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  1. Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research

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    July 24, 2018, 12:51 p.m.
    ...whereas lentiviral vectors are derived from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) genome. For research...selection marker removal. CRISPR technology pdCas9-humanized (Plasmid #44246) Expression of a catalytically...catalytically inactive (dead), human codon-optimized Cas9 under the control of Murine Stem Cell retrovirus promoter...backbone from the Zhang lab expressing S. pyogenes Cas9 and a gRNA cassette. It can be used to produce a... (shRNA, miR-30-shRNA), mutation/editing (CRISPR-Cas9) or deletion (Cre), together with expression of ...
  2. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    July 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... start codon mutation, and integrated it into human and mouse cells that expressed either Cas9 or an optimized...single base editing by APOBEC-Cas9 Though the ACE reporter quantifies APOBEC-Cas9 efficiency in real-time, ...hypothesized that if they created an ATG codon from an ACG codon using a base-editor (C>T conversion) they...and enrichment of DNA editing by APOBEC–Cas9 or cleavage by Cas9 in living cells. Nucleic Acids Research...genome, but they’re inefficient compared to CRISPR/Cas9 edits that rely on double strand DNA breaks. Due...can help you do just that. Monitoring APOBEC and Cas9-mediated editing in real time The Harris lab created...APOBEC (a family of cytidine deaminase proteins) and Cas9-mediated editing in real time (St. Martin et al....
  3. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    Sept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...cell lines. The Turner Lab Human messenger-RBP sgRNA Library targets human mRNA binding proteins with ... wide range of human cells.  A new pooled library from Junjie Chen's lab targets human genes known or ...targeting start codons, splice acceptor and donor sites, and introducing premature stop codons.    New from...variety of natural products. Recently, this group optimized their initial system by using a stronger promoter...end-point sequencing assays. These plasmids use “Cas9-mediated adenosine transient reporter for editing... mCherry fluorescent protein followed by a stop codon and the coding sequence for a green fluorescent ...of the change in expression of GFP, for the stop codon should have changed from “TGA” to “TGG.”  After ...
  4. Hassle-free 96-well Format Epitope Tagging Using Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein

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    June 28, 2018, 3:01 p.m.
    ... Figure 2: Cas9 RNP complexed with 2-part cr:tracrRNA tags genes more effectively than Cas9 complexed ... Stop codon; for N-terminus tagging, a crRNA cutting 8-15 bp upstream of your gene’s Start codon will ... You’ll need to optimize csRNP delivery for each cell type you work with (optimization includes selection...Edinburgh. His research interests include optimizing CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing methods and applying them...Enhanced CRISPR/Cas9-mediated precise genome editing by improved design and delivery of gRNA, Cas9 nuclease,...antibody for each target protein. To study 20,000 human proteins, this would be time-consuming, expensive...target site. With the widespread adoption of CRISPR/Cas9 technology and rapid improvements in the field, ...
  5. Hot Plasmids: February 2026

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    Feb. 17, 2026, 2:15 p.m.
    ...bacterial strain with a single stop codon Improved mouse and human CRISPR knockout libraries Neurexin ...off-target and on-target considerations for optimized Cas9 CRISPR knockout library design. bioRxiv. https... engineered bacterial strain with a single stop codon By Emily P. Bentley That's right: just one! Simple...simple to create. Most organisms have three stop codons: UAG ("amber"), UAA ("ochre"), and UGA ("opal")...furthermore, UGA is sometimes recognized as a tryptophan codon (usually coded by UGG) through wobble pairing (Figure... to isolate each of these functions to a single codon (Grome et al., 2025). Figure 4: Summary ...Created with BioRender.com. Because both stop codons were "freed" of their evolved purpose, they became...
  6. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    Feb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...containing Cas9 and the PITCh-gRNA. Step 3: Contransfect the PITCh vector with the vector carrying Cas9 and ...cassette into a given locus, just upstream of a stop codon. Briefly, the PITCh vector should be constructed...plasmic is cotransfected with a plasmid carrying Cas9, the PITCh-gRNA, and the locus-specifc gRNA. The...the risk of off-target effects, Sakuma et al. optimized the PITCh-gRNA for minimal off-target binding ...GFP-Puro will be inserted just upstream of a stop codon. One potential concern is if the GFP-Puro will alter...genes into AAVS1, the “safe harbor locus” of the human genome, as shown by Dalvai et al., who used HDR ...MMEJ-assisted gene knock-in using TALENs and CRISPR-Cas9 with the PITCh systems.” Nat Protoc. 11(1): 118-...
  7. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    Jan. 13, 2025, 9:49 p.m.
