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...have higher specificity, lower cross-reactivity, and are more consistent lot-to-lot. The highest reproducibility... Tris-tricine 150 V, 1–3 hours Good for higher weight proteins Long running time   It’s important...during long-term storage and has both high binding capacity and high protein retention. It comes in a variety...usually preferred because of their higher specific activity, slightly lower cost, and smaller size. However...block with? It can be so overwhelming that you might just stick with the protocol your labmate handed...can help amplify a weak signal. However, they have high cross-reactivity, vary significantly from lot-to-lot... your assay. The most common options are 4 °C overnight or 1–2 hours at room temperature (RT). Most people...

...produce the same amount of light from an Fluc or RLuc reaction. In fact, NLuc is bright enough to detect endogenous...require external light sources. Unfortunately, detecting traditional luciferases’ dim light emissions requires...reporters produced bright signals without exogenous excitation and with OgNLuc being the brightest since it had...mutations and 2 deletions. CyOFP1 has a higher quantum yield, brightness and improved maturation time compared...Nano-Lanterns. RLuc8 is 5.5-fold brighter than RLuc but NLuc is 30-fold brighter than RLuc8 (6). Susuki, K, ... characteristics: No photoexcitation High Ion specificity High sensitivity Easy expression Gives ratiometric...coelenterzine substrate to the more stable yet brighter furimazine by Promega’s Chemistry group is a good...

...ambient light, and versatile as it can be activated by both low and high-intensity blue light. Unlike ...experiments that require high photostability, such as time-lapse imaging or with high light power detection of...Single-cell Phenotypic Observation and Tagging with Light (SPOTlight) as a way to isolate individual cells with...Every few months we highlight a subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through ...here.  Here's what you'll find in this post: Blue-light inducible Cre for use in bacteria CRISPR-Casɸ mGold...New items from the viral service A fast blue-light inducible Cre for precise control of bacterial gene... the use of optogenetics. Optogenetic tools use light to induce conformational changes in a protein.    ...

... FPs, which combine high cellular brightness and monomeric state, are highlighted in blue. aExtinction...consider effective brightness of NIR FPs in cells, in addition to their molecular brightness (a product of ...imaging NIR FPs, consider using light sources that produce enough light intensities in NIR. Usually, mercury...with blue-light controlled optogenetics, such as channelrhodopsins and tools based on light-oxygen-voltage...phytochrome (BphPs) photoreceptors have higher apparent cellular brightness than previously reported widely used...Molecular brightness vs. iRFP713, % Oligomeric state Photo-stabilityc, t1/2, s pKa Brightness in HeLa ...Baloban, M. et al. Designing brighter near-infrared fluorescent proteins: insights from structural and biochemical...

...Signal strength Lower Higher Sensitivity Higher Lower Background Lower Higher Photobleaching/phototoxicity...Luminescence Fluorescence Source of light Chemical reaction High-energy photons Kinetics of photon ...to be extra bright. Other luciferases have been modified to change the wavelength of light they emit or...bioluminescence is the firefly. Along with charming nighttime displays, these insects have contributed an important...reaction in its abdomen to produce yellow-green light (Figure 2). Despite the title of this post, this...includes all bioluminescence, is the production of light by a chemical reaction. In contrast, fluorescence...fluorescence occurs when a molecule is excited by a high-energy photon and re-emits a lower-energy photon; no chemical...

... (24-30°C). Brightness: Brightness is a measure of how bright is the emission. Brightness is calculated...is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light. The emitted light is at a longer wavelength...proteins are excited by UV light or blue light and their emission is green or red light. For example, T-Sapphire...lose the ability to emit light) after prolonged exposure to excitation light. Photostability can be as... & pHTomato (pH sensors), HyPer (H2O2 sensor), ArcLight (voltage sensor), and iGluSnFr (glutamate sensor...If you do not have a filter that will pass blue light to the detector/camera, then BFPs are of no use ...using more than one FP, make sure their emission light does not overlap in wavelength. In many microscopes...

...VVDfast homodimerizes under blue light iLID-SspB heterodimerizes under blue light BcLOV4 undergoes a conformational...membrane under blue light CRY2-CIB1 heterodimerizes or forms clusters under blue light Check out our Optogenetics...flip of a switch. You may be familiar with popular light-sensitive ion channels used to control activities...implant or a worm wiggling back and forth under blue light — but there’s a lot more to optogenetics than neuronal...into many other types of proteins. Here, we’ll highlight a few recently-deposited optogenetic tools to ...now, onto our optogenetic tools!  Opto-katanin: a light-powered microtubule-cutting sword Microtubules are...katanin) are recruited to microtubules under blue light, removing tubulin dimers from the microtubule body...

