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...Transcription, translation, and prone to degradation – those are the words that describe RNA! Double ...in our cells in the single strand form, but double stranded RNA and RNA:DNA hybrid molecules both exist...arise from a ssRNA engaging one strand of a dsDNA molecule; the 3-stranded structure produced is known as...intermediates in the process. These transcription-coupled R-loops are transient in nature and will dissociate...dissociate when gene transcription is complete. However, transcription of thousands of genes is constantly occurring...engages one strand of a dsDNA molecule, it does so at the expense of the unpaired DNA strand. A ssDNA molecule...Double stranded? Well, that’s just for DNA – right? RNA performs almost all of its biological functions in...

...sample of known concentration and measure a specific response as a function of the concentration. You then ...plot the concentration of the standards versus the response and use that information to extrapolate the concentration...spectrophotometer and concentration versus absorbance is plotted for the known concentrations (standard curve... a function of concentration on a scatter plot. For the BCA example, the concentration of each serial ...the trendline is calculated, you can extrapolate the concentration of the unknown sample based on its measured...calculated. The concentration of an unknown sample is determined by using the trendline to extrapolate its x value...standard curves with ELISAs to measure allergen concentrations in food; and your friend the grad student relies...

... could infect. Finally, the transfer plasmid encoded the desired transgene flanked by HIV-1 long terminal...integration. After co-transfection of these plasmids, 293T cells released transgene-containing lentiviral...protein), Pol (polymerase), Tat (viral transactivator for transcriptional activation from the 5’ LTR) and Rev...capacity of a lentiviral vector but for which transient transgene expression is sufficient. Lentiviral vector... PubMed Central PMCID: PMC110254. 3. In-vivo RGB marking and multicolour single-cell tracking in the adult...include a large genetic capacity and the ability to transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells. Lentiviral...integrate into the genome, permitting long-term transgene expression, but they could only infect actively...

... challenging to track intracellularly, but aptamers permit the study of intracellular RNA dynamics. Aptamers...Fluorescent RNA aptamers are used to track cellular processes by transforming cells with plasmids encoding aptamer-tagged...its ability to track RNA dynamics in a model of Fragile-X tremor/ataxia syndrome (Strack et al., 2013)....target cellular RNA to specific intracellular locations using Cas9 and track the localization of the complex...quantify RNA transcription by RNA Polymerase III. By expressing Corn under promoters for transcripts uniquely...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5602116. Song, Wenjiao, et al. "Imaging RNA polymerase III transcription using...1187. PubMed PMID: 28945233. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5679246. Strack, Rita L., Matthew D. Disney, and Samie...

...optimized your transduction conditions, you’re ready to transduce! Addgene has a transduction protocol you... the pooled library is transformed into E. coli for amplification. Transformed E. coli are allowed to ...functional titering and optimize transduction efficiency. Transduction efficiency can vary with titer, ...cells to transduce, you may want to consider spinfection. Spinfection is the process of transducing cells...cells at a concentrated seeding density while centrifuging. Spinfection transduction efficiency can vary ...reagent concentration.  Screening time Phew! You are now (finally!) ready to use your transduced cells ...this post, I’ll walk you through how to prep and transduce your pooled library.  Pooled libraries Scientists...

...-visual G protein signal transducers (collectively known as the transducerome) that can be activated downstream...bound to the intracellular surface of the GPCR. Binding of a ligand to the extracellular surface of the...Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET). BRET is similar to Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), in which...non-visual G protein transducers. To use the TRUPATH system, cells are transfected with plasmids expressing...environmental conditions, cells must be able to detect extracellular stimuli. One way they do so is through G protein-coupled...including smell, taste, sight, inflammation, and neurotransmission. But with approximately 950 different human...involved in sight (Olsen RHJ et al., 2020). A transducer complex consists of a trimer of three subunits...

...reverse tetracycline-controlled transactivator) is normally inactive and cannot bind the tetracycline response... polymerase and transcription factors. Since the promoter region drives transcription of a target gene...promoter to induce transcription of the phage repressor cI. Repressor cI inhibits transcription from phage promoter...activated very rapidly. In contrast, promoter systems that require transcription of a repressor/inducer will...higher lag time due to the time needed for transcription/translation. Many thanks to Nicole Zurcher who contributed... the promoter, turning it ON and initiating transcription.     Negative inducible In the OFF state, the...a bound repressor protein actively prevents transcription. Once an inducer binds the repressor protein...

