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  1. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ...colleagues identified a highly bright and stable fluorescent protein, StayGold. Although it quickly saw wide interest... E., et al. (2023). A monomeric StayGold fluorescent protein. Nature Biotechnology, 1–4. https://doi.org... al. (2023). Bright and stable monomeric fluorescent proteins derived from StayGold. ResearchSquare (Preprint...recombinant protein, the FLAG tag has proven itself a good option for essentially all applications. Addgene...Lab addressed this problem by optimizing the Cas protein delivery with Peptide-Assisted Genome Editing (...dimerization while maintaining the bright and stable fluorescence of the original (Ivorra-Molla et al., 2023)....mature marmosets. CAP-Mac also robustly expressed fluorescent reporters in green monkeys and cultured human...
  2. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
    ...chimeric protein consisting of Cas9 and a photo-dissociable dimeric green fluorescent protein (pdDronpa...CRY2) and calcium and integrin-binding protein 1 (CIB1) proteins. The goal of both groups was to create...composed of two fusion proteins: 1) the genomic anchor - an inactive, dead Cas9 protein (dCas9) fused to CIB1...form a functional protein due to being fused with high-affinity interacting proteins Coh2 and DocS, respectively... saCas9 protein. Stop light! Photoactive anti-CRISPRs halt Cas9 activity Anti-CRISPR proteins are a highly... architecture (Hoffman et al., 2020). Fluorescent dCas9 proteins can be used to identify specific genomic...telomere-targeting gRNA and a dCas9 fusion protein with three red fluorescent tags in U2OS cells. Upon light activation...
  3. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    July 2, 2019, 12:51 p.m.
    ...plasmids/viruses are needed to deliver all the protein and RNA components, and several sgRNAs must be ... start sites, all of which yield the same BDNF protein. To demonstrate the specificity that can be achieved...The pooled nature of this experiment requires fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) to isolate differentiated...inserted human CD8, a gene that encodes a surface protein for which there are good flow cytometric antibodies...recent advancements and offer commentary on their application to neuroscience research. What is CRISPR-based...accessible to neuroscientists, not all neuroscience applications require such optimized tools. This is elegantly...study neuronal differentiation, it could also be applied to the differentiation of other CNS cell types,...
  4. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    May 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...cells in live imaging application. Each visual barcode consists of a fluorescent protein coupled to a specific...GFP-nanobody rather than a specific protein of interest. This fusion protein can then be co-expressed in essentially...stabilizes the TurboID-nanobody protein and allows TurboID to start labeling proteins in close proximity to the...localization peptides with four different fluorescent proteins, and inserting each visual barcode into ...reporters that drive the expression of the fluorescent protein by a specific transcription response element...approach has been hampered by the need to tag each protein of interest and, for in vivo work, generate a dedicated...zebrafish line expressing a GFP-tagged version of a protein of interest. The binding of the GFP nanobody to...
  5. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...tagging proteins, as it can be fused to the N- or C-terminus (or even in the middle of proteins) and performs...imaging in C. elegans By Alyssa Neuhaus Red fluorescent proteins like mScarlet are essential tools for visualizing...under CC-BY license.  These optimized fluorescent proteins will be a useful addition to the toolkit... mScarlet3 for applications needing intense brightness (such as low-expression proteins of interest) and... produced by our partners at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI), part of a new collection of epitope...short, linear epitope derived from the P and V proteins of Simian virus 5 (SV5) (Randall et al., 1987)...including popular new approaches like PROTAC targeted protein degraders. But CRBN has been difficult to study...
  6. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...decorated with a fluorescent protein remain functional. Attaching the fluorescent protein fusions allowed...produced by orchestrated movements of networks of proteins consuming molecular fuel sources. While the importance... can be generated by conformational changes in proteins? How can information propagate through a structured...rupture E. coli spheroplasts to release encapsulated proteins. Video by ACS. For a more cartoony explanation...addressed using R bodies: simple, force-generating protein machines that can extend and retract over many ...
  7. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    Jan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ... decade, but the fluorescent proteins (FPs) necessary for many of these applications have lagged. Fixation...Campbell, B.C., et al. Chemically stable fluorescent proteins for advanced microscopy. Nat Methods 19,...immunoassays due to only having one binding site per protein. Having multiple antibodies allows you to use them...light and electron microscopy and observed high fluorescence resilience to these preparations. After crystalizing...    Fig. 4: hfYFP retains folding and fluorescence in high molarity GdnHCl, at high temperatures...antibodies may just not perform as well in one application as another, so it is always best to have options...for mEGFP-HRas (from Plasmid 18662). See the Applications section on the Anti-GFP [N86/8R] page for more...
