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  1. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...2nd generation Tet-Off vectors (Tet-Advanced)” are the most recent variants of the Tet-Off system.  For ...gene-function/tet-inducible-expression-systems/tet-systems-legacy-products/tet-on-and-tet-off-2nd-generation...10.1101/gad.2.6.718. PMID: 2843425.Takara Bio. Tet-On and Tet-Off systems: second generation. https://www.takarabio.com...promoters Tet-Off In its native context, the tetracycline repressor (TetR) can bind to the tetracycline operator...promoter and turning transcription OFF. Despite their bacterial origins, Tet systems function well in mammalian... post. In the past 30 years since the original Tet-Off system was described by Gossen and Bujard, both...operator sequences (TetO), preventing transcription. In the presence of tetracycline (Tet), TetR preferentially...
  2. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    Feb. 16, 2023, 7:05 p.m.
    ...come in two varieties: tet-on and tet-off. As the names imply, tet-off turns off constitutively expressed...options together. Turn it off Turn it off forever If you want to turn off protein expression, you are...of control. Tet promoters Tetracycline-dependent promoters are engineered by placing tet response elements... Fig. 2 Tetracycline on/off promoters and modes of action Check out Addgene's Lentiviral Tet-on and AAVS1... to control when you turn off expression for good, the Cre-Lox system offers inducible yet permanent gene...proteins while tet-on turns on constitutively silenced proteins. Addition of tetracycline or one of its...Turn it on? Turn it off? Turn it down, but not forever? You don’t need to resort to the force to control...
  3. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    March 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...is the tetracycline (Tet)-regulated system. You can choose either the Tet-off system or the Tet-on system...system. In the Tet-off system a Tet-response element (TRE) is placed upstream of the promoter in your transfer...expression kinetics as compared to the Tet-off system. One drawback of the Tet system is that it often requires... In the absence of tetracycline or a derivative such as Doxycycline (Dox), the Tet-controlled transactivator... one containing the gene of interest (pTet-IRES-EGFP, pPRIME-Tet-GFP-FF3) and one with either tTA or rtTA...repress transgene expression. In contrast, in the Tet-on system, tTA has been modified (and renamed rtTA..., the third-generation lentiviral vector system offers the best safety profile in terms of RCL generation...
  4. Plasmids 101: Inducible Promoters

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    Jan. 18, 2018, 2:34 p.m.
    ...inducible promoters. The positive inducible tetracycline ON (Tet-On) system, a versatile tool developed for...Addgene.org: Inducible Promoters for Bacteria Tetracycline (Tet) On Expression Systems at Addgene Cre-lox ...inducible promoters, which can be switched from an OFF to an ON state, and how you might use these in your...positive or negative control. Positive inducible In the OFF state, the promoter is inactive because the activator...initiating transcription.     Negative inducible In the OFF state, the promoter is inactive because a bound repressor...lot. If you’re looking for high inducibility, the Tet-On system may be a good choice, as it’s documented...require only the addition of an external inducer, like Tet systems, may be activated very rapidly. In contrast...
  5. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    Dec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...before. But other enzymatic fusions, such as dCas9-TET, can, like the iron ball-and-chain that they resemble...there are a number of drawbacks to this approach: TET proteins are not demethylases; they are dioxygenases...dCas9 targeting (Galonska 2018). This means that off-target loci – in neighboring chromatin or throughout...Szyf 2021, Charlton et al. 2020). Most importantly, TET proteins affect transcription independent of their...2018, Kaas et al. 2013). Figure 2: CRISPR TET-based epigenetic editing. In reality, editing your...demethylation can be achieved by dCas9 alone, without TET (or any demethylase) fusion. This may seem counterintuitive...demethylation without the confounds inherent to dCas9-TET, allowing one to study the causal relationship between...
  6. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    Jan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m.
    ...plasmids. Find pLKO.1 - TRC cloning vector. Tet-pLKO-puro - Tet-pLKO-puro contains all the necessary elements...Trono lab that expresses the HIV gag, pol, rev, and tet genes. It can be used with 2nd or 3rd generation ...gene knockdown. Note: this plasmid was called pLKO-Tet-On in the original publication but its name was subsequently...clarify that it does not contain the trademarked Tet-On(R) sold by Clontech. For additional information...the manual provided by the Weiderschain lab. Find Tet-pLKO-puro. lentiGuide-Puro - This plasmid expresses...adventures...From moving office locations three times, to opening our UK office in 2014, to starting our... of shRNA in target cells by the addition of tetracycline/doxycycline to the grown media resulting in ...
  7. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    Sept. 28, 2017, 2:01 p.m.
    ...proteins under the control of an inducer, i.e. tet-off transactivator (tTA), is injected at a high dose...labeled. Part 2: An AAV expressing the inducer (i.e. tet-off transactivator) is co-injected. The dose of this...
  8. New Viral Vectors - Summer 2024