... need a higher antibody concentration to detect low levels of proteins. In this case, it might be faster...guide to good technique High background Antibody concentration too high Run a reagent gradient with...No signal variation in highly expressed proteins Antibody dilutions too high Run a protein gradient...Western blots can be tricky to get right. If you’ve thoughtfully done the technical design of your blot...still finding yourself having issues, you’re in the right place! In this post, we’ll talk about western blot...Figure 2: Reagent gradient. Here, the lanes are lightly marked on the membrane (1) using the gel as a guide...imaged. In this example, a 1:1,000 dilution gives a high signal with low background. Created with biorender.com...

...use a high fidelity ligase? Numerous applications have been developed to take advantage of the high fidelity...(i.e., are "higher fidelity") better than T4 DNA Ligase (21, 25, 26). Despite this higher fidelity, Taq...have a slightly lower Tm around the mismatch) over annealed fully base-paired substrates. Thus, high fidelity...for the high-throughput profiling of ligase fidelity that extends earlier studies through a high-sensitivity...researcher at New England Biolabs. When do you need a high fidelity ligase—and when is an alternative ligase...ligase from a thermostable bacterium that can survive high temperatures (up to 95 °C) and is active over a ...elevated temperatures (37–75 °C). T4 DNA ligase is highly active in nick ligation and DNA end-joining, but...

...REC lobe, light blue; bridge helix, purple; sgRNA, dark blue.   The REC lobe binds tightly to the repeat...yellow; REC lobe, light blue; bridge helix, purple; sgRNA, dark blue; target DNA strand, light gray; non-target... to produce SuperFi-Cas9, a high-fidelity variant that still retains high cleavage efficiency (Bravo et...microscopy structure (right, PDB ID 7S4X), viewed from the same angle to highlight conformational differences...yellow; REC lobe, light blue; bridge helix, purple; sgRNA, dark blue; target DNA strand, light gray; non-target... HNH, red; RuvC, orange; CTD, yellow; REC lobe, light blue; bridge helix, purple.   Apo Cas9 changes... ID 4ZT0), shown opaque (left) and transparent (right). The RNA guide sequence is extended as a single...

...away with slightly lower quality preps, while other applications require large amounts of high quality ...restriction digests. Transfection Grade DNA (high quality/high quantity) – Depending on the experiment, mammalian...viability. Avoid Low Quality/High Quantity – We recommend avoiding a High Quantity/Low Quality mindset... to use?  Obtaining higher quantities of DNA generally means starting with higher volumes of bacterial...to help you choose the plasmid prep kit that is right for you. What type of plasmid prep do you need? ...“low” is a relative term — even armed with the highest-competency cells you will still struggle to get...using is completely degraded. Cloning Grade DNA (high quality/low quantity) – You can usually complete...

...the bench overnight. Do not panic! Typically, antibodies are okay if they’re left out overnight, so mark...move forward:  Was a light-sensitive conjugate on the antibody left exposed to light?  Has this antibody...  First, fluorophores vary in brightness. You don’t want a super-bright fluorophore, like PE, on an abundant...Research the brightness of your fluorophores before buying and try to inversely pair brightness with abundance...storage, buffer considerations, and give just the lightest of nods towards conjugates.  Storage   Once you... compared to other data in a manner that demands high accuracy and consistency?  If the answer to any...chemiluminescent conjugate that can be activated to emit light with a simple kit, and is readily available on any...

...out that with light-inducible photosensitizers and a quick zap of the proper color light, you can do just...2I-dL5**).   A FAP-TAP complex will light up if excited with light of specific wavelength and also produce...Publication Here Light-induced cell ablation with MG-2I-dL5** He et al tested out light-induced cell ablation...   Excitation with NIR light also produces less non-specific ROS because NIR light doesn’t excite natural...damage to neighboring cells. TL;DR MG-2I-dL5** is a NIR photosensitizer that allows for precise light-based...photosensitizer is a dye or protein that absorbs light to produce reactive oxygen species (ROS). The ROS...proteins or cells while having little effect on neighboring cells. The photosensitizer used in this work ...

