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  1. A Primer on Optogenetics: Introduction and Opsin Delivery

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    ...of a generic promoter). A DIO opsin allows cell type specificity dependent on the promoter of the cre recombinase...for sufficiency of your circuit of interest in promoting reward is a self-stimulation experiment wherein...developed many of these AAV constructs with various promoters and other genetic manipulations to help restrict...specific neuronal subtype. However, the length of promoter that can be used in an AAV construct is limited...few kb so attaining neuronal specificity through promoter-directed expression alone is extremely limited...Therefore, highly expressing, generic neuronal promoters such as synapsin or camKIIα drive most of the ...taking advantage of the robust expression via the promoter in the AAV construct. Stereotaxic surgery  ...
  2. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...polyadenylation generally serves to promote transcript longevity in eukaryotes and promote transcript degradation ...termination. In a previous post we discussed the promoter's role in the initiation step of gene transcription...or poly(A) signal. While many studies focus on promoter strength as a determinant of gene expression levels...rbGlob) include the sequence motif AAUAAA which promotes both polyadenylation and termination. Out of those...but Has the Potential to Reduce Viral Titer in a Promoter-Dependent Manner. Hum Gene Ther. 2008. PMID: 18627247... Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn how the Promoter Controls Gene Expression Learn about New Cloning...
  3. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    ...strategy, the need for lengthy promoters, such as U6 or EF1α promoters, has limited the number of gRNAs...assembled tRNA-gRNAs is placed downstream of a lengthy promoter, which is used to drive the expression of the ...expression of itself, without using any additional promoter, which is followed by tRNA processing to release...human or plant sources) in both the strength as a promoter and the activity to release gRNAs from DAP array...-gRNA arrays, that rely on an upstream lengthy promoter to express the gRNA array, DAP arrays use tRNA...
  4. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    ...experimented with the promoter strength of various components, removing inducible promoters that could crosstalk...outcome is directed transcription from a given promoter. To harness the power of light, Christopher Voigt... activates the RR (OmpR) via phosphorylation, promoting transcription (see figure below). Subsequent exposure...activates the response regulator via phosphorylation, promoting transcription of a GFP reporter. Subsequent exposure...chromosomally. Leakiness was also an issue; some promoter activity persisted in the inactive state. The ...
  5. A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression

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    ...the injection site. Test the promoter It is also essential that the promoter be thoroughly tested in your...cell-type specific” promoter, such as the truncated tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) promoter for catecholamine...open reading frame is inverted in relation to the promoter, hence the name, double-floxed inverted open-reading...what can we do about it?  Test the serotype and promoter The first step is to know how the AAV vector you...includes a thorough testing of both the serotype and promoter with in vivo experiments to determine the optimal...your cells.  Some promoters, such as CAG are very strong and may require less viral particles or relatively...expressing TH protein indicating that there is promoter activity. Additionally, some neurons express low...
  6. Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems

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    ...reduce promoter interference and/or drive high expression of a transgene from an internal promoter. An internal... internal promoter must be included as the wildtype LTR promoter is no longer present in these constructs...wild type LTR, an MCS for cloning X gene, an SV40 promoter, and Neomycin selection.   Table 1: Gamma-retrovirus... provirus). 5’ LTR Acts as an RNA pol II promoter. The transcript begins, by definition, at the ...
  7. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...dependent promoters, Baojun Wang’s lab developed a system that can activate sigma-54 dependent promoters (Liu...activation of sigma-54 type promoters. The system was functional in activating promoters in Pseudomonas syringae...that utilizes phage recombination machinery to promote homologous recombination of linear DNA fragments...regulate gene expression were limited to inducible promoters or direct gene knockout. In contrast, CRISPR offers...systems, catalytically dead (dCas9) targeted to a promoter or gene body can repress transcription by physically...and can be more effective targeting either the promoter or the coding sequence and the template or non-template...to multiplex repression. Using a Tet responsive promoter to drive expression of a catalytically dead Cas9...
  8. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    ...plasmids used to express CRE under neuron-specific promoters (aCaMKII and hSyn). Created with BioRender.com...plasmids used to express Cre under neuron-specific promoters, including calmodulin-dependent kinase II alpha...excitatory neurons) and Synapsin-1 (pan-neuronal) promoters (Figure 1b), and sgRNAs can be found here. Neuron-optimized...expression is mediated by the synapsin 1 (SYN) promoter, which was superior in its ability to induce CRISPRa... CRISPRa in primary rat neurons over other promoters, including ubiquitous ones such as EF-1α and CAG....consequently regulates neuronal physiology by promoting the development of neurons and synapses as well...cells to determine which transcription factors promote neuronal differentiation (Liu et al., 2018). The...
  9. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    .... Unfortunately, as a whole, microenvironments promote tumor durability instead of repressing them, making...a look at cancer cell metabolism. Cancer cells promote oxidative stress leading to the degradation of ...caveolin 1, also known as CAV 1. Usually, caveolin 1 promotes the cell life cycle progression and enhances tumor...signaling, possibly inducing the secretion of growth promoting proteins, such as human growth factor, vascular...Fibroblasts, or CAFs. CAFs are altered fibroblasts and promote the development and metastasis of tumors through...different organs. This means that exosomes not only promote microenvironment’s malignancy but also incite different...
  10. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    ...cleavage sequence, tRNAs, multiple individual promoters).  spCas9 and its gRNAs are also larger than their...and up to 7 gRNAs Each gRNA requires its own promoter Sakuma et al   Multiplexed Lentiviral Expression..., and up to 4 gRNAs Each gRNA requires its own promoter   Kabadi et al Csy4-Cleavable Cassettes transfection...expressed in 293 cells. This allows for a single promoter to drive expression of a crRNA array and doesn...arrays eliminates the need to include multiple promoters to drive crRNA expression and sequences that allow... Zetsche et al reverses the orientation of the promoter driving expression of the crRNA array (bolded ...
  11. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ... cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (CaMV 35S) or ubiquitin promoters (Belhaj et al., 2013). Addgene...consistent between plants and other organisms, but the promoter used to drive gRNA expression is dependent upon...gRNA downstream of a plant-specific RNA pol III promoter, such as AtU6, TaU6, OsU6 or OsU3, which are commonly... gRNA” backbones which contain a plant pol III promoter and gRNA scaffold sequence and allow researchers...is commonly driven by plant-derived RNA pol II promoters which regulate expression of longer RNAs (such...expression). Examples of commonly used RNA pol II promoters for Cas9 expression include the ubiquitously expressing...Summary While different in many of the specifics - promoters used, precise protein sequences or domains, and...
  12. Top Requested AAV of 2017: pmSyn1-EBFP-CRE

