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  1. Plasmids 101: Methylation and Restriction Enzymes

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    ...desired mutation into your plasmid of interest by PCR generates mutated plasmids with no methylation (there...Mutagenesis to Mutate Your Plasmids Resources on Addgene.org Check Out Our Plasmid Protocols Boost Your Molecular... for purposes other than cloning or confirming plasmids. It turns out that restriction enzymes are one...difficult to interpret or lead you to conclude your plasmid is not correct! Conversely, enzymes such as DpnI...methyltransferases in the PCR reaction). The template plasmid, on the other hand, should be derived from a dam...methylated adenines in any GATC sequences found in the plasmid. When the PCR products are digested with DpnI, ... is destroyed leaving behind a pool of mutated plasmids which can later be verified by Sanger sequencing...
  2. What's New in CRISPR - September 2019

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    ...CRISPR plasmids available at Addgene. We will still periodically focus on specific CRISPR plasmid tools...CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids by function Find recently deposited plasmids ...vector sequence. Homology arms that flank the donor plasmid cargo are complementary to either side of the double-stranded...domain needed for DNA unwinding. They’ve deposited plasmids for active and inactive CasX for E. coli and human...expression. Read the paper in Nature Find the CasX plasmids Drug inducible transcriptional activation and... Acids Research Find the drug inducible Cas9 plasmids E. coli genome-wide inhibition library In the...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    ...transfer plasmid), the envelope (Env) gene on a separate plasmid (envelope plasmid), and the polymerase ...different plasmids. For a retroviral system this looks like the genetic cargo in one plasmid (the transfer...Gag structural protein on yet a third plasmid (packaging plasmid). Viral production then proceeds by transfection... transfection of all three plasmids into a producer cell line, such as HEK-293T, production of viral particles... and Pol genes are not encoded in the transfer plasmid, the component that physically integrates into ... retroviral packaging components onto distinct plasmids for safety.    Viral cargo-specific safety...services Addgene Biosafety Guide Addgene Viral Plasmids Which Type of Virus Should I Use? Resources...
  4. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ...virus (MoMLV) and consisted of two plasmids: the packaging plasmid containing all the structural genes...crossover event between the vector plasmid and the packaging plasmid caused the Psi sequence to be placed...expression of the transgene   Transfer plasmids The transfer plasmid is the vector you clone your gene of...usually 293T cells, with your transfer plasmid and your packaging plasmids. For this, you can use the transfection...techniques are still used and efficiently transfer plasmid DNA efficiently into dividing immortalized cells... (Gag, Pol, Tat, Rev and Env) and the transfer plasmid encoding the insert of interest as well as sequences...the packaging signal Psi). Because the packaging plasmids lacked the psi signal, the genes encoding the ...
  5. Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping

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    ...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...need. If you'd ever like to write about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.        New toolkit... the Kanemaki lab has created a new toolkit of plasmids for the N- or C- terminal tagging of proteins ...previously difficult. Find SpCas9 and Target-AID-NG plasmids at Addgene! Nishimasu H et al., Science, 2018....datasets for research and innovation. Find MerMAIDs plasmids at Addgene Opperman J et al., Nature Communications...inducible and reversible nature. Find the LADL plasmids at Addgene Kim et al., Nat Methods. 2019, PubMed...
  6. "Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach

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    ... educational tools Playing BUILD YOUR PLASMID BUILD YOUR PLASMID is a game where you need to apply basic... videos to teach basic lab techniques Plasmid Land: The plasmid cloning game ... gene and Selection Markers) and one “Transfer Plasmid” game board. Once they agreed on each element to...minutes to develop a strategy and build a transfer plasmid that could be used to genetically manipulate human...disease someday! Accessing and modifying BUILD YOUR PLASMID You can find rules, suggestions, and more details... blog. As I wrote in the blog post, BUILD YOUR PLASMID has been developed to teach gamma-retrovirus or...different education levels. If you modify BUILD YOUR PLASMID or generate games like it, please freely share ...
  7. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferase

