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  1. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    ...number of genes involved in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. We are knocking out genes that have...and find several mutations in the same gene or in multiple genes, all of which seem to contribute to a ... kit to CRISPR/Cas9? When would you choose one or the other? Musunuru: The CRISPR/Cas9 system is easier...versions of 15 different disease-associated genes. Addgene spoke to Musunuru about how the new kit works, ...possible, and how it compares to his CRISPR/Cas9 system. Addgene: For people unfamiliar with this new TALEN...scenarios, you can either knock out a gene or knock in a mutation. Addgene: How do you use this kit to target... paper, for example, we generated hepatocytes to examine the effect of a gene on cholesterol metabolism...
  2. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    ... J.A. Engineering the next-generation of CAR T-cells with CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. Mol Cancer 21, 78 ...Wu et al. "Correction of a Genetic Disease in Mouse Via Use of CRISPR/Cas9." Cell Stem Cell. 13, 659-662...There can be no doubt that CRISPR/Cas9 technology has been a breakthrough for the genome-editing field...dominant cataract disorder caused by a single copy of a gene known as Crygc (Wu et al). They found that the cataracts...phenotype could be rescued by zygote co-injection of Cas9 and a single-guide RNA targeting the mutant allele...able to demonstrate functional correction of the gene in clonally expanded organoids. This work, and many...immunotherapy for cancer treatment by traditional gene therapy pipelines (viral), and researchers are currently...
  3. CRISPR Protocol for Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines [Video]

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    ... Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines via CRISPR/Cas9" from the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JOVE)....and Daniel Bauer's labs details the use of CRISPR/Cas9 to create genomic deletions in mammalian cell lines...motivations behind this research.   Using CRISPR/Cas9 for targeted genomic deletions We were inspired ...with the Porteus lab [2]. With the advent of CRISPR/Cas9, we began to explore the paired double-strand break...approach is to target two exonic sites within a single gene using paired DSBs. This method allows for deletion...regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 nuclease system in mammalian cells. J.Biol.Chem....Medical School. Addgene is proud to present a video reprint of the CRISPR article "Generation of Genomic Deletions...
  4. CRISPR Guide Update

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    ...engineered Cas9s with more flexible requirements and enhanced editing, as well as alternatives to Cas9. All ...-ing! More resources on the Addgene blog PRIME Editing CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs the Other Cas(s) Progress ...Addgene is proud to present our updated CRISPR Guide! The CRISPR Guide helps scientists understand how...
  5. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ..., a base editor containing high fidelity Cas9 variant HF-Cas9 (Rees et al., 2017). HF-BE3 showed 37-fold...other methods. In a head-to-head comparison with Cas9, Cas9 modified 9/12 known off-targets with a 14% indel...editing based on Cas9 off-target activity.  Find CRISPR base editing plasmids at Addgene Improving cytosine...individual Cas9. They also mutagenized the cytidine deaminase portion of the base editor to create SpCas9 base...is important because ABEs have generally been slow, meaning that the Cas9 domain often lets go of the DNA...et al., 2020 SpRY Cas9, available fused to ABEmax(7.10) or to BE4max   Evolved SpCas9 with NRN or NYN PAM... 1.1%. These numbers are a vast improvement over Cas9-mediated HDR for the loci tested, where average ...
  6. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    ...many CRISPR-based genetic screening methods have primarily used Cas9 to knock out genes, researchers at ...between MARCH5 and WSB2 genes using Cas12a’s ability to knock out multiple genes in parallel. Lastly, this...similarly to Cas9 screens in a compacted library. Overall, Cas12a’s ability to target multiple genes within ... and gene activation, is composed of only 529 amino acids, less than half the size of either Cas9 or Cas12a...to induce high levels of gene activation for both reporter and endogenous genes. It is highly specific ...cellular targets Optimized genetic screening technique using Cas12a for multiplexed gene perturbation The Penn...10846-1.   Optimized genetic screening technique using Cas12a for multiplexed gene perturbation by: Gabrielle...
  7. Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers

