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  1. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    ...interactions, a restriction enzyme digest cuts DNA into smaller pieces, and proximity ligation creates chimeric...complexes are cross-linked, DNA is digested into smaller pieces. Sticky ends created are then ligated together...physically located. DNA is then sheared into pieces small enough to be pulled down via streptavidin IP. Biotinylated... sequence that is recognized by biotin ligases normally expressed in eukaryotic cells. Using this tag ...
  2. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    ...of hundreds to tens of thousands of genes with minimal effort. The versatility of Cas effectors allows... the host genome. AAV instead relies mainly on episomal expression. Episomes are circular pieces of DNA... pool for downstream NGS and means you can use smaller volumes of your library for each experiment. Additional...to use variants of Cas9, like split Cas9, or a smaller Cas9 ortholog like SaCas9. You could even venture...
  3. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    ...Matsuoka et al., 2023), but these effects were very small or were possible only in non-biological conditions...slight but detectable change in fluorescence when a small magnet was passed over the sample (Frank Hayward...license. They did more experiments to see if any small molecules act as a cofactor (among others, flavins...clearly visible whether expressed in E. coli, in mammalian cells, or in purified form, and didn’t need any...
  4. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    .... optimized the PITCh-gRNA for minimal off-target binding in mammalian genomes as assessed by CRISPR design... of alternative end-joining, requires only very small homology regions (5-25 bp) for repair, making it...similar to HDR, but it is accomplished using much smaller regions of homology, which facilitates easier cloning...
  5. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    ...uncertainty estimates for each parameter, we added log-normal noise to each of the terms which make up our distribution...of the product of a Poisson and multivariate log-normal likelihoods. Effects of weekends, winter break... effects. Values are the inferred percentage of normal activity (the average rate of unique PIs/labs placing...lockdown), request activity appears to return to normal. The model fit these two discrete phases with an...
  6. DNA Purification Without a Kit

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    ... columns, it’s bound to glass syringe filters. Normally DNA does not bind silica or glass, but the addition... Starting material: plant, microbe, blood, or mammalian cells or tissue Product: total nucleic acids While...purify DNA and RNA from plants, microbes, blood or mammalian cells in 30 seconds or less without using a pipette...(2017). Nucleic acid purification from plants, animals and microbes in under 30 seconds. PLoS biology....
  7. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    ...beta-lactamase is excreted. Satellite colonies are small colonies of bacteria which do not contain the plasmid... its associated resistance gene. They can grow proximal to a colony that does contain the plasmid that...other plasmids must carry both a bacterial and a mammalian antibiotic selection gene. However, it does require...Pros: Widely available, cost-effective, confers mammalian resistance to G418. Con: Slow transformation ...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    ...contact with every day (Prussin et al., 2015), only a small fraction typically cause disease. The gamma-retroviruses...most cases, interested in transferring genes to mammalian cells (i.e. transferring DNA), yet retroviruses...structure of a wild-type viral particle — and of the normal, replicative life cycle — can help you understand...express. In the case of a natural virus, this new chromosomal locus is considered “proviral DNA” (Rowe et al...
  9. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    ...standard in their bicinchoninic acid assay (BCA) to normalize samples before running a western blot. Standard...increase the accuracy of the curve, avoid pipetting small volumes (< 2 µL) or volumes too large for a standard...with a higher concentration of standard or make smaller dilutions.        As mentioned above, it is a good...individual %CVs for each point on the curve. ‌The smaller the %CV, the more accurate the curve. Though it...
  10. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

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    ...dominant homology-directed repair (HDR) pathway in mammalian cells, but a less frequent DNA repair mechanism...suggestions. Disable the other repair mechanisms Mammalian cells have 2 primary repair mechanisms besides... HDR events compete with NHEJ-mediated edits of small insertions and deletions.   Start your knock-in...advances in CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-ins in mammalian cells. J Biotechnol., 16(4): 387-390 (2020). 10.1016...
  11. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    ...strongly biased towards T-RL, where the R end is proximal to the target site (Klompe et al., 2019, Vo et...pSPIN), which offer simple transformations for smaller cargos, and the ability to easily cure cells of...something called target immunity, whereby multiple proximal insertions with the same transposon exhibit reduced... R, Jiang Y, Yang J, Yang S (2020) Multicopy Chromosomal Integration Using CRISPR-Associated Transposases...
  12. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    ...produced from this plasmid pool are injected into an animal with cell-type-specific Cre, the polyA sequence...pre-designed primers. By using this library to infect an animal expressing Cre in a cell type of interest, a scientist...scientist can isolate DNA from the infected animal and use the pre-designed primers to determine which...about using AAV as a tool for gene expression in mammals. Subscribe to Viral Vector Blog Posts Additional...
  13. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ... experiments. False positives can occur even in small scale experiments, although these can often be accounted...target proteins in heterologous systems (e.g. mammalian proteins in S. cerevisiae). While this may ...alternative fungi (C. albicans, pC2HB) (7) and mammalian cells. If the problem is that your proteins are...for detecting protein-protein interactions in mammalian cells based on protein splicing. Anal Chem. 2001...
  14. Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor

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    ...tracks between strains of mice. This suggests that a small genetic difference between these two mice might ...generating a diverse library of AAV9 mutants that had a small randomized peptide loop inserted in the AAV9 capsid... Project. They focused their search on SNPs and small insertions and deletions (indels) most likely to...about using AAV as a tool for gene expression in mammals. Resources on Addgene.org Search for AAV vectors...
  15. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    ... The kind of informal conversations about research that can take place in Slack normally never become ...sources The data entered into an ELN is only ever a small fraction of all data directly relevant to a particular...experiment, series of experiments, or project. ‘Small’ data produced by the research group in spreadsheets...
  16. How to Write a Scientific Review Article

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    ...from genome-wide studies, as well as results from smaller and more specific studies. I also did not limit...of the iceberg. For writers, this is probably “a normal day.” The way I broke this cycle was to just start...You will also begin to hate the article. This is normal and it means you’re on the right track!  Get feedback...deacetylases in B-and T-cell development, physiology and malignancy." Genes & cancer 6.5-6 (2015): 184. PubMed PMID...
  17. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    ... most common type of base excision repair. But mammals also have an enzyme to remove inosine from DNA:...particular species and more, base editors are getting smaller, more accurate, more efficient, and more diverse...precise, efficient A•T-to-C•G base editing in mammalian cells and embryos. Nature Biotechnology, 42(4)...editors for efficient T-to-G and C-to-G editing in mammalian cells. Nature Biotechnology, 42(10), 1538–1547...
  18. Bioinformatics at Addgene

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    ...on each other for the entire package to run. The small, portable system provided by a container is sequestered... testing and refinements, we specified a select small number of input file names or filtered the input...of the inputs, such as the file name. We started small with a print statement and tested that the desired...working on one process at a time, and testing a small set of data each time a new process was added, we...
  19. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    ...vector like AAV? By breaking the transgene into smaller pieces. Reassembly of fragmented genomes is the...lower than expression of wild-type dystrophin in normal muscles, mice treated with the overlapping split...and acceptor sequences were tested and with the optimal sequences, the group achieved ~80% of muscle cells...application (Trapani et al., 2015).  Expression of smaller fragments of the transgene have been seen with ...
  20. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...oligodeoxynucleotides)) are commonly used for smaller modifications (~1-50 base pairs). Small edits require as little as ...ligation of sticky or blunt ends and often introduces small insertions and deletions along the way. HDR uses...double-strand break repair and their potential to induce chromosomal aberrations. Pfeiffer P, et al. Mutagenesis (...
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