...collection, the fluorescent proteins are, which makes mixing and matching a relatively easy proposition...Davidson lab for the last four years. “Researchers can make their own target if it is not already made for them...For more information on choosing a backbone and making fusions, see this blog post from Joachim Goedhart...Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection.  mEmerald plasmids and many...

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...mapping These tools are for viewing, editing or making plasmid maps, but can also analyze and annotate...also has a suite of molecular biology tools and can make plasmid maps. Free for academic users. Serial Cloner... blank spaces, from the text of a DNA sequence, making it ready to copy and paste into other applications... Addgene blog: Learn how the CRISPR software matchmaker can help you choose the best CRISPR software ...

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... updated Sep 10, 2020 by Jennifer Tsang. CRISPR makes it easy to target multiple loci - a concept called...expressing multiple gRNAs on the same plasmid, you’ll make sure that each cell that gets the plasmid contains...increases the chance that all the edits you want to make will happen.  There are many reasons to multiplex...constructs with multiple promoter-gRNA cassettes, making them advantageous for small capacity vectors like... mammalian option described below, plasmids for making polycistronic gRNAs are also available from the...

... the absence of guide RNA, preventing Cas9 from making off-target cuts.   Pro tip! X-ray crystallography...base. In Figure 5, we can see why: two arginines make base-specific hydrogen bonds to the guanines, but.... Residues R1333 and R1335 from the CTD (yellow) make base-specific hydrogen bonds to guanines of the ...The HNH domain, which cuts the target DNA strand, makes few contacts with the rest of Cas9 and is highly...BioRender.com.   The exact conformational changes that make Cas9 such a valuable laboratory tool are still an...

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...for imaging a protein’s entire life-cycle. This makes it nearly impossible for scientists to use GFP to...large, dim, and permanently attached to a protein, making them hard to amplify and image for long periods...in vivo. These probes however can be expensive to make, hard to deliver into living systems, and often ... proven to fold and function in living cells. To make these scaffolds specific to different targets, the...

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..., as it can edit near to or far from PAM sites, making it less constrained by PAM availability than other...within the base editing window, while prime editors make a specific edit defined by the pegRNA. In cases ...the non-edited strand, they can cause the cell to remake that strand using the edited strand as the template... These variants are worth testing if you want to make your prime editing as efficient as possible. ...Some examples include: TwinPE: two prime editors make complementary edits to opposite strands of the DNA...

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...Christopher Voigt and Jeffrey Tabor have been working on making E. coli light responsive since 2005, when Tabor...systems continue to be optimized by Tabor’s lab, making light-controlled gene expression in E. coli easier...the response regulator encoded in the genome. To make the system less bulky and easier to use with other...Schmidl et al. chose to optimize these systems to make them more tunable and user-friendly. They experimented...

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