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    ...gBlocks® Gene Fragment from Integrated DNA technologies. Generally speaking, anyone using CRISPR/Cas9 in the... an effort to track down every last one of those gene regulatory proteins and the places in the genome...efficiently, they’ve recently adapted the CRISPR/Cas9 system for protein tagging. We spoke with Mendenhall...together on several projects and this is one related to gene expression. One goal of the ENCODE project is to...context? Mendenhall: The benefits are two-fold: CRISPR/Cas9 offers high efficiency of inducing double strand... crispr/cas9... cas9...
  8. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...types. They have also fused LSD1 to x-Cas9(3.7). x-Cas9(3.7) is a SpCas9 mutant that exhibits increased PAM...comparing gene activation when enhancers were active or silent, they could identify the target genes of previously...Epigenome editing by a CRISPR-Cas9-based acetyltransferase activates genes from promoters and enhancers...efficient. In general, epigenetic chromatin modifications are correlated with alterations in gene expression...contains Cas9 fusions for several epigenetic modifiers, and is available as a kit from Addgene.   Find ...from this publication at Addgene. Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Cas9 Activators: A Practical...updated Jun 24, 2020. Epigenetic modifications are an additional layer of control over gene expression that ...
  9. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins

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    ...CASANOVA? It works with the S. pyogenes Cas9, dCas9-effector fusions, and xCas9, and requires no additional... to this episode of Hot Plasmids! Optogenetic control of CRISPR-Cas9 by CASANOVA Article contributed by... II CRISPR systems including the popular S. pyogenes Cas9 (Rauch et al., 2017, Hynes et al., 2017). However...inhibitor CASANOVA for “CRISPR-Cas9 activity switching via a novel optogenetic variant of AcrIIA4.” CASANOVA..., they have developed a system to control CRISPR-Cas9 activity using blue light (Bubeck et al., 2018)...., inhibiting function of Acr. This allows CRISPR-Cas9 to function on its target.  They name their most...compatible approach to simultaneously clone two genes-of-interest (GOI) into two independent expression...
  10. CRISPR 101: Validating Your Genome Edit

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    ... eSpCas9(1.1), or HypaCas9. Read more about Cas9 options in our blog post here. Dealing with low editing...version of Cas9 that has been specifically engineered for reduced off target editing, such as SpCas9-HF1, eSpCas9...gRNA and introduced it into your target cells with Cas9. Hooray! Now it’s time to make sure your genome ... product of both an unedited population and your Cas9-targeted cells. Simply upload both trace files to...with the estimated editing frequency of your sgRNA-Cas9 combo. Pro tip: When designing your PCR, ensure ...likely -/-, 50% are -/+, and 25% are +/+ for your gene of interest. Thus, to find a null clone, you should...introduced a donor template along with your gRNA and Cas9 combo and are hoping for homology-directed repair...
  11. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    ... 47327 pET-28b-Cas9-His 6xHis (C terminal); NLS (C terminal) 62933 pET-Cas9-NLS-6xHis 6xHis... Figure 1: In conventional gene targeting (A), you must first generate your desired mutation in mouse...described in Figure 2.  You can also use Addgene plasmids to purify Cas9 protein. The table below contains some...PMC3961003  Miura, Hiromi, et al. “CRISPR/Cas9-based generation of knockdown mice by intronic insertion ...Repair Learn about Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery Resources on Addgene.org Check out our CRISPR...mutations, the 8-10 month process of conventional gene targeting is lowered to about 2-3 months. But certain.... recommend ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes of Cas9 protein and the separated guide RNA components (...
  12. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    ... to use variants of Cas9, like split Cas9, or a smaller Cas9 ortholog like SaCas9. You could even venture...or negative selection). Next-generation sequencing (NGS) to identify genes of interest. Figure ...target genes for drug discovery or to understand the intricacies of molecular pathways. These screens have ...the targeting of hundreds to tens of thousands of genes with minimal effort. The versatility of Cas effectors...at double-stranded break points caused by CRISPR-Cas9 editing. The good news is that this integration ...approximately 4.7 kb — which means that when using Cas9, you’re already almost out of space! Don’t let this... you have one AAV vector dedicated to expressing Cas9, while the other houses the gRNA and scaffold. If...
  13. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    ... enzyme with a fully active Cas9 enzyme. PE-Cas9 comprises an active Cas9 fused to the reverse transcriptase...especially when fused to effector proteins for gene activation or gene editing. The more recently identified Cas12f... or Cas9 mRNA and sgRNA, in human and mouse cells. They further develop a version of SEND for gene transfer...editing systems improve gene editing performance at therapeutically relevant gene targets and expand the...Pyhtila One drawback to the commonly used S. pyogenes CRISPR/Cas9 system is that it is too large to be effectively...CasMINI system is less than half the size of the Cas9 or Cas12a based systems, making it well suited for...version (named CasMINI) had the highest activity for gene activation  and base editing, whereas a different...
  14. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    ... do so in vivo. Catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) cannot induce gene editing, but it retains its gRNA-directed...detect gene copy number based on the number of fluorescent puncta observed. By labeling two genes of a ... a colorful Cas9 toolbox, Ma et al. turned to SpCas9 and its orthologs NmCas9 and St1Cas9. Each ortholog...plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 4. Kiani, Samira, et al. “Cas9 gRNA engineering for genome editing...Chen et al. successfully labeled protein-coding genes with both intronic and exonic gRNAs. In fact, the...also monitor the spatial relationship of the two genes over time, at a range of distances from 2-75 Mbp...success of Ma et al.’s approach, fluorescently labeled Cas9’s come with a number of limitations. Since color...
  15. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    ...causes the ribosome to translate Cas9-2A and the Puromycin resistance gene as separate peptides. PX459 This...plasmid expresses Streptococcus pyogenes (Sp) Cas9 from a Cbh promoter. Cbh is a modified version of CAG promoter...mammalian cell lines. Cas9, of course, is the key component of most CRISPR systems and generates double strange.... 2A-Puro In this plasmid, SpCas9 is fused to the puromycin resistance gene through a 2A peptide. The ...The puromycin resistance gene enables selection of cells with the plasmid post transfection. The 2A "self...had a point mutation in the puromycin resistance gene that made it less effective in certain cell lines...Ann, et al. "Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system." Nature protocols 8.11 (2013): 2281-2308...
  16. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    ...Nucleome with CRISPR/Cas9 Resources at Addgene.org Read our CRISPR Guide to Epigenetics References Charlton...inherent to dCas9-TET, allowing one to study the causal relationship between DNA demethylation and gene expression...investigation into the regulation of your favorite gene. But have no fear - I’m here to introduce you to...genome – could be affected, leading to unpredicted gene expression changes (Sapozhnikov and Szyf 2021, Charlton...interact with transcriptional machinery to modify local gene expression, confounding any potential conclusions... expressing blasticidin or puromycin resistance genes.  It’s that simple! Good luck and happy editing...Vogelstein B (1983) Hypomethylation distinguishes genes of some human cancers from their normal counterparts...
  17. CRISPR Kinome Libraries Available: Pooled and Individual Plasmid Formats

