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  1. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    ...lines in which each cell has the capacity to be activated to produce infectious murine leukemia virus. Virology...instructions in the same producer cells as the virus. Because it is made at the same time as the other ... a retroviral particle, which is essentially the same for viruses and viral vectors. Key to the wild-type...
  2. Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene

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    ... one’s work. As a community, we must therefore actively work to remove the stigma around sharing negative...well for a neighboring cell type, even within the same brain region or nucleus. Just optimizing AAV expression...vectors, many from people trying to answer the exact same question I was: What AAV vector is best for my specific...wanted to see more negative data (Figure 2.) At the same time, when scientists who support open science, ...
  3. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    ...one area at a time and try to say “no” to other activities. Take care of yourself. Take a vacation alone...whatever works for you, but most days go home at the same time. Use time management tools and tactics to plan...need to match up exactly when you fold them. The same with sheets – wash them and put them right back ...family by forming a social circle of people in the same situation. Go to church, join a club, meet the neighbors...
  4. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ... reciprocal, forming a neuronal loop which is activated and strengthened during memory formation and memory...connections that are functionally relevant, i.e. activity-dependent neuronal tracing. Apart from mapping...al., 2008) AAV6 (Towne et al., 2010), AAV8, -9 (Masamizu et al., 2011); AAV5 (Aschauer et al., 2013). Anterograde...PMCID: PMC5529245. Choi, V.W., McCarty, D.M., and Samulski, R.J. (2005). AAV Hybrid Serotypes: Improved Vectors...PMC2895694. Hollis, E. R. 2nd, Kadoya, K., Hirsch, M., Samulski, R. J., and Tuszynski, M. H. (2008). Efficient...PMID: 25374356. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4269290. Masamizu, Y., Okada, T., Kawasaki, K., Ishibashi, H., Yuasa...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5572074. Salegio, E.A., Samaranch, L., Kells, A.P., Mittermeyer, G., San Sebastian...
  5. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    ...host chromosomes, further minimizing potential activation of innate immunity. AAV vectors are also capable... PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3152950. 3. Jacobson, Samuel G., et al. "Improvement and decline in vision with...
  6. Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production

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    ...system incorporates the Tet-off transcriptional activation system to drive high levels of expression of ... 10 cm2 dishes. While this option is attractive because the same procedure for a single 10 cm2 dish can...systems such that it no longer requires the viral transactivator, Tat. For more information on the different...
  7. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    ...State University Use Nanobodies to Control Protein Activity Learn more about protein tags Read about E. coli...figures 4A-C). And since they have limited cross-reactivity between different IgG subclasses and different...primary antibody-nanobody mix can be added to your sample, thus eliminating the secondary antibody incubation...568, or Alexa Fluor 647 before application to the sample. Staining with this multi-color staining workflow...
  8. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    ...back, better and safer. It is now one of the most active and exciting areas of science. This is hopefully...retinal cells - AAV - were becoming available. At the same time advances in human genetics led to the identification...24664759. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4267879. 10. Samulski RJ, Muzyczka N., 2014. AAV-Mediated Gene Therapy...
  9. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    ...used to measure conformational changes, cleavage activity using FRET-based biosensors, and interactions ...What is FRET? In their JCB 2003 paper, Sekar and Periasamy defined FRET as "a distance-dependent physical...341-50. doi: 10.1002/bies.201100098. Sekar RB, Periasamy A. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET...
  10. Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View

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    ...the nucleus where they exert their recombinase activity (Logie and Stewart 1995; Metzger et al. 1995)....reintroduction, inversion and re-inversion happen at the same probability. Continuous inversion of the DNA sequence...recombination can only occur between target sites of the same sequence in FLEx vectors, the DNA sequence that ...manipulations in vivo, FLEx vectors expressing the light activatable ion channel under the control of Cre recombinase...neuron and its synapse should be visualized at the same time from two different plasmids this approach becomes...connectivity before and after the gene knockout in the same mouse.   Scientists always strive for more....
  11. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    ... dendritic cell function and increased B cell activation. PLOS ONE, 12, e0180664. https://doi.org/10.1371... are represented as a series of dot plots in the same order. However, in an actual flow cytometry run,...parallel.  Let’s imagine we’re looking for cells in a sample that are negative for marker A and positive for... proxy for nucleic complexity of the cell.  The sample will have been labeled using a panel of markers... dots. In a contour plot, each line contains the same number of events. Thus, contour lines that are close...
  12. Chemogenetics Guide

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    ...For example, PSAM Q79G,Q139G is activated by PSEM 22S , while PSAM L141F,Y115F is activated by PSEM 89S...influx of Na+ and/or K+ ions, and activates neuronal activity. Figure 2. PSAM4-based LGICs, their effect, and...endogenous ligands, have low constitutive activity, and their activating ligands have few, if any off-target...First Structure–Activity Relationship Studies for Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs...off-target activity, and do not seem to have the same back-metabolism issues as CNO and are attractive alternatives...harmacologically S elective A ctuator M odules (PSAMs, pronounced SAMs). PSAMs are engineered α7 nicotinic acetylcholine...Cl- ions, and inhibits neuronal activity. PSAM-5HT3 LGICs pair a PSAM domain with a 5-HT 3 serotonin receptor...
  13. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    ...synthesized by electronically recording fluorescence activity as fluorescently labeled nucleotides are incorporated...membrane for analysis through hybridization of a radioactively or fluorescently labeled probe. If the DNA is...searching for), then the probe will bind to the sample thereby labeling it. The label can then be visualized...visualized by autoradiography and X-ray film for radioactively labeled probes or by the presence of fluorescence...strength of the signal in comparison to a control sample. Southern blotting applications range from confirming... MstII and southern blotting are conducted on a sample from an individual without sickle cell anemia, ... largely replaced by real-time PCR to answer the same experimental questions. Real-time PCR detects and...
  14. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    ...gate to focus your analysis on what’s biologically active. After that, the next gates fully depend on your...When using flow cytometry to analyze your samples, it is necessary to set up a sequence of gates to be...the area under the resulting curve. By default, a sample on the flow cytometer (before you set the first...Practical example: lymphocytes in a mouse tumor sample You made it! So much about the theoretical background...gated out my lymphocyte population from a tumor sample. Many cell types can be found in the tumor microenvironment...proportion between H and A (or W and A) within the same type of scatter. Here I employed an FSC-H / FSC-...pattern of positive vs. negative signal remains the same (Figure 5).   A.                                                                                                        ...
  15. Hot Plasmids Spring 2024

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    ...for a range of applications, including CRISPR activation by dCas9-VPR, prime editing, and delivery of ...#211756 (left panel) or #211757 (middle panel). Samples were also immunoblotted against vinculin as a loading...during action potentials of fast-spiking neurons. The same A-to-D mutation in the related voltage indicator...
  16. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    ... nucleic acid or express transgenes as well as actively dividing cells resulting in lower lentiviral titers.... Know your target cells Labs tend to follow the same general procedure for lentiviral infections, produce...but also between different lots of serum from the same source. Labs that routinely produce lentivirus may...
  17. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    ...changes in oxygen, temperature, and pH, but timer activity can be calibrated to these different conditions...and look at them under a microscope, fractionate samples to isolate particular organelles and their contents...
  18. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    ...various mutations used to increase its stability activity, can be readily purified using plasmids found ...protein since the enzyme cleaves the SUMO tag in the same manner as it would have in the context of a cell...
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