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  1. General Transfection

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    ...protocol to transfect mammalian cells with your plasmid of interest....general method for transfecting mammalian cells using linear polyethylenimine. Transfections allow for transient... viral production) Day 1: Transfect Cells Day 2 (am): 18 h post transfection - Remove media, replace with...SFM. Pro-Tip Endotoxins can inhibit transfection; therefore, plasmid DNA purification should include an...endotoxin removal step. For high quality plasmid DNA, the plasmid should also be propagated in an endonuclease...Once a batch of PEI is prepared, transfect cells with a fluorescent plasmid using a variety of ratios. Check...Carefully transfer the transfection mix to your HEK293T cells. Add the transfection mix dropwise, being ...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    ...transfer plasmid), the envelope (Env) gene on a separate plasmid (envelope plasmid), and the polymerase ... yet a third plasmid (packaging plasmid). Viral production then proceeds by transfection of all three ...different plasmids. For a retroviral system this looks like the genetic cargo in one plasmid (the transfer...three plasmids into a producer cell line, such as HEK-293T, production of viral particles, and transduction... and Pol genes are not encoded in the transfer plasmid, the component that physically integrates into ... retroviral packaging components onto distinct plasmids for safety.    Viral cargo-specific safety...services Addgene Biosafety Guide Addgene Viral Plasmids Which Type of Virus Should I Use? Resources...
  3. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    ...dish of mammalian cells is transiently transfected with a plasmid containing a fluorescent protein (fusion...dish. This is caused by the stochastic nature of plasmid uptake by cells. To correct for this variation,...Goedhart et al, 2012, Bindels et al, 2017). The plasmid for co-expressing mTurquoise2 with mVenus as a ...Find Empty Backbones with Fluorescent Tags Find Plasmids for Subcellular Localization Browse the entire...
  4. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    ...Split-BioID plasmids Find CRISPR plasmids for labeling genomic regions Find CRISPR plasmids for purifying... include both scrambled RNA motifs and cells transfected with BirA* protein alone (i.e. no RNA bait). ...question that RaPID could help answer? The RaPID plasmids are available from Addgene! References Ramanathan...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5886736. Find the RaPID Plasmids Here! McHugh, C.A., Russell, P., & Guttman, M...
  5. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    ... [6], plasmid electroporation (episomal) [7, 8] and mRNA transfection [9]. Many of the plasmids used for...Neurons [32, 33, 34] You can find a variety of plasmids for differentiation here. Transdifferentiation...Weintraub, and A.B. Lassar, Expression of a single transfected cDNA converts fibroblasts to myoblasts. Cell,...Pages Find Viral Vectors for Your Research Find Plasmids from the Yamanaka Lab ...
  6. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ...of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles.  ...all applications. Addgene’s plasmid collection includes over 10,000 plasmids with a FLAG tag (!), but did...electroporation or poor cellular entry with other transfection methods. The Junwei Shi Lab addressed this problem... al. 2023 with permission.   Find Cas-PAGE plasmids here!   Zhang, Z., et al. (2023). Efficient engineering...inspired and informed this section.  Find mStayGold plasmids at Addgene here!   Ando, R., et al. (2023). StayGold...under CC-BY license.   Find the AAV.CAP-Mac plasmid here!   Chuapoco, M.R., Flytzanis, N.C., Goeden...(2023) under CC-BY license.   Find AAV1-X1 plasmid here! Chen, X., et al. (2023). Functional gene ...
  7. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    ...as a universal donor plasmid. The CRISPaint toolkit includes several donor plasmids for protein tagging...The Jorgensen Lab recently developed a modular plasmid assembly toolkit called SapTrap to improve CRISPR...repair template. SapTrap includes a prebuilt donor plasmid library containing several types of fluorescent...tag and homology arms). Digestion of the donor plasmids with SapI allows the tag, selectable marker, and...to be released (Fig. 1, Step 2-3). Since donor plasmids of the same type will produce the same unique ...different combinations of connector and tag donor plasmids from the library can be used to generate functionally... of the targeting vector and a Cas9 expression plasmid will insert the desired genetic tag and marker ...
  8. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    ...subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...structures within cells. HeLa cells were transfected with plasmids encoding FPs tagged with the plasma membrane...They generated plasmids tagged with EB3 to mark the growing tips of microtubuli and plasmids tagged with ...and dCas9-VPR targeting plasmids can be found at Addgene. Check out these plasmids for piggyBac gRNA delivery...highlights from recent CRISPR plasmids. To find all of the CRISPR plasmids available from Addgene, head... Find the plasmids at Addgene The MoClo CRISPR/Cas Toolkit for plants includes 95 plasmids consisting...
  9. AAV Q&A with Tim Miles

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    ...Animal Models Q9: Is there any difference in transfection efficiency when delivering these viruses via...user Resources on Addgene.org Find Adenovirus Plasmids Adenovirus Guide Page Subscribe to Viral Vectors...
  10. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    ...multitude of techniques including co-transfection of two or more plasmids, the use of multiple or bidirectional...with a plasmid that already has the multicistronic element and reporter cloned in. In these plasmids you ...interest. Some of the plasmids listed in the table above (and their related plasmids) are designed to have... a one-stop reference guide for plasmids. We've combined our Plasmids 101 blog posts and additional resources...desktop. The Plasmids 101 eBook is designed to educate all levels of scientists and plasmid lovers and ... an introduction to plasmids, allowing you to spend less time researching plasmid basic features and spend...May 11.) PubMed.   Read more Plasmids 101 posts or browse Addgene's Plasmid Guide for more molecular biology...
  11. Adenoviral Vector Production and Troubleshooting

