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  1. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...epitopes fused to the protein of interest are recognized and thus fluorescently labeled by scFv antibodies...works by bringing together an anchor protein and activator protein to drive transcription. The anchor consists...off all mRNA binding proteins as it travels along the mRNA to produce the protein product. The system,...RNA Imaging by Coat protein Knock-off, is made up of three components: a GFP protein that binds to the ...of a reporter mRNA via a PP7 coat protein (NLS-PCP-GFP) a RFP protein that binds to the 3’ UTR of the reporter... sites for the fluorescent proteins and an inducible promoter (Plasmid 64543or 64542) When the reporter...and the RFP proteins in the nucleus. During the first round of translation, the GFP proteins that are bound...
  2. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    ...blasticidin, neomycin, puromycin, hygromycin) and fluorescent protein reporters (GFP, BFP, RFP, no FP). The vectors...consists of a mirrored set of inverted repeats (green) flanking the gene of interest (blue) in a plasmid...expressed (red stars) and binds the inverted repeats (green); and an endonuclease reaction occurs which cuts...
  3. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    ...Control Protein Activity Learn more about protein tags Read about E. coli strains for protein expression...expressed in bacteria and extracted with common protein purification methods. Read on to learn more about.... C) IgG’s are big enough that multiple labels (green circles in figure 2 below) can be attached to each... distance between the target antigen and the fluorescent label, which can reduce the potential image resolution... resolution of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Their size also limits their ability to penetrate...be better suited for the job. As single domain proteins, they can be expressed in bacteria, making nanobodies...penetration and decreases the distance between a fluorescent tag and the target antigen to about 2 nm, which...
  4. Fluorescent Protein Guide: Subcellular Localization

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    ... Plasmid Collections Fluorescent Proteins Organelle Markers Fluorescent Proteins: Subcellular Localization...marker protein is fused to GFP, you may want to fuse your protein to a red fluorescent protein (see this...structures. You should fuse your protein of interest with a fluorescent protein that has a different emission...your fusion protein and the marker fusion protein using fluorescence microscopy, you can assess whether...Targeting Gene/Signal Fluorescent Protein PI 98875 3xnls-mNeonGreen Nucleus 3xNLS mNeonGreen Dorus Gadella 98817...Plasmids encoding fluorescent proteins tagged with genes or peptides with known subcellular localization...Localization More Fluorescent Protein Resources: Empty Backbones Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmid Collection...
  5. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...photostable than fluorescent proteins, making them ideal for single-molecule fluorescence techniques. After...CLIP-SNAP fusion proteins for single-molecule FRET. A) Schematic of a CLIP-SNAP fusion protein (a.k.a. CLAP... a flexible linker where a protein of interest can be inserted. B) Protein expression and labeling procedure...optimized strategy uses new combinations of PE protein components (Figure 1), an altered epegRNA delivered...study the conformational dynamics of the motor protein kinesin-1, the Twelvetrees Lab took advantage of...FRET to study the intramolecular dynamics of the proteins in solution and when associated with microtubules...generating other SNAPf-, CLIPf-, and CLAP-tagged proteins for mammalian cell expression. These plasmids ...
  6. Luciferase Plasmid Collection

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    ...co-immunoprecipitation to assess protein-protein interactions. NanoLuc® complementation : Protein-protein assays based on... Plasmid Collection You may also like... Fluorescent Proteins Blog: Luciferase 101 Blog: Technologies ...-learning approaches. Split-Luciferase and Protein-Protein Interaction Assays Cluc-FKBP , FRB-Nluc : Split...mmunoprecipitation) plasmids : Luminescence-based protein-protein screening method for the systematic and quantitative...NanoLuc® have been used to assess GPCR-G protein interactions , protein dimerization , endosomal escape of ..., Enhanced Nano-lanterns , and Antares : Fluorescent proteins are fused to Renilla luciferase (Nano-lanterns...include Gaussia luciferase (Gluc) and the red and green Click-beetle luciferases (CBRluc and CBGluc, respectively...
  7. Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

