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  1. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    ...mutagenesis of Plasmids. A) Generation of mutagenized plasmids. PCR primers (green) amplify the plasmid template... the template should be resistant to Cas9 cleavage. If a plasmid contains the template, site-directed ...critical for Cas9 cleavage), thereby rendering the resulting construct resistant to Cas9 induced cleavage...with the nuclease-resistant nicked plasmid (the PCR product). Plasmids are isolated from the resulting colonies...the final circular plasmid product pictured here. B) Screening of recovered plasmids for the mutation of...Smaller plasmids (~3 kb) are generally more efficiently amplified than larger constructs, but plasmids as ...DpnI) to eliminate the parent plasmid from the PCR products, the plasmid template should be isolated from...
  2. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    ... found led them back towards Cas9 fused base editors (nCas9-BE), as Cas9 is mechanistically more favored...also exhibited reduced Cas9-dependent off-target editing and do not cause higher Cas9-independent off-target...leading the edge of the precision gene editing. CRISPR-Cas9, the key component to enable efficient base editing...organisms and has previously been used for multiplex Cas9-nuclease editing. Typically, a single array encoding...tRNA-gRNA arrays, which is scalable and efficient in plasmid and viral vectors. In applications when repetitive...manual and online design examples of using Addgene plasmids hCtRNA_FT (#186715) and hCtRNA_VT (#186716).   ...would independently generate multiple gRNAs for nCas9-BE, or any other kinds of CRISPR tools, without ...
  3. Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening

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    ...pool of lentiviral plasmids. Multiple rounds of digestion and ligation result in plasmid libraries containing...and ligation steps to build barcoded lentiviral plasmids containing one or more gRNAs. As each ligation...containing combinations of different gRNAs in each plasmid. Each gRNA combination can be tracked and quantitatively...activity and minimize off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9." Nature biotechnology (2016). PubMed PMID: 26780180...transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex." Nature (2014). PubMed PMID: 25494202. ...PMC4559080. 8. Shalem, Ophir, et al. "Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screening in human cells." Science 343.6166..."Genetic screens in human cells using the CRISPR-Cas9 system." Science 343.6166 (2014): 80-84. PubMed ...
  4. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    .... pyogenes Cas9 in the ABE complex with PAM-variant Cas9 proteins: the S. pyogenes NG-Cas9 (PAM: NG) to...constructs using a catalytically “dead” S. pyogenes Cas9 (dC9-ABE8.x-m/d). The dC9-ABE8.x-m/d constructs ...frequency more than 90% compared to ABE7.10. Choosing Cas9 proteins to increase the targeting scope of adenine... base editors The most commonly used S. pyogenes Cas9 requires the target site in the genomic DNA to contain... to create NG-ABE8.xm/d and the S. aureus Cas9 (PAM: NNGRRT) to create Sa-ABE8.x-m/d. With these variants...frequency over ABE7.10. The ability to use non-standard Cas9 in the ABE8 complexes enables a broader targeting...effects. ABEs can be introduced into cells as a plasmid or as mRNA constructs. In primary human cells mRNA...
  5. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...of a homologous donor (e.g., sister chromatid, plasmid, etc.), and consists of three pathways: classical...Homology directed repair and genome engineering CRISPR-Cas9 has revolutionized the genome engineering world ...the gRNA/PAM site remains intact. In other words, Cas9 will keep cutting and repairing your target DNA ...disrupted in the donor. Choosing a type of donor: plasmid, oligo, double or single stranded? The size of ...longer than 200 bases can be difficult, thus dsDNA plasmids are generally preferred for large insertions such...between 500-1000 bps. HDR efficiency with circular plasmid templates is generally low; to increase the frequency...edits, researchers have designed self-cleaving plasmids that liberate the targeting region from the vector...
  6. Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond

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    ...surprise then that stability of the RNA used in CRISPR-Cas9 experiments – the “gRNA” – suffers from the same...still effectively serving their function of guiding Cas9 to generate a targeted break. These advances in ...modifications The recognition sequence for CRISPR-Cas9 targeting is led by a ~20 bp gRNA which is part ...trans-activating crRNA (tracrRNA) which interacts with the Cas9 protein. These RNA molecules are vulnerable to attack...partially DNA gRNA is surprisingly well-tolerated by the Cas9 protein and can increase on-target efficiency. In...modifications listed above were developed before CRISPR-Cas9, for use in applications like siRNA and antisense...On-off switches for gRNAs A major drawback of CRISPR-Cas9 technology is that most expression systems are constantly...
  7. Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP

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    ...would be compatible with CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. Although CRISPR/Cas9 is all the rage, they had another... method and its potential applications to CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing.   Protein-only transduction? Niels...expression. Image courtesy of Diego D'Astolfo. CRISPR/Cas9: a potential application of iTOP Having tested iTOP...expression has a long-lasting effect, such as Cre- or Cas9-mediated recombination. Both primary hESCs and immortalized...cells treated with iTOP efficiently took up both Cas9 protein and a gRNA (yes, iTOP can also be used for... indicating that iTOP may be valuable for CRISPR/Cas9 stem cell editing. The small molecule NSDB... elements of iTOP. iTOP can be used to transduce Cas9 and a gRNA, which subsequently enter the nucleus...
  8. Behind-the-scenes of the Isolation of the Thermostable IgnaviCas9 From a Yellowstone Hot Spring

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    ...indicates that like GeoCas9 and ThermoCas9, IgnaviCas9 is a type II-C Cas9. IgnaviCas9 is most similar to...thermostable Cas9 enzymes have previously been characterized: GeoCas9 from the Doudna lab and ThermoCas9 from ...Find IgnaviCas9 here! What can you do with IgnaviCas9? Why would a thermostable Cas9 be useful? It can enable...launched in the Quake Lab. Identifying IgnaviCas9, a hyperthermostable Cas9 This year it was wonderful to learn... Ignavibacteriae phylum genome. IgnaviCas9 is a hyperthermostable Cas9 CRISPR nuclease that is active ... our CRISPR blog posts Read about GeoCas9, another thermostable Cas9 Resources on Addgene.org Read our... to a type II-C Cas9 from Parvibaculum lavamentivorans, whose optimal growth temperature is 30°C. Find...
  9. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    .... Find CRISPR plasmids at Addgene! Knock-in: Introducing tags or stop signals Once Cas9 generates double-strand...powerful tools. CRISPRi uses a nuclease-dead Cas9 protein (dCas9) and a sgRNA to temporarily block the transcription...protein-coding genes thanks to systems like CRISPR/Cas9 that allow them to manipulate full genes and observe...system that can be tweaked to target ncRNA. CRISPR/Cas9 techniques and targeting methods Knock-out: Targeting...Targeting short vs. long ncRNAs The CRISPR/Cas9 system is often used to knock-out, or permanently disable... Figure 1: A schematic illustration of CRISPR/Cas9-based approaches to study ncRNAs. (A) Transcription...CRISPR systems for targeting ncRNAs While CRISPR/Cas9 has proven to be an extremely useful system for ...
  10. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ...off-target editing based on Cas9 off-target activity.  Find CRISPR base editing plasmids at Addgene Improving..., a base editor containing high fidelity Cas9 variant HF-Cas9 (Rees et al., 2017). HF-BE3 showed 37-fold...other methods. In a head-to-head comparison with Cas9, Cas9 modified 9/12 known off-targets with a 14% indel...individual Cas9. They also mutagenized the cytidine deaminase portion of the base editor to create SpCas9 base...et al., 2020 SpRY Cas9, available fused to ABEmax(7.10) or to BE4max   Evolved SpCas9 with NRN or NYN PAM... 1.1%. These numbers are a vast improvement over Cas9-mediated HDR for the loci tested, where average ...using a cytidine deaminase from sea lamprey fused to Cas9 nickase (Nishida et al., 2016). Target-AID acts ...
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