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  1. Addgene's Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015

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    Dec. 7, 2015, 6 p.m.
    ...or to contribute ideas for your own guest posts by e-mailing us at [email protected]. Thank you again for...Addgenie A. Max Juchheim in this post. 3. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Production Addgenie Julian... explains why you might want to use a specialized E. coli strain for protein production and gives a quick...Do you think there are topics we’re missing? We invite you to suggest topics you’d like to see on the ...Cre-lox Cre recombinase can be used to generate inversions, deletions, and translocations. It also provides...
  2. IBEX Knowledge-Base: A Data Resource for Multiplex Tissue Imaging

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    June 8, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...-021-00644-9 Radtke, A. J., Kandov, E., Lowekamp, B., Speranza, E., Chu, C. J., Gola, A., Thakur, N., ... H., Gola, A., Kabat, J., Lowekamp, B., Speranza, E., Croteau, J., Thakur, N., Jonigk, D., Davis, J. L...an author.  The IBEX Knowledge-Base is an invaluable resource for anyone performing multiplexed imaging...
  3. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    Sept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.
    ...plasmids suitable for other model systems, including E. coli, plants, Drosophila, and zebrafish!   Why use...Gibson Assembly or SLIC cloning methods. A BsaI-based E. coli multiplexing plasmid is available from the Koffas...be supplied on a separate plasmid. Multiplexing in E. coli Koffas Lab CRISPathBrick Multiplex Plasmid: ...arrays A, B, C, AB, AC, BC, and ABC). Nielsen Lab E. coli CRMAGE Plasmids: The CRMAGE system is a fast...incubation. Kondo Lab multiplexed base editing in E. coli The Kondo lab expressed a cytidine deaminase... (LVA tag) to achieve specific point mutations in E. coli. gRNAs are delivered on a different plasmid ...-Mediated Multiplex Transcriptional Repression in E. coli.” ACS Synthetic Biology 4(9) (2015):987-1000...
  4. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ...transformed into E. coli and plasmid assembly (re-circularization) occurs in vivo. We use XL-10 Gold E. coli, but...techniques involve the assembly of a circular plasmid in vitro, before transforming it into E. coli for...successful recombination reported in all laboratory E. coli strains tested so far. The use of this pathway...Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He is currently investigating the molecular biology of synaptic transmission...and plasticity.     Javier García-Nafría is an investigator scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter

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    June 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Agbandje-McKenna, M., Sortwell, C. E., Hauswirth, W. W., Boye, S. E., & Manfredsson, F. P. (2017). Rationally....0076310 Damdindorj, L., Karnan, S., Ota, A., Hossain, E., Konishi, Y., Hosokawa, Y., & Konishi, H. (2014).... Nagamine, C. M., Cheng, F., Qiu, J., Carette, J. E., & Vandenberghe, L. H. (2018). An Alternate Route...020-0169-1 Oh, J. Y., Han, J. H., Lee, H., Han, Y. E., Rah, J. C., & Park, H. (2020). Labeling dual presynaptic...Kareva, T., Yarygina, O., Kholodilov, N., & Burke, R. E. (2016). Expression mediated by three partial sequences...factors to consider. First, the titer required is inversely related to transduction efficacy: the higher the...
  6. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    Jan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...performed, the next step is to transform competent E. coli cells and select the positive clones. The entry...the expression clone. You will also need to use a E. coli strain sensitive to CcdB (e.g. DH5α, TOP10, ...CcdB protein inhibits the growth of CcdB sensitive E. coli strains, most colonies should contain the desired...available for all kind of organisms from mammals to E. coli. Glossary of Gateway cloning vectors Vector...resources, time, and experimental needs. Since its invention in the late 1990s, Gateway cloning technology ...technology The Gateway cloning method, developed by Invitrogen, is an in vitro version of the integration and...
  7. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    Sept. 28, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...journal.pgen.1010765.  Berlew, E. E., Yamada, K., Kuznetsov, I. A., Rand, E. A., Ochs, C. C., Jaber, Z.,...Optogenetics Plasmids References Aljiboury, A. A., Ingram, E., Krishnan, N., Ononiwu, F., Pal, D., Manikas, J.,...https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.1c00604.  Mahlandt, E. K., Palacios Martínez, S., Arts, J. J., Tol, S., ...These Opto-RhoGEFs provide a reversible and non-invasive way to activate a RhoGTPase by recruiting its ...
  8. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    Nov. 12, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...correlated with codon bias across all endogenous genes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae (Tuller et. al., 2010). ...worth codon optimizing a human gene for expression in E. coli. Genes are also optimized for expression in ...Optimization References Athey J, Alexaki A, Osipova E, Rostovtsev A, Santana-Quintero LV, Katneni U, Simonyan...rna.02890211 Tuller T, Waldman YY, Kupiec M, Ruppin E (2010) Translation efficiency is determined by both...selection of codon optimized genes, so check out our inventory before synthesizing a gene yourself.  Caveats ...
  9. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    April 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
    ...thetaiotaomicron, Mycobacterium, Pseudomonas, and E. coli. However, many non-model bacterial species lack...100 to 1,000 colonies, but some bacteria, including E. faecalis and P. mirabilis, had only ~1 transfer per... PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6424567. Peters, Joseph E. "Tn7." Mobile DNA III. American Society of Microbiology...into multiple bacterial species including several involved in human disease. However, the rate of transfer...for the study of essential genes such as those involved in antibiotic resistance. Are you ready to move...
  10. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    Aug. 21, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...and transform the PCR products into E. coli. Ligases within the E. coli then fuse together the PCR products...the inexpensive DpnI enzyme. Otherwise you let your E. coli do the work for you. Traditional restriction...give Gateway a try. This method, developed by Invitrogen and based on lambda phage integration sequences...Wouldn’t it be nice if after all the hard work involved with cloning, you would at least be guaranteed...
  11. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    March 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2012.02.010 Dennler P, Fischer E, Schibli R (2015) Antibody Conjugates: From Heterogeneous...doi.org/10.3390/antib4030197  Hegazy M, Cohen-Barak E, Koetsier JL, et al (2020) Proximity Ligation Assay...Reisfeld RA (1988) Determination of the Number of e-Amino Groups Available for Conjugation of Effector...However, there are certainly other approaches that involve modifying the antibody sequence or that rely on...
  12. SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas

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    May 5, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...isothermal amplification by primers that target the E and the N2 gene of SARS-CoV-2. If the Cas12a-sgRNA...CRISPR-based SHERLOCK (Specific ​H​igh ​s​ensitivity ​E​nzymatic ​R​eporter un​LOCK​ing) technique Sensitivity...Granados A, Sotomayor-Gonzalez A, Zorn K, Gopez A, Hsu E, Gu W, Miller S, Pan C-Y, Guevara H, Wadford DA, Chen...doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.29.971127 Rauch, J. N., Valois, E., Solley, S. C., Braig, F., Lach, R. S., Baxter, N...University. Shravanti Suresh is a PhD candidate who investigates cellular aspects of CRISPR/Cas immune systems...
  13. Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries Enable Genome-Scale, Knockout Screening

