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  1. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ... between living cells by TransitID. Cell, 186(15), 3307–3324.e30. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.044. PMID...lentivirus and MMLV gag, to specific cell types. It can also make CAR-T cell therapy more accessible by simplifying... efficient prime editors. Cell, 186(18), 3983–4002.e26. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.07.039. PMID: 37657419...called DIRECTED (Delivery to Intended REcipient Cells Through Envelope Design). This modular approach ...viral surface, expanding the range of targetable cell types. DIRECTED is compatible with fusogens from...process and could even enable the creation of CAR-T cells directly within the body. Overall, DIRECTED can ...DIRECTED plasmids here! Strebinger, D., et al. (2023). Cell type-specific delivery by modular envelope design...
  2. CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics

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    Aug. 9, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... for stem cells, or metastasized tumor cells, or alzheimers-affected neurons, or [your cell line of interest...critical to stem cell survival. Knowing which genes influence the survival of our cell culture is the foundation...minimal side-effects on healthy cells and maximal effect on unhealthy cells. Until recently, the human genome...ENCODE project, find enhancers in embryonic stem cells, and conclude with a targeted CRISPR screen that...essential transcription factor in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Your ChIP-seq finds just over 13,000 significant...We start by infecting millions of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) with a lentiviral vector, an attenuated retrovirus...The result is a heterogenous population of stem cells, usually housed in a single flask. Through a bit...
  3. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    April 3, 2014, 8:05 p.m.
    ... a big issue for cells, but it may confound research results or even kill your cells if your gene of interest...necessary to replicate plasmids and make sure the cells maintains it. Here, we'll cover the promoter, which... Because transcription machinery differs between cell types or organisms, promoters must be similarly ...variable. Bacterial promoters only work in prokaryotic cells and typically only in the same or closely related... were derived. Similarly, the various eukaryotic cell types (mammalian, yeast, plants, etc) require unique...complex, having fewer parts than those in eukaryotic cells. Some promoters are constitutively active and on... at will with a chemical, heat, or light. In the cell, promoters themselves are controlled by still other...
  4. The Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank: Over 25 Years of Antibody Sharing

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    March 10, 2015, 2:25 p.m.
    ...produced by a single B cell. To create a monoclonal antibody cell line, myeloma cells are fused with activated...activated B cells from the spleen of mice injected with the antigen of interest. The immortalized cells, called...distributing over 3,000 antibodies and associated hybridoma cell lines. The DSHB was created by the National Institute... individually isolated and expanded. The clonal cells are screened to identify hybridoma lines, each producing...
  5. SpyLigase Irreversibly Locks Peptides Together for Efficient Cell Capture

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    Aug. 13, 2014, 3:49 p.m.
    ...help in the capture of other rare cell types, like stem cells or cells infected with malaria or other parasites...tumor markers to subsequently capture cancerous cells expressing low levels of tumor antigen. I asked ...looking at, magnetic isolation of circulating tumor cells, we found that the binding stability really mattered... in the pili that they use to anchor on to host cells. Addgene: Were there any major hurdles along the... donor for keeping going while we worked out the cell capture system.) Cancer and other applications Addgene...cancer? Howarth: The capture of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is going to have a big impact on our understanding...polymerizes affibodies to enhance magnetic cancer cell capture. Fierer et al (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A....
  6. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ... HEK293FT cells expressing a single gRNA targeting a single gene. The gRNA expressing cells were then ...plasmid to generate a population of mutant cells. The mutant cells were treated with WNV at a dose and duration...regulate the ability of WNV to induce cell death in infected cells (SEL1L, UBE2J1, EMC3, EMC2, DERL2, UBE2G2...AID-tagging system to essential genes in human cells and mouse ES cells because it was difficult to fuse the AID...-to-study genes in hard-to-study cell types. Natsume T, et al. Cell Rep. 2016. PubMed PMID: 27052166 ...small GTPases involved in cell signaling pathways that control many cellular processes such as differentiation...therefore varies with cellular location: it is both red and green through much of the cell, but turns more ...
  7. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ... properties and processes with our own cells. Like human cells, yeast DNA is packaged into chromosomes...differentiation of β-cells in the the developing zebrafish pancreas. They first tagged these cells using plasmids...recapitulate the complex interactions between cancer cells, therapeutic drugs, and the rest of the body than...than studies in other model organisms or cell culture. For example, Scott Lowe’s lab utilized mice to study...to identify a set of mutations that made cancer cells more resistant to chemotherapy. You can find these...to optimally control gene expression in specific cells of the fly (Pfeiffer et al., 2010). Yeast (Saccharomyces...is very amenable to genetic manipulation. Yeast cells are great model organism not only for the reasons...
  8. Hot Plasmids September 2018 - Optogenetics, RNA Localization, Fluorescent Protein, and Base-editing Tools

