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  1. The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9

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    Aug. 20, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
    ...the use of novel S. pyogenes Cas9 variants with varying PAM sequences, 2) the use of Cas9 homologs derived... Jung MH, Kim S, Kim JH, Kim JH, Kim J-S (2017) In vivo genome editing with a small Cas9 orthologue derived...them more useful than SpCas9. For example, Cas9 from Staphylococcus aureus (SaCas9) is about 1 kilobase...as a binding signal for Cas9 and this sequence is a strict requirement for Cas9-mediated DNA cleavage. ...2020). Characterization of Cas9 from additional bacterial species Many more Cas9 orthologs have been isolated... ~20 additional Cas9 species PAM sequence may not be characterized Non-SpCas9's bind a variety of... In vivo genome editing using Staphylococcus aureus Cas9. Nature 520:186–191 . https://doi.org/10.1038...
  2. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ... Jung MH, Kim S, Kim JH, Kim JH, Kim J-S (2017) In vivo genome editing with a small Cas9 orthologue derived...Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 (SaCas9, 1053 amino acids) displayed cleavage activity in mammalian cells. SaCas9 produced...one AAV, Cas9 must be made smaller. Previous attempts to “shrink” Cas9 include the use of St1Cas9 (~3.3 ...amino acids in length, Cas9 from Campylobacter jejuni (CjCas9) is the smallest Cas9 ortholog characterized...vehicle for Cas9. However, to allow for more room for regulatory sequences while still fitting Cas9 and its...equally potent Cas9 protein, the Zhang lab took a different approach. They analyzed over 600 Cas9 orthologs... In vivo genome editing using Staphylococcus aureus Cas9. Nature 520:186–191 . https://doi.org/10.1038...
  3. Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    July 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...alternative Cas9, from Streptococcus aureus, is as effective at editing mouse embryos as Cas9 from S. pyogenes...Production of Gene-Modified Mice using Staphylococcus aureus Cas9. Sci Rep 6: . https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32565...guest bloggers, Wenning Qin and Haoyi Wang. CRISPR/Cas9 is revolutionizing the mouse gene-targeting field...ever to manipulate the mouse genome using CRISPR/Cas9. Similar to the human genome, the mouse genome ...robust in performance. In its natural setting, CRISPR-Cas9 is an acquired immune system in bacteria and archaea...) of about 125 nt that specifies the target, the Cas9 endonuclease that creates the DNA double-strand ...model basics To create a mouse model, the gRNA, Cas9, and donor oligonucleotide or plasmid components...
  4. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    Dec. 16, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...mutations can improve the specificity of Cas9 derived from S. aureus. This means you can likely apply similar...off-target effects” have included using a Cas9 nickase variant, lowering Cas9 expression, and truncating gRNA sequences... target effects of CRISPR/Cas9 by altering the nuclease activity of the Cas9 nuclease itself. Design and...non-target strand and Cas9, Kleinstiver et al disrupted interactions between Cas9 and the phophate backbone...when compared to WT SpCas9 across a variety of genomic sites. Knowledge of Cas9s dynamic structure leads...specificity of the Cas9 nuclease with engineered variants: eSpCas9SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9. The off-target...portions of Cas9 might be important for nuclease specificity. They found that eSpCas9(1.1) and SpCas9-HF1 each...
  5. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...replaced S. pyogenes Cas9 in the ABE complex with PAM-variant Cas9 proteins: the S. pyogenes NG-Cas9 (PAM:...PAM: NG) to create NG-ABE8.xm/d and the S. aureus Cas9 (PAM: NNGRRT) to create Sa-ABE8.x-m/d. With these...ABE8 constructs using a catalytically “dead” S. pyogenes Cas9 (dC9-ABE8.x-m/d). The dC9-ABE8.x-m/d constructs...Choosing Cas9 proteins to increase the targeting scope of adenine base editors The most commonly used S. pyogenes...pyogenes Cas9 requires the target site in the genomic DNA to contain a specific protospacer adjacent motif...frequency over ABE7.10. The ability to use non-standard Cas9 in the ABE8 complexes enables a broader targeting... TadA and TadA7.10, they designed one set of ABE8’s similarly (ABE8.x-d). In order to assess the effect...
  6. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    March 28, 2018, 6:52 p.m.
