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  1. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    July 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ... useful plasmids and toolkits available at Addgene.  C. elegans open resources The C. elegans Neuronal...resources about C. elegans and the plasmids we have at Addgene check out our worm expression resources page...22nd International C. elegans meeting, I was again reminded of the extent that C. elegans researchers embrace...specifically for C. elegans. This database provides detailed information about C. elegans 3’UTRs structures...animal development (Kyoda et al., 2012).  C. elegans plasmid tools at Addgene In addition to the wealth...described above, there were many plasmid tools presented at the C. elegans meeting. Here I’ll highlight a...about SapTrap Read about CRISPR/Cas9 in Celegans Browse our Plasmids 101 blog posts Resources on Addgene.org...
  2. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ...are interested in C. elegans plasmids and resources check out Addgene’s Worm Expression page. Looking for...ortholog in C. elegans making it ideal to study basic molecular biology processes. C. elegans are also quite... PMC5525645. Mello, Craig C., et al. "Efficient gene transfer in C. elegans: extrachromosomal maintenance...spatiotemporal expression of a gene of interest. This type of control over gene expression is possible in...2009). The worm (Caenorhabditis elegans) The worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, has been used extensively as ... (RNAi) by feeding the worm bacteria expressing specific plasmids (L4440) that contain your gene of interest...signaling in the entire adult brain, using a plasmid that expresses a genetically encoded calcium sensor, GCaMP6...
  3. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...codon-optimized for C. elegans and included artificial introns to improve expression. When using these ...processes in C. elegans: mScarlet3 for applications needing intense brightness (such as low-expression proteins...with minimal background.   Find these C. elegans mScarlet plasmids here!   Cao W.X., Merritt D.M., Pe ...of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles.  ...selection. Using an inducible Cas9 expression and removing the sgRNA plasmid after identifying successful knockouts... transformed with the sgRNA cassette on a plasmid expressing mCherry and resistance selection marker HygR...Optimized mScarlet-based tags for live imaging in C. elegans CRISPR/Cas9 for gene disruption in M. abscessus...
  4. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    Dec. 17, 2020, 1:30 p.m.
    ...see more CRISPR tools for C. elegans, visit Addgene’s C. elegans CRISPR plasmids page. Future perspectives...use in C. elegans. In 2017, the Korswagen lab developed Cas12a (Cpf1) for editing in Celegans (Ebbing... from more sites of the C. elegans genome. Toolkits for editing in C. elegans The development of toolkits...SapTrap-SEC kit for Celegans genome engineering have also facilitated CRISPR editing in C. elegans. These modular...for their seminal work on micro RNAs in C. elegans. The C. elegans work on small RNAs informed and drove... of experiments imaginable in C. elegans. Equally, some of the “elegans” methods outlined in this post... a wide range of organisms and cell lines. In C. elegans, one of the model organisms which I use to study...
  5. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...and fluoresce. The team engineered C. elegans cell lines to express wrmScarlet1-10 unattached to any other...subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...highlights from recent CRISPR plasmids. To find all of the CRISPR plasmids available from Addgene, head...synaptic proteins Fluorescent protein system for C. elegans Fluorescent timers for studying cell cycle length...locus, but introducing large genetic changes in C. elegans with CRISPR can be difficult since it requires...you use CRISPR to introduce large FP genes into C. elegans? By using a split FP approach. Split-wrmScarlet...
  6. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    Dec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m.
    ...for C. elegans gene knockdown Article contributed by Alyssa Cecchetelli  Listen to the C. elegans RNAi...commonly achieved by feeding E. coli expressing dsRNA to C. elegans. These dsRNAs target specific mRNA transcripts...option, including Drosophila and C. elegans.   Find the TurboID plasmids here! Branon et al. Nat Biotechnol...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...write about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.  Listen to the hot plasmids episode! New, highly...switch to be expressed. In this case, the gene encodes the LacZ𝛼 protein. Once expressed, LacZ𝛼 complexes...
  7. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    Oct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.
    ...modular plasmid assembly toolkit called SapTrap to improve CRISPR genomic tagging in C. elegans. SapTrap...co-injection of the targeting vector and a Cas9 expression plasmid will insert the desired genetic tag and marker...as a universal donor plasmid. The CRISPaint toolkit includes several donor plasmids for protein tagging...or by evaluating visual phenotypes. Improving C. elegans fluorescent protein tagging with SapTrap The ...tagging systems For those who do not work with C. elegans, several groups have designed modular toolkits...U6 promoter, and a second plasmid containing the homology arms and an N- or C-terminal tag. The two PCR...Drosophila S2 cell line stably expressing Cas9. This PCR toolkit offers C- and N-terminal tagging vectors...
  8. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    July 25, 2017, 1:20 p.m.
    ...with C. elegans. Researchers commonly use rectal bacterial infection to induce tail swelling in C. elegans...also used a photoswitchable CDK5 in C. elegans. See figures 4B and C in Zhou et al for details on these... signaling in the hypodermis and gut cells of C. elegans causes the same phenotype. Activation of the ... kinase inhibitors, psMEK1 and ERK KTR-mRuby2 expressing cells were incubated with an inhibitor of choice...feedback. 3. Studying signaling pathways in vivo Expressing photoswitchable kinases in vivo not only allows...used in other model systems, but they need to be expressed in a tissue or organism that blue and violet light...photoswitchable kinases in my experiments? You can find the plasmids from Zhou et al here. In addition, it could be...
  9. Supporting Rare Disease Research with BeHeard 2017

