations and provide information ...Encapsidation of Prokaryotic Sequences during Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Production and Their in...
  5. CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics

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    Aug. 9, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...to identify the critical NANOG binding sites: 1. Find Enhancers that have NANOG binding sites 2. Design...ChIP-seq experiment (think “GPS for proteins”) for NANOG, an essential transcription factor in embryonic ... just over 13,000 significant binding peaks for NANOG in the human genome. But not all of those 13,000...Design a CRISPR screen to target and disrupt the NANOG enhancers 3. CRISPR out the enhancers from step 2. ... ESCs die or differentiate Step 3 reveals which NANOG-related genes are critical to stem cell survival...CRISPR in the next section. In order to denote the NANOG enhancers from step 1 with genome math, we’ll need...shorthand from the field of epigenomics: H3 – one of NANOG’s associated histone proteins K4 and K27 – locations...
  6. QC Sequencing Technologies at Addgene

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    July 15, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... technology, but Oxford Nanopore is one of the most popular options. Nanopore sequencing deviates from...3: Overview of Nanopore sequencing technology. Created with BioRender.com. Nanopore can provide longer...sequencing methods (Figure 3). It uses (aptly named) “nanopores” that are attached to the flow cell membrane and...proteins. When each nucleotide passes through the nanopore, the electrical current recorded by the instrument...-read sequencing. At Addgene, we routinely use Nanopore technology to sequence our packaged viral DNA ...an entire viral genome in one read. We also use Nanopore sequencing to QC plasmids that are highly repetitive... Y., Bollas, A., Wang, Y., & Au, K. F. (2021). Nanopore sequencing technology, bioinformatics and applications...
  7. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    Nov. 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... GFP-binding nanobodies, the project really took off. Unlike most antibodies, nanobodies, which occur ...inside cells. Nanobodies binding GFP were designed in 2009. Subsequent work showed that nanobodies could be...and money needed to develop new lines. Using nanobodies to create GFP scaffolds for transcriptional activation...  References 1.Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. “A nanobody-based system using fluorescent proteins as scaffolds...Modulation of protein properties in living cells using nanobodies.” Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 17 (2010): 133–138....Fluorescent fusion protein knockout mediated by anti-GFP nanobody.” Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 19 (2012), 117–121. ...
  8. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    Dec. 6, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... Encoded Nanothermometer. Nano Lett. 2022 Jul 27;22(14):5698-5707. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00608. ... size (~1500 bp) makes iGECInano suitable for AAV packaging.    Find iGECInano plasmids here!   Matlashov....13.503850; doi: 10.1101/2022.08.13.503850.  iGECInano NIR calcium reporter Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent...using small monomeric NIR fluorescent proteins (miRFP670nano and miRFP720) and the Ca2+-sensing domain from...from Twitch-2B (Matlashov et al. 2022). iGECInano displays better response kinetics and photochemical ...
  9. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    Aug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...editing CHARM: A compact epigenetic silencer Recombinant antibodies for marking astrocytes MagIC-Cryo-EM... linkers and spacer proteins ending with a GFP nanobody (Figure 1). This enrichment streamlines the purification...alpha helix) and target capture module (SpyTag-GFP nanobody) assembled on beads. C) Micrograph of H1.8-GFP...spacers could enable many future variations using nanobodies or scFvs for other targets or could be used for...https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.025.    Recombinant antibodies for marking cell types in the nervous...s Neuroscience Antibody Collection to find a recombinant anti-GFAP [N206A/8R] antibody shared by James...other cell types in the nervous system!  Find recombinant anti-GFAP [N206A/8R] antibody here!   ...
  10. Exploring Applications of the Bioluminescent HiBiT Tag

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    Oct. 2, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Woolard, J., & Hill, S. J. (2021). Use of NanoBiT and NanoBRET to monitor fluorescent VEGF-A binding kinetics...HiBiT is a minimal 11-amino-acid fragment of the NanoBiT® complex, which, upon binding to its complementary... addition and a simple add-mix-measure method. NanoBiT® luciferase activity is compatible with both intra...LgBiT, and the authors used a p53 response-element NanoLuc reporter to show that the mutants abolished transcriptional...facilitating metastatic spread. The authors used NanoBiT assays to quantify ADAR1-HiBiT in cell lysates,...linking EV-mediated protein spread to enhanced malignant potential. This work highlights HiBiT tagging ...subtle changes in co-receptor dynamics, including NanoBRET assays to monitor the binding of fluorescently-labeled...
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