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  1. Three Key Considerations for Precise Neuronal Targeting Using AAV Technologies

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    Nov. 27, 2019, 2:03 p.m.
    ...neuroscience see Table 1 from the paper. 2. Manipulate your cell of interest: Cell-type specific expression of molecular...specific cell type. Find some transduction characteristics of select AAV serotypes in Table 2 from the...in their cell bodies. Optical stimulation in a different brain area can then reveal the cells bodies of...with AAV: 1. Getting your viral vector into your cell of interest: AAV tropism and route of administration...transduction, the viral capsid proteins bind to the target cell’s surface proteins and this interaction determines...by restricting expression to genetically defined cell types. Specific transgene expression can be also...different approaches can increase the specificity of cell targeting even further. For example, injecting AAVs...

  2. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    Oct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.
    ...digestion of the destination vector with SapI yields 2 sites- the first site accepts the sgRNA target sequence...marker, and connector to be released (Fig. 1, Step 2-3). Since donor plasmids of the same type will produce... gRNA vector that targets the gene of interest, 2) a plasmid to specify the reading frame of the insertion...and function of cellular systems. FPs have been used to track protein localization, cell structure, intracellular...associated with cellular organelles, scientists have been able to study many cellular processes, including...to fluorescently tag markers of cellular structures in mammalian cells. These plasmids use fluorescent...Depletion in Human Cells by Auxin-Inducible Degron Tagging with Short Homology Donors.” Cell Rep.15(1) (2016...

  3. How Dry Ice Affects Viral Vector Sample pH & How to Avoid It

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    June 20, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...pH visible at the sample interface upon thaw (Fig. 2). Before thawing, all the samples were at the control...showed that AAV infectivity was not altered by a short 2-hour exposure to pH as low as 2.5 (Potter et al., ...Methods. 2013 Apr;10(4):278-9. PubMed PMID: 23538862. 2. Potter M, Lins B, Mietzsch M, Heilbronn R, Van Vliet...measure the pH of our samples, we used a solution of cell culture medium, which is buffered and contains the...

  4. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    Aug. 29, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... of components, such as your CRISPR enzyme or Pol 2 promoter. The options available in each class, or ...overhang specific to the type of module it is (Pol 2 protomer, Cas protein, ect...). Whatever individual... (KO, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, editing)   Figure 2: Selecting module fragments on the Fragmid website...Drosophilia Plasmid pRDB_051 (for stable fly cell lines; attL and attR sequences for genome integration...Drosophilia Plasmid pRDB_052 (for stable fly cell lines; Hygromycin resistance gene; for genome integration...rapid assessment of emerging CRISPR technologies. Cell Genomics, 4(3), 100519. https://doi.org/10.1016/...

  5. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    July 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell. 2015 Sep 23. pii: S0092-8674(15)01200-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.038...single RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system." Cell (2015). PubMed PMID: 26422227.   ... Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., et al. "Genome-wide specificities...particularly helpful for targeting non-dividing cells, which are difficult to modify through homology-... Cpf1 orthologs known to be active in mammalian cells, LbCpf1 and AsCpf1. In both reports, on target editing... (RNPs) failed to induce off-target editing in a cell culture model. What we still don't know about Cpf1...reveals specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jun 6. PubMed PMID: 27272384...

  6. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    July 23, 2020, 1:20 p.m.
    ...base pair to another base pair at a specific site. 2. Temporal, spatial, or conditional control of CRISPR...difficult-to-engineer Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 2 (Mayo-Muñoz et al., 2018). Only viral particles that...Editing of Sulfolobus islandicus Rod-Shaped Virus 2. Viruses 10:695 . https://doi.org/10.3390/v10120695...Inhibitor of CRISPR-Cas9. Cell 170:1224-1233.e15 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.037 Li C, Psatha...Off-Switches for CRISPR-Cas9. Cell 167:1829-1838.e9 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.017 Shin J, Jiang...concern is that the longer Cas remains active in a cell, the greater chances there are for off-target edits...within the first six hours. When added to human cells six hours after the introduction of Cas9 RNPs, AcrIIA4...

