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  1. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    ... efficient double stranded templates, rather than the more efficient single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotide...generally very small, and can contain different neurotransmitters. Using genetically encoded fluorescent proteins... them to localize to the synapse and minimize extraneous fluorescence from other regions of the cell. ...synaptic maturation pattern of hippocampal adult-born granule cells over time that were not previously possible... al., 2020). Figure 3: BaF3 cells were transduced with H2B-FT virus and grown in varying concentrations...lentiviral CRISPR library that targets human glycosyltransferase genes and other proteins related to cellular...
  2. CRISPR 101 eBook...en español

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    ...receiving the translation, Addgene contracted with a professional scientific translator, L. Denise Roche...101: Una herramienta de edición Addgene tiene una gran audiencia internacional, incluido trabajando con...101 eBook is now available in Spanish!  This translation was gifted to Addgene by Daniel Mejías Sánchez...Roche, to edit the translation. We are pleased to announce that CRISPR 101: Una herramienta de edición ...  Many thanks to:  Daniel Mejías Sánchez, PhD, translator  Denise Roche, PhD, MD, editor, ldeniseroche@...
  3. 3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9

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    ...this surface”….where the complex is docked on the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum. And graduate students...reported cleavage site on the complementary DNA strand. And this is why we love working with researchers...”. Jacob computationally added the non-template strand to the Jinek structure so that the resulting physical...protein must have in order to scan along the double-stranded DNA, recognize a PAM sequence, allow the complementary...pairing between the guide RNA and the target DNA strand, and then activate two different endonuclease active...structure captures the displaced non-target DNA strand and shows the HNH nuclease domain swung around ...juxtaposition to its cleavage site on the target DNA strand. In addition, this model also displays the several...
  4. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    ... mechanism to accurately repair harmful double stranded breaks, in which nucleotide sequences are exchanged...selection marker HSV-tk is used to select against random recombinants.   Design your targeting construct...selecting for cells in which the construct has randomly integrated into the genome, a negative selection...step will kill off many of the cells that have randomly integrated all or large portions of the plasmid...negative selection marker selects against improper, random recombination into a different locus. Correctly...contain the negative selection marker, but cells with random recombination may incorporate the negative selection...and animal models, their efficiency is very low, ranging from undetectable to 0.1%. In contrast, new genome...
  5. Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields

