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  1. CRISPR Protocol for Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines [Video]

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    Feb. 18, 2015, 3:09 p.m.
    ...harness non-homologous end joining repair (NHEJ) [1]. Our initial work was with TALENs, in collaboration...from the University of Pennsylvania.     References: 1. Lee HJ, Kim E, Kim JS. Targeted chromosomal deletions...using zinc finger nucleases. Genome Res. 2010 Jan;20(1):81-89. PubMed. 2. Bauer DE, Kamran SC, Lessard S,...these may require restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis, allele-specific PCR, T7EN1 cleavage...
  2. Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Oct. 14, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...guide for a refresher on CRISPR/Cas9.  Figure 1: Cpf1 is a single RNA-guided endonuclease of a class... than the multi-subunit complex employed by class 1 systems. A putative new class 2 nuclease, Cpf1 (CRISPR...that Cpf1 can tolerate mismatches at gRNA positions 1, 8, 9, and 19-23. Accordingly, the 3’ end of the gRNA...Most gRNAs directed low-frequency Cpf1 cleavage at 1-12 off-target sites; in contrast, SpCas9 may cleave...the diversity of CRISPR-based systems. References 1. Zetsche, Bernd, et al. "Cpf1 is a single RNA-guided... off-target editing rates, determined using sophisticated genome-wide analysis. At many of its computationally...
  3. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    June 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...follow her on Twitter @nieminm.   References 1. Cohen, Philip. "The origins of protein phosphorylation."...cellular proteins are modified through phosphorylation (1). However, the expansion of studies on protein phosphorylation...three components required for translation (Figure 1): A tRNA that recognizes a specific ‘open’ codon ... open reading frame (ORF) of interest (Figure 2). 1. The phosphoserine OTS The backbone of the phosphoserine...modification allowed the deletion of release factor 1, the protein responsible for terminating translation...Rinehart lab: pCRT7 NT TOPO E17TAG GFP and pGEX-6P-1. The pCRT7 NT TOPO vector contains a mutant pSer-containing...
  4. Addgene-Seeding Labs Plasmid Grant: Accelerating Science Globally - 5 Scientists, 4 Countries & 3 Continents!

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    July 18, 2017, 12:41 p.m.
    ... compounds with various antimicrobial activities (1). She has developed a fast endophyte screening system...us coordinate and promote the awards. References 1. Martinez-Klimova, Elena et al. “Endophytes as sources...antibiotic” Biochemical Pharmacology 2017 Jun 15;134:1-17. PubMed PMID: 27984002. 2. Bilan, Dmitry S. et ...working in a wide range of research fields and geographical locations. We are excited to see how all of ...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    Jan. 30, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...depths (1 mm), important for certain applications such as in vivo tissue imaging.   Figure 1: Ace-mScarlet...sources – voltage-gated potassium channels found in Drosophila to phosphatases from sea squirts. This design... detector in this system was dipicrylamine, a lipophilic compound that distributes itself within the plasma...sensing) hydrolyzes a precursor dye to make it more lipophilic, increasing its affinity for the membrane, where... fluorescent component (i.e., when the dye is lipophilic and integrates into the membrane), the voltage...
  6. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    May 24, 2018, 1:20 p.m.
    ... hybridization experiments. A recent publication [1] from the Sánchez lab describes the plasmids and protocols...deposit) are described in the Sánchez lab publication [1] so that the students performing these experiments...can easily investigate in planarians. References 1. Alice Accorsi, Monique M. Williams, Eric J. Ross,...Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100.suppl 1 (2003): 11861-11865. PubMed PMID: 12917490. PubMed...pp. 806-811. PubMed PMID: 9486653. 3. Newmark, Phillip A., et al. "Ingestion of bacterially expressed ...
  7. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    June 27, 2017, 1:03 p.m.
    ...acceptor fluorophore. The typical steps in FRET are: 1. Donor fluorophore excitation by absorption of a photon... overlap, the fluorophores must be located within 1-10nm of each other and be oriented appropriately for... from various papers to make the decision easier. 1. Müller, Sara M., et al. "Quantification of Förster...diseases and even assist in drug discovery. References 1. Baird, Geoffrey S., et al. "Circular permutation ...have enhanced the ability of labs to answer sophisticated questions about cellular processes. Currently...
  8. Nanoblades: Tiny CRISPR Ninjas for Genome Editing Difficult Cells

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    Sept. 26, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
    ...following four components into 293T cells. Figure 1: The key components of Nanoblades. Image from Mangeot...protein. A single Nanoblade particle can be loaded with 1-4 different gRNAs. Viral envelope proteins To alter... between ~50-70% for these four cell types (Table 1). Additionally, hiPSCs and mouse BM cells still behaved...hepatocytes  Myd88  ~50% Human HSCs  Myd88  ~50% Table 1: Nanoblades editing efficiencies of primary cells....accessible genome editing tool.   References Mangeot, Philippe E., et al. "Genome editing in primary cells and...
  9. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    Dec. 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... the example shown in Figure 1, large sequences corresponding to exons 1 and 3 of the targeted gene have...knock out exon 2 of a given gene.   Figure 1: A knockout targeting vector designed to insert a ... the Neomycin resistance (NeoR) gene between exon 1 and 3 of the targeted gene. Upon recombination, the...can be used to replace genes in yeast, mice, or Drosophila through homologous recombination. The concept...
  10. Celebrating One Million Plasmids Shared!

