Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers
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Blog Post
Published
July 28, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
...system for protein tagging.
We spoke with Mendenhall and Myers about their new CRISPR tagging system, which...www.addgene.org/crispr/tagging.
Addgene: What motivated you to adapt CRISPR for use in protein tagging?
Myers: Our...epitope tag onto the transcription factors. By the way, you can actually use this for tagging any protein...Alabama in Huntsville explains it, a major goal in his laboratory is to understand the function of the non-coding...factors. Our groups got together to adapt CRISPR for tagging experiments and it’s already looking like it’s ...correctly, the second plasmid inserts a small epitope tag called FLAG at the end of the transcription factor...you can select the population of cells with the tagged transcription factor.
The FLAG antibody has been...