...fast access to the tools required to study SARS-CoV-2, but with many academic research labs closed during...biobanks, are crucial for the advancement of SARS-CoV-2 research because they provide rapid access to validated...Many of the reagents used to investigate SARS-CoV-2 were developed for broad use and are now important...susceptibility of cells from different organisms to SARS-CoV-2 (Chu et al., 2020). An additional cell line used in...that science is truly a global endeavor. Case study 2: Plasmids Another example of reagents that have broad...applications but have proven useful to the study of SARS-CoV-2 are the lentiviral production and packaging vectors...that characterized the spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 (Ou et al., 2020). The authors requested these plasmids...

...host range plasmids. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 348(2), 87–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6968.12241  ...mobilization of broad host-range IncQ plasmids. Plasmid, 62(2), 57–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plasmid.2009.05.001...negative hosts. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 106(2), 326–332. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.22695  Schmidhauser...Pseudomonas spp., Rhizobium spp., Rhodopseudomonas spp., Rhodospirillum spp., Shewanella spp., Thiobacillus...leguminosarum, R. meliloti, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, R. capsulatus, Rhodopseudomonas spheroides, Salmonella...Rhizobium meliloti, R. leguminosarum by. viciae, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Salmonella typhimurium, Vibrio cholerae...

...divided up structurally into 2 main groups: voltage sensitive domains and Rhodopsin containing GEVIs. Chemigenetic...depending on your experimental system.   Figure 2: General overview of chemigenetic tools. A genetically..., the JEDI-2P is an excellent choice. Rhodopsin GEVIs Rhodopsin is composed of an opsin (a GPCR) linked...are two flavors of rhodopsin GEVIs. The first is a two-in-one system where rhodopsin functions as both ...second type of these GEVIs: a FP-fused rhodopsin. FP-fusion to rhodopsin resulted in electrochromic FRET capable..., with rhodopsin quenching the added fluor for this two-part fluorescent system, and rhodopsin still functioning...exceeds that of the VSD GEVIs. However, since rhodopsin proteins were initially evolved for ion transport...

... Opto-Cre-Vvd is fast and can cut in as little as 2 hours.  Sheets, MB, et al., ACS Synth Biol. 2020....they investigated three Casɸ orthologs, Casɸ-1, Casɸ-2, and Casɸ-3. This system is notable for several reasons...a minimal PAM requirement. For instance, for Casɸ-2 the PAM sequence is 5’-TBN-3’ (where B is G, T, or...deposited by Leopold Parts. This library delivers 2 randomly paired guides per construct and allows a ...AAV-flex-taCasp3-TEVp here The red-shifted channelrhodopsin (C1V1) targeting parvalbumin cortical interneurons...use viral prep in serotype AAV5.  Get the channelrhodopsin here Astrocyte specific tight affinity glutamate...

...cation influx into the cell when stimulated. Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), the first widely adopted optogenetic... (Phy) interaction 660 Cryptochromes Cryptochrome 2 and CIB1 Blue-light–mediated induction of protein ...interactions based on Arabidopsis thaliana cryptochrome 2 and CIB1 450 LARIAT Inhibits protein function by reversibly...customizable TALE DNA-binding domain with cryptochrome 2 protein and its interacting partner CIB1 to control...transcription effectors OPTOSTIM PHR domain2 of cryptochrome 2 (Cry2) from Arabidopsis thaliana is fused to truncated... with single-spike temporal resolution. PLoS One. 2(3):e299. PMID 17375185 Kim B, Lin MZ. 2013. Optobiology...comparative analysis of microbial opsins. Nat Methods. 9(2):159-72. PMID 22179551 Saunders A, Johnson CA, Sabatini...

...repository of tools for SAR-CoV-2 research. Two new antibodies, Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein [mBG17...Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein [mBG86], target distinct epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 nucelocapsid ...Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies here! Terry, J.S., et al. (2021). Development of a SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid ...prime editor PE7 Antibodies to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 research New viral vector preps of Voltron2 voltage... incorporates La’s N-terminal domain, PE7 (Figure 2).  PE7 shows enhanced editing efficiencies in a number...editor. Find PE7 plasmids here!     Figure 2: PE7 improves prime editing. A) Schematic of PE7 prime...PMID: 38570691. Antibodies to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 research   By Ashley Waldron Ready-to-use recombinant...