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    Feb. 20, 2014, 4:57 p.m.
    ...Screening in Human Cells. Shalem O, Sanjana NE, Hartenian E, Shi X, Scott DA, Mikkelson T, Heckl D, Ebert BL, ...CRISPR-Guide RNA Library. Koike-Yusa H, Li Y, Tan E-P, Del Castillo Velasco-Herrera M, Yusa K. Nature ...melanoma model, they also went in search of genes involved in resistance to the cancer drug vemurafenib. ...lab has used their library to screen for genes involved in bacterial toxin resistance, identifying 4 previously...
  14. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    Aug. 9, 2018, 1:04 p.m.
    ...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2600441. Foust, K.D., Nurre, E., Montgomery, C.L., Hernandez, A., Chan, C.M. and ...19098898. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2895694. Hollis, E. R. 2nd, Kadoya, K., Hirsch, M., Samulski, R. J., ...S.F., Andrews, A.M., Lutton, E.M., Mu, D., Hudry, E., Hyman, B.T., Maguire, C.A. and Ramirez S.H. (2017... Wakeman, W., Li, Y., Feng, D., Ho, A., Nicholas, E., Hirokawa, K.E., Bohn, P., Joines, K.M., Peng, H....Central PMCID: PMC5102064. Roberts, T. F., Hisey, E., Tanaka, M., Kearney, M., Chattree, G., Yang, C. ... Ritola, K.D., Lindo, S., Michael, S., Kuleshova, E., Ojala, D., Huang, C.C., Gerfen, C.R., Schiller, ...hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex brain regions is involved in the formation of episodic memory, a special...
  15. What's the Best Way to Elute and Store Your Plasmid DNA?

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    June 4, 2020, 1:22 p.m.
    ...during plasmid DNA extraction and purification from E. coli is the presence of the protein endonuclease ...encoded by the gene endA. Nowadays, the most common E. coli strains used for plasmid amplification are endA...DNA preparation in any downstream application involving enzymatic reactions, a valid alternative can be...
  16. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    March 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., R., Zuber, J., Connelly, S. M., Mathew, E., & Dumont, M. E. (2014). Fluorescent approaches for understanding...Jeddi-Tehrani, M., Mahmoudi, A. R., Bayat, A. A., Shaban, E., Vafakhah, M., Darzi, M., Tarahomi, M., & Ghods, ...Bhattacharya, K., Pyrgiotakis, G., Zhang, Z., Purington, E., Gramlich, W., Grondin, Y., Rogers, R., Bousfield...Stability of fluorescence: For applications that involve ranges of pH, and significant lengths of time, ...incorporation of fluorophores, as seen in studies involving dopamine D2/D3 receptors (Allikalt et al., 2020...processes like mitochondrial dynamics. This process, involving mitochondrial homeostasis maintained through mechanisms...
  17. History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution

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    Nov. 25, 2013, 10:12 p.m.
    ...the CRISPR sequences were initially discovered in E. coli in 1987 (1), the concept that these clustered... K, Haft DH, Barrangou R, Brouns SJJ, Charpentier E, Horvath P, Moineu S, Mojica FJM, Wolf YI, Yakunin...various cas genes not only to store a record of invading phages but to also destroy the phage upon re-exposure... the foreign DNA, a cut is made to destroy the invader. Wikipedia, accessed 25 November 2013. Author...systems provides powerful lines of defense against invading phages. Rising to the challenge - Evolution of...research. Do you have a cool idea or application that involves CRISPR/Cas technology? Let us know.  References...
  18. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Biering SB,  Sarnik SA, Wang E, Zengel JR, Sathyan V, Nguyenla X, Van Dis E, Catamura C, Yamashiro LH,  ...Puschnik AS, Bertozzi CR, Carette JE, Stanley SA, Harris E, Konermann S, Hsu PD (2021) Genome-wide, bidirectional...starting point for SARS-CoV-2 researchers to investigate how the virus interacts with human cells. Addgene...
  19. Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples

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    Oct. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...different strains of E. coli that can be used for transformation. The preferred E. coli strains for storage... DNA has been received and stored, it is put into E. coli strains that have been treated to easily take...kanamycin resistance gene. Every step along the way involves good aseptic technique and controls to ensure ...
  20. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...amino acids E. coli and Mammalian Cells pEVOL-pAzF synthetase for p-azido-l-phenylalanine E. coli pEVOL-pBpF...has proven most effective only in a few cell types (E. coli and Xenopus oocytes, mainly). Nevertheless, ...pEVOL-pBpF synthetase for p-benzoyl-l-phenylalanine E. coli pAcBac1.tR4-MbPyl pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase...commercially available as Lumio Green and Lumio Red from Invitrogen (now ThermoFisher Scientific). These reagents...structurally characterizing large ion channels involved in skeletal muscle contraction.   References 1...
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