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  1. X-CHIME: Context Dependent Germline Knockout in Immune Cells

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    Jan. 16, 2024, 6:13 p.m.
    ... pXPR_070 Violet-excited GFP (vex) Lineage-Cre; Rosa26-Cas9 S-CHIME Knocks out pairs of genes...of genes in immune cells typically involves the creation of germline knockout mice, which is time-consuming...cells can be implanted in irradiated recipients to create mice with gene knockouts in their immune systems...2019). A CRISPR-Cas9 delivery system for in vivo screening of genes in the immune system. Nature Communications...
  2. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    June 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...specific system for controlling gene expression such as Cre-lox, may be sufficient to overcome the transport ...ability to produce neuron specific transfection using Cre-lox, this new method could allow for labeling of ...AAV7, AAV8, AAV9 Lung AAV4, AAV5, AAV6, AAV9 Pancreas AAV8 Photoreceptor Cells AAV2, AAV5, AAV8 ...looks like at 3 days vs 7 days vs 14 days etc. To decrease the time until expression, it is possible to use...
  3. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021

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    July 27, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...in AAV8! Expand your imaging experiments with the Cre-OFF/FLP-ON vector 137128-AAV8: Ef1a-Coff/Fon-sRGECO...of biosensors could be used in high throughput screening for agrochemical compounds that have the potential...
  4. Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation

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    May 21, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...limiting amount of AAV are injected into the brain of Cre-expressing mice to trigger recombination and expression...site upstream of the stop cassette results in decreased efficiency of recombination and preferentially...
  5. Hot Plasmids - October 2022

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    Oct. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Two of their constructs are currently available as Cre-dependent, EF1ɑ-driven viral vectors (AAV1) - and...called JEDI-2P. Using a custom, high-throughput screening platform to apply saturating mutagenesis on 21... 1: Summary of the approach and outcomes of the screen for improved genetically-encoded voltage indicators... in-vivo imaging of voltage fluctuations. Image credit: Liu Z, et al. Cell. 2022.  Find JEDI-2p viral... Anti-c-Myc [9E10] page for more details. Image credit: Addgene.   Find anti-c-Myc antibody here! ...
  6. Tetbow: Bright Multicolor Labeling for Neuronal Tracing

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    Jan. 24, 2019, 2:24 p.m.
    ...stochastic multicolor labeling, Brainbow used the Cre-loxP system to express one of the three fluorescent...Addgene #104110 - #104112) (Figure 2). We’ve also created constructs with containing chemical tags such as...
  7. Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans

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    July 7, 2015, 3:36 p.m.
    ...added flanking loxP sites and a heat-shock inducible Cre to generate a self-excising cassette (SEC). To make...have used PCR-based screening to detect mutants, but this method limits screening to a few hundred worms... less than eight hours worth of hands-on time. Creating a modular, selection-based gene tagging approach...rare events difficult. Dickinson et al. sought to create a new and efficient selection-based CRISPR/Cas9...construct will serve as the repair template plasmid to create fluorescent and 3xFLAG-tag fusion proteins. The...knock-ins. These candidate animals can then be further screened based on their Roller phenotype. If SEC is inserted...separates the targeted gene from its promoter, creating a loss-of-function allele as well as a promoter-FP...
  8. A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017

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    Dec. 15, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ... Resources on the Addgene Blog Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist's View Interview...artificial intelligence (including a team that created a novel form of AI that can learn new tasks and...
  9. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 2: Controlling Gene Expression in Flies with Gal4/UAS

