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  1. New Norepinephrine Indicators: nLightG and nLightR

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    Dec. 12, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Resources on Addgene.org Find Biosensor Plasmids Find Optogenetics Plasmids Visit the Fluorescent Protein Guide...Representative images of HEK293T cells and neurons expressing nLightG or nLightR before/after application of...ΔF/F0 heatmaps. White insets indicate surface expression of the indicators over white dashed lines. Scale...contains circularly permuted green fluorescent protein (GFP), and nLightR uses a red fluorescent protein, mApple...accounted for in your experimental design. Find nLight plasmids here! Next steps While nLightG and nLightR greatly...
  2. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
    ...drive high protein expression in vivo. Expression plasmids are often lost without plasmid addiction systems...cells to retain plasmids - if a cell does not inherit plasmid due to improper plasmid partitioning, it...unstabilized plasmids were retained in less than 10% of cells while plasmids containing the plasmid addiction...ensure that plasmids are passed down through generations (Figure 1). These so called “plasmid addiction ...only survive if they retain the plasmid. Since their discovery, plasmid addiction systems have been used...found that if a mini-F plasmid carried a specific 700 bp segment of DNA, the plasmid was propagated better...selection in one plasmid, they were able to create an efficient cloning tool. The plasmid pKSCTMF contains...
  3. Hot Plasmids: May 2026

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    May 5, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
    ...research, popular plasmids for a common lab enzyme, and more! Read on to find: Plasmids and recipes for...Pojer and Arrowsmith Labs have shared plasmids you can use to express and purify your own supply of this ...transfers the complete TCRs to an expression vector. TCR libraries are expressed in cells via lentiviral transduction...Every few months we highlight some of the new plasmids, antibodies, viral preps, and other materials ...materials in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles. This month, we’ve got some new biosensors for neuroscience...your preference or needs. Plus, the MBP-Benzonase plasmid is available to industry as well as academic scientists... (2026), they provide a detailed protocol for expression and purification along with validation and expected...
  4. Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP

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    June 23, 2015, 8:37 p.m.
    ...stem cells transduced with iTOP resulting in GFP expression. Image courtesy of Diego D'Astolfo. CRISPR... mutations and gene expression changes elsewhere in the genome. Second, expression is by nature transient...control could enter cultured cells and activate expression of a luciferase reporter. CPP was not required...causes a cell to take up, and continued protein expression would require multiple transduction events. For... to binary systems in which transient protein expression has a long-lasting effect, such as Cre- or Cas9...10.1016/j.cell.2015.03.028. PubMed. Find the Plasmids @Addgene: iTOP-tested proteins and reporters...
  5. The Michael Davidson Collection: One-Stop Shop for Fluorescent Proteins

