Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap
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... site specified by a guide RNA (gRNA) sequence. Users can design gRNAs to induce the break at a specific... other CRISPR/Cas systems used for endogenous protein tagging, please visit our website CRISPR/Cas Plasmids... of interest with a fluorescent protein fusion. CRISPR genome editing can help accomplish this goal. The...sequence (like GFP) can be inserted at the DSB. CRISPR has allowed scientists to tag and light up endogenous...better understand normal protein function. However, CRISPR protein tagging does have its limitations, especially...expensive and time consuming to individually generate gRNAs and homology arm repair templates containing the...plasmid assembly toolkit called SapTrap to improve CRISPR genomic tagging in C. elegans. SapTrap offers scientists...