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  1. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    Feb. 27, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ... have the option to indicate separate promoters, tags, or cloning information for each insert.  Encodes...insert into it. Empty backbones often contain epitope tags or fusion proteins that are appended to new inserts... indicate the gene cloned into your plasmid, any tags or fusion proteins contained in the plasmid, any...biosensor affinity for calcium". Please describe any tags or fusions (e.g. His, FLAG, EGFP, etc) on your insert.... Use the drop-down menu to indicate whether the tag is on the N or C terminus and whether it was present...soon as they pass our standard QC process and MTA has been approved. You can "Submit Plasmids Using Our...cloned into the vector backbone). If your plasmid has more than one insert, click "Save and Add Another...
  2. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    Sept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
    ...such as visualizing genomic loci using fluorophore tagged dCas9 may require the use of plasmid or viral-mediated...alternative approach is to express and purify His-tagged Cas9 from E. coli using a plasmid such as pET-28b-Cas9...can be used to deliver a Cas9-gRNA RNP. This advantage has allowed scientists to perform in vitro and in...figure above), are in the early stages of development. David Liu’s Lab has demonstrated the use of cationic...CRISPR has greatly enhanced the ability of scientists to make genomic alterations, bringing about a revolution...inserting a custom gRNA.  While this methodology has proven to be incredibly valuable to scientists, there...to the use of this technique in cell culture, it has also been applied to genome editing of mouse zygotes...
  3. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    April 6, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
    ...plasmid.     Confirming tags and fusion proteins Finally, we confirm promoters, tags, fusion proteins, and...anyone who has ever worked to sequence DNA on NGS platforms will tell you, while the process has become much...aligning to NCBI entry or using BLAST.   Confirming tags and fusion proteins. We’ll break down each of these...
  4. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    Dec. 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...make it possible to insert, or knock-in, any gene, tag, or mutated exon into the genome. For this purpose...promoter responds. You can also use this method to tag an endogenous protein with GFP, as seen in blue flame...avoid selecting for cells in which the construct has randomly integrated into the genome, a negative selection... opposed to screen for cells where recombination has occurred. Neomycin, puromycin, and hygromycin resistance...still functions normally because one of its exons has simply been replaced with the same sequence flanked...flanked by LoxP sites while the resistance cassette has been placed into an intron.    Figure 4: ...second the floxed exon.   After recombination has occurred, you'll first remove the resistance marker...
  5. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    May 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.
    ...to an epitope tag or fusion protein. If your sequencing primer was chosen to confirm a tag or fusion protein... in NCBI’s numerous databases. As our repository has grown over the years (we now have over 60,000 plasmids...we analyze as part of our quality control process has steadily grown. On a busy week, we may need to analyze...our quality control process. Consequently our team has refined our use of the BLAST web browser interface...also enjoy seeing how our quality control process has changed with the introduction of next generation ...BLAST (blastp), and Translated BLAST (blastx). NCBI has a terrific getting-started guide for BLAST, which...expected ORFs, mutations or truncations. A primary advantage of blastx is that you do not have to decide on...
  6. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    Jan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
