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  1. The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays

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    ...report. A scientist working in China was using CRISPR/Cas9 in an attempt to create gene-edited babies. Several...valid critiques being offered of He’s work: CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing is not far enough along, scientifically...research published on December 13 shows us, CRISPR/Cas9 techniques are continually being refined; it is ...an embryo—even if it’s not necessarily via CRISPR/Cas9. This leaves us with the second critique. Absent...agreed-upon international moratorium on utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 in humans. This topic was to be revisited at meetings...emerging technology. We could do this for CRISPR/Cas9 – or any other germline editing technique—too. As...not “what is the translational pathway for CRISPR/Cas9 research” but whether or not we will stop shuffling...

  2. CRISPR Plasmids - dCas9-FokI

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    ...Tools CRISPR Blog Posts A catalytically inactive Cas9 (dCas9) is fused to FokI nuclease. When FokI dimerizes... CRISPR dCas9-FokI CRISPR: dCas9-FokI...with dCas9 fused to FokI for creating double-strand breaks (DSBs). CRISPR...Editing Other Applications Purify Tag Visualize dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors...gRNAs, binding ~15-25 bp apart, are required for dCas9-FokI to dimerize at a given region of the genome...

  3. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    ...enrich for Cas9 variants with activity on non-NGG PAMs, generating xCas9 3.0-3.13. To test xCas9 3.0-3.13...In order to bind DNA, Cas9 and other CRISPR enzymes require a short PAM sequence adjacent to the targeted...problem, researchers have engineered alternative Cas9s binding distinct PAM sequences. Now, Hu et al., ...low predicted on-target efficiency. In cases where Cas9 won’t work, there are other options. Commonly used..., improve targeting in AT-rich loci or genomes. Cas9s from other species, like S. aureus and N. meningitidis...phage-assisted evolution to generate and select for Cas9 mutants with PAM flexibility. In this system, the...the surface of modifications that can be made to Cas9. It is a pleasant surprise that selecting for one...

  4. 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...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...other ABEs, the editor they were using consisted of Cas9 fused to an engineered adenosine deaminase capable...

  5. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    ...Overview of the dual-plasmid CRISPR/Cas9 workflow in M. abscessus. A) Sth1Cas9 mediates double strand break ...mScarlet-based tags for live imaging in C. elegans CRISPR/Cas9 for gene disruption in M. abscessus  Bioluminescent...Mycobacterium abscessus using a dual-plasmid CRISPR/Cas9 system By Aryana Khosravani Deborah Hung’s lab has... has developed a novel dual-plasmid CRISPR/Cas9 system for gene disruption in Mycobacterium abscessus,...resistance interfering with selection. Using an inducible Cas9 expression and removing the sgRNA plasmid after ...Figure 4). This work marks the first use of CRISPR/Cas9 in M. abscessus. The simplicity and efficiency of...repair. B) M. abscessus is first transformed with Cas9 on an integrative plasmid containing tetracycline...

  6. Harnessing TnpB for Genome Editing: A Compact and Versatile Tool for Your Research

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    ...like Cas9. This is where TnpB offers a clear advantage. At approximately one-third the size of Cas9 or ... most well-known CRISPR-associated nucleases are Cas9 and Cas12a, the heavyweights in the genome editing...amino acids in size. To give a visual analogy: if Cas9 or Cas12a is a soccer ball, TnpB is a baseball —...ancestors of Cas12 proteins. Functionally, while Cas9 contains two nuclease domains (HNH and RuvC-like...with a single RuvC-like domain. In simple terms, Cas9 cuts DNA using two "scissors" (one for each strand..., which is positioned like Cas12a PAM sites. For Cas9, the PAM is located just downstream (3′ end) of ... help keep the total construct size smaller than Cas9 alone. In our recent study, we demonstrated that...

  7. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    ... encoding Cas9 into the oocyte. This original method was developed as the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in mammalian... guest blogger Samantha Young. The use of CRISPR/Cas9 for gene editing has expanded since its adaptation... 2014). There are several variants of the CRISPR/Cas9 system floating around, and many pre-designed plasmids...as soon as possible! Selecting your target CRISPR/Cas9 is often used to study the biology surrounding a...the target sequence was digested by sgRNA guided Cas9 endonuclease, homology dependent repair (HR, homologous... fragments. The pX330 plasmid contains humanized Cas9 expression cassette and sgRNA expression cassette...for Testing Your gRNAs in vitro at Addgene CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in mice Now that you’ve validated your...

