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  1. Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems

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    May 19, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., codon optimized, untagged, cleavage sites (thrombin and TEV), and C-terminal tags (StrepII, 3xFLAG, ...expression constructs contain protein coding genes, tags, truncations, and codon optimizations similar to... downstream experiments and offer flexibility in tag, cleavage, codon usage, and expression system. Mammalian...expression vector are also available. These contain no tags and are intended to be used in the production of...slower, more traditional, QC process. While this has worked well for the early sets of SARS-CoV-2 materials...certain processes in both core operations. As it has been in much of the world, we have found ourselves...Resources Page! References Fukushi S, Watanabe R, Taguchi F (2008) Pseudotyped Vesicular Stomatitis Virus...
  2. What's New in CRISPR - December 2019

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    Dec. 17, 2019, 2:37 p.m.
    ...Burkholderia Base editors CRISPR toolkit for epitope tagging Lentiviral capsid-based Cas9/gRNA ribonucleoprotein...Target-ACE   CRISPR/Cas9-based toolkit for epitope tagging in neurons Harold MacGillavry’s lab developed a... for targeted genomic integration of fluorescent tags in neurons. Their toolkit named ORANGE (Open Resource...mediates targeted genomic integration of fluorescent tags in neurons.  Read the paper in bioRxiv Find the...Transient expression of CRISPR/Cas9 in cells has advantages like reduced off-target activity and decreased...
  3. Designer PUF Proteins for Any RNA Target

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    June 17, 2014, 7:57 p.m.
    ...– to specific sequences of DNA has become commonplace. This ability has opened up a world of possibilities...targeting the RNA of interest requires that the RNA be tagged. “This tool makes it possible to make the protein...protein specific to any endogenous RNA without tagging,” she said. “It opens a new avenue of modifying and...the original paper says). In their hands, BsaI-HF has produced less reliable results. She also notes that...
  4. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency

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    June 15, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...conclude that mKOk has dimerization tendency and is not suitable for protein tagging. On the other hand...guarantee that using this fluorescent protein to tag your protein of interest will be problem-free. In...of different fluorescent proteins when protein tagging is the goal (Cranfill et al, 2016; Constantini ...Addgene.org Find Empty Backbones with Fluorescent Tags Find Plasmids for Subcellular Localization Browse...analytical ultracentrifugation yields an affinity and has been used to demonstrate that yellow fluorescent ... cells. Strikingly, the OSER assay reveals that tagRFP does not act as a true monomer in cells (Constantini...
  5. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    June 1, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...cellular variation observed in mammalian cells is to tag an endogenous gene. By imaging cells (or tissues)...tissues) that produce an endogenous protein tagged with a fluorescent protein and repeating this with another...co-expressing fluorescent proteins or using endogenous tagged genes) can be used to verify performance under ...Addgene.org Find Empty Backbones with Fluorescent Tags Find Plasmids for Subcellular Localization Browse...well or cannot be detected in a microscopy setup has zero practical brightness and is of no use. Therefore... practical brightness can be made. This strategy has been used in yeast by Lee et al (2013) and in nematodes...
  6. No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins

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    June 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...which attaches a Myc-tag and a His6-tag to the end of each sybody candidate. These tags are used in a final...selection step using ribosome display because it has the advantage of starting out with a larger initial starting...antibodies bound to an ELISA plate to capture Myc-tagged sybodies. Then, the biotinylated target protein...pBXNPHM3 expression plasmids for the production of tag-free proteins for further characterization and analysis... inhibit these viruses.  But llama immunization has its drawbacks: it requires a camelid animal facility...Walter et al., 2020). No llamas required. The advantages of synthetic nanobodies Nanobodies are small ...
  7. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    May 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
    ...GFP for a wide number of functions, including: tagging genes for elucidating their expression or localization...technology is constantly being developed! Fusion tagging: One of the most common uses, GFP can be fused ...Purification: GFP can be used as a general epitope tag for protein purification and a number of commercial...proteins such as Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) has likely existed in creatures such as jellyfish for...from the crystal jellyfish Aequorea victoria. It has a fluorescent emission wavelength in the green portion...protein isolated from Discosoma sp. Similar work has been done to expand the red-fluorescent protein repertoire.... Split EGFP: An alternative to FRET, split EGFP has also been used to study protein-protein interactions...
  8. 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 ...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...developing and optimizing biosensors in the lab. He has recently developed a third-generation intensiometric...release from hundreds of synapses at once. “This work has only been made possible due to the collaborative ... at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) who has developed new redox sensitive GFP2 (roGFP2)-based...Qiu’s work on the PV neurons is in progress, she has validated the dual virus method to study CR neurons...
  9. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    Aug. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...technique for epitope tagging but only one of them could detect knock-in of tags at a target site. Overall...epitope tagging). NgAgo survey Since it was first published in Nat Biotech in May 2016 (1), NgAgo has received...THE ORIGINAL NgAgo ARTICLE DISCUSSED IN THIS POST HAS BEEN RETRACTED AND FOLLOW UP STUDIES HAVE FAILED ...spotlight and take a moment to remember that NgAgo has only been available for genome editing for a few ... synthesis, which could be less desirable if one has to target multiple sites in a single experiment. ...received much attention and the plasmid has been requested by labs around the globe nearly 400 times. Researchers...functional tests. The newest genome engineer sharing the stage with much-lauded CRISPR-Cas9 is DNA-guided endonuclease...
  10. Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene

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    Feb. 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...empty vector with a tag, it’s terminus will be listed as the most likely terminus the tag will end up on after...its own gene/insert section on the plasmid page. Tags are listed according to whether they’ll end up on...popularity. A yellow flame indicates that a plasmid has been ordered more than 20 times; red, more than 50...available through Addgene. Publication: If the plasmid has been published, the paper in which it was first used... their new plasmid.  The Addgene Vector Database has more information about common vector backbones.  ...plasmid number here. Gene/insert: This describes what has been inserted into the backbone, and provides information...gene or DNA element of interest. If the depositor has indicated that there is a particular mutation found...
  11. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    Nov. 5, 2014, 3:41 p.m.
    ...Bacterial Expresses Aquamarine with N-terminal His tag pAquaN1 Cyan Mammalian Expresses mammalian optimized...Cyan Bacterial Expresses CyPet with C-terminal His tag SCFP3A Cyan Mammalian Express a gene of interest...Yellow Bacterial Expresses YPet with C-terminal His tag SYFP2 Yellow Mammalian Express a gene of interest... in situ. Used since the mid-90s, this technique has revolutionised the way we apprehend molecular complexes...protein interactions in living cells. Since then FRET has also been used to measure conformational changes,...brightness - even though in the most popular pair, CFP has five-fold less brightness than YFP. The stoichiometry...Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy method FLIM has been developed more recently and is the most rigorous...
  12. Hot Plasmids September 2018 - Optogenetics, RNA Localization, Fluorescent Protein, and Base-editing Tools

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    Sept. 18, 2018, 1:33 p.m.
    ...These new “Riboglow” probes contain a smaller RNA tag, are less prone to photobleaching, and achieve better...compared to imaging with broccoli aptamers or MS2 tags using the same number of fluorophores. You can find... dark but dissociate under blue light. This tool has now been modified by Torsten Wittmann’s lab at UCSF...genetic or pharmacological manipulations on cells, and has potential use for a wide range of applications in...monomeric, 4-5 fold brighter than mNeptune684, and has a favorable pKa of 5.6. To test out this new FP in...The increasing popularity of single base-editors has resulted in the rapid expansion of the genome editing...expansion of genome editing tools, the Reuben Harris lab has deposited a reporter plasmid that allows for rapid...
  13. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    July 2, 2020, 12:40 p.m.
    ... Replace the biotinalatable tag on dCas9 with a BioTAP-tag. The BioTAP-tag is a 69 aa long biotinylation... lentiviruses delivering 1) a BioTAP-tagged dCas9 and an eGFP tag, and 2) gRNAs Number of loci targeted...normally expressed in eukaryotic cells. Using this tag reduces the number of CAPTURE components that need...from three to two. Lentiviral delivery of BioTAP-tagged dCas9 and gRNAs. Using lentiviral delivery of the...system Stable cell line expressing 1) FLAG-biotin-tagged dCas9, 2) BirA, and 3) one or more gRNAs Two separate... original CAPTURE method is that a new cell line has to be created for each genomic loci of interest. ...
  14. BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development

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    June 26, 2018, 1:33 p.m.
    ...brain and muscle development. The Gronostajski lab has generated mice wherein it's possible to delete the...research on diseases of glycosylation, arginine mutagenesis, and neural development. Paula Videira: Congenital...as reporters of NFIX function. They will then mutagenize the NFIX gene and test whether variants of unknown...
  15. Deck the Lab 2022!