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    July 29, 2014, 6:16 p.m.
    ...colleagues built a Molecular Expressions collection including some 3,300 plasmids along with image galleries...Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection.  mEmerald plasmids and many more! ... resources to go with them. This collection of plasmids is available in an easily searchable format on...Fluorescent Protein Collection webpage. These plasmids are divided into the following categories: Over...list of cell markers all tagged with mEmerald. Plasmids to monitor protein-protein interactions through...Specialty constructs for biosensing. Over 300 plasmid backbones spanning a rainbow of fluorescent proteins...proposition, explained Michelle Baird, who has created plasmids as a technician in the Davidson lab for the last...
  6. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...lines expressing it. The Church lab fixed this issue by creating a new dCas9-VPR expression plasmid that...transfer vector for in-vivo expression and plasmids optimized for dCas9-VPR expression in drosophila and yeast...Cas9 nickase, and Cas9 activator expressing plasmids that can co-express 1-8 gRNAs. Ordon et al., 2016 tested...Neurosci 2016. PubMed PMID: 26950006 Plasmid ID Plasmid Name Plasmid Type 74309 pcDNA3.0-TRPV4-p2A-ferritin-p2A-mCherry...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These brief articles...features and applications of a partiular plasmid or set of plasmids. We hope that these articles make it ... you to find and use the plasmids you need. You can find all the hot plasmids from 2016 below. With over...
  7. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    Oct. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...transforming both fusion plasmids, or mating two single haploid yeast fusion plasmid transformants into a ...Addgene Browse Our Yeast Expression Vectors Find Bacterial Two Hybrid Plasmids Read our Blog Post About...activation. Vary the expression levels of bait and prey proteins - overexpression can lead to false interactions...During this period, proteins were successfully expressed as fusions that retain their individual activities...in this case a reporter gene (e.g. luciferase or GFP), regardless of whether it interacts with a transcriptional...see Figure 2a) (4). These fusions are then co-expressed in a yeast strain that also contains a reporter...bait”, Figure 2b) cannot activate reporter gene expression on its own, but, if the two POI’s interact, this...
  8. Split-BioID: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    May 1, 2018, 1:57 p.m.
    ...Addgene.org Find plasmids from the Bethune Lab Find Plasmids from the Roux Lab Find Plasmids for FRET ...labeling, BirA* fusion proteins are expressed in cells via plasmids or by the creation of stable cell lines... enriched relative to controls using Split-BioID-GFP and BioID run on six unrelated proteins. One caveat... et al saw different levels of fusion protein expression and biotinylation depending on which terminus... requires 6-24 hours for tetracycline induced expression of the BirA* fusion protein and saturation of... al allowed 24 hours for tetracycline induced expression and biotinylation of interacting proteins. This...Interested in using Split-BioID with your research? Plasmids are available from Addgene! References Schopp...
  9. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    Dec. 17, 2020, 1:30 p.m.
    ...drug resistance (Chen et al., 2013), fluorescence (GFP; Tzur et al., 2013), or rescue of mutant phenotypes...step as simple as heat-shocking to induce the expression of a Cre recombinase contained within the knock-in...homology arms to knock in large epitopes, such as GFP (Paix et al., 2014). A further development of this...efficiencies, obtaining as many as 100 independent GFP knock-ins from a single injected animal.  PAM sequence.... elegans. These modular toolkits build single plasmid targeting vectors that encode the gRNA transcript... C. elegans, visit Addgene’s C. elegans CRISPR plasmids page. Future perspectives It is interesting to...using modified Cas9 proteins to regulate gene expression (CRISPRi/CRISPRa), visualize specific genomic...
  10. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ...of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles.  ...all applications. Addgene’s plasmid collection includes over 10,000 plasmids with a FLAG tag (!), but did...escape. Combining Cas9-PAGE with lentiviral sgRNA expression yielded editing of 80–90% in human cell lines..., Myc and SV40 Nuclear Localization Signals, and GFP. B) Workflow to assess Cas9-PAGE editing with viral... al. 2023 with permission.   Find Cas-PAGE plasmids here!   Zhang, Z., et al. (2023). Efficient engineering...structured illumination microscopy in HeLa cells expressing COX8a-mStayGold. Scale bars 10 μm (main), 1 μm...inspired and informed this section.  Find mStayGold plasmids at Addgene here!   Ando, R., et al. (2023). StayGold...
  11. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...to be expressed. These permit exquisite control of gene expression and tracing of gene expression across... basal expression. Co-expression of repressor QS along with QF leads to intermediate expression from QUAS...the Church lab uses this system to control expression of GFP.)  To turn this inducible system into a repressible...transgene permits directed expression of that gene in cells that also express GAL4. Usage of this system...UAS to examine the expression of reporter genes, or to combine reporter expression from one promoter with...basal state, and co-expression of the inducer QF can increase QUAS driven expression by ~3,300-fold in ... Shen. “Controlling gene expression with the Q repressible binary expression system in Caenorhabditis ...
  12. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    Nov. 5, 2014, 3:41 p.m.
    ...interest: Plasmid Color Expression Description pPROEX Aqua Cyan Bacterial Expresses Aquamarine with...Cyan Mammalian Expresses mammalian optimized Aquamarine mCerulean N1 Cyan Mammalian Express a gene of interest...Cyan Mammalian Expresses mammalian optimized CyPet pCyPet-His Cyan Bacterial Expresses CyPet with C-terminal... Mammalian Expresses mammalian optimized YPet pYPet-His Yellow Bacterial Expresses YPet with C-terminal...Mammalian Express a gene of interest fused to the C-terminus of SYFP2 Clover Green Mammalian Expresses Clover...Clover (a GFP variant) commonly used with mRuby2 pLSSmOrange-N1 Orange Mammalian Express a gene of interest...used pairs to measure FRET. The table below lists plasmids that can be used to create your choice of fluorescent...
  13. Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy