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    ...over for other applications, like PCR, cloning, transfection, or long-term storage. But what about those ...inverted terminal repeats. We use NEB Stable to transform and prep high quality DNA that contains these ... in a protein expression strain, we suggest retransforming the plasmid into a strain meant for DNA purification...prepping. Be sure to stay within the recommended range of the filter or you might inadvertently lower the...concentration Low copy plasmids produce fewer transcripts of their antibiotic resistance genes and can ...for high copy plasmids in standard growth strains range from 12-16 hours, but cultures with lower copy plasmids...to Quantify Your DNA Learn to Do a Bacterial Transformation Learn How to Perform a Diagnostic Restriction...
  6. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...mammalian cells can perform human-like post-translational modifications that bacterial and most yeast ...be produced through a single or dual-plasmid transfection, depending on whether the heavy and light chain...they’ve been separated onto two. You’ll first transfect your cells with your plasmid(s), and then wait... from dropping the tube they are contained in (Randolph et. al., 2018). At Addgene, we ensure the efficacy... Bisson L, Gervais C, Grazzini E, Durocher Y. Transient Gene Expression in Suspension HEK293-EBNA1 Cells...A. Pathak, Christopher J. Roberts, Prasad S. Sarangapani, Protein aggregation, particle formation, characterization..., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2014.10.002. Randolph TW, Schiltz E, Sederstrom D, Steinmann D, Mozziconacci...
  7. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    ...C-to-U and A-to-I transcriptome-wide off target effects observed in whole-transcriptome RNA-sequencing, ...would convert adenine to inosine, which the translational machinery treats like guanine. This RNA editor...amount of off-target editing. In one direct transcriptome-wide comparison, REPAIRv2 reduced off-target...deaminase ADAR2DD to deaminate cytidine and used dRanCas13b (catalytically inactive Cas13) to target the ...the RESCUE system’s ability to edit endogenous transcripts finding up to 42% editing efficiency. They note...therapeutic applications, the authors tested various dRanCas13b truncations that would allow packaging the construct...
  8. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    ... that may have warranted their own chapters, and certainly chapters that could warrant their own books..., and he wisely makes no such attempt. He is transparent about his own biases--many of which will be shared...non-scientists, Zimmer’s observations will likely range from mildly surprising to genuinely shocking. Mainstream...he describes the now infamous tale of Rosalind Franklin and her essential-but-unlauded role in the identification...within this section. The GFP story has its own Franklin in Doug Prasher, who originally isolated the GFP...science produced by the quieter, more reserved Franklins and Prashers will find it increasingly difficult...
  9. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    ...species. Discovering ways to culture, propagate, transform, store, and share all of these new organisms continues...Phenotype thus making progress on the NSF “G to P grand challenge.” Creating a productive, new scientific...evolution because electric organs arose in different branches of the evolutionary tree at least 6-7 times and...mushrooms) but there are over 1,000 species. No transformation techniques are available yet. Polistes (Amy... a system using novel vesicles to efficiently transform these cells which don’t like foreign DNA at all...One can inject plasmid DNA in the eggs to get transgenic animals. They might be immortal. Manihot esculenta...ReMOT control system (Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo)  delivers Cas9 RNP to the arthropod...
  10. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    ...specialized strains are available to confer greater transcriptional control, assist with proper protein folding...harboring this mutation are deficient in outer membrane protease VII, which reduces proteolysis of the...Lacks functional RNaseE which results in longer transcript half-life F- ompT lon hsdSB (rB- mB-) gal dcm...Chloramphenicol (pRARE) Good for “universal” translation; contains 7 additional tRNAs for rare codons ...pLemo (CamR) Expression of toxic, insoluble, or membrane proteins  T7 Express   IPTG-inducible expression...addition of IPTG. T7 RNAP is then available to transcribe the gene of interest from a T7 promoter on the... the expression plasmid in order to repress transcription from a hybrid promoter. Although the DE3/T7 ...
  11. Advice on Career Paths and the Green Card Process for International Researchers and Entrepreneurs

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    ...the non-profit sector are transferrable to industry such as technology transfer, communications, medical... minimum (8 U.S. Code § 1184 - Admission of nonimmigrants). The foreign worker must possess at least a...and therefore the academic H-1B visa cannot be transferred to an industry position. If you cannot get an... facility management, collaboration management, grant administration, clinical operations, and so on. ...include evidence such as proof of US government grants that the researcher is working under in the lab...new accomplishments to add. Obtain copies and translations of documents that are not in English. Create...    Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Transferable Skills Guide 6 Steps to Submitting a Resume ...
  12. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ...of different fluorescent protein are available (Cranfill et al., 2016 and FPbase.org). A number of variants... organelles (Figure 1), showing that its acid tolerance is maintained in cells.   GFP is big GFP is a ...specific RNA stem loop-structure (Querido and Chartrand, 2008). Finally, a nuclease-deficient Cas9 can...clearly the case when proteins undergo post-translational modification with fatty acyl chains. For instance...Partitioning of lipid-modified monomeric GFPs into membrane microdomains of live cells." Science 296.5569 ...28360214. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5385933. 6. Cranfill, Paula J., et al. "Quantitative assessment of ...PMC2644460. 12. Querido, Emmanuelle, and Pascal Chartrand. "Using fluorescent proteins to study mRNA trafficking...
  13. March for Science

