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  1. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    May 21, 2019, 12:10 p.m.
    ...contains 11 β-strands and one central ɑ-helix that can be split into 3 parts: (1) β-strands 1-9 (β1-9) and...and the one ɑ-helix, (2) β-strand 10 (β10), and (3) β-strand 11 (β11). Each part contains components and...developed, such as the Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based executioner caspase reporters. In...need a protease reporter that has a large dynamic range and high brightness. The Shu Lab from UCSF designed...However, the lab wanted to increase the fluorescence range to better study the spatio-temporal dynamics of ...GFP (GFP1-9 and GFP10-11) by flipping a single β-strand of GFP, hence the name FlipGFP. FlipGFP increases...from β1-9 they will rapidly recombine with β1-9 strands nearby resulting in fluorescence within tens of...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    April 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...several advantages over traditional vaccines, including 1) cellular responses in addition to antibody response...and immunogenicity of attenuated, nef-deleted HIV-1 strains in vivo. Retrovirology. 2007 Sep 23;4:66. ...attractive due to the ease of transduction in difficult-to-transfect cell types ranging from primary to embryonic... traditional transfection and random genomic integration of a plasmid. Viral transduction is also generally...integrated into the genome of the target cell or transiently expressed. It’s important to note that for all...vector can express your construct in target cells transiently or constitutively depending on the virus used...generally less toxic to cells than transfections, preserving cell viability. Library delivery Screening...
  3. 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... engineered to detect a wide array of neurotransmitters ranging from dopamine to glutamate, all the way... or animal system. This ‘thing’ could be a neurotransmitter, such as norepinephrine, or an electrolyte...last component of the biosensor is the signal transducer which will quantitatively give a readout for ...bio-recognition event is (fluorescence, pH, etc.). The transducer will generate a numerical value which represents...activated GFP expression (receptor), then the transducer could be a microscope, plate reader, or any other...—keep reading to find out how!   Neurotransmitters Many canonical fluorescent as well as FRET-based...
  4. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    May 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... et al., 2021).    Fig. 1: Schematic showing the workflow for the BLITZ system. Image from Xiong...Biol. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-021-00836-1 Visual barcodes for live cell clonal multiplexing...use of pre-existing transgenic lines, termed BLITZ (Biotin Labeling In Transgenic Zebrafish) (Xiong, et...“single-use” transgenic lines. Instead, researchers can generate and maintain transgenic lines that can...protein by a specific transcription response element (TRE) or kinase translocation reporters (KTRs). Find...interest and, for in vivo work, generate a dedicated transgenic line. Using zebrafish as a model organism, the...protein can then be co-expressed in essentially any transgenic zebrafish line expressing a GFP-tagged version...
  5. Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab

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    Feb. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... to focus, which was extremely effective. Others ran experiments at odd hours, used more secluded workspaces...consistently and accurately run a protocol.   Figure 1: Evolution of a Western blot protocol, from a full...
  6. OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging

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    Aug. 19, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Figure 1: Excitation (dotted) and emission (solid) spectra for various teal, green, yellow, orange, and ...spanning nearly the entire visible spectrum (Figure 1). The GCaMP series (e.g., jGCaMP8) remains the gold...fluorophores. The spectra for mOrange2 (scaffold of OCaMP) are shaded in orange. Data from FPbase.org. ...complement these tools, we recently developed a new orange calcium indicator, OCaMP (Aggarwal et al., 2025...2025), based on the fluorescent protein mOrange2 (Figure 2). Figure 2: OCaMP structure and mechanism...CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Why orange? OCaMP’s emission peak at 565 nm fits neatly between...for two-photon imaging with newer lasers in the range of 1000–1080 nm. These industrial fiber lasers are...
  7. 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...brightness When a dish of mammalian cells is transiently transfected with a plasmid containing a fluorescent...fluorescent proteins, e.g. see Chudakov et al (2010), Cranfill et al (2016) or Thorn (2017). However, the theoretical...developed in our lab uses a reference protein that is translated from the same open-reading frame and separated...reference protein) under identical conditions, a ranking of the practical brightness can be made (Goedhart...repeating this with another fluorescent protein, a ranking of practical brightness can be made. This strategy...
  8. 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...tRNAs contain internal transcriptional elements that enhance pol III transcription, potentially increasing...base Csy4 recognition sites from a polycistronic transcript. Although this method shortens construct size...coexpression of Csy4 with Cas9 and the polycistronic transcript. As nucleases may have off-target effects and...matching traditional gRNA-expressing constructs, transcript levels of PTG1 and PTG2 were 3 and 31 times higher... of polycistronic gene organization, and its translation to CRISPR/Cas9 shows great potential for multiplexed...
  9. Troubleshooting Your Plasmid Cloning Experiment

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    Sept. 24, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...are working with is correct. It's also best to use 1-2 ug of the vector for digestion. PCR Design primers...plasmid; a starting point could be a molar ratio of 1:2 (plasmid:insert), but this parameter has to be optimized...the specific reaction you are running. Transformation Transform a few microliters of your ligation reaction...The PCR could fail to produce a product, the transformation may not result in any cells, or all the colonies...fragments If you don’t get any positive clone, try transforming the ligation mix in different bacterial strains...
  10. Deep Dive: Statistical Tests (Comparisons)

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    March 7, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...method entails arranging all calculated p values from smallest to largest and ranking them (1 being the smallest...error, variance, data ranges. how closely data points fall to each other (see Fig. 1). Alpha values –...statistical test assumes your data follows. Fig. 1: Examples of comparable groups with and without equal...significance by finding the largest p value where its rank divided by the total number of comparisons performed...– Tukey’s test, Newman-Keuls, Duncan’s multiple range test, and several others. Each test has different...negatives, moderate false positives. Duncan’s multiple range test – Most powerful. Low false negatives, high ...): 126-130 (2012). 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3182498ad5 Curran-Everett, Douglas. Explorations in statistics: statistical...
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