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  1. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins

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    March 19, 2019, 1:31 p.m.
    ...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need... recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.          Listen to this episode of Hot Plasmids! Optogenetic...Grefen and Blatt, 2012). The 2in1 Plasmid Toolkit consists of 4 plasmid toolkits generated with 4 different...deposited the resulting optogenetic plasmid tools which includes plasmids encoding a fusion between cPYP and...targeting and editing experiments. Find the CASANOVA plasmids here! Bubeck F et al., Nature Methods 2018. PubMed...as mice, C.elegans, and Zebrafish. Find Archon1 plasmids at Addgene! Piatkevich KD et al, Nat Chem Biol...
  2. Plasmids 101: The Wide World of Natural Plasmids

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    Oct. 8, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...toolbox. Natural plasmids, also called environmental plasmids, are all around us! A plasmid is a small piece...colicin-producing plasmids have been referred to as “Col plasmids” or “Col factors.” Virulence plasmids: microbial...Old Solution but a New Problem Plasmids 101: What is a Plasmid? Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction...F. (2023). Plasmid classifications. Plasmid, 126, 102684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plasmid.2023.102684...., 2001) Beneficial traits of natural plasmids Natural plasmids often convey a variety of functions that...functions of natural plasmids. Created with BioRender.com. Resistance (R) plasmids: microbial defense...example of a plasmid benefiting its host. For example, cells with a penicillin resistance plasmid can grow...
  3. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    June 6, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need... recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.      Listen to this episode of the Hot Plasmids podcast ... (ARG) plasmids to better monitor gene expression in vivo using ultrasound. These ARG plasmids contain...responses in C. elegans. Find the split BoTN/B plasmids at Addgene. Liu Q et al., Neuron. 2019. PubMed...potentially problematic for imaging. Find the ARG plasmids at Addgene. For more details on acoustic reporters...s collection consists of a library of reporter plasmids, each containing two fluorescent proteins and ...
  4. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    March 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...1: The base editor is split into two plasmids and co-transfected into cells for reconstitution. Image ...need. If you'd ever like to write about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.        AAV delivery...overcome this overlap, Yiyang Gong’s lab created two plasmids containing a red-shifted Ace-mScarlet, a fusion...channelrhodopsins. Find the Ace-mScarlet voltage indicator plasmids at Addgene! Beck et al., Sci Report 2019. PubMed...fragments. This system has been used to construct plasmids for use in model organisms such as E. coli and...
  5. Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing

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    March 24, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...validated editing reagents can be found on our plasmid pages. We encourage any labs performing genome ... that are an order of magnitude greater than transfection approaches. Moreover, the cost of reagents is...CRISPR Background with Our CRISPR Guide Find CRISPR Plasmids for Your Research Check out Our List of gRNA Design...
  6. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...Neurosci 2016. PubMed PMID: 26950006 Plasmid ID Plasmid Name Plasmid Type 74309 pcDNA3.0-TRPV4-p2A-ferritin-p2A-mCherry...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These brief articles...features and applications of a partiular plasmid or set of plasmids. We hope that these articles make it ... you to find and use the plasmids you need. You can find all the hot plasmids from 2016 below. With over...over 45,000 plasmids, we can't write posts for every great plasmid that comes into the repository, but...write about your plasmids in a future blog post. No time to read? Listen to our hot plasmids segment on the...gRNA expressing cells were then transfected with a Cas9-expressing plasmid to generate a population of mutant...
  7. Working with Nuclear Receptors