  8. Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools

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    ...Listen to the Fire-Cas9 Podcast Segment Jerry Crabtree’s lab has developed a new CRISPR/Cas9-based system to...Inducible Recruitment for Epigenome editing by Cas9 (FIRE–Cas9), combines these approaches to enable rapid...epigenetic modulation. While catalytically inactive cas9 (e.g. dCas9) has been fused to a variety of protein modules...Communications. 2017. PubMed PMID: 28924139. FIRE-Cas9 for inducible interrogation of the epigenome Article...type. By varying which sgRNAs are used with FIRE-Cas9, experiments can be designed to target multiple ... epigenetic memory at nearly any locus. The FIRE-Cas9 plasmids can be found here. Braun et al. Nat Communications...

  9. Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells

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    ...interest. To get the molecular components of CRISPR/Cas9 (Cas9 protein and the crRNA-tracrRNA complex) and the...regulatory control. But even with the advent of CRISPR/Cas9 technology, inserting large tags into a precise ...We’ve created and tested plasmids that use CRISPR/Cas9 to endogenously tag a wide variety of genes with...process following the double strand break CRISPR/Cas9 makes at the target site. The whole segment—a GFP...the plasmid from being cut and destroyed by CRISPR/Cas9 during transfection. Making the double strand break...the fluorescent tag to the cells, we used CRISPR/Cas9 to make a precise cut in the genome near either ...Brock, et al. "Systematic gene tagging using CRISPR/Cas9 in human stem cells to illuminate cell organization...

  10. Celebrating Outstanding CRISPR/Cas9 Achievements at the Dr. Paul Janssen Award Dinner

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    ...sophisticated”.     New to CRISPR/Cas9 Technology? Learn More: Addgene's CRISPR/Cas9 Guide History of CRISPR Cas...awards that will be bestowed upon discovers of CRISPR/Cas9 genome engineering, Dr. Jennifer Doudna and Dr. ...They are finding they have been able to use CRISPR/Cas9 to generate mice with genes knocked out in the insulin...offered the great analogy of comparing the CRISPR/Cas9 system to Norton Antivirus. Antivirus programs work... crispr/cas9...

  11. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

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    ...Nat Chem Biol). Mutate the PAM or sgRNA sequences Cas9 likely goes through multiple rounds of cleavage ...guarantee there won’t be re-targeting after HDR. If your Cas9 cuts in the coding region of a gene, make sure that...inhibitors to your culture media prior to and after Cas9 introduction increases HDR, just make sure to remove... promoting HR was as simple as swapping out your Cas9? It can be! Cas12a is a Cas family member which ...protein to the nuclease. Early HR factors fused to Cas9 have been shown to increase HDR frequency by committing...019-0432-1 Mehdi Banan. Recent advances in CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-ins in mammalian cells. J Biotechnol...homology-directed repair choice in response to CRISPR/Cas9 Induced-double strand breaks. Int J Mol Sci., 21...

  12. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ..., a base editor containing high fidelity Cas9 variant HF-Cas9. They subsequently tested the original BE3...-BE3  EQR-Cas9 (NGAG)  Lower off-target activity than BE3  85173  pBK-VRER-BE3  VRER-Cas9 (NGCG)   ...The popular CRISPR base editing technique uses dCas9/Cas9 nickase fused to a cytidine deaminase for targeted...Plasmid ID Plasmid Name Cas9 Variant Speacial Features 85169  pJL-SaBE3  SaCas9 (NNGRRT)    85170  pJL-SaKKH-BE3... pJL-SaKKH-BE3  SaCas9 (NNGRRT)    85171  pBK-VQR-BE3  VQR-Cas9 (NGA)  Lower off-target activity than...the effects of dCas9 binding to a genomic locus, or limiting the amount of time that Cas9 is active in ...other cytosines near the target and in predicted Cas9 off-target sites. Two recent papers from blue flame...

  13. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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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...and a gRNA. But instead of Cas9, this plasmid expresses Cas9n (a D10A nickase mutant) to nick, rather than...vector also from the Zhang lab is used to deliver Cas9 and your gRNA of interest into mammalian cells. ...fact, the Zhang lab has shared over 40,000 CRISPR-Cas9 components over the years on their own or through...

