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  1. Protocols for Molecular Biology, Plasmid Cloning, and Viral Preps

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    ...complicated procedures. Plasmid Cloning Protocols for constructing and analyzing your plasmids. Virus Protocols...plasmid DNA to mammalian cells Lentivirus Production Produce lentivirus with a polyethyenimine (PEI) transfection...preparation Lentivirus Titration by ddPCR Use ddPCR to measure the physical titer of your lentivirus preparation...transfection protocol Fluorescence Titering Assay for Lentivirus Quantify virus using fluorescence measurements...measurements Colony Formation Titering Assay for Lentivirus Quantify virus by counting antibiotic resistant colonies...colonies Generating Stable Cell Lines with Lentivirus Genomically integrate your DNA sequence into a cell...
  2. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    Blog Post
    ...was rapidly able to support sharing of CRISPR constructs and information across the globe.  “Read the ...ready-to-use viral vectors from some of our most popular lentiviral and AAV vectors, as well as developing and sharing...
  3. Neurodegeneration Research Collection

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    ...Synuclein, and more. New and Noteworthy: Use tau constructs to study aggregation. Saha et al. Nat Commun.... Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Aug 22. Use a lentiviral FRET-based reporter to study tau seeding in mammalian...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    ...selectable marker. This vector can express your construct in target cells transiently or constitutively ...Some customization is required, but many viral constructs have already been built and are available on ... embryonic stem cells. Viral integration of a construct is also reliably higher than traditional transfection...is more than one type of virus to choose from (lentivirus, retrovirus, AAV, etc.). When you’ve decided ...
  5. Fluorescent Protein Guide: Biosensors

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    ...conformational change in the sensing region of the construct leads to a change in signal of a circularly permuted...different binding affinities or negative-control constructs used to characterize the sensor's behavior in...biosensor in a novel context or modifying an existing construct, as fluorescence properties can be affected by...fluorescent protein biosensor for maltose Rapid construction of metabolite biosensors using domain-insertion...fluorescent protein biosensor for trehalose Rapid construction of metabolite biosensors using domain-insertion... Mitophagy Dual-emission mitophagy biosensor (lentiviral expression of pH sensitive mt-mKeima) Spatiotemporal...for popular biosensors in different expression constructs? Browse the table below or search for a biosensor...
  6. Viral Vectors 101: Transductions

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    ...the design and construction steps are complete, it’s time to make virus! The constructed viral vector containing...perform the transduction with: either retrovirus, lentivirus, adenovirus, or AAV. Then, your desired DNA to... some viruses integrate into the host genome (lentivirus and retrovirus) while others are non-integrating...Addgene.org Generating Stable Cell Lines with Lentivirus Virus Handling and Storage Addgene Viral Services...
  7. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ...AAV vectors to deliver chemogenetic/optogenetic constructs into our cells of interest. Although they have...time until expression, it is possible to use AAV constructs with self-complementing structure (scAAV) (7)... would result in cell death. With several new constructs becoming available, AAVs could be much better...facilities (Biosafety Level-1). Other possible tools, lentiviruses for example, are not approved for use in vivo...Response: Compared to other viral vectors (e.g. Lentivirus, Adenovirus) AAVs cause the least amount of immune...
  8. CRISPR Guide

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    ...CRISPR libraries What Are Pooled Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries? Pooled lentiviral CRISPR libraries are a heterogeneous... the HDR pathway can also help. Additionally, constructs with Cas9 fused to proteins that modulate HDR...genome-wide screens using CRISPR involves pooled lentiviral CRISPR libraries. Figure 8: Overview of genome-wide...heterogeneous population of lentiviral transfer vectors. In most cases, each plasmid contains an individual...Figure 8A), then cloned in a pooled format into lentiviral transfer vectors (Figure 8B). Libraries come ...library is suitable for your experiment. Although lentiviral libraries are the most popular method for CRISPR...our pooled library guide and our blog post on lentiviral pooled libraries . Browse Libraries: CRISPR Pooled...
  9. Lentiviral Guide