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    July 15, 2014, 4:03 p.m.
    ...problem of sharing plasmids, providing researchers with a one-stop shop for plasmids and vectors, and making...development of a vast number expression and reporter plasmids and the free exchange of these vectors between...laboratories. The development of the transient transfection platform for assaying transcriptional activity...increased the burden associated with identifying plasmids in the research literature and acquiring them ... feature direct links to listings of available plasmids for our curated NRs and coregulators. We look ...2005, tr22. Keep on reading! Check out Addgene's Plasmids 101 blog series. ...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    June 22, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...transfer plasmid), the envelope (Env) gene on a separate plasmid (envelope plasmid), and the polymerase ... yet a third plasmid (packaging plasmid). Viral production then proceeds by transfection of all three ...different plasmids. For a retroviral system this looks like the genetic cargo in one plasmid (the transfer...three plasmids into a producer cell line, such as HEK-293T, production of viral particles, and transduction... and Pol genes are not encoded in the transfer plasmid, the component that physically integrates into ... retroviral packaging components onto distinct plasmids for safety.    Viral cargo-specific safety...services Addgene Biosafety Guide Addgene Viral Plasmids Which Type of Virus Should I Use? Resources...
  9. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    June 1, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...dish of mammalian cells is transiently transfected with a plasmid containing a fluorescent protein (fusion...dish. This is caused by the stochastic nature of plasmid uptake by cells. To correct for this variation,...Goedhart et al, 2012, Bindels et al, 2017). The plasmid for co-expressing mTurquoise2 with mVenus as a ...Find Empty Backbones with Fluorescent Tags Find Plasmids for Subcellular Localization Browse the entire...
  10. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    Aug. 16, 2018, 12:40 p.m.
    ...Split-BioID plasmids Find CRISPR plasmids for labeling genomic regions Find CRISPR plasmids for purifying... include both scrambled RNA motifs and cells transfected with BirA* protein alone (i.e. no RNA bait). ...question that RaPID could help answer? The RaPID plasmids are available from Addgene! References Ramanathan...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5886736. Find the RaPID Plasmids Here! McHugh, C.A., Russell, P., & Guttman, M...
  11. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    Nov. 6, 2018, 1:12 p.m.
    ... [6], plasmid electroporation (episomal) [7, 8] and mRNA transfection [9]. Many of the plasmids used for...Neurons [32, 33, 34] You can find a variety of plasmids for differentiation here. Transdifferentiation...Weintraub, and A.B. Lassar, Expression of a single transfected cDNA converts fibroblasts to myoblasts. Cell,...Pages Find Viral Vectors for Your Research Find Plasmids from the Yamanaka Lab ...
  12. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ...of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles.  ...all applications. Addgene’s plasmid collection includes over 10,000 plasmids with a FLAG tag (!), but did...electroporation or poor cellular entry with other transfection methods. The Junwei Shi Lab addressed this problem... al. 2023 with permission.   Find Cas-PAGE plasmids here!   Zhang, Z., et al. (2023). Efficient engineering...inspired and informed this section.  Find mStayGold plasmids at Addgene here!   Ando, R., et al. (2023). StayGold...under CC-BY license.   Find the AAV.CAP-Mac plasmid here!   Chuapoco, M.R., Flytzanis, N.C., Goeden...(2023) under CC-BY license.   Find AAV1-X1 plasmid here! Chen, X., et al. (2023). Functional gene ...
  13. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    Oct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.
    ...as a universal donor plasmid. The CRISPaint toolkit includes several donor plasmids for protein tagging...The Jorgensen Lab recently developed a modular plasmid assembly toolkit called SapTrap to improve CRISPR...repair template. SapTrap includes a prebuilt donor plasmid library containing several types of fluorescent...tag and homology arms). Digestion of the donor plasmids with SapI allows the tag, selectable marker, and...to be released (Fig. 1, Step 2-3). Since donor plasmids of the same type will produce the same unique ...different combinations of connector and tag donor plasmids from the library can be used to generate functionally... of the targeting vector and a Cas9 expression plasmid will insert the desired genetic tag and marker ...
  14. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    Aug. 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...structures within cells. HeLa cells were transfected with plasmids encoding FPs tagged with the plasma membrane...They generated plasmids tagged with EB3 to mark the growing tips of microtubuli and plasmids tagged with ...and dCas9-VPR targeting plasmids can be found at Addgene. Check out these plasmids for piggyBac gRNA delivery...highlights from recent CRISPR plasmids. To find all of the CRISPR plasmids available from Addgene, head... Find the plasmids at Addgene The MoClo CRISPR/Cas Toolkit for plants includes 95 plasmids consisting...
  15. AAV Q&A with Tim Miles