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    Sept. 18, 2018, 1:33 p.m.
    ...manipulations on cells, and has potential use for a wide range of applications in cellular biology. Van ... of a microtubule-associated protein to regulate cell growth dynamics Article contributed by Klaus Wanisch...of the modified EB1 protein are overexpressed in cells, microtubule growth can be switched off with blue...paper demonstrated that the migration of a cancer cell line equipped with photodissociable EB1 could be...Van Haren J et al. Nature Cell Biology 2018 Pubmed PMID 29379139. The “Riboglow” platform for visualizing...used to visualize RNA localization in mammalian cells. These tools consist of cobalamin-binding riboswitches...proteins (FP) with improved tissue penetrance and live cell imaging capabilities. Upon developing a new imaging-based...
  9. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    Oct. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...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...picture of the impact of CRISPR editing in the model cell line or organism. Several options exist for unbiased...Osborn et al. 2016) and HTGTS (Frock et al. 2015) for cell-based experiments. These strategies can be used ...off-target editing events. Two of the most common cell-based methods are genome-wide, unbiased identification...
  10. All in a Twist: dsRNA

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    Feb. 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...mammalian cells. Here, we will cover how these structures are generated, why it’s important for cells to sense...., Hur, S. Cellular origins of dsRNA, their recognition and consequences. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 23: 286...performs almost all of its biological functions in our cells in the single strand form, but double stranded RNA...with bidirectional transcription. In an uninfected cell, dsRNA rarely circulates, but upon viral infection...Unlike dsRNA, DNA:RNA hybrids are abundant in normal cells and are arise from a ssRNA engaging one strand of...genes is constantly occurring throughout a single cell, so these nucleic acid hybrids are always around...at risk. Consequences of duplexed RNA Mammalian cells have multiple receptors in place to sense dsRNA ...
  11. Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel

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    May 28, 2024, 1:45 p.m.
    ...and inside the cells and are thus typically used for distinguishing live from dead cells. The combination...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...Another way to label proteins is through treating cells with fluorophore-conjugated antibodies that attach...
  12. Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production

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    Aug. 7, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...transfected into a packaging cell line, usually a derivative of 293T. Packaging cells are incubated and after...fine-tuning selection and expression in your target cell line, researchers often find themselves faced with...impact the transfection efficiency of the packaging cell line and thereby affect the titer of the virus. ...layer flask will require some initial optimization; cell number, media volume, and plasmid concentrations...larger vessel to the 10 cm2 dish and adjusting the cell number, plasmid concentration, and experimental ... consideration when titering a lentivirus is the cell line that is used for titering. Typically researchers...researchers will choose a relatively permissive cell line for titering in order to obtain the best titer possible...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    Oct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... your cell type of interest, while miRNA target sites can be used to prevent expression in cell types ...endothelial cells in rodent CNS AAV-PHP.V1 shows higher transduction in CNS endothelial cells (60%) and ...endothelial cells in the retina and spinal cord (Krolak et al., 2022). Systemic capsids for broad cell type ...delivery across species. Cell, 184(19), 4919-4938.e22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.08.028 Vormstein-Schneider...capsid, (b) cargo, and (c) delivery method determine cell type- or region-specific transgene expression. (...include variants with broad CNS or PNS transduction, cell type specificity, or retrograde transport in neurons...sequences, denoted by triangles] facilitate tissue or cell type specificity. An on/off genetic switch can be...
  14. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ...thought to activate programmed cell death or a dormant state for bacterial cells that have been infected with...bacterial cells, LwaCas13a does not display nonspecific RNA cleavage activity in eukaryotic cells. They arrived...target RNAs, although its usefulness in bacterial cells will likely be limited by the propensity of Cas13a...pool of RNAs) or studying RNA processing in live cells. Indeed, groups have utilized dCas13 fusion proteins...genotype human DNA, identify tumor mutations within cell-free genomic DNA, and detect COVID-19 (Joung, Ladha...Ladha et al., 2020). Cas13a in mammalian cells The Zhang lab made the exciting discovery that some Cas13a...Cas13a orthologs can function in mammalian and plant cells (Abudayyeh et al., 2017). They characterized Cas13a...
  15. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    Sept. 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...transformation of healthy cells into melanoma cells. They’ll combine induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology...gene appears to play a role in many cell processes involving cell membrane dynamics. When they learned...still no treatment available. Aguilar is a basic cell biologist. He got interested in Lowe Syndrome initially...the gene, it piqued their interest. They obtained cells from patients with the condition to reveal some ...explore the effect of various OCRL1 mutations on cell behavior in greater detail. The goal is not just...now plan to use CRISPR-Cas9 technology to create cell lines and/or mouse models carrying different SOX10...
  16. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    June 30, 2015, 2 p.m.
    ...to infect and replicate in host cells, but they are susceptible to cells’ defense mechanisms. The use of... transposon; the plasmid is then degraded by the cell.4.) The transposase creates a double strand break...improve its gene insertion efficiency in primary cells. In 2009, Zsuzsanna Izsvak’s lab screened many SB...tranposase variants for hyperactivity in mammalian cells. Their efforts resulted in a new and improved SB...of antibiotic-resistance genes conducted in HeLa cells). In their Nature Genetics paper, the lab showed...allows the rapid generation of stable transgenic cell lines which can robustly express your gene-of-interest...Beauty transposons rapidly generate stable transgenic cell lines. Biotechnol J. 2015 Feb 4. doi: 10.1002/biot...
  17. Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes

