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  1. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    ... formation of the disulfide bond between the VL and VH domains. This bond provides stability and solubility...periplasm of bacteria to allow for proper disulfide bond formation.  expression in strains of bacteria that...regions and frameworks contribute to the disulfide bond independent folding of intrinsically stable scFv...1998) Antibody scFv fragments without disulfide bonds, made by molecular evolution 1 1Edited by I. A. ...
  2. Easing the Protein Purification Process with pCri

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    ...subcellular localization and the number of disulfide bonds in your protein - two parameters that affect how...signal peptide tags help proteins with disulfide bonds fold properly. If a TEV protease site is present...secretory pathway to improve folding and disulfide bond formation. If one prefers expression in E. coli,... A (TRX)-containing vector can improve disulfide bond formation. pCri also includes a special feature ...
  3. SpyLigase Irreversibly Locks Peptides Together for Efficient Cell Capture

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    ...tags, which often form only weak and reversible bonds. Howarth’s team has already demonstrated in their...to be able to build assemblies through covalent bonds so that the assemblies wouldn’t fall apart, even...highly multivalent assembly connected by covalent bonds, so there were no weak links in the chain.  Addgene...17. PubMed) Peptide tag forming a rapid covalent bond to a protein, through engineering a bacterial adhesin...
  4. What's the Best Way to Elute and Store Your Plasmid DNA?

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    ...results in the breakage of the ester bonds responsible for the sugar backbone of the DNA helix or even changes...sequence. High pH favors the breakage of the hydrogen bonds, destabilizing the molecule and favoring the separation...In depurination, the hydrolysis of the glycosidic bond leads to the release of a purine (adenine or guanine...
  5. Plasmids 101: TOPO Cloning

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    ... and thymine (T) to hybridize and form hydrogen bonds. This post focuses on "sticky end" TOPO (also called...the pair comes from a topoisomerase I-linearized backbone. DNA topoisomerase I (depicted as a green cloud...energy from this breakage is stored as a covalent bond between the cleaved 3′ DNA strand and a tyrosyl ... strand comes along, it can attack this covalent bond thus joining the two DNA strands and releasing topoisomerase...
  6. Addgene's Tips for Plasmid Quality Control

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    ... standard backbone with one insert, and can use common primers to sequence from the backbone into the ...pieces of information for a given plasmid are the backbone, inserted gene/functional mutations, antibiotic... View our Plasmid Reference Pages Get Plasmid Backbone Information from Our Vector Database  ...
  7. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    ... the discovery of anti-CRISPR proteins in 2012 (Bondy-Denomy et al., 2012). Anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins...they block and are numbered in order of discovery (Bondy-Denomy et al., 2018). For example, AcrIIA4 mentioned....04.008 Marino ND, Pinilla-Redondo R, Csörgő B, Bondy-Denomy J (2020) Anti-CRISPR protein applications...Liu J-J, Bray NL, Rauch BJ, Baik SH, Nogales E, Bondy-Denomy J, Corn JE, Doudna JA (2017) Disabling Cas9...
  8. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    ...lentiviral backbone might be more prone to recombination, while a library with a large backbone might be...consider if there are any features of the library backbone that would make the library more difficult to ...other colonies containing smaller, recombined backbones that may replicate faster. For this reason, if...
  9. MXS Chaining

