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  1. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    ...models or cells lines, including stem cells, without leaving behind any accessory DNA sequences [2], [3]....leaving behind only those cells with a Footprint-Free™ genome edit.   Figure 2: Editing DNA using the...PMID: 26211958. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4663986. 2.  A. M. Singh, V. V Adjan Steffey, T. Yeshi, and D...transgenic cell lines? One of the major uses of the piggyBac™ system is to create stable transgenic cell lines...efficiency is likely to be cell line-dependent, and should be tested in the cell line of interest. Importantly...If the cell’s chromatin structure undergoes significant rearrangement (such as when a stem cell initiates...applications, including making transgenic cell lines and genetically-modified cell lines. Furthermore, the use of...
  2. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    ...VP64 fusion; 2. A sgRNA incorporating two MS2 RNA aptamers at the tetraloop and stem-loop 2; 3. The MS2...Ishitani R, Zhang F, Nureki O. Cell. 2014 Feb 27;156(5):935-49. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.001. Epub 2014 Feb...Kampmann M, Weissman JS. Cell. 2014 Oct 23;159(3):647-61. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.029. Epub 2014 Oct...screening for genes that, when turned on, make melanoma cells resistant to treatment with a BRAF inhibitor. (The...Addgene, enabling systematic investigation of the cellular consequences of repressing or inducing individual...Weissman and his colleagues demonstrated in a paper in Cell that they could typically achieve 90-99% knockdown...straightforward to apply the new library for use in various cell types and in live mice. Therapeutic uses in humans...
  3. Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR

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    ...while increasing the standard mutation rate by only ~2-fold over nCas9 levels. Two sets of modifications ...10-3 mutations per nucleotide per generation, and (2) the addition of the thioredoxin-binding domain (TBD...EvolvR could also be a tool for lineage tracing cells that do not tolerate double-strand DNA breaks by...researchers to trace the progeny of a single starting cell. Additionally, multiplexing of guides allows EvolvR...
  4. History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution

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    ...phages but to also destroy the phage upon re-exposure (2, 3). More specifically, specialized Cas proteins snip..., accessed 25 November 2013. Author: James Atmos (2). Many CRISPR/Cas moieties carry out these functions...devise new strategies to reproduce within a host cell. A few virus particles have learned to circumvent...
  5. Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans

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    ...one injection step! The entire protocol takes about 2-3 weeks but requires less than eight hours worth of...for C. elegans genome modification. Figure 2: Schematic from Dickinson et al. (2015) illustrating...systems may prove effective in other species or in cell culture. In addition to CRISPR/Cas9 applications...
  6. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    ...be decorated with proteins and remain functional, 2) break membranes outside of their natural context ...PubMed PMID: 3759909. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC213417. 2. Schrallhammer, M. et al. Tracing the role of R-bodies... can rupture E. coli spheroplasts (cells which have had their cell walls removed with lysozyme). This ...protein fusions allowed us to image R bodies inside cells, and these constructs may be useful to future scientists...applications. For example, you could use them to lyse cells (and surrounding membranes) in keeping with their...penetrate other barriers (like vasculature or extracellular matrices) in response to pH changes. Beyond...assemble and function, we might be able to endow cells with new ways to interact mechanically with their...
  7. Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors

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    ... systems to engineer better and faster ABEs (Fig. 2). These systems allow for rapid continuous protein...and less stringent phage selection. Figure 2: Phage-assisted evolution of base-editing activity...gives a talk at the Cell Symposia: Gene- and Cell-based Therapies: CRISPR, Stem Cells, and Beyond meeting...III product is produced and can infect bacterial cells. If a phage does not deliver an active variant, ...passage from the infected to a fresh uninfected host cell culture). This dilution step represents the major...but gets manually passaged from an infected host-cell culture to an uninfected culture which results in...
  8. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ...high percentage of muscle cells throughout the body, especially stem cells 2. Remove any immunogenicity...nonsense-mediated decay. Although Nelson et al. observed only 2% genome editing in one experiment, they found the ...Science. 2015 Dec 31. doi:10.1126/science.aae0169 2. Long C, Amoasii L, Mireault AA, McAnally JR, Li H...persist over time, stem cell editing would be highly desirable. Should stem cell editing occur, the CRISPR...patient myoblasts; when injected into DMD mice, these cells expressed functional dystrophin. Editing genes in...in vivo is of course much more difficult than in cell culture, but Ran et al. have shown that CRISPR and...be delivered to both cardiac and skeletal muscle cells, where precision editing of the dystrophin gene ...
  9. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discovery 2: . https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9 Find plasmids from...form or as ready-to-use lentivirus. Figure 2: dCas9-Tet1 demethylates cytosines at promoters and...pX330a dCas9-LSD1 for targeted removal of H3K4me1/2 and H3K9me2 histone modifications. Like the TALE-LSD1...mammalian cells. Co-expression markers EGFP and PuroR enable sorting and selection of transduced cells. Grant...in the Mammalian Genome. Cell 167:233–247.e17 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.056 Find plasmids...the epigenome may make certain processes, like cellular reprogramming of iPSCs, more efficient. In general...for targeted cytosine demethylation in mammalian cells. This plasmid is used with pcDNA3.1-MS2-Tet1-CD ...
  10. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ... machines in living cells. Science. 353, aad8559 (2016). PubMed PMID: 27463678. 2. Green, Alexander A....certain states of interest. For example, in Figure 2 below we present a two-input, five-state GRSM register...linking RSM inputs to endogenous gene expression (2). Our paper (1) explains how to arrange attB-attP... require minimal cellular perturbation. Also, this method requires live, intact cells; the sequencing ...Synthetic recombinase-based state machines in living cells” (1), into a more straight-forward, concise explanation...mutations, and environmental conditions drive certain cellular behaviors, but little is known about the order... may be used to better understand and engineer cellular processes that are influenced by temporally ordered...
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