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  1. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

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    Nov. 19, 2019, 2:08 p.m.
    ...have two options:  Option #1: Affinity tag purification You tag YFP and use an affinity column for purification...protein. OptoNBs were also tagged with an infrared fluorescent protein tag which let the team detect its... used nickel-coated agarose beads coated with his-tagged OptoNBs. OptoNB coated beads were then imaged... be tagged, which limits these approaches to use with recombinant proteins. Purifying an untagged protein...Opto-Nanobodies (OptoNBs) purification You skip adding a tag to YFP and instead use OptoNBs. You fill a column...protein of interest in response to light allows for tagless protein purification as well as reversibly regulation...domain and a nanobody.  AsLOV2 is a light-oxygen-voltage sensing domain from the oat plant (Avena sativa...
  2. RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions

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    April 10, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ...easy to harvest from cell culture media. Their His tags allow for further purification, if desired, but...RANbody is detectable by two different tags: a reporter and an HA tag. The reporter comes in three varieties...Spaghetti Monsters are highly antigenic tags that have 10 HA or 10 MYC tags built into a GFP scaffold. Some GFP... secondary antibody staining HA Tagged GFP, RFP, H2A2B Myc Tagged RFP, H2A2B Chicken IgY (Y) Labeled...lot-to-lot variability in activity. No Genetic Tagging - Since antibodies are produced in animals instead... via recombinant DNA, they can’t be genetically tagged and instead are conjugated to reporters (i.e. fluorescent...which are discussed in more detail below. The HA tag can be stained for with an anti-HA antibody and serves...
  3. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    Sept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
    ...express and purify His-tagged Cas9 from E. coli using a plasmid such as pET-28b-Cas9-His from Alex Schier...such as visualizing genomic loci using fluorophore tagged dCas9 may require the use of plasmid or viral-mediated...genomic deletions. What are the advantages of Cas9 RNPs? There are many advantages to using RNPs for CRISPR ... Delivering Cas9-gRNA ribonucleoproteins  An advantage of performing CRISPR experiments using RNPs is... can be used to deliver a Cas9-gRNA RNP. This advantage has allowed scientists to perform in vitro and...transfection (B in the figure above), are in the early stages of development. David Liu’s Lab has demonstrated...
  4. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    Jan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m.
    ...Allinen et al., 2004). In fact, Sanford H. Barsky and his team tested the influence myoepithelial cells had...touring musician needs? A backstage team. Meet the microenvironment, a tumor’s backstage team. Microenvironments... seem to take center stage in cancer development, the microenvironment backstage play just as important...breast tumorigenesis: Friend or foe?." Histology and histopathology (2018): 18021-18021. PubMed PMID: 29978449...microenvironment’s physiology is deeply connected to these 3 stages and contains multiple cell types: fibroblasts, ...
  5. New Podcast Segment: Hot Plasmids

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    May 17, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
    ...from John Chodera's Lab - Get high expression of His-tagged human kinases in bactera. Listen to Our Segment...
  6. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    Sept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...concept include: Self-labeling tags (e.g., SNAP-tag, HaloTag, TMP-tag) – These widely used systems consist...strategies have two parts: (1) a genetically encoded “tag” expressed as a fusion with your favorite protein...fluorophore-contianing “ligand” that binds to the tag. Like most good ideas in biological imaging, the ...genetically encoded tetracysteine (Cys4) peptide tag could be used to label proteins in cells (Figure ...consist of a genetically encoded enzyme variant tag that reacts specifically and irreversibly with a small... attachment of a fluorophore ligand to a peptide tag (Figure 1c). Click chemistry (e.g., transcyclooctene–tetrazine...paclitaxel. Unlike other systems, no genetically encoded tag is required as the small-molecule binding motif targets...
  7. Hot Plasmids June 2018 - Reverse transcriptase, nanobody, and protein-DNA interaction tools

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    June 27, 2018, 1:16 p.m.
    ...labels proximal proteins with biotin as an affinity tag. This ‘Caspex’ construct is guided by a pre-defined...segment Similarly to the Carr lab, Erik Sontheimer and his group from the University of Massachusetts Medical...biotinylation at genomic elements by restricted spatial tagging), to confirm the composition of proteins found ...antibodies found in camelids. They possess many advantages over conventional antibodies: they are small ...
  8. Advice for Scientists Starting a Lab