.... Comparison to other high throughput cloning strategies There are several high-throughput cloning strategies...These enzymes might not, however, be appropriate for cloning genes from organisms with high CpG dinucleotide...High-throughput cloning, in a nutshell, is the systematic combination of different genetic sequences ...sequences into plasmid DNA. In high throughput cloning techniques, although the specific sequences of the genetic...biological fields. In synthetic biology for example, high-throughput cloning can be used to combine the functions...fluorescent reporters is a useful application of high-throughput cloning. MXS Chaining is one such technique...construct was flanked with a CMV promoter (to drive high-level expression) and a polyA signal (to terminate...

...positive population is no higher than 105 signal intensity. Signals any higher than this may not be clearly...to the right while decreasing the voltage will shift it to the left. If your signal is too high, lower...absence, the plots can look quite different. You might have high expression, low expression, and everything ...should be base expression — a peak to the right indicates a higher signal, or upregulation, and a peak to...average brightness from all cells that are positive for the marker of interest. MFI would be higher for a...GFP+ population cluster would be shifted to the right in comparison, say somewhere between a 104–105 signal...you can draw a gate which selects anything to the right of it, marking it as GFP+. Quantification for such...

...sequential administration (Chen et al., 2023). High viral titer High vector genome (vg) doses are recommended...systemic capsids are easy to produce in high titer, but higher doses (>1 x 1012 vg total in mice) may ...how systemic capsids are engineered, as well as highlight some considerations for their use. Then, we’ll... transduction efficiency in the brain along with high off-target expression, particularly in the liver...systemic capsid in question (or both). Therefore, a high-efficiency systemic capsid has better efficacy than... systemic capsids are… well, systemic, there’s a high likelihood of off-target expression, since they ...emerging capsids. Selected capsids are further highlighted below the table.     Figure 2: This ...

... for something to brighten our day, whether it’s memories of summer or just a bright new plasmid. One ...identified from a high-throughput screen, selected for increased voltage response, brightness, and photostability...sensor dLight1.2 and voltage sensor Ace2N and additional GCaMP6 constructs: pAAV-CAG-dLight1.2 (AAV1)...One area with lots of bright new plasmids is our Fluorescent Biosensors Collection — scientists are always...iGluSnFR3 (Aggarwal et al. 2022). This new version has higher signal to noise ratio and is better localized for...variants optimized for different applications (v82 has higher affinity for glutamate but slower kinetics; v857... post. Figure 2: iGluSnFR3 displays enhanced brightness, expression, and sensitivity compared with earlier...

...unprecedentedly-high brightness, bfloGFPa1, and the other with extremely-dim brightness, bfloGFPc1. The...Koike-Yusa et al., Nat Biotech. 2013. Dec 23.   Highly bright and extremely dim GFPs The availability of the...to low-intensity blue light. This approach relies on the incorporation of light-oxygen-voltage (LOV) sensing...made available through Addgene and we want to highlight it for use in your research. Martínez-García... the three dimensional structure of GFP, its brighter mutant S65T-GFP, and the subsequent biochemical ...variety of GFPs with diversity in fluorescence brightness, intensity, excitation and emission spectra. ... MitoTimer reporter using a Tet-on system (pTRE-Tight-MitoTimer) to show its usefulness in cell culture...

...measured. Archon1 is  bright, exhibits good localization, has high signal:noise ratio, high sensitivity, responds...blue light (445nm). The discovery and applications of protein partners that bind to only the light- or ...Every few months we highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids...colleagues turned to optogenetics. Through the use of light-sensitive protein domains, they have developed a...system to control CRISPR-Cas9 activity using blue light (Bubeck et al., 2018). They accomplished this by...inhibits CRISPR activity.   With the addition of blue light, the terminal helices of the LOV2 domain unfold,... variant of AcrIIA4.” CASANOVA responds to blue light quickly. Within minutes of inactivating the CASANOVA...

...relies on ultrasound waves as opposed to light to produce higher resolution images in vivo. “One of the ... result, ultrasound enables higher resolution images at depths up to eight millimeters – not single cells...New York recognized their limitations for peering right through living animals to see their organs – a liver...iRFP713 and iRFP720, is that they absorb and emit light in the near-infrared portion of the electromagnetic... melanin pigments, which absorb the majority of light below 650 nanometers (nm), and the absorbance of...toolbox In the last year, Verkhusha added two far-red light photoactivatable (PA) near-infrared fluorescent ...their fluorescence upon illumination with far-red light. As the researchers described in Nature Communications...