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    ...such as whole mouse brains expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) (6).   The Dodt and Frank Bradke...Developments in light sheet fluorescence microscopy Modern light sheet fluorescence microscopy was first pioneered... advances in microscopy has been light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM). The underlying method was...colleagues and originally named orthogonal-plane fluorescence optical sectioning (OPFOS) (2). Arne Voie, David...laser beam into a thin sheet to illuminate a fluorescent sample and captured the reflected light using...configurations’ various features see (4,7).   Light sheet fluorescence microscopy vs. confocal microscopy In confocal...developed AAV (adeno-associated virus)-based fluorescent labeling methods that can be used with 3DISCO...
  8. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    ...can visualize the protein via fluorescence or chemiluminescence, precipitate the protein out of solution... a single protein that can recognize the target protein (Wang et al., 2013). These proteins are also plasmid-derived... the presence of proteins from samples containing a mixture of proteins. The proteins are separated based...to study protein-protein interactions. Flow cytometry Flow cytometry is used to detect proteins on the ...scientists to target specific proteins they’re interested in. Once a protein is targeted with an antibody...entirety of the target protein: instead, it recognizes a small portion of the protein, known as an epitope... the target protein because the antibodies will recognize multiple epitopes on the protein. However, each...
  9. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ... unique combination of red, blue, and green fluorescent proteins in each state. The three methods of ...amount of information regarding which regulatory proteins, signaling molecules, mutations, and environmental...mentioned above (Sanger sequencing, qPCR, and fluorescent reporter-based) each come with their advantages...opinion, the most convenient strategy is the fluorescent reporter based method since it lends itself to... 353, aad8559 (2016). PubMed PMID: 27463678. 2. Green, Alexander A., et al. "Toehold switches: de-novo-designed...
  10. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    ...quantity inside a cell Plasmids 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Plasmids 101: Luciferase Monitor...setting. Read more: Plasmids 101: Protein Tags Produce proteins that glow so that scientists can track... a plasmid by recruiting replication machinery proteins Antibiotic Resistance Gene Allows for selection...gene is expressed in and amount of recombinant protein obtained. Selectable Marker The antibiotic resistance...used to do include: Produce large amounts of a protein so that scientists can purify and study it in a...
  11. Antibodies 101: Chimeric Antibodies

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    ...determine how Protein A and Protein B interact. You read extensive research on the two proteins and come up...to detect Protein A and green fluorophore-tagged anti-mouse IgG2a secondary to detect Protein B and successfully... an ideal antibody against Protein A and an ideal antibody against Protein B. The antibodies are both ... anti-Protein A antibody and an anti-mouse IgG2a secondary antibody to bind to the anti-Protein B antibody...are rat IgG1, then you could convert your anti-Protein B antibody to a mouse IgG2a Fc. The resulting chimeric...successfully visualize both proteins.     Figure 2: Two primary antibodies with the same isotype...secondary antibodies can be used with different fluorescent labels and both targets can be successfully visualized...
  12. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    ...transfected successfully and expressing the protein. For example, fluorescence microscopy images resulting from ...it produces the expected effect, which is green fluorescent cells (Figure 3).   Figure 3: Expression of...plasmid that constitutively expresses a reporter protein (e.g., GFP or luciferase) that is either co-transfected...your cells. Regardless, the amount of reporter protein activity correlates to both the amount of DNA transfected...cells and the ability of the cells to express the protein.   In analysis of the result in Figure 1, an internal...was not successful due to the absence of GFP fluorescence from the living, viable cells. This result presents...
  13. Flow Cytometry Readouts: Yes, No, and Everything in Between