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    Sept. 25, 2018, 2:39 p.m.
    ... @Addgene congrats for 1 million orders. @RothLabUNC accounts for 10,000 or 1%! — BryanRoth (@zenbrainest... scientific sharing community (check out the infographic below for stats on our plasmid deposits and requests...
  11. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    July 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...on-target and off-target editing efficiency Figure 1: Effects of (A) double and (B) single base pair gRNA-target...that Cpf1 can tolerate mismatches at gRNA positions 1, 8, 9, and 19-23. Accordingly, the 3’ end of the gRNA...Most gRNAs directed low-frequency Cpf1 cleavage at 1-12 off-target sites; in contrast, SpCas9 may cleave...fits into the genome editing landscape. References 1. Kim D, Kim J, Hur JK, Been KW, Yoon SH, Kim JS. Genome-wide... off-target editing rates, determined using sophisticated genome-wide analysis. At many of its computationally...
  12. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    Feb. 4, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...attract fish for them to prey upon (Figure 1). Figure 1: The sea anemone's red color can be used ...synthetic biology. Journal of Biological Engineering, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13036-018-0100-0 Murakoshi...expression in living cells. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48604-4 Salih...surface of the chromoprotein Ultramarine with hydrophilic amino acids to reduce non-specific interactions...
  13. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    Sept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...oxygen. Additionally, its status as a Biosafety Level 1 microbe makes it a perfect candidate for introductory...Transport, biofilms, and much more. Because of it’s BSL-1 status, E. coli can be used as a model to relate these...with superior performance. Nature Communications, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04899-x Yokoyama..., or frogs, are one of the most popular model amphibians in science with early research providing insight... Jiang, J. P. (2016). Research proceedings on amphibian model organisms. Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological...
  14. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins

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    April 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...discovered such as Kaede and PS-CFP2 (see Table 1). Table 1: Properties of Selected Irreversible Photoactivatable...) by mutating Threonine 203 to Histidine (T203H) (1). wtGFP normally contains a mixed population of neutral...in fluorescence when illuminated with blue light (1). Similar to PA-GFP, scientists later developed red...fixation conditions to preserve cellular structures (0.5-1% osmium tetroxide). These conditions destroy most ...with extraordinary molecular detail.   References 1.Patterson, George H., and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz...is believing." Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 10 (2008): 1-38. PubMed PMID:18647110. Additional Resources on ...reversible photoactivation - and have enabled sophisticated imaging techniques.     Irreversible photoactivation...
  15. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    May 21, 2019, 12:10 p.m.
    ...central ɑ-helix that can be split into 3 parts: (1) β-strands 1-9 (β1-9) and the one ɑ-helix, (2) β-strand ...apoptosis in HeLa cells, zebrafish embryos, and Drosophila. They treated HeLa cells expressing FlipGFP with...visualize apoptosis of enterocytes in the midgut of Drosophila, an observation that has been difficult until...
  16. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
    ...Transposons: The jumping genes. Nature Education 1(1):204. https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/transposons-the-jumping-genes... They transpose by a ‘copy-paste’ mechanism (Fig. 1). They first copy themselves as RNA transcripts and...their host’s genome.   There are two types of Class 1 TEs: those with long terminal repeats (LTRs) and those...reverse transcriptase activities.    Figure 1: Overview of retrotransposon transposition. Retrotransposons...CRISPR-Cas system. This system has four major components: 1) a CRISPR RNA (crRNA), 2) four proteins (TniQ, Cas8...lentivirus). Large cargos, such as the ~11 kB cDNA for dystrophin, the gene mutated in muscular dystrophy, require...
  17. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...new combinations of PE protein components (Figure 1), an altered epegRNA delivered with an enhanced pU6cm...amplification of cargo, and heat treatment.  Figure 1: Left: recombined prime editing tools PE2max-NC and...conformational dynamics of the motor protein kinesin-1, the Twelvetrees Lab took advantage of the self-labeling..., Craggs, T.D., & Twelvetrees A.E. (2024) Kinesin-1 is highly flexible and adopts an open conformation...Park, J. C., Zhao, J., Luebbers, A., Green, E., Philibert, C. E., Zhang, H., Layne, M. D., Wu, J. C., & ...
  18. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    July 2, 2019, 12:51 p.m.
    ...by mating with Cre-expressing mice. Figure 1: (A) Schematic of the Cre-dependent SPH construct ... alpha (aCaMKII; excitatory neurons) and Synapsin-1 (pan-neuronal) promoters (Figure 1b), and sgRNAs can...ubiquitous expression of sgRNA(s) and mCherry (vector 1) with neuron-specific expression of dCas9-VPR (Figure...Neuron-specific expression is mediated by the synapsin 1 (SYN) promoter, which was superior in its ability ...immediate-early gene Bdnf, which encodes brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Bdnf is expressed early in response...
  19. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    Jan. 17, 2019, 1:38 p.m.
    ...true reproducibility. The following are critical: (1) connectivity to other data sources used in research...engagement with the Wisconsin research community were to: (1) prevent vendor lock in by making it easy to get data...other large research institutions. The following graphic depicts the ways in which the two guiding principles...it difficult or impossible to reproduce. As the graphic depicts, RSpace supports linking to all of the ... other tools and resources. As depicted in the graphic, RSpace is integrated with most of the tools noted...
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