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    Aug. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection. Cellular expression Whether BiFC constructs... independent of PPIs. Overexpression can be assessed by comparing the expression levels between BiFC constructs...because it relies on a single BiFC pair. Find BiFC plasmids for your experiment at Addgene! How to Design ... steps: fusion protein construction, cellular expression, and quantification (Kerppola, 2006, 2013). These...constructs are expressed transiently by transfection or stably impacts the success of BiFC experiments...this can also be perturbed by supraphysiological expression levels. BiFC quantification This is where BiFC...cannot be used as negative controls because their expression level, stability, and subcellular localization...
  14. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    Oct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
    ...plant plasmid resources at Addgene  Choosing an expression system Choosing an appropriate expression vector....org Find plant plasmids Visit our plant resource page Deposit arabidopsis plasmids with Addgene ...this method include: Cloning and transforming a plasmid into the bacterium Agrobacterium tumeficans - a...options, but here are a couple of my favorites. Plasmids from the Tsuyoshi Nakagawa lab are binary gateway...terminally tagged fusion proteins with fluorescent (YFP, GFP, CFP, RFP, etc.) or affinity tags (HA, FLAG). There...prefer Golden Gate assembly, there are a series of plasmids from the Dinneny lab that additionally allow for...for visual selection of transformants based on expression of RFP in the seed (Emami, Yee and Dinneny, 2013...
  15. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    Sept. 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...David Goldstein’s lab, will use GFP-ATP1A3, FLAG-ATP1A3, and ATP1B3 plasmids to explore the functional differences...studying four of those rare diseases will receive plasmids from Addgene worth a total of $5000.  Lowe Syndrome...involving the primary cilia. They’ll put a variety of plasmids to work to explore the effect of various OCRL1...there. This will help us acquire a lot of those plasmids so that we can try many different things in parallel...ATP1A3. The gene encodes a sodium-potassium pump expressed specifically in neurons of the brain. McSweeney...mutations. More specifically, they’ve proposed to use plasmids with modified nickase Cas9 protein in order to...
  16. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    May 4, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...fluorescent protein timers When FP timers are first expressed, they predominantly fluoresce one color but slowly...timers (whether as part of protein fusions or expressed independently) originally fluoresce green or blue...displays predictable kinetics over 14 hours of expression in C. elegans embryos. However, this initial ...ideal FP timers: 1. Ratiometric determination of expression time The ratio of mature to immature fluorescence...fluorescence from the FP timer is dependent on the total expression time but independent of protein concentration...Calibration curves correlating this ratio to the total expression time can therefore be used to determine how long... long a pool of FP timers has been expressed, either in whole cells or as a pool of fusion proteins localized...
  17. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    July 25, 2017, 1:20 p.m.
    ...Proteins Control Protein Expression with Cre-lox Control Protein Activity with GFP Resources at Addgene.... kinase inhibitors, psMEK1 and ERK KTR-mRuby2 expressing cells were incubated with an inhibitor of choice...feedback. 3. Studying signaling pathways in vivo Expressing photoswitchable kinases in vivo not only allows...used in other model systems, but they need to be expressed in a tissue or organism that blue and violet light...photoswitchable kinases in my experiments? You can find the plasmids from Zhou et al here. In addition, it could be...Addgene.org Find KTR reporter plasmids Find photoactivatable fluorescent proteins in empty backbones in the...
  18. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ...multiplexing; expressing 5 gRNAs simultaneously produces comparable gene knockdown to single gRNA expression. Although... a superfolder GFP fusion to stabilize the protein in mammalian cells. LwaCas13a-msfGFP can mediate cleavage...tracking, modulating splicing, and regulating expression of specifically targeted RNAs. Finally (and perhaps...at this finding through analyses of global RNA expression, cell stress, and RNA size distribution. When...27256883. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5127784. Find plasmids from this paper at Addgene. 2. East-Seletsky,...) (2016):270-273. PubMed PMID: 27669025. Find plasmids from this paper at Addgene.  3. Gootenberg, Jonathan...28408723. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5526198. Find plasmids from this paper at Addgene. 4. East-Seletsky,...
  19. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    June 3, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Explore our empty and EGFP retroviral plasmid set, our bacterial plasmid set for expressing tagged proteins,...of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles. ...backbones special: Strong expression: A CMV promoter drives robust gene expression in mammalian cells. Flexible...proteins, and stay tuned for mammalian expression and AAV plasmid sets launching later this year!  Find Addgene's... share our very own set of empty, HA-, and EGFP-expressing lentiviral backbones designed right here at...validated viral packaging and strong expression after inserting EGFP and provide step-by-step protocols ... own Lentiviral backbone plasmids here! Figure 2: Addgene cloned EGFP into pAG Lenti CMV N-HA ...
  20. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - Protein Variants, a Serotonin Sensor, and an Artificial Leaf Replica System

