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  1. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    ...Expression with Cre-lox Control Protein Activity with GFP Resources at Addgene.org Find KTR reporter plasmids...signal strength, and how long their signals last all impact transduction of the message. To study signaling...dimeric Dronpa is less prone to aggregation in cells compared to the tetrameric Dronpa it was derived from. ...
  2. Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards

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    ...line, Hep3B. From left to right: Mitotracker Red, GFP for the biosensor, Hoechst, and overlay).   ...(DKFZ) who has developed new redox sensitive GFP2 (roGFP2)-based biosensors for live cells. His work focuses..., Pedre Pérez’s biosensor fuses MPST to roGFP2. Because roGFP2 contains two cysteines near the chromophore... anchoring domain), in electroporated in rat hippocampal cultured neurons, imaged 14 days post-transfection...the MPST hydrosulfide can be transferred to the roGFP2 cysteine thiols and change its fluorescence properties... the screen to understand mouse cortical and hippocampal neural microcircuits. “In the longer term, this...
  3. CRISPR Plasmids for Genomic Visualization

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    ...marker like GFP, researchers have turned dCas9 into a customizable DNA labeler compatible with fluorescence...detecting multiple genomic loci, and compatible with live cell imaging. Compared to techniques like fluorescence...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    ... for a researcher to come into contact with than GFP. Similarly, if the viral vector carries an shRNA ...materials, you’ll need to use aerosol-tight caps, compatible with your centrifugation speed, to cover the ...
  5. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ..., Myc and SV40 Nuclear Localization Signals, and GFP. B) Workflow to assess Cas9-PAGE editing with viral...variant has similar photostability and brightness compared to the original, though its maturation is even...cell-specific tropism, with slightly reduced efficacy compared to AA9-X1.1. Importantly, AAV1-X1 is not neutralized...
  6. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    ...Lindsey M. Costantini, and Erik L. Snapp. "Superfolder GFP is fluorescent in oxidizing environments when targeted...with fluorescent proteins (FPs) localized to compartments other than the cytoplasm. That is, unfortunately...investigators realize too late that they have missed the impact of dark, non-fluorescent, and misfolded FP-fusions...quantitative imaging experiments or even negatively impact cells (see Figure 1). When behaving properly, ...positioning of the FP sequence relative to cell compartment targeting sequences, which often have absolute...that FPs are often poorly suited for cellular compartments other than the cytoplasm. Generally, FPs evolved.... Many of the resident proteins within these compartments undergo significant post-translational modifications...
  7. Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy

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    ...check out our article: Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection. Cellular...expressed transiently by transfection or stably impacts the success of BiFC experiments. In either case...independent of PPIs. Overexpression can be assessed by comparing the expression levels between BiFC constructs ...localization of BiFC constructs should also be compared against those of their endogenous counterparts...association between FPs independent of PPIs. Simply compare the fluorescence intensity of your BiFC constructs...under relatively physiological conditions when compared to FRET. However, it’s important to note that ...
  8. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ...contrast, the widely used green fluorescent protein (GFP) gives a bright green fluorescence when exposed to...fluoresce at very low levels. Chromoproteins in nature Compared to the history of fluorescent proteins in molecular...eforRed, asPink, spisPink, scOrange, fwYellow, amilGFP, amajLime, cjBlue, meffBlue, aeBlue, amilCP, tsPurple...
  9. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    ... a superfolder GFP fusion to stabilize the protein in mammalian cells. LwaCas13a-msfGFP can mediate cleavage...the ability to cleave the RNA target.  Table 1: Comparison on Common CRISPR Enzymes Name  Enzymatic Domains...multiplexing; expressing 5 gRNAs simultaneously produces comparable gene knockdown to single gRNA expression. Although... cell stress, and RNA size distribution. When comparing LwaCas13a to shRNA, they found that LwaCas13a ...
  10. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    ...which must be stabilized by monomeric superfolded GFP and averages only ~50% RNA knockdown. In initial ...off-target editing. In one direct transcriptome-wide comparison, REPAIRv2 reduced off-target sites from the 18,385...edits by ~45% and off-target A-to-I edies by ~94% compared to RESCUE.   Addressing the potential use of RESCUE...
  11. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ...in this case a reporter gene (e.g. luciferase or GFP), regardless of whether it interacts with a transcriptional...transcription. The HIS3 reporter system (e.g. the Gateway-compatible bait Y2H plasmid pEZY202  from Yu-Zhu Zhang’s...particular cell type, or a subset based on a cellular compartment or growth stage). A prey library can either be...
  12. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ...Mammalian Cells Learn about the Dangers of Using GFP for Protein Localization Resources on Addgene.org...line identity and purity making it easier for comparable studies to be performed on a cell line even decades...through working for a variety of pharmaceutical companies including GSK, AstraZeneca-MedImmune, and Infors...
  13. Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation

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    ...In cases such as this, an epitope such as c-Myc, GFP or V5 can be used to tag the protein of interest ... need to choose the protein type that is most compatible with the host species and isotype of their primary...developed, which can be used for most antibodies compatible with either Protein A or G.  While commonly used...
  14. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    ...SYFP2 Clover Green Mammalian Expresses Clover (a GFP variant) commonly used with mRuby2 pLSSmOrange-...to target mTurquoise2 to various subcellular compartments pCEP4CyPet-MAMM Cyan Mammalian Expresses mammalian...Clover pGWF1 Cyan & Yellow Bacterial Gateway-compatible vector to express a gene of interest fused between...
  15. Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines

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    ... pX459 (Addgene plasmid ID 48139), which include GFP and puromycin as selectable markers, respectively...CRISPR/Cas9 construct (10 μg total). Add 0.5 μg of GFP expression construct. Electroporate cells with 250...filter into a FACS tube. FACS sort the top ~3% of GFP positive cells in order to enrich for cells that ...repair. Deletions have potential advantages as compared to single-site small indels given the efficiency...cleavage site to ensure detection would not be impacted by a small indel at the sgRNA target site. Design...
  16. Church Lab CRISPR Plasmids

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    ... to human AAVS1 41819 gRNA_GFP-T1 A gRNA to GFP 41820 gRNA_GFP-T2 A gRNA to GFP 41821 gRNA_DNMT3a-T1 A...Significantly smaller than the above Cas9 protein, NM is comparably active as a nuclease and a transcriptional activator...
  17. CRISPR References and Information

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    ...vector Retroviral vectors: neomycin (pSIR-neo) , GFP (pSIR-GFP) , DsRed (pSIR-DsRed-Express2) , human CD2 (...sequence (without PAM sequence) can be provided, to compare the predicted cleavage position to the position...sequencing, WGS datasets and allows the direct comparison of individual experiments. PubMed PMID 27404874...Musunuru CRISPRs in human pluripotent stem cells pCas9_GFP ; gRNA empty vector Link O'Connor-Giles Fly: gRNA...plasmids: pVSVg , psPAX2 ; positive control: CMV-EGFP PDF 2.3 MB Zhang GeCKO pooled library amplification...packaging plasmids: pVSVg , psPAX2 positive control: CMV-EGFP Kits are also available (mouse or human libraries...
  18. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...Vectors Read about Reporter Gene like Luciferase and GFP Resources on Addgene.org Find Plasmids for Your...promoter present in your plasmid backbone must to be compatible with the type of RNA that needs to be made: if...
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