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  1. REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods

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    Feb. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... a given disease. CRISPR has made genomic SDM relatively straightforward, but plasmid-based SDM has lagged... Since the bacteria are subsequently grown at 37 °C, the recombineering plasmid is not maintained. Recombination...directed mutagenesis methods Current SDM methods rely on in vitro assembly. To make a point mutation, ...some of which are proprietary. These methods also rely on ssDNA ends to match up regions of homology, so...better one. Trehan et al. wondered if, instead of relying on in vitro assembly, they could make the E. coli...
  2. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - May 2020

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    May 28, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...constructs 69570 and 69571 together encode the N and C terminal segments respectively of a GFP dependent ...-N-CretrcintG Connie Cepko 69571 AAV1 pAAV-EF1a-C-CreintG Connie Cepko 75469 AAV1 pAAV-EF1a-Flp-DOG-NW...are some of the AAV and lentiviral preps we have released in the last few months: Lentiviral preps for ...coming soon! These vectors listed below should be released at Addgene in the next 6 months, pending quality...
  3. A Control for All Seasons

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    Oct. 5, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...replicates such as multiple mice in each group and C, technical replicates or repeated measurements will...interactions between the sample and the secondary antibody. C, a label control treats the sample to the full protocol...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5773976. Waters, Jennifer C. “Accuracy and Precision in Quantitative Fluorescence...controls and then moving on to controls for antibody-related applications. After reading, you will have a better...and test multiple mice with the drug rather than rely on the results of a single mouse. Biological replicates...
  4. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    March 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ... a mutation that causes Niemann-Pick disease type C, directly demonstrating the therapeutic potential ...toxicity in long-term experiments.  Figure 4: The C-terminus of Cre (CreC) and the N-terminus of Cre (...base editors in vivo and achieved therapeutically relevant editing efficiencies in the mouse brain, liver...Physiol 2018. PubMed PMID: 30819783. Light up CreLite: a red-light inducible optogenetic tool for precision...lineage tracing Article contributed by Erin Sanders CreLite, designed by the Eisenhoffer lab, is a new tool...systems (ex: tamoxifen). As the name suggests, CreLite combines the Cre/lox system with optogenetics. ...studies. Eisenhoffer and his colleagues evaluated CreLite for cell tracing using the transgenic zebrafish...
  5. GCE4All: Making Genetic Code Expansion Accessible

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    June 15, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...come out! References Noren, C. J., Anthony-Cahill, S. J., Griffith, M. C., & Schultz, P. G. (1989). A...site-specifically to alter its function, mimic a biologically relevant modification, or add in fluorescent or chemically...which can help determine structure and function relationships or, in more practical applications, allow a ...tRNA, and the tRNA synthetases. And, naturally, rarely are the optimization parameters the same for all... any of a huge variety of ncAAs to study the relationship between structure and function…if you can get...
  6. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    Jan. 4, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...create solution C. And if a conflict resolver does their job well, not only will solution C be better than...many sources of conflict are substantive (“Person C told Person A one thing and inadvertently told Person...between two different teams at work, I don’t just rely on what I know about those particular teams at that...
  7. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    Sept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ...theory, this is not as easy as it sounds. Even for relatively short peptides, there can be many possible ways...non-exhaustive list includes: Codon abundance relative to cognate tRNA abundance Repetitive sequences...This is possible because there are 4 bases (A, T, C, and G) and 3 positions in each codon. There are therefore...al. found that translation efficiency is well correlated with codon bias in both E. coli and S. cerevisiae...with specific secondary structures in 10 closely related yeast strains. Adaptation to changing conditions...
  8. Exploring Applications of the Bioluminescent HiBiT Tag

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    Oct. 2, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Machleidt, T., Robers, M. B., Benink, H. A., Eggers, C. T., Slater, M. R., Meisenheimer, P. L., Klaubert,...657–661. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4344  Peach, C. J., Kilpatrick, L. E., Woolard, J., & Hill, S. J....-proteins-using-hibit-crispr-cell-lines/ Shibata, C., Otsuka, M., Shimizu, T., Seimiya, T., Kishikawa,...to growth factors, some of the most clinically-relevant proteins are also the hardest to study. One common... improve more physiologically and endogenously relevant models, tools that increase confidence become ...
  9. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    June 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    .... Speed: AAV transduction experiments are relatively quick. We have found that expression occurs quickly...nitrogen or a dry ice/ethanol bath, and store at -80° C. Once thawed, the AAV aliquot should be used quickly...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC190186. 9. Grieger, Joshua C., and Richard J. Samulski. "Packaging capacity of ...roles of certain cell types in locomotion. We have relied heavily upon AAV vectors to deliver chemogenetic...AAV selection, there are three important factors related to location. Location (1): What tissue? Location... (2007): 1740-1743. PubMed PMID: 17882145. 2. Zincarelli, Carmela, et al. "Analysis of AAV serotypes 1...
  10. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    Sept. 28, 2020, noon
    ... of cytidine and adenine base editors that enable C-to-T and A-to-G base substitutions respectively. Substitutions...:723–728 . https://doi.org/10.1021/sb500351f Dong C, Fontana J, Patel A, Carothers JM, Zalatan JG (2018... https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.02.022 Ronda C, Pedersen LE, Sommer MOA, Nielsen AT (2016) CRMAGE...Vridhambal GS, Rivera AJ, Montgomery SA, Fortier L-C, Barrangou R, Theriot CM, Ousterout DG (2020) In Vivo...two tandem copies of the gRNA cassette, one can reliably knockdown expression of multiple target transcripts...Streptomyces Some of the most industrially and clinically relevant bacterial species reside in the genus Streptomyces...
  11. Plasmids 101: The Wide World of Natural Plasmids

