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  1. 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 ability of the endonuclease Cas9 to create a DNA double stranded break (DSB) at a genomic site specified...homology directed repair pathway, a new user-defined DNA sequence (like GFP) can be inserted at the DSB. CRISPR...The Jorgensen Lab recently developed a modular plasmid assembly toolkit called SapTrap to improve CRISPR...the user first designs either oligos or synthetic DNA for the desired gRNA target sequence, as well as ...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...
  2. Modulate the Activity of 17 Signaling Pathways with One Kit!

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    March 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...for Your Research View our Hot Plasmid Pages to See the Latest Plasmid Technologies ...identified a set of one to three mutant complementary DNAs (cDNAs) representing core nodes that, when over-expressed...cloned all the cDNAs into a single consensus lentiviral expression vector and attached a DNA barcode to each... drugs in specific contexts, so he assembled a plasmid kit designed to do exactly that. As described in...It’s also possible you could make use of these plasmids in living animals, to explore pathways that confer...Be Used in Genome-Wide Screening Browse 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015 Additional Resources on...curate the perfect library, obtained the appropriate cDNAs from other researchers, and cloned them into lentiviral...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    May 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...designed so that the single stranded DNA folds back on itself to become dsDNA in the nucleus and is a good option...Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a single stranded, Parvoviridae DNA virus, packaged in a non-enveloped icosahedral capsid...repeats – the sequences that flank the deliverable DNA) are removed, resulting in recombinant AAVs (rAAVs...cell machinery, and synthesize a second strand of DNA before expression of their cargo can begin, which...not divide and replicate in the same way the host DNA does. Because of this, fast dividing tissues will...differentiated, non-dividing cells.   Figure 2: DNA rescue and transduction of a conventional single-...of both polarities are rescued from the vector plasmid and individually packaged into the AAV capsids....
  4. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    Aug. 18, 2023, 4:15 p.m.
    ...intermediary DNA replication step between DNA and mRNA. DNA genome replication can involve an RNA or dsDNA intermediary...Louten, 2016 Viruses with DNA genomes can either follow central dogma (gDNA to RNA to proteins) or require...retroviruses, reverse transcribe their gRNA into DNA, which is then transcribed into mRNA before being...replicate their genomes using a variety of RNA or DNA intermediaries, depending on the class of virus. ...the required proteins are packaged in separate plasmids and expressed via cells cultured with the vectors...double stranded (ds) or single stranded (ss) (ie, dsDNA, ssDNA, dsRNA, positive sense ssRNA, or negative sense...
  5. Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes

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    Jan. 30, 2014, 3:29 p.m.
    ... presence of a plasmid is disadvantageous from the bacterium's perspective – a plasmid-containing cell...cell must replicate the plasmid in addition to its own chromosomal DNA, costing additional resources to ...to maintain the plasmid. Adding an antibiotic resistance gene to the plasmid solves both problems at once...Biology Reference Pages View our Plasmid Protocols Find Your Perfect Plasmid Backbone ...think about how much easier it makes our lives. Plasmid transformation into E. coli is a fairly inefficient... which cells successfully received the correct plasmid, scientists would spend hours to days trying find...once – it allows a scientist to easily detect plasmid-containing bacteria when the cells are grown on ...
  6. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ... eBook Read our plasmids 101 blog series Resources on Addgene.org Browse our plasmid collection pages... resistant to chemotherapy. You can find these plasmids at Addgene. Another advantage of mice as model...using the fruit fly far before we even knew that DNA was genetic material (Jennings, 2011).   The fruit...processes with our own cells. Like human cells, yeast DNA is packaged into chromosomes and about 23% of yeast...Scientists can simply inject one-celled embryos with DNA or RNA to edit their genomes or to create transgenic... pancreas. They first tagged these cells using plasmids. Then using HOTcre, a method that uses heat induction...Transgenic animals can be made by simply micro-injecting DNA into the worm, such as animals that express fluorescent...
  7. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    April 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... inosine from DNA: N-methylpurine DNA glycosylase (MPG), also known as alkyladenine DNA glycosylase (AAG...N-methylpurine DNA glycosylase / alkyladenine DNA glycosylase  Removes hypoxanthine from DNA, creating an...create an abasic (empty) DNA site using either fused or endogenous Uracil DNA N-glycosylase (UNG) enzymes...(AP) site. UNG / UDG Uracil DNA N-Glycosylase Removes uracil from DNA, creating an abasic site. MPG...W. (2024). Programmable DNA pyrimidine base editing via engineered uracil-DNA glycosylase. Nature Communications...fused to nCas9. First, MPG removes the G base from DNA to create an abasic site. Like in most other base...non-edited strand to encourage the cell to repair the DNA using the edited strand as a template — in this case...
  8. Addgene's Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015

