| Transfection and Activation of CofActor, a Light and Stress Gated Optogenetic Tool, in Primary Hippocampal Neuron Cultures
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2021-04-20
[Abstract] Proteins involved in neurodegeneration can be coupled with optogenetic reagents to create rapid and sensitive reporters to provide insight into the biochemical processes that mediate the progression of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). We have recently developed a novel optically-responsive tool (the ‘CofActor’ system) that couples cofilin and actin (key players in early stage cytoskeletal abnormalities associated with neurodegenerative disorders) with light-gated optogenetic proteins to provide spatial and temporal resolution of oxidative and energetic stress-dependent biochemical events. In contrast to currently available small-molecule based biosensors for monitoring changes in the redox environment of the cell, CofActor is a ...
[摘要] [摘要]参与神经变性蛋白质可具有耦合光遗传学试剂来创建快速且灵敏的记者到provid Ë洞察介导的神经变性疾病，包括进展的生化过程阿尔茨海默氏病（AD）。我们最近开发了一种新型光学-响应工具（“辅”系统）夫妇COF伊林和行动中使用（与神经退行性疾病相关的早期阶段，细胞骨架异常关键球员）光门控光遗传学 蛋白质提供时空分辨率的氧化和高能应激依赖的生化事件。与目前可用的基于小分子的生物传感器来监测细胞氧化还原环境的变化相比，CofActor是一种光激活的，遗传编码的氧化还原传感器，可以通过精确的空间和时间控制来激活。在这里，我们描述了从新生小鼠制备的解离海马神经元培养物中CofActor系统的表达和激活的协议。将培养物转染用大号ipofectamine上的第五天体外（DIV5），然后暴露于细胞应激诱导刺激，导致的肌动蛋白的形成丝切蛋白可使用活细胞成像技术可以观察到杆。本文所述的方案可用于研究暴露于神经退行性刺激（例如毒性Aβ42低聚物）的活神经元中与压力相关的细胞骨架失调。此外，从AD的转基因小鼠模型和/或与KO相关的小鼠KO小鼠分离的神经元中传感器的表达可以促进我们对与神经变性相关的早期细胞骨架功能障碍的分子基础的理解。
[背景]神经变性疾病的生化标志（神经原纤维，团块和缠结，提高活性氧物质（ROS） ...
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| Rapid Generation of Human Neuronal Cell Models Enabling Inducible Expression of Proteins-of-interest for Functional Studies
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2020-05-05
[Abstract] CRISPR-Cas9 technology has transformed the ability to edit genomic sequences and control gene expression with unprecedented ease and scale. However, precise genomic insertions of coding sequences using this technology remain time-consuming and inefficient because they require introducing adjacent single-strand cuts through Cas9 nickase action and invoking the host-encoded homology-directed repair program through the concomitant introduction of large repair templates. Here, we present a system for the rapid study of any protein-of-interest in two neuronal cell models following its inducible expression from the human AAVS1 safe harbor locus. With lox-flanked foundation cassettes in the AAVS1 site and a tailor-made plasmid for accepting coding sequences-of-interest in ...
[摘要] [摘要] CRISPR-Cas9技术以前所未有的简便性和规模改变了编辑基因组序列和控制基因表达的能力。但是，由于需要引入相邻的单链，因此使用该技术进行精确的基因组编码插入仍然很耗时且效率低下。通过减少Cas9切口酶的作用并通过同时引入大型修复模板来调用宿主编码的同源性指导的修复程序。在此，我们提出了一种系统，用于在其诱导后的两个神经元细胞模型中快速研究任何目的蛋白该系统可从人类AAVS1 安全港基因座表达，在AAVS1 位点具有lox侧翼的基础盒和定制的质粒以接受感兴趣的编码序列，该系统使研究人员能够为诱导型产生自己的神经元细胞模型任何编码表达序列不到一个月的时间。由于可用性Preinserted 增强型绿色的Fluo 可以与目标蛋白质融合的最新蛋白质（EGFP）编码序列，该系统可帮助功能研究通过活细胞显微镜以及利用非常有效的可用性进行的相互作用组分析来跟踪目标蛋白质EGFP捕获矩阵。
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