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  1. Coomassie Purity Stain of Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...follows: Figure 2 Using the box tool, draw a box around the entire first gel lane (as in Figure 2). Select Analyze... Example for AR0018 (lane 2 in Figure 1): Sample Peak 1 (contaminant) Peak 2 (contaminant) Peak 3 (HC)...choose Use Equation . Select the Show R 2 checkbox. Pro-Tip The R 2 of the trendline should be between 0.95...Equipment Heat block 1–10 µL single channel pipette 2–20 µL single channel pipette 20–200 µL single channel... Add 5 µL of 4X sample buffer to each sample. Add 2 µL 10X reducing agent to each sample. Spin the sample...bottom part of the gel where dye is visible. Section 2: Staining the Gel Place the gel in a plastic tray .... Figure 1 Recombinant antibody preps should have 2 clear bands at ~50 kDa and ~25 kDa corresponding to...
  2. Colony Formation Titering Assay

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    ...for ~2 weeks. All of the cells in the untransduced (negative) control well should be killed and no colonies...with 0.1% crystal violet and counted. Figure 2: A549 cells were transduced with the indicated serial dilutions...Day 2: Replace media with fresh media containing selection reagent Days 3–14: Change media as needed Days...Cabinet 0.5–10 µL single channel pipette 2–20 µL single channel pipette 20–200 µL single channel pipette... 200–1000 µL single channel pipette Ice bucket CO 2 incubator Pipet controller Hazardous waste container...disturb the colonies. Count the colonies for at least 2 of the dilutions. Pro-Tip The higher dilution wells...1,000 cells into each well of a 6-well dish. Prepare a batch of cells as follows: Dilute 7,000 cells into...
  3. Fluorescent Protein Guide: Empty Backbones

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    ...- Bacterial Expression mScarlet-I3 568 592 68 4.2 2 min Monomer pmScarlet-I3_C1 - Mammalian Expression...Fluorescent Protein Resources: FRET Biosensors Subcellular localization Michael Davidson Collection Blog...University of Arizona Shaner et al. : Journal of Cell Science, Vol. 120, December 2007, pp. 4247-4260 ...
  4. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    ...systems to defend against both DNA and RNA viruses - 2 cas systems regulate at the DNA level and 1 at the...origin of cellular life. His lab has long hypothesized that life started with RNA and a simple cell membrane... circular RNA they have identified resulted in a cell migration defect. They have created a circRNA website...
  5. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    ...unc- 119 + selection." MicroPublication 1 (2018): 2–3. Wang, Han, et al. "cGAL, a temperature-robust GAL4...currently doing this using two approaches: single-cell RNA-sequencing to identify neuronal class and deep...WDDD aims to acquire quantitative data on all the cell divisions of the C. elegans embryo when all essential...Wang et al., 2018).” With the split system, only cells that have both halves of cGAL can drive expression...
  6. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ...: PMC4353587. 2. Stephen, Andrew G., et al. "Dragging ras back in the ring." Cancer cell 25.3 (2014): ...molecular level, at the cellular level there is a universal theme - uncontrolled cellular proliferation. We ...cancerous cells Luckily, there are several safety mechanisms in place to protect us from rogue cells when ...process of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is one such mechanism. When a cell or its genetic material... directly inhibit the ability of a cell to undergo programmed cell death while simultaneously stimulating...eliminate every cancerous cell. Even so, to pose the greatest threat, cancerous cells still need to successfully...universally-dividing behavior of cancer cells, attacking the cellular machinery necessary for division. This...
  7. Rabies and Neuronal Tracing

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    ... 2008 Dec; 18(6): 617–623. Pubmed PMID 19349161.  2. Deshpande A, Bergami M, Ghanem A, Conzelmann KK, ...it first infects one cell (the “starter cell”). It then replicates within that cell, and nascent RABV cross...connections to the starter cell, RABV was modified to only infect user-defined starter cell types, as well as ...dictate infection of target cells through their interactions with target cell surface receptors (Callaway...Callaway 2008). Based on this, cell type specificity of the starter cell can be achieved by using EnvA-pseudotyped...studied biological processes, like how our stem cells are housed in specific locations and give rise to...Tracers Due to their ability to efficiently enter cells and deliver a variety of cargoes, genetically engineered...
  8. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    ... replication competent virus [usually HIV-1]; and 2) the potential for oncogenesis through insertional...of interest into cells. Unlike gamma-retroviruses that can only infect dividing cells, lentiviruses can...dividing and non-diving cells while retroviruses can only infect dividing cells. When choosing the appropriate...to ensure that the proper cell line is used; several common laboratory cell lines including 293 were immortalized...can infect dividing and non-dividing cells.  Addgene has an extensive collection of lentiviral plasmids...transfecting four different plasmids into the producer cells (two packaging plasmids, an envelope plasmid, and...appropriate gene delivery system, the specific target cell or tissue needs to be considered. Q2: Can I use...
  9. What is Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