    ...targeting in AT-rich loci or genomes. Cas9s from other species, like S. aureus and N. meningitidis, require different...enrich for Cas9 variants with activity on non-NGG PAMs, generating xCas9 3.0-3.13. To test xCas9 3.0-3.13...In order to bind DNA, Cas9 and other CRISPR enzymes require a short PAM sequence adjacent to the targeted...targeted sequence at the locus of interest. SpCas9s 3’ NGG PAM occurs frequently in GC-rich genomes, but...problem, researchers have engineered alternative Cas9s binding distinct PAM sequences. Now, Hu et al., ...low predicted on-target efficiency. In cases where Cas9 won’t work, there are other options. Commonly used...phage-assisted evolution to generate and select for Cas9 mutants with PAM flexibility. In this system, the...
  7. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    May 18, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...anti-CRISPRs were identified that inhibit the S. aureus Cas9, a Cas protein that is smaller and easier to...CRISPR/Cas9 constructs. zCas9i is a high efficiency intron-optimized SpCas9-coding gene. SlugCas9 is a ...promoters driving expression of Cas9 were used in this study.  The zCas9i cloning kit is a plant cloning... of the population.  Because indel generation by Cas9 can occur at a steady rate, scientists found a way...a compact Cas9 ortholog from Staphylococcus lugdunensis that recognizes a NNGG PAM and has comparable ...comparable activity to SaCas9. A new yeast inducible CRISPRi library - Ampl133 targets S. cerevisiae genes with...pre-synaptic targeted synaptophysin tagged eGFP. AAV phSyn1(S)-FLEX-tdTomato-T2A-SypEGFP-WPRE from Hongkui Zeng'...
  8. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    Aug. 15, 2017, 1:24 p.m.
    ...infection with S. aureus (red). You can then see neutrophils swarming around S. aureus and eating the ...other technologies such as optogenetics and CRISPR/Cas9 will help immunologists create even better tools...limits local humoral response to Staphylococcus aureus." PLoS Pathog 11.4 (2015): e1004827. PubMed PMID...
  9. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ...Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 (Sa-Cas) and deposited plasmid IF311: pMAGIC (R4-R3) NLS-Sa dCas9-NLS-LSD1. LSD1...types. They have also fused LSD1 to x-Cas9(3.7). x-Cas9(3.7) is a SpCas9 mutant that exhibits increased PAM...larger pMVP/pMAGIC cloning system, which contains Cas9 fusions for several epigenetic modifiers, and is...Gersbach CA (2015) Epigenome editing by a CRISPR-Cas9-based acetyltransferase activates genes from promoters...Crawford GE, Reddy TE, Gersbach CA (2017) CRISPR–Cas9 epigenome editing enables high-throughput screening...Edwards JR, Challen GA (2016) Reprogrammable CRISPR/Cas9-based system for inducing site-specific DNA methylation...Klasić M, Zoldoš V (2016) Repurposing the CRISPR-Cas9 system for targeted DNA methylation. Nucleic Acids...
  10. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
    ...applied to create photoswitchable spCas9, dCas9, and S. aureus Cas9 (saCas9) proteins, showing the versatility...proteins from N. crassa Split Cas9, Split Cas9 nickase, Split dCas9 Genome editing by NHEJ and HDR, repression...Photoswitchable Cas9 Richter et al., 2016 tsRC9 RsLOV from R. sphaeroides Cas9, dCas9 Gene editing ...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...
  11. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    Jan. 26, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... In vivo genome editing using Staphylococcus aureus Cas9. Nature. 2015 Apr 9;520(7546);186-91. doi: 10.1038...long period of time. High fidelity Cas9s such as eSpCas9 and SpCas9-HF should be explored to reduce off-target...Majoros WH, Reddy TE, Gersbach CA. Multiplex CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing for correction of dystrophin...McAnally JR, Li H, Sanchez-Ortiz E, Bhattacharyya S, Shelton JM, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Postnatal genome...Ousterout DG, Thakore PI, Moreb EA, Rivera RM, Madhavan S, Pan X, Ran FA, Yan WX, Asokan A, Zhang F, Duan D,.... pii: aad5143. PubMed PMID: 26721684. 4. Reardon S. Gene-editing summit supports some research in human...mutation in dystrophin exon 23. Long et al. used SpCas9 in conjunction with AAV9, whereas Nelson et al....
  12. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    April 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
    ...several bacteria associated with human disease (S. aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and P. aeruginosa) in ...antibiotic resistance selection markers, gRNAs, and dCas9 proteins. Second, it can be introduced into a broader...promoters, selection markers, and different versions of dCas9. Following integration, Mobile-CRISPRi is stably...
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