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  1. New CRISPR Web Resources and #12DaysofCRISPR Recap

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    Dec. 12, 2017, 3:13 p.m.
    ...CRISPR Antimicrobials Day 7: Multiplexing and Cas9 variants: CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs and...Pooled libraries: Genome-Wide Screening Using CRISPR/Cas9 and Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled... CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9 Day 10: Transcriptional regulation:...The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9 Day 8: Repair mechanisms: CRISPR 101: Non-homologous...

  2. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...such as long or highly structured templates. Cas9 variants PE6e–g often had even higher editing efficiencies...vivo. Incorporating reverse transcriptase (RT) variants, PE6a and PE6b are 500–800 bp smaller than previous...PE6d are optimized for dual-AAV systems. These variants use different RT enzymes and performed large edits...edit.   Figure 1: Choosing the best PE6 variant for your application. Image reused form Doman and...

  3. CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!

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    Oct. 6, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... activation CRISPR activation uses dCas9, a CRISPR protein variant lacking its endonuclease ability, to...J, Collins JJ, Church GM (2015) Highly efficient Cas9-mediated transcriptional programming. Nat Methods...Perrimon N, Collins JJ, Church G (2016) Comparison of Cas9 activators in multiple species. Nat Methods 13:563...transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex. Nature 517:583–588 . https://doi.org/10.1038...Gersbach CA (2013) RNA-guided gene activation by CRISPR-Cas9–based transcription factors. Nat Methods 10:973–... cell lines.   dCas9-VP64 Description CRISPR activation can occur through fusing dCas9 with VP64, a strong... for CRISPR-based gene activation. dCas9-CBP In this method, dCas9 is fused to CBP, an histone acetyltransferase...

  4. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    Feb. 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...option is to use variants of Cas9, like split Cas9, or a smaller Cas9 ortholog like SaCas9. You could even...at double-stranded break points caused by CRISPR-Cas9 editing. The good news is that this integration ...approximately 4.7 kb — which means that when using Cas9, you’re already almost out of space! Don’t let this... you have one AAV vector dedicated to expressing Cas9, while the other houses the gRNA and scaffold. If...even venture away from the comfort of Cas9, and opt for a completely different Cas effector, like Cas12a...

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

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    July 2, 2020, 12:40 p.m.
    ...time CRISPR users Learn how to Choose the Best Cas9 Variant for Your Next Experiment Learn More About Designing...Additional Resources on Addgene.org Find Other Cas9 Variants for Purifying Genomic Regions of Interest Here...co-expressed, the gRNA targets the dCas9 to the loci of interest and dCas9 is biotinylated by BirA. From here...To increase the resolution, the Xu lab created a dCas9-based CAPTURE (CRISPR Affinity Purification in situ... cell line that co-expresses three components: dCas9 with an added biotin acceptor site BirA, a biotin...be pulled down via streptavidin IP. Biotinylated dCas9 goes along for the ride throughout all of these ... CAPTURE cell lines will have varying levels of dCas9 and gRNA expression. Additionally, CAPTURE 3C-based...

  6. CRISPR 101: Validating Your Genome Edit

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    Nov. 3, 2022, 12:15 p.m.
    ... eSpCas9(1.1), or HypaCas9. Read more about Cas9 options in our blog post here. Dealing with low editing...version of Cas9 that has been specifically engineered for reduced off target editing, such as SpCas9-HF1, eSpCas9...gRNA and introduced it into your target cells with Cas9. Hooray! Now it’s time to make sure your genome ... product of both an unedited population and your Cas9-targeted cells. Simply upload both trace files to...with the estimated editing frequency of your sgRNA-Cas9 combo. Pro tip: When designing your PCR, ensure ...introduced a donor template along with your gRNA and Cas9 combo and are hoping for homology-directed repair...despair, you have options! If you think delivery of Cas9 or gRNA is the issue, check out or blog on optimizing...

  7. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
    ...CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing may be the hot new way to manipulate gene expression, but other gene manipulation...expression; these deletions are defined using 2 loxP variants (only identical loxP sites can mediate recombination...either deletion removes one of the other loxP site variants, preventing further recombination. Brainbow-1.1...with recombination events specified by three loxP variants, but the principles remain the same. The first...Variations Between Brainbow Systems   Brainbow variants and applications beyond the mouse brain In addition...Brainbow to be used in a variety of species. More variants have been created by other labs, including R26R-Confetti...

  8. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    Oct. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Use Cas9 Activators Perform Genome-Wide Screens with CRISPR Generate Mouse Models with CRISPR/Cas9 Additional...techniques, please see “Methods for Optimizing CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Specificity” by Tycko et al. 2016...improving the genome-wide specificities of CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases”
by Tsai and Joung 2016. Many thanks ...high-throughput screening strategy for detecting CRISPR-Cas9 induced mutations using next-generation sequencing...sequencing: a comparison of methodologies for KRAS variant detection." Biotechniques 53.3 (2012): 182-188....of off-target DNA cleavage reveals RNA-programmed Cas9 nuclease specificity." Nature biotechnology 31.9.... "Digenome-seq: genome-wide profiling of CRISPR-Cas9 off-target effects in human cells." Nature methods...

  9. Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius

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    April 18, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
    ...fluorescent protein to various Cas9 variants, SpCas9, NmCas9, and St1Cas9. These fusions localized to specific...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... al. “Multiplexed labeling of genomic loci with dCas9 and engineered sgRNAs using CRISPRainbow.” Nature...

