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  1. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    June 4, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...REC and NUC, and their subdomains. NUC includes the HNH and RuvC catalytic domains, as well as the CTD (...recognition). The NUC lobe contains the DNA scissors: the HNH and RuvC domains, which are named for similar...the guide RNA. Unlike the cleavage domains, the recognition domains—including the CTD and the entire REC...similar nuclease folds found in other proteins. The C-terminal domain (CTD) of the protein also belongs ...lobe—do not structurally resemble any other known proteins; they are completely unique to the CRISPR system...Nishimasu et al., 2014). Table 1. Summary of Cas9 domains, the lobe each domain belongs to, and their roles...pyogenes Cas9 in the apo state (PDB ID 4CMP) with domains colored as in Figure 1. HNH, red; RuvC, orange;...

  2. To Each HIS Own

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    March 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...binding of untagged proteins. Despite being a relatively low frequency amino acid, proteins containing two ...research requires a close examination of specific proteins within a system. This can be pretty complicated...given that a single cell has tens of thousands of proteins functioning in a variety of ways. How do scientists...from a complex mix using affinity chromatography against an amino acid sequence, or tag, on the protein....of methods can be used to successfully isolate proteins, this blog will focus on one of the most common... as Ni2+ or Co2+ (Hochuli 1988), and can elute proteins with up to 95% purity (Janknecht 1991, Hochuli...itself. Next, a series of wash steps removes excess proteins and other contaminants. The protein of interest...

  3. Addgene-Seeding Labs Plasmid Grant: Accelerating Science Globally - 5 Scientists, 4 Countries & 3 Continents!

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    July 18, 2017, 12:41 p.m.
    ... and analysing the insecticidal potential of Cry proteins in order to manage insect pests and to support...The recombinant Cry proteins will then be screened for toxicity against local insect pests. By developing...the identification of plant compounds and insecticidal proteins to the development of renewable biotechnology...desaturating fatty acids. Identification of Insecticidal Proteins Linh Bao Ton (M. Sc.), Nong Lam University...developing biological agents such as insecticidal proteins, the use of chemical pesticides may be avoided or...system pDawn to clone and express newly identified proteins and enzymes. These compounds will later get tested... nutritionally and therapeutically significant proteins. In this project she aims to create transgenic...

  4. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    Aug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... of proteins captured on magnetic beads (Arimura et al., 2024). In MagIC-cryo-EM, target proteins (expressed...adding Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) proteins, small proteins that naturally adsorb to the AWI, can ...editor installs the recombinase “landing sites,” then the recombinase handles the installation of the ... DNA-targeting proteins, so the team created versions using dCas9, zinc finger proteins, and transcription...for enrichment and structure determination LEA proteins protect samples during cryo-EM grid freezing Engineered...biotinylated SpyTag-SpyCatcher linkers and spacer proteins ending with a GFP nanobody (Figure 1). This enrichment...https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.21.576499.    LEA proteins protect fragile samples during cryo-EM grid plunge...

  5. Hot Plasmids June 2018 - Reverse transcriptase, nanobody, and protein-DNA interaction tools

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    June 27, 2018, 1:16 p.m.
    ...Broad Institute focuses on proteomics: developing and applying new technologies to quantify proteins in ...locus and labels the proteins in its vicinity with biotin. The biotin-labeled proteins can then be isolated...electron-rich amino acid side chains (e.g. Tyrosine) with biotin. These biotin-labeled proteins can them be analyzed... anti-GFP nanobody is able to bind fluorescent proteins derived from A. victoria the functionalized nanobodies...: 29915061.        A new method to identify proteins occupying a specific genomic locus: Caspex  Article...group, developed a CRISPR-based approach to detect proteins that associate with specific genomic loci. He ...engineered peroxidase, (APEX) that labels proximal proteins with biotin as an affinity tag. This ‘Caspex’ ...

  6. Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression

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    Jan. 10, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
    ... Chavez, researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. CRISPR/Cas9 technology...to effector domains such as transcriptional activators or repressors. These fusion proteins retain the .... For instance, when native (nuclease-competent) Cas9 interacts with a ≤15nt gRNA that contains an RNA..., or guide RNA (gRNA). The gRNA conventionally contains a 20-nucleotide sequence that is complementary..., in the genome. Native Cas9 has two catalytic domains, each of which cleaves one strand of DNA upon binding... full-length gRNA, native Cas9's two catalytic domains, HNH and RuvC, cleave DNA strands complementary... a regulator of gene expression. Its catalytic domains can be mutated to inactivate the protein’s nucleolytic...