    ...transforming cells with plasmids encoding aptamer-tagged RNA and later introducing the small molecule into...measurement of processes including RNA movement by tagging RNA sequences with an aptamer and RNA transcription...purification of specific RNAs from cells using this tag, and both TO1-biotin and TO3-biotin contain an acetate... improve its stability in vivo. However, Spinach has proven useful in the engineering of riboswitches....syndrome (Strack et al., 2013). Since then, Spinach2 has been used to investigate intracellular viral DNA ...better choice for imaging than the monomer. Broccoli has been developed into a split aptamer that can be used...s group created Spinach2 using site-directed mutagenesis of Spinach. In doing so, they identified the ...
  7. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    Sept. 24, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...to see if anyone has published a protocol that would work for your system. Addgene has depositor submitted...knockouts or knock-ins, or introducing mutations and tags, while a catalytically dead dCas9 can be used in...to create knock-ins, point mutations, or to add a tag, you will also need to deliver a donor plasmid or...Sep 30, 2020 by Marcy Patrick. CRISPR technology has been widely adopted for genome editing purposes because...Mammalian CRISPR expression systems Each model system has its own best practices for efficient delivery of ...
  8. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    Jan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m.
    ...nonoverlapping emission spectra (N- and C-terminal tags for mTagBFP, TagRFPt, EGFP, mVenus, mCerulean3, mKOFP2) and...instance, inserting PhoCl in between a protein and a tag, such as an NLS or NES, enables control over localization...deposited with Addgene and include MYC- and FLAG-tagged TZAP constructs (wild-type and truncation mutants...gRNAs used for TZAP gene editing, and a Hi6xs-MBP tagged TZAPznf9-11constructs used for bacterial expression...inhibitory GABA-ergic interneurons, Gordon Fishell’s lab has developed a new AAV approach using regulatory elements...fluorescent protein - mScarlet! The Dorus Gadella lab has recently developed a synthetic red fluorescent protein... imaging and in protein fusions. The Gadella lab has deposited all mScarlet constructs with Addgene. ...
  9. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    Feb. 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ... vivo. Some researchers have used fluorescently tagged DNA-binding proteins to label certain loci, but...Kits Find Empty Backbones with Fluorescent Protein Tags ...called the 4D nucleome. Visualizing specific loci has historically been difficult, as techniques like fluorescent...visualize genomic loci in vivo The flexibility of CRISPR has improved our ability to target almost every genomic... system and induce genome editing. Such a system has been previously described for transcriptional activation...
  10. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    April 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... straight-forward. All constructs are tagged with a 2xStrep-tag for easy detection and affinity purification...time Since the publication of our paper, our group has been inundated with requests to share our plasmids...). Also, we’ve got to mention that our FedEx guy has been the best: Thanks, Todd! As you can imagine, ...follow us on Twitter (QBI_UCSF and KroganLab), Instagram, and Facebook. Find more COVID-19 and coronavirus...
  11. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    May 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...purification tags, connectors, cDNAs, and more to find the perfect combination. The EcoFlex Kit has a wide ...constitutive and inducible promoters, linkers, and tags makes EcoFlex a great option for those interested... a larger library of parts but don’t need to add tags to your proteins, then the CIDAR Kit is an excellent...yeast MoClo is also for eukaryotes! The technology has been used to optimize protein secretion and expression...possible through MoClo. The MoClo Plant Parts Kit has everything you would expect in a MoClo kit plus the... general plant cloning experiments. Addgene also has two additional MoClo plant kits: Plant Parts Kit ...; Chamness et al., 2023). The Plant Parts II kit has a focus on infrastructure with shuttle vectors, several...
  12. The 10 Most Distributed Plasmid Technologies in Addgene's First 10 Years

