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...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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...great about CASANOVA? It works with the S. pyogenes Cas9, dCas9-effector fusions, and xCas9, and requires... CRISPR-Cas9 by CASANOVA Article contributed by Cary Valley  Listen to the anti-CRISPR podcast segment...potent Acr-LOV fusion protein inhibitor CASANOVA for “CRISPR-Cas9 activity switching via a novel optogenetic...AcrIIA4.” CASANOVA responds to blue light quickly. Within minutes of inactivating the CASANOVA complex,...CRISPR systems including the popular S. pyogenes Cas9 (Rauch et al., 2017, Hynes et al., 2017). However..., they have developed a system to control CRISPR-Cas9 activity using blue light (Bubeck et al., 2018)...., inhibiting function of Acr. This allows CRISPR-Cas9 to function on its target.  They name their most...

... AAV delivery of Nme2Cas9 with gRNA cassette Erik Sontheimer’s lab identified a Cas9 protein from Neisseria...Covalent tethering of DNA template to Cas9 SECURE base editors Nme2Cas9 CRISPR interference in Candida albicans...paper in Communications Biology Find the Cas9-PCV and PCV-Cas9 plasmids Selective curbing of unwanted ...After testing dCas9 fusions with transcriptional repressors, they found that fusing dCas9 to an Mxi1 repressor...gene. Read the paper in mSphere Find the dCas9 and dCas9-Mxi1 plasmids If you have a new CRISPR tool...library Covalent tethering of DNA repair template to Cas9 Homology-directed repair (HDR) can be used to make...oligodeoxynucleotide HDR template covalently attached to the Cas9-gRNA RNP complex via the fused HUH endonuclease ...

...range of CRISPRCas9 by engineering SpCas9 Article contributed by Shreya Vedantam CRISPR/Cas9 is widely...sequence targeted by the Cas9 nuclease. The Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) requires an NGG PAM to...recognize the target. Osamu Nureki’s lab engineered SpCas9 (SpCas9-NG) with relaxed preferences for the third ...NGG. In addition to the engineered SpCas9, they also fused the SpCas9-NG with the activation-induced cytidine...  The Kanemaki lab previously developed a CRISPR/Cas9 based method to tag endogenous proteins in HCT116...widely used genome editing tool. However, Cas9’s endonuclease activity can be limited by the need for a specific...cells. The increased versatility of the engineered SpCas9-NG and its variants can be used to engineer specific...

...different Cas12a inhibitors. Some of these anti-Cas12a proteins have broad inhibitory effects on Cas12a orthologs... research.     CRISPR-Cas12b for human genome editing The best studied Cas12b nuclease from Alicyclobacillus...The Feng Zhang lab identified a Cas12b from Bacillus hisashii, BhCas12b that is functional at 37 °C but...Communications Find the Cas12b plasmids  Plant base editing with a Cas9-adenosine deaminase fusion... - this time using the Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 (SaCas9). This AAV-based genome editing system is regulated...Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris (AacCas12b) exhibits optimal DNA cleavage at 48 °C, a temperature incompatible...tRNA adenosine deaminase that is fused to a nicking Cas9. This base editor can be used for A•T to G•C edits...

...combining specific sgRNAs with Cas9 or Cas9 derivatives. Unmodified Cas9 causes double stranded DNA breaks... loss of function while nuclease-deactivated Cas9 (dCas9) can be tethered to a repressor (CRISPRi) or ...an inactive RNA-guided DNA binding protein (dCas9). dCas9 is then tethered to a repressive domain, such... issues. CRISPRi libraries utilize an engineered Cas9, which contains multiple point mutations in the ...library In addition to inhibiting gene expression, dCas9 can also be used for transcriptional activation....developed to recruit transcriptional machinery to dCas9 and its RNA directed binding site. These methods... fusion of an activation domain such as VP16 to dCas9 or the recruitment of multiple copies of VP16 termed...

...nicking Cas9. A guide directs Cas9 to a site of interest, where it nicks its target DNA (left). Cas9 dissociates...enhance nCas9 (enCas9) EvolvR with a targeted mutagenesis rate ~9-fold higher than the original nCas9, while...error prone PolI3M that’s fused to a nicking Cas9 (nCas9). Similar to mutagenesis with error prone PCR...used to direct the PolI3M-nCas9 complex to a DNA site of interest, which nCas9 nicks and then dissociates...amino acid changes were introduced to nCas9. These changes promote nCas9’s dissociation from DNA after nicking... a user-defined genomic region. EvolvR, a CRISPR-Cas9 based targeted mutagenesis method developed by the...diversification by targeting a site of interest with dCas9 fused to the Activation Induced Cytidine Deaminase...

