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  1. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    May 3, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Cui Red mScarlet Split-wrmScarlet variant of mScarlet Split-wrmScarlet and split-sfGFP: tools for faster...chromophore maturation, splitFAST displays rapid and reversible complementation. TagBiFC (split HaloTag) provides...Collection Split Luciferase systems, including NanoLuc®, DULIP, LuTHy Other split protein tools: Split-TurboID... new and popular split-FP plasmids from our catalog to help you find the right split-FP plasmid for your...cells with split fluorescent protein. Kamiyama et al. Nat Commun. 2016 Bo Huang spGFP Split superpositive...(Alice Ting Lab 2020) Split-horseradish peroxidase (Alice Ting Lab 2016)  Split-Cas9 for inducible genome...to fuse a protein of interest to each part of a split fluorescent protein (FP) and measure the signal ...
  2. Split-BioID: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    May 1, 2018, 1:57 p.m.
    ...outside the native cell context. The Split-BioID method Enter Split-BioID, a spatiotemporally controllable...within a ~10 nm radius of the bait. In Split-BioID, BirA* is first split into two non-functional fragments....labeled. Figure 1: Using Split-BioID to Identify Protein Protein Interactions. Split-BioID is a protein complementation...controls using Split-BioID-GFP and BioID run on six unrelated proteins. One caveat of Split-BioID is that...localization of the fusion protein. Advantages of Split-BioID Split-BioID’s key advantage over other PPI methods...Important considerations for Split-BioID It’s important to remember that with Split-BioID, and BioID, any protein...version of Split-BioID. BirA* is fragmented at a different site than in Schopp et al. Find these Split-BioID...
  3. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    Sept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... brief overviews of three split vector strategies plus one additional split vector strategy for increasing... homology directed repairs (HDR). Split AAV vector approaches Split vector approaches increase the size...overlapping split vector had an improvement in muscle physiological performance.  2. Trans-splicing Overview...followed by a splice site donor. The AAV encoding part B of the transgene contains a splice site acceptor...optimization of the exon-splitting site sequence can enhance the rate of trans-splicing (Lai et al., 2005)....either the overlapping or the trans-splicing mechanism. The splice site donor and acceptor sequences and...sequence, upstream of the 5’ splice donor and downstream of the 3’ splice acceptor of the transgene to...
  4. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...One way to reconstitute a split protein like Cas9 is to use split inteins. Split inteins are a pair of naturally...challenge that the field has overcome with split AAVs. In general split AAVs break a large transgene in two ..., mediates protein trans-splicing, similar to an intron in pre-mRNA splicing. In 2016, Fine et al developed...Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 (SaCas9, 1053 amino acids) displayed cleavage activity in mammalian cells. SaCas9 produced...sensitive method, they found that SaCas9 did not display higher levels of off-target activity than SpCas9...length, allowing them to be packaged in AAV.   Split AAV approaches  While finding smaller Cas9 orthologs...developed a proof-of-concept split intein SpCas9 which had modest editing rates in HEK-293T cells when compared...
  5. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
    ... Magnet proteins from N. crassa Split Cas9, Split Cas9 nickase, Split dCas9 Genome editing by NHEJ and... optogenetic technique can be employed in other split systems where light is required to reconstitute ...Photoactivatable genome modifications by NHEJ and HDR using split systems Later in 2015, the Sato lab unveiled a photoactivatable...). This system is unique in that it utilizes a “split” nuclease - the authors fragmented Cas9 into N-terminal... halves, rendering the Cas9 non-functional when split but regaining functionality when the halves are ... possible to swap out the Cas9 domains in their split fusions and generate a photoactivatable nickase ...Since these initial studies published in 2015, more split systems have been developed for use with CRISPR-...
  6. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    March 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...fused to a fast-splicing split intein and co-infected into the cell. Intein splitting removes any exogenous...native peptide bond at the split site. Figure 1: The base editor is split into two plasmids and co-transfected...the therapeutic potential for the split base editors. Find the split base editors at Addgene. Levy et ...deposit please sign up here.        AAV delivery of split base editors Article contributed by Jennifer Tsang...overcome this problem, David Liu’s lab developed split cytosine and adenine base editors that can be reconstituted...two viruses would lower editing efficiency, the split editors transduced at levels similar to that of ...optogenetics. Cre activity is controlled by red light by splitting Cre and fusing each half with PhyB or PIF6, phytochrome-like...
  7. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    June 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...to be screened for with in vitro display methods such as phage display (Bradbury et al., 2011). In vitro...hybridomas, but phage display is a popular way to generate scFvs.  For phage display, a pooled library of... Figure 2: Phage display starts with a pooled library of scFvs that are displayed on the coats of bacteriophages... of scFvs is displayed on the coats of bacteriophages, a process which links genotype and phenotype. Incubating... Incubating the phage display library with plate-bound antigen helps select for high affinity scFvs. Bound.... Created with Biorender.com.   Some phage display libraries screen antibody genes from B cells of... entirely synthetic VL and VH sequences. Phage display also allows for screening scFv generated from the...
  8. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...constitutive splicing studies and has been optimized for high efficiency splicing. If intron splicing does not..., called CRISPR-Display, that may help answer this difficult question. CRISPR-Display uses the dCas9 enzyme... and maybe we can write a blog post about it! Split Cas9 system The Cas9 protein is composed of an n-terminal...bi-lobed architecture of Cas9 to engineer a series of "split" cas9 molecules that cannot function in isolation...form a fully functional Cas9 upon dimerization. Splitting wild-type Cas9 into n-terminal (Cas9(N)-2xNLS)...molecule can cleave the target DNA. The inducible split cas9 approach can also be used for activation of...recently used computational protein design, phage display and high throughput binding assays, to engineer...
  9. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...into C. elegans? By using a split FP approach. Split-wrmScarlet is a new split red FP that is three times...colleagues at Calico Life Sciences. Like many split FPs, split-wrmScarlet is composed of two FP fragments...with Fibronectin intrabodies generated with mRNA display (FingRs), Xue Han’s lab has developed AAV vectors...2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101330 Split-wrmScarlet, a fluorescent proteins system for Caenorhabditis...times brighter in worms than split-sfCherry3. It was created by Maria Ingaramo, Jerome Goudeau, Cynthia ...products have distinct localizations. Figure 2: Split-wrmScarlet labeling proteins with different subcellular...
  10. Hot Plasmids Spring 2024