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    Jan. 30, 2014, 3:29 p.m.
    ... out of 10,000 cells on average! Without some means of quickly determining which cells successfully received...detail selection in non-bacterial cells such as yeast or mammalian cells.   Name Class Mode of Action...Inhibits cell wall synthesis Bactericidal 100-200 ug/mL Carbenicillin beta-lactam Inhibits cell wall ...the bacterium's perspective – a plasmid-containing cell must replicate the plasmid in addition to its own...easily detect plasmid-containing bacteria when the cells are grown on selective media, and provides those...kill bacteria (bactericidal) or slow growth/prevent cell division (bacteriostatic); however, the distinction...
  18. Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View

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    Oct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m.
    ...specific cell types (populations) within neuronal networks in living animals. To accomplish such cell specific...individual cells. With this technique, a Neuroscientist can see the full dendritic arbor of a single cell with...Cre-mediated possibilities for site specific (and often cell type specific) control of DNA recombination and ...30 °C and is therefore inefficient in mammalian cells (usually grown at 37 °C). Smart molecular evolution...revolutionize neuroscience Manipulation of specific cell types in neuronal networks Double inverted vectors...combination with mouse lines that express Cre only in the cell type of interest (Atasoy et al. 2008; Cardin et ...single neuron and its synapses in the living brain? Cells of a specific brain area can be transfected by in...
  19. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
    ... brain, robust single-cell labeling is necessary to distinguish individual cells. The Brainbow-1.0 construct... May 5. PubMed. Zebrabow: multispectral cell labeling for cell tracing and lineage analysis in zebrafish... 3.2. Brainbow labeling has also been applied to cell marking and lineage tracing in other systems, such...Brainbow highlights the trend in biology towards single-cell resolution imaging. Sanes and Lichtman endeavored...door for immunostaining analysis. To achieve even cell labeling, they generated farnesylated derivatives...fluorescent proteins, which are directly trafficked to cell membranes. Membrane trafficking of farnesylated ...Brainbow mice to determine the number and type of cells in which the construct is expressed. The photostability...
  20. Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the Genome

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    June 23, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Cas9 in Intestinal Stem Cell Organoids of Cystic Fibrosis Patients." Cell Stem Cell. 13, 653-658 (5 December...CRISPR in adult stem cells has huge potential, because the genomes of adult stem cells in organoid cultures...Genetic Disease in Mouse Via Use of CRISPR/Cas9." Cell Stem Cell. 13, 659-662 (5 December 2013). 8. Gerald Schwank...homologous recombination in cultured intestinal stem cells of patients with cystic fibrosis (8).   The difference...applied CRISPR to disease correction in adult stem cells isolated from two patients with cystic fibrosis....is a big advantage over induced pluripotent stem cells, which need to go through a phase of crisis where...B. 2021. “CRISPR/Cas gene therapy.” Journal of cellular physiology.  https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.30064...
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