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  1. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    May 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...consisted of three plasmids: the packaging, envelope, and transfer plasmids. The packaging plasmid carried a mutated...and host genome integration. After co-transfection of these plasmids, 293T cells released transgene-containing... packaging and envelope plasmids are two of Addgene’s most requested plasmids! Lentiviral particles with...Many CRISPR plasmids are designed for lentiviral use, including Addgene’s top requested plasmid in 2015: ...itself due to a few missing proteins. The envelope plasmid contained a viral envelope to dictate the tropism...the vector could infect. Finally, the transfer plasmid encoded the desired transgene flanked by HIV-1 ...recombination between the transfer and packaging plasmids does exist. To further reduce this possibility...

  2. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    Nov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m.
    ...three plasmids — a transfer plasmid containing your gene of interest plus two packaging plasmids (three...baculovirus plasmid. Production of baculovirus requires only two plasmids — your transfer plasmid and the ...three packaging plasmids for 3rd generation lentivirus production). The packaging plasmids are widely available...to worry about cloning your transfer plasmid. The transfer plasmids have different packaging capacities...in mammalian cells is relatively quick. After transfection, HEK-293T cells start producing virus within...systems, it is standard to do only one passage (transfection). This differs from typical insect cell preparations...called a bacmid. Like AAV and lentiviral packaging plasmids, bacmids are readily available, so the amount ...

  3. Viral Production at Addgene

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    Oct. 24, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Pennsylvania Vector Core. Transfections are performed using the transfer plasmid, a plasmid encoding rep and serotype-specific...with primers targeting the transfer plasmid used in the transfection. PCR products are analyzed by gel .... coli. In addition, plasmids are typically prepared using endotoxin-free plasmid purification kits.   ... serotype-specific cap genes, and a plasmid encoding adenoviral helper sequences. AAV preparations are...contamination is minimized by using an endotoxin-free plasmid purification protocol. To minimize the immunogenic...offline and discarded. Confirmation of the transfer plasmid Addgene uses a rigorous barcode matching system...microbial contamination. Purity When possible, all plasmids used for viral production are propagated in the...

  4. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    Sept. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...approach often involves the transient transfection of expression plasmids in a given cell line. For flow cytometry...interference (RNAi). The most common method is transfection of short interfering RNA (siRNA). Knockdown ... (tagged or untagged) protein When expression plasmids are available, or the necessary expertise to clone...antibody should be able to detect even in cells transfected with low efficacy. But since there can be large...differences between endogenous expression and transfected overexpression, this approach cannot confirm ...

  5. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    Aug. 13, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...can be produced through a single or dual-plasmid transfection, depending on whether the heavy and light...contained to one plasmid or if they’ve been separated onto two. You’ll first transfect your cells with ... great collection of ready-to-use rAbs and rAb plasmids!). Since recombinant antibodies conveniently allow...with your plasmid(s), and then wait 7-14 days (in mammalian cells) to collect the cell culture supernatant...on the Addgene blog Introduction to Antibodies Plasmid-based Recombinant Antibodies Polyclonal Antibodies...

  6. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    June 28, 2016, 10:59 a.m.
    ... target plasmid and pX330-sgRNA plasmid (Mashiko et al. 2013). The pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid contains... (c) The pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid was co-transfected with pX330 plasmids containing sgRNA sequences ... simple matter of transfecting HEK293T cells with your modified pCAG-EGXXFP plasmid along with the individual...individual gRNAs in their PX330 plasmids (or similar plasmids for gRNA expression), one gRNA at a time.... system floating around, and many pre-designed plasmids containing these variants ready for purchase. ...multi-cloning site (MCS) between EGFP fragments. The pX330 plasmid contains humanized Cas9 expression cassette and... you can insert this region into a pCAG-EGXXFP plasmid using standard cloning techniques (The XX indicates...

