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  1. Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping

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    Dec. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
    ...interactions as well as be used for both soluble and insoluble proteins, which can be a challenge for classic antibody...can take hours to label proteins and APEX2, although it can rapidly label proteins, requires H2O2 which ...interacting proteins in one simple experiment. PCA is an in vivo technique where two proteins are fused ...interaction of two proteins while also biotin labeling and purifying additional proteins from a complex of... and an RNA component that contains an RNA motif of interest. Any proteins that bind the RNA motif will...interacting cell surface proteins with a biotin tagged LPETG peptide. Biotin tagged proteins can then be purified...There are approximately 2-4 million proteins per cubic micron in bacteria, yeast, and mammalian cells...

  2. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    Jan. 19, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ... the presence of proteins from samples containing a mixture of proteins. The proteins are separated based... Antibodies, also known as immunoglobulins, are ~150 kDa, Y-shaped proteins that are both a natural part...region. Two immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chains and two Ig light chains make up each antibody molecule. The...the Ig heavy chains, and the rest of the Fab regions are completed with the Ig light chains. The variable...Flow cytometry is used to detect proteins on the surface of or inside whole cells. Antibodies - typically...antibodies are produced by B cells. They bind to proteins on the surface of extracellular pathogens such...such as parasites or microbes, or to proteins expressed on the surface of cells that have been infected ...

  3. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...Margaret Robinson’s lab, and more recently used by Stephen Royle’s lab, acutely depleted proteins from their...induction heterodimerization of proteins that contain rapamycin-binding domains, such as FKBP and FRB. The ...inactivation. Find the Robinson plasmids or the Royle plasmids and get to work! Robinson et al., Dev Cell...light-oxygen-voltage (LOV) sensing domains from algae into chimeric Opto-RTKs. The LOV domains bind flavin cofactors...phosphoserine (SP218) insertion was moderately enhanced while two phosphoserine insertions (SP218/SP222) was... to generate random mutagenesis libraries or to insert heterologous genes, reporters, or other markers...demonstrate that they can successfully create GFP fusion proteins with a variety of genes across the genome. Although...

  4. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    March 8, 2021, 2:41 p.m.
    ...mix of proteins with a broad size range to be separated on a single gel.  Immobilizing proteins on a membrane...albumin or other proteins. The sticky areas on the membrane will bind to the proteins in the buffer, blocking...labeled. Instead, a conjugated species-specific secondary antibody is used to visualize the proteins. In this...Introduction to western blotting  In a western, proteins are: (1) separated by size, (2) transferred to...absence of a protein, but can also determine if proteins are being up- or downregulated in a system, detect... to standards, detect the cellular location of proteins, and can be a readout for protein interaction ...applied to the gel causes the negatively charged proteins to migrate toward the positive charge at the bottom...

  5. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    Dec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m.
    ...manner to Type I-F, but instead employ a Cas12k protein instead of three Cas proteins (Fig. 1A, bottom), and...transposase proteins (TnsA, TnsB, TnsC). The donor DNA (aka mini-transposon), which contains the DNA cargo...programmability: depending on the transposases involved, they insert either randomly, or at fixed genomic target sites...generation of tools for efficient and programmable insertions of large DNA cargos into bacterial genomes. This... This new capability was named INTEGRATE (Insertion of Transposable Elements by Guide RNA-Assisted Targeting...spacer sequence specifying the target site. Four proteins (TniQ, Cas8, Cas7, Cas6) that forms the QCascade...INTEGRATE. The requirement for multiple Cas proteins to form the Cascade targeting complex is a hallmark...

  6. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    Oct. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ... prey proteins after screening. It is also possible to screen libraries of bait and prey against each ... expression of target proteins in heterologous systems (e.g. mammalian proteins in S. cerevisiae). ...activation and cell biology. During this period, proteins were successfully expressed as fusions that retain...domain (DBD) and transcriptional activation (TA) domains retain their individual activities when separated...could be combined effectively (3). In Figure 1 for instance, the DBD of the fusion protein shown is still ...also called the interaction trap), genes encoding proteins of interest(POI’s) are fused to TAs and DBDs (... then co-expressed in a yeast strain that also contains a reporter gene cloned downstream of a promoter...

  7. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    Dec. 8, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...contain your insert of interest. Simply stated, ccdB makes cloning easier by selecting against vectors that...vector “backbone” in this system contains ccdB. A successful insertion will completely replace ccdB with...vectors in mind, any plasmid that contains the F plasmid (F’ strains) will also be resistant to CcdB, ...popular lab strains, such as NEB Stable, JM109, XL1 Blue or XL10 Gold, that are F’. These strains could possibly...that did not take up your insert. But exactly how does ccdB accomplish this? Let’s start with a brief ...antitoxin protein (CcdA) that protects the cell against the toxic CcdB. Cells that lose ccdA through the..., an investigator were to successfully clone an insert into the vector, the ccdB reading frame would be...

