... here at Addgene – 500,000 plasmids shipped! That's a 1/2 million plasmids sent to happy scientists around... you all the plasmids you need. We're focused on our mission – documenting your plasmids, storing them...500,000 plasmids go? Far and wide – that's where! Check out the map below which depicts where plasmids have...Sidney Street. Then the plasmids travel to labs around the world. We've shipped plasmids to more than 90,000...providing quality control and customer support, making plasmids easy for you to find and request in our online... workings in Addgene's lab. We ship individual plasmids as transformed bacteria in stab culture format...packing area.Using the barcode system, the correct plasmids are packed into their boxes with shipping labels...

...Resources on Addgene.org Find Cre plasmids Find loxP plasmids  ...In previous posts for our Plasmids 101 series, we examined a number of important plasmid elements – promoters...  plasmids 101...

...localization, or protease protection. Thus far Plasmids 101 has covered GFP and its related fluorescent... generally a relatively small sequence of amino acids, is basically a molecular leash for your protein...stability activity, can be readily purified using plasmids found in this paper (available at Addgene).   ...interest: Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use? Plasmids 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Fluorescent...   plasmids 101...

...interest. Some of the plasmids listed in the table above (and their related plasmids) are designed to have... a one-stop reference guide for plasmids. We've combined our Plasmids 101 blog posts and additional resources...techniques including co-transfection of two or more plasmids, the use of multiple or bidirectional promoters...markers from a unique promoter, multicistronic plasmids ensure that any cells that are positive for your...The two strategies most widely incorporated into plasmids for research purposes are described below. IRES...discovered in picornaviruses, are short (about 20 amino acids) and produce equimolar levels of mulitple genes ...multicistronic element and reporter cloned in. In these plasmids you would simply clone your gene of interest into...

...More: Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication All Plasmids 101 Articles...their genomes. Unlike plasmids used for expression in yeast and bacteria, plasmids used for stable transfections...Although plasmids do not naturally exist in mammals, scientists can still reap the benefits of plasmid-based...In this blog post we will discuss how mammalian plasmids differ from their bacterial counterparts, including...means of introducing genetic material (such as plasmids) into mammalian cells, a process called transfection...293T cells), allow for episomal amplification of plasmids containing the viral EBV or SV40 ORIs, respectively...cell lines. Looking for Mammalian Expression Plasmids? Check Out Addgene's Empty Backbone Resource: ...

...types of yeast plasmids are defined below: Yeast Integrating plasmids (YIp): These plasmids lack an ORI...integration. Yeast Episomal plasmids (YEp): These are most similar to bacterial plasmids and are considered “...In our first few Plasmids 101 posts, we focused mainly on the elements required for plasmid maintenance...simple gene replacement/mutation. Yeast expression plasmids used in the lab typically contain all the necessary... These elements control not only the number of plasmids found in each cell, but also whether the plasmid...via homologous recombination. Yeast Replicating plasmids (YRp):  These vectors contain an Autonomously ...and may be lost during budding. Yeast Centromere plasmids (YCp): These are considered low copy vectors and...

... How to Use the Nanobody Toolbox Find Nanobody Plasmids Structural comparison As the name suggests, ...are unique to camels, llamas, alpacas and other camelids. In terms of structure, HCabs are like a pared...Journal of Cell Biology. PubMed PMID: 29263082 Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Bates, M... on Addgene.org Find more nanobody expression plasmids here Additional Resources Looking for monoclonal...

...The Hot Plasmids Segment. Click on the player below to listen to a quick (~5 min) Hot Plasmids podcast...greatest plasmids through this podcast segment. Below, we break down each of the Hot Plasmids segments...comments about the Hot Plasmids Podcast Segment, or have recommendations for new Hot Plasmids topics, let us ...science careers, lab protocols, and, of course, plasmids. Today we’re trying a new way to present plasmid... recent newsletters. Listen to the entire Hot Plasmids episode! We generally publish 5-10 Hot Plasmid... You can find all of these articles on the Hot Plasmids webpage. If you haven’t got time to sit down and...us know in the comments section below. Hot plasmids covered in this segment Hot Plasmid 1: CRISPR X from...

...nucleic acids with high selectivity and sensitivity from patient samples. Find the DETECTR plasmids here!...sensitivity or the specificity to detect nucleic acids at low concentrations and/or are too expensive, ...inexpensive platforms to reliably detect nucleic acids at the atomolar level. The Zhang lab has adapted...results in as little as an hour. Find the SHERLOCK plasmids at Addgene! Applications of the SHERLOCK detection... SHERLOCKv2 provides a method to detect nucleic acids with high sensitivity and specificity without compromising...allows for simple and efficient detection of nucleic acids in a mixed population for an array of molecular ...

...move antibiotic resistance genes between plasmids or from plasmids to the bacteria’s genome. In humans, if...activity (Voigt et al., 2016). Sleeping Beauty plasmids  piggyBac Although its name suggests otherwise...codon-optimized wild-type piggyBac transposase.  piggyBac plasmids    Tol2  Tol2 was the first reported active DNA...increase in transposition activity  Tol2 transposon plasmids    Applications of transposons Now that you’ve...

