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...mammalian cells. Here, we will cover how these structures are generated, why it’s important for cells to sense...that doesn’t involve cellular dysregulation) is the mitochondria. These organelles have their own circular...., Hur, S. Cellular origins of dsRNA, their recognition and consequences. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 23: 286...are the words that describe RNA! Double stranded? Well, that’s just for DNA – right? RNA performs almost...almost all of its biological functions in our cells in the single strand form, but double stranded RNA and...with bidirectional transcription. In an uninfected cell, dsRNA rarely circulates, but upon viral infection...clinical therapy to target pathogenic proteins, as well as in the lab to deplete expression of proteins ...

... trigger the activation of dendritic cells, macrophages, T cells, and the recruitment of neutrophils. ... says. In induced pluripotent stem cells derived endothelial cells from women who are missing an entire...detect molecules outside of the cell and translate those signals into cellular responses. For example, GPCRs...estimated that CTD is the second cause of male intellectual disability after Fragile X. There is no cure...maintaining the nutrient and ionic balance of the cells,” says Dr Sangeetha Iyer, ACD’s Scientific Advisor...that solute channels typically expressed on other cell types can compensate for or bypass the dysfunction...collection to perform a functional screen in mammalian cells to identify any solute channels that can compensate...

...copy number in the cell is high, but allows replication when copy number in the cell falls too low (Novcik...system to partition themselves to each daughter cell during cell division. They don’t simply rely on chance...eukaryotic cells). The partition NTPase is recruited and “walks” each plasmid to a separate daughter cell. When...to an identification issue: the CBPs in the cell can’t tell the difference between plasmids if they have... daughter cell, instead of partitioning each type of plasmid into a separate daughter cells (Figure 2)...from the cell with the same probability, or asymmetrical, where one plasmid lost from the cell at a higher...different plasmids to be maintained in one bacterial cell. In this Plasmids 101 post, we’ll cover why this...

...epitopes likely to be presented by T cells to elicit an immune response. T cell epitopes are found in either ...predict T cell epitopes focus on characterizing those epitopes as CD8 or CD4 epitopes, as well as their...that take place within an antigen-presenting cell like a T cell. It is also not yet possible for these algorithms...traditional 2D assays with immune cell lines or peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in 3D models of the...CD4+ or CD8+ T-cells or monocytes. PBMCs can be further differentiated into dentritic cells or macrophages...skin and subcutaneous models (Groell et.al, 2018). Treating these cells with the therapeutic antibody ..., that are commonly used for the prediction of T cell epitopes based on the amino acid sequence of the...

...to monitor cell, organelle, and protein localization. For instance, you might dye your cells and look at...either in whole cells or as a pool of fusion proteins localized to a specific region of the cell. For example...the relationship between the age of a cell, protein, or cellular structure and a particular biological...trafficking to a subcellular location, start of gene expression, development of a cell structure, etc)....biology, FP timers might be able to tell researchers whether old or new cells are better at producing a compound...microscope, fractionate samples to isolate particular organelles and their contents, or perform in situ hybridization...timers, researchers can look at a single image of a cell and understand how protein localization changes ...

...associated with cellular organelles, scientists have been able to study many cellular processes, including...and function of cellular systems. FPs have been used to track protein localization, cell structure, intracellular...to fluorescently tag markers of cellular structures in mammalian cells. These plasmids use fluorescent...Depletion in Human Cells by Auxin-Inducible Degron Tagging with Short Homology Donors.” Cell Rep.15(1) (2016...trafficking. Although FPs have enabled discovery of many cellular mechanisms, there are some limitations to working... ultimately misinterpretation of the protein’s cellular role. One way to avoid the pitfalls of overexpressed...synthetic DNA for the desired gRNA target sequence, as well as the 5’ and 3’ homology arm repair template (Fig...

...K562 leukemia cell line and ~8 and 9% efficiencies in T-cells and hematopoietic stem cells respectively... not well understood, researchers have been using AAV vectors for gene editing in mammalian cells since...transient transfection of 293T cells with helpers, and used to infect recipient cells. After G418 selection, ...since 1998. In that year, Russell and Hirata from the University of Washington reported a surprising finding...used to routinely deliver sequences of interest to cells with efficiencies of 1-40% after G418 selection ...composed of single stranded DNA, which is particularly well suited for strand invasion, a key step in the homologous...the p53 and PTEN tumor suppressor genes in human cells (Kim et al 2008). They have also used AAV gene editing...