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    ...of a protein, a yes-no plot is the best-case result. For example, you have introduced a GFP protein into...orange peak is a baseline expression of a protein while the green (top) has an upregulated expression (shift...adjusted voltage, cells that did not receive the GFP protein are most likely to be clustered at signals below...not! When you are looking to study the level of protein expression, instead of its presence or absence,...These smears tend to occur when you are looking at proteins that are expressed regularly in cells and might...can quantify shifts in signal using the mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) of the different populations...The orange peis the baseline expression of the protein of interest. Created with biorender.com. The...
  14. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    ...homology dependent repair by enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) reconstitution. (a) Scheme of validation...incubation, you assess the level of fluorescence in your cells under a fluorescence microscope. The higher the ...containing sgRNA sequences into HEK293T cells. The fluorescence intensity was classified into four groups (4...darker than control, 1; very dark). Brighter fluorescence indicates a more successful gRNA design. Adapted...your target is inserted, disrupting the EGFP fluorescent signal, for details on this plasmid, see Mashiko...the amount of fluorescence, the better that gRNA is at causing a double stranded break at the target site...screening as little as 8-10 pups. The level of fluorescence you saw in the validation assay should give ...
  15. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    ...and SYT1 KO cells were labelled with a green or violet, fluorescent dye, respectively. WT and KO cells were... the optimal knockdown of the protein target will depend on the protein turnover rate. If you need a more...suppress the expression of many related proteins, not just your protein of interest, which can affect your ...through an epitope tag such as FLAG/His/GFP. Fluorescent protein tags, which correlate closely with target... levels of the target protein. It may only be able to detect the target protein at the high levels caused...robust approach to antibody validation. If your protein of interest is essential to the cell’s function...population (pink histogram) compared to the WT cells (green histogram). The unfilled histograms show cells that...
  16. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    ...chimeric protein consisting of Cas9 and a photo-dissociable dimeric green fluorescent protein (pdDronpa...CRY2) and calcium and integrin-binding protein 1 (CIB1) proteins. The goal of both groups was to create...composed of two fusion proteins: 1) the genomic anchor - an inactive, dead Cas9 protein (dCas9) fused to CIB1...form a functional protein due to being fused with high-affinity interacting proteins Coh2 and DocS, respectively... saCas9 protein. Stop light! Photoactive anti-CRISPRs halt Cas9 activity Anti-CRISPR proteins are a highly... architecture (Hoffman et al., 2020). Fluorescent dCas9 proteins can be used to identify specific genomic...telomere-targeting gRNA and a dCas9 fusion protein with three red fluorescent tags in U2OS cells. Upon light activation...
  17. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    ...make. For example, large insertions, like a fluorescent protein knock-in, suffer from low efficiency when... your desired insertion feature (e.g., a fluorescent protein), you can amplify the desired region using... of the commonly used cassettes, such as fluorescent proteins (EGFP, mCherry etc.), recombinases (Cre,... Quadros et al. recommend ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes of Cas9 protein and the separated guide RNA...cleavage sites (slashes) are shown. In this case, the green guide would be selected, since it cleaves at the...You can also use Addgene plasmids to purify Cas9 protein. The table below contains some of our favorites...alleles using long ssDNA donors and CRISPR ribonucleoproteins.” Genome Biol. 18 (2017) (1):92. DOI: 10.1186...
  18. A Primer on Optogenetics: Introduction and Opsin Delivery

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    ...co-localization immunofluorescence, cell-type specificity. Viruses that only express the fluorescent proteins are ...Thankfully the Deisseroth constructs coexpress a fluorescent protein, which allows for easy identification of ...vectors for anterograde axonal tracing with fluorescent proteins in nontransgenic and cre driver mice. Current...optogenetics plasmids! Find AAV resources! Find fluorescent protein resources!    ...of an action potential. Halorhodopsins (HR) are green/yellow-light sensitive chloride ion pumps, activation...general rule of thumb, if you can detect a strong fluorescent signal (without antibody manipulation), then ...
  19. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...that express one of a few different fluorescent proteins (red, green, blue). If a researcher injects a ...and neuron-specific transgene expression. Fluorescent proteins are widely used for tracing and their expression...Maday et al., 2014). It is currently unclear which proteins facilitate transport of neuronal tracing compounds...either produce a colorimetric product or are fluorescent. While dyes usually spread unidirectionally, ...biotinylated dextran amines (Veenman et al., 1992) or fluorescent molecules like rhodamine-isothiocyanate (RITC... For predominantly retrograde tracing, albumin protein labelled with horseradish peroxidase (HRP; Kristensson...germ agglutinin WGA, Schwab et al., 1978) or fluorescent molecules such as Fluoro-Gold (Schmued and Fallon...
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