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  1. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...MitoTimer proteins are derived from the Timer protein - a mutant of the fluorescent protein dsRed that...three possible fluorescent proteins, chosen for minimal spectral overlap, minimal protein aggregation, ...groups to monitor protein and cell ageing, as the spectrum shift occurs during Timer protein life due to a... synthesized (green) protein and organelles with older (yellow to orange) protein. Image courtesy of Roberta...1852-61. A quicker method for protein inactivation Your protein of interest does x, but it also participates...your endogenous protein of interest and co-expressing its replacement recombinant protein with a FKBP domain...outer membrane protein with a FRB domain (MitoTRAP). Rapamycin binds your recombinant protein (via FKBP) ...
  2. Antibodies 101: Epitope Tags

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    May 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...C terminus of a protein may disrupt the biological function of some proteins. Protein folding issues, ...of detection of a mutant protein vs. endogenous WT levels of the same protein when both are expressed ...to a protein’s termini to increase detection. The tag can also be removed by treating the protein with...validate tagged protein functionality (Arribere, et al). In rare cases, tags can also affect protein localization...of tag protein fusions: from molecular and biochemical fundamentals to commercial systems. Appl Microbiol...antibody that works for your application, specifically detects your protein, is species compatible, and...other proteins, quality antibodies do not exist, or they don’t exist for a specific application, or they...
  3. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    June 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...intensity of a tagged protein. SunTag has two components: 1) a protein of interest that’s tagged with 10-24 copies...contains an HA-binding scFv that’s fused to a fluorescent protein such as GFP. The HA frankenbody works just...which uses an scFv to amplify the fluorescence intensity of a tagged protein. Resources on Addgene.org: ...often genetically fused to other proteins, which has led to their application for basic and translational ... research applications of scFvs: The SunTag system uses an scFv to amplify the fluorescence intensity... are often the building blocks for engineering proteins. So let’s get acquainted with scFvs. What is an...antibody.  The ability to combine scFvs with other protein domains, much like lego pieces, makes them better...
  4. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ...colleagues identified a highly bright and stable fluorescent protein, StayGold. Although it quickly saw wide interest... E., et al. (2023). A monomeric StayGold fluorescent protein. Nature Biotechnology, 1–4. https://doi.org... al. (2023). Bright and stable monomeric fluorescent proteins derived from StayGold. ResearchSquare (Preprint...recombinant protein, the FLAG tag has proven itself a good option for essentially all applications. Addgene...Lab addressed this problem by optimizing the Cas protein delivery with Peptide-Assisted Genome Editing (...dimerization while maintaining the bright and stable fluorescence of the original (Ivorra-Molla et al., 2023)....mature marmosets. CAP-Mac also robustly expressed fluorescent reporters in green monkeys and cultured human...
  5. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
    ...chimeric protein consisting of Cas9 and a photo-dissociable dimeric green fluorescent protein (pdDronpa...CRY2) and calcium and integrin-binding protein 1 (CIB1) proteins. The goal of both groups was to create...composed of two fusion proteins: 1) the genomic anchor - an inactive, dead Cas9 protein (dCas9) fused to CIB1...form a functional protein due to being fused with high-affinity interacting proteins Coh2 and DocS, respectively... saCas9 protein. Stop light! Photoactive anti-CRISPRs halt Cas9 activity Anti-CRISPR proteins are a highly... architecture (Hoffman et al., 2020). Fluorescent dCas9 proteins can be used to identify specific genomic...telomere-targeting gRNA and a dCas9 fusion protein with three red fluorescent tags in U2OS cells. Upon light activation...
  6. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    July 2, 2019, 12:51 p.m.
    ...plasmids/viruses are needed to deliver all the protein and RNA components, and several sgRNAs must be ... start sites, all of which yield the same BDNF protein. To demonstrate the specificity that can be achieved...The pooled nature of this experiment requires fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) to isolate differentiated...inserted human CD8, a gene that encodes a surface protein for which there are good flow cytometric antibodies...recent advancements and offer commentary on their application to neuroscience research. What is CRISPR-based...accessible to neuroscientists, not all neuroscience applications require such optimized tools. This is elegantly...study neuronal differentiation, it could also be applied to the differentiation of other CNS cell types,...
  7. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    May 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...cells in live imaging application. Each visual barcode consists of a fluorescent protein coupled to a specific...GFP-nanobody rather than a specific protein of interest. This fusion protein can then be co-expressed in essentially...stabilizes the TurboID-nanobody protein and allows TurboID to start labeling proteins in close proximity to the...localization peptides with four different fluorescent proteins, and inserting each visual barcode into ...reporters that drive the expression of the fluorescent protein by a specific transcription response element...approach has been hampered by the need to tag each protein of interest and, for in vivo work, generate a dedicated...zebrafish line expressing a GFP-tagged version of a protein of interest. The binding of the GFP nanobody to...
