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  1. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...wrmScarlet11 which is less than 60 nt in length to tag the target protein. The team validated this tool ...2020.07.02.185249 Predicting cell cycle length with a histone-fused fluorescent timer By Kate Harten DeMaio Studies...color-changing fluorescent timer (FT) protein to the histone H2B that allows for  observation in live cells.... human and plant cells. Its small size offers advantages for cellular delivery. Get the plasmids at Addgene...
  2. MXS Chaining

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    Feb. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...localization 1 TagBFP 399nm/ 456nm histone 2B (H2B) Chromatin 2 Cerulean 433nm/ 475nm Lyn-tag (derived from...newly generated MCS. MXS-chaining also has the advantage of being directional, meaning that (in the previous... 3. Gibson DG, Young L, Chuang RY, Venter JC, Hutchison CA, Smith HO.Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules...
  3. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    March 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...inclusion of non-canonical amino acids or peptide tags. 5) Strong protein-protein interactions with other...typically used in microscopy-based assays like immunohistochemistry, though they are also a common choice for...through several different mechanisms. Most take advantage of chemical groups intrinsically present on antibodies...
  4. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    Nov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
    ...Efficient biotinylation and single-step purification of tagged transcription factors in mammalian cells and transgenic...biotinylation. This 13 amino acid sequence is termed AviTag. Using AviTag, one can label a protein of interest with...situ hybridization histochemistry: use for mRNA detection.” The Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry...interaction has also been adapted for use in immunohistochemistry and antibody labelling. In these experiments...referred to as the Avidin-Biotin Complex (ABC) immunohistochemistry (IHC). For more information on ABC and IHC...Scientific's Biotinylation Reagent Selection Tool. AviTag and BirA Proteins can also be biotinylated by exploiting...with biotin by simply creating a fusion in which AviTag is added to either the N or C terminus of the protein...
  5. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    May 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...Addgene is certainly going to have to find ways to tag and curate reagents from these emerging organisms...college I studied development and evolution of histone genes in Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, the spiny...neurobiology, and more. Prochlorococcus (Penny Chisholm) This cyanobacterium is the smallest photosynthetic...
  6. Plasmids 101: Common Lab E. coli Strains

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    Nov. 7, 2014, 2:56 p.m.
    ...perfect empty backbone, made sure to add the right tags to your gene, and may have even put a fluorescent... your plasmid or carrying out your experiment. History of E. coli strains E. coli are gram-negative, rod... DH5alpha and DH10b (also known as TOP10). The history of B strain is a bit more convoluted due to researchers...researchers sharing and renaming samples throughout history. It was likely isolated in 1918 but was first referred...
  7. Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence

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    May 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...fusing a protein tag to the target and using an epitope-based strategy such as Anti-6xHis. You could also...ICC) when the sample is cultured cells or immunohistochemistry (IHC) with tissues), where an antibody binds....3001161 McLaughlin, K. (2019). Multiplexing Immunohistochemistry. Materials and Methods, 9. https://doi.org...
  8. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    Jan. 19, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Experimentally, antibodies conjugated to fluorescent tags or other markers can be injected into an animal,...antibody and production strategy has advantages and disadvantages compared to each other. Polyclonal antibodies...produced for research purposes, some of which take advantage of natural immune system production and many more...as polyclonal. Polyclonal antibodies have the advantage of more robustly recognizing the target protein...proteins are also plasmid-derived. However, a disadvantage to ScFv is their lower affinity for their target...antigen as canonical antibodies. They also have the advantage of being significantly smaller, meaning they can...proteins you can investigate in each panel. An advantage of flow cytometry is the ability to use multiple...
  9. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    Sept. 28, 2020, noon
    ...uracil DNA glycosylase inhibitor and degradation tag on the fusion protein to limit the activity of the...Addgene depositor Luciano Marraffini’s lab took advantage of this lethality to design the first synthetic...the original pCas/pTargetF but has many other advantages including shorter plasmid curing time. pCRISPomyces... al., 2014). These could be genes, specific polymorphisms, including antibiotic resistance genes. This...
  10. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    Aug. 9, 2018, 1:04 p.m.
    ...(2017). AAV-mediated Anterograde Transsynaptic Tagging: Mapping Input-Defined Functional Neural Pathways...bodies. Anterograde and retrograde tracing take advantage of existing transport pathways in neurons. Anterograde...by neuroscientists for some time due to their advantageous characteristics for brain research and their...infected cells that also express Cre. Another advantage of AAV vectors is that there are well-established...dye-based tracing while also having the added advantage of lower toxicity, higher specificity and reduced...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5102064. Roberts, T. F., Hisey, E., Tanaka, M., Kearney, M., Chattree, G., Yang...
  11. Flow Cytometry Readouts: Yes, No, and Everything in Between