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    ...PCR tube Ice Bucket 2 μL Template DNA (10 ng-500 ng) 5 μl 10X Taq buffer with MgCl 2 1 μl dNTP mix (10 ... reagents on ice): 2 μL Template DNA (10 ng-500 ng) 5 μl 10X Taq buffer with MgCl 2 1 μl dNTP mix (10 ...normally sterile dH 2 O. To make a 100uM stock of any primer, add a number of µl of dH 2 O equal to the number...annealing temperature step-wise by 1-2°C. The rate of DNA synthesis is ~1-2 kb/min. The extension time can ...work adequately. Divalent cations such as Mg 2+ and Mn 2+ stabilize the buffer solution. These cations...(PCR). Basic PCR Program Initial Denaturation for 2 minutes at 94°C: This initiation step heats the double...target DNA strand accurately and rapidly. Repeat steps 2-4 25-30 times. Final Extension for 5 minutes at 72...
  10. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ...Figure 2: Inner mitochondrial membranes imaged with structured illumination microscopy in HeLa cells expressing...yielded editing of 80–90% in human cell lines and primary cells. Although cell entry of a Cas9 ribonucleoprotein...post: Peptide-assisted genome editing for primary cells Monomeric StayGold variants AAV.CAP-Mac for systemic...antibodies Peptide-assisted genome editing for primary cells By Susanna Stroik Even with the advances in CRISPR...CRISPR technology over the past decade, primary cells remain difficult to genetically edit due to toxicity...toxicity from electroporation or poor cellular entry with other transfection methods. The Junwei Shi Lab addressed...Genome Editing (PAGE). They fused the Cas enzyme to cell-penetrating peptides and co-incubate it with an ...
  11. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    ...PMID: 27151215. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4938170. 2. Zuris, John A., et al. "Cationic lipid-mediated delivery...can often be used in cells that are difficult to transfect, such as primary cells. Using RNPs can also...interest. This is commonly performed by transfecting cells with a plasmid, such as PX459, which encodes Cas9...must be considered when using this method:     Cells must be amenable to transfection or viral transduction...protein in complex with a targeting gRNA, to your cells of interest. Cas9 RNPs are capable of cleaving genomic...single or multi-gene knockouts in a wide variety of cell types, gene editing using homology directed repair...difficulties with protein expression that occur in cells where common eukaryotic promoters (such as CMV or...
  12. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...Reports 9: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41088-2 Magnus C, Lee P, Bonaventura J, Zemla R, Gomez J, ...neuroscience where specific tissues, cell types, or even subcellular regions of a neuron need to be targeted...pathways, giving rise to the same cellular responses. The cellular response set off by a DREADD depends ...disease, neuroscientists need to be able to probe cells and circuits without disrupting normal brain function...it provides a noninvasive method for manipulating cell activity, especially neuronal firing. What is chemogenetics...drugs. Once activated, chemogenetic receptors hijack cell signaling pathways and can lead to such responses...requires successfully introducing receptors to target cells. Targeted and specific delivery becomes especially...
  13. Kit Free RNA Extraction