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    May 17, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Animal Models Q9: Is there any difference in transfection efficiency when delivering these viruses via...user Resources on Addgene.org Find Adenovirus Plasmids Adenovirus Guide Page Subscribe to Viral Vectors...
  16. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...multitude of techniques including co-transfection of two or more plasmids, the use of multiple or bidirectional...with a plasmid that already has the multicistronic element and reporter cloned in. In these plasmids you ...interest. Some of the plasmids listed in the table above (and their related plasmids) are designed to have... a one-stop reference guide for plasmids. We've combined our Plasmids 101 blog posts and additional resources...desktop. The Plasmids 101 eBook is designed to educate all levels of scientists and plasmid lovers and ... an introduction to plasmids, allowing you to spend less time researching plasmid basic features and spend...May 11.) PubMed.   Read more Plasmids 101 posts or browse Addgene's Plasmid Guide for more molecular biology...
  17. Adenoviral Vector Production and Troubleshooting

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    June 14, 2018, 11:44 a.m.
    ...adenoviral stock (rAdV-S). HEK293 cells are transfected with the AdV plasmid construct from step #1 and allowed...down into 5 key steps: Construction of the rAdV plasmid (~1 week): The AdEasyTM system is the most popular...adenoviral vector constructs. It consists of 2 plasmids: a shuttle vector (in which the transgene of interest...how to generate the final recombinant adenoviral plasmid construct, please see Addgene’s Adenoviral Guide...2.*Pro-Tip*: once the correct recombinant pAdV plasmid is identified, re-transform into a bacterial strain...recombination for amplification. The final purified plasmid stock should be analyzed by endonuclease restriction...transductions Resources on Addgene.org Find Adenovirus Plasmids Adenovirus Guide Page  ...
  18. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    Jan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...to find Gateway plasmids for your organisms of interest: Find Gateway cloning plasmids here! References...antibiotic resistance markers (indicated here by plasmid color), allowing you to easily select for the expression...desired, recombined construct. Read our recent Plasmids 101 Post on CcdB for more information. How to ...Method A: recombination of an attB-PCR product or plasmid with an attP donor vector. In this case, we would... to use the Snapgene program to design Gateway plasmids.    Figure 3: Method A to create an entry...restriction digest! Then, you can transform or transfect the cells that you want to use for your experiments...entry clones can be used with a large variety of plasmids. Speed The Gateway system enables the generation...
  19. DNA Purification Without a Kit

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    Feb. 11, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ... Read our Plasmids 101 blog series Find other plasmid protocols and tips Browse our plasmid cloning blog...alkaline lysis plasmid miniprep Starting material: 2 mL bacterial culture Product: plasmid DNA This kit-...kit-free plasmid miniprep protocol from Addgene follows a similar workflow as a column-based plasmid extraction... or agarose gel slices Product: plasmids or DNA fragments The plasmid purification and DNA gel extraction...depending on the type of DNA you’re purifying (plasmid, genomic, or DNA fragments from agarose).    In...causes the proteins and genomic DNA to precipitate. Plasmid DNA is free in solution. Proteins and genomic DNA... removed by centrifugation. At this point, the plasmid DNA sample can be treated with RNase to remove ...
  20. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    April 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...bonds, monobodies can be easily expressed in transfected eukaryotic cells, allowing for them to be used...Resources Additional resources on the Addgene blog Plasmids 101: Aptamer FluorophoresAntibodies 101: scFVs...available from AddgeneBrowse our recombinant antibody plasmid collection References Grumezescu, A. M. (2018)....
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