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    May 23, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Illustration of split fluorophore assay to test reconstitution via mRNA trans-splicing. A cis-splicing vector ...delivery using reconstitution via mRNA trans-splicing. By splitting a large gene into smaller fragments, delivering... vector 2; BD, binding domain; SDS, splice donor site; SAS, splice acceptor site; pA, polyadenylation ...delivering them by individual AAVs, and then splicing their mRNAs, the functional gene product is reconstituted...here! Riedmayr, L.M., et al. (2023). mRNA trans-splicing dual AAV vectors for (epi)genome editing and gene...
  11. No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins

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    June 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Ribosome display The Seeger lab starts with a “pre-enrichment” selection step using ribosome display because...size (up to 1012 members) in comparison to other display systems using phage and yeast (109-1010 members...ribosome, and mRNA. During the screening process, displayed sybodies that bind to the biotinylated target ...can be recovered for the subsequent steps. Phage display mRNA from the enriched pool of sybody candidates...produce a phage library consisting of phages that display the candidate sybodies in their coat protein to...protocol describes going through two rounds of phage display to increase the enrichment of target-specific sybodies...ELISA) The enriched sybody pools from the phage display screens are subcloned (using FX cloning) into the...
  12. Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management

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    Dec. 5, 2017, 1:52 p.m.
    ...“I’ll be there in a few minutes, I just need to split some cells.” Inevitably, this task would take longer...prioritizing. In my anecdote above, I prioritized splitting cells over meeting up with friends, but didn’t...terms of the utility of your tasks. In my cell splitting anecdote, I probably could have grabbed some food... food with friends and come back to the lab to split my cells later. Eating with friends has a somewhat...all the utility (fun) of eating with friends by splitting my cells first. Time management through planning... I probably wouldn’t have fallen into my cell splitting issue at all if I’d planned appropriately. Back...tissue culture hood may have prevented me from splitting cells until late in the day anway. There are a...
  13. Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping