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    July 9, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... promoter. Use this for doxycycline inducible (tet-off) gene expression! We've also added AAV1 and AAV5...vectors repository since March.  Addgene is now offering an AAV2 CAG-driven tTA expresser from the Gradinaru...PdCO, deposited by the Yizhar lab. Addgene is now offering AAV1 and AAV5 preparations of several variants...
  9. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    April 17, 2018, 1:37 p.m.
    ...iPSC-derived and iPSC-transplanted mice. Cre-deletable or Tet-inducible lentiviruses address some of these concerns...following reprogramming. This can be overcome by using a Tet-inducible virus to allow for controlled expression...out the links at the end of the post for a list of Tet-inducible reprogramming vectors available from Addgene...alteration as possible, with efficiency being the trade-off. Non-integrating approaches, such as episomes, RNA...Check out these plasmids if you’re interested in Tet-inducible lentiviral expression of OSKM reprogramming...test for mouse iPSCs, tetraploid complementation, involves injecting tetraploid blastocysts with iPSCs...the plasmid in mammalian cells and assists in tethering the vector to the cell’s chromosomes. With the...
  10. Using Addgene's New Viral Service for Your Research

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    Nov. 17, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...delivering control shRNAs, GFP, and rtTA from the Tet-on system. The first two can serve as controls in...activate expression of a gene under the control of the tet operator. AAV AAVs are the workhorses of both chemo... service: "I'm excited that Addgene is now offering virion preparations to the scientific community...
  11. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    Feb. 10, 2015, 3:06 p.m.
    ...ompT gal sulA11 R(mcr-73::miniTn10--TetS)2 [dcm] R(zgb-210::Tn10--TetS) General protein expression  m15...Changing media is tricky, because there can be a trade-off between growth rate and protein quality. For many... gal dcm araB::T7RNAP-tetA General protein expression  BLR (DE3) Tetracycline RecA-deficient; best ...not recommended for toxic proteins BL21-A1 Tetracycline Arabinose-inducible expression of T7 RNAP; IPTG...hsdSB (rB- mB-) gal dcm (DE3) Δ(srl-recA)306::Tn10 (TetR) Expression of unstable proteins  HMS174 (DE3...proteins Origami2 (DE3)** Streptomycin and Tetracycline Contains highly active thioredoxin reductase...′[lac+ lacIq pro] (DE3) gor522::Tn10 trxB (StrR, TetR) Expression of insoluble proteins  Rosetta2 (...
  12. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    Dec. 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...technical developments. Using the Tet-on system, his lab has created a tetracycline cas9 inducible knock-out system...Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the NIH, started off with the first keynote presentation. He talked about...remember when small RNA was just something we ran off the bottom of the gel so it wouldn’t muck up northern...interdisciplinary team.  Day two of the conference was kicked off by Nobel Laureate (and Addgene depositor) Craig Mello...
  13. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    April 3, 2014, 8:05 p.m.
    ... several tetracycline operators. Transcription can be turned on or off depending on what tet transactivator...development or there may be ways to turn them on or off at will with a chemical, heat, or light. In the cell.... coli tryptophan operon Repressible Gets turned off with high levels of cellular tryptophan. lac General...General expression mRNA Tetracycline response element promoter Inducible with Tetracyline or its derivatives...
  14. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    Sept. 28, 2020, noon
    ...and its ability to multiplex repression. Using a Tet responsive promoter to drive expression of a catalytically...pRH2521, respectively. Both dCas9 and the gRNA are Tet-inducible, and a gRNA can be cloned easily into pRH2521...knockdown and developed new, more tightly controlled, Tet responsive promoters to avoid leaky activation of...by L-arabinose and anhydrotetracycline (aTet), respectively. pMAZ-SK contains an aTet-inducible gRNA and...self-destruction" after induction with L-rhamnose and aTet. CRMAGE is much more efficient than traditional ...promoters or direct gene knockout. In contrast, CRISPR offers a much more user-friendly way to modulate gene ...presence of the inducer, in this case anhydro-tetracycline (aTc). By cloning in two tandem copies of the...
  15. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...editors, but just as effective and with no additional off-target edits, making them ideal for size-limited ...  By Alyssa NeuhausTo improve delivery and reduce off-target effects of gene therapy, Feng Zhang’s lab ...induced GFP-iPAK4 expressed under promoters like the tet-responsive element (TRE) or the cFos promoter. For...Importantly, even commercial antibodies can be tethered on the viral surface, expanding the range of targetable... to reduce negative side effects. This platform offers a promising approach for experimental therapies...
  16. Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production