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    ...RNAzol®, QIAzol® (for Protocol Option #2) Water-saturated Phenol 2 M Sodium Acetate pH 4 Chloroform/Isoamyl...to the Option #2 - TRIzol® Protocol section below. Homogenize or lyse tissues or cells in Solution D. ...those in -80°C. Option #2 - TRIzol® Protocol Homogenize or lyse tissues or cells in TRIzol® or a similar....5% (wt/vol) N-laurosylsarcosine (Sarkosyl) 0.1 M 2-mercaptoethanol TRIzol® or similar product such as...following sequentially to 1 mL of lysate: Add 0.1 mL of 2 M sodium acetate (pH 4.0), mix thoroughly by inversion...by hand for 10 seconds. Incubate the sample(s) for 2-3 minutes on ice and centrifuge for 15 minutes at ... D per 100 mg of cells. For cultured cells: use 1 mL of Solution D per 1 X 10 7 cells. Allow sample(s)...
  14. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ... that bind to a cell’s DNA, telling the Cas machinery where to cut.      Fig. 2: Heatmap indicating...ancestry and germline sequence variation in cancer cell lines took them down unexpected paths. Though this...researchers do large-scale CRISPR screens in cancer cell lines, looking to uncover genetic dependencies of...to see if they could identify the ancestry of the cell lines (European, East Asian, Indigenous American...or South Asian) used in the screens based on the cells’ germline genetic variations. They then wanted to...with each ancestry group. Since about 90% of the cell lines used in DepMap CRISPR screens are of either...groups for 994 of the Cancer Dependency Map cancer cell lines (left). Heatmap indicating the breakdown of...
  15. Molecular Biology Reference

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    ...indicated, the antibiotic powder can be dissolved in dH 2 0. Addgene recommends making 1000X stock solutions...daughter cells. These daughter cells contain the same genetic information as the parental cell, and are...with the host cell. Like the bacterial chromosomal DNA, plasmid DNA is replicated upon cell division, and...chemistry enable isolation and purification of cellular components, such as DNA, but practically this ...and each daughter cell receives at least one copy of the plasmid. By the 1970s the combined discoveries...are thus termed clones of the original cell. The plasmid DNA is similarly referred to as cloned DNA, and... and ideally would replicate these plasmids upon cell division in addition to their own genomic DNA. Because...
  16. AAV Purification by Iodixanol Gradient Ultracentrifugation

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    ...purification. Workflow Timeline Day 1: Purify Day 2: Buffer exchange and concentration Note: Both steps... 7.4 1X PBS-MK buffer 100X Pluronic-F68 NaCl MgCl 2 KCl Centrifugal filter units (MWCO 100 kDa) Reagent...PBS-MK buffer Dissolve 5.84 g of NaCl, 26.3 mg of MgCl 2 and 14.91 mg of KCl in 1× PBS in a final volume of...at 4 °C. 1X PBS-MK buffer Dissolve 26.3 mg of MgCl 2 , and 14.91 mg of KCl in 1× PBS in a final volume ...(C) (formulation buffer) Add 5 mL of Buffer B and 2 mL of 5 M NaCl to 43 mL PBS Procedure Preparation ...need more time, you can alternatively centrifuge for 2 h at 200,000 x g at 18 °C. Carefully take the QuickSeal...interface of the 60% and 40% gradient (see Figure 2) with an 18 ga needle. Place the first microcentrifuge...
  17. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    ...double strand break), increasing editing efficiencies 2-3 fold with indel frequencies between 1-10%.  Find...20-50% efficiency in HEK293T cells with 1-10% indels. In other tested cell types, including post-mitotic...correct only a minority of those variants in most cell types. A new technique from David Liu’s lab at the...components prime editing would introduce into the cell, the team fused the M-MLV reverse transcriptase ...enabled more efficient prime editing in HEK293T cells. For designing pegRNAs, the Liu lab created PrimerDesign...nicking the non-edited strand, they can cause the cell to remake that strand using the edited strand as...inadvertent effects the prime editors may have on the cells, and assess in vitro and in vivo delivery strategies...
  18. To Each HIS Own

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    ...take care when using this method.      Fig 2:  A, The polyhistidine tag is a string of histidine...This can be pretty complicated given that a single cell has tens of thousands of proteins functioning in...
  19. Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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    ... adapted to a competitive format. Figure 2: Overview of using Competitive ELISA to quantitatively...immunoassays in DNA damage and instability detection. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 76, 4689–4704 (2019). https://doi.org...
  20. Of Myc and Men

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    ...promising monoclonal antibody with high specificity. (2) Narrow down the specific epitope that your antibody...For about as long as the disciplines have existed, cell and molecular biologists have been continuously ... peer into the mysterious, microscopic world of cells. The development of antibodies as tools allowed ...monoclonals would help the field explore Myc’s role in cell proliferation and tumorigenesis.  Using two different...specific for human c-myc proto-oncogene product. Mol Cell Biol 5:3610–3616. https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.5.12.3610... and immunoglobulin heavy chain binding protein. Cell 46:291–300. https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(86...signal prevents secretion of luminal ER proteins. Cell 48:899–907. https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(87...
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