  8. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...tagging proteins, as it can be fused to the N- or C-terminus (or even in the middle of proteins) and performs...imaging in C. elegans By Alyssa Neuhaus Red fluorescent proteins like mScarlet are essential tools for visualizing...under CC-BY license.  These optimized fluorescent proteins will be a useful addition to the toolkit... mScarlet3 for applications needing intense brightness (such as low-expression proteins of interest) and... produced by our partners at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI), part of a new collection of epitope...short, linear epitope derived from the P and V proteins of Simian virus 5 (SV5) (Randall et al., 1987)...including popular new approaches like PROTAC targeted protein degraders. But CRBN has been difficult to study...
  9. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...decorated with a fluorescent protein remain functional. Attaching the fluorescent protein fusions allowed...produced by orchestrated movements of networks of proteins consuming molecular fuel sources. While the importance... can be generated by conformational changes in proteins? How can information propagate through a structured...rupture E. coli spheroplasts to release encapsulated proteins. Video by ACS. For a more cartoony explanation...addressed using R bodies: simple, force-generating protein machines that can extend and retract over many ...
  10. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    Nov. 11, 2025, 2:14 p.m.
    ...surface proteins with a membrane-impermeable biotin substrate (Figure 1). Biotinylated proteins were isolated...have been derived from just a few parent fluorescent proteins, PinkyCaMP is the first based on mScarlet...genetically fused to a protein of interest or targeted to a GFP fusion protein using an anti-GFP nanobody...system. A cell expressing the protein of interest fused to GFP forms fluorescent biomolecular condensates....and translation of chromoprotein and gRNA plasmids. Nuclease-dead Cas9 (dCas9) protein is supplied separately...Here's what you'll find in this post: Cell-surface protein labeling tools for neurons and astrocytes Nerve-to-cancer...single-cell RNA-seq data. In addition to unique proteins on each cell type, the cell-surface shared proteome...
  11. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    Jan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ... decade, but the fluorescent proteins (FPs) necessary for many of these applications have lagged. Fixation...Campbell, B.C., et al. Chemically stable fluorescent proteins for advanced microscopy. Nat Methods 19,...immunoassays due to only having one binding site per protein. Having multiple antibodies allows you to use them...light and electron microscopy and observed high fluorescence resilience to these preparations. After crystalizing...    Fig. 4: hfYFP retains folding and fluorescence in high molarity GdnHCl, at high temperatures...antibodies may just not perform as well in one application as another, so it is always best to have options...for mEGFP-HRas (from Plasmid 18662). See the Applications section on the Anti-GFP [N86/8R] page for more...
  12. SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas

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    May 5, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...cleaves the supplied fluorescently labelled ssDNA substrates. Upon cleavage, the fluorescence is no longer quenched... cleavage of fluorescently labelled RNA, the authors employ a P51 cardboard fluorescence visualizer that...binding, changes in fluorescence can be visualised. Another approach was to apply the same concept to ...streptavidin portion of the probe via biotin. The fluorescent portion of the probe that is cut will continue...and released when cleaved. Cleavage results in fluorescence and this approach can be incorporated into a...test varies in the sequence of steps and the Cas protein used. Here, all the components needed for the reaction...recombinase, and the ssDNA-FQ reporters that exhibit fluorescence upon cleavage. Upon amplification by the RPA...
  13. Antibodies 101: Affinity Tags

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    Sept. 19, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...isolate a protein, there must be a special feature about that protein that no other protein in the expression...(FLAG, Myc, etc.) and fluorescent protein tags (GFP, mCherry, etc.). Fluorescent tags are primarily used...affinity tags can make protein purification a cinch. Types of affinity tags, the proteins they work best attached...common tags available. Maltose binding protein Maltose binding protein (MBP) is a 45 kDa tag which can be ...unlikely to perturb protein function. This makes it amenable to being left on your protein of interest, especially...you want the tag to remain on your protein for downstream applications Below, we describe a few of the ...purification, so as not to perturb protein function for downstream applications. Tag cleavage must be performed...