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    ...Kaiser AD, Kornberg A. Enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid. VIII. Frequencies of nearest neighbor...neighbor base sequences in deoxyribonucleic acid. The Journal of biological chemistry. 1961. March;236:864–...Trautner TA, Kornberg A. Enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid. XI. Further studies on nearest neighbor...neighbor base sequences in deoxyribonucleic acids. The Journal of biological chemistry. 1962. June;237:1961...
  10. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    ...Plasmid A (encoding shRNA against human Gene X in backbone Y) was transfected into human cells. From this...control vector would be Plasmid A sans shRNA, or backbone Y alone. The empty vector control allows you to... vector control shows any effect of the vector/backbone itself on gene expression in your target cells... this experiment could be an shRNA—in the same backbone as Plasmid A—that does not target any mammalian...
  11. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...respective species. Addgene carries >30 “empty gRNA” backbones which contain a plant pol III promoter and gRNA...plants and many of the aforementioned empty gRNA backbones also contain Cas9, which enables expression of...CRISPR-Cas9 components into plants. Nanoparticles (carbon nanotubes, Kwak et al., 2019), DNA nanostructures...in planta using chitosan-complexed single-walled carbon nanotube carriers. Nat Nanotechnol 14:447–455 ....
  12. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    ...and is the process by which biotin is covalently bonded to a specific lysine at the active site of a newly...extremely strong affinity for one another. Actually the bond between them is one of the strongest noncovalent...protein-ligand interactions found in nature. Once the bond is formed it is unaffected by changes in pH, temperature...PMCID: PMC4884002. 10. Boer, E. de, Rodriguez, P., Bonte, E., Krijgsveld, J., Katsantoni, E., Heck, A., …...
  13. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ... resistances, restriction enzymes and plasmid backbones. pUCXKT contains a nonfunctional truncated version...site in pUCXKT, removing the stop codons during backbone digestion and providing the missing codons for... both kanamycin and ampicillin (from the pUC19 backbone). *False positives can occur in this system if...lentivirus production Finding a lentiviral vector backbone with just the right combination of promoter, cloning...Addgene, so on your marks...get set...RUSH. Boncompain et al., Nat Methods 2012. Mar 11;9(5):493-8. ...create the pCell-Free vectors, Gateway-compatible backbones which enable cell-free expression of proteins ...originating from cryptic promoters in the plasmid backbone (Giannaks et al 2003, Bert et al 2000). In 2000...
  14. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    ... why: two arginines make base-specific hydrogen bonds to the guanines, but the N (a thymine in this case...case) is only bound by the phosphate backbone. These PAM bases must be present for Cas9 to unwind the ...from the CTD (yellow) make base-specific hydrogen bonds to guanines of the PAM in the non-target DNA strand... both lobes bind to the DNA and RNA phosphate backbones, allowing Cas9 to verify the structure of the ...
  15. What's New in CRISPR - December 2019

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    ...tagging Lentiviral capsid-based Cas9/gRNA ribonucleoprotein delivery Cytosine deaminase for RNA editing...bioRxiv Find the ORANGE toolkit   Cas9/gRNA ribonucleoprotein delivery by lentiviral capsid-based bionanoparticle...bionanoparticle system for packaging Cas9/gRNA ribonucleoproteins for transient expression. They replaced the...
  16. An Addgene Summer Internship

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    ... cloning the Syntaxin3 gene in a pLenti vector backbone. During those five weeks, I worked with my mentors...had successfully incorporated Syntaxin3 into its backbone. Once we had gotten our results back from the ...successful clone of the Syntaxin3 in the pLenti backbone! Once everything was confirmed, I worked on my...
  17. New CRISPR Web Resources and #12DaysofCRISPR Recap

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    ... Cas13a degrades only the specified RNA target. Bonus: It displays similar on-target activity to siRNA...explains why pC016 - LwCas13a guide expression backbone with U6 promoter has already earned a blue flame...101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome (plus bonus podcast with Addgene Advisory Board member Alex ...
  18. Antibodies 101: Fab Fragments

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    ...are covalently linked to one another by disulfide bonds between the two heavy chains and between one heavy... digestion that retains an antibody’s disulfide bonds within the hinge region. The resulting product is...fragments, which reduces the hinge region disulfide bonds, resulting in two independent Fab fragments with...
  19. RNA Extraction Without A Kit

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    ... of biologically active ribonucleic acid from sources enriched in ribonuclease. Biochemistry 18:5294–5299...effect of ammonium sulfate on the activity of ribonuclease A. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Enzymology...
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