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  1. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferase

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    June 24, 2014, 3:59 p.m.
    ...effectiveness. Analyze Cell Signaling Pathways Known cellular signaling pathways can be investigated in a high-throughput...promoter linked to luciferase. Activation of the pathway will result in luciferase expression and more complex...treatments can be designed to further explore the pathway. Which luciferase and assay have you used? Share...
  2. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    Feb. 11, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...senses, GPCRs play roles in initiating signaling pathways in inflammation, and neurotransmission. These ...important molecular switches in signal transduction pathways and consist of a trimer of three subunits: alpha...there, how can scientists decipher the signaling pathways from ligand to receptor to G-protein, and finally...Interested in tracking the downstream signaling pathways mediated by GPCRs? The Kruse Lab constructed plasmids...
  3. CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining

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    April 16, 2015, 3:45 p.m.
    ...important to know that cells possess two major repair pathways – Non-Homologous End Joining (NHEJ) and Homology...Homology Directed Repair (HDR) – and how these pathways work, as this could be relevant when planning your...structure, and dictate the major events of the pathway: Broken ends are recognized by loading of the ...This is a simplified, streamlined version of this pathway and does not consider the missing or damaged nucleotides...
  4. Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards

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    Sept. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
    ...AKT, mTor, and ERK pathways so the lab will be studying the effects on these pathways using biosensors ...Terry Hébert: How GNB1 mutations affect signaling pathways G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) detect molecules...GNB1 disorder by understanding affected signaling pathways and how they lead to neurological phenotypes observed...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    July 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., chemogenetic receptors hijack cell signaling pathways and can lead to such responses as decreased heart...2014). The system allows you to study signaling pathways and the impacts of neural circuits on behavior...intracellular interactions and still set off the same pathways, giving rise to the same cellular responses. The...depends on what G-protein and, consequently, what pathway the receptor acts through. The DREADD hM3D(Gq),...
  6. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    July 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...guide RNA and repair template of your choosing (Schwartz and Jorgensen, 2016). Using SapTrap, this CRISPR...mutations that was published in a microPublication (Schwartz and Jorgensen, 2018).  These are just some examples...PMID: 17986455. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2238901. Schwartz, Matthew L., and Erik M. Jorgensen. "SapTrap, ...: 26837755. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4905529.  Schwartz, M. L., & Jorgensen, E. M. "SapTrap vectors for...
  7. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Nicolas Mathis received his PhD from Gerald Schwank's lab at the University of Zurich (Switzerland),...L., Solari, C., Balázs, Z., Krauthammer, M., & Schwank, G. (2023). Predicting prime editing efficiency...Böck, D., Steensel, B. van, Krauthammer, M., & Schwank, G. (2024). Machine learning prediction of prime...on Cas9-induced DNA double-strand break repair pathway balance. Molecular Cell, 81(10), 2216-2230.e10....
  8. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles

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    June 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...then transported in vesicles via the secretory pathway to their subcellular or extracellular destination...organelle or involved in intracellular transport pathways, it is possible to map the internal organization...markers for major mammalian organelles and transport pathways. It is best, though not always possible, to use....  CureFFI.org. Cell Biology 04: The Secretory Pathway. 4. Dunn, Kenneth W., Malgorzata M. Kamocka, and...
  9. Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More

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    Aug. 13, 2019, 12:58 p.m.
    ...pinhead mutant, which regulates a developmental pathway implicated in congenital heart defects and cancer...lineage tracing can help illuminate how signaling pathways—such as those regulated by one-eyed pinhead—contribute...also showed that in the absence of the signaling pathway regulated by one-eyed pinhead, incorrect proportions... zygotes into adults and explain how signaling pathways control this process. Additional zebrafish applications...
  10. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    March 12, 2019, 1:37 p.m.
    ...understanding of the Z pathway" is vague and "what proteins regulate the Z pathway?" is an open-ended list...consider "how do proteins X and Y regulate the Z pathway?" A well-defined outcome makes it easier for the...postdoctoral fellowship with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz at the National Institutes of Health, was an Associate...
  11. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...functions, from endosomal trafficking to signaling pathways to the cell cycle. Good tools for measuring intracellular...cell culture and reversible control of signalling pathways. These LIDs are generalizable, versatile and powerful...reversibly switch off and on your favourite signalling pathways (Figure 2). They are all available now at Addgene...Understanding how a protein traffics through these pathways is key to understanding, and potentially perturbing... which can then be tracked along the secretory pathway (Figure B). The RUSH system has already been used...modified sdChr- a blue-shifted channelrhodpson from freshwater green alga identified by Ed Boyden’s lab. The...for identifying previously unknown factors and pathways involved in pre-mRNA splicing in a compound screen...
  12. How Exercise Purges Stress and Keeps Depression at Bay

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    Nov. 25, 2014, 4:02 p.m.
    ...kynurenine pathway of tryptophan degradation. It turns out that activation of the PGC-1a1 pathway increases...protected. Effects of Activation of the PGC-1a1 Pathway Gene expression analysis of the animals’ skeletal...
  13. Understanding GPCR Signaling Using TRUPATH

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    Dec. 14, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...the Gβγ dimer, activating downstream signaling pathways.  This dissociation can be measured using a technique...system. Conclusions Although the importance of GPCR pathways is well known and, as a result, a target of many...collection can be used to study endogenous ligands, the pathways they activate, as well as the activation by drugs...
  14. CRISPR 101: Drug discovery and CRISPR

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    May 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...approaches. The first route involves identifying a gene/pathway to develop a drug for (aka a druggable target)....reveal individual genes or sometimes even genetic pathways that are worth investigating for drug development...’ proteins – having multiple hits or an entire pathway of possibilities greatly increases the odds of ...
  15. CRISPR Challenges: Standardization and Homology Directed Repair

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    Feb. 14, 2018, 2:36 p.m.
    ...need to learn much more about cellular DNA repair pathways. An emphasis on cellular repair post-CRISPR cleavage...finally grasped just how complicated DNA repair pathways are. I fully admit to being a DNA repair newbie...template strategies activate different HDR sub-pathways like synthesis-dependent strand annealing (SDSA...
  16. K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion

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    April 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...the preferred pathway for generating knock-in mutations, and NHEJ is an error-prone pathway frequently introducing... counterpart, enabling study of human-relevant pathways (Liu et al., 2017). Beyond human relevance, yeast...
  17. Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing

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    March 24, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...repaired by the non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) pathway disrupt target gene sequences (thus inactivating...breaks repaired by homology directed repair (HDR) pathways can modify the sequence of a gene (thus altering...Researcher in Jacob Corn’s lab investigating DNA repair pathways.     Additonal Corn Lab Members who worked on ...
  18. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    Sept. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...potential toxicity and cross-reactivity with other pathways. Since these effectors are diffusible, they’re...input patterns may also be used to engineer new pathways with sophisticated gene expression controls. Most...inducible promoters that could crosstalk with other pathways. They also reduced system leakiness and increased...
  19. Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections

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    Nov. 10, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... process. The process can range from a defined pathway or reaction to a complex event such as cancer or...acquired a favorable mutation. But if the cellular pathway of interest conveys no significant survival advantage...advantage, such as a non-essential mechanism or any pathway with cellular redundancies, a screen would be required...
  20. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    Sept. 4, 2018, 12:53 p.m.
    ...metabolic engineering, the expression of enzymes in a pathway will ideally be optimized to promote generation... the shuttling of the intermediates into other pathways. In cases where a specific ratio of products is...variability between the different components. When your pathway needs precise fine-tuning of gene expression levels...
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