  7. Mapping the 4D nucleome with CRISPR/Cas9

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    Aug. 11, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...resolved loci with physical map distances of 75 and 2 Mbp, with the calculated fluorescent distances correlating...established physical map. In comparing pairs of targets ~2 Mbp apart, they noticed that they could evaluate the...be applicable to studies of cell cycle progression, epigenetics and cellular reactions to external stimuli...Weissman JS, Qi LS, Huang B. Cell. 2013 Dec 19;155(7):1479-91. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.12.001. Pubmed. Find...LS, Weissman JS, Vale RD. Cell. 2014 Oct 23;159(3):635-46. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.039. Epub 2014 Oct...labeled Cas9 to label multiple genomic loci in live cells. While other systems can be used to label loci, ...CRISPR/Cas9’s ease of use and ability to label live cells make this system truly advantageous. This new technique...

  8. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    Sept. 12, 2017, 1:44 p.m.
    ...the mixed sample in our pipeline (see Figure 2, sample 2). When we blindly analyzed AAV-68544, we were...look for potential contaminants. The analysis is a 2-step process using Geneious software: First, the individual...our viral service to continue our mission of accelerating scientific research. To make sure that adeno-associated... check viral transgene expression in transduced cells whenever possible. This post will describe our workflow...fragments of DNA from the helper plasmids or the cell genome can be packaged inside the vectors during...earlier, it is common to find DNA from the packaging cell genome, bacterial genomes, cloning vectors, and ...

  9. Antibodies 101: Flow Compensation

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    May 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Figure 2, following compensation. Figure 3: Flow plot for a double positive sample. The cell population.... Let's look at an experimental example in Figure 2. Figure 2A shows the sample prior to compensation.... line with the other populations.   Figure 2: Compensation example based on experimental sample... make it difficult to properly gate your desired cell population. By compensating between fluorescent ... your fluorescent markers are staining for. If a cell is positive for both markers, it will show up as...learning! Ashlyn has a research background in CD8+ T cells and cancer immunotherapies. She is currently a research...

  10. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    Oct. 27, 2015, 3 p.m.
    ...PMC2875081. 2. Snapp, Erik Lee. "Fluorescent proteins: a cell biologist's user guide." Trends in cell biology...imaging in a variety of cellular compartments including the secretory pathway (Figure 2), the inner membrane...properly exiting the ER and fluorescing (see Figure 2) [5].  When using FPs containing two cysteine residues...numerous cell biology assays. However, there has been a pervasive view that most FPs in a cell will fold...fluorescent fusion proteins in cell biology."Current Protocols in Cell Biology (2005): 21-4. Pubmed PMID...Fluorescent proteins in cellular organelles: serious pitfalls and some solutions." DNA and cell biology 32.11 (...-fusions on quantitative imaging experiments and cell physiology in general. Pitfalls of Fluorescent Protein...

  11. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    April 9, 2015, 3:29 p.m.
    ...the result in Figure 1 could look like this: Figure 2: Expression of Plasmid B (as internal control) This...down expression of Gene X but, as shown in Figure 2, this was likely due to the original transfection ...PMID: 20074371. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2817684. 2. Replicates and repeats—what is the difference and...untreated cells—but can we be certain? Do we know whether the plasmid delivered into the cells successfully...amount of DNA transfected into the cells and the ability of the cells to express the protein.   In analysis...Gene X in backbone Y) was transfected into human cells. From this result one could simply conclude that...didn’t work, as the expression level of Gene X in cells treated with Plasmid A is similar to the expression...

  12. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    Feb. 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...AAV8 for kidney cells — can help improve infection rates in your experiment. Figure 2: Visual representation...handled at BSL-1, while lentivirus requires a BSL-2 setup. This requires a less involved setup when working..., 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12449-2 Pupo, A., Fernández, A., Low, S. H., François, A.,...same: Deliver CRISPR library to cells of interest. Select for cells of interest (positive or negative...infect specific cell or tissue types. Using serotypes that have a known tropism for your cells of interest... a host cell’s genome. In this state, AAV cargo can be stably expressed in non-dividing cells for long...mice are involved. Ex vivo starts with transducing cells with the CRISPR library in vitro before transplanting...

  13. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

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    Aug. 14, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
    ...and standard neuronal tracers. 2. Visualization of neuronal sub-cellular structures GFP is limited in its...proteins. For example, N-cadherin (cadherin-2) is a postsynaptic cell adhesion protein that plays a critical...PMID: 25915120. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4573404. 2. Shepherd, G.M. (2004). In "The synaptic organization...ability to interact with protein partners within the cell. However, antibodies can have low affinity for these... generally bright, stable and well tolerated by cells. They can be used for protein localization, isolation...trigger protein aggregation which is toxic for the cells and affects the labeling of small structures like...team, an ideal probe should combine the solubility, cell tolerance, and optional fluorescence of FPs with...

