...and Therapeutic Purposes. Annu Rev Virol. 2014 Nov;1(1):427-51. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-virology-031413-085355...personalized medicine. References and further reading 1. FDA approves gene therapy for blindness 2. Gene Therapy... Med Biol. 2014; 801: 687–693.  doi:  10.1007/978-1-4614-3209-8_86. PubMed PMID: 24664759. PubMed Central...and they had been shown to to transduce the retina but only transiently. However new viral vectors capable...adenovirus (AdV) and lentivirus (LV) are known to transduce retinal cells, AAV quickly became the vector of...due to its considerable immunogenicity and its transient expression. LV results in long term expression... in dividing and non-dividing cells due to its (random) integration into the genome, and its large DNA...

..., 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12449-2 Pupo, A., Fernández, A., Low, S. H., François, A.,...therapy of human diseases. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392...NGS) to identify genes of interest. Figure 1: Overview of in vitro AAV CRISPR screens. Created ...certain experiments. AAV can be safely handled at BSL-1, while lentivirus requires a BSL-2 setup. This requires...vivo starts with transducing cells with the CRISPR library in vitro before transplanting them into mice....time. This reduces the chance of integration at random locations that could cause deleterious effects....portions of the AAV genome can integrate at double-stranded break points caused by CRISPR-Cas9 editing. The...

...identification of proteins associated with the IRF-1 locus. Figure 1: Schematic of enCHIP. Image from Fujita... interest, the promoter region of the transcription factor IRF-1. Immunoprecipitation, using an antibody...References Campbell, Amy E., et al. "NuRD and CAF-1-mediated silencing of the D4Z4 array is modulated ...dCas9 has focused on transcriptional activation using a fusion to a transcriptional activator such as VP64...repression of transcription through binding a promoter region to inhibit association of transcriptional activators...2018). Furthermore, the Fujii Lab generated a transgenic mouse line and retroviral expression system for...Tapscott Lab identified regulators of DUX4, a transcriptional regulator that when inappropriately expressed...

...10.1038/s41551-024-01227-1. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-024-01227-1   CHARM: A compact epigenetic...spacer proteins ending with a GFP nanobody (Figure 1). This enrichment streamlines the purification and...highly-visible beads on the cryo-EM grid.     Figure 1: MagIC-cryo-EM for sample enrichment and structure...single-particle analysis of PRC2 with RvLEAMshort (1:6 molar ratio) with 10 minutes of glutaraldehyde crosslinking...which ensures the editor will only be transiently present in transduced cells, limiting off-target editing... dCas9 fused to a DNA methyltransferase — that can drive lasting transcriptional silencing (Nuñez et al...virus-like particles (eVLPs) offers an option to transduce cells directly with ribonucleoprotein cargo. eVLPs...

... export license applications for VSV and SARS-COV-1 plasmids. Export control license process    An export...charged.  Timelines  We have offered VSV and SARS-COV-1 plasmids under this application process since May ...where Addgene is located.  The export license, if granted, allows us to ship rabies plasmids and viral vectors...

...new combinations of PE protein components (Figure 1), an altered epegRNA delivered with an enhanced pU6cm...amplification of cargo, and heat treatment.  Figure 1: Left: recombined prime editing tools PE2max-NC and...conformational dynamics of the motor protein kinesin-1, the Twelvetrees Lab took advantage of the self-labeling..., Craggs, T.D., & Twelvetrees A.E. (2024) Kinesin-1 is highly flexible and adopts an open conformation...NC: nucleocapsid RNA chaperone, RT: reverse transcriptase. Right: T1 tomato plants that inherited an edited...Cultured rat hippocampal neuron expressing pan-membrane ASAP5. Solid blue circle marks the initiation ...via the Kv2.1 targeting motif as well as a pan-membrane construct without the Kv motif. Altogether, if...

...markers in the panel. This complexity index ranges from 0-1, with a value of “0” indicating those markers...detector for that fluorophore. For example, in figure 1, the FITC signal is spilling over into the primary...spectra to use for compensation.     Figure 1: The emission spectra and filters for FITC and PE ...completely distinct from one another, and a value of “1” indicating those markers are identical and completely...

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... Fig. 1: Barcoded TF library was packaged in lentiviral particles and used to transduce human embryonic... J. et al., A transcription factor atlas of directed differentiation. Cell. 2023. 186 (1) 209-229. doi...TF library, with each cell receiving only 1 TF expression construct. Cells were cultured following a differentiation...Transcription factors (TFs) act as the gate keepers for gene expression, turning transcription on and... regulatory network. The transcription atlas and library The transcription factor library The human...approximately 1,800 TFs, with >3,500 unique isoforms transcribed from these sites. The Zhang lab generated a comprehensive... contribute to differentiation, the Zhang lab transduced human embryonic stem cells with the viral TF ...

