...Cas enzymes? CasPEDIA is an encyclopedia of Class 2 CRISPR systems with wiki entries describing enzyme... inosine, which is treated like guanosine by the cell, creating an A to G (or T to C) change. Adenine ...

...dCas9VP64 and sgRNA from separate promoters. Table 2. pmax dCas9 Activator Expression Plasmids ID Plasmid...Rangarajan S, Shivalila CS, Dadon DB, Jaenisch R. Cell Res. 2013 Oct;23(10):1163-71. doi: 10.1038/cr.2013.122...

...SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudotyping, visit the SARS-CoV-2 Pseudotyped Virus collection page. SARS-CoV-2 detection...of SARS-CoV-2 entry and become upregulated during viral infection.  Expression of SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins...pseudotyping The SARS-CoV-2 virus depends on its spike protein to bind ACE2, the host cellular receptor. To more...point for SARS-CoV-2 researchers to investigate how the virus interacts with human cells. Addgene’s mammalian...genes are important for SARS-CoV-2 entry into human lung epithelial cells (Biering et al., 2021). In their...Wesemann DR (2021) Memory B cell repertoire for recognition of evolving SARS-CoV-2 spike bioRxiv. https://...labs in over 75 countries. Figure 1: SARS-CoV-2 proteins and other components. Image from Maya Kostman...

...(I), or sparse (S) labeling of the cell population. Figure 2: Dense (c), intermediate (d), and sparse...single genetically-defined subset of cells. By labeling fewer cells in a population, it’s easier to visualize...non-overlapping cells. While transgenic animals are commonly used to specifically manipulate a cell type of interest...expressed. In cells where the stop cassette remains, the effector is not expressed and the cells are not labeled...sparse labeling of the cell population that expresses SPARC and the fraction of cells that will be labeled... interest in an organism, all cells of that type are affected. Previous tools to overcome this restraint... of the gene construct. A predictable number of cells will express the effector or retain the stop cassette...

... or (2) a lack of efficient target cleavage in cells expressing both Cas9 and gRNA. Edited cells may be...Ferguson-Smith A, Li D, Yang L, Wu Y, Li J. Cell Stem Cell . 17(2):221-32. PMID: 26165924 Discovery of cancer...will transduce cells with the lentiviral library (panel E ). Remember - if you are using a 2-vector system...McGregor MJ, Krogan NJ, Bondy-Denomy J. Cell . Jan 12;168(1-2):150-158.e10. PMID: 28041849 Multiplex gene... JC, Weissman JS, Dueber JE, Qi LS, Lim WA. Cell . 160(1-2):339-50. PMID: 25533786 Epigenome editing by...Whitehead EH, Doudna JA, Lim WA, Weissman JS, Qi LS. Cell . 154(2):442-51. PMID: 23849981 DNA targeting specificity...Sequences Glossary Publications CRISPR Overview Class 2 C lustered R egularly I nterspaced S hort P alindromic...

...Everyone. Case study 1: Cell lines Many of the reagents used to investigate SARS-CoV-2 were developed for ...different organisms to SARS-CoV-2 (Chu et al., 2020). An additional cell line used in this study came from...tropism, replication kinetics, and cell damage profiling of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV with implications for...fast access to the tools required to study SARS-CoV-2, but with many academic research labs closed during...biobanks, are crucial for the advancement of SARS-CoV-2 research because they provide rapid access to validated...that science is truly a global endeavor. Case study 2: Plasmids Another example of reagents that have broad...applications but have proven useful to the study of SARS-CoV-2 are the lentiviral production and packaging vectors...

...Cas9 plasmid Bullock and Port pCFD2-dU6:2gRNA dU6:2 BbsI Injection or in vitro transcription Virmilion...sequence. DSBs are preferentially repaired in the cell by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), a mechanism...PAM site. When a repair template is present, the cell may repair a DSB using homology-directed repair ...Cas protein and a target-specific gRNA in the same cell at the same time. Single plasmids containing both...