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    April 29, 2014, 1:43 p.m.
    ... lead his team as a scientists and a friend. George Church runs his lab fairly similarly to his advisor...the majority of his time in the lab.  As time went on and he was spending more time in his office, he gradually... always “off flying his plane to exotic places while occasionally emailing us his worldly advice”, the...package that included a postdoc and a PhD student in his first year. “It was very important to me to be with...adviser did? Tom Ellis merges the influence from his two PhD advisers who were “chalk-and-cheese”. While... build a strong, collaborative team. And take advantage of the many resources available from your institution...
  9. Hot Plasmids: FRET-Based Biosensors

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    May 6, 2014, 1:07 p.m.
    ...he hopes others will find his tools useful, including his zinc sensor and his genetically encoded magnesium...on the move, such as T lymphocytes. Griesbeck and his colleagues began by isolating a calcium-binding protein...Ratiometric imaging for beginners Griesbeck says his calcium indicators can be used in mouse, Drosophila...Griesbeck also points out that the approach he and his colleagues took to optimize sensitivities can now...other published FRET-based sensors. For example, his team is now applying it to improve upon an indicator...than calcium, requiring greater sensitivity. He and his colleagues came up with a solution: they devised ... adds that this color change has a particular advantage for observing events taking place inside cells...
  10. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    May 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...recently, the approach has been hampered by the need to tag each protein of interest and, for in vivo work, generate... any transgenic zebrafish line expressing a GFP-tagged version of a protein of interest. The binding of...labeling proteins in close proximity to the GFP-tagged protein (albeit slightly offset due to the nanobody-GFP...allow researchers to avoid the off-target effects of hi-multiplexing within in a cell, while potentially ...
  11. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    Aug. 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...generated plasmids tagged with EB3 to mark the growing tips of microtubuli and plasmids tagged with MapTau to... the desired nanobody (NB) sequence, an AviTAG, and 6xHis tag. The MBP signal peptide allows the NB to... pMAL-T-Avi-His/BirA, a vector commonly used for in vivo biotinylation via BirA and AviTAG. pMAK contains...sequence-specific protease used to cleave affinity tags from purified recombinant proteins at small and ...cells were transfected with plasmids encoding FPs tagged with the plasma membrane targetin sequence derived...improved genetically encoded fluorescent markers tagged with mTurquoise2, mNeonGreen, and mScarlet-I for... localization signal or including fusions with Histone 2A or 2B can result in bright targeted expression...
  12. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    April 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m.
    ...after the first tagging step. As an additional benefit of plexWell™’s sequential tagging procedure, the...solving critical sequencing problems. He received his PhD in Bioinformatics from Boston University, and...quick turn-around time of Sanger sequencing have historically matched the needs of most molecular biology ...
  13. Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging

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    Oct. 9, 2014, 3 p.m.
    ...is the ability to follow multiple fluorescently tagged species simultaneously. To do so with fluorescent...generally the most detectable and so should be used to tag your least abundant proteins, with the blue and infrared...he directs the Nikon Imaging Center. He received his PhD in biophysics from UCSF in the laboratory of ...#49004) to the spectra of both mCherry and TagRFP.  Here, the TagRFP spectrum is shown in the darker colors...peak of the TagRFP excitation and the emission filter collects a larger fraction of the TagRFP emission ...with this set are mTagBFP2, EGFP or one of the improved GFP variants, mRuby2 or TagRFP-T, and an infrared... emission. For this filter set, we would expect TagRFP to give a brighter signal than mCherry. In general...
  14. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    June 7, 2018, 1:17 p.m.
    ...taken advantage of the natural secretion of biochemicals and proteins through plant roots. Tagging recombinant.... Researches can visualize proteins in vivo by tagging them with fluorescent proteins to study localization...extracted from lysed cells through the use of protein tags and separated from contaminants using a variety ...Learn about repressible promoters Check out protein tags Resources on Addgene.org Bacterial expression ...-lytic insect cell expression systems (sf9, Sf21, Hi-5 cells)  that allow for continuous expression of...more common expression systems including their advantages and caveats to keep in mind before choosing a...to cells at high concentrations. Despite their advantages, mammalian expressions systems do require demanding...
  15. Running for Rare Disease, Running for FOP, Running for AJ

