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  1. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    Aug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m.
    ...wild-type version of YGOI to rescue a mutated strain or a mutated version of YGOI to test the different...different phenotypes of the specific mutations. For these purposes Addgene has a large collection of yeast expression...
  2. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    Sept. 28, 2020, noon
    ...non-edited cells to survive have inactivating mutations in the Cas9 or spacer sequence, and these rare...pneumoniae and can be used to generate multiple mutations simultaneously (Jiang et al. 2013). Genome editing...recombineering, with 96-99% efficiency for point mutations and 66% efficiency for small insertions. Multiplexing...they were effectively able to introduce point mutations in P. aeruginosa, Pseudomonas putida, Pseudomonas...
  3. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    Nov. 11, 2020, 2:23 p.m.
    ...negative regulation and can be manipulated with mutations in the replicon. For example, the pMB1 ori maintains...per cell, while pUC – which differs by only two mutations – will produce as many as 700 copies per cell....for single- and multiple-unnatural amino acid mutagenesis in Escherichia coli. Biochemistry. 2013 Mar 12...
  4. Bright Monomeric Fluorescent Proteins: mNeonGreen, mTFP1, and mWasabi

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    April 25, 2019, 3:01 p.m.
    ...-breaking mutations. The library was then screened through successive rounds of mutagenesis for the brightest...scientists from Florida State University, they used a mutagenesis approach and found that specific amino acid changes...
  5. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    Jan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m.
    ...plasmid of all time, but was found to have a point mutation in the puromycin cassette that makes it less efficient...Cas9, this plasmid expresses Cas9n (a D10A nickase mutant) to nick, rather than cleave DNA. Find pSpCas9n...(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) V2.0. It contains a point mutation in the puromycin cassette that makes it less efficient...
  6. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    Dec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m.
    ...to study. To overcome this, most scientists use mutant animals that are genetically altered to overexpress...overexpress endogenous RNAi pathways. These mutations however can interfere with other genetic pathways making...than standard RNAi protocols without the need for mutant genetic backgrounds. The standard RNAi vector, ...
  7. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    June 2, 2015, 6:06 p.m.
    ...vivo and in vitro, as well as to insert targeted mutations through homologous recombination. To further increase...protoplasts, Xie et. al observed slightly higher mutation rates than they’d previously reported in protoplasts..., they found that 50% of plants had biallelic mutations at all five loci. This highly efficient multiplexing...
  8. Addgene's Tips for Plasmid Quality Control

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    Jan. 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...plasmid are the backbone, inserted gene/functional mutations, antibiotic resistance, restriction sites used...most sequence assembly errors occur), deletions, mutations, in-frame protein fusions, and multiple cloning...cases, we deal with multiple inserts or internal mutations that require more than two sequencing reactions...
  9. A Look at Addgene's QC Process

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    May 6, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... function of the plasmid. This includes point mutations, frame shifts, missing elements, and nucleotide...plasmid that are less likely to affect function when mutated; elements that are difficult to sequence; approaches...Sequence discrepancies are not always a result of mutations in the plasmid, but can arise due to errors in...
  10. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    Nov. 14, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...the majority of the lncRNA locus, scientists can mutate the transcription start site, splice sites, exons...function (Hazan and Bester 2021; Zibitt et al. 2021). Mutating splice sites is particularly effective as it can... Transcription start site (TSS) deletion. (B) Mutations of splice sites. (C) Removal of an exon or a large...
  11. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ... generated a series of StayGold mutants and identified a triple mutant, Y187F, R144I and T155Q, which ...Balasubramanian and colleagues showed the single mutation E138D is sufficient to disrupt dimerization while...
  12. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    Dec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...tissues with Cas9 and a gRNA designed to target a mutated gene. In a Scientific Reports paper introducing...-transformed cells yielded rates of targeted mutagenesis similar to those achieved by isogenic AdVs encoding...CRISPR/Cas9 nuclease complexes induces targeted mutagenesis in a diverse array of human cells. Sci Rep 4:...
  13. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    May 4, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...knowledge of protein structure and saturation mutagenesis. mK-GO matures from green to red, and the FT ...absorption spectra). Subach et al’s directed mutagenesis also produced the three separate timers shown...3. Verkhusha, Vladislav V., et al. "An enhanced mutant of red fluorescent protein DsRed for double labeling...
  14. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    Feb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...this process accounts for a percentage of the mutations seen with TALENs and CRISPR. MMEJ is active during...and Ling Lu. (2016). “Highly efficient CRISPR mutagenesis by microhomology-mediated end joining in Aspergillus...Other Genome Engineering Tools like Sleeping Beauty Mutase Find the Ideal CRISPR Software for Your Experiment...
  15. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...TBD domains, part of the HB domain, and several mutations to improve solubility and stability (Figure 2)...in natural DNA repair pathways and spontaneous mutations.  Here, the researchers were able to target multiple...abscessus either simultaneously or stepwise, achieving mutation efficiencies of up to about 9% of colonies (102...
  16. Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View

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    Oct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m.
    ...one of the FLP-FRT systems in your experiments. Mutated FRT and loxP sites in Flex Vectors – inversion ...common means to achieve ligand control is to fuse a mutant estrogen receptor (ER) ligand binding domain (LDB...Properties of FLP Recombinase Evolved by Cycling Mutagenesis.” Nature biotechnology 16(7): 657–62. PubMed ...
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