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  1. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    ...plasmid expresses Streptococcus pyogenes (Sp) Cas9 from a Cbh promoter. Cbh is a modified version of CAG promoter...has tested in a variety of mammalian cell lines. Cas9, of course, is the key component of most CRISPR ...cleaving" peptide causes the ribosome to translate Cas9-2A and the Puromycin resistance gene as separate...Ann, et al. "Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system." Nature protocols 8.11 (2013): 2281-2308... un-tagged versions of SpCas9 and further variants replace SpCas9 with SpCas9n (nickase), which nicks ... express both SpCas9 and your gRNA in a variety of mammalian cell types. Purpose  SpCas9 This plasmid ... as is obvious from our most requested plasmid, SpCas9 is still going strong as the basis for many genome...
  2. Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping

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    ...sequence targeted by the Cas9 nuclease. The Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) requires an NGG PAM to...range of CRISPRCas9 by engineering SpCas9 Article contributed by Shreya Vedantam CRISPR/Cas9 is widely...  The Kanemaki lab previously developed a CRISPR/Cas9 based method to tag endogenous proteins in HCT116...widely used genome editing tool. However, Cas9’s endonuclease activity can be limited by the need for a specific...recognize the target. Osamu Nureki’s lab engineered SpCas9 (SpCas9-NG) with relaxed preferences for the third ...NGG. In addition to the engineered SpCas9, they also fused the SpCas9-NG with the activation-induced cytidine...cells. The increased versatility of the engineered SpCas9-NG and its variants can be used to engineer specific...
  3. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    ...the Epigenome  Mapping the 4D Nucleome with CRISPR/Cas9 Resources at Addgene.org Read our CRISPR Guide...Enzymatic domains tethered to dCas9 often interact with DNA independently of dCas9 targeting (Galonska 2018...binding is crucial for dCas9 to interfere with DNMT1 even through replication. The dCas9 also needs to be removeable...has several great options: pLV hUbC-dCas9-T2A-GFP for removable dCas9 expression and pLM-CMV-R-Cre. Selection... Some enzymatic fusions are godsends. Tethering dCas9 to the histone acetyltransferase p300 or the DNA...absent before. But other enzymatic fusions, such as dCas9-TET, can, like the iron ball-and-chain that they...-based epigenetic approach (spoiler alert: it’s dCas9… with no modifications). Ready to get started?   ...
  4. CRISPR Kinome Libraries Available: Pooled and Individual Plasmid Formats

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    ...formats: all-in-one (lentiCRISPRv2, expressing both Cas9 and an individual gRNA from this single vector) ...only an gRNA, for use with cells that already have Cas9). Each library consists of approximately 3,000 gRNAs...activity and minimize off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9." Nature biotechnology (2016). PubMed PMID: 26780180...Learn to Conduct Genome-wide Screens with CRISPR/Cas9 Get John Doench's Tips on gRNA Design Check Out ...
  5. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    ...pDGE Dicot Genome Editing Kit contains Cas9, Cas9 nickase, and Cas9 activator expressing plasmids that can...CRISPR-Cas9-based tool for targeting CpG methylation by fusing catalytically inactive Cas9 (dCas9) with...high-throughput CRISPR/Cas9 gene modification in Caenorhabditis elegans CRISPR/Cas9 technology has revolutionized...reported on a novel Cas9-based activator developed by the Church lab, termed “dCas9-VPR”, which facilitates...gRNA expressing cells were then transfected with a Cas9-expressing plasmid to generate a population of mutant...post entitled “Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR/Cas9”. Detailed information regarding the Wu Lab library...library was cloned into the Liu lab’s own pAc-sgRNA-Cas9 insect expression backbone, which expresses the ...
  6. Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR

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    ...nicking Cas9. A guide directs Cas9 to a site of interest, where it nicks its target DNA (left). Cas9 dissociates...error prone PolI3M that’s fused to a nicking Cas9 (nCas9). Similar to mutagenesis with error prone PCR... a user-defined genomic region. EvolvR, a CRISPR-Cas9 based targeted mutagenesis method developed by the...enhance nCas9 (enCas9) EvolvR with a targeted mutagenesis rate ~9-fold higher than the original nCas9, while...used to direct the PolI3M-nCas9 complex to a DNA site of interest, which nCas9 nicks and then dissociates...amino acid changes were introduced to nCas9. These changes promote nCas9’s dissociation from DNA after nicking...diversification by targeting a site of interest with dCas9 fused to the Activation Induced Cytidine Deaminase...
  7. With Our New Viral Service, We're Taking CRISPR Further!