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    July 21, 2017, 12:48 p.m.
    ...modular expression systems exist (eg. LexA/LexAop and Cre/Lox systems) in case you want to express one gene...Drosophila geneticists use the Gal4/UAS system. This incredibly useful, yet simple system allows you to systematically...simpler, this modular system saves you from having to create a new fly line every time you want to express YFG...
  10. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    Nov. 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...modular system for packaging, secretion, and delivery of specific RNAs, such as Cre mRNA or Cas9 mRNA and sgRNA...for its small size. They were able to increase activity and decrease the gRNA size by intensively remodelling... engineered guide RNAs Yong-Sam Kim’s lab also created a miniature yet active Cas system starting with...
  11. 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.
    ...dual virus and the experimental approach. (B) CR-Cre mice demonstrate pain response due to blue light ...microcircuits. “In the longer term, this screening platform may help us to create high-performance sensors to enable...mechanical allodynia, a condition where a light touch creates a painful sensation. The dorsal horn of the spinal...virus expression in CR neurons of the spinal cord. Created with BioRender.com. Image from Haoyi Qiu.   ...indicators. Tian developed a video-based high-throughput screen for directed evolution of biosensors based on their... to engineer many types of biosensors.   This screening method allowed Tian to optimize a red‑shifted ... the improved voltage indicator coming from the screen to understand mouse cortical and hippocampal neural...
  12. Viral Vectors 101: Calcium Sensors

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    Aug. 10, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ... expression, and compatible with constitutive or Cre-dependent expression. These sensors have also been...binding sites per sensor (to decrease unnecessary calcium buffering and to increase sensitivity), and is a ...fundamental to muscle and nerve function, hormone secretion, blood clotting, and as we all know, a structural...illumination with violet light and (2) exposure to increased intracellular calcium. It has been applied to ...
  13. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    July 25, 2017, 1:20 p.m.
    ...Fluorescent Proteins Control Protein Expression with Cre-lox Control Protein Activity with GFP Resources ...possible to create other photoswitchable kinases? The general design of psMEK1 also worked for creating three.... The Problem:  There is no common method for creating optically controlled kinases. The Solution: In...et al, the Lin lab present a generic design for creating photoswitchable kinases and use MEK1 as a model...often hard to decipher because it’s difficult to create short pulses of kinase activity. Zhou et al studied...feedback on endogenous MEK1/2 phosphorylation by creating a short pulse of psRaf1 activity. They did this...just 5 minutes post-Raf1 inactivation, and then decreases. Treatment of the cells with a PP1/PP2A inhibitor...
  14. Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 20, 2019, 12:31 p.m.
    ...expression levels of certain genes. A popular method uses Cre recombinase on transgenic flox animals to introduce...light or noise should be avoided as this will also increase stress levels and affect behavior. A fact to consider... also to minimize the damage of tissue due to increased pressure of the added liquid. The volume should...editing/deletion using CRISPR. In some cases, a decrease of the expression efficiency can be observed after...
  15. BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development

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    June 26, 2018, 1:33 p.m.
    ...delete the functional portion of the Nfix gene using Cre recombinase and to generate Nfix-negative neural ...burden of immune symptoms on CDG patients and to increase their quality of life by reducing their risks ...ligand binding sites in T4 lysozyme by deficiency-creating substitutions." Journal of molecular biology 277.2...
  16. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    March 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
    ..., lentiviral, retroviral, AAV, RNAi, luciferase, cre/lox, yeast expression, worm expression, insect expression...and Organization where your plasmids were first created. From there, we’ll use the information in the ...
  17. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    Jan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m.
    ...light-dependent Gal4 transcriptional activation and Cre recombination. Find PhoCl plasmids at Addgene. Zhang... for easy removal of the resistance cassette via Cre recombination. Each knockout includes unique barcodes...natural ancestors), and screened through libraries of new RFP variants for increased fluorescence, brightness...polycistronic cassettes and discovered reprogramming discrepancies, which they traced to a 9 amino acid N-terminal... did not lead to the observed reprogramming discrepancies. The polycistronic piggyBac transposon vectors... protein PhoCl expands optogenetics toolbox Increasingly popular Optogenetics tools use light to alter...PMID: 28241009 CRISPR coselection with ouabain increases editing efficiency Blue flame depositor Yannick...
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