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    July 20, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...their function, and C. elegans overexpression plasmids to upregulate their expression in specific cells..... As part of his work in C. elegans, Dr. Di Schiavi will use Addgene plasmids to characterize smn1 interactions...disease are unclear. Dr. Di Schiavi plans on using C. elegans as a model to identify SMN1 interacting partners...CRISPR and lentiviral plasmids from Addgene to knockout, knockdown, or overexpress these candidates in ... disease. This year, Addgene will be providing plasmid grants worth $2,000 each to two labs through the...the BeHEARD Award. Read on to learn how plasmids from Addgene will be used to accelerate rare disease ... Support Rare Disease Research: IFOPA Donating Plasmids to Researchers in Developing Countries with Seeding...
  10. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    March 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...New auxin inducible degron system for Celegans New CRISPR plasmids New items from the viral service ...subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...-baToN, “sender” cells express GFP on the surface and “receiver” cells express an anti-GFP nanobody on...response 1 (TIR1) expressed under a desired promoter with a specific spatiotemporal expression pattern and ...highlights from recent CRISPR plasmids. To find all of the CRISPR plasmids available from Addgene, head...head over to our CRISPR Plasmids and Resources page.  Plasmids for delivering CRISPRi components by a single...
  11. The 10 Most Distributed Plasmid Technologies in Addgene's First 10 Years

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    Jan. 8, 2014, 3:10 p.m.
    ...only plasmid distributed in our 1st year, 2004, and it still gets requested! Fire Lab C. Elegans Kit -...for shRNA expression, such as pLKO.1 puro and pLKO.1 – TRC cloning vector. Lentiviral Plasmids -  If you're...packaging and expression vectors, including pMD2.G and psPAX2. Actually, these two plasmids from Didier ...influx of plasmids for reprogramming differentiated cells into pluripotent stem cells. Plasmids from Shinya... have 19 different ubiquitin plasmids in the repository. 100,000 Plasmids Shipped! - By 2010, Addgene ...our stride. We shipped our 100,000th plasmid. A variety of plasmids continued to be popular years after...as pBABE-puro for retroviral expression and pLVTHM, a lentiviral plasmid for mammalian gene silencing....
  12. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    May 24, 2018, 1:20 p.m.
    ...RNAi) to knockdown expression of specific gene expression. The 49 deposited plasmids enable students to...experiments in planarians with their recent plasmid deposit. These plasmids enable two main types of experiments... cloned into plasmids to investigate for each of these planarian species. These plasmids all have a PR-T4...protocol resources. Find Sánchez lab Plasmids Visualizing gene expression via Whole Mount In Situ Hybridization...insert the cDNA into the desired plasmid backbone. The Sánchez lab plasmids allow students and new labs to...are transformed with the appropriate plasmid and dsRNA expression is activated through the  induction ...Ingestion of bacterially expressed double-stranded RNA inhibits gene expression in planarians." Proceedings...
  13. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    Nov. 12, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ... usage bias in Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias Read more about plasmids in our Plasmids 101 blog series...Lester’s lab optimized the C. elegans GluCl ion channel genes for expression in mammalian cells. This was...Cells however, may not express all 61 of these tRNAs and those tRNAs that are expressed may be found at very...extremely useful in expressing functional proteins in hosts that do not naturally express that gene. The protein...optimizing a human gene for expression in E. coli. Genes are also optimized for expression in mammalian cells....Caenorhabditis elegans GluCl ion channel genes for mammalian cells dramatically improves expression levels. ...Gustafsson C, Govindarajan S, Minshull J (2004) Codon bias and heterologous protein expression. Trends in...
  14. Hot Plasmids - December 2019 - CRISPR pooled library, LipoGlo, CRISPRa, and Voltage Imaging Tools