  7. pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs

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    Dec. 14, 2017, 2:08 p.m.
    ...maintained DNA plasmids that express reprogramming factors To date, the mRNA transfection method has not...and to model diseases in vitro. Find stem cell plasmids at Addgene Many sources of adult somatic cells...generating hiPSCs for clinical purposes: mRNA transfection- this allows transient expression of the reprogramming...group is an optimized mixture of three episomal plasmids (Table 1) encoding the reprogramming factors. ...enhance the reprogramming efficiency, an extra plasmid, pCXWB-EBNA-1 is used in the reprogramming cocktail...increases protein expression from the other episomal plasmids. When used on PBMCs, the pCXLE episomal vector...available at Addgene. Table 1: List of pCXLE episomal plasmids, their Addgene ID numbers and the reprogramming...

  8. Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy

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    Aug. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...This is straightforward in easy-to-transfect cell lines where plasmid dosage can be tightly controlled....because it relies on a single BiFC pair. Find BiFC plasmids for your experiment at Addgene! How to Design ...BiFC constructs are expressed transiently by transfection or stably impacts the success of BiFC experiments...Resources on Addgene.org Find fluorescent protein plasmids and resources Visit our Molecular Biology Reference...

  9. Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference

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    June 17, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...comparison of an shRNA plasmid sequence and an miRNA plasmid sequence. (A) Plasmid sequence from pLVUHshp53... small RNA and can occur via transfection or viral delivery of a plasmid. RNAi is an umbrella term for....   Expressing shRNAs using plasmids The design of shRNA plasmids requires three important steps: ...between the red boxes. (B) Plasmid sequence from pcDNA3-miR21 (Addgene plasmid #21114). The miRNA sequence...via transient transfections and are handy for quick in vitro experiments. shRNA plasmids typically use...shRNA plasmids are being designed using RNA polymerase II promoters. The design of these plasmids is meant...with Cas13a (C2c2) Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go! Browse All Plasmids 101 Posts Additional...

  10. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    June 27, 2017, 1:03 p.m.
    ... create fusions with a gene of interest. These plasmids will be most useful for constructing intermolecular...ratio of acceptor to donor fusions varies with transfection efficiency and any unpaired fluorescent proteins...measure (overexpressing a gene or protein after transfection). Future of FRET The first genetically encoded...

  11. Our Most Popular Blog Posts from 2019

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    Dec. 31, 2019, 2:26 p.m.
    ...feature some recently deposited plasmids every quarter. The “hot plasmids” from last March were quite popular...behalf of scientists. 9. Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning by Jennifer Tsang...changes.   1. Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection by Alyssa...past year: CRISPR, optogenetics, chemogenetics, plasmids, fluorescent proteins, careers, and more. These...s the top 10 blog posts from the year. 10. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent... about mNeonGreen, mTFP1, and mWasabi and find plasmids containing these fluorescent proteins at Addgene... Read other Addgene news Find the most recent plasmid blog posts Find the most recent CRISPR blog posts...

  12. Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers

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    Jan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Addgene blog:  Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid? Plasmids 101: Origin of ReplicationPlasmids 101: PCR...process known as plasmid multimerization. Plasmid Multimerization Early studies on plasmid topology recorded...ligate the plasmid, and re-transform the ligated plasmid to recover the monomeric form of the plasmid. Have... monomer of Plasmid 12259: pMD2.G (depicted on the left) is ~5.8 kb in length. The plasmid can exist on... have been utilizing full plasmid sequencing services to verify the plasmids, including long-read sequencing... the sequencing results for their plasmids, they found the plasmids were much longer than expected, and...tandem. Such plasmids are known as multimers, and they are the result of multiple plasmid copies combining...

  13. Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries Enable Genome-Scale, Knockout Screening

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    Feb. 20, 2014, 4:57 p.m.
    ... smaller size of the plasmids. The Zhang lab, on the other hand, uses a 1 plasmid, single infection system... thousands of targets at once. That’s what our plasmids allow.” Wang’s library is designed to target a...target cells that have previously been stably transfected for Cas9 expression. The Yusa lab has used their...