  8. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    Oct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.
    ...for each insertion. Also, it remains challenging to screen for the genetically modified strains that contain...tagging proteins in a tissue specific manner, as well as 3-site destination vectors for inserting a tag ...tagging endogenous proteins with an auxin-inducible degron (AID) tag to generate proteins which can be rapidly...years ago, the growing spectrum of fluorescent proteins (FPs) has been an invaluable resource for studying...with FPs. Overexpression of fluorescently tagged proteins can lead to improper protein localization, protein...new user-defined DNA sequence (like GFP) can be inserted at the DSB. CRISPR has allowed scientists to tag...contain your newly tagged gene. Most insertions can only be detected by labor-intensive processes like...

  9. Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells

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    April 6, 2017, 1:02 p.m.
    ...at allencell.org and the Allen Institute website at alleninstitute.org. A classic challenge in cell biology...at allencell.org and the Allen Institute website at alleninstitute.org. References 1. Roberts, Brock, ...contributed by the gene editing team at the Allen Institute for Cell Science. Learn more by visiting the Allen...tagging and visualization of specific, individual proteins under endogenous regulatory control. But even ...even with the advent of CRISPR/Cas9 technology, inserting large tags into a precise location in the genome...genomic tagging experiments. Browse the Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmid Collection Fluorescent...C-terminal tag, as shown in the example above, we inserted a linker and GFP tag at the end of the last exon...

  10. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

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    Aug. 14, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
    ...neuronal synapses for instance. Also these tags need to be fused to scaffold proteins in order to be expressed... by red fluorescent proteins such as tdTomato or RFP or blue fluorescent proteins like Cyan. The issue...expressed proteins than standard tags and can be used to distinguish highly similar proteins. For example... neuronal populations in the brain. The Allen Institute and the Janelia Research Campus in the USA have...Neuronal tracers such as epitope tags and fluorescent proteins (FP) have also been important in mapping, monitoring...tags and even multimeric tags are frequently insufficient for detection when the POI is weakly expressed...expressed. As these epitopes tags have no intrinsic visual signal, they cannot be detected directly in live...

  11. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
    ...pdDronpa domains to the sites flanking the DNA-binding cleft of Cas9, the fluorescent domains dimerize... Cas9 activity Anti-CRISPR proteins are a highly diverse group of proteins that are able to block CRISPR-Cas...The use of nickases, prime editing, anti-CRISPR proteins, and other techniques all aim to improve targeting...uses genetically encoded tools, such as microbial opsins, to control cellular activities using light. In... calcium and integrin-binding protein 1 (CIB1) proteins. The goal of both groups was to create a system...developed by the Sata lab is composed of two fusion proteins: 1) the genomic anchor - an inactive, dead Cas9...Once triggered by blue light, the CRY2 and CIB1 proteins heterodimerize and move the activator into position...

  12. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    May 20, 2014, 2:06 p.m.
    ... photoconvertible proteins are PA-GFP, Dendra2, and the mEOS proteins. Some proteins are reversibly switchable...you really know how fluorescent proteins glow?   Fluorescent Proteins (FPs) were first discovered over...categories of fluorescent proteins Photoactivatable / Photoconvertible: These proteins can switch their color... less).  For LSS proteins, the Stokes shift is ≥ 100nm. Specifically, these proteins are excited by UV...when labeling proteins that interact. Indeed, FRET is often used to determine if two proteins interact. ...wavelength than the exciting wavelength. Thus, FPs are proteins with this unique capacity. Many of these FPs are...thus tracking the localization of that biomolecule inside living cells. FPs classified by the emission color...

  13. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
    ...model organism, they insert into the host’s genome. Then, the transposon insertion sites are detected with...transposase proteins (TnsA, TnsB, TnsC), and 4) the donor DNA or mini-transposon that contains the DNA cargo...and result in human disease. While transposon insertions can be detrimental, it also drives genomic evolution...that moves around. This DNA sequence encodes the proteins the transposon needs for transposition. Transposition...transposition.  Target site: Different transposons insert at different DNA sequences or target sites. Integration...duplication of this target site sequence at the site of insertion.  Types of transposons Transposable elements ... reverse transcribe back into DNA before being inserted into new target sites. This is similar to how ...

