...bacterial CRISPR engineering One common way of accomplishing bacterial genome engineering is done with recombineering...transposition. INTEGRATE consists of four major components including (1) a CRISPR RNA, (2) four proteins...transcription by physically blocking the elongation complex from binding the DNA or extending the transcript...transcription factors, phage proteins, and RNAP components (Dong et al., 2018). They found a transcription...transcription factor called SoxS for CRISPRa. Adding complexity, they found that they could also include a CRISPRi...systems is base editing. This process is generally accomplished by fusing an enzyme capable of converting one... targeting approach is then used to direct the complex to a specific locus. This approach provides a more...

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...reporters Difficult to Multiplex: FRET reporters are comprised of two fluorescent proteins with very specific...encoded fluorescent kinase reporters. A KTR is comprised of a fluorescently-tagged substrate for a kinase...for kinase activity.  Advantages of KTRs When compared to FRET reporters for measuring kinase activity...of KTRs KTRs also have some disadvantages when compared to FRET reporters. First, KTRs monitor global ...measure kinase activity in specific subcellular compartments. Second, because KTRs shuttle between the nucleus...

...possibilities in the engineering of complex gene networks. A comparable system for targeting specific sequences... of RNA is highly desirable for extending the complexity of genetic circuits, allowing for tighter spatio-temporal... protein that binds an alternate sequence. By comparison, Abil explained, the specificity of other RNA..., designer PUF proteins can be fused to other components to lend them many other functions for use in ...

...markers. These are especially useful in protein complex studies where tagging of multiple protein products...for easy capture and detection of proteins and complexes, without the artifacts sometimes associated with...Formosa, at the University of Utah, has built a complete collection of yeast tagging modules with each ...ideal for tandem affinity purification of protein complexes. John Pringle and Jürg Bähler have deposited a...GST, or GFP). Longtine et al.(3) describe a complimentary set of plasmids for use in S. cerevisiae, with...

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...without the exo/polymerase generation of annealed complementary regions. Why use a high fidelity ligase? Numerous...the Ligase Detection Reaction (LDR), probes complementary to the sequence of interest are annealed to ...separate pools were prepared, each with a different complement strand covering all 16 possible NN pairs in the... system for direct identification of allelic composition of mutated DNA in a mixed population of excess...JS, et al. "A high-throughput assay for the comprehensive profiling of DNA ligase fidelity." Nucleic acids.... Pascal, John M., et al. "Human DNA ligase I completely encircles and partially unwinds nicked DNA." ...

...Palindromic Repeats. That contrast of simplicity and complexity is reflected in the biology, too. CRISPR is an...proteins, and a CRISPR array. The CRISPR array is composed of identical repeat sequences and variable spacer..., and the spacer sequence is used to target complementary DNA sequences. In laboratory settings, an sgRNA...whose sequence is not checked. Assuming full complementarity, its sequence matches the guide sequence. PAM...either crRNA or sgRNA). Cas9 requires perfect complementarity in this region between the guide and target...

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...Visualize components of individual cells Separation/identification of fluorescently-labeled components Fluorescence-activated...process or detect a given molecule. The sensor component is usually a protein that undergoes a conformational...biosensors can be targeted to a particular cellular compartment such as the nucleus, mitochondria, endoplasmic... biosensor: which fluorescent protein is most compatible with your lab and experimental setup? Consider...

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...response to a viral infection a) antibody-dependent complement deposition (ADCD) b) antibody-dependent cellular... Erp, et al., 2019.    Antibody-dependent complement deposition (ADCD) Antibodies can bind to a pathogen... known as opsonization. In antibody-dependent complement deposition (ADCD), opsonization of IgG and IgM...pathogen activates the immune system's classical complement pathway, starting a cascade of events that results.... PMID: 10742152. Dunkelberger, J., Song, WC. Complement and its role in innate and adaptive immune responses...

...sufficient to give specificity and to also be compatible with a standard PCR reaction (see PCR Video)....design is similar, but we need to use the reverse complement to get PCR amplification. We can start similarly...the ORF). We now need to generate the reverse-complement of this sequence so that we can successfully ...amplify the ORF. You can generate the reverse-complement using existing software (a quick internet search... out Our Plasmid Reference Pages Deposit Your Completed Plasmids Find the Perfect Plasmid for Your Research...

...30678704. Sparse cell labeling using recombinase competition Article contributed by Aliyah Weinstein Sparse...Sparse Predictive Activity through Recombinase Competition (SPARC) is a fully genetic tool for labeling just...heat-shocking the organism. The SPARC system uses competitive recombination sites to selectively remove a stop...microscopy, they also show that this method is compatible with dead cell staining using propidium iodine...purification of tTALE-eGFP and tTALE-mCherry. In comparison to intercalating fluorescent dyes which can cause...

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...Zalatan JG, et al.'s recent paper, "Engineering Complex Synthetic Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR ... the eukaryotic cell for the execution of many complex cellular behaviors, such as differentiation or ...customizable single guide RNA (sgRNA) that bears complementarity to a 20bp target sequence (Qi et al. 2013)....appealing since the RNA scaffold modules are comparatively small allowing multiple sgRNA constructs to .... (2013). PubMed. Zalatan, J. G. Engineering Complex Synthetic Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR ...

...white dot growing on the solid medium. This dot is composed of millions of genetically identical bacteria ...