...releasing Cas9. Nanoblades can also deliver Cas9 variants, such as a transcriptional activator dCas9-VPR, ...centrifugation. Gag-Cas9 fusion protein The MLV Gag protein fused to a Flag-tagged SpCas9 is incorporated ...Nanoblades by association with the the Cas9 portion of the Gag-Cas9 fusion protein. A single Nanoblade particle...along with the gRNA and Cas9. An “all-in-one” Nanoblades which carries a gRNA, Cas9, and a HDR donor template... leukemia virus (MLV)-like particles loaded with Cas9-gRNA ribonucleoproteins (RNPs). According to the...generation. Key components of Nanoblades Nanoblades are a Cas9 RNP delivery vehicle that’s based on mouse leukemia...just like the unmodified MLV Gag protein. After Gag-Cas9 is incorporated, the MLV protease, supplied as part...

... CRISPR tools for your application: Wildtype Cas9 or Cas9 nickase are appropriate for generating knockouts...in vivo viral delivery. Cas9 mRNA and gRNA Plasmids containing gRNA and Cas9 are used in in vitro transcription...generating transgenic embryos. Cas9-gRNA ribonucleoprotein complexes Purified Cas9 protein and in vitro transcribed... mutations and tags, while a catalytically dead dCas9 can be used in conjunction with activator or repressor...need to deliver. Minimally, one or more sgRNAs and Cas9 are required for any application. If you want to...Application Mammalian expression vector Promoter driving Cas9 expression can be constitutive or inducible. U6 ...stable cell lines. Transient or stable expression of Cas9 and/or gRNA in a mammalian cell line that can be...

...prime editor consists of a Cas9 nickase fused to a reverse transcriptase. The Cas9 nickase is guided to the... that most Cas9-induced DSBs are repaired by non-homologous end joining. As a result, Cas9 treatment causes...ways. In some cases, however, combining an evolved RT domain from PE6a-d with an evolved Cas9 domain from... ~ ~ ✓ ✓ ✓ R221K N394K Cas9 mutations Improve Cas9 nuclease activity ~ ~ ~ ~ ...homology to the genomic DNA locus. After nicking by Cas9, the homologous pegRNA sequence hybridizes to the...-MLV) reverse transcriptase to the C-terminus of Cas9 H840A nickase (PE1). But innovations by the Liu ... make a specific edit defined by the pegRNA. In cases when bystander editing is unacceptable, prime editors...

...-for-one solution: TurboCas!TurboCas provides the genomic targeting power of dCas9 with the dynamic labeling... While dCas9 has been used in combination with proximity labeling enzymes before, such as CasID, TurboCas...background labeling. By fusing miniTurboID with dCas9 to create TurboCas, the Shilatifard Lab created a very quick...editing with STITCHR Dynamic protein labeling with TurboCas Enhancer-AAV viral preps targeting interneurons...Bentley For RNA-guided genome editing, think beyond Cas9 with STITCHR: a combined CRISPR / retrotransposon... Figure 4: STITCHR consists of a nicking Cas9 fused to a shortened R2Tocc transposon protein, ...for scarless insertion of the payload (teal). The Cas9 gRNA targeting guide and the transposon RNA homology...

...editors use either catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) or a Cas9 nickase (nCas9) to avoid introducing double-strand...need from Cas9 are sequence specificity and the R-loop structure. In order to bind DNA, Cas9 requires ...non-target strand of DNA for Cas9 to bind.   R-loop The structure formed by Cas9 binding to DNA and separating...advantage of repair pathways within the cell — in some cases, the same repair pathways that were considered problematic...PAM) on the opposite strand. Once it finds a PAM, Cas9 unwinds the adjacent DNA to create a region of separate...single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) region, using enzymes fused to Cas9 to alter the exposed ssDNA bases. Thus, base editors...window restricted to the stretch of ssDNA created by Cas9 binding. Pro tip! In CRISPR, the non-target strand...

...CRISPR/Cas9 over previous genome editing techniques is its simplicity and versatility. CRISPR/Cas9 consists...in which Cas9 is included on the gRNA-containing plasmid, or a 2-plasmid system in which Cas9 must be ...of two components: the non-specific endonuclease (Cas9) and a single stranded guide RNA (gRNA). The ~20...the user, and it can be easily modified to target Cas9 to virtually any genomic locus, provided the target...adjacent motif (PAM) sequence. Co-delivery of wild-type Cas9 and a gRNA generates a double-strand break in the...genomic target. The goal of a CRISPR screen is to use Cas9 and a pool of gRNAs to identify genes that are essential...lentivirus to deliver a pooled population of gRNAs to Cas9 expressing cells. Pooled lentiviral CRISPR libraries...

...activate a cascade of caspases, protease enzymes that cleave proteins. Executioner caspases are activated... executioner caspase reporters. In these reporters, the FRET pair is linked by a caspase cleavage site...one of the linkers is a consensus caspase-3 (an executioner caspase) cleavage site (DEVD). Upon cleavage...activated last in the cascade and are responsible for the degradation of over 600 cellular components ultimately...used genetically encoded fluorescent executioner caspase reporters. Several apoptosis reporters have been...site. Cutting the linker by a caspase results in a change in fluorescence emission. FRET and fluorescence...Studying apoptosis in vivo using the FlipGFP-based caspase reporter The Shu Lab successfully used FlipGFP ...