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  1. A new platform for fast functional characterization of potentially cancerous mutations

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    ...they identified included gene amplifications and fusions, missense mutations, and indels (Ng et al., 2018...carrying a single gene with a defined mutation or gene fusion. Plasmids carrying the corresponding wild-type ...Mutations in Cancer.” Of all the mutations and fusions represented in this collection, approximately 80%...
  2. What's New in CRISPR - September 2019

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    ...genome editing by fusing Cas9 to a mutated human estrogen receptor. This protein fusion stays in the cytoplasm...vector to create knock-ins of fluorescent proteins, fusion proteins, or transcriptional regulators. In this...
  3. CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions

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    ...by using the DNA cutting activity of a Protein A fused micrococcal nuclease (MNase) to specifically isolate... against the protein of interest. The Protein A fused MNase is then added and Protein A binds Immunoglobulin...protein interactions Learn about other types of fusion proteins Study chromatin interactions with CAPTURE...
  4. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors

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    ...biosensors contain a single fluorescent protein fused to a domain that senses the concentration of a given...an example. Many calcium biosensors include GFP fused to calmodulin (CaM) and the chicken myosin kinase... an intracellular or extracellular molecule? By fusing a biosensor to an organelle-specific targeting ...
  5. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    ...an exon of a gene to generate a transcriptional fusion. This may disrupt the endogenous function of the...the gene product resulting in a transcriptional fusion, much like promoter traps. While this system does...disrupt the gene it monitors due to transcriptional fusion.   Examples of promoter, enhancer, and gene...
  6. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    ... for Goldengate cloning   Design primers for In-Fusion Cloning Design primers for Gibson Assembly and ...restriction enzyme cloning, Gibson assembly, or In-Fusion cloning.  NEB Ligation Calculator: This tool works... from five different insert:backbone ratios. In-Fusion cloning molar ratio calculators Lab math calculators...
  7. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    ...available – you can always add an epitope tag or a fusion protein. Mammalian vectors One of our most popular... cells. The addition of an in-frame fluorescent fusion protein will allow you to visualize YGOI in vivo... offer a collection of vectors carrying several fusion proteins. Pick your promoter, selection cassette...
  8. New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor

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    ...binding protein known as GltI. When the resulting fusion protein binds to glutamate, conformational changes...original iGluSnFR in the pMinDisplay backbone is fused to a specific peptide segment (PDGFR TMD) that anchors...Aggarwal et al… Figure 4. PDGFR is a C-terminal fusion to the PDGFR transmembrane domain in the mammalian...
  9. Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level

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    ...sites to tether many copies of the FP-coat protein fusions to their reporter mRNAs. Using translation inhibitors...to the plasma membrane; this sequence prevents diffusion of the mCherry labeled mRNA and keeps it in a ...SunTag, a synthetic scaffold that can recruit GFP fused to the SunTag-specific antibody scFv. Each time ...
  10. Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR

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    ...diversification by targeting a site of interest with dCas9 fused to the Activation Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID...two key components: the error prone PolI3M that’s fused to a nicking Cas9 (nCas9). Similar to mutagenesis...consists of an error-prone polymerase (PolI) that is fused to a nicking Cas9. A guide directs Cas9 to a site...
  11. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    ... mEGFP, mRuby2, iRFP713, SNAP-tag, and HaloTag fusions, while the anti-HA frankenbodies include mEGFP,...Leeson The large size of CRISPR-Cas effectors and fusion proteins, such as Cas9 and Cas12a, creates challenges...from Xiaoshu, et. al. 2021.   Created by the fusion of Cas12f with a transcriptional activator, CasMINI...
  12. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    ...producing monoclonal antibodies is from a hybridoma, a fusion between an antibody-producing B cell and a myeloma...cells from an immunized animal, those B cells are fused to myeloma cells at a 1:1 ratio and then cultured...medium called HAT. This medium selects against unfused myeloma cells and antibody-producing B cells that...
  13. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ...beta-arrestin-TEV protease fusion to a receptor-transcription factor fusion. TEV protease cleave the transcription... et al., 2017). In this technique, the receptor fused to APEX2 catalyzes the biotinylation of proteins...
  14. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    ...proteins into one particle within the cell, the lab fused the red fluorescent protein (RFP) to a self-assembling...microcompartment protein. The expression of this fusion is under control of the arabinose-inducible promoter... with arabinose to begin expressing the SAP-RFP fusion. Then, the cells are washed to stop the production...
  15. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    ...interference (CRISPRi) targets a catalytically dead Cas9 fused to a transcriptional repressor to your gene of interest...activators (CRISPRa) are transcriptional activators fused to a dead Cas9. The system is led, via a custom ...specific ligand to mark the tag and whatever it is fused to for degradation. Since the tagged protein of ...
  16. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    ...replace” genome editing technique that relies on a fusion enzyme of Cas9 nickase + reverse transcriptase ...Nelson et al., 2022). PE7: This editor includes the fused RNA-binding protein La to protect the end of the... not epegRNAs) can improve either endogenous or fused La binding (Yan et al., 2024). Figure 9:...
  17. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ...with Peptide-Assisted Genome Editing (PAGE). They fused the Cas enzyme to cell-penetrating peptides and ...guides. Figure 1: A) Cell-penetrating Cas9, fused to HIV TAT, Myc and SV40 Nuclear Localization Signals... et al. (2023). StayGold variants for molecular fusion and membrane-targeting applications. Nature Methods...
  18. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    ...protein-protein interactions. One popular approach is to fuse a protein of interest to each part of a split fluorescent...General Design Figure 1: Two proteins are fused to the FP(11) and FP(1-10) fragments. When Protein...cell environments). Also consider that a protein fusion may disrupt functionality or binding of your target...
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