...Gordon Fishell 83899-AAV1 pAAV-mDlx-GCaMP6f-Fishell-2 GCaMP6f expression in forebrain GABA-ergic interneurons...Gordon Fishell 83899-AAV9 pAAV-mDlx-GCaMP6f-Fishell-2 GCaMP6f expression in forebrain GABA-ergic interneurons...Gordon Fishell 83899-AAVrg pAAV-mDlx-GCaMP6f-Fishell-2 GCaMP6f expression in forebrain GABA-ergic interneurons...AAV9 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-ChrimsonR-mRuby2-ST Cation channelrhodopsin ChrimsonR fused to mRuby2 fluorophore and ...AAV9 pAAV-hSynapsin- soCoChR-GFP A somatic channelrhodopsin, which enables single cell, single millisecond... pAAV-hSynapsin-FLEX-soCoChR-GFP A somatic channelrhodopsin, which enables single cell, single millisecond...pAAV-CAG-DIO-ChroME-ST-P2A-H2B-mRuby3 Cation channelrhodopsin ChroME targeted to the neuronal soma and proximal...

...for retrograde transport has been found for AAV1, -2, -5, -7, -8 (Taymans et al., 2007), AAV1 (Hollis et... tropism and axonal transport of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 in the mouse brain. PLoS One 8:e76310...reveal novel hippocampal CA2 circuits. Nat Neurosci 17(2), 269–279. PubMed PMID: 24336151. PubMed Central PMCID... Mechanisms of Motility and Regulation. Neuron 84(2), 292–309. PubMed PMID: 25374356. PubMed Central PMCID...transduction efficiency of recombinant AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5 and 8 in the rat nigrostriatal system. J Neurochem...analysis of adeno-associated viral vector serotypes 1, 2, 5, 7 and 8 in mouse brain. Hum Gene Ther 18, 195–...retrograde access to projection neurons. Neuron 92(2), 372–382. PubMed PMID: 27720486. PubMed Central PMCID...

...NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85175  pBK-EE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85176  pBK-YE2-...quantum yield of 0.54) and mScarlet-H with M164H (2-fold improvement in photostability compared to mScarlet...SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small as 1-2 nucleotides! To reduce off-target effects associated...pBK-YE2-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85177  pBK-YEE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Lower on-target activity...activity than BE3; editing window ~1-2 nt  87438  pET42b-HF-BE3  HF-Cas9 (NGG)  Very low off-target activity...Ladders Are Awesome Tools: They are comprised of 2 plasmids, pPSU1 and pPSU2, that can be amplified affordably...libraries The Gross Lab at UCSF recently deposited 2 Bacillus subtilis libraries with Addgene – the B. ...

...safely. Recently, many SARS-CoV-2 researchers began pseudotyping the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein into a lower ...SARS-CoV-2 virus. Scientists have been using similar pseudotyping methods with other viruses in a BSL-2 lab... et a., 2018).   Figure 2: To pseudotype with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, scientists encode...Therapy 2:218–222 . https://doi.org/10.1006/mthe.2000.0116 Gutierrez-Guerrero A, Cosset F-L, Verhoeyen E (...production uses three plasmids: (1) The transfer plasmid, (2) the envelope plasmid, and (3) the packaging plasmid...example, production of vesicular stomatitis virus, HIV-2, and human foamy virus in cell lines expressing galactosyl...for Pseudotyping Lentiviral Particles with SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein for Neutralization Assays. Viruses 12...

...expressed as a fusion with your favorite protein and (2) a synthetic fluorophore-contianing “ligand” that ...cell 58.4 (2015): 644-659. PubMed PMID: 26000849. 2. Grimm, Jonathan B., et al. "A general method to improve... classic small molecule fluorophores, such as rhodamines (Figure 2a), were discovered in the 19th century...structure have yielded commercial panels of advanced rhodamine fluorophores, such as the Alexa Fluor and ATTO... brightness and photostability of the classic rhodamines and their analogs without sacrificing their small...advanced imaging modalities. Follow him on twitter @rhodamine110.   References 1. Liu, Zhe, Luke D. Lavis, and...

