...designing entirely new proteins, improving our understanding of how protein folding works and creating biological...nature (at least that we’ve seen so far!). They started by designing a novel topology, then iteratively...expressed, purified, and characterized it, producing crystal structures demonstrating “the structure is strikingly...possible. Although Top7 was designed simply to be stable and novel, the principles that created it have ...novo designed proteins also helped researchers understand more about the biophysics of protein folding ...

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... combination and possibly discover unexpected epistatic changes in protein activity. See Natarajan et ...product is digested with DpnI to remove residual starting template. After transformation and harvest, the... matter? Most of the time no, but there are 2 instances where it does. 1) When the backbone vector has...References 1. Natarajan, Chandrasekhar, et al. "Epistasis among adaptive mutations in deer mouse hemoglobin...Wrenbeck, Emily E., Justin R. Klesmith, James A. Stapleton, Adebola Adeniran, Keith E J Tyo, and Timothy ...  4. Fowler, Douglas M., Jason J. Stephany, and Stanley Fields. “Measuring the Activity of Protein Variants...

...out there. The house mouse (Mus musculus) Let’s start with the most preferred mammalian model organism... set of mutations that made cancer cells more resistant to chemotherapy. You can find these plasmids at...found in lewy bodies), have been invaluable in understanding the basic molecular mechanisms underlying the...scientists can easily observe early developmental stages which can be difficult in other vertebrate species...assess developmental processes. For example, the Stainier lab studied the proliferation and differentiation...temporal expression of different transgenes, the Stainer group determined that there are actually two distinct...

...post was contributed by Shravanti Suresh from Iowa State University. Since its appearance, SARS-CoV-2 has...recommends one strategy: testing, tracking, and social distancing. With countries like South Korea, one of the ... cDNA. Isothermal amplification is done at one constant temperature, eliminating the need for thermocyclers...to our guest bloggers Shravanti Surest from Iowa State University. Shravanti Suresh is a PhD candidate ...CRISPR/Cas immune systems in the Sashital Lab, Iowa State University. She is actively interested in science... R. S., Baxter, N. J., Kosik, K. S., Arias, C., Acosta-Alvear, D., & Wilson, M. Z. (2020). A Scalable,...

...assays using non-fluorescent visualization methods. Stay tuned for a future blog post to learn more about...experimental goals. Example steps include: counterstaining, mounting sample on slides, and confocal   .... To narrow down which specific methods to use, start by reading the methods sections of papers that have...straightforward than choosing a primary, so we’ll start there. Some of the most important considerations...commentary by Uhlen, et al. 2016 is a good place to start.) Reviewing available antibodies can seem overwhelming... Introduction to Performing Immunofluorescence Staining. In: Methods in Molecular Biology. Springer New...

...domain and the N-terminus of the other domain at a distance that favors proper folding and formation of the...tend to have lower affinities, lower long-term stability, and a higher likelihood to aggregate due to their...characterization.    Figure 2: Phage display starts with a pooled library of scFvs that are displayed...between the VL and VH domains. This bond provides stability and solubility for the scFv (Gaciarz and Ruddock...are inserted into a vector encoding the antibody constant domain scaffold to convert the scFv into an antibody...disulfide bond independent folding of intrinsically stable scFv. PLoS ONE 12:e0189964 . https://doi.org/10.1371...

...editor installs the recombinase “landing sites,” then the recombinase handles the installation of the ...Free-floating rat brain sections stained with Anti-GFAP. The staining patterns from recombinant antibodies...methods such as chemical crosslinking or tilted-stage imaging. A truncated form of a tardigrade LEA, RvLEAMshort...the PASSIGE strategy. First, twin prime editing installs two sequences containing attB/P recombinase landing...

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...for that. Lately, significant advances in the understanding and application of CRISPR/Cas9 technology are...news was circulating. Scientists at North Carolina State, in the labs of Chase L. Beisel and Rodolphe Barrangou...still working out important details in their understanding of how CRISPR/Cas9s actually work. Last month...of Cas9's three-dimensional shape via x-ray crystallography, an advance they say should allow scientists... report showing Cas9's structural details. "Understanding this structure may help us engineer around the...

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...requires genes to be regulated dynamically.” To understand how that works in memory formation or other brain...cells but extends to freely moving animals, as established for conventional optogenetic tools." In total...applied the LITE system to 28 different genes to establish it as “a novel mode of optogenetic control of ...players in normal biological processes and disease states. While LITE plasmids have clear application to ...mammalian endogenous transcription and epigenetic states." Nature. 500, 472–476 (22 August 2013).   , ...

...Right from the start, when we founded Addgene nearly 10 years ago, lunch felt like a family meal. My ...We borrowed an idea from the software folks and started Hack Days. During Hack Days, teams at Addgene will...Executive Director, Joanne Kamens, responded by starting something we call “Random Lunches.” Once or twice...wonderful tradition for university departments to establish, with the goal of fostering better communication...we head into Thanksgiving weekend in the United States, I look forward to gathering around a large table...

..., we discuss some of the many things you can do start your own science communication student group and... and Amy say is the quickest way to get things started? Set up your own Science by the Pint series and... the SITN podcast as a means for listeners to understand the dynamics of information flow. Some of the... best way to get a Science Communication group started. It's as simple as getting people together at a...email [email protected]    For more info about starting your own SciComm organization and to learn about...

...As we get closer to the start of another academic year, graduate students and post-docs alike are wondering...ourselves credit for what we have accomplished. Starting with a recap of accomplishments, from learning...with lab members, determine how to work through obstacles, and take steps to resolve interpersonal conflicts...technique are beneficial for researchers at all stages. Rather than succumbing to academic inertia, it...'t Just More Paperwork. Vincent BJ, Scholes C, Staller MV, Wunderlich Z, Estrada J, Park J, Bragdon MD...

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...but many throughout the world are affected by devastating diseases that affect far fewer people and therefore...provide hope to patients suffering from these devastating afflictions. Elia Di Schiavi - Spinal muscular...expression in specific cells. With a more concrete understanding of the molecular biology behind SMN1 and its...screens. He plans to work with a partner at IRCCS Besta in Milan to test small molecules targeting SMN1 ...Nabavi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vancouver Prostate Center and is affiliated with the University of...

...many of the speakers.  As Dr. Polka said as she started things off, “We are all capable of contributing....  His list is dire:  The current system is unsustainable, hypercompetition is corroding values, we are... away from PI driven basic research, there is resistance to change, public support is weak, government...pretty much said it all.  She cited the oft quoted statistic that only 15% of current postdocs will be academic...drastic change in the way we train scientists to start addressing this problem.  Finally, one point made...

...come together over the past few years to propose standards and recommendations for improving antibody use... is all it will bind to - particularly when you start using complex samples such as whole cell lysate ...be aware of any possible alternative translation start sites or alternative splicing that could lead to...bound to the target protein, so it’s important to understand if protein:protein interactions could be a factor...Addgene.org Find plasmids encoding antibodies at Addgene Stay tuned for ready-to-use antibodies from Addgene Designing...Bradbury A, Plückthun A (2015) Reproducibility: Standardize antibodies used in research. Nature 518:27–9....