  7. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... measurement that is unaffected by intervening proteins, lipid bilayers, organelles or other cellular ...et al., 2007). All that is required is that the proteins/nucleic acids/lipids of interest are fluorophore...resulting from nonspecific donor labeling. Fluorescent proteins (FPs) are the gold standard for genetically-encoded...remember that, if you make an FP fusion, you are inserting about 20-25 kDa of protein mass into your protein...protein and so structural changes due to this bulky insertion are inevitable. Most FP fusions for FRET studies...can affect the structure or function of certain proteins. Rather than shove a bulky FP into your protein...pair, a researcher can lure the ribosome into inserting a fluorophore-tagged amino acid at a stop codon...

  8. Plasmids 101: How to Name Your Plasmid in 3 Easy Steps

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    Feb. 13, 2014, 1 p.m.
    ... Vector Database. Step 2: Insert name  Include information about the insert in your plasmid name. This...position to the insert. Example, if you have a Flag tag on the N-terminal of your insert, you would list...fused to the C-terminal of your insert you would list it after the insert. pBACKBONE-Flag-hGene-EGFP Other...Other considerations  If your insert contains a mutation or modification, this should be included in the...versions of the insert are often denoted by "wt" either directly before or directly after the insert name.   ... quickly and easily identify what your plasmid contains and other important information. Tip: A lowercase...antibiotic resistance, b) the promoter that drives the insert, and c) any other selection markers (for use in...

  9. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors

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    July 27, 2017, 1:11 p.m.
    ...Zhou: Fluorescent Light-inducible Proteins (FLiPs) Fluorescent proteins can be applied in a long list of...light. To do so, she generated fusion proteins in which Dronpa domains flanked either side of an enzyme’s...Fluorescent proteins have enabled scientists to pursue creative research avenues previously unavailable...researchers are finding new ways to apply fluorescent proteins everyday.  The late Michael Davidson and Roger...for their creativity in the use of fluorescent proteins and the potential for their work to enable future...that list by using photoswitchable fluorescent proteins to create enzymes that can be turned on and off... exposure caused oligomerization of the Dronpa domains thereby occluding the enzyme active site and shutting...

  10. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    Oct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
    ...for tDNA insertions into the plant’s germline Selecting for seeds that have the tDNA insertions (usually...have no control over how many insertions occurred. Having too many insertions can cause artifacts from over-expression...control over where your construct will be inserted. If your insertion occurs in a coding region, it may cause...transcriptional and translational dynamics of genes and proteins in living plants, to complementing mutant phenotypes... process occurs in nature; Agrobacterium tDNA insertion likely precipitated domestication of sweet potatoes...and generating N and C terminally tagged fusion proteins with fluorescent (YFP, GFP, CFP, RFP, etc.) or...perform the transformation not long after flowering begins. If your plants begin to flower before your constructs...

  11. Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening

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    June 4, 2015, 1:03 p.m.
    ...only indicates the presence of AN insert, not necessarily YOUR insert. Any cloning artifact that disrupts...able to choose those that contain plasmid with an insert? Blue-white selection is a widely used method to...beginning. The well-characterized bacterial lac operon contains a gene called lacZ that encodes for the enzyme...indolyl-β-D-galacto-pyranoside) into galactose and an insoluble blue pigment (4-chloro-3-brom-indigo). So far,...an orange wedge in the figure on the left) and inserted it into a plasmid, creating an α-complementation...representative plate to the right, colonies with an insert-containing plasmid have a non-functional β-galactosidase...control: Transform the backbone plasmid without insert. All colonies on this plate should be blue, indicating...

  12. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    Oct. 17, 2019, 12:28 p.m.
    ...Microbial rhodopsins are encoded by opsin genes, and include bacteriorhodopsins, halorhodopsins, and channelrhodopsins...of optogenetics begins almost 50 years ago with the discovery of microbial rhodopsins, light-sensitive...light-sensitive proteins that absorb photons for energy conversion or the induction of intra- or intercellular signaling... et al., 1984; Harz and Hegemann, 1991). These proteins control the flow of electric charges across cell...light (Zhang et al., 2011). What do microbial rhodopsins and neurons have in common? Neuronal stimulations...when hit with the correct wavelength, microbial rhodopsins enable ions to flow across the axon’s membrane... 2012). For example, blue light activates channelrhodopsins that, in turn, trigger neural excitation, ...

  13. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    Nov. 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...system is likely applicable to many types of proteins. For proteins with a modular structure, constructing ...Other proteins may also be utliized as scaffolds, including the set of red fluorescent proteins. The T-DOGGs...researcher Jonathan Tang wanted to express a variety of proteins in single cell types in the mouse, but knew it...single heavy chain, and they are small and stable inside cells. Nanobodies binding GFP were designed in ...showed that nanobodies could be fused to other proteins, and these fusions retained the ability to bind... Tang et al. tested pairs of their GFP-binding proteins (GBPs) to find those that could co-occupy GFP....similarly to GFP, but commonly used red fluorescent proteins dsRed, mCherry, and TdTomato do not induce transcription...

