...plasmids available from Addgene. The popular CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system has been modified for use ...use in AAV, or containing Staphylococcus aureus (SaCas9) . AAV is also a promising method for gene therapy...

...and differentiation. Schematic of Ras signaling cascade that starts at the plasma membrane. Cancer Impact...

... 21179091), as well as (v) distinct selection cassettes on pTAL7a and pTAL7b for enrichment of double-...

...transgenic mice. Contains a loxP-flanked cassette pBTG (pBigT-IRES-GFP) - pBigT modified...

... of the final viral vector preparation. In some cases, in vivo testing of these viral preparations was...

...expression of GFP and/or mCherry, with neomycin cassette Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Xenopus, and C. elegans...

...either Neo or Hygro resistance markers with CRISPR/Cas vectors targeting their genes of interest to generate...CRISPR-Cas9-based tool for targeting CpG methylation by fusing catalytically inactive Cas9 (dCas9) with...pDGE Dicot Genome Editing Kit contains Cas9, Cas9 nickase, and Cas9 activator expressing plasmids that can...high-throughput CRISPR/Cas9 gene modification in Caenorhabditis elegans CRISPR/Cas9 technology has revolutionized...reported on a novel Cas9-based activator developed by the Church lab, termed “dCas9-VPR”, which facilitates...creating a new dCas9-VPR expression plasmid that uses the piggybac transposase to integrate dCas9-VPR into ... is genomic integration of dCas9-VPR and controlled expression of the dCas9-VPR transgene by doxycycline...

...promoters and into backbones with different selection cassettes). Although gateway cloning is a simple and efficient...

... potential applications. Polstein LR & Gersbach CA, Nat Chem Biol 2015 Mar;11(3):198-200. SunTag system...fully functional Cas9 upon dimerization. Splitting wild-type Cas9 into n-terminal (Cas9(N)-2xNLS) and c-terminal...specific genes using dCas9-VP64 activator fragments (dCas9(C)-FKBP-2xNLS-VP64 and dCas9(N)-FRB-NES). This...gene activation when fused to dCas9. In the dCas9-SunTag-VP64 system, dCas9 is fused to a scaffold containing...domains onto dCas9 to generate a dCas9-VP64-p65-Rta fusion protein (referred to as dCas9-VPR) had a synergistic... can write a blog post about it! Split Cas9 system The Cas9 protein is composed of an n-terminal DNA... the bi-lobed architecture of Cas9 to engineer a series of "split" cas9 molecules that cannot function...

... gRNA, Cas9 binds the target site, but does not cut either strand of DNA. Traditional Cas9 regulators...capability, and this nuclease-null or “dead” Cas9 (dCas9) variant can then be fused to effector domains...importantly, most Cas9 orthologs are less well characterized than the conventionally used SpCas9 (derived from...to exhibit more limited activity than SpCas9 (2). In many cases this is due both to lower relative nuclease... a potent Cas9-based transcriptional regulator without making any functional changes to Cas9. For instance...repression with nuclease-competent Cas9. When complexed with a truncated gRNA, Cas9 is still able to bind DNA ...on rare occasions truncated gRNAs (≤15nt) have been found to retain some ability to induce Cas9 to make...

... can occur due to prolonged Cas9 expression     The requirement for Cas9 transcription and translation...consisting of the Cas9 protein in complex with a targeting gRNA, to your cells of interest. Cas9 RNPs are capable...pathways. This makes Cas9 RNPs useful for CRISPR applications where limited expression of Cas9 is required and...long-term expression of Cas9, such as visualizing genomic loci using fluorophore tagged dCas9 may require the ...express and purify His-tagged Cas9 from E. coli using a plasmid such as pET-28b-Cas9-His from Alex Schier’s ... of Cas9-gRNA RNPs by specific cell types (Rouet et al. 2018). This was accomplished using a Cas9 mutant...for experiments where stable Cas9 expression is required, such as when a Cas9 fusion to a fluorescent protein...

...The popular CRISPR base editing technique uses dCas9/Cas9 nickase fused to a cytidine deaminase for targeted..., a base editor containing high fidelity Cas9 variant HF-Cas9. They subsequently tested the original BE3...Plasmid ID Plasmid Name Cas9 Variant Speacial Features 85169  pJL-SaBE3  SaCas9 (NNGRRT)    85170  pJL-SaKKH-BE3... pJL-SaKKH-BE3  SaCas9 (NNGRRT)    85171  pBK-VQR-BE3  VQR-Cas9 (NGA)  Lower off-target activity than...-BE3  EQR-Cas9 (NGAG)  Lower off-target activity than BE3  85173  pBK-VRER-BE3  VRER-Cas9 (NGCG)   ...85174  pBK-YE1-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85175  pBK-EE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window...85176  pBK-YE2-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85177  pBK-YEE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Lower on-target...

