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  1. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    ...Catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) cannot induce gene editing, but it retains its gRNA-directed targeting capacity...capacity. By using a gRNA to target fluorescently labeled dCas9 to a given genomic locus, you can track...noise ratio of the system, they modified GFP-dCas9 and the gRNA scaffold to enhance complex assembly, thereby...did not observe labeling when a. no gRNA was present or b. when a gRNA binding a non-mammalian sequence ...requires a different PAM sequence, a gRNA designed for one dCas9 should be specific to that ortholog and...other orthologs. Ma et al. tested their dCas9 variants using gRNAs specific for telomeric sequences and ...approach: labeling the gRNA itself. In their CRISPRainbow paper, Ma et al. engineered gRNA scaffolds containing...

  2. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...via a targeting gRNA. But dCas9 does not cleave the DNA. Much of the research using dCas9 has focused on...cells by expressing dCas9 with an N-terminal 3xFLAG tag (3xFLAG-dCas9) and a gRNA targeting their genomic...inactive form of Cas9 known as dCas9 (Jinek et al., 2012). Like Cas9, dCas9 can bind to a specific DNA sequence...using the CRISPR system, consisting of dCas9 and targeting gRNA, to identify molecular interactions at...interest can be targeted using a gRNA, which can easily be cloned into a gRNA expression plasmid. Experimental...complex, consisting of a recombinant dCas9 protein and synthetic gRNA, is incubated with fragmented chromatin...al., 2016). 3xFLAG-tag fused to dCas9, along with a biotinylated gRNA, were successfully used in this ...

  3. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    ... are co-expressed, the gRNA targets the dCas9 to the loci of interest and dCas9 is biotinylated by BirA...three components: dCas9 with an added biotin acceptor site BirA, a biotin ligase a gRNA(s) targeting a single...CAPTURE cell lines will have varying levels of dCas9 and gRNA expression. Additionally, CAPTURE 3C-based ... two. Lentiviral delivery of BioTAP-tagged dCas9 and gRNAs. Using lentiviral delivery of the two remaining...expressing 1) FLAG-biotin-tagged dCas9, 2) BirA, and 3) one or more gRNAs Two separate lentiviruses delivering...delivering 1) a BioTAP-tagged dCas9 and an eGFP tag, and 2) gRNAs Number of loci targeted One Many Sample...2.0, with two gRNAs targeting each site. They found that DNA sequences targeted by the gRNAs were the top...

  4. What's New in CRISPR - March 2020

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    ...fluorescent dCas9-KRAB and dCas9-VPR for quantifying and tracking cells that express both the dCas9 construct...CRISPRa depended on continued expression of dCas9 and gRNAs whose expression varies depending on transgene...cycle regulator. The lab expressed both dCas9 and the ctrA sgRNA and saw that the levels of ctrA mRNA decreased...editing CRISPRi in Caulobacter crescentus Multiplexed gRNA for human pluripotent stem cells CRISPR-based DNA...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...

  5. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    ...Enzymatic domains tethered to dCas9 often interact with DNA independently of dCas9 targeting (Galonska 2018... Design your gRNA to overlap the CpG of interest. Having the CpG directly inside the gRNA sequence is ...especially 3’ of PAM) might work too.  High dCas9 and gRNA expression are key for complete DNA demethylation...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...

  6. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    ...RNA (gRNA) sequences. But these approaches rely on continual expression of both dCas9 and the gRNA. This...and track cells expressing both dCas9 and gRNAs. The multi-gRNA piggyBac vector integrates into ...for multiplexed piggyBac gRNA delivery and the all-in-one dCas9-KRAB and dCas9-VPR targeting plasmids can...sustained expression of single or multiplexed gRNAs and of dCas9 fusions. The dCas-KRAB activator and the ...an EGFP reporter. Expression of the dCas9-KRAB activator or dCas9-VPR repressor in hPSCs is also driven...out these plasmids for piggyBac gRNA delivery and the all-in-one dCas9 targeting plasmids! Hazelbaker ...driven by a doxycycline inducible promoter. The gRNA piggyBac plasmids include a mRFP reporter. With this...

  7. What's New in CRISPR - May 2019

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    ...,000 gRNAs) that targets ~4,000 E. coli genes with ~15 gRNAs per gene and includes ~10,000 gRNAs targeting...After testing dCas9 fusions with transcriptional repressors, they found that fusing dCas9 to an Mxi1 repressor...gene. Read the paper in mSphere Find the dCas9 and dCas9-Mxi1 plasmids If you have a new CRISPR tool...intergenic regions. The libraries also include 2,400 gRNAs without any significant hit across the E. coli genome...oligodeoxynucleotide HDR template covalently attached to the Cas9-gRNA RNP complex via the fused HUH endonuclease PCV. ...editors All-in-one AAV delivery of Nme2Cas9 with gRNA cassette Erik Sontheimer’s lab identified a Cas9...lab used single-AAV delivery of Nme2Cas9 and the sgRNA to demonstrate efficient editing in adult mice and...

