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  1. Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP

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    ...transduction: unrestricted delivery into all cells? Schwarze SR, Hruska KA, Dowdy SF. Trends Cell Biol. 2000...
  2. Modulate the Activity of 17 Signaling Pathways with One Kit!

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    ....org/kits/sabatini-wood-cancer-pathway-orfs/ Finding signaling pathways involved in drug resistance Wood...cancer pathways ORFs kit Wood and his colleagues developed the kit for use in screening for pathways that...activators for more cancer-related pathways and more nodes within those pathways. With support from the National...theme is that they do so by activating signaling pathways controlling properties like growth, survival, ...Wood wanted to find out which particular pathways drive resistance to specific drugs in specific contexts...Institute and MIT, started with a list of 17 signaling pathways that are frequently implicated in cancer cell ...differentiation, and apoptosis. For each of these 17 pathways, they identified a set of one to three mutant ...
  3. Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research

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    ... to answer this question! The Pathways Over Time project The Pathways over Time project provides a framework...straightforward. Instructors first select a multi-gene pathway to study and a reference organism where deletion...(Figure 1) occurs through a well-characterized pathway with multiple enzymatic steps (5). In their experiments... since the species diverged. Tips on using the Pathways Over Time plasmids The plasmids are used as part...genes selected from different parts of the Met pathway (Fig. 1). In addition to the complementation experiments..., Warner, D.M., Ludlow, L.H., & O'Connor, C.M. Pathways over time: Functional genomics research in an ... pathways over time...
  4. mTOR Pathway

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    ...Research mTOR Pathway mTOR Pathway You May Also Like: Cancer Pathway ORF Kit Ras Pathway p53 Pathway Tackling...Addgene's plasmids for the mTOR pathway. enhanced signaling of mTOR, a key metabolic regulator, correlates...Resistance with a New Screening Kit Background mTOR Pathway Plasmids mTOR Gene List Resources The m echanistic...promotes cell survival and proliferation. mTOR Pathway Plasmids Click on a name to find available plasmids...generated with the help of David Sabatini . mTOR Pathway Color is used for clarity and does not indicate...the help of David Sabatini . Return to top mTOR Pathway - Gene List Click on a name to find available plasmids...regulated kinase 1 Return to top Resources Cancer Pathway ORF Kit (Sabatini & Wood) Tackling Cancers’ Drug...
  5. p53 Pathway

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    ...Research p53 Pathway p53 Pathway You May Also Like: Cancer Pathway ORF Kit mTOR pathway Ras pathway Background...Addgene's collection of plasmids for the p53 pathway. p53 is a transcription factor and tumor suppressor...Background p53 Pathway Plasmids p53 Gene List References Background p53 is a transcription factor and tumor...mutant p53 is known to function in cancer. p53 Pathway Plasmids Click on a name to find available plasmids...does not indicate a specific relationship. p53 Pathway Color is used for clarity and does not indicate...generated with the help of . Return to top p53 Pathway - Gene List Click on a name to find available plasmids...Recruitment of p300/CBP in p53-dependent signal pathways. Avantaggiati ML, Ogryzko V, Gardner K, Giordano...
  6. Ras Pathway

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    ...Research Ras Pathway Ras Pathway You May Also Like: Ras Pathway Clone Collection 2.0 mTOR Pathway p53 Pathway...Addgene's collection of plasmids for the Ras pathway. Ras is a small GTPase and constitutively active...Pathway Background Ras Pathway Plasmids Ras Gene List Resources Background Ras is a small GTPase and is ...conditions GTPases play prominent roles in signaling pathways regulating cell migration, survival, adhesion,...and all tissues. Ras can activate a variety of pathways, which ultimately turn on genes involved in cell...constitutively active form, constantly activating pathways for cell growth and potentially leading to cancer...found in around 20-25% of all human cancers. Ras Pathway Plasmids Click on a name to find available plasmids...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools

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    ...secondary pathways with photoswitches OptoXRs are great for activating entire signaling pathways, but what...signaling pathways allowing researchers greater control over when and where to activate the pathway than traditional... a single pathway to activate various protein regulators at different points in the pathway. Photoswitches...signaling pathways. Light exposure removes the block provided by the LOV domain allowing the pathway to be... same pathways. Additionally, as GPCR signaling is amplified in successive steps along a pathway, there...exposed to light, they activate downstream signaling pathways that can change both the membrane potential and...either activate or inhibit a specific receptor or pathway.  Light-gated ion channels Light activated ion ...
  8. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    ...signaling pathways, scientists frequently use growth factors or serum to stimulate a pathway of interest...signaling pathway (i.e. everything downstream of MEK1), bypassing the upstream portion of the pathway and focusing...signaling pathways Negative feedback loops are a common feature of signal transduction pathways, but are...Signal transduction pathways are a lot like cell phone networks. Protein kinases deliver messages to ...to the next members of their pathways, but where the kinases are located, their signal strength, and how...ability of kinase inhibitors to alter Raf1-MEK-ERK pathway signaling by using psMEK1 and an ERK kinase translocation...the inhibitor targeted upstream members of the pathway (Raf1, EGRF), the KTR localized to the cytoplasm...
  9. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ...apoptotic pathway and be eliminated from the body. In the case of cancer, however, the apoptotic pathway is ...investigators may select a pathway and identify any genes within that pathway that are of interest to their...environments for many cell types. From proteins to pathways - Ras as a model When mutations do arise and cancer... focused on picking apart the complex cellular pathways involved in the development of different cancers... One of the most prominent of these is the Ras pathway. The term “Ras” collectively refers to 3 proteins...exciting and relatively new resources is the RAS Pathway Clone Collection 2.0. The collection is a set of...that represents 180 genes from the Ras signaling pathway. Its major appeal is that it enables the simple...
  10. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...of homology directed repair, one of the repair pathways of DSBs, with a focus on repair for genome modification... cells, repair of DSBs occurs primarily by two pathways: Non-Homologous End-Joining (NHEJ) and Homology...HDR). NHEJ is the canonical homology-independent pathway as it involves the direct ligation of sticky or...unique HDR mechanisms, but all templated-repair pathways have these central steps: The 5’ DNA end of the...the DNA repair process Homology directed repair pathways HDR mechanisms can be divided into two main camps...chromatid, plasmid, etc.), and consists of three pathways: classical double-strand break repair (DSBR), ...double-strand break repair (DSBR) In the classical DSBR pathway, the 3’ ends invade an intact homologous template...
  11. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    ...including the organelles that compose the secretory pathway, endocytic vesicles, mitochondria, lysosomes or...inappropriate disulfide bonds in the secretory pathway (Figure 1) [4,6–8]. Additionally, FPs that encode...sequence intended to localize them to the secretory pathway, a dark pool that is mislocalized to the ER can... blocked from proceeding through the secretory pathway, and retained in the ER. FPs have been undeniably... cellular compartments including the secretory pathway (Figure 2), the inner membrane space of mitochondria...postdoctoral fellowship with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz at the National Institutes of Health and he is... of green fluorescent protein in the secretory pathway of endocrine cells." Biochem. J 360 (2001): 645...
  12. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...retrograde tracing take advantage of existing transport pathways in neurons. Anterograde transport is typically... molecules targeted for degradation. These two pathways also use different cytoskeletal machineries to...1971), plant lectins (wheat germ agglutinin WGA, Schwab et al., 1978) or fluorescent molecules such as ...another at synapses resulting in faint signals (Schwab et al., 1979; Buttry & Goshgarian, 2015). Nevertheless... transsynaptic viral tracer for mapping output pathways of genetically marked neurons. Neuron 72(6), 938...retrograde gene transfer into primate neuronal pathways via adeno-associated virus serotype 8 and 9. Neuroscience... (2017). Identification of a motor to auditory pathway important for vocal learning. Nat Neurosci 20(7...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: The AAV Retrograde Serotype

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    ...!) The cortical pathways to the IC were well transduced by AAVrg while other pathways such as those in... the cell. This means that not all neurons and pathways will be transduced equally well by AAV-retrograde...Albaugh, 2020, Tervo, 2016).  In fact, some neuronal pathways may not be transduced at all by this serotype....Beebe in Brett Schofield’s lab demonstrated that pathways projecting to the inferior colliculus (IC) are... noted a lack of transduction in catecholamine pathways from the spinal cord (Wang, 2018, Metcalfe, 2022... (e.g. Cre or FLP) to transduce the projection pathway neurons and then inject a recombinase-dependent...
  14. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

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    ... harnessed to regulate signaling pathways such as the Ras/Erk pathway. What’s next for OptoNBs? While ...us into cells: light-based control of signaling pathways. This is particularly exciting because using light...pharmacological or genetic manipulation of the signaling pathway.  As a proof-of-principle, the team created an ...an OptoNB to control the Ras/Erk signaling pathway, which is often over-activated in cancer due to its ...offer more levers to pull to control signaling pathways. For example, if the OptoNB could bind and block...flip of a light switch could control a signaling pathway. Ultimately, development of more OptoNBs would ...
  15. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ...synthetases Nanocompartments for yeast bioproduction pathways The CRISPR corner New ready-to-use viral preps...simple enzyme protection in yeast bioproduction pathways By Gabrielle Clouse Claudia Vickers’ lab has created...interactions in the cell, improving biosynthetic pathway yields by stabilizing rate-limiting enzymes. In...system encapsulated a rate-limiting enzyme in this pathway (myo-inositol oxygenase), providing enzyme protection...suggesting that MPyV system can improve metabolic pathway yields by encapsulating a single enzyme. Compared... to co-localize multiple enzymes in a reaction pathway, the MPyV system provides a simple, efficient method...protecting a single enzyme that drives biosynthetic pathways.   Cheah et al., bioRxiv 2021. https://doi.org...
  16. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

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    ...tricks for harnessing the homology-directed repair pathway, designing the best donor DNA, and avoiding common...knock-in cell line is to utilize the built-in repair pathway cells already have for repairing DNA double strand...is the dominant homology-directed repair (HDR) pathway in mammalian cells, but a less frequent DNA repair...  Designing donors for HDR The basis of the HDR pathway relies on repair from a template molecule, which...said earlier, HDR is not the most common editing pathway for DNA repair. To tilt the scales in your favor...alt-EJ). Inhibitors to essential components of both pathways have been shown to be efficacious for increasing... potentially shuttling repair down a different pathway (Charpentier et al., Nat Com).     Fig....
  17. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

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    ...dissect a complex signaling pathway, and to identify what part of a pathway to inhibit to block the cellular...are causal for a phenotype of interest. Selected pathways  I attended a great talk when I was a PhD student...impression on me. The slide showed a complex signaling pathway with many receptors, signaling molecules, transcription... to show exactly which components of the known pathway that were essential for the activity of different...targeting all potential components of a signaling pathway. For example, one could study the cellular response...screen, known components of the cytokine signaling pathway could be targeted. Cells failing to upregulate ...
  18. Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection

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    ...corresponding to known cellular signaling pathways as part of our Genetic Pathway Reference Set. These Gateway-compatible...cDNA clones mapping to well-annotated cellular pathways). It wasn’t clear whether gene-agnostic bioassays...The pan cancer mutant collection and the genetic pathway reference collections are described in this paper...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5386591.  The genetic pathway reference collection is described in this publication...
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