  14. Understanding GPCR Signaling Using TRUPATH

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    Dec. 14, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ..., cells are transfected with plasmids expressing the GPCR of interest, a Gα-Rluc8 plasmid, and the appropriate...effects.  Bryan Roth’s lab created a collection of plasmids called TRUPATH to interrogate 14 of the 16 non-visual...TRUPATH be used for? The Roth lab used the TRUPATH plasmids in a number of different experimental approaches...drugs to further understand their mechanism. These plasmids are available as a collection, facilitating screening...Addgene.org Browse the catalog of fluorescent protein plasmids Find biosensors for your experiments ...

  15. Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?

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    June 9, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...for short. Addgene has already distributed this plasmid all over the world, and the question on everyone...identified NgAgo and showed that it can cleave plasmid and genomic DNA in a variety of mammalian cell ...homology-directed repair when a template is supplied. Find Plasmids from the NgAgo Publication at Addgene Cas9 and...in the cell. gDNA guides will also need to be transfected into the cells of interest. In contrast, RNA ...RNA guides must be expressed from a plasmid or in vitro transcribed, and changes in gRNA secondary structure.... Epub 2016 May 2. PubMed PMID: 27136078. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Swarts, Daan...24531762. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4697943. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 3. Swarts, ...

  16. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    April 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... a single harvest after transfecting with the transfer and packaging plasmids. A benefit of the multiple...the passage number of a culture the lower the transfection and transduction efficiencies. Cultures should...

  17. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    Sept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...subset of the new plasmids and viral preps 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... CRISPR plasmids are always being added to the repository. To find all of the CRISPR plasmids available... Xiao Wang Lab has recently deposited a set of plasmids that helps identify base edited cell populations...populations without end-point sequencing assays. These plasmids use “Cas9-mediated adenosine transient reporter...and enrichment use of XMAS-TREE. a) Cells are transfected with three different vectors and flow cytometry...available from Addgene, head over to our CRISPR Plasmids and Resources page. Here are some highlights from the...

  18. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferase

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    June 24, 2014, 3:59 p.m.
    ...cloned into a plasmid downstream of luciferase containing a stop codon, which is then transfected into the ...Read More: All Plasmids 101 Articles Browse plasmids that contain luciferase ...choose from) is now a common feature in reporter plasmids.  Learn How Luciferase Can Be Used In Concert ...hirtus) 630 64 Luciferin ATP No Common uses for plasmids expressing luciferase Luciferase reporter assay...assay The typical luciferase-containing plasmid is most often used to investigate the effect of regulatory... cloned upstream of the luciferase gene in the plasmid, which is then introduced into the desired mammalian.... Multiple response elements are cloned into a plasmid upstream of a minimal promoter linked to luciferase...

  19. Building and Validating Recombinant Antibodies: A Case Study

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    April 5, 2022, 1:20 p.m.
    ...important collection.  Creating the Plasmids To begin constructing the plasmids for expression of mAbs, the Trimmer... This method was chosen because cells transfected with a plasmid to express the target antigen could be...expression plasmids were DNA sequenced to determine the VH and VL sequence. These plasmids have been deposited...scientific community with the plasmid sequences available from each plasmid webpage. Importantly, the methods...Resources on the Addgene blog:  Plasmid-Based Recombinant Antibodies  Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox...NABOR are recombinant antibodies expressed from plasmids that have been deposited with Addgene. Here, we... first antibodies distributed by Addgene.  The plasmids used to generate these antibodies were based off...

  20. Some Like it Hot: Thermostable GeoCas9

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    Sept. 14, 2017, 12:40 p.m.
    ...Harrington et al tested GeoCas9’s editing skills by transfecting HEK293 cells with GeoCas9 or SpCas9 RNP’s and...you want to give GeoCas9 a try, as always, the plasmids are available from Addgene. Happy CRISPRing! ...Background with Addgene’s CRISPR Guide Page Find CRISPR plasmids at Addgene ...
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