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TypeCollection...Laplante M, Sabatini DM. Cell. 2012 Apr 13;149(2):274-93. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.03.017. PubMed PMID...known as RPS6KB1; Ribosomal protein S6 kinase B1 TSC1/2 TSC1 TSC2 Tuberous sclerosis VHL Von Hippel-Lindau...Rictor RPTOR independent companion of MTOR, complex 2 SGK Serum/glucocorticoid regulated kinase 1 Return... (mTOR) is a key metabolic regulator controlling cell growth and proliferation. mTOR, a serine/threonine...signals to determine the nutritional state of the cell and regulates the switch from anabolic to catabolic...growth factors, including insulin. mTORC2 influences cell survival and cytoskeletal organization. Cancer Impact... promotes the conditions needed for uncontrolled cell growth and proliferation, including an abundant ...
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Rett Syndrome
TypeCollection... mutations in the gene methyl-CpG binding protein 2 ( MECP2 ). MECP2 Rett syndrome is an X-linked disorder...X-linked MECP2, encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2. Nat Genet . 23, 185–188. (Link opens in a new window... Cuddapah et al. 2014. Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) mutation type is associated with disease severity... Specific mutations in methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 confer different severity in Rett syndrome. Neurology...males with mutations in Methyl-CpG binding protein 2. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet . 180, 55–67...Unpublished Joost Gribnau Human Cell Line Models Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are a powerful system...opens in a new window) LUHMES cell line , an immortalized pre-neuronal cell line that can be differentiated... -
MAPK Plasmids
TypeCollection...46, JNK1, JNK1A2, JNK21B1/2, PRKM8, SAPK1, SAPK1c MAPK9 JNK-55, JNK2, JNK2A, JNK2ALPHA... PRKM11, SAPK2, SAPK2B, p38-2, p38Beta MAPK12 ERK3, ERK6, P38GAMMA, PRKM12, SAPK...Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), also known as extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs), are serine/...threonine-specific protein kinases. They regulate diverse cellular programs by acting as an integration point for... -
Lentiviral Prep Service
TypeCollection... Morris CellTag Barcode Library Version 2 Ready-to-use lentiviral particles carrying version 2 of the ...the CellTag barcoding library. Version 2 of the Celltag library contains 4934 barcodes to combinatorially...carrying version 1 of the CellTag barcoding library. Version 1 of the Celltag library contains 19973 barcodes...barcodes to combinatorially index cells for single-cell analysis of clonal dynamics. This library expresses...combinatorially index cells for single-cell analysis of clonal dynamics. This library expresses EGFP for easy visualization...carrying version 3 of the CellTag barcoding library. Version 3 of the Celltag library contains 5737 barcodes... -
Neurodegeneration Research Collection
TypeCollection...different inherited genes: Presenilin 1, Presenilin 2, and APP gene.The majority (>90%) of individuals develop...study aggregation. Saha et al. Nat Commun. 2023 Feb 2. Study the C terminal domain of TDP-43 to better understand... rodent species. Boender et al. Sci Adv. 2023 Jun 2. Use Cas9 in astrocytes. Endo et al Science. 2022 ...with the iPSC toolbox . Lam et al. bioRxiv. 2022 Dec 2. Use PiggyBac plasmids with tet-inducible expression...protein-protein interactions and nerve cell function within the cell. Parkinson's Disease Parkinson’s disease...inducible vector . Harley et al. Cell Rep. 2023 Dec 26. Induce CNS cells with concomitant expression of ...with the disease and implicate a wide range of cellular processes. The vast majority of cases (90-95%)... -
Allen Institute for Brain Science AAV Enhancer Collection
TypeCollection...Layer 2-3_IT Isocortex 230803 pAAV-AiE2638m-minBG-iCre(R297T)-BGHpA AiP20142 AiE2638m Cre Layer 2-3_IT ...Layer 2-3_IT Isocortex 220727 pAAV-AiE2543m-minBG-iCre(R297T)-BGHpA AiP2048 AiE2543m Cre Layer 2-3_IT ...Layer 2-3_IT Isocortex 230402 pAAV-AiE0680m-minBG-iCre(R297T)-BGHpA AiP15072 AiE0680m Cre Layer 2-3_IT ...access to cortical cell types. Cell , 188 (11), 3045–3064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.002 PMID...to target a variety of cell populations in different brain regions. Labeled cell populations were tested...primate neocortex. Cell Reports , 34 (13), 108754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108754 PMID: ...regulatory sequences — termed enhancers — to drive cell type-specific expression. The Allen Institute for... -
Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases
TypeBlog Post...status of MEK1/2 was tracked at 5 minute intervals via Western blot. Phosphorylation of MEK1/2 peaks at just...PubMed PMID: 28232577. Figures 2-4 were modified from this reference. 2. Regot, Sergi, Jacob J. Hughey...Treatment of the cells with a PP1/PP2A inhibitor leads to maintenance of phosphorylated MEK1/2 levels, suggesting...precisely control the timing of kinase activity. 2. Studying negative feedback loops of signaling pathways... studied the negative feedback on endogenous MEK1/2 phosphorylation by creating a short pulse of psRaf1...activity. They did this by exposing psRaf1 to a short 2 minute pulse of 500 nm light (turn on psRaf1) followed...suggesting PP1/PP2A is responsible for this MEK1/2 negative feedback. 3. Studying signaling pathways in... -
Viral Production
TypeCollection... a new vial of early passage cells. Approximately 2 weeks post-thaw, cell culture supernatant is tested...item (see maps section for images). Figure 2: AAV Pro cells were transduced with either pAAV-Ef1a-mCherry-IRES-Cre...suggests that titers obtained using ddPCR are generally 2–3 fold higher than those achieved using the standard... preparations are added to cells in culture. Three to five days later, cell cultures are inspected for...involves transducing cells with serial dilutions of the lentiviral vector, harvesting cells several days later... (55634-AAVrg) alone at 1.7E6 viral genomes (vg)/cell, pAAV-CAG-FLEX-rc [Jaws-KGC-GFP-ER2] (Addgene 84445...Production Lentiviral preparations are produced in 293T cells using the 2nd generation psPAX2 and pMD2.G packaging... -
When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells
TypeBlog Post...difficult to ignore [1, 2]. 2. Fusion to an obligate dimer or oligomer Several cell proteins normally self-associate.... J Cell Biol, 2003. 163(2): p. 257-69. PubMed PMID: 14581454. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2173526. 2. Zacharias...Kd is unlikely to form dimers in a cell. The Kd of EGFP is 0.11 mM [2]. Following the simple logic outlined... nature are prone to dimerization (i.e. EGFP) [1, 2] or even form obligate tetramers (i.e. DsRed) [3]....organized smooth endoplasmic reticulum (OSER) whorls. 2)A dimerizing protein of interest fused to a dimerizing... designed to detect resulting in false positives [2, 4]. Solutions to the polymer problem There are some...Citrine) can be monomerized with an A206K mutation [2]. Addgene has many of these constructs and they are... -
TALEN Guide
TypeCollection...par with ZF arrays, if not slightly lower. Figure 2: Simplified representation of the Voytas/Bogdanove...variety of backbones in just a few steps ( Figure 2 ). The Bogdanove group also hosts web-based software...mammalian transcription. Nat Biotechnol. 2011 Feb;29(2):149-53. PMID: 21248753 . TALEs for the masses. Rusk.... Targeted gene disruption in somatic zebrafish cells using engineered TALENs. Sander JD, Cade L, Khayter... -
Optogenetics AAV Preps
TypeCollection...H134R)-EYFP CaMKII ChR2/H134R EYFP Constitutive 1, 2, 5, 9 Karl Deisseroth 26973 pAAV-hSyn-hChR2(H134R)...H134R)-EYFP Syn ChR2/H134R EYFP Constitutive 1, 2, 5, 9, rg*, PHPeB Karl Deisseroth 26975 pAAV-CaMKIIa-hChR2....WPRE.SV40 CAG ChR2/H134R mCherry Constitutive 1, 2, 5, 9 Karl Deisseroth 127090 pAAV-CAG-DIO-ChR2(H134R...pAAV-EF1α1.1-ChrimsonR-GFP EF1a ChrimsonR GFP Constitutive 2 Edward Boyden 124650 pAAV-CamKIIa-C1V1(t/t)-mScarlet-KV2.1...pAAV-hSyn-eNpHR 3.0-EYFP Syn eNpHR 3.0 EYFP Constitutive 2, 5 Karl Deisseroth 137151 pAAV-nEF-NpHR3.3-EYFP nEF...Optogenetics AAV Optogenetic tools can be used to control cell activity in living tissue with light. Optogenetics... -
Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond
TypeBlog Post...same site, is 2’-fluoro (2’-F), which substitutes a fluorine for the hydroxyl group at the 2’ position. ...most common of these is 2’-O-methylation, where a methyl group is added to the 2’ hydroxyl group of the...them together, for example phosphorothioates with 2’-O-methyl modifications, proved more stability than...generated by introduction of a single photocleavable 2-nitrobenzyl linker in the 20-bp targeting region of...photocleavable gRNAs. Molecular Cell 81, 7, 1553-1565 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2021.02.007 Moroz-Omori...evolved ways to prevent degradation of important cellular RNA molecules with post translational modifications...slightly more efficient and less toxic to mammalian cells (Allen, et al., Frontiers in Genome Editing). Some... -
CRISPR History and Development for Genome Engineering
TypeCollection...RNA-guided regulation of transcription in eukaryotes. Cell . 154(2):442-51. PMID: 23849981 Ishino Y, Shinagawa ...Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell . 163(3):759-71. PMID: 26422227 Zetsche...transcribed to make the pre-CRISPR RNA (pre-crRNA). (2) The pre-crRNA is processed into individual crRNAs...2015. Class 1 (Multi-subunit effector complex) Class 2 (Single multi-domain effector) Type I (Cas3) Type ... with unprecedented speed and specificity. Figure 2: An overview of CRISPR and NHEJ/HDR. The Cas9/gRNA...genomic loci in living human cells by an optimized CRISPR/Cas system. Cell . 155(7):1479-91. PMID: 24360272... for Mapping Multiprotein Complexes in Human Cells. Cell Rep . 13(3):621-33. PMID: 26456817 Fu Y, Sander... -
