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  1. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    April 2, 2020, 6:17 p.m.
    ...will undoubtedly be asked to design, modify, or construct a plasmid. A plasmid is a small circular piece...verification of plasmids.   How is a plasmid constructed in the lab? Due to their artificial nature, lab...plasmids are commonly referred to as “vectors” or “constructs.” To insert a gene of interest into a vector,...
  2. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    Sept. 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...cloning process, making it easier to produce the constructs you need. Expression vectors within this kit ...precisely tune your polycistronic E. coli expression constructs. Some applications of plasmids from this kit ...cell extracts (Gagoski et al 2015). He has also constructed a library of eGFP-tagged human ORF clones to ...through the N-terminal eGFP tag carried on all constructs. The Cell-Free Protein Expression Kit has been... FREQ-Seq. This strategy allows scientists to construct barcoded, locus-specific libraries compatible ...
  3. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...The researchers selected 8 of the tested ABE8 constructs (ABE8.8-m/d, ABE8.13-m/d, ABE8.17-m/d, ABE8.20... problem. Therefore, the authors created ABE8 constructs using a catalytically “dead” S. pyogenes Cas9...Cas9 (dC9-ABE8.x-m/d). The dC9-ABE8.x-m/d constructs demonstrated a 2.1x on-target DNA-editing efficiency...introduced into cells as a plasmid or as mRNA constructs. In primary human cells mRNA delivery of ABEs...
  4. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    Feb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...regions (5-25 bp) for repair, making it easier to construct targeting vectors. Addgene depositor Takashi Yamamoto...stop codon. Briefly, the PITCh vector should be constructed with 5’ and 3’ microhomology to the insertion...added to the GFP-Puro cassette via PCR, and this construct is inserted into the PITCh vector via In-Fusion...by Dalvai et al., who used HDR to insert cDNA constructs into this locus. One important question to ask...
  5. Scientific Peer-review: Providing Critical and Kind Feedback and Advocating for Open Science

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    Aug. 8, 2019, 1:19 p.m.
    ...from the literature. I think that delivering constructive critique can help your colleagues at the receiving.... After this first read, I am usually able to construct the beginning of my review - "The manuscript by...Figshare, Triad) while the wet-lab resources, like constructs or biological material, can be deposited in the...
  6. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    Jan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...colonies should contain the desired, recombined construct. Read our recent Plasmids 101 Post on CcdB for...might use Gateway cloning to generate our desired constructs: lentiviral expression of the human KRAS gene...use for your experiments and verify that your construct is functional. Advantages of the Gateway cloning...system enables the generation of the expression construct in only 1 day, as opposed to 2+ days with traditional...
  7. Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity

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    Oct. 11, 2018, 12:30 p.m.
    ... "eligible” for ligation into the destination construct. Reactions are often cycled between 37°C and 16... enhancing the ordered assembly of the target construct. Development of Golden Gate Assembly test systems... on the presence of every module, destination construct and functioning Type IIS restriction enzyme and...complex experimental conditions. The ability to construct more complex, multi-fragment assemblies, as shown...X-gal/IPTG agar plates, indicating successful reconstruction of the coding sequence for beta-galactosidase...
  8. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...generating a series of single- and double-tagged constructs (including "CLAP", combining an N-terminal CLIPf... expression and labeling approach using these constructs in HEK 293 cells (Smith et al., 2024). They then... license.  The team deposited an array of constructs for tagging the kinesins KIF5A and KIF5B as well...Kv2.1 targeting motif as well as a pan-membrane construct without the Kv motif. Altogether, if you want ...
  9. New Podcast Segment: Hot Plasmids

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    May 17, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
    ...Magneto 2.0 Hot Plasmid 3: The Human Kinase Domain Constructs Kit from John Chodera's Lab - Get high expression...Listen to Our Segment on The Human Kinase Domain Constructs Kit Hot Plasmid 4: The Yeast Prototrophy Kit ...
  10. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ...user-specified locus. Researchers showed that TALE-TET1 constructs, which fused a TALEN to the Tet1 demethylase ...modifiers available from Addgene. For most of these constructs, catalytically dead modifiers are also available...Gersbach’s lab has deposited mammalian expression constructs including pcDNA-dCas9-p300 Core and pcDNA3.3-...pCMV-dCas9-D3A) and Tet-dependent (TetO-dCas9-D3A) constructs. For lentiviral expression, Fuw-dCas9-Dnmt3a ... Let us know about your experience with these constructs in the comments! Find Plasmids for Epigenetic...
  11. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - May 2020

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    May 28, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...expanded our AAV collection to include two new ChR2 constructs that allow for targeted expression. Plasmid 75470...expression to areas in which the recombinase and construct are coexpressed. Three new recombinases from the... Cepko Lab are now available as AAV1. CRE-DOG constructs 69570 and 69571 together encode the N and C terminal...
  12. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    Aug. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...significant work on constructing Cas9 transcriptional activators. These constructs allow for the upregulation...fingers (ZF) and TAL effectors (TALE). Unlike these constructs, however, Cas9 allows you to easily change the...activators. However, these can be difficult to construct and deliver when compared to gRNAs. Additionaly...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    April 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...selectable marker. This vector can express your construct in target cells transiently or constitutively ...Some customization is required, but many viral constructs have already been built and are available on ... embryonic stem cells. Viral integration of a construct is also reliably higher than traditional transfection...
  14. Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice

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    July 11, 2019, 1:26 p.m.
    ...new gene construct incorporated randomly into the genome, knockin mice have the gene construct inserted...infection with a viral vector containing the gene construct can be used to insert the gene of interest into...
  15. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    Sept. 28, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...microtubule severing. A) Schematic of Opto-katanin constructs and activity. EB3N-VVDfast-iLID (anchor) and ...is optogenetically recruited by different CIB constructs to the plasma membrane or lysosomes (the earlier...earlier article also provided CIB constructs for targeting Golgi, ER, and endosome membranes) (Figure 4)...100x variants. But those super-high efficiency constructs are great for in vitro biocatalytic applications...
  16. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    March 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...makes it easy to generate wild type and mutant constructs at the same time, rather than sequentially.   ...time it takes to get primers, you can have your construct made in 5 days. One drawback to the Gibson assembly...repair the nicks in vitro, whereas in SLIC these constructs are repaired in vivo, which ends up being much...PMC3684516. 5. Casini, Arturo, et al. "One-pot DNA construction for synthetic biology: the Modular Overlap-Directed...
  17. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    Aug. 21, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...and efficient way to generate a wide variety of constructs. Similar, Gateway cloning (discussed below) can...enzymes. In Golden Gate cloning, the desired end construct does not contain the type IIS recognition sites...cloning (and be sure to deposit your finished constructs at Addgene!). References 1. Li, Chaokun, et...
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