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    Jan. 17, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Twitter or Instagram by December 31, 2022.  Follow @Addgene, use the hashtag #DeckTheLab, and tag @Addgene...and then share them on Twitter or Instagram with #DeckTheLab and tagging us, @addgene to be judged! In ...this post on Instagram                     A post shared by Xi Chen (@seleena78) The lab has officially...December 12, 2022          View this post on Instagram                     A post shared by 草方 (@gracie_fang...get you out of.           View this post on Instagram                     A post shared by Xi Chen...and reveal the winning entries on Twitter and Instagram! Happy decorating, all, and to all a good light...
  16. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    May 18, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...GFP to enhance axonal labeling and synaptophysin-tagged mRuby to enrich pre-synaptic labeling. Now available...tdTomato and pre-synaptic targeted synaptophysin tagged eGFP. AAV phSyn1(S)-FLEX-tdTomato-T2A-SypEGFP-WPRE...a ready-to-use AAV5 viral vector. Synaptophysin-tagged GCaMP6s is enriched in the pre-synaptic terminal...pathways By Gabrielle Clouse Claudia Vickers’ lab has created a novel nanocompartment for transporting ...Staphylococcus lugdunensis that recognizes a NNGG PAM and has comparable activity to SaCas9. A new yeast inducible...that is smaller and easier to deliver, but so far has few inhibitors identified.     New from the viral...
  17. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    March 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
    ...CFP, or YFP fluorescence. In Brainbow 2.1, GFP is tagged with a nuclear localization sequence, allowing ...developed a version of Tetbow that incorporates chemical tags instead of XFP to optimize it for tissue clearing...architecture of a fluorescent neuron is visible. Chemical tags are more resistant to tissue clearing methods and... circuits with fluorescent proteins and chemical tags." eLife 7 (2018): e40350. PubMed PMID: 30454553....track single cell dynamics at the organism level has been made possible by tools that allow cells to become... such as neurons in the fly visual system, which has been difficult to study previously (Hadjieconomou...of cells in the intestinal crypt, and since then has become a powerful tool for understanding cell proliferation...
  18. 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...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...with low affinity variants of TEV. The new system has been demonstrated to work for evolution of other ...commonly used for in vivo biotinylation via BirA and AviTAG. pMAK contains the signal peptide of MBP, followed...
  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    Aug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
    ...affinity to fluorophores. Examples are the FlAsH tag, the His tag and several others. Another peptide-based ...when selecting a genetically encoded fluorescent tag. There are, however, a number of limitations that...binding proteins as described above. The smallest tags are peptides that are engineered to bind specifically...systems are a hybrid between a genetically encoded tag and exogenously added components. For a review see...Hilaire et al., 2017). GFP can only be used for tagging proteins GFP fusion proteins are made by connecting...5. Thorn, Kurt. "Genetically encoded fluorescent tags." Molecular biology of the cell 28.7 (2017): 848...: 10748019.  8. Lotze, Jonathan, et al. "Peptide-tags for site-specific protein labelling in vitro and...
  20. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    Feb. 8, 2018, 12:17 p.m.
    ...fact, NLuc is bright enough to detect endogenous tagged genes generated through CRISPR/Cas9 knock-in. Finally..., NLuc is very inviting for endogenous protein tagging as it is only 19 kDa. An example is the CRISPaint-NLuc...2016) CRISPaint allows modular base-specific gene tagging using a ligase-4-dependent mechanism. Nature Comm...certain experimental setups. The brightness of NLuc has caught the attention of researchers wanting to perform...proteins can be excited by Nluc emission and the lab has dubbed these fusions LumiFluor Reporters. The LumiFluor...mNeptune2 through 33 mutations and 2 deletions. CyOFP1 has a higher quantum yield, brightness and improved maturation...with Luciferases can overcome these problems but has been hampered by dim signals from the coupled luciferase...
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