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    ...Institute to provide lentiviruses for delivery of SpCas9 and Cas9 nickase for genome editing. You can also enhance...Like all things in science, getting a high titer Cas9 lentivirus prep takes a bit of time and effort that...expression of your gene of interest with a variety of Cas9 activators available in lentiviral format. Finally... pathways. Find Validated gRNAs to use with your Cas9 Virus Pooled libraries now available in lentiviral...be used to infect a cell line already expressing Cas9. As John Doench (Broad Institute and member of the... makes it unuseable. With the large size of the SpCas9 nuclease (~4.2 kb) this is a particularly prominent...
  8. CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!

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    ...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...Gersbach CA (2013) RNA-guided gene activation by CRISPR-Cas9–based transcription factors. Nat Methods 10:973–... cell lines.   dCas9-VP64 Description CRISPR activation can occur through fusing dCas9 with VP64, a strong... for CRISPR-based gene activation. dCas9-CBP In this method, dCas9 is fused to CBP, an histone acetyltransferase... the programmable guide RNA. Gene activation by dCas9, also referred to as CRISPRa, was initially published...
  9. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    ...this system lies in the ability of the endonuclease Cas9 to create a DNA double stranded break (DSB) at a..., and co-injection of the targeting vector and a Cas9 expression plasmid will insert the desired genetic...reactions are then mixed and transfected along with a Cas9 expression vector. They can also be introduced directly...into a Drosophila S2 cell line stably expressing Cas9. This PCR toolkit offers C- and N-terminal tagging... promote homology directed repair after a CRISPR/Cas9 induced break. Learn more about these constructs.... “SapTrap, a Toolkit for High-Throughput CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Modification in Caenorhabditis elegans.” Genetics...
  10. What's New in CRISPR - March 2020

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    ... lower average Cas9-independent off-target DNA editing, ~5–50-fold lower levels of Cas9-dependent off-...Caulobacter genes using a catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) derived from Streptococcus pasteurianus  or ...s lab identified and validated CBEs with reduced Cas9-independent deamination. They generated these editors...fluorescent dCas9-KRAB and dCas9-VPR for quantifying and tracking cells that express both the dCas9 construct...Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The system consists of dCas9, the mammalian transcriptional repressor Mxi1, and...accessible and the complex enters the nucleus where dCas9-Mxi1 can repress gene expression. In the dark, the...Caulobacter cells for ctrA gene expression using various dCas9. Image adapted from Guzzo et al., 2020. Caulobacter...
  11. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    ...out the gene for your protein of interest. CRISPR-Cas9 and a custom gRNA is all you need to generate a ...interference (CRISPRi) targets a catalytically dead Cas9 fused to a transcriptional repressor to your gene...) are transcriptional activators fused to a dead Cas9. The system is led, via a custom gRNA, to your gene...protein levels. Looking for a DD? Check out our DD-Cas9 vector! The price of tunable control These systems...Plasmid 101: Repressible Promoters CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for my Experiment Additional resources...? Check out Addgene's Lentiviral dCas9 SAM vector and Piggybac dCas9 SAM vector! On/off control all the...repression of protein expression. Addgene has a dCas9 KRAB plasmid for transient knockouts!  Turn it on...
  12. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...catalytically inactive form of Cas9 known as dCas9 (Jinek et al., 2012). Like Cas9, dCas9 can bind to a specific...editing, numerous discoveries have been made using the Cas9 nuclease in the absence of genomic alterations. ...reported, as well as affinity purification with an anti-Cas9 antibody. These different tag systems and affinity...Using similar affinity purification with an anti-Cas9 antibody, the Li lab found a microRNA (miR483) that...PMCID: PMC3664290.  Zhang, Yiqun, et al. "CRISPR Cas9-guided chromatin immunoprecipitation identifies ...targeting gRNA. But dCas9 does not cleave the DNA. Much of the research using dCas9 has focused on transcriptional...mammalian cells by expressing dCas9 with an N-terminal 3xFLAG tag (3xFLAG-dCas9) and a gRNA targeting their...
  13. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    ...by tethering cytosine deaminase with Cas9 nickase (nCas9). nCas9 creates a nick in the DNA by cutting ...Nickase Cas9 (D10A) Deaminase PAM requirements Reference CBE SpCas9 rAPOBEC1 NGG 6 SpCas9 Target-AID...Bastian Minkenberg, and Yinong Yang. "Boosting CRISPR/Cas9 multiplex editing capability with the endogenous...Targeted base editing in rice and tomato using a CRISPR-Cas9 cytidine deaminase fusion." Nature biotechnology...Precise base editing in rice, wheat and maize with a Cas9-cytidine deaminase fusion." Nature biotechnology...Expanding the base editing scope in rice by using Cas9 variants." Plant biotechnology journal (2018). PubMed..."Expanded base editing in rice and wheat using a Cas9-adenosine deaminase fusion." Genome biology 19.1...
  14. Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice

