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... Ligands GCE4All: Making Genetic Code Expansion Accessible Addgene's Genetic Code Expansion Collection... & Small Molecule Fluorophores. Addgene Blog. https://blog.addgene.org/better-dyeing-through-chemistry-small-molecule-fluorophores... is now the most popular self-labeling tag in Addgene’s collection. CLIP-tag: Also in 2008, Kai Johnsson...specific with a small and minimally-disruptive genetic tag on the protein of interest. Table 1: Summary...are the most popular self-labeling enzymes in Addgene’s collection, so you may be able to get a plasmid... Pick, H., Vogel, H., & Johnsson, K. (2003). A general method for the covalent labeling of fusion proteins...10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00258 More resources from Addgene Better Dyeing Through Chemistry Illuminating Choices...

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...mouse inner ear. Fourth-generation cytosine base editors The fourth-generation base editors, BE4, reduce...activity.  Find CRISPR base editing plasmids at Addgene Improving cytosine base editing scope and efficiency...18 bases upstream of the PAM.  David Liu’s lab generated BE3 variants with other deaminases: AID, CDA1,...these three improvements represent the fourth generation of base editors. Compared to BE3, BE4 offers ... phage-assisted evolution selection systems to generate ABE8e(TadA-8e V106W), which edits ~590-fold faster...., 2020). This is important because ABEs have generally been slow, meaning that the Cas9 domain often ... N. M. (2023). Improved cytosine base editors generated from TadA variants. Nature Biotechnology, 41(5...