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    ... Guides Lentiviral Guide Lentiviral Guide... below. Third Generation Lentiviral Plasmids 2nd vs 3rd Generation Lentiviral Systems Feature 2nd Generation... producing my lentiviral plasmids? Due to the long terminal repeats found in lentiviral plasmids, we recommend... the lentiviral genome and harbor the genetic information encoded by that genome. Many lentiviral transfer... regions, mirroring patterns of lentiviral integration. Can lentiviral plasmids be used in direct transfections...that can are primarily third generation constructs. Lentiviral transfer plasmids are not designed specifically...to the lentiviral LTRs. While possible, it is not explicitly recommended that you use lentiviral transfer...
  10. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    ...integrated by the virus. If an oncogene overexpression construct is being delivered, that is a higher risk cargo...viruses grown in the lab are gamma retrovirus, lentivirus, adenovirus, and adeno-associated virus (AAV)...humans, earning this virus a BSL-2 classification. Lentivirus (a type of retrovirus) and gamma retrovirus require...and required in BSL-2 labs. When working with lentivirus, many organizations require or recommend disposable...you have to work with BSL-2 materials, such as lentivirus. Most of this work will need to be done in a ...that particles are not sprayed into the air. For lentivirus and other BSL-2 materials, you’ll need to use...for extra security. Finally, when spinning down lentivirus, you’ll need to use centrifuge bin covers, which...
  11. "Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach

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    ...justifying each single element used to build the construct and explain why they selected a certain target...has been developed to teach gamma-retrovirus or lentivirus-based ex-vivo gene therapy’ strategies to undergraduates...
  12. Retrovirus Guide

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    ... well as the viral LTRs, differ. As a result, lentiviral and γ-retroviral packaging plasmids are not interchangeable...using 293T cells This method is very similar to lentiviral packaging methods. The three components described..., the different “generations” associated with lentiviral transfer plasmids are determined by the presence...wildtype LTR promoter is no longer present in these constructs. Why do many γ-retroviral plasmids have similar...found within both the 5' and 3' LTRs of retro/lentiviral plasmids. U5; Unique 5'; region at the 5' end...interchangeably. For more information about lentivirus, please read our lentivirus guide. Are γ-retroviruses replication... Retroviral Plasmid System Note : While both lentiviruses and γ-retroviruses use the same gene products...
  13. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    ...sequences can be used together in DAP array. To construct DAP array for multiplex gene editing applications...deliveries via adeno-associated virus (AAV) and lentivirus, demonstrating simultaneous editing of genes ...
  14. Hassle-free 96-well Format Epitope Tagging Using Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein

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    ...however, suffer from many pitfalls: they require construction of plasmid vectors and/or rely on cumbersome...be directly purchased and there is no need to construct plasmid vectors or synthesize/purify IVT sgRNA...our CRISPR guide pages Find ready-to-use Cas9 lentivirus ...
  15. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...terminator may be desired for multi-cistronic constructs where high termination efficiency is necessary... Substantially Increases Expression Levels of Lentivirus-Delivered Transgenes but Has the Potential to...
  16. Molecular Biology Reference

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    ...interested in. Self-replicating - Once you have constructed a plasmid, you can easily make an endless number...these plasmids to create viral particles, such as lentiviral, retroviral, AAV, or adenoviral particles, that...viral service offers select ready-made AAV and lentiviral particles. Visit our viral service page to learn...
  17. CRISPR Guide

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    ...CRISPR libraries What Are Pooled Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries? Pooled lentiviral CRISPR libraries are a heterogeneous... the HDR pathway can also help. Additionally, constructs with Cas9 fused to proteins that modulate HDR...genome-wide screens using CRISPR involves pooled lentiviral CRISPR libraries. Figure 8: Overview of genome-wide...heterogeneous population of lentiviral transfer vectors. In most cases, each plasmid contains an individual...Figure 8A), then cloned in a pooled format into lentiviral transfer vectors (Figure 8B). Libraries come ...library is suitable for your experiment. Although lentiviral libraries are the most popular method for CRISPR...our pooled library guide and our blog post on lentiviral pooled libraries . Browse Libraries: CRISPR Pooled...
  18. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) Guide

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    ...cycle; VP1, VP2, VP3 - capsid proteins). When constructing an AAV transfer plasmid, the transgene is placed...preferred over lentiviruses because they remain primarily episomal, while lentiviruses integrate into ...
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