  14. The Future of Research Symposium Boston 2015

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    Oct. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Quotes taken directly from participants (summarized in 2) touched upon many problems in this area: “ [The] ...PMID: 24733905. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC4000813. 2. McDowell, Gary S., et al. "Shaping the Future of ...A fair deal for PhD students and postdocs." Elife 2 (2013): e01139. Pubmed PMID: 24137543. Pubmed Central...following panel members: Jonathan Dinman, Chair of the Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Department at University...

  15. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... flanking sequences to their input string (Figure 2). This string can then be used as input for the prediction...top 5) and test them in their labs. Figure 2: Guidelines to predict pegRNA efficiencies with pridict.it...Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02268-2 Schep, R., Brinkman, E. K., Leemans, C., Vergara, ... systems in multiple cell types. Cell, 186, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.03.034 Resources...Integrated in Parallel. Cell, 154(4), 914–927. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CELL.2013.07.018 Anzalone, A....epigenetic manipulation of prime editing. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.03.020 Mathis, N., Allam, A... balance. Molecular Cell, 81(10), 2216-2230.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MOLCEL.2021.03.032 Yu, G., ...

  16. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    Oct. 17, 2019, 12:28 p.m.
    ...channelrhodopsin-2, ChR2) fused to a reporter gene (e.g., mCherry) to easily detect opsin-expressing cells. The resulting.... "A FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range circuit ...the correct orientation to be transcribed (Figure 2) (Sharma and Zhu, 2014). How does FLEx enable strong... Abdallah, Khaled, et al. "Adeno-associated virus 2/9 delivery of Cre recombinase in mouse primary afferents... specific cell-type promoter. Once injected into the brain, the viruses infect all the cells with an inactive...energy conversion or the induction of intra- or intercellular signaling pathways (Ernst et al., 2014). Microbial...proteins control the flow of electric charges across cell membranes and maintain membrane potential in response...

  17. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...resistance to the herbicide chlorsulfuron (Homo line 2) or wild type (WT), two weeks after herbicide was ... CLIPf tag and a C-terminal SNAPf tag; see Figure 2), the authors developed a cost-effective expression... when associated with microtubules. Figure 2: CLIP-SNAP fusion proteins for single-molecule FRET... primary cells. The authors used this platform to assay dozens of GPCRs across many cell types in...biosensor platform. Cell, 187(6), 1527–1546.e25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.028. New...Prime editing (PE), initially developed in human cells, has been uniquely challenging to apply in dicotyledonous...labeling approach using these constructs in HEK 293 cells (Smith et al., 2024). They then used single-molecule...

  18. "What Makes a Good Mentor?" and 6 More FAQs About Science Mentoring

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    Dec. 17, 2013, 2:47 p.m.
    ...portion of our careers. In that time we may have only 2-3 formal supervisors that will provide guidance and...be challenging – is advice and guidance from only 2 people enough?  For many years I’ve been organizing...Apparently, a good Jedi does not necessarily an excellent mentor make. Are your current mentors/advisors...What Kind of Mentor Do I Want To Be?” In this excellent essay Acclimatrix, an assistant professor at a...

  19. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    Dec. 11, 2014, 4:26 p.m.
    ...(you generally don’t want more tag than protein), 2-3 tags is increasingly common. Tandem affinity purification...TEV cleavage site (more on that in a moment), and 2 ProtA IgG-binding domains. TAP has since come to encompass...found in this paper (available at Addgene).   Table 2: Protease recognition sites commonly used with tags...not generally in a cell’s best interest to overexpress a protein. Energy and cellular resources are being...being spent to make something the cell doesn’t need to make. Eukaryotes and some bacteria deploy proteosomes...proteosomes to degrade what the cell might consider junk protein. Though there are a number of chemical and...same manner as it would have in the context of a cell. FLAG tags can be cleaved by enterokinase, which...

  20. Spurred by COVID-19, Addgene Bridges Plasmid Sharing Between Academia and Industry

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    June 23, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...untagged expression of SARS-CoV-2 proteins in bacteria, yeast, and mammalian cells. We teamed up with Ginkgo...approximately 3,000 constructs to support SARS-CoV-2 research.  Browse the entire Ginkgo Bioworks COVID...organizations to share materials more broadly to accelerate COVID-19 research: Sinai Health System                                     ...
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