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    Oct. 8, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...doi.org/10.1128/AEM.67.8.3440-3444.2001 Fogarty, E. C., Schechter, M. S., Lolans, K., Sheahan, M. L., Veseli....102684 Shareck, J., Choi, Y., Lee, B., & Miguez, C. B. (2004). Cloning Vectors Based on Cryptic Plasmids...some researchers have suggested they may have relevance to human health (Fogarty et al., 2024), and others...created as whole-genome sequencing becomes more relevant (Garcillán-Barcia et al., 2023). In this post,...organization doesn’t necessarily reflect genetic relationships or plasmid incompatibility. Plasmids may also...than one function: for example, Gateway cloning relies on genes found on an E. coli fertility plasmid ...cloning. In addition, scientists have engineered entirely new types of plasmids without clear analogues ...
  12. CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)

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    Dec. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...genomic loci as the PAM does not require any G’s or C’s. One curious feature of this Cas is that once it ...requirement: protospacer flanking sequence – A, U, or C. Best for: targeting single stranded RNA.   Cas7...enzymes Cas9 – The genome engineering workhorse You rarely hear the word ‘CRISPR’ without shortly thereafter...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    July 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...10.1021/cn500325v Goutaudier, R., Coizet, V., Carcenac, C., & Carnicella, S. (2019). DREADDs: The Power of the...https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41088-2 Magnus C, Lee P, Bonaventura J, Zemla R, Gomez J, Ramirez M...neuronal firing. What is chemogenetics? Chemogenetics relies on genetically introducing engineered receptors... However, concerns have been raised over the reliability of using CNO as a DREADD agonist due to its ability...the compound, or compounds, you choose to ensure reliable results (Goutaudier et al., 2019). Using PSAMs...BL, Jin J (2015) The First Structure–Activity Relationship Studies for Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated...
  14. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    Dec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...Maddalo D, Manchado E, Concepcion CP, Bonetti C, Vidigal JA, Han Y-C, Ogrodowski P, Crippa A, Rekhtman N, de... Journal of Controlled Release 298:128–141 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2019.02.009 Wang D, Mou...efficient introduction of DNA into therapeutically relevant, non-transformed mammalian cells. These viral ... could be realized via simple switching of the relevant gRNAs and donor DNA Adenoviral CRISPR/Cas9 genome...
  15. When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity

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    March 6, 2018, 1:49 p.m.
    ...temperatures (up to 95 °C) and is active over a range of elevated temperatures (37–75 °C). T4 DNA ligase ...PMC4737175. 22. Liu, Pingfang, Artur Burdzy, and Lawrence C. Sowers. "DNA ligases ensure fidelity by interrogating...ligase, conditions and suitable probes, LDR can reliably detect single-base differences. The original creators...interrogation of multiple potential SNP sites (15). The related LCR technique uses two sets of probes to achieve...DNA library preparation. However, when a method relies on accurate ligation of nicks lacking gaps or mismatched...
  16. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
    ... its preferred target integration site: TNA(C/G)TTATAA(G/C)TNA. Tol2 can deliver 10-11 kB to mammalian...   References and Resources References Feschotte C, Pritham EJ (2007) DNA Transposons and the Evolution...first copy themselves as RNA transcripts and then rely on a reverse transcriptase enzyme to reverse transcribe...
  17. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    Jan. 5, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...application of blue light, Vvd dimerizes bringing the C-terminal and N-terminal Cre fragments together and...the PAM sequence is 5’-TBN-3’ (where B is G, T, or C). The authors demonstrate that CRISPR-Casɸ is active...unlike other well-characterized Cas enzymes, which rely on multiple active sites. In addition, Casɸ has ...
  18. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    Aug. 29, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Cas proteins, guide cassettes, promoters, N’ and/or C’ terminus, and selection markers. Need fewer components...Griffith, A. L., Szegletes, Z. M., Wen, B., Kraus, C., Miller, N. W., Steger, R. J., Escude Velasco, B.... order. (It’s also why you can’t skip a module entirely, but instead will have to replace it with a spacer...
  19. Celebrating the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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    Oct. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...! References Kuhlman, B., Dantas, G., Ireton, G. C., Varani, G., Stoddard, B. L., & Baker, D. (2003)....John Jumper! The Baker Lab focuses on designing entirely new proteins, improving our understanding of how...
  20. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    May 4, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...predictable kinetics over 14 hours of expression in C. elegans embryos. However, this initial timer was ...timer could be used in vitro, in mammalian cells, in C. elegans, and in Xenopus embryos. Of course, timers...of protein concentration. Calibration curves correlating this ratio to the total expression time can therefore...used to: Monitor dynamics of vesicle fusion and release from the plasma membrane by fusing various vesicle... situation where one wants to understand the relationship between the age of a cell, protein, or cellular...nascent tissues and the formation of limbs are correlated with changes in gene expression. In a developing...
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