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    ...CRISPR/Cas9-based systems have been developed for generating knockin mice but because CRISPR/Cas9 engineering...recombination for precise gene insertion. However, CRISPR/Cas9 systems are more useful for generating knockout ...to engineer knockout mice. ZFN, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas9 systems can all be targeted to specific regions ...introduce multiple base pair deletions, but CRISPR/Cas9 can also introduce point mutations. While using ...
  15. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    ...and editing with a single Cas9-VPR in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To control Cas9 activity and influence DNA...CRISPR system developed by Taekjip Ha’s lab where Cas9-gRNA complex binds the target DNA without cleavage...cleavage until it's activated by light. Once activated, Cas9 cleavage can induce DSBs within minutes. New CRISPR... lab developed a chemogenetic system that brings Cas9 to ubiquitin ligase for degradation.      New... editor targets DNA (via catalytically inactive dCas9) to modify chromatin. A fluorescent protein can ...Jacobs-Wagner’s lab produce different levels of dCas9 expression and contain different antibiotic resistance...
  16. Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening

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    ...activity and minimize off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9." Nature biotechnology (2016). PubMed PMID: 26780180...transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex." Nature (2014). PubMed PMID: 25494202. ...PMC4559080. 8. Shalem, Ophir, et al. "Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screening in human cells." Science 343.6166..."Genetic screens in human cells using the CRISPR-Cas9 system." Science 343.6166 (2014): 80-84. PubMed ...Wong, Alan SL, et al. "Multiplexed barcoded CRISPR-Cas9 screening enabled by CombiGEM." Proceedings of the...
  17. Addgene's Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015

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    ...repository use Cas9 to cut DNA, Addgene Science Communications Intern Mary Gearing explains how Cas9 homolog,... suggestions. 8. A Match Made in Heaven: CRISPR/Cas9 and AAV Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors are...Validating Your Genome Edit Once you’ve used CRISPR/Cas9 to make a change to the genome, you need to check...
  18. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    ...pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology and CRISPR-Cas9 constructs from Addgene to gene-edit mutations into...looking at a bunch of different strategies with CRISPR-Cas9. There are so many different variants and strategies... of those mutations, they now plan to use CRISPR-Cas9 technology to create cell lines and/or mouse models...ve proposed to use plasmids with modified nickase Cas9 protein in order to target the specific gene region...
  19. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    ...Screening immune cell lineages in vivo using the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME Article contributed by Aliyah Weinstein...custom nucleases for each gene of interest. CRISPR-Cas9 tools have been used in immunology for in vitro ...Medical School developed a solution: CHIME, a CRISPR-Cas9 system that can edit genes in any immune lineage...expressed this construct in bone marrow stem cells from Cas9-expressing mice, and used the cells to reconstitute...
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