Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins
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...compatible approach to simultaneously clone two genes-of-interest (GOI) into two independent expression...from a different plasmid, which may lead to unequal gene dosage and high variability of protein coexpression...
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Optogenetic control of CRISPR-Cas9 by CASANOVA
Article contributed...type II CRISPR systems including the popular S. pyogenes Cas9 (Rauch et al., 2017, Hynes et al., 2017)....biological tool, Niopek and colleagues turned to optogenetics. Through the use of light-sensitive protein ... “CRISPR-Cas9 activity switching via a novel optogenetic variant of AcrIIA4.” CASANOVA responds to blue...What’s great about CASANOVA? It works with the S. pyogenes Cas9, dCas9-effector fusions, and xCas9, and requires...