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    ...adenoviral stock (rAdV-S). HEK293 cells are transfected with the AdV plasmid construct from step #1 and allowed...down into 5 key steps: Construction of the rAdV plasmid (~1 week): The AdEasyTM system is the most popular...adenoviral vector constructs. It consists of 2 plasmids: a shuttle vector (in which the transgene of interest...how to generate the final recombinant adenoviral plasmid construct, please see Addgene’s Adenoviral Guide...2.*Pro-Tip*: once the correct recombinant pAdV plasmid is identified, re-transform into a bacterial strain...recombination for amplification. The final purified plasmid stock should be analyzed by endonuclease restriction...transductions Resources on Addgene.org Find Adenovirus Plasmids Adenovirus Guide Page  ...
  12. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    ...to find Gateway plasmids for your organisms of interest: Find Gateway cloning plasmids here! References...antibiotic resistance markers (indicated here by plasmid color), allowing you to easily select for the expression...desired, recombined construct. Read our recent Plasmids 101 Post on CcdB for more information. How to ...Method A: recombination of an attB-PCR product or plasmid with an attP donor vector. In this case, we would... to use the Snapgene program to design Gateway plasmids.    Figure 3: Method A to create an entry...restriction digest! Then, you can transform or transfect the cells that you want to use for your experiments...entry clones can be used with a large variety of plasmids. Speed The Gateway system enables the generation...
  13. DNA Purification Without a Kit

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    ... Read our Plasmids 101 blog series Find other plasmid protocols and tips Browse our plasmid cloning blog...alkaline lysis plasmid miniprep Starting material: 2 mL bacterial culture Product: plasmid DNA This kit-...kit-free plasmid miniprep protocol from Addgene follows a similar workflow as a column-based plasmid extraction... or agarose gel slices Product: plasmids or DNA fragments The plasmid purification and DNA gel extraction...depending on the type of DNA you’re purifying (plasmid, genomic, or DNA fragments from agarose).    In...causes the proteins and genomic DNA to precipitate. Plasmid DNA is free in solution. Proteins and genomic DNA... removed by centrifugation. At this point, the plasmid DNA sample can be treated with RNase to remove ...
  14. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    ...bonds, monobodies can be easily expressed in transfected eukaryotic cells, allowing for them to be used...Resources Additional resources on the Addgene blog Plasmids 101: Aptamer FluorophoresAntibodies 101: scFVs...available from AddgeneBrowse our recombinant antibody plasmid collection References Grumezescu, A. M. (2018)....
  15. Zhang Lab CRISPR Page

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    ...tracrRNA: This plasmid contains three expression cassettes. To target a given site, the plasmid can be digested...using SAM: Addgene plasmids #61422 - #61424 were designed for transient transfection : 61422 : Expresses...adenocarcinoma pathology. These plasmids as well as a backbone plasmid for cloning new targets are described...sgRNA backbone for cloning new targeted plasmids. The plasmid can be digested using SapI, which will reveal...2015 Apr 1. PubMed . Return to AAV In vivo plasmids AAV Plasmids with Cas9 Mouse CRISPR-Cas9 knockin mice...
  16. AAV Production in HEK293 Cells

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    ...conditions must be optimized. Plasmids for transfection: pHelper; pRC (Rep-Cap), plasmid expressing your gene ...for 24 h–36 h. Proceed with transfection: Calculate the amount of each plasmid needed to have a 1:1:1 molar...molar ratio with 2 mg total DNA per CS5 Plasmid Plasmid Size (bp) DNA Concentration (μg/μL) Volume of ...molar ratio of each plasmid: 2000 μg / 24,961 bp = 0.08 μg/bp Therefore, for each plasmid we need: Sample ...cells in CS2 Day 2: Seed cells in CS5 Day 3 (am): Transfect cells Day 7 (am): Harvest cells Equipment Class...brands and lots of FBS can promote or inhibit transfection. Test a variety of brands and lots of FBS to...Polyethylenimine (PEI) 25 kDa MW Pro-Tip Other transfection reagents may be used in this protocol, but their...
  17. Jaenisch Lab CRISPR Plasmids

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    ...Table 2. pmax dCas9 Activator Expression Plasmids ID Plasmid 48223 pAC91-pmax-dCas9VP64 : dCas9VP64 on...CRISPR Cas9 gRNA plasmids from Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch's lab. CRISPR... CRISPR Jaenisch Lab CRISPR Plasmids Jaenisch Lab...Lab CRISPR Plasmids Available from Addgene You may also like... CRISPR Guide CRISPR Protocols gRNA Design...dCas9 activators and sgRNAs can be separately transfected (pmax dCas9 activators [48223~48227] + sgRNA ...different systems by LR clonase reaction. These plasmids are described in: Multiplexed activation of endogenous...Link opens in a new window) Article . Individual plasmids can be ordered via the links below: Table 1. dCas9...
  18. Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond

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    ...targeting experiments allows you to visualize transfection efficiency and even track localization in cellular...ready-to-use viral preps of select CRISPR lentiviral plasmids Additional resources on the Addgene Blog  How...
  19. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    ...Agarose Method Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors Resources on Addgene.org Find mammalian plasmids for your ...too young and should not be used for important transfection experiments right after they’ve been thawed....
  20. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...three plasmids: (1) The transfer plasmid, (2) the envelope plasmid, and (3) the packaging plasmid. These...pseudotyped protein is encoded on the envelope plasmid which contains a promoter, the envelope gene, and...These are transfected into target cells which produce lentiviral particles.   Why pseudotype? Lentiviruses...scientists encode the spike protein on the envelope plasmid. Image from Crawford et al., 2020.   Broad tropism...
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