  14. Brzezinski Lab CRISPR Collection

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    ...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...fusion for gene activation CRISPR/Cas9 Plasmid Variants Figure 1: Schematic of the CRISPR Collection. Plasmids... plasmids dCas9-KRAB-MeCP2 fusion for gene and non-coding enhancer sequence repression dCas9-VPR fusion...175574 express dCas9-KRAB-MeCP2 for repression. Plasmids 175571 and 175572 express dCas9-VPR for activation...Sources Original pX458 backbone ( Addgene #48138 ) dCas9 + KRAB-MeCP2 ( Addgene #110821 ) VPR ( Addgene #63798...

  15. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    .... pyogenes Cas9 in the ABE complex with PAM-variant Cas9 proteins: the S. pyogenes NG-Cas9 (PAM: NG) to...constructs using a catalytically “dead” S. pyogenes Cas9 (dC9-ABE8.x-m/d). The dC9-ABE8.x-m/d constructs ...frequency more than 90% compared to ABE7.10. Choosing Cas9 proteins to increase the targeting scope of adenine... base editors The most commonly used S. pyogenes Cas9 requires the target site in the genomic DNA to contain... to create NG-ABE8.xm/d and the S. aureus Cas9 (PAM: NNGRRT) to create Sa-ABE8.x-m/d. With these variants...frequency over ABE7.10. The ability to use non-standard Cas9 in the ABE8 complexes enables a broader targeting...about another evolved base editor: ABE8e Read about xCas9, a CRISPR variant with PAM flexibility Resources...

  16. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    ...Use Cas9 Activators Perform Genome-Wide Screens with CRISPR Generate Mouse Models with CRISPR/Cas9 Additional...techniques, please see “Methods for Optimizing CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Specificity” by Tycko et al. 2016...improving the genome-wide specificities of CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases”
by Tsai and Joung 2016. Many thanks ...high-throughput screening strategy for detecting CRISPR-Cas9 induced mutations using next-generation sequencing...of off-target DNA cleavage reveals RNA-programmed Cas9 nuclease specificity." Nature biotechnology 31.9.... "Digenome-seq: genome-wide profiling of CRISPR-Cas9 off-target effects in human cells." Nature methods...Unbiased detection of off-target cleavage by CRISPR-Cas9 and TALENs using integrase-defective lentiviral ...

  17. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    ...deletions. Many of these methods rely on Cas9 or a derivative of Cas9, but the ever-expanding repertoire of...bound to the DNA. Cas3 or Cas9? Large genomic deletions can be achieved using Cas9, but Cas3 may be a better...considered weak, especially compared to the power of Cas9. However, by continually passing the ssDNA past ...better option. To get large deletions using Cas9, two or more gRNAs must be used along the same chromosome... with expressing all Cascade components can make Cas9 easier to work with than Cas3. Future targets Cas3...nrmicro3569 Additional resources on the blog CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s) CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins...

  18. Editor's Choice, July 2016

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    ...Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9 Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo Special Delivery: Fluorophore... when compared to the most commonly used Cas9 variant, SpCas9. These properties, combined with other benefits...generate mouse models.   Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo As you might expect given the excitement...

  19. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...fully functional Cas9 upon dimerization. Splitting wild-type Cas9 into n-terminal (Cas9(N)-2xNLS) and c-terminal... can write a blog post about it! Split Cas9 system The Cas9 protein is composed of an n-terminal DNA... the bi-lobed architecture of Cas9 to engineer a series of "split" cas9 molecules that cannot function...activation, the c-terminal cas9 fragment was fused with FK 506 binding protein 12 (Cas9(C)-FKBP-2xNLS) and the... the n-terminal cas9 fragment with FKBP rapamycin binding domain of mTor (Cas9(N)-FRB-NES) resulting in...rapamycin-inducible Cas9 for genome editing. Without rapamycin treatment, the Cas9(N)-FRB-NES fragment...sequence. Treatment with rapamycin induces Cas9(N)-FRB-NES and Cas9(C)-FKBP-2xNLS dimerization and net influx...

  20. CRISPR Guide Update

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    ...engineered Cas9s with more flexible requirements and enhanced editing, as well as alternatives to Cas9. All ...resources on the Addgene blog PRIME Editing CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs the Other Cas(s) Progress Towards a PAM-free ...
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