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    Dec. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
    ...miniturbo Split-BioID: A conditional proteomics approach to monitor protein-protein interactions Split-BioID... assemble when in close proximity. Split-BioID consists of a split BirA* molecule that can reassemble ...circumvent these issues, the Ting lab utilized yeast display-based directed evolution to generate two mutants...complex of interest. For more information, read the Split-BioID blog post.  RaPID: RNA-protein interaction...(LPETG). In EXCELL, the mgSrtA variant can be displayed on the surface of a cell of interest, where it...PMCID: PMC3916822. Schopp, Isabel Myriam, et al. "Split-BioID a conditional proteomics approach to monitor...
  14. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    Aug. 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...NEBridge SplitSet If you want to design an overhang set specific to your DNA sequence, SplitSet is the .... Once you input a sequence, SplitSet finds optimal fusion sites to split it into multiple fragments. ...minimum number of fragments, or defined split regions. SplitSet will then return the highest-fidelity overhang...Fidelity Viewer™; NEBridge GetSet™; and NEBridge SplitSet™. With these tools, NEB successfully performed...
  15. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers

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    Jan. 9, 2020, 1:45 p.m.
    ...score, and type of article. Now, search results display a bar graph of the number of papers with your search...papers with your key term published each year is displayed with your search results and can be used to filter...other manuscripts that heavily cite the paper are displayed. You can also limit searches to particular authors...entry, the number of citations that paper has is displayed at the top of the page, as well as the number ...background, methods, or results section is also displayed. Saving papers Papers can be saved to a Semantic...shared online, or its altmetric score, is also displayed in your feed. By clicking on a paper in your feed...
  16. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    July 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...on this tool by splitting cGAL4 in two and binding each half to a gp41-1-N-intein. Split inteins are protein...PMC5693259.  Wang, Han, et al. "Split cGAL, an intersectional strategy using a split intein for refined spatiotemporal...knock-down proteins of interest.  Plasmids for cGAL and split cGAL systems The Sternberg lab in 2016 created cGAL...peptides together (Wang et al., 2018).” With the split system, only cells that have both halves of cGAL...
  17. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    July 12, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ...contaminants. Set up a routine to split cells Don’t be lazy about splitting cells, instead try to form a routine..., for example, split cells on a Monday diluting them 1:10, you should be able to split on the following...Thursday, or, at the latest on Friday. It’s best to split cells before the plates are more than 80-85% confluent...metabolism that is toxic to the cells), and need to be split very soon. There is power in numbers! When starting...
  18. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    Oct. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...reporters altogether; In the split-luciferase system, intein-mediated splicing reconstitutes functional luciferase... luciferase protein interact and enable intein splicing (5). Screening with yeast two hybrid systems While... this requirement for transmembrane proteins, a split ubiquitin system has been devised (8). References...Kaihara, A., Sato, M., Tachihara, K., Umezawa, Y.l. Split luciferase as an optical probe for detecting protein-protein...interactions in mammalian cells based on protein splicing. Anal Chem. 2001; 73:2516-2521. Pubmed PMID: 11403293...
  19. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    May 21, 2019, 12:10 p.m.
    ...reporter, ZipGFP, which utilized the self-assembling split GFP (GFP1-10 and GFP11) to increase fluorescence... this they modified a different self-assembling split GFP (GFP1-9 and GFP10-11) by flipping a single β-strand...11 β-strands and one central ɑ-helix that can be split into 3 parts: (1) β-strands 1-9 (β1-9) and the one...superfolder Cherry (sfCherry). Like FlipGFP, sfCherry was split into  β1-9 and β10-11, where β10-11 was forced into...-protein interaction sensor based on tripartite split-GFP association." Scientific reports 3 (2013): 2854...
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