....9 (parental) 46 +/- 0.7% AAV.PHP.S 82 +/- 2% Table 2: Transduction efficiency of AAV.9 versus AAV.PHP.S...figure 2) to allow for efficient IV delivery of virus to the CNS or PNS (figure32, tables 1 & 2). These...that cells are labeled with their own unique color; and 2) low levels of labeling so that a cell’s projections...in tables 1 and 2, with a cell-type specific promoter or enhancer now allows for cell-type-restricted ... overall (GFP+ cells that also stained for a neuronal marker). Check out tables 1 and 2 below for a summary...high dose to maximize the number of cells that are labeled. Part 2: An AAV expressing the inducer (i.e...require the generation of a transgenic mouse. 2. Cell-type-specific restricted transgene expression in...

...pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-N-2xStrep-IRES-Puro: Expression of the SARS-CoV-2 N protein  pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-M-2xStrep-IRES-Puro...SARS-CoV-2 M protein pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-orf3a-2xStrep-IRES-Puro: Expression of the SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a... SARS-CoV-2 protein expression The Krogan lab quickly shared plasmids expressing SARS-CoV-2 proteins at...pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-E-2xStrep-IRES-Puro) and NSP2 (pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-nsp2-2xStrep-IRES-Puro...months: Lentiviral preps for expressing SARS-CoV-2 proteins ChR2 for targeted expression DREADDs GFP ...Serotype Name 83899 AAVrg pAAV-mDlx-GCaMP6f-Fishell-2  Additional resources on the Addgene blog Read... results, but also confirm expression in target cells. While the various AAV serotypes can be used to ...

...for shipping stability by incubating at 37 °C for 2 weeks, freezing at -80 °C, thawing on ice, and then...mammalian expression vectors, human embryonic kidney cells are transfected with the plasmid(s) encoding the.... This buffer is not compatible for use in live cells and will interfere with conjugation. For applications...antigen is first transiently expressed in mammalian cells. To learn which specific QC experiments were performed...email [email protected] . Immunocytochemistry (ICC) Cells are fixed and labeled with the antibody and a species-specific...Western Blotting (WB) Proteins are extracted from cells, separated by SDS-PAGE, transferred to a membrane...

...the image can be acquired more quickly. 2-Photon Microscopy 2-Photon Microscopy attempts to solve two ...Fluorescence microscopy. Nature methods 2, 910-919 (2005). PubMed PMID: 16299476. 2. Conchello JA, Lichtman JW. Optical...provide a 2-10 fold increase in resolution, down to 10s of nanometers. Thick dynamic samples Ex: 3D cell cultures...enhance spatial contrast (i.e. optical sectioning (2) or super-resolution (3). Fluorescence microscopy...photobleaching and a reduction in signal intensity. 2-Photon microscopes restrict excitation (and bleaching...can be seen exiting through the tissue. Therefore, 2-photon allows for deeper imaging into thick tissues...imaging objective that collects fluorescence. Like 2-photon microscopy, only a single focal plane of the...

...Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein [mBG86], target distinct epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 nucelocapsid protein...repository of tools for SAR-CoV-2 research. Two new antibodies, Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein [mBG17...Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies here! Terry, J.S., et al. (2021). Development of a SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid ...domain, PE7 (Figure 2).  PE7 shows enhanced editing efficiencies in a number of cell types at different...Figure 3).      Figure 3: HeLa cells transduced with SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein (Plasmid #141391...prime editor PE7 Antibodies to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 research New viral vector preps of Voltron2 voltage...editor. Find PE7 plasmids here!     Figure 2: PE7 improves prime editing. A) Schematic of PE7 prime...

...SARS-CoV-2 infects host cells through binding the human angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) cell-surface...severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus may acquire mutations to escape ...Figure 1. (A) SARS-CoV-2 RBD DMS Library generation and sequencing. From Starr et al Cell., 2020. (B) Mapping...designed so that the SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD is displayed on the yeast cell’s surface. The Bloom lab used ...Pooled library to study antibody escape in SARS-CoV-2 Recombinant antibodies for aminoacyl tRNA synthetases...viral preps Mapping antibody escape in SARS-CoV-2 by mutational scanning By Seth Kasowitz As multiple... binding ACE2 is the target of most anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. In the library, each plasmid encodes the...

