...difficult-to-manipulate primary cells, achieving knockdown within 1-2 hr of reagent delivery. TRIM-Away is suitable for ...factor 1 controls expression of transcription factor 2, which directly controls expression of a reporter ...modulating the induction of transcription factors 1 and 2. See Aranda-Díaz et al. for more information. The ...Podcast! TRIM-Away: Targeted endogenous protein degradation Article contributed by Mary Gearing Listen to...tool existed for rapid, customizable protein degradation. Enter TRIM-Away - an antibody-based system developed...the protein of interest led to rapid, targeted degradation that is dependent on proteasome function. TRIM-away...

...target sites for editing. PAM sequences can be from 2-6 base pairs in length and follow the DNA sequence... Eric Perkins Mammalian genomic DNA is not just a 2-D linear molecule snaking through our cells’ nuclei... for degradation using AID Article contributed by Alyssa Cecchetelli Auxin Inducible Degradation (AID)...interest fused to a degron, a domain that induces degradation. In plants, auxin binds to TIR1 of the SCF-TIR1... with the degron sequence and ultimately its degradation. While other eukaryotes don’t naturally have ...TIR1 inhibitor, sufficiently suppresses basal degradation of tagged proteins, a common problem of the AID...

...Casilio modules for functional genomics (see Figure 2). We hope that Casilio will aid researchers in a variety...

... efficacy in vivo.  ADAs and Adverse Immune Reactions Anti-drug antibodies (ADAs) are formed when the...foreign antigen, triggering a humoral immune response. ADAs can inactivate the drug and increase drug clearance...various components of the immune system. Figure 2: In-vitro models for immunogenicity prediction of ...drug reaction. This system would somewhat act like a 2-step verification. All approaches have their own limitations...Future Enhancements. Frontiers in drug discovery, 2, 952326. https://doi.org/10.3389/fddsv.2022.952326Joubert...

.... Find Plasmids from the publication at Addgene 2. Green, Alexander A., et al. "Toehold switches: de-novo-designed...expected in patient samples (e.g.: blood, urine). Adapting toehold switches for Zika detection We and other...

...Table 2 for more details on the effect of pH on the fluorescent properties of Rosella.   Table 2: Effect...in yeast. Autophagy,4(2), 205-213. doi:10.4161/auto.5331. PubMed PMID: 18094608 2. Sargsyan, A., Cai, J...environment like the vacuole or lysosome. See Table 2 for a summary of what color fluorescence Rosella emits...fluorescence accumulates in the vacuole. See Figure 2 for an example of what fluorescence looks like for...assays Long-lived protein degradation: This approach measures the degradation rate of radio-labeled long-lived...this is indicative of protein degradation). To control for protein degradation due to other pathways, it ...cytosol and organelles to the vacuole/lysosome for degradation and recycling. The key to Rosella’s autophagy-sensing...

...comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 virus-human interaction network in which we expressed 26 of the 29 SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins...all became acutely aware of the threat of SARS-CoV-2. Like many in the science community, we’ve been motivated...identifying these potential human helpers of SARS-CoV-2 (especially the ones that are druggable) is a key ...just at the beginning of understanding how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with human proteins. For example, we used... joining in this worldwide fight against SARS-CoV-2. As we’ve all been affected in various ways by the...details. Our set of constructs comprises all SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins except for Nsp3 and Nsp16, and includes...is going on there!).  Find the Krogan Lab SARS-CoV-2 plasmids (Note: The Nsp6 construct is undergoing QC...

...same site, is 2’-fluoro (2’-F), which substitutes a fluorine for the hydroxyl group at the 2’ position. ...most common of these is 2’-O-methylation, where a methyl group is added to the 2’ hydroxyl group of the...them together, for example phosphorothioates with 2’-O-methyl modifications, proved more stability than...generated by introduction of a single photocleavable 2-nitrobenzyl linker in the 20-bp targeting region of..., gRNAs can be chemically modified to resist degradation while still effectively serving their function...recognized as foreign RNA. To protect the RNA from degradation, several simple methods have been employed which...stability.  Nature has evolved ways to prevent degradation of important cellular RNA molecules with post...