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    Dec. 10, 2019, 1:58 p.m.
    ...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...may be due to different lipid compositions of C. elegans membranes, which might beneficially influence...need. If you'd ever like to write about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.        A retroviral...type 2 (Th2) cells from mice that constitutively express Cas9 and screen for genes that affect Th2 differentiation...differentiation and activation, using expression of differentiation factors as the screen readout. This retroviral...treatment of cardiovascular disease. Find the LipoGlo plasmids at Addgene! Lawler et al, QJM: An International...
  15. 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...could be used in vitro, in mammalian cells, in C. elegans, and in Xenopus embryos. Of course, timers may...fluorescent protein timers When FP timers are first expressed, they predominantly fluoresce one color but slowly...timers (whether as part of protein fusions or expressed independently) originally fluoresce green or blue...ideal FP timers: 1. Ratiometric determination of expression time The ratio of mature to immature fluorescence...fluorescence from the FP timer is dependent on the total expression time but independent of protein concentration...Calibration curves correlating this ratio to the total expression time can therefore be used to determine how long...
  16. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...to be expressed. These permit exquisite control of gene expression and tracing of gene expression across... basal expression. Co-expression of repressor QS along with QF leads to intermediate expression from QUAS...Controlling gene expression with the Q repressible binary expression system in Caenorhabditis elegans.” Nat Methods...transgene permits directed expression of that gene in cells that also express GAL4. Usage of this system...UAS to examine the expression of reporter genes, or to combine reporter expression from one promoter with...basal state, and co-expression of the inducer QF can increase QUAS driven expression by ~3,300-fold in ...shown that the Q system is also functional in C. elegans. Subsequent work by the Luo and Potter labs has...
  17. Let There Be LITE Plasmids

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    Nov. 21, 2013, 3:56 p.m.
    ...groups making use of the new optogenetic tools in C. elegans and in Plasmodium. For those who do want to apply... (blue) light switch. Zhang’s team devised the plasmids now available in Addgene’s repository for use ...functions, Konermann needed tools to manipulate the expression of specific genes in the brain in reversible ...demonstrated use of the LITEs to control gene expression in mouse neurons and in the brains of living ...stimulation. Under those optogenetic controls, gene expression levels reliably increased in vitro by a factor...system could be by applying it to altering gene expression via epigenetics with the addition of histone ...biological processes and disease states. While LITE plasmids have clear application to anyone with an interest...
  18. New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor

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    April 7, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...neuronal expression. CAG-FLEX: CAG promoter, FLEXed for expression in Cre-expressing cells hSynap: Human Synapsin...neuronal expression. hSynap-FLEX: Synapsin-1 promoter, FLEXed for expression in Cre-expressing cells. hSynap-FLP...systems you can use to express the iGluSnFR3 variants: pRSET: Bacterial expression vector, use with IPTG...FLP-dependent expression GFAP: Glial fibrillary acidic protein (promoter). Good for Glial expression (not neurons...that iGluSnFR could detect neuronal activity in C. elegans, zebrafish, and mice. Second Generation iGluSnFR...PDGFR is a C-terminal fusion to the PDGFR transmembrane domain in the mammalian expression pMinDisplay...SF-iGluSnFR. This improved variant has higher expression levels in bacteria and produces stronger fluorescent...
  19. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    June 6, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ... (ARG) plasmids to better monitor gene expression in vivo using ultrasound. These ARG plasmids contain... can alter motor responses in C. elegans. Find the split BoTN/B plasmids at Addgene. Liu Q et al., Neuron...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need... recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.      Listen to this episode of the Hot Plasmids podcast ...pXPR_053. They expressed this construct in bone marrow stem cells from Cas9-expressing mice, and used ... microbe travels through a host organism, the expression of some genes can change depending on the location...
  20. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    March 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
    ...luciferase, cre/lox, yeast expression, worm expression, insect expression, plant expression, mouse targeting, ...how your plasmid is intended to be used. Choose from: mammalian expression, bacterial expression, lentiviral...required or if the plasmid is difficult to grow. Growth Temp Choose from 30 °C, 37 °C, or room temperature...deposits with more than 10 plasmids is to use our deposit spreadsheet?  Our plasmid deposit process can be... Send plasmid information to Addgene Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) approval  Send plasmids to Addgene...spreadsheet and copy and paste your plasmid data directly into our file, one plasmid per row, as outlined by the... Data Field Description Plasmid Name Use a descriptive plasmid name and match the name as it ...
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