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  1. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    June 30, 2015, 2 p.m.
    ...contains the transposase gene (red) for expressing the transposase enzyme.2.) The transposase enzyme is ...Beauty transposase gains its name from the fact that it was recreated from a defective transposase found...plasmid is then degraded by the cell.4.) The transposase creates a double strand break in the DNA and ...system is comprised of 2 components: 1) an SB transposase, the enzyme required for catalysis of transposition...found in fish. This transposase has been discovered in the genomes of many different fish species in a variety...synthesized by fusing and modifying various extinct transposases. Improvements have been made since then by increasing...Their efforts resulted in a new and improved SB transposase, SB100X, that is approximately 100-fold more ...
  2. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    May 31, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... components, a transposon and a transposase. The piggyBac™ transposase facilitates the integration of ...controlled by titrating the transposase to transposon ratios. High ratios of transposase to transposon result... that of the wildtype piggyBac™ transposase or hyperactive transposase mutants [7], it is generally not...plasmids, when combined with a source of piggyBac™ transposase (available from a licensed distributor) allow...cannot distribute plasmids with the piggyBac™ transposase itself, please read on to learn more about this...importantly for this technology, however, is that the transposase also enables the excision of the transposon in...virus-free. This is achieved using the piggyBac™ transposase, which facilitates direct integration of the ...
  3. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
    ...the SB transposase, SB100X, is ~100-fold more efficient compared to first generation SB transposase (Mátés...module with the crRNA, 3) a transposase complex made up by three transposase proteins (TnsA, TnsB, TnsC...DNA site to another. This protein is either a transposase or a reverse transcriptase, depending on the ... HIV, replicate. Class I TEs do not encode a transposase enzyme.  Class I TEs are considered replicative...., 2021. To mobilize a transposon, first the transposase enzyme binds the transposon’s long terminal repeats...footprint is left behind. When the transposon-transposase complex finds its target site, it integrates,...the protein they need to move around, either a transposase or a reverse transcriptase. Non-autonomous transposons...
  4. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    Dec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m.
    ...their limited programmability: depending on the transposases involved, they insert either randomly, or at...combining the DNA integration capabilities of transposases and the target programmability of CRISPR-Cas...Sternberg group, and CAST (CRISPR-associated Transposase) by the Zhang group. Mechanism of CRISPR-transposons...DNA-targeting module together with the crRNA.  Three transposase proteins (TnsA, TnsB, TnsC). The donor DNA (aka...RNA-DNA base pairing. Separately, TnsABC forms a transposase complex with the mini-transposon, excises it ...proteins (Fig. 1A, bottom), and require only two transposase proteins (TnsB and C). While requiring fewer ...CRISPR-transposons within the CRISPR toolbox RNA-guided transposases are exciting new additions to the growing CRISPR...
  5. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    April 13, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...pTnsABC expresses the transposases TnsA, TnsB, and TnsC pQCascade expresses the transposase TniQ, the Cas proteins...chromosomal integration using CRISPR-associated transposases” or MUCICAT. Here, we’ll describe each of these...system which is based on the CRISPR-associated transposase system, INTEGRATE, is best for multicopy chromosomal...Anhydrotetracycline (aTc) induces expression transposases leading to increased integration frequency. ...Chromosomal Integration Using CRISPR-Associated Transposases. ACS Synth Biol 9:1998–2008. https://doi.org...
  6. CASTing Off for New Shores in Human Genome Editing

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    June 10, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...called evoCAST — an evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (CAST). Back up a second. What are CASTs? CASTs...Bacterial genome engineering using CRISPR-associated transposases. Nature Protocols, 19(3), 752–790. https://doi.org... with a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase. Science, 388(6748), eadt5199. https://doi.org...
  7. CRISPR Guide Update

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    Oct. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...CRISPR’s ability to make large genome edits using transposases or the Cascade-Cas3 system. We also describe...
  8. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    Jan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...cotransfecting them with a plasmid expressing PiggyBac transposase. In rtTA-cell lines, it is better to first engineer...the mARG cassettes 2:1 (A:N-V) with PiggyBac transposase and outgrow the cells for a several generations...
  9. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    April 17, 2018, 1:37 p.m.
    ...along with a helper plasmid that expresses the transposase. The donor plasmid contains the gene(s) of interest...flanked by terminal repeat sequences, which the PB transposase recognizes. Following reprogramming, transgenes...transgenes can be removed by re-expressing the transposase. A challenge of using PB to generate iPSCs is that...
  10. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    March 18, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    .... Type I systems are also employed as CRISPR transposases, by leaving out Cas3. Type I is further subdivided...paradoxically called V-K, is a CRISPR-associated transposase (CAST) that can insert large fragments of DNA...
  11. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    Aug. 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...into genomic DNA with the help of the piggyBa transposase. Image from Hazelbaker et al., 2020. The lab...
  12. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    Feb. 11, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...bypassed by leaving out Cas3 — a tactic some CRISPR transposase systems utilize with type I-F Cascades. ...
  13. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    Sept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...including plasmids for use in CRISPR and Tol2 transposase induced transgenesis.  Xenopus Xenopus, or frogs...
  14. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...VPR expression plasmid that uses the piggybac transposase to integrate dCas9-VPR into the genome of target...
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