...: Gr= Gracile tract, Cu= Cuneate tract, dCST= dorsal cortico spinal tract, vCST= ventral cortico spinal...spinal tract, dc= decussation of the CST, pd= pyramid, pt= pyramidal tract or CST traversing pons and medulla...This is in contrast to confocal laser microscopy where the laser and the reflected light travel through ...brains and spinal cords by combining Ultramicroscopy with tetrahydrofuran-based tissue clearing (13,14). A...microscopy coupled with techniques that make tissues transparent are enabling microscopes to visualize the cellular...segments of the spinal cord showing the cortico spinal tract, CST, spinal cord and cranial nerve afferents labelled..., bp= basilar pons, NST nucleus of the solitary tract.  The arrows point the direction of the specimen...

...undergo retrograde transport, traveling up the axon to the cell body and driving transgene expression (Tervo...for targeting neurons, with high transduction frequencies in the central nervous system (CNS) (Wu, Asokan...particularly well-suited for transduction of lung cells via airway administration (Halbert et al., 2001). .... AAV8 AAV8 has high transduction efficiency in multiple tissues, rapid transgene expression, and can ...including difficult-to-target tissues like the central nervous system. In this post, we’ll dive into the... sometimes vary between target species or even strains. Pro tip! Getting a vector into a particular cell...tropism varies both between species and even between strains of one species, so be sure to check the literature...

...most common protein-only transduction strategy is to fuse a cell penetrating peptide (CPP) to a protein...Protein-only transduction? Niels Geijsen’s group in Utrecht wanted to pursue a nonviral strategy for transducing... (78-79% after two rounds of transduction.) Compared to CCP transduction, iTOP is at least four times ..., and cell death post-transduction is low. Neuronal stem cells transduced with iTOP resulting in...lab suggests that primary cells may be better transduced using only protein. Read on for a description...description of the lab’s iTOP protein-only transduction method and its potential applications to CRISPR/Cas9 genome...the HIV protein Tat. Although CPP fusions can translocate a cell membrane, the presence of the CPP may ...

...mutation, the best HR template for transfection is probably a single stranded DNA (ssDNA) oligo which usually...conversion tract length in Drosophila. Elliot et al. (1998) suggests mammalian cells' tract lengths seem...positively transfected. Alternatively, you can use a selection marker to select transfected cells (for...recommends using the Epicentre QuickExtract solution to perform this step to extract genomic DNA from cells. ...µl PCR reaction. The gDNA extracted in this way is usually more concentrated than using other kits like..., & Jasin, M. (1998). Gene Conversion Tracts from Double-Strand Break Repair in Mammalian Cells. Molecular...nickase doesn't have the ability to induce double-stranded breaks like the wildtype Cas9 does. There are ...

...gene delivery in the central nervous system due to their relatively stable extra-chromosomally long-term...anesthesia. In Cre transgenic mice, they targeted the dopamine (DA) neurons of the ventral tegmental area ...experimental constraints." Neuron 95.3 (2017): 504-529. PubMed PMID: 28772120. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5830081...photons for energy conversion or the induction of intra- or intercellular signaling pathways (Ernst et al...the opsin into the correct orientation to be transcribed (Figure 2) (Sharma and Zhu, 2014). How does FLEx... optogenetic FLEx vectors in combination with transgenic animals or rAAVs expressing Cre under a specific...al., 2016). These very same neurons also play a central role in motivated behaviors (Juarez and Han, 2016...

...the DNA strands. This selectively reduces the concentration of annealed mismatched substrates (expected...In this method, substrate pools were prepared consisting of one target (template) strand and four upstream...ligate many undesirable structures, including substrates containing gaps or DNA base pair mismatches (...such as Taq DNA Ligase, which only reacts with substrates containing no gaps, and will not join any fragments...generally prefer fully Watson-Crick base-paired dsDNA substrates to those containing one or more mismatches. However...pyrimidine mismatches are typically worse ligation substrates than pyrimidine:purine mismatches. Helix stability...crystal structures of several DNA ligases bound to substrate (23, 24). Thermostable DNA ligases, including ...