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    June 4, 2019, 1:02 p.m.
    ... be degraded, leading to reduced eGFP fluorescence. Cells expressing the library are then sorted by fluorescence-activated...CUSPER bioreporter such that fluorescent proteins expression is induced prior to inoculation with IPTG. In...control of promoters that control cell cycle gene expression.  Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog ...fluorescent protein topics page Get the basics on GFP Find microbiology blog posts Resources on Addgene.org...Addgene.org Find fluorescent protein biosensors Browse Plasmids from the Tsien lab Browse the Michael Davidson...variant library is monitored by fusing the variants to eGFP followed by an internal ribosomal entry site and...a variant has wild-type levels of abundance, the eGFP will be stable and fluoresce. But if the variant...
  21. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
    ...recombination, RFP is expressed. Cre can mediate one of two deletions to allow YFP or M-CFP expression; these deletions...inversion. The Brainbow-2.1 construct can express one of four colors (n-GFP, RFP, YFP or M-CFP.) The construct...research? Check out Brainbow plasmids available from Addgene! Find Brainbow Plasmids @Addgene: Brainbow 1.0...1.0, 1.1, 2.1 plasmids Brainbow 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 plasmids References: Transgenic strategies for combinatorial...editing may be the hot new way to manipulate gene expression, but other gene manipulation systems remain valuable...ways to spatially and temporally control gene expression, especially in in vivo models, and new Cre-lox... of Cre-lox. Check out our previous blog post, Plasmids 101: Cre-lox, if you need a quick primer on how...
  22. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    Sept. 7, 2017, 12:17 p.m.
    ...assays to select both over- and under-expressing clones. If GFP-encoding cDNA is co-transfected at a favorable... Pages Browse Fluorescent Protein Plasmids Find Mammalian Expression Vectors ...and PCR, depending on the level of endogenous expression. We highly recommend the use of an electronic...ampules each of 4 clones with different levels of expression of our gene of interest. Advantages of the agarose...isolate individual cell clones with different expression characteristics from a population of transfected...Time CRISPR User) The Challenges of Cell Culture Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors Resources on Addgene.org...the Lindberg Lab we often make cell lines that overexpress genes of interest; more recently we have also...
  23. 10 Great Guest Posts We're Thankful For

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    Nov. 18, 2016, 3 p.m.
    ...Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells GFP oligomerization can lead to misleading artefacts ...Nathaniel Roquet from the Lu Lab at MIT developed plasmid based systems that report the order in which specific... action. AAV: A Versatile Viral Tool for Gene Expression in Mammals Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are... plasmid...
  24. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    Sept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...chemistry! The discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) sparked a renaissance in biological imaging. Suddenly...advances lead to an obvious question: In this age of GFP and its ilk, why should cell biologists talk to chemists...have two parts: (1) a genetically encoded “tag” expressed as a fusion with your favorite protein and (2)... Generate Fluorescent Protein Fusions Request Plasmids from the Michael Davidson Collection Find Fluorescent...photons. For example, moving from transient overexpression of protein fusions to gene-edited cells can...
  25. Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers

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    July 28, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...of the second plasmid can be done in one day in one assembly reaction. This second plasmid saves you a ...alerts when plasmids become available.  We’ve also had some requests for variations on the plasmids we’ve developed...and Myers for speaking with us! Find the Plasmids: Plasmids for protein tagging with CRISPR Additional... available at Addgene. For more details on the plasmids that are currently available along with detailed...several projects and this is one related to gene expression. One goal of the ENCODE project is to look at...system, what we are doing is adding in a second plasmid to target an epitope tag onto the transcription...second vector is a homology directed repair donor plasmid with homology arms and a selection marker. If things...
  26. Exploring Applications of the Bioluminescent HiBiT Tag