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    Sept. 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...youngster. His parents, Kristi and Rico, had to keep him from running too much as any jarring of his body could...pre-clinical analytical development. His areas of expertise include early stage drug discovery and pre-clinical...further impairs the patient. When I first met AJ and his family, he did not seem much different than my second... able to run around and play like the other kids his age. A potential FOP cure But, there is HOPE. FOP...working at Sanofi Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA. His work experience is in both vaccine subunit design...
  16. Advice for Starting a Biotech Company from a Grad Student turned Entrepreneur

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    July 10, 2014, 7:17 p.m.
    ...bacteriophages. He decided to quit his "safety net" at the VC firm and devoted 100% of his energy and effort into ...co-founder of a biotech startup, Mike explained, his career transitioned away from the bench and became...VP. Mike was fortunate enough to be able to spend his last 6 months in graduate school focusing on concept...self-sustainable. Within a year from this decision, Mike and his co-founders raised $6 million. The biggest challenge...money, the team grew, and Mike stepped down from his CEO position and became first COO, then moved on ...of technologies, effectively communicating the advantages embodied, and driving the enterprise value of...plan competition and advance investors to the next stage of diligence." In business competitions everything...
  17. Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards

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    Aug. 5, 2021, 12:15 p.m.
    ...calcium, and membrane voltage,” says Tian. Figure 5: Citrine-tagged voltage indicator expressed ...sensitive GFP2 (roGFP2)-based biosensors for live cells. His work focuses on the enzyme hydropersulfide-propagating...they occur.  First, she used a genetic method to tag neurons activated by opioid withdrawal with tdTomato...neuron (via hM4D). She fused fluorescent protein tags to the receptors to monitor their localization and... light activation and CNO silencing. (D) Immunohistochemistry verification of the dual virus expression...University where she engineers genetically encoded voltage indicators. Tian developed a video-based high-throughput...red‑shifted archaerhodopsin‑derived genetically encoded voltage indicator which had improved performance in live...
  18. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    Feb. 25, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...was also a trained biologist. This is apparent in his work The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) where he explores...attributed to SciFi writer Jack Williamson who used it in his 1951 novel Dragon’s Island. In 1976, the world’s ...wrong. The plot of the movie involves The Rock and his super giant albino gorilla fighting off a monstrous... movie version (2016) stars Tom Hanks as the protagonist (Langdon). The plot involves Langdon chasing ...more blog posts about CRISPR Learn more about the history of CRISPR Read about other genome editing methods...
  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins

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    Aug. 7, 2017, 1:58 p.m.
    ...current mechanistic understanding of GFP’s function. His lab described the protein’s structure and also discovered...local pet shop aquariums in Moscow where he lived! His hunch paid off, and he was able to report new fluorophores... Katushka/mKate from Entacmaea quadricolor. With his discoveries, another part of the fluorescent protein...they’re used, see some new techniques that take advantage of them, and give some tips on deciding which ...
  20. Hassle-free 96-well Format Epitope Tagging Using Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein

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    June 28, 2018, 3:01 p.m.
    ...is to tag the protein of interest with a small biochemical “epitope tag” such that these tagged proteins... the tagging efficiency in the transfected cells, we count the number of tag-positive cells (tag ICC) ...endogenous gene tagging in human cells Plasmids 101: Protein Tags Fluorescent tagging of endogenous genes...each with a different tagged protein of interest, and a universal all-purpose “tag antibody” can be used...projects that require epitope tagging of a large cohort of genes (e.g. tagging genes representing a protein...pipeline for epitope tagging. Using our 96-format pipeline, we can routinely achieve 5-30% tag knock-in efficiency...these tagging experiments by assembling csRNPs in a 96-well plate format and tested parallel tag knock-in...
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