...dCas9VP64 and sgRNA from separate promoters. Table 2. pmax dCas9 Activator Expression Plasmids ID Plasmid...Table 4. Gateway Destination Vector ID Plasmid 48222 pAC90-pmax-DEST : Gateway Destination vector derived...the dCas9 protein provides the transactivation activity, the sgRNA component provides the specificity and...and can be transferred to Gateway destination vectors (e.g., pmax-DEST [48222] and (Link opens in a new...also like... CRISPR Guide CRISPR Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts CRISPR-on is an RNA-guided... and is designed to target promoters or enhancers of genes of interest. Different flavors of activators...new window) Lifetechnologies Gateway Destination Vectors ) to adapt to different systems by LR clonase ...

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... Hacohen N, Hahn WC, Lander ES, Sabatini DM, Root DE. Cell. 2006. 124:1283-1298. PubMed . A versatile ...MO, Trono D, Aebischer P. Nat Methods. 2006. Feb;3(2):109-16. PubMed . In vivo RNA interference demonstrates...site. Find resources for more information on shRNA design and delivery. Constitutive Lentiviral shRNA Lentiviral...for constitutive shRNA expression ID Plasmid Description PI 10878 pLKO.1 ‐ TRC cloning vector shRNA expression... included in the vector to monitor expression; Designed for inducing RNAi in a wide range of cell types...conditional (Cre-lox) shRNA expression ID Plasmid Description PI 11578 pSico Cre addition causes EGFP to be...for Tet-regulated shRNA expression ID Plasmid Description Tet on or off PI 11643 pLVCT-tTR-KRAB 2nd generation...

...//doi.org/10.1002/1096-8628(200022)97:2<147::aid-ajmg6>3.0.co;2-o Baker SA, Chen L, Wilkins AD, Yu P, ...Caused by a mutation in the methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene, Rett Syndrome is a rare, progressive...in transcriptional repression, activity dependent de-repression, chromatin remodeling, gene activation...X-linked MECP2, encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2. Nat Genet 23:185–188 . https://doi.org/10.1038/13810... (2000) Rett syndrome: Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 mutations and phenotype-genotype correlations. Am ...Tillotson R, Selfridge J, Koerner MV, Gadalla KKE, Guy J, De Sousa D, Hector RD, Cobb SR, Bird A (2017) Radically...that MECP2 binds to methylated CpG dinucleotides and CAC trinucleotides during neuronal maturation (Tillotson...

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...thanks to our guest blogger, Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Harshana S De Silva Feelixge is a researcher whose... post was contributed by guest blogger Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Gene therapy technologies hold ...AAVs in the clinic Thus far, AAV vectors AAV1, AAV-2, AAV1-AAV2 hybrids, AAV-6, AAV-7, AAV-8, AAV-9 and...neutralizing antibodies against some AAV types, AAV1, 2, 3 and 5 are thought to be as high as 70% among the... 10.24 (2003): 1999-2004. PubMed PMID: 14566358.  2. Hirsch, M. L., et al. "Self-complementary AAV mediates...form, translating gene therapies from conceptual design to clinical trials involve identifying a therapeutic...

...Cre-ERT2 CAG Mammalian Heller 112622 pVHC_PGKneoLox2DTA.2 Venus, Cre-ERT2, targeting vector with MCS for homology...homology arms Mammalian Heller 112623 pEHC_PGKneoLox2DTA.2 Emerald, Cre-ERT2, targeting vector with MCS for homology... arms Mammalian Heller 112624 pmTHC_PGKneoLox2DTA.2 TFP, Cre-ERT2, targeting vector with MCS for homology...arms Mammalian Heller 112625 ptdTHC_PGKneoLox2DTA.2 tdTomato, Cre-ERT2, targeting vector with MCS for ...25;1504(4):467-86. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(81)90375-2. PubMed . Ventura A, Meissner A, Jaenisch R, Jacks...efficiency, selecting desired clones, and making transgenic mice. ID Plasmid/Article Description Expression System...Cre expression plasmids. Addgene's viral service provides high-quality and high-titer viral preparations...

...SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudotyping, visit the SARS-CoV-2 Pseudotyped Virus collection page. SARS-CoV-2 detection...of SARS-CoV-2 entry and become upregulated during viral infection.  Expression of SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins...McLellan JS (2020) Structure-based design of prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spikes. Science 369:1501–1505....labs in over 75 countries. Figure 1: SARS-CoV-2 proteins and other components. Image from Maya Kostman... protein, variants, and pseudotyping The SARS-CoV-2 virus depends on its spike protein to bind ACE2, the...of infection and how to interfere with it in a BSL-2 lab instead of a BSL-3 lab. Jesse Bloom’s lab published...reagents for pseudotyping lentivirus with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. They deposited the plasmids used for...