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    ...Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn to Conduct Genome-wide Screens with CRISPR/Cas9 Get John Doench's...screens using CRISPR technology, gRNAs to knockout genes – are essential screening components, the model ...Sometimes, you might have a few positive control genes on which to test the validity of your biological... a new assay or both, and you have no idea what genes are involved. Or you don’t know how well your assay...definition, the kinome is a well-annotated collection of genes that can provide a useful starting point for developing...screens can be performed with either 4 or 8 gRNAs per gene. Further, the pools are available in two vector ...formats: all-in-one (lentiCRISPRv2, expressing both Cas9 and an individual gRNA from this single vector) ...
  18. 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... role in the transcriptional regulation of many genes. A number of groups have designed means of studying...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...
  19. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    ...high-throughput CRISPR/Cas9 gene modification in Caenorhabditis elegans CRISPR/Cas9 technology has revolutionized...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...an unpublished set of Zika gene plasmids to Addgene’s repository. The genes, from the Zika virus Asian...vectors targeting their genes of interest to generate mAID fusions to endogenous genes. Cell lines with the...targeting a total of 20,121 genes within the human genome (the identity of the genes and target sequences can...expression level for their gene of interest. Although the parts involved in altering gene expression are relatively...
  20. With Our New Viral Service, We're Taking CRISPR Further!

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    ...delivery of SpCas9 and Cas9 nickase for genome editing. You can also enhance expression of your gene of interest...EGFP can be used as positive controls for gene editing or gene activation, while the BRAF and MAP3K4 gRNAs...provide the Brunello (targeting human genes) and Brie (targeting mouse genes) pooled libraries from the labs...already expressing Cas9. As John Doench (Broad Institute and member of the Addgene Advisory Board) says...Like all things in science, getting a high titer Cas9 lentivirus prep takes a bit of time and effort that...interest with a variety of Cas9 activators available in lentiviral format. Finally, while we can’t currently... pathways. Find Validated gRNAs to use with your Cas9 Virus Pooled libraries now available in lentiviral...
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