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    ...Read More: All Plasmids 101 Articles Browse plasmids that contain luciferase ...choose from) is now a common feature in reporter plasmids.  Learn How Luciferase Can Be Used In Concert ...hirtus) 630 64 Luciferin ATP No Common uses for plasmids expressing luciferase Luciferase reporter assay...assay The typical luciferase-containing plasmid is most often used to investigate the effect of regulatory... cloned upstream of the luciferase gene in the plasmid, which is then introduced into the desired mammalian...sequence. The gene of interest is cloned into a plasmid downstream of luciferase containing a stop codon.... Multiple response elements are cloned into a plasmid upstream of a minimal promoter linked to luciferase...
  8. Plasmids 101: Sequence and Ligation Independent Cloning (SLIC)

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    ...hold the plasmid together, even if there are gaps or flaps remaining. This incomplete plasmid looks like...cloning uses short sticky ends to insert genes into plasmid backbones, base pairing between these ~4 base overhangs... overhangs isn’t strong enough to hold a plasmid together through transformation, so the cloned vector...longer single-stranded overhangs can hold a nicked plasmid together long enough to get it into cells and let... of LIC is often limited to specially designed plasmids. Sequence- and ligation-independent cloning: A...fixing up the “damage” and producing a complete plasmid. Besides being compatible with any vector, the ...into bacteria, which will efficiently repair the plasmid. Created with BioRender.com.   SLIC also opened...
  9. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    ...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...need. If you'd ever like to write about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.        AAV delivery... Figure 1: The base editor is split into two plasmids and co-transfected into cells for reconstitution...overcome this overlap, Yiyang Gong’s lab created two plasmids containing a red-shifted Ace-mScarlet, a fusion...channelrhodopsins. Find the Ace-mScarlet voltage indicator plasmids at Addgene! Beck et al., Sci Report 2019. PubMed...fragments. This system has been used to construct plasmids for use in model organisms such as E. coli and...
  10. Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools

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    ...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! Expanding.... Various soCoChR plasmids described in this work including the soCoChR-GFP plasmid as well as several...further probe cellular function. The CRY2clust Plasmid can be found here. Park et al. Nat Commun. 2017..., the Barrick lab has deposited the pDCAF3-IS5 plasmid containing a synthetic operon that enables the ...the ΔguaB pDCAF3 strain. Find the decaffeination plasmid here. Quandt et al. ACS Synth Biol. 2013. PubMed...
  11. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    ...single plasmid transformation, though, a pooled library has hundreds to millions of distinct plasmids, all...anyone who has worked with individual plasmids knows, some plasmids amplify well and others don’t. The size...pooled library, which contains a collection of plasmids in a single tube, or a pre-made viral prep library... prepare the libraries for you.  Starting from plasmids requires amplification, verification, and lentiviral...library and appropriate packaging and envelope plasmids into HEK cells allows production of lentivirus...amplify the library. This is similar to amplifying a plasmid: transform E. coli with the pooled library DNA,...own protocol that amplifies without disrupting plasmid representation. A good place to start is with a...
  12. Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples

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    ...bacteria with the plasmid can grow. As the bacteria divide, they replicate and retain the plasmid. This allows... Inside Addgene Posts! Learn all about Plasmids in our Plasmids 101 series! ...Every plasmid sample enters Addgene the same way. A package is delivered by a mail courier and then the...about Developing Lab Management Software    The plasmid's journey begins First, each package is opened and... to hundreds of samples, with an average of 10 plasmids per deposit. Each week an average of 16 deposits...allow us to store multiple types of tube for each plasmid we have at Addgene. Each sample at Addgene has ...strains that have been treated to easily take in plasmids (transformation). Transformed bacteria are then...
  13. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...cytosine demethylation in mammalian cells. This plasmid is used with pcDNA3.1-MS2-Tet1-CD to decrease methylation...Tet1CD, is available from Rudolf Jaenisch’s lab in plasmid form or as ready-to-use lentivirus. Tet1 initiates...Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 (Sa-Cas) and deposited plasmid IF311: pMAGIC (R4-R3) NLS-Sa dCas9-NLS-LSD1. LSD1...experience with these constructs in the comments! Find Plasmids for Epigenetic Modification   Leah Schwiesow...510–517 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3199 Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. Klann TS, Black...561–568 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3853 Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene.  Lei Y, Zhang...8: . https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16026 Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. Liu XS, Wu ...
  14. Plasmids 101 eBook 4th Edition