    ...reverse transcriptase with a sequence optimized for human codons; additional nuclear localization sequences...heteroduplex     ✓ ✓ ~ ~ ~ Human codon optimization Improve prime editor expression ~ ...prime editor consists of a Cas9 nickase fused to a reverse transcriptase. The Cas9 nickase is guided to the... that most Cas9-induced DSBs are repaired by non-homologous end joining. As a result, Cas9 treatment causes... ~ ~ ✓ ✓ ✓ R221K N394K Cas9 mutations Improve Cas9 nuclease activity ~ ~ ~ ~ ...pathogenic genetic variants have been identified in humans and cataloged in the ClinVar database. Previously...homology to the genomic DNA locus. After nicking by Cas9, the homologous pegRNA sequence hybridizes to the...
  8. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...recruitment assay incorporating 314 codon-optimized GPCR sequences for human cell line expression. In a twist...pDGE Dicot Genome Editing Kit contains Cas9, Cas9 nickase, and Cas9 activator expressing plasmids that can... both human and fly versions. Arnold, et al. Science. 2013. PubMed PMID: 23328393 Wu lab human lentiviral...provided in both open (no stop codon) and closed (including a stop codon) formats. The collection is compatible...a CRISPR-Cas9-based tool for targeting CpG methylation by fusing catalytically inactive Cas9 (dCas9) with...high-throughput CRISPR/Cas9 gene modification in Caenorhabditis elegans CRISPR/Cas9 technology has revolutionized...   Human kinase domain constructs for automated bacterial expression The misregulation of human kinases...
  9. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...ligase cereblon Optimized mScarlet-based tags for live imaging in C. elegans CRISPR/Cas9 for gene disruption...sequences for mScarlet3 and mScarlet-I3 that were codon-optimized for C. elegans and included artificial introns...CRISPR/Cas9 system for gene disruption in Mycobacterium abscessus, an increasingly common human pathogen... use in revealing antigenic differences between human, canine and simian isolates. J Gen Virol., 68 (Pt.../10.1038/s41467-024-52871-9. PMID 39406745. Optimizing mScarlet tags for live imaging in C. elegans ...mScarlet3 was 50% brighter than the original worm-optimized wrmScarlet. mScarlet-I3, while initially dimmer... et al., 2024 under CC-BY license.  These optimized fluorescent proteins will be a useful addition...
  10. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...fully functional Cas9 upon dimerization. Splitting wild-type Cas9 into n-terminal (Cas9(N)-2xNLS) and c-terminal... 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...activation, the c-terminal cas9 fragment was fused with FK 506 binding protein 12 (Cas9(C)-FKBP-2xNLS) and the... the n-terminal cas9 fragment with FKBP rapamycin binding domain of mTor (Cas9(N)-FRB-NES) resulting in...rapamycin-inducible Cas9 for genome editing. Without rapamycin treatment, the Cas9(N)-FRB-NES fragment...sequence. Treatment with rapamycin induces Cas9(N)-FRB-NES and Cas9(C)-FKBP-2xNLS dimerization and net influx...
  11. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    Sept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.
    ... and Cas9. As with the Gersbach lab plasmids, multiple Cas9 variants are available: wt humanized Cas9,...amplified for cloning into one of three Zeamays codon-optimized Cas9-containing binary vectors. The system is...inserted into a Cas9-containing destination vector based on pCAMBIA. Cas9 is plant-optimized, and plasmids...target sequence downstream of the 7SK, human U6, mouse U6, or human H1 promoters. If you express fewer than... into Cas9 or dCas9-containing destination vectors. Destination vector options include humanized wt Cas9... to create lentiviral vectors expressing wt humanized Cas9 and up to three gRNAs. Entry vectors containing...Multiplex genome engineering in human cells using all-in-one CRISPR/Cas9 vector system.” Scientific Reports...
  12. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    Jan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m.
    ...S. pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) has been widely popular in genome engineering. For use in human cell lines, ..., the Zhang lab codon-optimized SpCas9. Using the BbsI restriction site, a pair of annealed oligos can...2A-GFP (PX461) expresses both a Cas9 protein and a gRNA. But instead of Cas9, this plasmid expresses Cas9n...PX458) - This plasmid from the Zhang lab expresses Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes with an invariant sgRNA...vector also from the Zhang lab is used to deliver Cas9 and your gRNA of interest into mammalian cells. ...fact, the Zhang lab has shared over 40,000 CRISPR-Cas9 components over the years on their own or through...Zhang lab is a mammalian vector that expresses both SpCas9 and your gRNAs and was also the top requested plasmid...
  13. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...plasmids at Addgene Sc++ is a codon-optimized, engineered Streptococcus canis Cas9 nuclease that has a broad...Addgene The Human GlycoGene CRISPR Library is a new lentiviral CRISPR library that targets human glycosyltransferase...complex interworking of the 86 billion neurons in the human brain. But studying synaptic connections and physiology...bacteriophage genomes. It’s active in vitro and in human and plant cells. Its small size offers advantages...Applications (CHyMErA) Knockout Libraries express hybrid Cas9-Cas12a gRNAs under a single U6 promoter. The paralog.... The exon-deletion hybrid gRNA library deletes human alternative cassette exons and disrupts genes with...new viral preps from recent months: The Dolcetto human CRISPR inhibition pooled library is now available...