  8. Mapping the 4D nucleome with CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...repression. dCas9 has also previously been adapted to fluorescently label a sequence matching its gRNA, facilitating...sequences required by each ortholog, a gRNA designed for one dCas9 should be specific to that ortholog and...other orthologs. Ma et al. tested their dCas9 variants using gRNAs specific for telomeric sequences and ... organization may be altered in disease states. dCas9 gets a colorful makeover Even without its nuclease...nuclease activity, catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) has many applications, the most well-known being transcriptional...and showed that different fluorescently labeled dCas9 isoforms are efficiently directed to the proper target... label two different pairs of chromosomes using gRNAs specific to sequences on chromosomes 9 and 13. They...

  9. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...cleave the gRNAs. gRNAs are flanked by glycine tRNAs to create polycistronic glycine tRNA-gRNA (PTG) constructs...zebrafish!   Why use multiplexed gRNAs? By expressing multiple gRNAs on the same plasmid, you’ll make ...system for processing a continuous multi-gRNA transcript, each gRNA must be expressed from its own promoter...researchers to express multiple gRNA from a single construct. DNA and gRNA are not to scale.   Let’s... your chosen gRNA target sequences and clone them in just as you would for a single gRNA. You’ll clone...clone in the first gRNA using restriction enzyme BbsI and the second gRNA using restriction enzyme BsaI. ...Drosophila, a two-gRNA expressing plasmid is available from the Bullock lab, and gRNAs can be inserted ...

  10. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    ...genes using dCas9-based activators The simplest of the dCas9 activators consists of dCas9 fused to a single...Repressing target genes using dCas9-based repressors Early experiments using dCas9 in bacteria demonstrated...strongest activator, consists of a dCas9-VP64 fusion and a modified gRNA that is capable of interacting with... Fig. 3: Cas9 repressors include dCas9 alone and a dCas9-KRAB fusion, both targeted to the promoter...selecting a sgRNA Addgene may carry a validated sgRNA for your target gene.  Validated gRNAs are a great...of the many freely available sgRNA design programs. Find Validated gRNAs for Your Next CRISPR Experiment...even making a break.  Base editors are dead Cas9 (dCas9) or nCas9 enzymes fused to either cytosine or adenosine...

  11. Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius

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    ...the gRNA tetraloop (a four base hairpin loop motif within the gRNA) resulted in a more stable gRNA than... hairpins within one gRNA will result in a blue, green, or red readout. But gRNAs containing two different...increasing gRNA stability. First, they began with the Broccoli aptamer system to visualize the gRNA in living...Multiplexed labeling of genomic loci with dCas9 and engineered sgRNAs using CRISPRainbow.” Nature Biotechnology...The catalytically dead Cas9 protein (dCas9) is well known for its ability to bind DNA targets without...inhibition, among others. Over the past few years, dCas9 has also become a robust visualization tool to study...University of Massachusetts Medical School developed a dCas9-based multicolor labeling system to visualize chromosomal...

  12. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...tuberculosis. dCas9 and a gRNA are expressed on pRH2502 and pRH2521, respectively. Both dCas9 and the gRNA are ...pMAZ-SK contains an aTet-inducible gRNA and a backbone-targeting gRNA cassette for plasmid curing through...targeting either a catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) alone or a dCas9 fused to the omega subunit of RNA polymerase...capable of converting one base to another to dCas9. The typical gRNA targeting approach is then used to direct... gene lambda Red. pTargetF contains the specific gRNA(s), and the repair template is supplied as a dsDNA... array, while pCRISPomyces-2 contains Cas9 and a gRNA cassette. The simpler system of pCRISPomyces-2 displays...condensed design. For both systems, custom spacers/gRNAs are easily inserted using BbsI and Golden Gate Assembly...

  13. Introducing an All-in-One CRISPR/Cas9 Vector System for Multiplex Genome Engineering

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    ...and nickase, but we are now adopting dCas9, dCas9-VP64, and dCas9-KRAB in our system,” Sakuma said. “These... to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing CRISPR-Cas9: Tips for Optimizing sgRNA Activity Lentiviral...Cas9 vectors expressing up to seven guide RNAs (gRNAs). Sakuma said that the new system could also be ...cloning method to ligate expression cassettes of the gRNAs into a single vector in tandem. They went on to ...

  14. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    ...in which dCas9 binding occurs. Bubeck et al. expressed a telomere-targeting gRNA and a dCas9 fusion protein...cell, the dCas9-CIB1 fusion binds to the target DNA sequence as directed by the guide RNA (gRNA), while .... sphaeroides Cas9, dCas9 Gene editing Zhou et al., 2018   pdDronpa Cas9, dCas9 Gene editing, transcription...Shining light on transcriptional activation using dCas9 Initial photoactivatable CRISPR systems published...genomic anchor - an inactive, dead Cas9 protein (dCas9) fused to CIB1; and 2) the activator - the CRY2 ...proteins. The best performing combination was NLS-dCas9-trCIB1 and NLSx3-CRYPHR-p65 - it had the lowest ...The optimized LACE system consisted of: 1) CIBN-dCas9-CIBN, where CIBN is the N-terminal fragment of CIB1...

