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  1. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    ...best fluorescent protein for your application. Selecting the best fluorescent protein for a specific application... the imaging method, we recommend basing your selection on a small-scale head-to-head comparative study...better criterion than theoretical brightness for selecting the brightest fluorescent protein. Theoretical...possible with CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing. Selecting a bright fluorescent protein Practical brightness...
  2. Antibodies 101: ChIP

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    ...antibodies recognize. It is therefore best to either select antibodies validated for ChIP or to validate your...gentler on the sample, introduces bias due to the selective nature of the cutting. While sonication is usually...fragmented the DNA (3) used antibodies to specifically select for proteins of interest (4) isolated your antibody...epitope availability, which could affect antibody selection. Sonication (or enzymatic digest) will also have...
  3. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 3: Genome Engineering in Flies

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    ...like to select for your flies? Sure, the vector will have an antibiotic resistance gene to select for transformed...integration?” Not to worry! In flies, phenotypic selection markers make it easy to spot flies with the appropriate... The white gene is most often used, but other selection markers include vermillion (another gene controlling...
  4. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability

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    ...this series described a practical approach to selecting a bright fluorescent protein. In the second post...post of this series, we will discuss how to select a photostable fluorescent protein. Photobleaching is...illumination strategies, such as 2-photon-excitation, selective plane illumination, TIRF or spinning disk confocal...a much more realistic view of photostability. Selecting a photostable protein The issues with quantification...
  5. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    .... Simply stated, ccdB makes cloning easier by selecting against vectors that did not take up your insert...empty backbones but should never be used when selecting for recombinant plasmids. Check out our blog post...your own! References 1. Bernard, P. “Positive Selection of Recombinant DNA by CcdB.” Biotechniques. 1996...PMID: 7623659. 3. Bernard, P., et al. “Positive-selection vectors using the F plasmid ccdB killer gene”....
  6. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    ...deleted. Selection marker removal – in conventional mouse targeting, targeted clones are selected for using...the marker after the initial selection process. By floxing the selection marker, Cre can be used to easily...
  7. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...fragments. Since recombineering does not contain a selection step for successful modifications, efficiency ...to this inefficiency? Use CRISPR to make it a selectable process! As NHEJ is ineffective in bacteria, ...contrast, in E. coli, CRISPR is primarily a means of selection that targets cells in which homologous recombination...recombination has not occurred. This powerful negative selection system ensures high editing efficiency; the only...successfully repressed or activated transcription of select genes in E. coli. Furthermore, to demonstrate wider...
  8. Progress Towards a PAM-Free CRISPR

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    ...PAM-less editing   Guides for CRISPR are typically selected by the ‘quality’ of the gRNA sequence, including...further-away gRNA where there is an available PAM must be selected. When it comes to CRISPR experiments, therefore... PAM requirement to allow flexibility in gRNA selection and subsequent editing. Identifying PAM-free and...Almost! Assuming a PAM of NRN, 50% of randomly selected genomic loci will have a PAM located next to it...
  9. Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research

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    ... The idea is straightforward. Instructors first select a multi-gene pathway to study and a reference organism...This plasmid contains origins of replication and selectable markers that allow students to propagate the ...The presence of the URA3 gene allows students to select yeast that have been successfully transformed with...teams are assigned different groups of three genes selected from different parts of the Met pathway (Fig. ...
  10. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    .... These reporters allow you to easily screen or select for cells that are expressing your gene of interest...levels. Unlike vectors that express screenable or selectable markers from a unique promoter, multicistronic... interest along with a fluorescent protein or selectable marker, it is easiest to start with a plasmid...receptor-CD3 ITAMs ensures effective negative selection and prevents autoimmunity. Holst et al (Nat Immunol...
  11. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    ... library, they conducted genome-wide negative selection screens with both A375 (melanoma) and AT29 (colon...transcription start site (TSS). The Root and Doench lab selected sgRNAs in this optimal window and ranked them ...the Brunello and Dolcetto library, sgRNAs were selected and ranked based on the previously established...and off-target effects. The 6 best sgRNAs were selected per gene and divided into two sets, A and B. Sanson...
  12. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    ... recombination methods). By using mCherry for selection of sgRNA plasmid transformants, they avoid M. ...spontaneous antibiotic resistance interfering with selection. Using an inducible Cas9 expression and removing...containing tetracycline repressor TetR and resistance selection marker KanR. This strain is then transformed with...on a plasmid expressing mCherry and resistance selection marker HygR. The CRISPR system is induced to cause...
  13. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    ...amounts of data. Although it may be useful to selectively bring particular items into an ELN – e.g. an ...’s possible to send documents from RSpace to a selected Slack channel for discussion and review. It’s ... protocols in protocols.io, and then link to a selected protocol and/or import and convert it into RSpace...an interface that enables users to conveniently select and deposit individual documents or more complex...
  14. Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor

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    ... used in different mouse strains. The in vivo selection for PHP.B in C57BL/6J mouse strains likely contributed...contributed to the unintentionally selection of a virus with mouse-strain dependent performance. This surreptitious...surreptitious finding illustrates how the method used to select novel AAV capsid variants could unintentionally... Deverman, Benjamin E., et al. "Cre-dependent selection yields AAV variants for widespread gene transfer...
  15. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...et al., 2014). While it is certainly possible to select for desirable traits using traditional plant breeding...cumbersome, often requiring several rounds of selection to isolate plants with the phenotype of interest...CRISPR components to plant cells Once you have selected the correct CRISPR components for your application...Seo JS, Chua N-H, Strano MS (2019) Chloroplast-selective gene delivery and expression in planta using chitosan-complexed...
  16. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    ...ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX). After 4-6 rounds of SELEX, the RNA pool was cloned into bacterial...: rapid selection of an RNA mimic of green fluorescent protein by fluorescence-based selection and directed...
  17. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...locations and allows for a given fragment size to be selected for by manipulating the nebulization time and ... colonies (150-200 per plate) across 20 fresh selective plates. Step 2: Express random phage DNA fragments...using a pET vector) and antibiotic for plasmid selection. Remove air bubbles between the membrane and the...cells, simply lay each membrane on an agar plate selective for your target organism and incubate overnight...
  18. When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity

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    ...and NEBuilder® HiFi DNA Assembly, require nick-selective ligases, such as Taq DNA Ligase, which only reacts...melting temperature (Tm) of the DNA strands. This selectively reduces the concentration of annealed mismatched...achieved through a combination of the intrinsic selectivity of the ligase active site and careful balance...to note that thermostable, high fidelity, nick-selective DNA ligases like Taq DNA Ligase, HiFi Taq DNA ...
  19. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    ...Gateway-based cloning and straightforward positive selection of plants undergoing RNAi, and LIIbeta F 1-2 RNAi...2005; Nakaoka et al., 2012).     A new positive selection-based RNAi method Until now, all DNA-based RNAi...RNAi experiments typically involved antibiotic selection to test for the presence of the RNAi transgene...output to monitor RNAi, we engineered a positive selection reporter whereby survival itself is indicative...
  20. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

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    ...dataset are causal for a phenotype of interest. Selected pathways  I attended a great talk when I was a...Listed to design a smaller validation screen using selected gRNAs extracted from the same or another library...Listed to extract gRNAs that target your list of selected genes. Start by choosing which “Reference Library...gRNAs for genes using the name that is used by the selected reference library. If this happens to you, one...
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