...H134R)-EYFP CaMKII ChR2/H134R EYFP Constitutive 1, 2, 5, 9 Deisseroth 26973 pAAV-hSyn-hChR2(H134R)-EYFP....WPRE.SV40 CAG ChR2/H134R mCherry Constitutive 1, 2, 5, 9 Deisseroth 127090 pAAV-CAG-DIO-ChR2(H134R)-eYFP...Optogenetics AAV Optogenetic tools can be used to control cell activity in living tissue with light. Optogenetics...

...Multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants escape neutralization by vaccine-induced humoral immunity. Cell 184:2372-2383...months, we’ve seen the emergence of several SARS-CoV-2 variants coincide with increased vaccination efforts...They were able to tweak this assay to study SARS-CoV-2 spike variants. “We created a series of spike expressing...relative ability to neutralize.”   Figure 2: Sera used in the study came from individuals who ...This sera was used in the high-throughput SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus neutralization assay. Neutralization was...viruses are quite genetically distinct from SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. Yet, the B.1.351 variant, which ...effectiveness of current vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 variants, this study was the first to compare so many...

...Illustration of SARS-CoV-2 from Philippa Steinberg for the IGI.   What SARS-CoV-2 plasmids from Ginkgo ...share over 1,850 SARS-CoV-2 plasmids to help academic and industrial labs accelerate research and to help ...request? Currently, plasmids containing all SARS-CoV-2 protein coding genes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae ...bacterial expression systems, Ginkgo synthesized SARS-CoV-2 expression plasmids in a high copy backbone with a...high level expression and purification of SARS-CoV-2 proteins for downstream experiments and offer flexibility...optimized, full length and truncated versions of SARS-CoV-2 S (spike protein) cloned into a CMV driven expression...first deposited set of plasmids containing SARS-CoV-2 protein coding genes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae ...

...comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 virus-human interaction network in which we expressed 26 of the 29 SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins...understanding how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with human proteins. For example, we used HEK293T cells in our first study...all became acutely aware of the threat of SARS-CoV-2. Like many in the science community, we’ve been motivated...identifying these potential human helpers of SARS-CoV-2 (especially the ones that are druggable) is a key ... joining in this worldwide fight against SARS-CoV-2. As we’ve all been affected in various ways by the...details. Our set of constructs comprises all SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins except for Nsp3 and Nsp16, and includes...is going on there!).  Find the Krogan Lab SARS-CoV-2 plasmids (Note: The Nsp6 construct is undergoing QC...

...state-of-the-art methods of sex and gender analysis and 2) provides case studies with concrete examples of how...never considered the sex of their cells. For one thing, cells and cell lines degenerate over time—and sex... effects of using all female cells and tissues, specifically in stem cell therapies. Let’s go back to ...therapeutic capacity of stem cells. Yet, very few researchers consider the sex of their cells when doing experiments—which...sexes in basic research is excellent design), but they used all female stem cells—this was an unconscious... stem cells. Nor did they detect important differences in function between male and female cells. The ...experiment. In the case of stem cells, these factors may include cell type, the disease being treated,...

...interest in the cells you are studying. Read our SPARC blog post for more details. Figure 2: Dense (c... rising intracellular calcium levels within the cell. When levels of Ca2+ are high in the cell, calcineurin...infection (MOI) during cell library construction to ensure that the majority of cells receive one gRNA. The... of a genetically-defined subset of cells. By labeling fewer cells in a population, it’s easier to visualize...lengths, the density of cells that are labeled can be altered to dense (45% of cells labeled), intermediate...or aging cell populations. Figure 3: Micrographs of wild type (top panels) and cells with high...barcodes (iBARs) in their loop region. After infecting cells with sgRNAiBAR library containing lentiviral vectors...

...surface of most immature B cells; function is unknown Monomer with a valency of 2 IgE Protects against parasites...such as anaphylactic shock Monomer with a valency of 2 IgG The most abundant isotype in blood, also found...secondary immune response Monomer with a valency of 2 IgG1; IgG2; IgG3; IgG4 IgM Produced during the primary... ranging from antibody fragments (shown in Figure 2) to completely unrelated molecules. Examples include...used for assembling protein nanostructures. Figure 2: An antibody (IgG, far left) compared to alternative... produced. Cells - Antibodies can also be produced in cell cultures using hybridomas, cell cultures created...created by fusing B cells with myeloma cells (immortalized B cells). The genetic reorganization that creates...