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    Oct. 2, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...original paper but link to plasmids from the Promega Plasmid Collection that express similar constructs available...HiBiT. When EVs from cells expressing ADAR1-HiBiT were added to LgBiT-expressing hepatocytes or co-cultured...Addgene Luciferase 101 Luciferase Plasmid Collection Promega Plasmid Collection ...low-levels of ectopic expression, thus avoiding artifacts common in overexpression models. Although HiBiT...signal, strong enough to detect from proteins expressed at their endogenous levels. HiBiT is compatible...apart. While the classic Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and other fluorescent proteins revolutionized live-cell...to provide complementary validation of protein expression and localization. HiBiT-tagged targets in translational...
  27. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...activated HIV-1, measured via HIV-1 promoter-driven GFP expression. In cell lines that can produce HIV-1 toxic... gRNAs to target the HIV-1 5’ and 3’ LTRs and expressed them along with Cas9 in the T-cell line 2D10. ...of the LTRs joined together. Clonal Cas9/gRNA-expressing cell populations were also immune to HIV-1 reinfection...cycle progression, or apoptosis with Cas9/gRNA expression. A pooled analysis found no evidence of Cas9 .... For two HIV-1 strains, Cas9/gRNA lentiviral expression significantly reduced the HIV-1 copy number, ...preventing re-infection would require sustained expression of Cas9/gRNAs, which could result in higher rates...the cells infected with HIV-1 only after stable expression of Cas9/gRNA. Viral production is higher in this...
  28. Why Add Sucrose? Improved Yields for Adeno-associated Virus Preparation

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    Dec. 13, 2018, 1:14 p.m.
    ...endocytosis of a fluorescent dye and transduction of GFP-expressing AAV particles we did not observe any difference...production. Whether redesigning viral packaging plasmids, investigating different viral production strategies...
  29. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    April 17, 2018, 1:37 p.m.
    ... as a donor plasmid containing the transposon, along with a helper plasmid that expresses the transposase...lingering expression of reprogramming factors. Non-replicating Plasmids: Generating iPSCs with plasmid-based...plasmid-based expression requires serial transfection of 1 or 2 plasmids that express the reprogramming factors...reprogramming. Additionally, lingering expression or re-expression of viral transgenes in iPSC-derived cells... generating iPSCs by plasmid transfection where 2 of 11 clones tested had plasmid integration. Another...the dose of plasmid the cells receive over the whole reprogramming period and the plasmid will get diluted...larger plasmids have lower rates of transfection. Minicircles: Minicircles are like mini-plasmids. They...
  30. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    Jan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
    ...Browse fluorescent protein plasmids and resources See all Jaffrey lab plasmids ... cellular processes by transforming cells with plasmids encoding aptamer-tagged RNA and later introducing...aptamer downstream of a known promoter. Addgene’s Plasmids 101: Aptamer Fluorophores describes the enrichment...aptamers able to bind to a small molecule derivative of GFP called 3,5-difluoro-4-hydroxybenzylidene imidazolinone...leading to conformational changes that control the expression of coding RNA. Spinach-based riboswitches can...SELEX, the RNA pool was cloned into bacterial expression vectors to create a library. Bacteria were transformed...quantify RNA transcription by RNA Polymerase III. By expressing Corn under promoters for transcripts uniquely...
  31. Which Fluorescence Microscopy Technique is Best for Me?

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    Oct. 10, 2017, 1:57 p.m.
    ...red light instead of blue to excite a molecule of GFP. Because red light has approximately half the energy...light, two photons of red light are needed to excite GFP compared to only one of blue. Only at the focal point...infinitely small point of light – think of a single GFP molecule – will appear as a fuzzy 200-300 nm spot...Resources Online Microscopy Primer on the Molecular Expressions Website Other major microscopy manufacturers ... Find Empty Fluorescent Protein Backbones Find Plasmids for Optogenetics ...
  32. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    Feb. 8, 2018, 12:17 p.m.
    ...Turquoise (CeNL; Plasmid #85199), Yellow (YeNL; Plasmid #85201), Orange (OeNL; plasmid #85202) and Red ... Researchers have been sharing plasmids ever since there were plasmids to share. Back when I was in the...specific strategies and tactics for getting the plasmids he wanted. Addgene makes it so much easier to ...kDa. An example is the CRISPaint-NLuc construct (Plasmid #67178) for use in the system outlined in Schmid-Burgk...reporter was used to sort successfully infected/expressing cells by flow cytometry. The isolated cells were...fluorescent protein that could be co-imaged with GFP using the same wavelength for excitation. The result...CyOFP1-NLuc-CyOFP1; Antares). Direct injection of plasmids for Antares or firefly luciferase into mouse livers...
  33. Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation

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    Dec. 7, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...the IP in parallel with both a sample known to express the protein of interest, such as a sample transiently...include knockout cell lines or tissues that do not express the protein. With this control set, you should ...In cases such as this, an epitope such as c-Myc, GFP or V5 can be used to tag the protein of interest ...interactions of interest. Tagged proteins are typically expressed at much higher levels than endogenous proteins...antibody posts  Resources on Addgene.org: Find plasmids encoding recombinant antibodies at Addgene ...
  34. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    Jan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m.
    ...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These brief articles...articles provide a synopsis of a plasmid or group of plasmids' functions and applications. We hope that... you to find and use the plasmids you need. You can find all the hot plasmids from 2017 below. With over...over 50,000 plasmids, we can't write posts for every great plasmid that comes into the repository, but...write about your plasmids in a future blog post. No time to read? Listen to our hot plasmids segment on the... that restrict expression to this cell type. To this end, they constructed AAV plasmids bearing one of...bacterial and mammalian mCyRFP1 or CyRFP1 expression plasmids, FRET constructs, and CaMKII and RhoA sensors...
  35. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    Dec. 6, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...summer or just a bright new plasmid. One area with lots of bright new plasmids is our Fluorescent Biosensors...are generated by inserting a circularly-permuted GFP into an intracellular loop of various G-protein-coupled...Figure 2: iGluSnFR3 displays enhanced brightness, expression, and sensitivity compared with earlier SF-iGluSnFR...SF-iGluSnFR. Image from Aggarwal 2022.   Find iGluSnFR3 plasmids here! Find viral prep here: pAAV.hSyn.FLEX.iGluSnFR3.... 2022, under CC-BY-NC license.   Find JEDI-2P plasmids here! Find viral preps here: pAAV-EF1a-DIO-JEDI.... By fusing ITAM to an RTK of interest and co-expressing a cytosolic ZtSH2 reporter, they observe fluorescence...et al. 2022, under CC-BY license.   Find pYtags plasmids here!   Farahani PE, et al. pYtags enable spatiotemporal...
  36. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...markers were not increased compared to a control AAV-GFP. Not only did the AAV-SaCas9-sgRNA constructs mediate...capabilities of full-length SpCas9. This set of plasmids includes AAV-Cas9C-VPR for targeted gene activation...activation. Split inteins have also been used to express base editors. References Chew WL, Tabebordbar ...HBB and CCR5 genes in human cells using compact expression cassettes. Sci Rep 5: . https://doi.org/10.1038...bacterial immune system cleaves bacteriophage and plasmid DNA. Nature 468:67–71 . https://doi.org/10.1038...Addgene.org Check out our CRISPR Guide Find CRISPR Plasmids ...
  37. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    Sept. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...with mixed expression, with the expression measurable through an epitope tag such as FLAG/His/GFP. Fluorescent...epitopes. Detection of overexpressed (tagged or untagged) protein When expression plasmids are available, or...flow cytometry, and mRNA expression.   If your protein of interest is expressed at similar levels in ... involves the transient transfection of expression plasmids in a given cell line. For flow cytometry, ...differences between endogenous expression and transfected overexpression, this approach cannot confirm ...caused by overexpression. Additionally, if the cell line used has endogenous levels of expression, this can...preferred. The overexpression approach is therefore best suited to cell lines without any expression of the target...
  38. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    May 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Dangers of Using GFP for Protein Localization Resources on Addgene.org Find Plasmids for Mammalian Cells...along with Down-Regulation of HIF-1α by NDRG2 Expression Attenuates Proliferation and Invasion in Renal...
  39. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...rewards could be substantial: Plasmid tRNA Synthetase Expression Host pMAH-POLY Polyspecific aminoacyl-tRNA...Resources on Addgene.org Find Plasmids for FRET Browse Empty Plasmids to Fluorescent Protein Fusions ...with natural chain termination at stop codons, expression levels of these tagged proteins are often very...oocytes, mainly). Nevertheless, tRNA suppression plasmids are available from depositing labs that have mastered...Fig. 1) which can be carried out using Addgene plasmids. His-tag labeling reagents You may already have...protein, permeabilized cells  Cy5NTAc 32 25-45 GFP (fluorescein is similar)   Lumio Red Tc: CCPGCC 48...
  40. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    June 22, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...transfer plasmid), the envelope (Env) gene on a separate plasmid (envelope plasmid), and the polymerase ...different plasmids. For a retroviral system this looks like the genetic cargo in one plasmid (the transfer...Gag structural protein on yet a third plasmid (packaging plasmid). Viral production then proceeds by transfection... transfection of all three plasmids into a producer cell line, such as HEK-293T, production of viral particles... and Pol genes are not encoded in the transfer plasmid, the component that physically integrates into ... retroviral packaging components onto distinct plasmids for safety.    Viral cargo-specific safety... for a researcher to come into contact with than GFP. Similarly, if the viral vector carries an shRNA ...
  41. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    June 28, 2016, 10:59 a.m.
    ...reconstituted the EGFP expression cassette. (b) pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid and pX330-sgRNA plasmid (Mashiko et...pCAG-EGXXFP plasmid along with the individual gRNAs in their PX330 plasmids (or similar plasmids for gRNA...site (MCS) between EGFP fragments. The pX330 plasmid contains humanized Cas9 expression cassette and sgRNA...pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid was co-transfected with pX330 plasmids containing sgRNA sequences into HEK293T... mice by pronuclear injection of circular plasmid expressing Cas9 and single guided RNA." Scientific reports...fluorescent protein (EGFP) reconstitution. (a) Scheme of validation for DSB mediated EGFP expression cassette reconstitution...halves of EGFP to recombine by homology directed repair, and resulting in the expression of EGFP. Using ...
  42. Addgene’s Expanding Collection of Research Tools for Industry Scientists