...cells stably expressing Cas9 via transduction with Cas9 lentiviral vector, lentiCas9-Blast (52962-LV, Figure... Figure 1: Cas9 expression in A549 cells transduced with lentiCas9-blast. Anti-Cas9 Western blotting... Cas9 delivery Overview: Before any editing can begin we need our A549 cells to express Cas9. In these...with too many Cas9 integrations per cell, and my stable cell pool had wildly variable Cas9 expression (... variable Cas9-expression was across the different cells (Figure 3).   Figure 2: Cas9 expression...to assay Cas9 activity in my stable A549 cell pools. Using this virus, it’s expected that Cas9 activity...gene. So, cells with no Cas9 should appear green and cells with functional Cas9 should appear less green...

...Addgene!) pX330-U6-Chimeric_BB-CBh-hSpCas9 - The S. pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) has been widely popular in genome... with lentiCas9-Blast or with cell lines already expressing Cas9. Find lentiGuide-Puro. pSpCas9n(BB)-2A-GFP... Similar to pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX458), pSpCas9n(BB)-2A-GFP (PX461) expresses both a Cas9 protein and...Find pMD2.G. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP (PX458) - This plasmid from the Zhang lab expresses Cas9 from Streptococcus... sequence (pSpCas9(BB)). The 2A-GFP allows for screening of transfected cells. Find pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP...chimeric guide RNA. Find pX330-U6-Chimeric_BB-CBh-hSpCas9. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) V2.0 - This plasmid from... in the puromycin cassette that makes it less efficient in some cell lines. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459...

...or apoptosis with Cas9/gRNA expression. A pooled analysis found no evidence of Cas9 cleavage at predicted...expression of Cas9/gRNAs, which could result in higher rates of off-target cleavage. In both cases, translating...were located near the Cas9 cut site, leading Wang et al. to conclude that some Cas9-derived indels may not...CRISPR/Cas9 escape occurs in an animal model. If these escape mutations are frequent, the dCas9-mediated...strategies for CRISPR-HIV therapeutics - one using dCas9-SAM to activate HIV-1 transcription and destroy ...destroy infected cells, the other using wild-type Cas9 to remove the HIV-1 genome from infected cells. Read ...realistic with the advent of CRISPR. Using CRISPR/Cas9 SAM to "shock and kill" To “shock and kill” the...

... expressed from lentiCas9-Blast. Purpose of LentiCas9-blast LentiCas9-blast is a Cas9 expression vector...express Cas9 and a gRNA from the same plasmid. LentiCas9-blast virus can be used to generate Cas9-expressing...While various Cas9 mutants have been engineered to perform unique editing tasks, classic Cas9 nuclease, which...Secondly, you can use a LentiCas9-Blast viral prep to create a single stable Cas9-expressing cell line and...gRNAs in a monoclonal Cas9 background because you’ll have more consistent levels of Cas9 expression between...this plasmid Cas9 expression is typically cytotoxic, which makes generation of high titer Cas9 lentiviruses...growth rate variability when using lentiCas9-blast to generate Cas9-expressing cells. To ensure that this...

...Postdoctoral Researcher in Jacob Corn’s lab. CRISPR-Cas9 (Cas9) is an RNA-guided nuclease that targets and cuts...replacement by HDR. Understanding Cas9 biophysics enhances HDR We first measured Cas9 dissociation rates and discovered...interaction with the Cas9-DNA duplex. Image from Richardson et al., 2016.   dCas9 enables sequence replacement...normally accompanies Cas9 cutting. We still don’t know the mechanism underlying dCas9 editing, but it could... cuts genomic DNA. The interplay between Cas9 (which causes the breaks) and host cell DNA repair factors...factors (which repair those breaks) makes Cas9 extremely effective as a genome editing reagent. This interplay... and thus, causes two types of editing outcomes: Cas9 breaks repaired by the non-homologous end-joining...

...catalytically inactive form of Cas9 known as dCas9 (Jinek et al., 2012). Like Cas9, dCas9 can bind to a specific...targeting gRNA. But dCas9 does not cleave the DNA. Much of the research using dCas9 has focused on transcriptional...mammalian cells by expressing dCas9 with an N-terminal 3xFLAG tag (3xFLAG-dCas9) and a gRNA targeting their...editing, numerous discoveries have been made using the Cas9 nuclease in the absence of genomic alterations. ...activators (Qi et al., 2013). However, the fusion of dCas9 with a protein tag allows for the isolation of a...genomic region using the CRISPR system, consisting of dCas9 and targeting gRNA, to identify molecular interactions...3xFLAG tag, allowed these researchers to isolate dCas9 with the bound genomic locus, which they then confirmed...

... un-tagged versions of SpCas9 and further variants replace SpCas9 with SpCas9n (nickase), which nicks ... express both SpCas9 and your gRNA in a variety of mammalian cell types. Purpose  SpCas9 This plasmid ...tools came out including the single base editors, Casilio, CombiGEM, and a variety of pooled libraries. Not... as is obvious from our most requested plasmid, SpCas9 is still going strong as the basis for many genome...further ado, the most request plasmid in 2016 was... pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) V2.0       Similar to last...2016 is an expression vector for CRISPR nuclease, SpCas9 from the Zhang Lab. It's name, though a little ...plasmid expresses Streptococcus pyogenes (Sp) Cas9 from a Cbh promoter. Cbh is a modified version of CAG promoter...

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