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  1. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...determined by comparing cells expressing only eGFP expression to cells expressing eGFP and mCherry. ACE was...single base editing by APOBEC-Cas9 Though the ACE reporter quantifies APOBEC-Cas9 efficiency in real-time, ...mCherry and a T2A site and expressed in cells. mCherry is constitutively expressed to identify successfully...integrated it into human and mouse cells that expressed either Cas9 or an optimized cytidine base editor. The...and enrichment of DNA editing by APOBEC–Cas9 or cleavage by Cas9 in living cells. Nucleic Acids Research... a APOBEC-Cas9n-UGI complex. So how exactly does this work? Figure 1: APOBEC- and Cas9-mediated ...genome, but they’re inefficient compared to CRISPR/Cas9 edits that rely on double strand DNA breaks. Due...
  2. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    ... create a single gRNA-expressing plasmid, but it can also be adapted to express multiple gRNAs. Addgene...using the Golden Gate method to create CRISPR/Cas9 constructs, assemble standard plasmids parts in different... recognition sites do not appear in the final construct, allowing for precise, scarless cloning. The cloning...digestion/ligation and do not appear in the final construct. The destination vector contains sites with complementary...insert may spontaneously religate, this transient construct retains functional Type IIS sites and will be ...ligation product is irreversible because this construct does not retain the enzyme recognition sites. ... sites after ligation favors formation of the construct of interest. Although efficiency may decrease ...
  3. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    ...pXPR_053. They expressed this construct in bone marrow stem cells from Cas9-expressing mice, and used ...suppresses neuronal transmission within minutes. Constructs using the photodimerizer system CRY2-CIB1 to ... microbe travels through a host organism, the expression of some genes can change depending on the location...reporter gene (ARG) plasmids to better monitor gene expression in vivo using ultrasound. These ARG plasmids ...important regulators of post-transcriptional gene expression across the majority of cellular pathways. Despite...target site. One fluorescent protein (EBFP2) is expressed in an unregulated fashion and thus a marker for...system. If an miRNA is present, it will repress expression of mKate2 relative to EBFP2. Weiss’s group used...
  4. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    ...-baToN, “sender” cells express GFP on the surface and “receiver” cells express an anti-GFP nanobody on...response 1 (TIR1) expressed under a desired promoter with a specific spatiotemporal expression pattern and ...AID* tagged CRISPR knock-in repair constructs. These repair constructs can be used to integrate the tagged...and editing with a single Cas9-VPR in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To control Cas9 activity and influence DNA...Jacobs-Wagner’s lab produce different levels of dCas9 expression and contain different antibiotic resistance... nanobody cross-reacts with BFP, sender cells expressing surface BFP generated BFP-labeled receiver cells...CRISPR system developed by Taekjip Ha’s lab where Cas9-gRNA complex binds the target DNA without cleavage...
  5. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    ...used to express your favorite gene-of-interest, all the way to the complex multi-TU constructs that compose...conditional gene expression, multiplexed CRISPR, and chromosomal integration of larger expression cassettes ...chromosomal integration and gene expression, the system includes a toolkit to express recombinant proteins within...multiple unique sgRNAs into a multi-TU targeting construct (Cas9, sgRNA, reporter, etc.). This allows for the... and is geared towards cloning multi-TU expression constructs (Martella et al., 2017). If you can dream...different DNA elements on the behavior of an expression construct. Once you’ve identified your experimental...assembly tool used to build single- and multi-gene constructs for a variety of applications. MoClo tools can...
  6. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    ... monoclonal Cas9 background because you’ll have more consistent levels of Cas9 expression between experiments...this plasmid Cas9 expression is typically cytotoxic, which makes generation of high titer Cas9 lentiviruses... can be expressed from lentiCas9-Blast. Purpose of LentiCas9-blast LentiCas9-blast is a Cas9 expression...single-vector systems typically express Cas9 and a gRNA from the same plasmid. LentiCas9-blast virus can be used...Secondly, you can use a LentiCas9-Blast viral prep to create a single stable Cas9-expressing cell line and then... rate variability when using lentiCas9-blast to generate Cas9-expressing cells. To ensure that this growth...related viral preps. Cas9 is the headliner of most CRISPR applications and can be expressed from your cell ...
  7. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    ...containing Cas9 and the PITCh-gRNA. Step 3: Contransfect the PITCh vector with the vector carrying Cas9 and ...regions (5-25 bp) for repair, making it easier to construct targeting vectors. Addgene depositor Takashi Yamamoto...stop codon. Briefly, the PITCh vector should be constructed with 5’ and 3’ microhomology to the insertion...plasmic is cotransfected with a plasmid carrying Cas9, the PITCh-gRNA, and the locus-specifc gRNA. The...added to the GFP-Puro cassette via PCR, and this construct is inserted into the PITCh vector via In-Fusion...plasmids available from Addgene are perfect for expressing GFP from a given promoter, and the technique ...potential concern is if the GFP-Puro will alter expression of the gene it follows. For increased versatility...
  8. CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!