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    Aug. 7, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...packaging systems, this system incorporates the Tet-off transcriptional activation system to drive high...associated with producing and using lentivirus and offer some tips and tricks for overcoming these hurdles...Guide. While the third generation packaging systems offer an extra level of safety, they also require a fourth...
  17. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...has used an inducible MitoTimer reporter using a Tet-on system (pTRE-Tight-MitoTimer) to show its usefulness...peptide-peptide ligation using SpyLigase Building off their SpyTag/SpyCatcher system for protein-peptide...mutagenesis (K176R) to improve the otherwise slow off-kinetics (15.8 ± 0.4ms from 21.4 ± 1.1 ms); this ...duration. Both of these strategies carry the risk of off-target effects. Harald Janovjak and his team at the...RUSH) use Cre-mediated recombination to turn on or off the expression of shRNA. This system requires less...expression. The capability to turn RUSH and CRUSH alleles off or on enables this method to rapidly address questions...repressor plasmids from Scot Wolfe's lab. These include Tet-inducible CRISPR activators and repressor plasmids...
  18. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    March 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
    ...incorporating a Tet-Off system to boost XFP expression. The increased brightness of Tetbow allows this system... proliferating cells. Tetbow optimizes Brainbow for current technologies Tetbow (Sakaguchi et al., 2018...fluorophores RFP (red), YFP (yellow), and membrane-tethered CFP (cyan). Brainbow 1.1 adds OFP (orange) (Livet...Flp recombinase. The XFPs in Flybow are membrane-tethered, making this system useful for visualization of...discriminating neurons within only one field of view. Tetbow can be introduced in vivo either by electroporation...vectors. The Imai lab also developed a version of Tetbow that incorporates chemical tags instead of XFP ...this blog post from the researchers who developed Tetbow. Conclusion Stochastic multicolor cell labeling...
  19. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    April 23, 2014, 1:08 p.m.
    ...including cDNA expression, shRNA-mediated knockdown, Tet and Cre-regulated expression, CRISPR genome editing...; however, the 3rd-generation packaging systems offer the maximal biosafety available for the technology...
  20. What's New in CRISPR - March 2020

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    March 10, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Cas9-independent off-target DNA editing, ~5–50-fold lower levels of Cas9-dependent off-target DNA editing...repressor plasmids Cytosine base editors with minimized off-target DNA editing The original cytosine base editor...editor, BE3, induces a low frequency of genome-wide off-target DNA editing. Using several rapid and cost-... RNA-guided methylcytosine editing by TET1 by co-delivering TET1 and protein factors for linking methylcytosine...., 2019. Fusing epigenetic modifiers such as TET1 with inactive Cas enzymes can alter gene expression...
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