...) vector (Figure 1). Everything else outside the ITRs gets left behind.    Figure 1: Recombinant AAV ...reduces rAAV productivity but increases transgene expression. Sci Rep, 7(1), 5432. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598...containing transcription factor binding sites can increase transgene expression and transduction efficiency...as the gene that they package. In a transfer plasmid, the transgene is flanked by two ITRs, and the ITRs...modifications can drastically affect gene transfer efficiency and transgene expression (Zhou et al. 2017). For...these mutations can affect transduction efficiency and subsequent transgene expression. Replacing the ...nucleotide sequences that flank the ends of the single stranded DNA genome of AAV in the native virus. In an AAV...

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...cross-neutralization occurs in the P.1 and B.1.351 variants tested. Image from Garcia-Beltran et al., 2021 with permission...for the wild-type. However, variants such as the P.1 (Gamma variant) and the B.1.351 (Beta variant) were... tested at the time of this study. Figure 1: Neutralization levels against spike pseudovirus decreases...vaccines differed depending on the variants (Garcia-Beltran et al., 2021). Antibodies from individuals who ...represent lineages and variants that are actually transmitting out in the world” says Balazs. “By combining...quantified in terms of luminescence. Image from Garcia-Beltran et al., 2021 with permission.   Mutations ...with various pseudotyped virus. Image from Garcia-Beltran et al., 2021 with permission.   Difference ...

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...2013) Analysis of Transduction Efficiency, Tropism and Axonal Transport of AAV Serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and...(Figure 1). This results in one loxp site and one lox2272 site on either end of the transgene. Since loxp...cause of this spurious expression?   Figure 1.  Cre-recombinase binds to either pair of lox sites...recombination and can exhibit recombination levels as high as 1-3%. In light of this finding, we now include guidance...Vectors Pseudotyped with Viral Capsids from Serotypes 1, 2, and 5 Display Differential Efficiency and Cell...loxp pair, and flips the transgene into the correct orientation for transcription. Upon recombination one...flank a transgene (homologous pairs) or used different scrambled sequences to flank the transgenes (non-...

... and reproducibility of a study’s findings. Table 1: Biased Genotyping Options Technique Sequence Information...sequencing doesn’t tell the whole story Figure 1: Schematic representations of the indicated unbiased...types Must be verified with cell-based method IDLV 1% Cell-based Programmable, can detect DSBs in live ...magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/.     References 1. Fu, Yanfang, et al. "High-frequency off-target mutagenesis...next-generation sequencing." BMC genomics 15.1 (2014): 1. PubMed PMID: 25409780. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4246457...between the edited strand and wild-type strand of the host DNA. When these strands hybridize, the nuclease...nuclease can detect strands with mismatches and cleave them. The results are then visualized using gel electrophoresis...

... cleaved out of the RNA transcript by endogenous processing enzymes (Figure 1). To ensure this tRNA processing... mRNA trans-splicing. A cis-splicing vector served as positive control (cis-ctrl). v1, vector 1; v2, vector...mRNA trans-splicing dual AAV vectors for (epi)genome editing and gene therapy. Nat Commun., 14(1), 6578...or nuclear expression of BFP2.     Figure 1: CROPseq-multi uses two sgRNAs with internal barcodes...RNA polymerase III transcript, the sgRNAs were encoded on the lentiviral minus strand in the 3’ LTR. These...HeLa cells transduced with SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein (Plasmid #141391-LV [+N]) or membrane protein ...high microglia transduction efficiency for the indicated ssAAV5s. Figure adapted from Serrano et al. 2023...

...overlap with the negative control population (Figure 1). Based on where the GFP- population ends, you can...total cells present in the gate.   Figure 1: Example of yes-no flow plot of the (negative) control...for a yes-no dot plot, like the one shown in Figure 1.  Figure 3: An example of a histogram plot ... Figure 2: (A) a smeary dot plot showing a range of antibody readouts. (B) A gate on the smeary dot...histogram plot for a smeary antibody readout. The orange peis the baseline expression of the protein of ...yes-no histogram plot shown previously. Here, the orange peak is a baseline expression of a protein while...

...nonstructural proteins 1 to 16, spike proteins, envelope small proteins, and membrane proteins. Although ...give your research more visibility.    Figure 1: Illustration of SARS-CoV-2 from Philippa Steinberg...Humana Press, pp 331–338 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-181-9_23 Additional resources on the Addgene...glycoproteins and other proteins that require post-translational modification may not be easily expressed in ...sequencing as a first pass QC. The lab team manually transforms, innoculates, and performs DNA minipreps for ...