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    ... its construction: it relies on antibody chains, which are relatively large and are not expressed consistently...recruit transcription factors to increase gene expression. CRISPRa methods vary in their transcriptional...activator. While it requires a relatively simple construct, it exhibits modest levels of gene activation,...Programmable repression and activation of bacterial gene expression using an engineered CRISPR-Cas system. Nucleic...J, Collins JJ, Church GM (2015) Highly efficient Cas9-mediated transcriptional programming. Nat Methods...Perrimon N, Collins JJ, Church G (2016) Comparison of Cas9 activators in multiple species. Nat Methods 13:563...transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex. Nature 517:583–588 . https://doi.org/10.1038...
  9. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    ...applications Gene expression control Researchers are always wanting to manipulate gene expression – turn it up...interest, turning expression off permanently. Viral vectors can also be used to express proteins. Viral...often a selectable marker. This vector can express your construct in target cells transiently or constitutively... the genome of the target cell or transiently expressed. It’s important to note that for all the applications...depending on the vector and virus. Viral CRISPR-Cas9 tools have been engineered to introduce frameshift...Viral expression cassettes typically contain a promoter (inducible or constitutive), your gene of interest...constitutively depending on the virus used. All of these expression control mechanisms require a specific modification...
  10. New CRISPR Web Resources and #12DaysofCRISPR Recap

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    ...Antimicrobials Day 7: Multiplexing and Cas9 variants: CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs and The PAM Requirement...Tet1. RNA Targeting: This page contains Cas13 constructs for mammalian and bacterial systems. Plasmids... probably explains why pC016 - LwCas13a guide expression backbone with U6 promoter has already earned ...certainly didn’t, but now we can with Cas13b/ADAR constructs from the REPAIR (RNA Editing for Programmable...Day 5: Delivery systems: CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods and A Match Made...regulation: Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression and CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome...Pooled libraries: Genome-Wide Screening Using CRISPR/Cas9 and Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled...
  11. What's New in CRISPR - March 2020

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    ...downregulate expression of specific Caulobacter genes using a catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) derived from...CRISPRa depended on continued expression of dCas9 and gRNAs whose expression varies depending on transgene... lower average Cas9-independent off-target DNA editing, ~5–50-fold lower levels of Cas9-dependent off-...fluorescent dCas9-KRAB and dCas9-VPR for quantifying and tracking cells that express both the dCas9 construct...repression of gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The system consists of dCas9, the mammalian transcriptional...complex enters the nucleus where dCas9-Mxi1 can repress gene expression. In the dark, the NLS is inaccessible... in Caulobacter cells for ctrA gene expression using various dCas9. Image adapted from Guzzo et al., 2020...
  12. Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP

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    ...iTOP resulting in GFP expression. Image courtesy of Diego D'Astolfo. CRISPR/Cas9: a potential application...would be compatible with CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. Although CRISPR/Cas9 is all the rage, they had another...which transient protein expression has a long-lasting effect, such as Cre- or Cas9-mediated recombination... mutations and gene expression changes elsewhere in the genome. Second, expression is by nature transient... method and its potential applications to CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing.   Protein-only transduction? Niels...primary cells. What if, instead of supplying a DNA construct, they could simply induce cells to take up protein...control could enter cultured cells and activate expression of a luciferase reporter. CPP was not required...
  13. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    ...double nickase, you could express two spacers and use PX335 to express the Cas9n (nickase). The concept ...need to have four spacers co-expressed and using PX335 to express the Cas9n (nickase). Tips for using homologous...nickase system is that you can express two different chimeric gRNAs with the Cas9 nickase which will together...the Cas9 nickase doesn't have the ability to induce double-stranded breaks like the wildtype Cas9 does...start site to have high expression, so adding this G could help with expression, though it is possible ...shows the construct from our 'Split RNA' design, where the pre-processing form of crRNA is expressed and a...of the target spacer, but then when expressed in cell and with Cas9 and tracrRNA, it will be processed ...
  14. Brzezinski Lab CRISPR Collection