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    Dec. 7, 2015, 6 p.m.
    ...the vast majority of CRISPR plasmids in our repository use Cas9 to cut DNA, Addgene Science Communications...CRISPR mediated genome engineering. 10. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids Need help thinking about the types ...Scientists eBook Download the Plasmids 101 3rd Ed. eBook Read the Most Recent Plasmids 101, CRISPR 101, and Career... two eBooks (Management for Scientists and the Plasmids 101 2nd ed, the 3rd edition has now been released...top of the many developments in science and the plasmids, technologies, and researchers behind them. As...most popular posts continue to be those from our Plasmids 101 and CRISPR 101 series. These posts aim to ... the background they need to get started using plasmids and the revolutionary CRISPR technology in their...
  9. The Stingy Scientist: How the Baby Gel Box Was Born

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    April 15, 2014, 3:11 p.m.
    ... to make my own glass milk for purifying cut plasmid DNA from agar slices.  Molecular biologists used ...daily before the advent of techniques like PCR and DNA synthesis. Most molecular biologists bought the pricey... I realized I was pouring large agarose gels for DNA visualization or isolation, then using only a few...bromide, less stop buffer and miniscule amounts of plasmid sample.  How satisfying?  With practice, I got ...
  10. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    Jan. 23, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...the CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids by function Browse our entire plasmid collection ... prevents the prime editor from re-engaging with DNA it has already edited. Created with BioRender.com...create 3-base (or longer) tracts of edited bases. DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is less efficient at identifying...cell to use the edited strand as a template during DNA repair. Test multiple nick sites, starting with sites... Nicking sgRNAs can be designed to target edited DNA, so that nicking only occurs after the edit is installed...genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA. Nature, 576(7785), 149–157. https://doi.org/10.1038...Structure of Cas9 in Complex with Guide RNA and Target DNA. Cell, 156(5), 935–949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell...
  11. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    July 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...from a reverse-transcribed piece of DNA called a “provirus.” This DNA is synthesized inside of what is called...Central Dogma of Biology (gDNA → mRNA → protein): their roadmap includes RNA → DNA (Cooper & Temin, 1974)...transferring genes to mammalian cells (i.e. transferring DNA), yet retroviruses are RNA-containing viruses  (Robinson... because they integrate this reverse-transcribed DNA into the host cell’s genome and then use cell machinery...Transduction is often thought of as the integration of DNA into the host cell’s genome (shown in step 3), but...various mechanisms, only one of the two strands’ DNA counterparts from step 2 will be integrated by the...Hu & Temin, 1990). At step 3, the double stranded DNA is integrated into the host chromosome, and this ...
  12. Thanks to Addgene Depositors, We’re Now Sharing over 100,000 Reagents!

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    April 8, 2021, 7:25 p.m.
    ...including plasmids, ready-to-use viral preps, pooled libraries, kits, and cloning grade DNA!     This...100,000 different plasmids available from the repository (currently at 98,276 plasmids as of April 8, 2021... 2021) 1.5 million plasmids shared in total (currently at 1,484,507 as of April 8, 2021) 5,000 depositing...addgene.org homepage! You can track the number of plasmids right below the search bar and more stats further...
  13. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    July 31, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
    ...Learn about CRISPR DNA Base Editing Resources on Addgene.org Browse All CRISPR Plasmids Check out our CRISPR...editing has multiple advantages over more traditional DNA editing systems; first, RNA editing doesn't require...contain the RuvC and HNH domains responsible for DNA cleavage, so they cannot directly edit the genome...is mediated by ADAR2DD, not PspCas13b. Find the plasmids for the RESCUE RNA editors here! Testing and improving...for viral delivery.  Find the RESCUE RNA editing plasmids here! Future directions Building on previous RNA...Science (2017):pii: eaaq0180. PMID: 29070703. Find plasmids from this paper at Addgene. Abudayyeh, Omar O...550(7675) (2017):280-284. PMID: 28976959. Find plasmids from this paper at Addgene. Abudayyeh, Omar O...
  14. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    Sept. 28, 2020, noon
    .... citrea scarless editing plasmids Sheng Yang’s lab describes a two-plasmid system that combines recombineering...QCascade DNA-targeting module with the crRNA, (3) three transposase proteins, and (4) the donor DNA. By using...supplied as a dsDNA fragment. Each round of editing takes two days, and the pTargetF and pCas plasmids can be...engineering functions in bacteria, but have no fear - plasmids from Addgene depositors are making it easier than...machinery to promote homologous recombination of linear DNA fragments. Since recombineering does not contain ... system available from Addgene consists of two plasmids: pCas9: carries Cas9 and chloramphenicol resistance...gRNA and a backbone-targeting gRNA cassette for plasmid curing through "self-destruction" after induction...
  15. Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems