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    Jan. 13, 2026, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Promega Plasmid Collection includes over 600 plasmids such as luciferase reporters for gene expression analysis...backbones such as mEGFP-N1 for expression in mammalian cells or mEGFP-pBAD for bacterial expression, as well as...resources distributed by Addgene including plasmids, plasmid kits, pooled libraries, and antibodies. Our...Biolabs has deposited plasmids for their SNAP- and CLIP-tag labeling system. These plasmids allow for a gene...SmBiT, and LgBiT. These plasmids are available to researchers as both purified plasmid DNA, for quick use ... to industry scientists. These include expression plasmids for the AAV2, AAV5, AAV6, and AAV11 Cap proteins.... Additionally, transfer plasmids such as empty backbones, a FlpO expression construct, and calcium sensors...
  43. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...using a plasmid with multiple, individual expression cassettes, having the genes expressed from the same...genes. Plasmid Name Multicistronic Element Expression Type MSCV-IRES-EGFP IRES Retroviral pMSCV-pBabeMCS-IRES-RFP... for each gene that is expressed, multicistronic vectors simultaneously express two or more separate proteins...cells that are expressing your gene of interest at high levels. Unlike vectors that express screenable or...multicistronic plasmids ensure that any cells that are positive for your marker should also be expressing your ...want to express multiple genes in the same cell. Although it is possible to drive co-expression by using... a portion of the plasmid is packaged for viral delivery, or the relative expression levels between two...
  44. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ...methylation in mammalian cells. Co-expression markers EGFP and PuroR enable sorting and selection of transduced... are an additional layer of control over gene expression that go beyond genomic sequence. Dysregulation...modifications are correlated with alterations in gene expression, but causality and mechanisms remain unclear....that help package DNA, were associated with gene expression or silencing. To alter DNA modifications, researchers...Charles Gersbach’s lab has deposited mammalian expression constructs including pcDNA-dCas9-p300 Core and...well as pLV-dCas9-p300-P2A-PuroR for lentiviral expression. Figure 1: dCas9-p300 adds H3K27ac marks...cytosine demethylation in mammalian cells. This plasmid is used with pcDNA3.1-MS2-Tet1-CD to decrease methylation...
  45. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - December 2019