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    ...conversion to a dual guide construct. Plasmids 175573 and 175574 express dCas9-KRAB-MeCP2 for repression... and 159655 are single guide expressing double stranded break constructs. Plasmids 171098 and 175570 allow...U6-guide cassettes to make dual guide expressing plasmids dCas9-KRAB-MeCP2 fusion for gene and non-coding...enhancer sequence repression dCas9-VPR fusion for gene activation CRISPR/Cas9 Plasmid Variants Figure 1:...repression. Plasmids 175571 and 175572 express dCas9-VPR for activation. Usage Guide sequences can be designed...in retinal development the lab utilizes a CRISPR/Cas9 based approach to knockout, repress, and activate...taken advantage of the Zhang lab all-in-one (guide/Cas9/reporter) pX458 plasmid family. They have made several...
  15. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    ...backbones special: Strong expression: A CMV promoter drives robust gene expression in mammalian cells. Flexible... plasmid set for expressing tagged proteins, and stay tuned for mammalian expression and AAV plasmid sets...) Fluorescence from axonal boutons of neurons expressing iGluSnFR3, iGluSnFR4f, and iGluSnFR4s. C) Spike-triggered...share our very own set of empty, HA-, and EGFP-expressing lentiviral backbones designed right here at Addgene...drive! We validated viral packaging and strong expression after inserting EGFP and provide step-by-step...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, ...
  16. CRISPR Plasmids - Tagging

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    ...Plasmids: pX330S-2-PITCh - expresses Cas9 & PITCh-gRNA pX330A-FBL/PITCh - expresses Cas9, PITCh-gRNA, & FBL-specific...Doyon lab, eSpCas9(1.1)_No_FLAG_AAVS1_T2 (Addgene #79888) , which expresses an untagged Cas9 AND a gRNA... that uses PCR to generate both an expression cassette for the Cas9-programming sgRNA and HR donors for...: 3xFLAG-2xSTREP Construct for integrating at the AAVS1 "safe harbor" locus: eSpCas9(1.1)_No_FLAG_AAVS1...has been adapted to allow tagging of proteins expressed from their natural chromosomal context. These ... consists of two components: A vector containing Cas9 and a validated gRNA, based on the Zhang lab's PX458...need to design and clone in a gRNA(s) to guide the Cas9 protein to your target sequence, as well as design...
  17. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    ...permanently induce expression? Check out our Retro expression vector and Lenti expression vector. Turn it...turn off expression permanently is to knock out the gene for your protein of interest. CRISPR-Cas9 and a ...ablate protein expression. If you need the ability to control when you turn off expression for good, the...inducible expression (more on this below) will both achieve temporary repression of protein expression. Addgene...appropriate promoter to express your cDNA, depending on the level of expression you would like. Check out...the construct into cells. However, if you would like tunable control of an endogenously expressed protein.... Whether you want to express or repress, good luck on your protein expression journey! Resources and...
  18. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    ...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... adenine base editors by expression optimization and ancestral reconstruction. Nature Biotechnology, 36...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...
  19. 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...promoter, which is used to drive the expression of the array. After expression, the individual gRNAs are released...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...demonstrated that the tRNA-gRNA array can drive the expression of itself, without using any additional promoter..., that rely on an upstream lengthy promoter to express the gRNA array, DAP arrays use tRNA itself, as ...
  20. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    ...T-DDOGs, GFP, and a reporter construct into the mouse retina. GFP expression robustly activated the reporter...reporter expression was induced in ~76% of GFP+ cells, and 100% of DsRed+ cells also expressed GFP. Using.... Cepko lab researcher Jonathan Tang wanted to express a variety of proteins in single cell types in the... could use previously established mouse lines expressing GFP in specific cell types to do more than just...cells. If GFP could be co-opted to control gene expression, he could then selectively manipulate only GFP-labeled... GFP. Once they’d found suitable pairs, they constructed three components: GBPa-VP16 (activation domain...domain); and a UAS-driven luciferase reporter construct. In the absence of GFP, no reporter output was...
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