Mammalian RNAi Tools
TypeCollection...degrades the mRNA. RISC includes argonaute protein 2 (Ago2), which facilitates cleavage of the target. ... International Journal of Biomedical Science, 13 (2), 48–57. PubMed (Link opens in a new window) . Moore... in therapeutic settings. As a tool in mammalian cell systems, silencing is achieved through the delivery...). Origins and mechanisms of miRNAs and siRNAs . Cell, 136 (4), 642–655. PubMed (Link opens in a new window... -
Adenovirus Plasmids
TypeCollection...recombining shuttle plasmids Vogelstein 16401 pAdEasy-2 Adenoviral For recombining shuttle plasmids; for use...transgene under CMV promoter Vogelstein 16407 pAdEasy 2-GFP beta-gal Shuttle Test plasmid that contains β-...target a broad range of dividing and non-dividing cell types with almost 100% efficiency. Unlike lentiviruses...recombination of adenovirus plasmids in either mammalian cells or microorganisms, including bacteria and yeast....can then be transfected into mammalian packaging cell lines to generate adenovirus particles. Read our... -
Antibody Plasmid Collection
TypeCollection...phage display. J Immunol Methods. 2000 Aug 28;242(1-2):159-81. Carlos Barbas Vector system for expression...+J phagemid libraries. Immunol Lett. 2015 Oct;167(2):95-102. Joanna Bereta Sybody Generation Toolbox for...expressing these in bacteria, mammalian cells, yeast, plants, or insect cells. Benefits include consistency between... research purposes include animals or hybridoma cells, but are difficult to generate due to expense and...monoclonal antibodies (R-mAbs) expressed in mammalian cells. Monoclonal antibodies are derived from an individual...transiently transfected into mammalian tissue culture cells, the R-mAbs are secreted into the culture media ... -
Starter guide to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) part 1: A renaissance in regenerative medicine
TypeBlog Post... Regenerative Medicine. Acta Naturae, 2010. 2(2): p. 18-28. PubMed PMID: 22649638. PubMed Central PMCID...specialized cell types [2]. We general speak of 4 levels of stem cell potency: Totipotency: When a cell has ...embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which I discuss in detail below [2]. Multipotency: When a cell can differentiate...mammalian development, cells found in the zygote through to the morula stage are totipotent [2-4]. Pluripotency...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4686367. 2. Jaenisch, R. and R. Young, Stem cells, the molecular circuitry of pluripotency...Pharmacological Sciences, a Cell Press reviews journal. Stem cells are special types of cells that can develop ...pluripotent cells can be thought of as descendants of totipotent cells. An example of pluripotent cells is embryonic... -
AAV Molecular Tools
TypeCollection...diphtheria toxin receptor fused to GFP for studying cell ablation. 2 Thomas Jessell , Eiman Azim 45580 pAAV-flex-taCasp3...constitutive Expression of the tet-off transactivator (tTA) 2 Viviana Gradinaru 99120 pAAV-ihSyn1-tTA Inducible ...Jinhyun Kim Tools for Cell Ablation These AAV encode tools that can be used for cell ablation. ID Name Expression...Transactivators Affinity Purification Neurophysiology Cell Ablation Genome Engineering Labeling Overexpression...expression of designer pro-taCasp3 and TEVp for studying cell ablation. 1, 5 Nirao Shah , Jim Wells Genome Engineering...Tools These AAV encode tools that can be used for cell or protein labeling. ID Name Expression System Activity...AAV8-DIO-Reporter viruses infected in postsynaptic cells. 5 Don Arnold Don’t See What You’re Looking For?... -
3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells
TypeBlog Post...into account that HDR is rare, usually 2-5% of the edited cells in our hands, these combined pitfalls ...hundred clones to find the right one Step 2 – Edit the cells a second time using a repair template that...improving editing accuracy by preventing re-editing and (2) optimizing “cut-to-mutation distance”. Furthermore...Additional CRISPR Resources on Addgene's CRISPR Guide Page 2. Optimizing "cut-to-mutation distance" Even though... wisely (and let them cut close). Figure 2: Relationship between cut site to mutation distance...PMID: 23287718. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3795411. 2. Mali, Prashant, et al. "RNA-guided human genome engineering...sequence change the cell must undergo homology-directed repair (HDR), a distinct cellular DNA repair pathway... -
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) Plasmids
TypeCollection...should be handled at BSL-2. AAV can transduce both dividing and non-dividing cells with a low immune response...expressing Rep2 and Cap1 James M. Wilson 232199 pAAV2/2 AAV2 AAV packaging plasmid, expressing Rep2 and Cap2...e.g., pHelper) and specific packaging cell lines (e.g., HEK293 cells) during AAV production. Read our AAV...