...   Class 1 versus class 2 There are two CRISPR classes: Class 1 and Class 2. Class 1 CRISPR systems use...systems to carry out various functions. Class 2 Class 2 CRISPR systems rely on a single protein Cas effector...explore Class 2 CRISPR in more depth, the Jennifer Doudna lab maintains an encyclopedia of Class 2 CRISPR systems...systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 18(2), 67–83. https://doi.org...complex for antiviral defense) complexes, while Class 2 use single protein Cas effectors, like Cas9. The Cascade...1 remains largely underutilized compared to Class 2. Class 1 Despite their incredible abundance, Class...components present in the Cascade complex. Figure 2: Schematic of a Cascade complex (blue subunits) with...

...with neuron-specific expression of dCas9-VPR (Figure 2), a popular Cas9 activator developed by the Church...ubiquitous ones such as EF-1α and CAG. Figure 2: Dual lentivirus system with ubiquitous expression...Patrick Miller-Rhodes from the University of Rochester Medical Center. Patrick Miller-Rhodes is currently...This post was contributed by Patrick Miller-Rhodes, a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellow at ...

... Sternson SM. 2008. A FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range...conditional knock-in cassette. As shown in Figure 2, the cassette should contain a reporter DNA sequence...a targeted neuronal population.    Figure 2 (modified from Schnutgen et al. Nat Biotech 2003):...cellular level in the mouse. 2003 PubMed PMID: 12665802. 2. Branda, CS and Dymecki, SM. Talking about a Revolution...

... Zetsche et al., Nat Biotechnol. 2015 Feb 2;33(2):139-42. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3149. Light-inducible ...and on your favourite signalling pathways (Figure 2). They are all available now at Addgene. 1 Lungu...20;19(4):507-17. 10.1016/j.chembiol.2012.02.006. 2 Guntas et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2015 Jan 6; ...Nihongaki et al., Chemistry and Biology. 2015 Feb 19; 22(2):169-74. High efficiency cloning for enzyme screening...inducible, gene knockdown with shRNA or shRNA-miR30, (2) tamoxifen-inducible CreERT2 gene deletion, (3) simultaneous...different fluorescent proteins, 8 constitutive promoters, 2 includible promoters, 3 polyA terminators and various...of plasmids required for each input/output system; 2) removing all chemically inducible promoters; 3) improving...

...indicates a virus containing the genome of serotype 2 packaged in the capsid from serotype 5. Use of these...neurons that are not efficiently transduced by AAV2/2, and is distributed more widely in the brain, indicating... pseudotyped with viral capsids from serotypes 1, 2, and 5 display differential efficiency and cell tropism...PJ, Mandel RJ, Muzyczka N. Mol. Ther. 2004 Aug;10(2):302-17. PubMed . From virus evolution to vector revolution...genes. The short coding sequences of channelrhodopsins, halorhodopsins, and other optogenetic genes enables...

...drastically with lower titers. As you can see in figure 2, the expression from the 5x1011 titer was essentially... roughly 6-fold increase in expression [3, Figure 2]. Note how expression increases exponentially with...international 61.1 (2002): S9-S15. PubMed PMID: 11841606. 2. Schultz BR, Chamberlain JS. Recombinant Adeno-associated...receptor constructs with AAV. In the case of channelrhodopsins, fewer channel proteins are required for the...

...Activation of these neurons via the channel Channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2) reduced glutamate transmission from...mouse to deliver Cre-dependent expression of  Channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), a modified receptor protein that ...

...M. Sternson. 2008. “A FLEX Switch Targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to Multiple Cell Types for Imaging and Long-Range...FLP and Cre for additional control   Figure 2: Expression of a morphological marker (eYFP) and synaptic...PMID: 18614669. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2593125. 2. Buchholz, F, P O Angrand, and A. Francis Stewart....The FLP Recombinase of the Saccharomyces Cerevisiae 2 Micron Plasmid Attaches Covalently to DNA via a Phosphotyrosyl...

...typically, normal (bell curve) or skewed (see Fig. 2). Assumptions – characteristics of a data set; ...levels of variance among data.     Fig. 2: Examples of data distribution profiles.   Parametric... positive is much higher than if you only look at 2 or 3 pairwise comparisons. Similar to family-wise ...statistical facets of reproducibility. Adv Physiol Educ. 40(2): 248-252 (2016). 0.1152/advan.00042.2016 Finch, W...Simulation Study. Front. Appl. Math. Stat. Volume 2 (2016). doi.org/10.3389/fams.2016.00002  ...and, uh, gentle reminder: keep your friendly neighborhood biostatistician happy by making your statistical...