  14. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability

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    June 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...fluorescent proteins that are photostable. On top of photobleaching, fluorescent proteins may display ...performed with soluble fluorescent proteins or localized fusion proteins and do not require dedicated plasmids...performed on purified fluorescent proteins. To avoid diffusion, the proteins are (i) trapped in microdroplets...course of the experiment. The best fluorescent proteins for live cell imaging can be excited many times...fluorescent protein. This can differ between fluorescent proteins in the same spectral class (Cranfill et al, 2016...confocal laser scanning microscopy, fluorescent proteins are excited with very intense light (for a brief...compare the photostability of different fluorescent proteins? Measuring photostability Since it is clear that...

  15. Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling

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    June 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...   Dye stains Dye stains are non-antibody-based stains that bind DNA or free amines of proteins. Depending...cytosol/nucleus, or visualizing DNA instead of proteins. Some stains can diffuse through the cell membrane...transmembrane proteins, such as receptors, or post-translational modifications on those proteins, like glycosylation...kits allow for labeling of cytosolic proteins, as well as proteins of the secretory pathway. Those can ...buffer to label intranuclear proteins of interest, you can label cytosolic proteins alongside the intranuclear...like many of the cluster of differentiation (CD) proteins found on immune cells. However, there are more...methods can include labeling markers with multiple proteins/antibodies, targeting markers found within the...

  16. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    June 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...phosphoserine-incorporated proteins The generation of pSer-incorporated proteins requires a molecular toolkit... Sep-OTS, contains the components required for the translation of pSer-incorporated proteins on a single...Niemi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, Wisconsin. It is commonly...cited that approximately one-third of cellular proteins are modified through phosphorylation (1). However...of a protein for characterization. However, phosphoproteins are often low abundance, and thus difficult...incorporation of phosphoserine directly into recombinant proteins (5). Optimization of this system defined three...effectively incorporate phosphoserine into recombinant proteins, such as the kinase MEK1 (5). MEK1 is inactive...

  17. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

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    Nov. 19, 2019, 2:08 p.m.
    ...generate two more OptoNBs, one against mCherry and one against GFP. Insertion of AsLOV2 into loop 1 always...how AsLOV2 insertion into mCherry or GFP nanobodies affected binding of their target proteins. The surface-exposed...opposite effects: insertion into loop 1 caused dark-induced binding while loop 6 insertion caused blue-light... you wash several times to remove non-specific proteins, and then elute YFP.  Option #2: Opto-Nanobodies... purification You skip adding a tag to YFP and instead use OptoNBs. You fill a column with OptoNB coated... the lights, OptoNBs bind YFP and non-specific proteins flow through. To elute YFP, you turn on the blue...ability of its nanobody partner, so it’s important to insert AsLOV2 at a spot in the nanobody that preserves...

  18. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    June 3, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...vector that contains everything needed to replicate inside a host cell but with space to insert your genetic...highly-specific recombinant antibodies against three of the six human glypican proteins (GPC1, GPC3, and GPC4). All...mini counterpart label nearby proteins with biotin. The biotinylated proteins can then be isolated and identified...validated viral packaging and strong expression after inserting EGFP and provide step-by-step protocols for viral...our bacterial plasmid set for expressing tagged proteins, and stay tuned for mammalian expression and AAV...and therapeutic potential. Our partners at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI) recently released...with the pithy name "site-specific target-primed insertion through targeted CRISPR homing of retroelements...

  19. In Living Color: The Skinny on In Vivo Imaging Tools

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    March 27, 2014, 5:14 p.m.
    ...scientists have used fluorescent proteins to observe what’s happening inside cells for at least a couple of...earlier described. “Until our proteins, there were lots of fluorescent proteins made from jellyfishes and ...decades. Green is the classic color, but fluorescent proteins are available in a variety of hues. While those... applications, Verkhusha and his lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York recognized their... The key to their bacterial phytochome-derived proteins, iRFP670, iRFP682, iRFP702, iRFP713 and iRFP720... The challenge then was to develop fluorescent proteins that would fall within that near-infrared range... and that’s exactly what iRFPs achieved. Those proteins allowed a signal-to-background ratio in mammalian...

  20. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    Feb. 17, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...bacterial genome, and inserted it into E. coli to express and then test for any proteins that could cut RNA...the lab instead turned to phage serine integrases, where they saw 10-20% integration of inserts up to 36...Schematic of programmable gene insertion with PASTE. The PASTEsystem involves insertion of landing sites via Cas9...single-stranded nicks instead of the double-stranded breaks used in other insertion systems. Off-target ...nonetheless a new subtype. Cas7-11 had combined all the domains into a single protein, shedding the complexity ...Cas7-11   Use The Cas7-11 targeting system contains two pieces: a single protein, computationally ...computationally described as a fusion of four Cas7 proteins and a putative Cas11-like protein, and a guide RNA. The ...
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