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    ...working full-time, and have received a research grant in the last five years as polled in the American...climate change page on whitehouse.gov, freezing grants, and proposing to defund aspects of research at...following subjects: Climate change Vaccines GMOs Transgender issues Reproductive health Immigration Pollution...while many also seek to honor and credit women, immigrants, and minorities who have had great impacts on...encouraged by “Broader Impacts” requirements for certain grants) (28). As one young scientist, Matthew Niederhuber...Post: Trump administration tells EPA to freeze all grants, contracts The Guardian: Trump to scrap Nasa climate... Scientists Find a Voice at Massive Rally for Immigrants National Science Foundation: Universities Report...
  14. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    ...homology-directed repair (HDR) of a CRISPR/Cas9 induced double-stranded break. This site-directed genome editing requires...methylation-dependent endonuclease (i.e. DpnI), and bacteria are transformed with the nuclease-resistant nicked plasmid (the...products of the PCR reaction are pieces of double stranded, circular DNA with staggered nicks, recent data...final PCR products are pieces of linear, double stranded DNA with homologous ends. These homologous ends...the adenosine of the GATC recognition site. Transformation: After the PCR reaction, no ligation is required...required since the E. coli you transform your PCR products into will efficiently patch up the DNA. The ...parental plasmid provides a mean for selecting for transformants which have taken up the mutagenized plasmid....
  15. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    ...therapeutics - one using dCas9-SAM to activate HIV-1 transcription and destroy infected cells, the other using ...histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors to increase transcription of the integrated HIV-1 genome. For a targeted...dCas9-VP64 fusion commonly used to activate transcription, but with two additional activation domains ...domains (MS2 and p65) to enhance transcriptional activation. Zhang et al. designed multiple gRNAs to target ...functional Cas9 nuclease, so there’s no potential for aberrant DNA cleavage. Direct HIV-1 cleavage allows T-cells...rates of off-target cleavage. In both cases, translating the in vitro work into an animal model comes ...cleavage. Despite the potential difficulties in translating these findings into a therapy, these papers present...
  16. Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion

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    ...Verkhusha VV. A photoswitchable orange-to-far-red fluorescent protein, PSmOrange. Nat Methods. 2011 Jul 31;...proteins Newly developed photoconvertible FPs like PsMOrange and mEos add another layer of complexity to imaging...GFP spreads through the cytosol via cytoplasmic strands. Image from Sattarzadeh et al., Sci Rep. 2015 CC...most useful for labs that already have created a transgenic GFP-containing organism,” says Hanson, “using...unexpectedly photoconvertible GFP proteins to make a new transgenic line could avoid problems in localization that...
  17. Easing the Protein Purification Process with pCri

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    ...contains the MISTIC (membrane-integrating sequence for translation of integral-membrane protein constructs...glycosylate proteins and may recapitulate the post-translational modifications added to proteins in other eukaryotes...includes a special feature for difficult-to-purify membrane proteins. pCri vector pCri-13a, designed for use...protein tag. MISTIC drags tagged proteins into the membrane and may improve expression of proteins that natively...
  18. What's New in CRISPR - September 2019

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    ...proteins, or transcriptional regulators. In this system, Cas9 generates a double-stranded DNA break at...are complementary to either side of the double-stranded break in the genomic loci of interest. As the ... Find the CasX plasmids Drug inducible transcriptional activation and genome editing Yu Wang's lab...developed drug inducible CRISPR/Cas9 systems for transcriptional activation and genome editing by fusing Cas9...library contains ~93,000 unique gRNAs that target random positions along the E. coli MG1655 genome with ...
  19. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    ... gene, enhancer, and promoter – all rely on the random integration of a reporter construct in close proximity...integrate within an exon of a gene to generate a transcriptional fusion. This may disrupt the endogenous function...spliced into the gene product resulting in a transcriptional fusion, much like promoter traps. While this...likely disrupt the gene it monitors due to transcriptional fusion.   Examples of promoter, enhancer...monitored genes and mutants - viral integration, transposon, and many more! Check out Addgene’s catalog to...resources on the Addgene blog Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections...
  20. Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation

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    ...visualize individual/non-overlapping cells. While transgenic animals are commonly used to specifically manipulate... to trigger recombination and expression of a transgene (Lin et al., 2018). However, this system requires...tools in Drosophila (Fig. 1):  GAL4-UAS, a transcription factor binding site. GAL4 expressed in the fly...site to cleave and inactivate any read-through transcripts of the effector gene. Effector genes, any gene...across cell types and organisms by replacing the transcription factor binding site and effector in the construct... the SPARC system to use other experimental transcription activation systems, such as LexA/p65 or mCD8...
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