...sequences To design experiments for further plasmid verification Identifying plasmid features While our quality...promoters, selectable markers, tags, origins of replication, and fluorescent proteins that are already included...clue about where the gene of interest might be located. By easily using BLAST to check the translated ...reference sequences. Using Snapgene for additional verification experiments: Primer and restriction digest design...repetitive regions. These regions require additional verification experiments that can be partially designed using... plasmid verification...

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... also been developed which don’t fit in either category, but those are a subject for a future post! ... GAL80 under different promoters and create sophisticated patterns of UAS-driven gene expression. To further... PMCID: PMC2942869. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. del Valle Rodriguez, Alberto, Dominic... PMCID: PMC2883883. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. Wei, Xing, Christopher J. Potter... PMCID: PMC3846601. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. Riabinina, et al. “Improved and ... PMCID: PMC4344399. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. Riabinina O, Potter CJ. The Q-System...expression of genes for metabolic engineering applications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” FEMS Yeast Res...

...these tools, which aren’t always easy to find in publications, so this is a much-needed community resource...resource of over 100 entries is driven by the dedicated community of data-contributing researchers who...is helpful to report the genetic background and catalog number or RRID if it exists. This is helpful because...exactly which strain you used so if they wish to replicate your experiment, they know exactly where to get...detection methods. For example, you can provide location, titer dose (Example: 1E13 GC/mL) and subject ... we’d like to give a shoutout to all of those dedicated scientists who have contributed to the AAV Data...

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...infection, because this setup allows for experimental replicates for each of the gRNAs. The idea was to assign...cassette is removed, the effector is expressed. By truncating one of the recombination sites in the construct...intermediate (d), and sparse (e) labeling of the calcium indicator, GCaMP6f, in the Drosophila optic lobe. Image ... reporter (blue) and stained with PI (pink) to indicate cell death. Image from Diessl et al., 2020. ...https://dx.doi.org/10.15698%2Fmic2020.04.713 Truncated TALE-fluorescent protein fusions as a DNA staining...protein to the DNA. They created plasmids for purification of tTALE-eGFP and tTALE-mCherry. In comparison...

...contains the proteins needed for the virus to replicate,  and the transfer plasmid which contains the ... by the AAV. On a plasmid map, its sequence is located between the ITRs. It can be anything you like as...expression of your transgene to a specific species or location. Promoters can also drive different levels of ...sequences that can flank the transgene and are located between the ITRs. Transfer plasmids often have ... the expression of your transgene. The WPRE is located at the end of the AAV genome, just upstream of ...promotes RNA transcript longevity. The polyA is located at the end of the AAV genome, just upstream of ...

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...degradation, blocking translation, or chromatin modifications of complementary gene sequences (Figure 1). ...silencing can be easily induced by exogenous application of long or short dsRNA. However, it is important...unmodified dsRNA elicits immunogenic reactions that complicate the effectiveness and interpretation of RNAi....have benefited from the ease of use in dsRNA applications. Figure 1: Schematic of an RNAi-inducing...between targets) or multiple target sequences are concatenated. hpRNA has been extensively used in plant research...selection reporter whereby survival itself is indicative of active gene silencing. We achieved this by...Internal Marker for Silencing Allows for Rapid Identification of Loss of Function Phenotypes. Plant Biology...

...Luciferases are a class of enzymes capable of catalyzing chemical reactions in living organisms resulting...gene, such as luciferase, usually serves as an indicator of transcription within cells, where detection...photon emission is measured resulting from the catalysis of a chemical reaction requiring luciferin, ATP...Background Lower Higher Post-translational Modification Not Required Required Photobleaching/Phototoxicity...blue light with a peak emission at 480nm upon catalyzing a chemical reaction with the substrate coelenterazine...compatible substrate must be provided for the enzyme to catalyze the light-producing reaction. Many luciferase ...

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..., Nature Communications, 2019. PubMed PMID: 31451697. Genetically encoded voltage indicators for use ... many aspects of ApoB-LP biology, including quantification of abundance, size, and localization in vivo...Pubmed PMID: 23068583 Thierer et al, Nature Communications 2019. Pubmed PMID: 31366908 Adapting sigma54... by Brook Pyhtila Genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) change fluorescence in real time when... excitation light intensities have made these indicators difficult to work with.  The Gottschalk lab has...

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