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

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    Oct. 6, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...activation. Synergistic Activation Mediator (SAM) Description SAM uses specially engineered sgRNAs to increase...domains used in SAM. This method has been shown to activate genes at 2- to 3-fold higher than SAM, SunTag, and...re-engineer components of Cas systems themselves. SunTag, SAM, and VPR have all shown significant improvements ... p65). Performance When targeting single genes, SAM consistently shows the highest levels of gene activation...regulation (activating multiple genes at once), however, SAM exhibits activation levels comparable to other popular...activators while showing lower activation levels than SAM. One drawback of this method is its construction:...VP64 activator, but lower levels compared to the SAM system. Its activation levels are similar to that...
  2. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    Feb. 24, 2015, 7:50 p.m.
    ...CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation Mediator or SAM. SAM is an engineered protein complex for the transcriptional...CRISPR technology has changed how scientists edit and control genes, but according to the Broad Institute's...not been achieved.” That is, until now. Enter the SAM pooled library In a paper published in Nature in ...plasmid which expresses the activation helper protein. SAM can be combined with a human genome-wide library ...Nature paper reports, “Here we have shown that the SAM system is robust, specific, and can facilitate genome-scale...combined with a compact pooled sgRNA library. Our SAM-mediated screens exhibited a high degree of consistency...References & Further Reading: For more information about SAM, including a tool for getting optimized guide sequences...
  3. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...strategies for CRISPR-HIV therapeutics - one using dCas9-SAM to activate HIV-1 transcription and destroy infected...realistic with the advent of CRISPR. Using CRISPR/Cas9 SAM to "shock and kill" To “shock and kill” the HIV-...the CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation Mediators (SAM) system available from Addgene. This system uses ...genome, which acts as a promoter, and found that SAM targeting of the enhancer region near the NF-KB binding...latent microglial line, treatment with CRISPR/Cas9 SAM increased the percentage of cells with activated ...that can produce HIV-1 toxic proteins, CRISPR/Cas9 SAM caused apoptosis, indicating a true “shock and kill...CRISPR/gRNA-directed synergistic activation mediator (SAM) induces specific, persistent and robust reactivation...
  4. 2021 Deck the Lab Winners!

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    Jan. 25, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...JohnInnesCentre rule pic.twitter.com/WMb97fpUOI— Sam Mugford (@samtmugford) December 3, 2021   Congratulations...
  5. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    Oct. 4, 2018, 12:44 p.m.
    ...library substantially identified more hits than the SAM library approach in a comparison study screening ...screening for vemurafenib resistance in A375 cells. The SAM system (CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation Mediator...
  6. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...can use for your experiments. We have found that SAM (Konermann et al., 2014), Suntag (Tanenbaum et al..., check out our blog post covering VP64, Suntag, SAM, and VPR. Worry less about off targets Unlike Cas9...
  7. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    Blog Post
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    Nov. 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...hypercompact Cas12f1 and engineered guide RNAs Yong-Sam Kim’s lab also created a miniature yet active Cas...
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