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    ... recombinase under the control of the synapsin promoter. It can be used to drive Cre expression specifically...cassette under the control of an otherwise ubiquitous promoter. You could make an entirely new mouse line with...with mCherry controlled by a neuron specific promoter or you could breed your Cre-dependent mCherry line...Because Cre expression is controlled by the synapsin promoter, it and therefore mCherry will only be expressed...
  13. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    ...pyogenes (Sp) Cas9 from a Cbh promoter. Cbh is a modified version of CAG promoter that the Zhang lab has tested...imporant is that, upstream of the Cbh promoter, this plasmid has a U6 promoter followed by BbsI restriction sites...
  14. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    ...with which promoters, what part of a gene enhancers like to interact with, and how many promoters or genes...published Dec 7, 2017 and updated Jul 2, 2020. Promoters may be the star of gene regulation, but enhancers...its capture rate of chromatin interactions at a promoter in the well-characterized beta globin locus. The...a cell line model, the Xu Lab tracked enhancer-promoter interactions during erythroid differentiation....
  15. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...fluorescent proteins, 8 constitutive promoters, 2 includible promoters, 3 polyA terminators and various pieces...sequences. Several pre-constructed promoter-selection marker or promoter-inducible expression related vectors...all chemically inducible promoters; 3) improving the strength of the promoters used; and 4) optimizing ...ideal promoter/location combination. However, other constructs which contain different promoters and/or...to study the human GM-CSF promoter and enhancer, a finely regulated promoter controlled by a mixture of...multiple copies of a transcription factor to a promoter and localization of a protein via the presence...are inserted between the truncated gene and the promoter to prevent leaky expression of this resistance...
  16. Hot Plasmids - December 2019 - CRISPR pooled library, LipoGlo, CRISPRa, and Voltage Imaging Tools

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    ...σ54-based transcription. Transcription from σ54 promoters requires binding of bacterial enhancer binding...proteins (bEBPs) at a sequence upstream of the promoter called the upstream activating sequence (UAS)....gRNA complex which allows transcription from the promoter.  They found that the system is active in E. coli... and displays high dynamic range. However, the promoter in question must be σ54-dependent and the system...and further the study of natural σ54-dependent promoter systems. Find these CRISPR activation plasmids...
  17. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    ... of a promoter of interest can be used to effectively monitor gene expression from that promoter in a ...control of promoters of interest, to visualize the developmental stage at which these promoters are active...studying protein-protein interactions, visualizing promoter activity, and much more. Read on to learn more...have the GFP under the control of an additional promoter from that of the gene of interest, or expressed...
  18. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Packaging Plasmid

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    ...expression is often driven by the AAV p5 or p19 promoters to, respectively, produce the large (Rep78 and... the transcriptional regulation of the AAV p40 promoter which drives Cap expression. Often Rep proteins...genome. The cap gene is often driven by the AAV p40 promoter. Alternative splicing and differing translational...alternative open reading frame (ORF). While AAP promotes virion assembly, the role of MAAP has not been...
  19. Networking and Inspiring Young Scientists at Freshers Fairs

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    ...fairs are also an opportunity for the societies to promote their upcoming events and intro sessions, and give...Since 1996, Cambridge Biosoc’s goal has been to promote interest in the biological sciences amongst the...night. The society also visits high schools to promote chemistry degrees and provide advice to students... to support iGEM alumni-industry networking to promote the creation of start ups and biotech spin offs...
  20. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    ... the goal, a promoter should flank this component as well. On both sides of this promoter-gene combo are...3’ LTR, respectively, act as RNA polymerase II promoter and terminator regions and are slightly different...between two inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) is the promoter and cargo, in that order. This will all be ssDNA..., which encompass the expression construct and promoter that you wish to deliver to your target cells....
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