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  1. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    June 2, 2015, 6:06 p.m.
    ...modified slightly with either a 1-7 base poly(U)tail in tRNA-gRNA constructs or a 1-4 base tail from the second...biological pathways;  to observe a phenotype, the modification of multiple genes is often necessary. Guide ...recognition and cleavage. This sequence flexibility indicates that gRNAs could be incorporated into these constructs...the 5’ end. PTG construct schematics. Scissors indicate cleavage sites. After confirming gRNA cleavage...) How many loci can Cas9 modify? To test the application of this system to gRNA multiplexing, Xie et al...deletion with 4-20% frequency at the four loci, indicating that Cas9 can be guided to at least 8 distinct...multiplexing further illustrates the potential of PTGs. Applications of PTGs The major advantage of the PTG system...
  2. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    June 1, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... and, if you do it right, can be (part of) figure 1 of your next paper or thesis. This series of posts...An explanation of the assay is depicted in figure 1. The strict correlation between the fluorescent protein...protein for your application. Selecting the best fluorescent protein for a specific application can seem like...under conditions that best mimic the intended application. The three key properties for live cell imaging...are converted into emitted photons. These are indicated by the extinction coefficient (EC) and quantum...experimental set up. The practical brightness takes all application specific parameters into account, including the... picture of what can be expected in a 'real' application than the theoretical brightness. Consequently...
  3. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    Sept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...schematic depiction below): 1. Resistant cells among the separate replicates would contain the same labels...development of combination therapies.         References 1. Hyo-eun, C. Bhang, et al. "Studying clonal dynamics...summarized in a recent Nature Medicine paper. In the publication, Bhang and coworkers used the ClonTracer library...propagated it, separated it into roughly identical replicate groups, and treated these groups with the same...subpopulation 2. Resistant cells among the separate replicates would have different labels - i.e. they would... Looking at barcode abundances among multiple replicate populations, they found that similar barcodes ...populations were shared by at least one other replicate; prior to treatment, there are small (previously...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors

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    July 6, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...Introduction to Biosensors. Essays Biochem. 2016 Jun 30;60(1):1-8. DOI: 10.1042/EBC20150001 Leopold, A. V., Shcherbakova...of the biosensors used in research are very sophisticated, but at their core they can all be boiled down...ready-to-use. While biosensors span the gamut of applications within chemistry, biology, and physics, in this...sensors can be targeted to different cellular locations or tissues depending on the biology you are studying...different factors, in different or the same cellular location, all at once! Small molecules What type of small...Neurotransmission and Neuromodulation: Engineering and Applications. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 2019 Oct...
  5. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency

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    June 15, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...protein of interest will be problem-free. In figure 1 we provide an example of the OSER assay with a number...can be shared by publishing it as (part of) figure 1, uploading it as a preprint, or documenting it in ...aggregates. This property can be tolerated in some applications (e.g. labeling of cells or tracking promotor...promotor activity), but it is problematic in applications in which the fluorescent protein is used as an inert...During the experiment, the solution is diluted, complicating the interpretation. Because of this, these methods...aware that the fluorescent proteins reported in publications are only characterized under a limited number...build a valuable resource with tools and data that indicate the performance of (a set of) fluorescent proteins...
  6. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...bioengineering, but it wasn’t clear whether they could 1) be decorated with proteins and remain functional,...Follow her on Twitter @jessicapolka.     References 1. Kanabrocki, J. A., Quackenbush, R. L. & Pond, F. ... modified to extend at different pH levels. Domesticating R bodies We have shown that all three of these...actuators that could be used in a variety of applications. For example, you could use them to lyse cells...matrices) in response to pH changes. Beyond these applications, purified R bodies could also perform as actuators...PubMed PMID: 26814170. Find Plasmids from This Publication at Addgene 4. Petroni, G., Spring, S., Schleifer...
  7. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    May 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Zebrafish) (Xiong, et al., 2021).    Fig. 1: Schematic showing the workflow for the BLITZ system...Biol. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-021-00836-1 Visual barcodes for live cell clonal multiplexing...of interest and, for in vivo work, generate a dedicated transgenic line. Using zebrafish as a model organism...off-target mutations. These plasmids contain catalytically inactive dCas9 and microbial SSAPs (dCas9-SSAP...clonal multiplexing of cells in live imaging application. Each visual barcode consists of a fluorescent...transcription response element (TRE) or kinase translocation reporters (KTRs). Find visual barcode plasmids...
  8. Suggest A Plasmid You'd Like to Find at Addgene

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    March 16, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
    ...to reach out to potential depositors in two ways: 1. Fill out our "Suggest a Plasmid" form Fill out the...suggestaplasmid, the name of the plasmid and a publication where we can find the plasmid. While we cannot...
  9. Plasmids 101: Inducible Promoters

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    Jan. 18, 2018, 2:34 p.m.
    ...Hsp70, the heat shock releases heat shock factor 1 (HSF-1), which subsequently binds to heat shock elements...prokaryotic promoter often used for bacterial protein purification. When arabinose is absent, regulatory protein...
  10. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    March 13, 2014, 4:08 p.m.
    ...new data). For general transfection, you could use 1 µl of 10 µM oligo stock for each well on 24-well plate...A10: The most we've tried to insert so far has been 1 kb. We used homology arms that were 800 bp long. Q11...able to cut). Clones without insertion will show a ~1 kb and ~7.5 kb fragment (both BbsI and AgeI will be...Mammalian Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 18(1), 93–101. https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.18.1.93  Ran...with the newest CRISPR technologies and their applications can be exhausting. A quick search for "CRISPR... the target site sequence (protospacer+PAM) is located? If there are other PAMs in the region, will they...puromycin selection. You could then confirm this purification by performing a genotyping assay (such as Sanger...
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