Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping
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Blog Post
Published
Sept. 3, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
...sequence targeted by the Cas9 nuclease.
The Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) requires an NGG PAM to...range of CRISPRCas9 by engineering SpCas9
Article contributed by Shreya Vedantam
CRISPR/Cas9 is widely...
The Kanemaki lab previously developed a CRISPR/Cas9 based method to tag endogenous proteins in HCT116...widely used genome editing tool. However, Cas9’s endonuclease activity can be limited by the need for a specific...recognize the target. Osamu Nureki’s lab engineered SpCas9 (SpCas9-NG) with relaxed preferences for the third ...NGG. In addition to the engineered SpCas9, they also fused the SpCas9-NG with the activation-induced cytidine...cells. The increased versatility of the engineered SpCas9-NG and its variants can be used to engineer specific...