  15. Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression

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    ...appropriately designed small RNA, or guide RNA (gRNA). The gRNA conventionally contains a 20-nucleotide sequence...either a full-length gRNA (20nt complementarity to target site) or truncated gRNA (≤15nt complementarity...non-complementary to the gRNA, respectively. When complexed with a truncated gRNA, Cas9 binds the target...along with the necessary gRNAs, but it would not be possible to control which gRNA becomes complexed with...truncated gRNAs An alternative approach is to modulate Cas9’s nuclease activity by modifying the gRNA with ...incorporated into the truncated gRNA recruits a transcriptional activator to the Cas9-gRNA complex. When this complex...employed 20nt gRNAs. It should be noted, however, that on rare occasions truncated gRNAs (≤15nt) have ...

  16. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...dead Cas9 (dCas9) based activators (such as dCas9-VP64) or repressors (dCas9-KRAB or dCas9-SRDX) can also...guide RNA (gRNA) is sufficient to modify the genome of plant cells. The structure of the gRNA (composed... to drive gRNA expression is dependent upon the cell type in question. In plant cells, gRNA expression...carries >30 “empty gRNA” backbones which contain a plant pol III promoter and gRNA scaffold sequence and...aforementioned empty gRNA backbones also contain Cas9, which enables expression of both Cas9 and the gRNA off of the...expression is achieved by placing the gRNA downstream of a plant-specific RNA pol III promoter, such as AtU6, ...required. As with other model systems, multiple gRNAs can be expressed to modify several genomic loci ...

  17. Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...identical dissociation rates for catalytically inactive dCas9 molecules. We followed these experiments with more...duplex. Image from Richardson et al., 2016.   dCas9 enables sequence replacement without cutting Our...results also demonstrated that catalytically inactive dCas9 produced a “bubble” structure in uncut target DNA... sequence replacement in cells. Targeting three dCas9 molecules to a precisely spaced region allowed sequence...cutting. We still don’t know the mechanism underlying dCas9 editing, but it could be very useful to tackle genetic...Brush Up on Your HDR Basics Learn How to Design Your gRNA Find the Ideal CRISPR Software for Your Needs Resources...Plasmids for Your Research Check out Our List of gRNA Design Tools ...

  18. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    ...HEK293FT cells expressing a single gRNA targeting a single gene. The gRNA expressing cells were then transfected...library” that contains ~90,000 gRNAs that target ~15,000 genes with 6 gRNAs per gene. The second is a "supplementary...contains an additional 6 gRNAs per gene generated using slightly relaxed gRNA design parameters. To demonstrate...as an interactive gRNA viewer. The Moffat lab has also deposited their Cas9 and gRNA backbone plasmids...creating a new dCas9-VPR expression plasmid that uses the piggybac transposase to integrate dCas9-VPR into ... is genomic integration of dCas9-VPR and controlled expression of the dCas9-VPR transgene by doxycycline... Liu lab’s own pAc-sgRNA-Cas9 insect expression backbone, which expresses the gRNA from a Drosophila U6...

  19. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    ...propagation and keeping that dCas9 sequence in the pool. According to this logic, ω-dCas9 variants recognizing... PAM near your insertion site, the corresponding gRNA might be undesirable due to potential off-target... phage (SP) to carry catalytically dead SpCas9 (dCas9) fused to the bacterial polymerase subunit ω. This...NNN PAM sequences adjacent to a protospacer. If ω-dCas9 could recognize a library PAM, it would induce transcription...activity. Surprisingly, off-target effects across 5 gRNAs with NGG PAM sequences were actually lower for xCas9...3.6/3.7 than for SpCas9. For some non-promiscuous gRNAs, xCas9 3.7 displayed more than a 100 fold decrease...decrease in off-target editing; for known promiscuous gRNAs, xCas9 3.7 still showed a 4.2-9.4-fold improvement...

  20. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    ...optimal gRNAs for either “shock and kill” or viral excision approaches, and each of these gRNAs will need...strategies for CRISPR-HIV therapeutics - one using dCas9-SAM to activate HIV-1 transcription and destroy ...system available from Addgene. This system uses the dCas9-VP64 fusion commonly used to activate transcription...transcriptional activation. Zhang et al. designed multiple gRNAs to target the 5’ long terminal repeat (LTR) of the...reinfection of those cells. Kaminski et al. designed gRNAs to target the HIV-1 5’ and 3’ LTRs and expressed...portion of the LTRs joined together. Clonal Cas9/gRNA-expressing cell populations were also immune to ..., cell cycle progression, or apoptosis with Cas9/gRNA expression. A pooled analysis found no evidence ...
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