  10. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ... years, scientists have utilized CRISPR-Cas9 protein variants, Cas13, and Cas12a, to develop simple, portable...Cas12a (Cpf1) is a CRISPR Cas variant that can also cleave dsDNA similarly to Cas9 (Zetsche et al., 2015 )....

  11. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    Nov. 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...for oxidizing environments to photoconvertible variants, it seems like GFP is always learning new things...proteins with a modular structure, constructing split variants should be relatively straightforward, but it is...versions of non-modular proteins like Cre. Could Cas9-DOG be developed soon to allow genome modification...

  12. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...plasmids available! Interested in purifying Cas9? Check out pET-28b-Cas9-His from Alex Schier's lab, designed...the lab of Yonglong Chen, pCS2-3xFLAG-NLS-SpCas9-NLS is a Cas9 expression plasmid that was used by Chen...colleagues, FokI-dCas9 expresses Fok1 nuclease domain fused to catalytically inactive Cas9 DNA-binding domain...which is 45 nm more red-shifted compared to other variants. The group further optimized Chrimson through ...off-kinetics (15.8 ± 0.4ms from 21.4 ± 1.1 ms); this new variant was named ChrimsonR. Plasmids containing Chronos...lentiviral and AAV expression vectors for certain variants. Klapoetke et al., Nat Methods 2014 Mar 11;(...gene/region of interest is a key step for CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing. Dr. Masahito Ikawa has created a GFP...

  13. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    Jan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
    ...Gram-positive bacteria (Kellenberger et al., 2013). Other variants of Spinach include Baby Spinach, a miniaturized...cellular RNA to specific intracellular locations using Cas9 and track the localization of the complex. Broccoli...short non-coding RNAs (Autour et al., 2018). Three variants of Mango, coined Mango II, III, and IV, were then...high binding affinity to TO1-biotin. Two of these variants exhibit increased brightness compared to Mango...

  14. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    March 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...editors use either catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) or a Cas9 nickase (nCas9) to avoid introducing double-strand...need from Cas9 are sequence specificity and the R-loop structure. In order to bind DNA, Cas9 requires ...expanded CGBE target scope by creating BE variants with other Cas9s that recognize different PAMs. Their computational...non-target strand of DNA for Cas9 to bind.   R-loop The structure formed by Cas9 binding to DNA and separating...PAM) on the opposite strand. Once it finds a PAM, Cas9 unwinds the adjacent DNA to create a region of separate...single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) region, using enzymes fused to Cas9 to alter the exposed ssDNA bases. Thus, base editors...window restricted to the stretch of ssDNA created by Cas9 binding. Pro tip! In CRISPR, the non-target strand...

  15. Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR

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    Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
    ... samples. Ma et al. designed plasmids containing Cas9 and two different gRNAs, and electroporated them...genome sequencing in selected control and CRISPR-Cas9 injected embryos. In all cases, they did not observe...CRISPR Topic Page Read about High Fidelity CRISPR Variants Target Multiple Genes at Once with CRISPR Resources...

  16. Viral Vectors 101: Integrase-Deficient Lentiviral Vectors

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    May 13, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...using CRISPR/Cas9 to edit a gene, the expression of Cas9 is no longer necessary. However, Cas9 can be toxic...like creating stable cell lines, delivering CRISPR/Cas9 to cells for genome editing, and introducing inducible...Leavitt et al., 1996), and since then, numerous variants have been developed with different mechanisms ...

  17. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    May 3, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...2010 Yuhai Cui Red mScarlet Split-wrmScarlet variant of mScarlet Split-wrmScarlet and split-sfGFP: tools...-10) and sfCherry2(11), also photo-activatable variant PAsfCherry2(1-10) Improved split fluorescent proteins...Split-horseradish peroxidase (Alice Ting Lab 2016)  Split-Cas9 for inducible genome editing (Feng Zhang Lab 2015...

  18. Hot Plasmids Spring 2024

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    May 23, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Blainey’s lab has developed a multiplexing approach to Cas9-based pooled CRISPR screens called CROPseq-multi...Anzalone et al., 2019, including modifications to the Cas9 or reverse transcriptase enzymes, inhibition of ...end of the pegRNA, which is not well protected by Cas9. This is similar to the proposed mechanism for engineered...domain conferred several new improvements. The new variant has increased signal-to-noise ratio and better ...of applications, including CRISPR activation by dCas9-VPR, prime editing, and delivery of disease-relevant...

  19. CRISPR 101: Drug discovery and CRISPR

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    May 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ... line knock-ins of patient mutations which are variants of unknown significance – mutations with unclear...CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line Using CRISPR-Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the genome Tips for a first...

  20. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    June 3, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... mutants, identifying the two  best-performing variants as iGluSnFR4f (fast deactivation) and iGluSnFR4s...Bentley For RNA-guided genome editing, think beyond Cas9 with STITCHR: a combined CRISPR / retrotransposon.... Figure 4: STITCHR consists of a nicking Cas9 fused to a shortened R2Tocc transposon protein, ...for scarless insertion of the payload (teal). The Cas9 gRNA targeting guide and the transposon RNA homology...scientists fused the retrotransposon protein R2Tocc to a Cas9 nickase to improve target recruitment and nicking...TurboCas provides the genomic targeting power of dCas9 with the dynamic labeling power of miniTurboID, ...proximity ligation tool (Cenik et al., 2024). While dCas9 has been used in combination with proximity labeling...
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