...with the ID of the component plasmid, component name, size, and any comments. You can use the ID to look...resources from Addgene Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Addgene's CRISPR Guide Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning...request on the Addgene website, both as individual plasmids and as the Fragmid kit. You can also browse all...clones for plasmid sequencing and found 98% of the plasmids were perfectly correct. Because they created the...look up the component plasmids on the Addgene website. Step 4: Naming your assembled plasmid and ...the Fragmid kit. While you can order each of the plasmids individually, if you’re going to be using more...components — in most cases, that's making two or more plasmids — it may be more efficient to order the kit. What...

...replication. In general, these plasmids tend to be low copy number. Conversely, plasmids that can initiate DNA ...All plasmids rely on their host cell's replication machinery in order to replicate—but not always to ...replication of the host cell's chromosomal DNA.  Plasmids are said to be under stringent control when they...for elongation and termination. These types of plasmids tend to be high copy number. Here, we will consider...consider the replication mechanism of plasmids under stringent control, such as pSC101. DNA replication...bacterial chromosome and for stringently controlled plasmids. Binding of IHF (green) redistributes DnaA (red...sustainability. Plasmid DNA replication and regulation Plasmids must also strike a balance: replicating too slowly...

...step associates an Addgene ID with your plasmids, and adding all the plasmids at once increases the likelihood...likelihood that the plasmids are given sequential IDs.   Name – we encourage the use of descriptive plasmid...Deposit ID. Addgene will send you a package containing instructions on how to prepare your plasmids and a...include the total size of the insert and the GenBank ID associated with your insert. Pro Tip! If the correct...and the vector type. Pro Tip! Reference the Addgene ID in the "Backbone Manufacturer" box for backbones ...using your plasmids. You can submit "Unpublished or pre-publication plasmids": Unpublished plasmids or plasmids...easy for you to share plasmids. To achieve this goal, we will archive any plasmids you've deposited with...

...Systemic capsids While there is quite a bit of information available on how to use systemic capsids, when...new systemic capsids for both rodents and non-human primates (NHPs). These engineered capsids have increased...precursor. Considering systemic capsids for your research? While systemic capsids mostly function like your ...several systemic capsids have been developed specifically for NHPs. There are capsids that are effective...descriptions of commonly used or emerging capsids. Selected capsids are further highlighted below the table...Systemic Capsids page to learn more about that collection. Table 1: Systemic capsid plasmids available...2019. Systemic capsids for broad cell-type coverage in rodent CNS Many of these capsids were deposited...

...popular eBook, Plasmids 101, is now available!   Plasmids 101 covers everything from plasmids parts and ...word for it!  “When people want to learn about plasmids, they don’t go to Wikipedia; they go to Addgene...

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...blog Plasmids 101: protein expression Plasmids 101: E. coli strains for protein expression Plasmids 101...for the codons they use to encode specific amino acids. This is possible because there are 4 bases (A, ... therefore 64 possible codons but only 20 amino acids and 3 stop codons to encode leaving 41 codons unaccounted...redundancy; multiple codons encode single amino acids. Evolutionary constraints have molded which codons... tables showing which codons encode which amino acids (see example to the right). With such simple rules...and charge the tRNAs with the appropriate amino acids. If an organism uses only a subset of codons, it... genes of interest codon optimized by ordering plasmids containing them from Addgene. If a plasmid at ...

...a million plasmids would fill? Two weeks ago, Addgene edged passed our one million plasmids shared milestone...ending the day with 1,000,002 plasmids shipped. Reaching one million plasmids shared might have you wondering...how many plasmids leave Addgene headquarters every day. That would be an average of 673 plasmids each day...to packing and shipping. Every single day. 673 plasmids shipped daily may be easy to picture (see the ...celebratory lunch, it’s hard to picture one million plasmids. How much space would one million bacterial stabs...Leadership team in all their photo booth glory! #1millionplasmids On to the next million! @CarolineBME @AllostEricSite... possible without the scientists who deposited plasmids to the repository and for the scientific sharing...

... for purposes other than cloning or confirming plasmids. It turns out that restriction enzymes are one...your plasmid of interest by PCR generates mutated plasmids with no methylation (there are no methyltransferases... is destroyed leaving behind a pool of mutated plasmids which can later be verified by Sanger sequencing...Results Use REPLACR Mutagenesis to Mutate Your Plasmids Resources on Addgene.org Check Out Our Plasmid...

... a strain optimized for plasmids with repeat elements, such as viral plasmids with inverted terminal repeats...Different plasmids and strains will vary in their optimal growth conditions. For many high copy plasmids, standard...terms, more volume = more cells = more plasmid. Plasmids can vary in copy number, the number of plasmid...concentrations will work just fine; however, for low copy plasmids or slower growing strains, a change in media may.... Reduce the antibiotic concentration Low copy plasmids produce fewer transcripts of their antibiotic ...correlated. Typical growth times for high copy plasmids in standard growth strains range from 12-16 hours...hours, but cultures with lower copy plasmids may need to be grown for 20 hours or more to achieve maximum...