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    Aug. 20, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...adjusted voltage and compensated your colors. Here are some good practice tips on adjusting voltage: During...changing the voltage for the particular fluorophore prior to recording data. Increasing the voltage will shift...decreasing the voltage will shift it to the left. If your signal is too high, lower the voltage to have your... to see what percentage of total live cells are GFP+. In this plot, with adjusted voltage, cells that ...quantify based on percentage positive or negative in your dot plot, looking at a histogram vs antibody plot...gates, just based on a histogram plot instead of a dot plot. However, the histogram plots look a bit different...that for the flow plots discussed in this post, voltage has been adjusted appropriately and compensation...
  12. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ...field in which covalent modifications to DNA or histones, the proteins that help package DNA, were associated...modifications, researchers used blunt tools like histone deacetylases, but targeted epigenetic modification...researchers additionally fused a TAL effector to LSD1 histone demethylase to demethylate enhancer regions (Mendenhall...regulate transcription, also includes light-regulated histone methyltransferases and deacetylases. CRISPR and... acetyltransferase increases levels of H3K27ac histone modification at specified loci. Charles Gersbach... Figure 1: dCas9-p300 adds H3K27ac marks to histones in promoter and enhancer regions. These marks ...expression, Fuw-dCas9-Dnmt3a and Fuw-dCas9-Dnmt3a-P2A-tagBFP are available from Rudolf Jaenisch’s lab, with ...
  13. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    Aug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Coupled Histone tail for Autoinhibition Release of Methyltransferase (CHARM), with several advantages over...magnetic beads through an assembly of biotinylated SpyTag-SpyCatcher linkers and spacer proteins ending with... single alpha helix) and target capture module (SpyTag-GFP nanobody) assembled on beads. C) Micrograph...structures (at < 5 Å resolution) of the linker histone H1.8 in Xenopus nucleosomes and in complex with...methods such as chemical crosslinking or tilted-stage imaging. A truncated form of a tardigrade LEA, RvLEAMshort...can be toxic, CHARM uses a cofactor fused to a histone tail to recruit and stimulate the endogenous methyltransferase...uses a fusion of the DNMT3L cofactor (D3L) with a histone tail (H3K4me0) to a DNA-binding protein (dCas9 ...
  14. 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....8/4.1 7.1 h (red) pFast-FT-N1 pTRE-Fast-FTpBAD/HisB-Fast-FT Medium-FT 401 (blue), 579 (red) 464 (... 3.9 h (red) pMedium-FT-N1 pTRE-Medium-FT pBAD/HisB-Medium-FT Slow-FT 402 (blue), 583 (red) 465 (...2.6/4.6 28 h (red) pSlow-FT-N1 pTRE-Slow-FT pBAD/HisB-Slow-FT -  Applications of fluorescent protein...
  15. Why and how to start studying chromatin (with Addgene's help)

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    June 12, 2018, 11:40 a.m.
    ...H2AFX H2AFY H3F3A H3.1 H3.3 HIST1H1E HIST1H2BB HIST2H2BE RBX1 STAG2 Xist Your favorite gene! SWI...context of chromatin?” Though it’s true that adding histones and chromatin architecture to every diagram portraying...transcription of a gene a megabase away, or looking at the histone methylation status at a double-strand break that...2018 Keystone meeting for Chromatin. Note that histone genes frequently have many different variant names...RANbodies) as versatile, small, sensitive immunohistochemical reagents. Yamagata M, Sanes JR Proc Natl ...
  16. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
    ... Commons license.  Histograms  For analysis of a single marker, a histogram showing frequency of events...numbers by gated populations; this indicates the percentage of total events contained in the gated population...quadrants to gate and has numbers representing the percentage of cells in each gate. Used under Creative Commons... “true” signal.  Figure 8: A series of histograms from Alyamani et al., 2018, showing number of...
  17. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    Nov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...is caused by a variety of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the TTR gene and is molecularly characterized...targeting the diseased allele specifically. Early-stage trials showed a high success rate in clearing misfolded...above! There are many, many more in the earlier stages of the pipeline, ones that have experienced hiccups...Thus far, several targeted therapies have taken advantage of what our current delivery technologies are ...Plasmids and Resources CRISPR 101 eBook CRISPR History and Development Resources on the Addgene blog...
  18. Celebrate National Book Month with Addgene

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    Oct. 3, 2019, 12:47 p.m.
    ...skeptical reader of historical fiction (I can personally attest to this!). Following history from the Ice Age...love a book series that features a young female protagonist, some clever magic, and a satisfying conclusion...Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke "A quasi-historical/fantasy fiction. Two dueling magicians in the...of England by Edward Rutherfurd "A 10,000 year history of southern England. While the length may be intimidating...
  19. Antibodies 101: Fab Fragments

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    Sept. 5, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...technique for monoclonal antibodies.  J Histochem Cytochem : Off J Histochem Soc 34(6):703–706. https://doi.org...Why Fabs?  Antibody fragments have a handful of advantages over full antibodies. Their smaller size allows...used for similar applications and have similar advantages, though with some caveats.  First off, F(ab’)...
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