  8. SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas

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    May 5, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...cleaves the supplied fluorescently labelled ssDNA substrates. Upon cleavage, the fluorescence is no longer quenched... cleavage of fluorescently labelled RNA, the authors employ a P51 cardboard fluorescence visualizer that...binding, changes in fluorescence can be visualised. Another approach was to apply the same concept to ...streptavidin portion of the probe via biotin. The fluorescent portion of the probe that is cut will continue...and released when cleaved. Cleavage results in fluorescence and this approach can be incorporated into a...test varies in the sequence of steps and the Cas protein used. Here, all the components needed for the reaction...recombinase, and the ssDNA-FQ reporters that exhibit fluorescence upon cleavage. Upon amplification by the RPA...
  9. Antibodies 101: Affinity Tags

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    Sept. 19, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...isolate a protein, there must be a special feature about that protein that no other protein in the expression...(FLAG, Myc, etc.) and fluorescent protein tags (GFP, mCherry, etc.). Fluorescent tags are primarily used...affinity tags can make protein purification a cinch. Types of affinity tags, the proteins they work best attached...common tags available. Maltose binding protein Maltose binding protein (MBP) is a 45 kDa tag which can be ...unlikely to perturb protein function. This makes it amenable to being left on your protein of interest, especially...you want the tag to remain on your protein for downstream applications Below, we describe a few of the ...purification, so as not to perturb protein function for downstream applications. Tag cleavage must be performed...
  10. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    March 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...AID-tagged protein. To quantify protein degradation the Ward lab used fluorescent proteins (FPs) fused...implications for the fusion protein effectivity), and a fluorescent protein tag for visualization (Fig....catalytically inactive dCas9) to modify chromatin. A fluorescent protein can still be included for visualization purposes...attached to your protein of interest. TIR1 interacts with endogenous Skp1 and Cul3 proteins to form a SCF...inducible degron sequence) tagged proteins. Degradation of your protein interest would also result in depletion... histone-modifying enzymes and reader-effector proteins. b) Golden Gate assembly (backbones available ... create multiple synthetic chromatin-modifying proteins quickly and accurately.   Priode and Haynes, ...
  11. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    Oct. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...in a direct or unbiased way at the DNA, RNA, or protein level. The “correct” choice of tool requires careful...unmatched—unlike CRISPR experiments that require exogenous protein, successful induction of RNAi only requires the...and/or fusing your gene target sequence to a fluorescent reporter sequence (discussed below). Examples...Non-destructive methods, most popularly with a fluorescent reporter, directly couple silencing of your gene... that contains a target sequence against the fluorescent reporter in an inverted repeat orientation. Therefore...have readily observable phenotypes quantified. Fluorescent reporter-based RNAi constructs have been designed...presence of the RNAi transgene, followed by a fluorescence readout of RNAi activity. As a plant researcher...
  12. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    Jan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...signs of toxicity or burden relative to a fluorescent protein control. We also added the toxin-antitoxin...major structural protein GvpA, which seemed overexpressed compared to accessory proteins. Excess gvpA plasmid...What are Acoustic Reporter Genes (ARGs)? Fluorescent and bioluminescent reporter genes are widely used...of ARGs results in the production of air-filled protein nanostructures called gas vesicles, which scatter.... coli. We deleted an unannotated hypothetical protein, improving expression, and named this gene set ...in mammalian cells without the shell stiffening protein GvpC, which allowed the GVs to be flexible and ...ultrasound imaging of nanoscale acoustic biomolecules. Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 073704 (2017). Hurt, R. C. et ...
  13. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...locations. C) Enrichment of dual-labeled proteins identifies proteins that had been trafficked from the “source...generated a fusion protein called iPAK4 that assembles into a slow-growing protein fiber in the cytoplasm... Figure 4: Time-resolved protein ticker tape. A) Design of iPAK4 protein ticker tape recording. B) HEK...labeling can identify protein interactions or map a local proteome, but some applications have been challenging...labeling and TransitID Tracking cellular history with protein ticker tape Teaching an old antibody new tricks...recently used phage-assisted continuous evolution and protein engineering to generate seven new prime editors...., et al. (2023). Phage-assisted evolution and protein engineering yield compact, efficient prime editors...