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    ...popular eBook, Plasmids 101, is now available!   Plasmids 101 covers everything from plasmids parts and ...word for it!  “When people want to learn about plasmids, they don’t go to Wikipedia; they go to Addgene...
  15. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ...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...Hutchinson Cancer Research Center developed a pooled plasmid library encompassing all possible amino acid mutations...anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. In the library, each plasmid encodes the mutated spike protein and a barcode...head over to our CRISPR Plasmids and Resources page.  A new system uses light to deactivate photocleavable... accumulation of indels to measure time. These plasmids with different promoters driving expression of...
  16. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    ...Addgene’s plasmids are used with a wide variety of restriction enzyme-based cloning methods. Each method...Entry DNA overhangs may be present in the original plasmid (Option 1) or added using PCR-based amplification...fragments to create TAL effector nucleases. These plasmids were designed to utilize the BsaI and BsmBI Type... a gRNA target sequence into a Cas9-containing plasmid such as pX330. This cloning strategy not only makes...makes it easy to create a single gRNA-expressing plasmid, but it can also be adapted to express multiple...create CRISPR/Cas9 constructs, assemble standard plasmids parts in different combinations, or other new ...PubMed. More Resources at Addgene:  Check out more Plasmids 101 Posts! Check out Addgene’s restriction cloning...
  17. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    ...light-responsive system is spread across three plasmids, with the response regulator encoded in the genome...et al. condensed the system to two streamlined plasmids. The utility of these TCSs was limited by a few...These bulky systems were spread over a number of plasmids, with one RR (ompR) encoded chromosomally. Leakiness...constructs have been greatly streamlined; only two plasmids are required per system. Applications of these...many strains of E. coli, as well as with other plasmid-based systems, which will enable the assembly of...sb500273n. Epub 2014 Oct 11. PubMed. Find the plasmids from this publication at Addgene. Synthetic biology...2005 Nov 24;438(7067):441-2. PubMed. Find the plasmids from this publication at Addgene. A synthetic...
  18. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    ...effector nuclease (TALEN) kit consisting of 834 plasmids. The researchers showed they could use their TALEN...particular DNA sequence? Musunuru: The kit includes 832 plasmids containing prefabricated pieces that allow you...the genome in rapid fashion. The two remaining plasmids in the kit have the rest of the protein in place...fluorescent proteins used to sort the cells after the plasmids have been introduced by transfection or electroporation...protein that binds those 15 base pairs is take four plasmids out of the library in the appropriate combination... ligation with the four inserts and the master plasmid in one step. The kit also has other unique aspects...you are designing a TALEN on paper to a finished plasmid. With our protocol, it is feasible to produce genetically...
  19. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    ....12137. PubMed. Find the Plasmids at Addgene Kowarz Lab plasmids Izsvak Lab plasmids  ...the gene of interest (blue) in a plasmid backbone. A separate plasmid contains the transposase gene (red...). The original plasmid is empty following the removal of the transposon; the plasmid is then degraded...for insertion in the correct orientation. These plasmids use a novel synthetic RPBSA promoter, which is...
  20. CRISPR Kinome Libraries Available: Pooled and Individual Plasmid Formats

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    ...individual lentiGuide gRNA plasmids targeting the human kinome. These plasmids contain the same 3-4 gRNAs...true biological insight. Pooled and individual plasmid formats A first for a library at Addgene, you can...first subset of the pooled library. The individual plasmids will be useful when screening for phenotypes, ... screening in a pooled setting. The individual plasmids will also be useful for imaging or gene expression...assays necessitating the screening of individual plasmids separately. Additionally, this set can be used... Page Find Validated gRNAs Deposit Your CRISPR Plasmids ...
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