...In a wet transfer system the sandwich is completely submerged in a tank filled with a transfer buffer formulated...electric current. The wet transfer process is very effective in transferring a broad range of protein ...sizes but takes hours to overnight.  In contrast, a semi-dry transfer only requires enough buffer to saturate...systems efficiently transfer a range of protein sizes in minutes without any transfer buffer. These systems...antibody binds to transiently overexpressed protein, however, they should also demonstrate that the antibody...encoding your protein of interest from Addgene, transfected it into your target cells, now what? How can ...western, proteins are: (1) separated by size, (2) transferred to a membrane, and  (3) detected using antibodies...

...cents per transformation. This protocol has worked well for us for multiple E. coli strains, including...find the subsequent transformation protocols below: Untergasser Lab Transformation of chemically competent... easily transformed without a heat-shock step. Because of the large number of transformations being performed...skip this incubation step and go straight to plating if your transformed cells are being plated on agar ...that transforms well in other competent cells) to ensure that your cells can be readily transformed. Compare...Want even more tips for transforming your cells? Check out our transformation guide.   ...We perform over 100 transformations each week at Addgene, so we need to be cost and time efficient. We...

...PubMed PMID: 29033351. Livet, Jean, et al. "Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent...labeling technique involves the introduction of a transgene construct containing fluorescent proteins (XFP...Because each cell can have multiple copies of the transgene that will recombine independently, cells may acquire...mapping of cell populations over time. The ability to track single cell dynamics at the organism level has been...non-fluorescent form of YFP as the default state of the transgene such that recombination is necessary to excise...expressed as many as 16 copies of the injected transgene, each of which could recombine to activate the...labeled, and that while multiple copies of the transgene can integrate into cells, the expression level...

... NUC HNH Cut DNA target strand RuvC Cut DNA non-target strand CTD (or PI) Recognize PAM...left) and transparent (right). The RNA guide sequence is extended as a single unpaired strand in the center...the non-target strand for the PAM sequence and doesn’t mind if the PAM complementary strand is mismatched...of the PAM in the non-target DNA strand (dark gray). Target DNA strand, light gray.   Once it has found...opaque (left) and transparent (right). Some nucleotides of the non-target DNA strand are not resolved ... sgRNA, dark blue; target DNA strand, light gray; non-target DNA strand, dark gray.   The full DNA...heteroduplex and marks the transition back to a DNA duplex. sgRNA, dark blue; target DNA strand, light gray; non-target...

...must first be transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA). mRNA can then be translated at the ribosome into polypeptide.... Overall the general strategy for protein expression consists of transfecting cells with your DNA template...template of choice and allowing these cells to transcribe, translate and modify your protein of interest. Modified...expression post-transfection. Mammalian systems can express proteins both transiently or through stable...expression vector that is then transformed into a bacterial cell. Transformed cells propagate, are induced...including the majority of complex post-translational modifications. Extraction and purification of recombinant...vitro using purified components of the transcription and translation machinery. These include ribosomes, ...

...reagents can be delivered via transfection, nucleofection, viral transduction or injection as either protein...cell line that can be transfected at high efficiency. Lentiviral transduction Cas9 and gRNA can be present... present in a single lentiviral transfer vector or separate transfer vectors. May contain reporter gene...inserted into an AAV transfer vector and used to generate AAV particles. Transient or stable expression...Chemical transfection   Lipid mediated Cationic polymers Calcium phosphate Cells Transformed cell lines... lines Transformed cell lines Transformed cell lines Cargo Nucleic acids or protein Nucleic acids Nucleic... method: Do you need stable integration or is transient expression sufficient? Which cell types will you...

...light-dependent activity to transcription, they fused BldD to the transcriptional activators p65 and VP64 ...endogenous gene expression - demonstrating light-induced silencing of transferrin receptor CD71 in HeLa cells...readily found at Addgene. Shining light on transcriptional activation using dCas9 Initial photoactivatable...early 2015 focused on using light to control transcription. Two separate labs, Moritoshi Sato’s lab at ...photolyase homology region (CRY2PHR) fused to a transcriptional activator domain (VP64 or p65). Upon expression...the activator into position to activate gene transcription. The researchers tested a variety of combinations...LACE) system, the Gersbach lab utilized a similar strategy to develop an optimized photoactivatable CRISPR...