  14. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021

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    July 27, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...SL-sensitive fluorophore (circularly permuted green fluorescent protein or cpGFP) to the petunia SL enzymatic receptor...relies on the fluorescence ratio between the 2 fluorophores, rather than on the fluorescence intensity, ...thoughtfully designed plasmid components with Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS), allowing for .../doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.04.076067    Novel fluorescent enzyme biosensors provide direct, specific and... Claudia Vickers’s lab has designed novel SL fluorescent biosensors by integrating a SL-insensitive fluorophore...conformational change of the receptor which modulates the fluorescence intensity of the cpGFP without altering that... authors also showed that the receptor-based fluorescent biosensor has a high sensitivity (50 nM-500nM...
  15. 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.
    ...containing two fluorescent proteins and four repeats of a miRNA target site. One fluorescent protein (EBFP2) ...B (BoNT/B), which cleaves the synaptic protein VAMP2, a protein essential for synaptic transmission. Cleavage...and function of microbes rely heavily on fluorescent protein genes. These optical reporters have limited...gas-filled protein structure that water-bound photosynthetic organisms use for buoyancy. These proteins allow...established pair of proteins (iLID and SspB) that undergo light-induced dimerization. Upon application of blue light... lab discovered in 2014 that these gas vesicle proteins scatter sound waves and create ultrasound contrast...
  16. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...photostable than fluorescent proteins, making them ideal for single-molecule fluorescence techniques. After...CLIP-SNAP fusion proteins for single-molecule FRET. A) Schematic of a CLIP-SNAP fusion protein (a.k.a. CLAP... a flexible linker where a protein of interest can be inserted. B) Protein expression and labeling procedure...optimized strategy uses new combinations of PE protein components (Figure 1), an altered epegRNA delivered...study the conformational dynamics of the motor protein kinesin-1, the Twelvetrees Lab took advantage of...FRET to study the intramolecular dynamics of the proteins in solution and when associated with microtubules...generating other SNAPf-, CLIPf-, and CLAP-tagged proteins for mammalian cell expression. These plasmids ...
  17. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    Aug. 9, 2018, 1:04 p.m.
    ...and neuron-specific transgene expression. Fluorescent proteins are widely used for tracing and their expression...2017) that express one of a few different fluorescent proteins (red, green, blue). If a researcher injects...Maday et al., 2014). It is currently unclear which proteins facilitate transport of neuronal tracing compounds...either produce a colorimetric product or are fluorescent. While dyes usually spread unidirectionally, ...biotinylated dextran amines (Veenman et al., 1992) or fluorescent molecules like rhodamine-isothiocyanate (RITC... For predominantly retrograde tracing, albumin protein labelled with horseradish peroxidase (HRP; Kristensson...germ agglutinin WGA, Schwab et al., 1978) or fluorescent molecules such as Fluoro-Gold (Schmued and Fallon...
  18. A Control for All Seasons

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    Oct. 5, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Burry 2011). Autofluorescence Endogenous fluorescence of the sample, or autofluorescence, also interferes...example, if you are studying the effect of a new tau protein kinase inhibitor on slowing diseases progression...experimental (?) groups were run on a western against a protein standard (P) to check for tau molecular weight ...experimental protocol but does not receive either protein kinase inhibitor. Since the negative control group...positively charged groups with generally sticky proteins such as bovine serum albumin. Secondary antibodies...than the background noise (Waters 2009). If the fluorescence from your target is extremely bright, then the... the noise likely will not interfere. If the fluorescence from your target is weak, then it is best to...
  19. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    Feb. 27, 2018, 2:04 p.m.
    ...Control Protein Activity Learn more about protein tags Read about E. coli strains for protein expression...expressed in bacteria and extracted with common protein purification methods. Read on to learn more about... distance between the target antigen and the fluorescent label, which can reduce the potential image resolution... resolution of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Their size also limits their ability to penetrate...be better suited for the job. As single domain proteins, they can be expressed in bacteria, making nanobodies...penetration and decreases the distance between a fluorescent tag and the target antigen to about 2 nm, which...: Purified nanobodies are then tagged with a fluorescent dye or HRP via maleimide-labeling. Maleimide-...
  20. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...quenched fluorescent ssRNA reporter is added to the reaction. Cleavage of the quenchable fluorescent RNA by...few years, scientists have utilized CRISPR-Cas9 protein variants, Cas13, and Cas12a, to develop simple,...has adapted natural RNase activity of the Cas13 protein to develop and optimize the method termed Specific...Cas13 and Cas12a, are combined with different fluorescent reporters for each enzyme. In addition, Csm6,...Csm6 and a Csm6 specific reporter (in the same fluorescent channel as the Cas13 reporter), they could significantly...papilloma virus (HPV) genome, via a crRNA. An ssDNA-fluorescently quenched (FQ) reporter, which will produce a...rate of ~1,250 cuts per second. A quantifiable fluorescent signal designates the presence of your DNA of...
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