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  1. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    Jan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m.
    ...The popular CRISPR base editing technique uses dCas9/Cas9 nickase fused to a cytidine deaminase for targeted..., a base editor containing high fidelity Cas9 variant HF-Cas9. They subsequently tested the original BE3...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...-BE3  EQR-Cas9 (NGAG)  Lower off-target activity than BE3  85173  pBK-VRER-BE3  VRER-Cas9 (NGCG)   ...85174  pBK-YE1-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85175  pBK-EE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window...85176  pBK-YE2-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Editing window ~2 nt  85177  pBK-YEE-BE3  SpCas9 (NGG)  Lower on-target...
  2. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    March 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...cells stably expressing Cas9 via transduction with Cas9 lentiviral vector, lentiCas9-Blast (52962-LV, Figure... Figure 1: Cas9 expression in A549 cells transduced with lentiCas9-blast. Anti-Cas9 Western blotting... Cas9 delivery Overview: Before any editing can begin we need our A549 cells to express Cas9. In these...with too many Cas9 integrations per cell, and my stable cell pool had wildly variable Cas9 expression (... variable Cas9-expression was across the different cells (Figure 3).   Figure 2: Cas9 expression...to assay Cas9 activity in my stable A549 cell pools. Using this virus, it’s expected that Cas9 activity...gene. So, cells with no Cas9 should appear green and cells with functional Cas9 should appear less green...
  3. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    Jan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m.
    ...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... sequence (pSpCas9(BB)). The 2A-GFP allows for screening of transfected cells. Find pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP...chimeric guide RNA. Find pX330-U6-Chimeric_BB-CBh-hSpCas9. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) V2.0 - This plasmid from... in the puromycin cassette that makes it less efficient in some cell lines. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459...
  4. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...or apoptosis with Cas9/gRNA expression. A pooled analysis found no evidence of Cas9 cleavage at predicted...expression of Cas9/gRNAs, which could result in higher rates of off-target cleavage. In both cases, translating...were located near the Cas9 cut site, leading Wang et al. to conclude that some Cas9-derived indels may not...CRISPR/Cas9 escape occurs in an animal model. If these escape mutations are frequent, the dCas9-mediated...strategies for CRISPR-HIV therapeutics - one using dCas9-SAM to activate HIV-1 transcription and destroy ...destroy infected cells, the other using wild-type Cas9 to remove the HIV-1 genome from infected cells. Read ...realistic with the advent of CRISPR. Using CRISPR/Cas9 SAM to "shock and kill" To “shock and kill” the...
  5. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    Jan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m.
    ... expressed from lentiCas9-Blast. Purpose of LentiCas9-blast LentiCas9-blast is a Cas9 expression vector...express Cas9 and a gRNA from the same plasmid. LentiCas9-blast virus can be used to generate Cas9-expressing...While various Cas9 mutants have been engineered to perform unique editing tasks, classic Cas9 nuclease, which...Secondly, you can use a LentiCas9-Blast viral prep to create a single stable Cas9-expressing cell line and...gRNAs in a monoclonal Cas9 background because you’ll have more consistent levels of Cas9 expression between...this plasmid Cas9 expression is typically cytotoxic, which makes generation of high titer Cas9 lentiviruses...growth rate variability when using lentiCas9-blast to generate Cas9-expressing cells. To ensure that this...
  6. Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing

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    March 24, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Postdoctoral Researcher in Jacob Corn’s lab. CRISPR-Cas9 (Cas9) is an RNA-guided nuclease that targets and cuts...replacement by HDR. Understanding Cas9 biophysics enhances HDR We first measured Cas9 dissociation rates and discovered...interaction with the Cas9-DNA duplex. Image from Richardson et al., 2016.   dCas9 enables sequence replacement...normally accompanies Cas9 cutting. We still don’t know the mechanism underlying dCas9 editing, but it could... cuts genomic DNA. The interplay between Cas9 (which causes the breaks) and host cell DNA repair factors...factors (which repair those breaks) makes Cas9 extremely effective as a genome editing reagent. This interplay... and thus, causes two types of editing outcomes: Cas9 breaks repaired by the non-homologous end-joining...
  7. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    May 30, 2019, 12:44 p.m.
    ...catalytically inactive form of Cas9 known as dCas9 (Jinek et al., 2012). Like Cas9, dCas9 can bind to a specific...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...editing, numerous discoveries have been made using the Cas9 nuclease in the absence of genomic alterations. ...activators (Qi et al., 2013). However, the fusion of dCas9 with a protein tag allows for the isolation of a...genomic region using the CRISPR system, consisting of dCas9 and targeting gRNA, to identify molecular interactions...3xFLAG tag, allowed these researchers to isolate dCas9 with the bound genomic locus, which they then confirmed...
  8. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    Jan. 11, 2017, 8:47 p.m.
    ... 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 ...tools came out including the single base editors, Casilio, CombiGEM, and a variety of pooled libraries. Not... as is obvious from our most requested plasmid, SpCas9 is still going strong as the basis for many genome...further ado, the most request plasmid in 2016 was... pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) V2.0       Similar to last...2016 is an expression vector for CRISPR nuclease, SpCas9 from the Zhang Lab. It's name, though a little ...plasmid expresses Streptococcus pyogenes (Sp) Cas9 from a Cbh promoter. Cbh is a modified version of CAG promoter...
  9. Advice on Career Paths and the Green Card Process for International Researchers and Entrepreneurs

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    Dec. 20, 2017, 2:33 p.m.
    ...Careers and Rachel Casseus, Esq. Founder of Casseus Law. Rachel Casseus Esq., Founder Casseus Law. Driven by...1A and EB-1B cases, Casseus Law recommends 6-8 letters.  For these recommendations, Casseus Law suggests...Celano of Propel Careers and Rachel Casseus, Esq. Founder of Casseus Law. Disclaimer: The contents of this...learn more, visit www.propelcareers.com. Casseus Law: Casseus Law is dedicated to the practice of US immigration...law, Casseus Law provides legal services to people located in all 50 states and globally. Casseus Law ...uncertainty associated with filing a permanent residence case with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services...obtain permanent residence. The recently established case Matter of Dhanasar provides the three-prong test...
  10. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins

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    March 19, 2019, 1:31 p.m.
    ...great about CASANOVA? It works with the S. pyogenes Cas9, dCas9-effector fusions, and xCas9, and requires... CRISPR-Cas9 by CASANOVA Article contributed by Cary Valley  Listen to the anti-CRISPR podcast segment...potent Acr-LOV fusion protein inhibitor CASANOVA for “CRISPR-Cas9 activity switching via a novel optogenetic...AcrIIA4.” CASANOVA responds to blue light quickly. Within minutes of inactivating the CASANOVA complex,...CRISPR systems including the popular S. pyogenes Cas9 (Rauch et al., 2017, Hynes et al., 2017). However..., 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...
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