...Biosciences and UCSF recently adapted the DETECTR platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 using a lateral flow strip... can be used to diagnose the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA, but inadequate access to reagents and equipment...named this system SHERLOCKv2 for SHERLOCK version 2. Here are some of the improvements: SHERLOCKv2 uses... a protocol for using SHERLOCK to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA. The test is started using RNA purified from patient...CY (2020) CRISPR–Cas12-based detection of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587... and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems. Molecular Cell 60:385–397 . https...Cpf1 Is a Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell 163:759–771 . https://doi....

...Illustration of SARS-CoV-2 from Philippa Steinberg for the IGI.   What SARS-CoV-2 plasmids from Ginkgo ...Bioworks to synthesize and share over 1,850 SARS-CoV-2 plasmids to help academic and industrial labs accelerate...request? Currently, plasmids containing all SARS-CoV-2 protein coding genes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae ...bacterial expression systems, Ginkgo synthesized SARS-CoV-2 expression plasmids in a high copy backbone with a...high level expression and purification of SARS-CoV-2 proteins for downstream experiments and offer flexibility...optimized, full length and truncated versions of SARS-CoV-2 S (spike protein) cloned into a CMV driven expression...first deposited set of plasmids containing SARS-CoV-2 protein coding genes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae ...

...severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus may acquire mutations to escape ... SARS-CoV-2 infects host cells through binding the human angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) cell-surface...Pooled library to study antibody escape in SARS-CoV-2 Recombinant antibodies for aminoacyl tRNA synthetases...viral preps Mapping antibody escape in SARS-CoV-2 by mutational scanning By Seth Kasowitz As multiple...viral spike protein.   Figure 1. (A) SARS-CoV-2 RBD DMS Library generation and sequencing. From Starr... binding ACE2 is the target of most anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. In the library, each plasmid encodes the...and a barcode, and is designed so that the SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD is displayed on the yeast cell’s surface...

...kinetics which are illustrated in figures 2 and 3.  Figure 2: Glutamate titration curves for the different...iGluSnFR variants. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al…, Supplementary Figure 2.   Improved trafficking...signals upon sensing glutamate using both 1-photon and 2-photon imaging.   Figure 1: 1P and 2P excitation...SF-Venus-iGluSnFR.A184V, iGluSnFR3 v82, and iGluSnFR3 v857. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al., Figure 1   Increased... different iGluSnFR variants. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al…, Supplementary Figure 3.   ... PDGFR, GPI, and SGZ display constructs. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al… Figure 4. PDGFR is a C-terminal...

... that results in a polymerase error rate of up to 2% per nucleotide position. The “sloppy” PCR reaction...modifications: 1) increased concentration of Taq polymerase, 2) increased PCR extension time, 3) increased concentration...to synthesize a complementary mutant strand (step 2 and 3). Then the uracil-labeled template strand is...restrict site matter? Most of the time no, but there are 2 instances where it does. 1) When the backbone vector...ExoIII. See the below figure for an example like this. 2) When your gene of interest has a BbvCI site(s). If...saturation mutagenesis method are 1) ease of use, 2) time savings, and 3) ability to perform single site...PMID: 23766324. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4409680. 2. Mccullum, E. O., Williams, B. A., Zhang, J., & Chaput...

...repeated multiple times (2-4 rounds) at increasing scale over the course of 1-2 weeks. Each round of amplification...creating adenoviral vector constructs. It consists of 2 plasmids: a shuttle vector (in which the transgene...Addgene’s Adenoviral Guide webpage, and references 1, 2.*Pro-Tip*: once the correct recombinant pAdV plasmid...sequenced to confirm its integrity. Initial production (2-3 weeks) - Here you’ll produce the primary recombinant...media will turn yellow. Do NOT change the media (add 2-3 mL of fresh media once a week), and do NOT harvest...it will result in very low titer. Amplification (1-2 weeks) - The rAdV-S is used to infect more HEK293 ...in a 10-100-fold increase in virus. Purification (2 days) - Purification is required if rAdV is to be ...