...none S. pyogenes de Bono sgRNA with rpr-1 promoter 48961 Worm EcoRI none S. pyogenes de Bono pMB60 47941...is an encyclopedia of Class 2 CRISPR systems with wiki entries describing enzyme activity, experimental...BclI-SwaI none S. pyogenes URA3 Wyrick pCRISPomyces-2 61737 Bacteria BbsI yes, cut S. pyogenes Apramycin... S. pyogenes Zhang gRNA Cloning Vector Bbs I ver. 2 85586 Mammalian BbsI None S. pyogenes H Fujii pX601...pyogenes LEU2 Lu pDestTol2CG2-U6:gRNA 63156 Zebrafish BseRI none S. pyogenes Zon pDestTol2pA2-U6:gRNA 63157...module vectors, including three designed for dicots and three designed for monocots. Using these gRNA ...Resources CRISPR Guide Viral Preps Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts CRISPR requires that you...

...goals when designing and testing your AAV.  Figure 2: Comparison of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8,...) your experimental conditions and measurements; (2) the cells you’re targeting; (3) how much expression...as your titer changes, so may your needed volume (de Backer et al., 2010).  Second, high efficiency transduction... Tropism and Axonal Transport of AAV Serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 in the Mouse Brain. PLOS ONE, 8(9),...–10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0106472 de Backer, M. W. A., Brans, M. A. D., Luijendijk, M.... Comparison of four promoters. Gene Therapy, 28(1–2), 56–74. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41434-020-0169-1...analyses of adeno-associated viral vector serotypes 1, 2, 5, 8 and 9 in marmoset, mouse and macaque cerebral...

...nucleases. Genome Res. 2010 Jan;20(1):81-89. PubMed. 2. Bauer DE, Kamran SC, Lessard S, Xu J, Fujiwara Y, Lin ...with TALENs, in collaboration with the Porteus lab [2]. With the advent of CRISPR/Cas9, we began to explore...11;342(6155):253-257. PubMed. 3. Canver MC, Bauer DE, Dass A, Yien YY, Chung J, Masuda T, et al. Characterization...and Bauer lab's related paper describes their methods for CRISPR design, cloning, and delivery, as well...

...on opposite sides of the world shows that science is truly a global endeavor. Case study 2: Plasmids Another...repository provides. Repositories around the world facilitate the rapid pace of SARS-CoV-2 research by...fast access to the tools required to study SARS-CoV-2, but with many academic research labs closed during...biobanks, are crucial for the advancement of SARS-CoV-2 research because they provide rapid access to validated...Many of the reagents used to investigate SARS-CoV-2 were developed for broad use and are now important...susceptibility of cells from different organisms to SARS-CoV-2 (Chu et al., 2020). An additional cell line used in...applications but have proven useful to the study of SARS-CoV-2 are the lentiviral production and packaging vectors...

...backbone which is described by Durocher et al. Nucleic Acids Research 2002 Jan 15;30(2):E9 A list of commonly-used...showing how AVEXIS works with a detailed protocol description: Avidity based Extracellular Interaction Screening...

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...upstream of an opsin gene (e.g., channelrhodopsin-2, ChR2) fused to a reporter gene (e.g., mCherry) to...the correct orientation to be transcribed (Figure 2) (Sharma and Zhu, 2014). How does FLEx enable strong... rather than aversive stimuli. In a recent paper, de Jong and colleagues used rAAV FLEx-based vectors ...brain regions associated with motivated behaviors (de Jong et al., 2019). FLEx vectors represent, therefore...developmental biology at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Her love for educational science led her to... Abdallah, Khaled, et al. "Adeno-associated virus 2/9 delivery of Cre recombinase in mouse primary afferents...Deniz, et al. "A FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range ...

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...is an encyclopedia of Class 2 CRISPR systems with wiki entries describing enzyme activity, experimental...Sequences Glossary Publications CRISPR Overview Class 2 C lustered R egularly I nterspaced S hort P alindromic...systems enable researchers to target anywhere from 2 to 7 genetic loci by cloning multiple gRNAs into a... is included on the gRNA-containing plasmid, or a 2-plasmid system in which Cas9 must be delivered separately...library (panel E ). Remember - if you are using a 2-vector system, you will need to transduce cells that...either (1) a lack of gRNA and/or Cas9 expression or (2) a lack of efficient target cleavage in cells expressing...off-target effects by using a single Cas9 nickase and 2 different gRNAs, which bind in close proximity on ...

....9 (parental) 46 +/- 0.7% AAV.PHP.S 82 +/- 2% Table 2: Transduction efficiency of AAV.9 versus AAV.PHP.S...figure 2) to allow for efficient IV delivery of virus to the CNS or PNS (figure32, tables 1 & 2). These...variants for widespread gene transfer to the adult brain. Nature biotechnology. 2016;34(2):204-209. PubMed...because: 1) their genomes are easy to manipulate, 2) they have long-term expression; and 3) they have ... On average, AAV.PHP.eB and AAV.PHP.S had 1.5- to 2-fold higher GFP intensity compared to the strains ...stained for a neuronal marker). Check out tables 1 and 2 below for a summary of the quantified transduction...cells are labeled with their own unique color; and 2) low levels of labeling so that a cell’s projections...