  14. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    March 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...AID-tagged protein. To quantify protein degradation the Ward lab used fluorescent proteins (FPs) fused...implications for the fusion protein effectivity), and a fluorescent protein tag for visualization (Fig....catalytically inactive dCas9) to modify chromatin. A fluorescent protein can still be included for visualization purposes...attached to your protein of interest. TIR1 interacts with endogenous Skp1 and Cul3 proteins to form a SCF...inducible degron sequence) tagged proteins. Degradation of your protein interest would also result in depletion... histone-modifying enzymes and reader-effector proteins. b) Golden Gate assembly (backbones available ... create multiple synthetic chromatin-modifying proteins quickly and accurately.   Priode and Haynes, ...
  15. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    Jan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...signs of toxicity or burden relative to a fluorescent protein control. We also added the toxin-antitoxin...major structural protein GvpA, which seemed overexpressed compared to accessory proteins. Excess gvpA plasmid...What are Acoustic Reporter Genes (ARGs)? Fluorescent and bioluminescent reporter genes are widely used...of ARGs results in the production of air-filled protein nanostructures called gas vesicles, which scatter.... coli. We deleted an unannotated hypothetical protein, improving expression, and named this gene set ...in mammalian cells without the shell stiffening protein GvpC, which allowed the GVs to be flexible and ...ultrasound imaging of nanoscale acoustic biomolecules. Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 073704 (2017). Hurt, R. C. et ...
  16. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    Oct. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...in a direct or unbiased way at the DNA, RNA, or protein level. The “correct” choice of tool requires careful...unmatched—unlike CRISPR experiments that require exogenous protein, successful induction of RNAi only requires the...and/or fusing your gene target sequence to a fluorescent reporter sequence (discussed below). Examples...Non-destructive methods, most popularly with a fluorescent reporter, directly couple silencing of your gene... that contains a target sequence against the fluorescent reporter in an inverted repeat orientation. Therefore...have readily observable phenotypes quantified. Fluorescent reporter-based RNAi constructs have been designed...presence of the RNAi transgene, followed by a fluorescence readout of RNAi activity. As a plant researcher...
  17. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...locations. C) Enrichment of dual-labeled proteins identifies proteins that had been trafficked from the “source...generated a fusion protein called iPAK4 that assembles into a slow-growing protein fiber in the cytoplasm... Figure 4: Time-resolved protein ticker tape. A) Design of iPAK4 protein ticker tape recording. B) HEK...labeling can identify protein interactions or map a local proteome, but some applications have been challenging...labeling and TransitID Tracking cellular history with protein ticker tape Teaching an old antibody new tricks...recently used phage-assisted continuous evolution and protein engineering to generate seven new prime editors...., et al. (2023). Phage-assisted evolution and protein engineering yield compact, efficient prime editors...
  18. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    June 6, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...containing two fluorescent proteins and four repeats of a miRNA target site. One fluorescent protein (EBFP2) ...B (BoNT/B), which cleaves the synaptic protein VAMP2, a protein essential for synaptic transmission. Cleavage...and function of microbes rely heavily on fluorescent protein genes. These optical reporters have limited...gas-filled protein structure that water-bound photosynthetic organisms use for buoyancy. These proteins allow...established pair of proteins (iLID and SspB) that undergo light-induced dimerization. Upon application of blue light... lab discovered in 2014 that these gas vesicle proteins scatter sound waves and create ultrasound contrast...
  19. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021

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    July 27, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...SL-sensitive fluorophore (circularly permuted green fluorescent protein or cpGFP) to the petunia SL enzymatic receptor...relies on the fluorescence ratio between the 2 fluorophores, rather than on the fluorescence intensity, ...thoughtfully designed plasmid components with Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS), allowing for .../doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.04.076067    Novel fluorescent enzyme biosensors provide direct, specific and... Claudia Vickers’s lab has designed novel SL fluorescent biosensors by integrating a SL-insensitive fluorophore...conformational change of the receptor which modulates the fluorescence intensity of the cpGFP without altering that... authors also showed that the receptor-based fluorescent biosensor has a high sensitivity (50 nM-500nM...
  20. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...photostable than fluorescent proteins, making them ideal for single-molecule fluorescence techniques. After...CLIP-SNAP fusion proteins for single-molecule FRET. A) Schematic of a CLIP-SNAP fusion protein (a.k.a. CLAP... a flexible linker where a protein of interest can be inserted. B) Protein expression and labeling procedure...optimized strategy uses new combinations of PE protein components (Figure 1), an altered epegRNA delivered...study the conformational dynamics of the motor protein kinesin-1, the Twelvetrees Lab took advantage of...FRET to study the intramolecular dynamics of the proteins in solution and when associated with microtubules...generating other SNAPf-, CLIPf-, and CLAP-tagged proteins for mammalian cell expression. These plasmids ...
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