...CRISPR to detect SARS-CoV-2, including many with plasmids deposited at Addgene! 2. DNA Purification Without...detection methods, synthetic nanobodies, SARS-CoV-2 protein expression, and more. We also highlighted ...empty backbones, fluorescent protein tags, SARS-CoV-2 plasmids, etc. It is our hope that by providing cloning...RNA and extracting RNA without a kit. 3. SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas by ...protein family and they generate color! They've been adapted for many molecular biology methods such as allelic...

... to a mutant TadA (TadA*) that satisfactorily accepts DNA as its substrate (see figure 2).          The...NNNRRT 8 ABE SpCas9 TadA-TadA* NGG 9-12 SpCas9-VQR TadA-TadA* NGA 8 SaCas9 TadA-TadA* NNGRRT 9 SaCas9...available for plant systems. Target-AID based (CBE-2)-  and rAPOBEC based (CBE-1)-  CBEs are successful...based CBEs are known to deaminate cytosine placed in 2-6 bp and 4-8 bp, respectively, of the protospacer....PMID: 27096365. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4873371.  2. Nishida, Keiji, et al. "Targeted nucleotide editing...SaCas9-KKH TadA-TadA* NNNRRT 8 SpCas9-VRER TadA-TadA* NGCG 8  Tips for designing base editing experiments... of different basic BE technologies and their adaptation for plant genome editing. Cytosine base editors...

...imaging of diverse tissues. Nature Protocols, 17(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-021-00644-9 ...   Figure 2: Screenshot showing reagent entries with associated metadata adapted from the Affinity...Human Biomolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) antibody metadata standards. And the dataset is rich. Experimental...

...Neuron 84(2), 292–309. PubMed PMID: 25374356. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4269290. Masamizu, Y., Okada, T., Kawasaki...for retrograde transport has been found for AAV1, -2, -5, -7, -8 (Taymans et al., 2007), AAV1 (Hollis et... tropism and axonal transport of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 in the mouse brain. PLoS One 8:e76310...reveal novel hippocampal CA2 circuits. Nat Neurosci 17(2), 269–279. PubMed PMID: 24336151. PubMed Central PMCID...transduction efficiency of recombinant AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5 and 8 in the rat nigrostriatal system. J Neurochem...analysis of adeno-associated viral vector serotypes 1, 2, 5, 7 and 8 in mouse brain. Hum Gene Ther 18, 195–...retrograde access to projection neurons. Neuron 92(2), 372–382. PubMed PMID: 27720486. PubMed Central PMCID...

...//doi.org/10.1002/1096-8628(200022)97:2<147::aid-ajmg6>3.0.co;2-o Baker SA, Chen L, Wilkins AD, Yu P, ...Caused by a mutation in the methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene, Rett Syndrome is a rare, progressive...X-linked MECP2, encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2. Nat Genet 23:185–188 . https://doi.org/10.1038/13810... (2000) Rett syndrome: Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 mutations and phenotype-genotype correlations. Am ... the human RNA base editing enzyme (“Editase”), ADAR2, into the hippocampus of a Rett Syndrome mouse model...10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107878 Sinnett SE, Hector RD, Gadalla KKE, Heindel C, Chen D, Zaric V, Bailey MES, Cobb....2017.04.006 Tillotson R, Selfridge J, Koerner MV, Gadalla KKE, Guy J, De Sousa D, Hector RD, Cobb SR, Bird...

... Multiple Introns.” Plant Communications, vol. 2, no. 2, Elsevier BV, Mar. 2021, p. 100135. Crossref, ...Constructs.” PLoS ONE, edited by Jean Peccoud, vol. 6, no. 2, Public Library of Science (PLoS), 18 Feb. 2011, p... vol. 5, no. 10, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2 May 2016, pp. 1059–69. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1021...of Plant Genomes.” The Plant Genome, vol. 16, no. 2, Wiley, 9 Mar. 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1002...Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02388-2. Stuttmann, Johannes, et al. “Highly Efficient Multiplex...Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46171-2. Resources on Addgene.org Modular Cloning (MoClo...toolkit was used to study the effects of protein degradation on chimeric antigen receptor signaling (Kim et...