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    Jan. 8, 2014, 3:10 p.m.
    ... requested ubiquitin plasmids were pRK5-HA-Ubiquitin-WT and HA-Ubiquitin, and we now have 19 different... years.  Biosensors - Plasmids for fluorescent tagging have long been popular with scientists, but 2012...founded 10 years ago today. In that time, Addgene has shipped over 350,000 individual plasmids to 5,000...5,000 different research institutions. This has given us a unique window into technology trends in the life...the CRISPR." The newest genome editing technology has been used and modified by so many labs and for so...
  13. The Blue Flame Award: Celebrating Addgene's Most Requested Depositors

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    Nov. 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...indicates that a plasmid has been requested 20+ times   A red flame means a plasmid has been requested 50+ ...love to see you show it off! To share your photo, tag @Addgene and #happydepositor on Twitter. All Blue... Castro of University of Michigan says, “Addgene has transformed the way in which we share plasmids and...making it easier, cost effective and faster; this has helped accelerate scientific discoveries.” Occasionally...+ times   A blue flame means a plasmid has been requested 100+ times Since we so sincerely appreciate ...have at least one plasmid deposited at Addgene that has been distributed more than 100 times. We hope these...sharing because, as UNC’s Bryan Roth says, Addgene has “literally enabled sharing with 100's of investigators...
  14. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...lentiviral vectors to stably or inducibly express tagged iPAK4 from different promoters, specific time points...plasmids here! Lin D., Li X., et al. (2023). Time-tagged ticker tapes for intracellular recordings. Nature...off-target effects of gene therapy, Feng Zhang’s lab has developed a system called DIRECTED (Delivery to Intended...on-target delivery with various delivery modalities and has the potential to reduce negative side effects. This... assays like IHC. In fact, Anti-PSD-95 [K28/43R] has been one of the hottest antibodies in Addgene’s collection... collection since we began distribution and has been verified to perform well in standard IHC and western...externally-timed bands of color with HaloTag-iPAK4 by applying different HaloTag dyes and showed they could record...
  15. When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells

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    April 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... fusion tag to be inert, to not produce artifacts in your experiments. Considerable effort has gone into...solution or something in between, you are using a tag with a serious drawback. The standard EGFP plasmid...world, is not inert. In all seriousness, EGFP/GFP has a real nontrivial propensity to noncovalently dimerize...dimerizing protein of interest fused to a dimerizing FP has potential to form large stable polymers of dimers... monomerized with an A206K mutation [2]. Addgene has many of these constructs and they are designated ...oligomers such as DsRed or high affinity FPs such as TagRFP. Problem 3 can be solved, in most cases, by using...
  16. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    Dec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m.
    ...this technology and its advantages? Fujii: In the last several years, my lab has been working on development...immunoprecipitation (ChIP) (iChIP) technology, which uses locus-tagging and affinity purification, in 2009. However, iChIP...generated a series of retroviral vectors expressing tagged dCas9 and guide RNA. The retroviral enChIP system...joined Addgene's Advisory Board.  Addgene: Your lab has worked extensively with enChIP systems. Can you describe... systems to Addgene in the near future. Addgene: Has your lab been working on any other technologies that...plasmids. The merit of depositing plasmids to Addgene has been spectacular. We've got more than one hundred...
  17. Searchable and Sortable gRNAs for Your Next CRISPR Experiment

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    May 17, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...cut, activate, interfere, visualize, nick, purify, tag, scaffold, CRISPR-display, and dCas9-FokI. This table...Alternatively, you can select a target sequence which has already been shown to work in CRISPR experiments....experiments. Addgene’s dedication to resource sharing has led us to develop a searchable and sortable datatable ... to the fact that every gRNA listed in the table has been used effectively in a published article. This...target sequence, and model system. Even if a gRNA has been demonstrated to work in your system, it is worth...that locus. The data in the validated gRNA table has been derived from scientists’ submissions, either...
  18. Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux

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    Jan. 22, 2019, 2:41 p.m.
    ...generate one molecule of GFP-tagged LC3 for every one molecule of RFP-tagged LC3∆G. Like the unmodified ...number of autophagosomes. This approach, however, has inherent limitations because it turns a dynamic process...
  19. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    July 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Fluorescent Protein Should I Use? However, fusion proteins tag your protein of interest with a fluorescent reporter...protein. One downside of fusion proteins is that the tag can alter the structure of the protein. In some cases...timing of expression can also be affected by the tag.  Protein expression, measured using antibody conjugated...measured using visible light scatter The optical system has both visible and fluorescent light sources. Visible...autofluorescence from your target cell type or that has arisen from fixation. Also include an isotype control...secondary antibody control in which the primary antibody has been omitted from the staining protocol. This control...gating during data analysis.  We hope that this blog has provided you with an overview of flow cytometry for...
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