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  1. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...either Neo or Hygro resistance markers with CRISPR/Cas vectors targeting their genes of interest to generate...CRISPR-Cas9-based tool for targeting CpG methylation by fusing catalytically inactive Cas9 (dCas9) with...pDGE Dicot Genome Editing Kit contains Cas9, Cas9 nickase, and Cas9 activator expressing plasmids that can...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...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...
  2. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... potential applications. Polstein LR & Gersbach CA, Nat Chem Biol 2015 Mar;11(3):198-200. SunTag system...fully functional Cas9 upon dimerization. Splitting wild-type Cas9 into n-terminal (Cas9(N)-2xNLS) and c-terminal...specific genes using dCas9-VP64 activator fragments (dCas9(C)-FKBP-2xNLS-VP64 and dCas9(N)-FRB-NES). This...gene activation when fused to dCas9. In the dCas9-SunTag-VP64 system, dCas9 is fused to a scaffold containing...domains onto dCas9 to generate a dCas9-VP64-p65-Rta fusion protein (referred to as dCas9-VPR) had a synergistic... can write a blog post about it! Split Cas9 system The Cas9 protein is composed of an n-terminal DNA... the bi-lobed architecture of Cas9 to engineer a series of "split" cas9 molecules that cannot function...
  3. Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression

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    Jan. 10, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
    ... gRNA, Cas9 binds the target site, but does not cut either strand of DNA. Traditional Cas9 regulators...capability, and this nuclease-null or “dead” Cas9 (dCas9) variant can then be fused to effector domains...importantly, most Cas9 orthologs are less well characterized than the conventionally used SpCas9 (derived from...to exhibit more limited activity than SpCas9 (2). In many cases this is due both to lower relative nuclease... a potent Cas9-based transcriptional regulator without making any functional changes to Cas9. For instance...repression with nuclease-competent Cas9. When complexed with a truncated gRNA, Cas9 is still able to bind DNA ...on rare occasions truncated gRNAs (≤15nt) have been found to retain some ability to induce Cas9 to make...
  4. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    Sept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
    ... can occur due to prolonged Cas9 expression     The requirement for Cas9 transcription and translation...consisting of the Cas9 protein in complex with a targeting gRNA, to your cells of interest. Cas9 RNPs are capable...pathways. This makes Cas9 RNPs useful for CRISPR applications where limited expression of Cas9 is required and...long-term expression of Cas9, such as visualizing genomic loci using fluorophore tagged dCas9 may require the ...express and purify His-tagged Cas9 from E. coli using a plasmid such as pET-28b-Cas9-His from Alex Schier’s ... of Cas9-gRNA RNPs by specific cell types (Rouet et al. 2018). This was accomplished using a Cas9 mutant...for experiments where stable Cas9 expression is required, such as when a Cas9 fusion to a fluorescent protein...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
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