...packaging cell line. γ-Retroviruses can transduce target cells, but the transduced target cell does not...using helper-free packaging cell lines This method utilizes a packaging cell line that stably expresses... packaging cell line. For example, Phoenix, a second generation γ-retrovirus packaging cell line developed...and rat cells), or an amphotropic envelope, Phoenix-AMPHO (for the infection of mammalian cells.) Using...transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells because once in the host cell cytoplasm, the viral components are...for efficient gene delivery to mammalian cells using 293T cell-based systems. Curr Protoc Immunol. 2001...γ-retroviruses (gamma-retroviruses) in cancer and stem cell research has prompted the development of multiple...

... of cell types, so they’re ideal for work with primary cells or other difficult-to-transfect cells. Lentiviral...dividing cells. Another type of vector, based on adenovirus, could infect non-dividing cells, but without...turned to the lentivirus HIV-1, well-known to infect non-dividing cells. The first lentiviral vector system...ability to transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells. Lentiviral vectors are the vector of choice for...viral envelope to dictate the tropism, or types of cells the vector could infect. Finally, the transfer plasmid.... After co-transfection of these plasmids, 293T cells released transgene-containing lentiviral particles...adeno-associated viral vectors can also target non-dividing cells, lentiviral vectors can carry much more genetic ...

...lines expressing GFP in specific cell types to do more than just label cells. If GFP could be co-opted to ...reporter output was observed in their 293 cell culture system. In cells cotransfected with GFP and the GBPs,...expression was induced in ~76% of GFP+ cells, and 100% of DsRed+ cells also expressed GFP. Using AAV constructs...cortex, cerebellum, and spinal cord. Cre-DOG is also suitable for optogenetic studies, and since cells infected...fluorescent proteins as scaffolds for cell-specific gene manipulation.” Cell 154(4) (2013): 928-939. PubMed ...wanted to express a variety of proteins in single cell types in the mouse, but knew it would take years...could then selectively manipulate only GFP-labeled cells. Once Tang and Cepko found a description of GFP-...

...pulses to the subject/cells expressing the optogenetic tool causing a change in cellular activity or gene ...receptors (GPCR) regulate cellular function through multiple intra-cellular signaling cascades. Optical... in the extracellular domain which activates the native signaling cascade of the intracellular part of...positively charged ions to rapidly pass through the cell membrane and initiate an action potential - a very...have developed many optogenetic tools to control cellular activity with exquisite precision using only light...both the membrane potential and a host of other cellular functions. Photoswitches are engineered molecules...such as Na+, K+, and Ca++ to passively enter the cell with the concentration gradient to depolarize it...

...currently available from Addgene. Rosella autophagy biosensor Rosella is a dual-emission autophagy biosensor... autophagy, Rosella is targeted to the vacuole in yeast or the lysosome in mammalian cells. This decrease... and cytoplasmic Rosella. When fused with a mitochondria-targeting sequence, Rosella can be used to track...al. "Rosella: a fluorescent pH-biosensor for reporting vacuolar turnover of cytosol and organelles in yeast...process by which cytoplasmic material, including organelles, are targeted to lysosomes for degradation. Autophagy...provides limited information about what materials or organelles are being targeted for autophagy. The development...). In the absence of autophagy, the untargeted Rosella remains in the neutral pH cytoplasm where it emits...

...and inside the cells and are thus typically used for distinguishing live from dead cells. The combination...the chart tells us that PE and PE-Cy7 are "very bright" when they are excited by the yellow/green laser...say I am culturing HEK 293T cells in vitro. I transduced the cultured cells with a virus that encodes a...panel. Besides some background cell death constantly happening in cell culture, the transduction process... to some cell death. As a result, there is a high abundance of positively stained dead cells present and...When analyzing your cells using flow cytometry, you are typically measuring the presence or absence of...certain markers on the surface or the inside of your cells. While proteins themselves can emit intrinsic fluorescence...

...Cas9 in Intestinal Stem Cell Organoids of Cystic Fibrosis Patients." Cell Stem Cell. 13, 653-658 (2013). ...patient’s own cells that have been modified ex vivo, previously edited healthy donor cells can be delivered... editing these cells to avoid a negative immune response (e.g., graft vs. host) as well as the introduction...Genetic Disease in Mouse Via Use of CRISPR/Cas9." Cell Stem Cell. 13, 659-662 (2013). Gerald Schwank et al. ...on editing animal models of disease and cultured cells. For example, in 2013, Jinsong Li and colleagues...applied CRISPR to disease correction in adult stem cells isolated from two patients with cystic fibrosis ...delivery directly to the patient. Patient-derived cells can alternatively be harvested, edited ex vivo, ...

...fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) helps researchers sift through thousands of cells to identify cells exhibiting... CRISPR-Casɸ is active in vitro as well as in human and plant cells. Casɸ from Biggiephage can ...target single cells. Now, Francois St-Pierre’s lab developed a new form of FACS-based cell screening, Single-cell...individual cells with unique spatiotemporal phenotypes from large heterogeneous cultures.  HeLa cells expressed...was used to image over 3 million cell types expressing variants of Yellow Fluorescent Protein (YFP). The...Cre for use in bacteria CRISPR-Casɸ mGold, a new yellow fluorescent protein New CRISPR plasmids New items... conformational changes in a protein.    Cells expressing an RFP reporter plasmid for recombinase...

...on freeze-dried, cell-free (FD-CF) components. Making proteins outside of a cell - cell free extracts Typically...organism. Furthermore, cell free systems can be freeze-dried into pellets (FD-CF pellets), leaving them shelf-stable... into a host cell (through a process called transformation), essentially giving the cell all the instructions...to dispose of the live cells. The alternative is to express the protein in a cell-free manner. This is ... about operating the rest of the car as well. Similarly, cell free expression systems contain all the ...first molecular biology lab in college that I really fell in love with it. Something about being able to actually...biology, especially those at the molecular and cellular level. The reason for this is cost and complexity...

...targeted One Many Sample type(s) Cell lines Cell lines, primary cells Table 1: Key differences between... of cells (~5x107). Together, these two requirements prevent the use of CAPTURE with primary cells or ...need to create stable cell lines and allows CAPTURE 2.0 to be used with primary cells. Find plasmids for...that occur during development and cellular differentiation. Using a cell line model, the Xu Lab tracked ...by Biotinylated dCas9. Cell 170:1028–1043.e19 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.003 Liu, X., Chen...CAPTURE method requires the creation of a stable cell line that co-expresses three components: dCas9 ...drawback of the original CAPTURE method is that a new cell line has to be created for each genomic loci of ...

...Digenome Seq 0.1% Cell-free (in vitro) Works across all cell types Must be verified with cell-based method ...Requires large cell population, senstive to time since cell fixing HTGTS Not reported Cell-based Identifies...method IDLV 1% Cell-based Programmable, can detect DSBs in live cells Not as senstive as other unbiased methods... use single cell clones for in vitro CRISPR experiments. The likelihood that a single cell clone derived...and cannot be applied to heterogenous populations (Bell et al. 2014). Further, Sanger sequencing has a lower...product sequence. Targeted amplicon sequencing doesn’t tell the whole story Figure 1: Schematic representations...picture of the impact of CRISPR editing in the model cell line or organism. Several options exist for unbiased...

... specific cell-type promoter. Once injected into the brain, the viruses infect all the cells with an inactive...the brain remained elusive, not from a lack of intellectual curiosity on the part of scientists but, rather...energy conversion or the induction of intra- or intercellular signaling pathways (Ernst et al., 2014). Microbial...proteins control the flow of electric charges across cell membranes and maintain membrane potential in response...once a certain number of positive ions crosses the cell membrane, a threshold is reached and the neuron ...selective expression of opsin genes in targeted cells makes it possible to control neuronal activity with...that, in turn, trigger neural excitation, whereas yellow light activates halorhodopsins to silence neuronal...

...dividing cells only, so is not suitable for infection of quiescent cells or infrequently cycling cells but ...non-dividing cells, making it conducive to targeting all cell types. Altogether, AAV has many excellent features...DNA copies of their genome upon infecting a host cell. This viral DNA (also called proviral DNA) is then...host. So why use a gamma-retrovirus in the lab? Well, they are essentially evolutionarily optimized gene...and permanently integrate a genetic cargo into a cell. These viruses have a cargo capacity of ~ 8 kb, ...needs, and can transduce (infect) a wide range of cell types with a high efficiency. However, gamma-retrovirus...but is fine for experiments with immortalized cell line cultures. Lentivirus Lentivirus is a type of retrovirus...