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    May 19, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...What SARS-CoV-2 plasmids from Ginkgo Bioworks are available for request? Currently, plasmids containing all...available. Plasmids are continually added as they complete QC and you can find all available plasmids listed...prepare Sanger reactions by mixing this isolated plasmid DNA with appropriate sequencing primers, and hand...to fresh data! These same plasmids are then added into our normal full plasmid NGS queue in order to bring...pipeline. For the first ~50 plasmids we perform our standard full plasmid sequencing by NGS. Addgene’s...on Addgene.org Find all plasmids from Ginkgo Bioworks  Find COVID-19 plasmids for your research Browse... to synthesize and share over 1,850 SARS-CoV-2 plasmids to help academic and industrial labs accelerate...
  16. MXS Chaining

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    Feb. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...combination of different genetic sequences into plasmid DNA. In high throughput cloning techniques, although...Gibson Assembly Learn About Other Plasmid Cloning Techniques Plasmids 101: Green Fluorescent Protein Resources...Fluorescent Protein Collection Find Plasmid Kits at Addgene Find Plasmid Cloning Protocols References 1....MXS chaining MXS-chaining was designed to create plasmids for fluorescence imaging or flow cytometry applications...modules (Figure 2) are contained in individual plasmids and are each flanked by the same multiple cloning...assembly method Single reaction, can assemble large DNA sequences, no restriction enzymes needed Not optimal...throughput cloning is to facilitate the construction of plasmids with many components. The creators of the MXS-...
  17. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    Sept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ...mutation” field on the plasmid page (see plasmid 87904 for example). As many plasmids available from Addgene...blog Plasmids 101: protein expression Plasmids 101: E. coli strains for protein expression Plasmids 101...codon optimized by ordering plasmids containing them from Addgene. If a plasmid at Addgene contains a gene...might think it’s easy to come up with a workable DNA sequence to encode your peptide of interest and produce...alternative tRNAs Codon optimization With low cost DNA synthesis, one of the primary ways researchers solve...researchers have created codon optimization algorithms and DNA synthesis companies such as IDT and GenScript host...
  18. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    March 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...components: the DNA repair protein rXRCC1, or the DNA binding and lyase domain of DNA polymerase β (PB...without breaking the DNA backbone, making them efficient and precise tools for altering DNA sequences. These...structure. In order to bind DNA, Cas9 requires (1) a guide RNA, (2) a complementary DNA sequence, and (3) a protospacer-adjacent...used by Cas9 to locate a matching DNA sequence.   Target strand The DNA strand that base pairs with the...non-target strand of DNA for Cas9 to bind.   R-loop The structure formed by Cas9 binding to DNA and separating...(AP) site. UNG / UDG Uracil DNA N-Glycosylase Removes uracil from DNA, creating an abasic site. UGI...single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) region, using enzymes fused to Cas9 to alter the exposed ssDNA bases. Thus, ...
  19. Building and Validating Recombinant Antibodies: A Case Study

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    April 5, 2022, 1:20 p.m.
    ...expression plasmids were DNA sequenced to determine the VH and VL sequence. These plasmids have been deposited...important collection.  Creating the Plasmids To begin constructing the plasmids for expression of mAbs, the Trimmer...scientific community with the plasmid sequences available from each plasmid webpage. Importantly, the methods...Resources on the Addgene blog:  Plasmid-Based Recombinant Antibodies  Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox...NABOR are recombinant antibodies expressed from plasmids that have been deposited with Addgene. Here, we... first antibodies distributed by Addgene.  The plasmids used to generate these antibodies were based off... to create an amplicon that  was cloned into a plasmid backbone for expression of the mAb heavy and light...
  20. REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods

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    Feb. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...amplify the template plasmid. The parental, nonmutated DNA is digested with methylated DNA-specific enzyme ...recommended for plasmids up to 25 kb, most cloners should be fine, especially using plasmids in the 10-12...Other Plasmid Cloning Techniques like SLIC and Golden Gate Cloning Learn How to Verify Your Plasmid Read...Reference Pages Choose Your Perfect Plasmid Backbone Find Plasmids for Your Research ...made genomic SDM relatively straightforward, but plasmid-based SDM has lagged behind. While commercial kits... REPLACR (Recombineering of Ends of Linearized Plasmids After PCR). Current site directed mutagenesis...of background colonies carrying the unmodified plasmid. For insertions, it’s possible to use the same ...
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