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    Dec. 19, 2019, 2:40 p.m.
    ... Nuc-flox(mCherry)-EGFP 50457 AAV2 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-EGFP Recombinases Plasmid Serotype Name 87306...the entire collection! Plasmid Serotype Name 51502 AAV5 pCAG-FLEX-EGFP-WPRE 114471 AAV1, AAV5 pAAV-Ef1a-fDIO...constructs from Christopher Harvey’s lab. These plasmids localize opsins to the soma to avoid off target...neighboring neurons. We have also packaged hChR2(H134R) plasmids from Karl Deisseroth’s lab, which includes pAAV-hSyn...H134R)-EYFP that is both Cre and Flp dependent. Plasmid Serotype Name 124603 AAV9 pAAV-EF1a-DIO-ChrimsonR-mRuby2...only interpret their results, but also confirm expression in target cells. While the various AAV serotypes... can be used to achieve different patterns of expression, researchers often need to determine these transduction...
  46. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    March 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...factor. Bulkier tags, such as GFP, may interfere with protein expression or function in live cells. Fluorophore...cell and protein analysis products. You can find plasmids deposited by Promega here.    References and ...Self-Labeling Protein Tags Fluorescent protein plasmids and resources A practical approach to choosing...
  47. Hot Plasmids September 2018 - Optogenetics, RNA Localization, Fluorescent Protein, and Base-editing Tools

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    Sept. 18, 2018, 1:33 p.m.
    ...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.   Listen this episode of Hot Plasmids! Light controls...available in a mammalian expression vector (pcDNA3) and a bacterial expression vector (pRSETB). Fabritius...) in real-time. The reporter constitutively expresses eGFP to indicate reporter abundance, and mCherry...Hahn's lab at the University of North Carolina (plasmids at Addgene). It consists of two domains, LOV2 ... the same number of fluorophores. You can find plasmids containing the cobalamin binding riboswitches ...
  48. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    Sept. 24, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... on addgene.org Find Optogenetics Plasmids Find Biosensor Plasmids Visit the Fluorescent Protein Guide...very first protein they tested — E. coli expressing good ol’ EGFP — showed a slight but detectable change...Frank Hayward et al., 2024). They deposited their plasmid with Addgene, hoping to inspire others to explore...one-component magnetoresponsive system that could be expressed and purified (Figure 1). Although a ~1% change...” magnetoresponse was clearly visible whether expressed in E. coli, in mammalian cells, or in purified...   Video 1: Fluorescence movie of E. coli expressing MagLOV while a magnet is waved under the sample...Lab is eager to hear from you. Find the MagLOV plasmid here!   References and resources References Duret...
  49. With Our New Viral Service, We're Taking CRISPR Further!

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    Dec. 6, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...receive transfer plasmid DNA that you can use along with lentiviral packaging plasmids to create your own...rough approximations of the total number of CRISPR plasmids for that particular organism available at Addgene...helped distribute many of these technologies in plasmid form and are proud to have facilitated their fast...fast adoption. However, in many cases the plasmids themselves are only the starting point for the production...infections with all of our viral preps and host our expression data (western blots or fluorescent microscopy...nickase for genome editing. You can also enhance expression of your gene of interest with a variety of Cas9... use; after receiving a pooled gRNA library in plasmid format, a researcher must amplify the library, ...
  50. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    Dec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...labs’ plasmids, including protocols, check out the plasmids at Addgene: pAdSh.PGK.Cas9 (expresses S. pyogenes...looking for a broader range of CRISPRs plasmid tools, find more plasmids, CRISPR technology guides, FAQs, and...Within target cells, Cas9 machinery is transiently expressed and binds to target DNA. In the final step of ...large enough to carry the Cas9 gene and a gRNA expression cassette in one single viral particle. The earliest...description of their experimental protocol. The three plasmids which have been deposited to Addgene are: pAdSh.PGK.Cas9...pAdSh.PGK.Cas9, pAdSh.U6.gRNAS1, and pAdSh.U6.gRNAGFP. Gonçalves says that advantages of AdVs include their...guide RNA constructs, pAdSh.U6.gRNAS1 and pAdSh.U6.gRNAGFP, and also Adeno Cas9 and Adeno EA. Or if you're...
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