  14. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Sept. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... capacity of a locus. When using S. pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9), potential target sites are both [5’-20nt-NGG...Off-Target Mutations in Individual CRISPR-Cas9 and TALEN Targeted Human Stem Cell Clones Detected by Whole-Genome...Huang P-Y, Daley G, Church G (2013) Optimization of scarless human stem cell genome editing. Nucleic Acids...the TSS but you can worry less about sequence optimality because you generally have fewer sequences to...with CRISPR technology is usually accomplished by Cas9-mediated dsDNA breaks: following a cut, the error-prone...alternative ATG downstream of the annotated start codon. Likewise, we avoid target sites that code for amino...so many possibilities, picking a gRNA with an optimized sequence is of primary importance (more on this...
  15. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    Sept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...and this is likely a rate limiting step, but optimization of the exon-splitting site sequence can enhance...and acceptor sequences were tested and with the optimal sequences, the group achieved ~80% of muscle cells...level of transgene expression, and may need to be optimized for each unique application (Trapani et al., 2015...sequential homology directed repairs (HDR) with CRISPR/Cas9. Donor A contains: 400bp homology arms to the site...approach, ranging from ~10% expression in primary human T cells and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells...protein. This can be avoided by excluding a stop codon from donor A in any of the reading frames downstream...Packaging Capacity of Adeno-Associated Virus Capsids. Human Gene Therapy Methods 27:1–12 . https://doi.org/10.1089...
  16. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    Oct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...expression of S. pyogenes Cas9 or Cas9 variants (hereafter referred to as Cas9) and a single stranded guide...enhance targeting to the nucleus, and several codon optimized Cas9 variants have been created in an effort ... gRNA backbones also contain Cas9, which enables expression of both Cas9 and the gRNA off of the same ...research focuses on its potential applications for human medicine (Waltz, 2016), the potential of CRISPR ...get more information on multiplexing gRNAs here). Cas9 is commonly tagged with a nuclear localization sequence...or cell type (Belhaj et al., 2013). Nuclease dead Cas9 (dCas9) based activators (such as dCas9-VP64) or...repress target genes in plant cells, respectively. Cas9 expression is commonly driven by plant-derived RNA...
  17. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
    ...develop an optimized photoactivatable CRISPR gene activation system, but settled on a different optimal fusion...heterodimerizing domain to each of the Cas9 fragments, the authors created a photoactive Cas9 tool, as shown in the figure...modular nature of Cas9, Nihongaki et al. showed that it was possible to swap out the Cas9 domains in their...light-activated split-Cas9 (FAST) system constitutively expresses the C-terminal fragment of Cas9 while transcription...p65 and VP64 which in turn transcribes N-Cas9. The N- and C-Cas9 fragments then dimerize to form a functional...Off Genome Editing Single-chain Cas9 photoswitches Photoactivation of Cas9 can also be achieved using single-chain...applied to create photoswitchable spCas9, dCas9, and S. aureus Cas9 (saCas9) proteins, showing the versatility...
  18. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    Sept. 16, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...editing was invented in David Liu’s lab by combining Cas9 DNA-targeting technology with a fused cytidine deaminase...effects in a variety of RNA transcripts independent of Cas9 targeting (Rees et al., 2019). The Liu lab characterized...editors The first ABE was about 50% efficient in human cells on average, but its effectiveness varied depending... and eight bases, close to the PAM recognized by Cas9. If no PAM is available nearby, a base editor may...Kleinstiver’s lab engineered new variants of S. pyogenes Cas9. While the wild-type enzyme requires a PAM sequence... models tested both the SpG and SpRY variants of Cas9. With many PAMs available, a large number of gRNAs...efficient editing. In these initial experiments, SpG Cas9 came out on top. Narrowing PAM preferences The Kleinstiver...
  19. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    Feb. 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...individual Cas9. They also mutagenized the cytidine deaminase portion of the base editor to create SpCas9 base..., a base editor containing high fidelity Cas9 variant HF-Cas9 (Rees et al., 2017). HF-BE3 showed 37-fold...other methods. In a head-to-head comparison with Cas9, Cas9 modified 9/12 known off-targets with a 14% indel...et al., 2020 SpRY Cas9, available fused to ABEmax(7.10) or to BE4max   Evolved SpCas9 with NRN or NYN PAM...frequency to above 30% for a variety of targets in human cell lines, with an average indel frequency of only... 1.1%. These numbers are a vast improvement over Cas9-mediated HDR for the loci tested, where average ...system is also subject to off-target editing based on Cas9 off-target activity.  Find CRISPR base editing plasmids...
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