  14. Easing the Protein Purification Process with pCri

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    June 19, 2015, 3:08 p.m.
    ...series, proteins are overexpressed from a plasmid construct, most often in special E. coli strains designed...difficult-to-fold proteins. In addition, P. pastoris has the capacity to glycosylate proteins and may recapitulate...difficult-to-purify membrane proteins. pCri vector pCri-13a, designed for use in B. subtilis, contains the MISTIC (membrane-integrating...MISTIC drags tagged proteins into the membrane and may improve expression of proteins that natively localize...the most stressful lab activities. Working with proteins requires a substantial amount of properly folded... your protein. Structural information for many proteins is easily accessible in the RCSB Protein Data ...and stability. TRX and signal peptide tags help proteins with disulfide bonds fold properly. If a TEV protease...

  15. Of Myc and Men

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    Jan. 19, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...about the origins of some of the common techniques or tools you use in the lab? Take for instance, the commonly...only be added to the C-terminus of proteins of interest and proteins tagged with it needed to be chemically...tagging to detect proteins expressed from cloned genes: deletion mapping functional domains of Drosophila ...we explore… the life and times of the myc tag.  Origins of protein tags For about as long as the disciplines...antibodies as tools allowed us to detect and capture proteins of interest to better study them in vivo and in...they landed on was to recombinantly append their proteins of interest with unrelated peptides that already... molecular biology. And the Myc1-9E10 antibody remains a trusty antibody partner; as I write this, there...

  16. Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability

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    Jan. 11, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...working with native proteins instead of denatured ones - well, don’t relax just yet. Proteins often change shapes... of the proteins to the microtiter walls for ELISAs and a more accurate separation of proteins by mass...out of a complex mix of proteins that have been extracted from a cell, instead of when it is attached ...browse the collection, you'll likely find some proteins of interest for which you have several antibodies...the protein, the antibody can't bind to it. As proteins change configurations or binding partners, the...as ELISAs and Westerns, frequently denature the proteins as part of the sample prep. This involves using...epitope accessibility naturally, by binding to other proteins, changing locations, or even just as part of performing...

  17. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    Jan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m.
    ...utility of PhoCl in a variety of settings. For instance, inserting PhoCl in between a protein and a tag, such... activity. In addition, proteins can be “caged” by fusion to specific domains thereby rendering them inactive...demonstrate that structurally defined domains can be swapped onto other proteins to confer functionality. In Narayan..., with the zinc finger domains of TZAP showed that the TZAP zinc finger domains were sufficient to localize...and molecular processes via genetically encoded proteins. PhoCl is a new member of this class that works...NLS or NES, enables control over localization. Inserting PhoCl between an enzyme and an inhibitor domain...of new RFP variants The toolbox of fluorescent proteins (FP) for cellular imaging is constantly expanding...

  18. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    April 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...viral proteins in human cells and used these viral “bait” proteins to fish for human “prey” proteins that...UCSF). Our approach is to discover key human proteins that can be targeted (hopefully by existing therapeutics...the virus. As a result, we identified 332 human proteins that the virus interacts with in cells. Because...Because viruses rely on the help of human proteins in their lifecycle, identifying these potential human helpers...better, more than half the drugs hitting these proteins are FDA-approved or in clinical trials or preclinical...Paris and New York. We want YOU to join the fight against coronavirus We are just at the beginning of understanding...understanding how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with human proteins. For example, we used HEK293T cells in our first...

  19. Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication

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    June 20, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...pairs long and contains a single origin of replication (oriC), where initiation begins. This process relies...recruits host proteins to the ori to initiate replication. At high copy numbers, RepA proteins form complexes...when they depend on the host cell’s initiation proteins to start their own replication. In general, these...bound, including at the low-affinity sites, the proteins work cooperatively to separate nearby AT-rich ...DnaA boxes are occupied by ATP-bound DnaA, the proteins cooperatively can separate the DNA strands. Created...to control DNA replication. A variety of other proteins also contribute to this regulation in different...chromosomal replication and balance population growth against sustainability. Plasmid DNA replication and regulation...

  20. Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids

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    April 11, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... host replication machinery. For instance, the ori typically contains iterons that serve as recognition...plasmid harbors distinct origins (ori1, ori2, ori3) and replication initiation proteins (RepA, RepB) necessary...such as Rep or other initiator proteins, they do not require host proteins for replication and can maintain... are: The plasmid origin of replication (ori) contains structural elements that are versatile and adaptable...recognition sites for replication initiation proteins. These iterons vary in their sequence and number and can...oris interact with various RNA polymerases and proteins from bacterial hosts. In a plasmid with multiple...has its own replication initiation factors and proteins independent of the host. Host range depends on...
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