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  1. Protocol - pLKO.1 – TRC Cloning Vector

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    ... 1 μg pLKO.1 shRNA plasmid 750 ng psPAX2 packaging plasmid 250 ng pMD2.G envelope plasmid to 20 μl serum-free...want to vary the ratio of shRNA plasmid, packaging plasmid, and envelope plasmid to obtain the ratio that...the pLKO.1 vector, producing a final plasmid that expresses the shRNA of interest. C.1 Recommended Materials... protein expression, you may transfect plasmid DNA directly into the target cells. The shRNA will be expressed...drives expression of puromycin. Puro R Puromycin resistance gene for selection of pLKO.1 plasmid in mammalian...Envelope plasmid for producing viral particles. Note: pLKO.1 can also be used with packaging plasmid pCMV-... as a guide and on an “AS IS” “AS AVAILABLE” basis without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied...
  2. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    ...components required for RNA-guided DNA integration are (Fig. 1A, top):  A CRISPR RNA (crRNA) comprising a 32...introduced a streamlined expression approach (Fig. 2A), involving two-plasmid or single-plasmid systems (Vo et ...al., 2020). In the two-plasmid system, an effector plasmid (pEffector) expresses all seven required genes...., 2019; Strecker et al., 2019), which direct RNA-guided transposition. By natively combining the DNA ...INTEGRATE (Insertion of Transposable Elements by Guide RNA-Assisted Targeting) by the Sternberg group, and...of CRISPR-Transposon system. (B) Mechanism of RNA-guided transposition in type I-F INTEGRATE. The... and C). While requiring fewer components for RNA-guided DNA integration, Type V-K systems frequently ...
  3. Rewiring Metabolic Circuitry with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds [Video]

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    ...Summary  The single guide RNA in the CRISPRi system can be repurposed to include modular RNA scaffolds. These...Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-guided platform for sequence-specific control of gene expression. Cell, 152(5), 1173...CRISPR RNA Scaffolds. Cell, 160(1), 339-350 (2015). PubMed. Find the Plasmids @Addgene: Plasmids for CRISPRi...activity coupled with a customizable single guide RNA (sgRNA) that bears complementarity to a 20bp target...will still recognize guide RNA but with a different dCas9 binding module, alternative sets of transcriptional...introduced simultaneously in a single plasmid. The functionality of the RNA scaffolds follows the rules of Watson-Crick... These RNA scaffolds can recruit various transcriptional regulators to alter gene expression at the targeted...
  4. Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research

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    ...cloning and expressing your gene of interest with GFP expression.  Cloning and expressing RNAi pMKO.1 puro...puro (Plasmid #8452) RNA interference (RNAi) is an RNA-mediated gene silencing mechanism. Scientists can...packaging plasmids as well as transfer plasmids. This concept ensures safe handling and expression of these...more lentiviral expression vectors (empty backbones) here. Cloning and expressing new shRNA sequences pLKO...pLKO (Plasmid #10878) This plasmid has been used by The RNAi Consortium, also known as the Genetic Perturbation...separating viral genes and transgene expression across several plasmids. The most commonly used viral vector...Gamma-retrovirus guide and find popular packaging and gamma-retroviral envelope plasmids here. Lentiviral...
  5. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    ...necessary. Guide RNAs (gRNAs) are commonly packaged in 400-500 bp cassettes containing the RNA pol III promoter... in using PTG plasmids in your research? Check out the PTG plasmids or plant expression systems available...PubMed.  Find the plasmids from this publication at Addgene Dimeric CRISPR RNA-guided FokI nucleases ...multiplexing gRNAs used the RNA nuclease Csy4 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa to cleave 4 gRNAs separated by...potentially increasing the levels of gRNA expression. Since tRNAs are among the most abundant molecules...cleavage sites. After confirming gRNA cleavage, they examined gRNA expression levels and indel generation ...III promoter is relatively weak, and low expression of gRNAs from these constructs could lower genome ...
  6. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...biotinylation tag expressed on a plasmid, allowing for in vivo biotinylation through a plasmid-based biotin...Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-guided platform for sequence-specific control of gene expression." Cell 152.5 (2013...Read our CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids by function Find recently deposited plasmids ...be targeted using a gRNA, which can easily be cloned into a gRNA expression plasmid. Experimental use Since...non-coding RNAs associated with telomeres by combining purification of a specific genomic region and RNA sequencing...Identification of non-coding RNAs associated with telomeres using a combination of enChIP and RNA sequencing." PLoS...Gilbert, Luke A., et al. "CRISPR-mediated modular RNA-guided regulation of transcription in eukaryotes." Cell...
  7. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    ...transfected with a pool of plasmids that contained one crRNA per plasmid plus a Cpf1 expression vector.  See the...transfection of single plasmids vs pooled plasmids; for multiple edits, single plasmids are generally more...Multiplexing crRNA expression with Cpf1  The key advantage of multiplexing crRNA expression with Cpf1 is...processing, i.e. tRNAs or Csy4 cleavage sites. This eliminates bulk from crRNA expression plasmids resulting ...one vector to express the gRNAs and Cas9. Co-transfections can lead to variable expression levels due to...single promoter to drive expression of a crRNA array and doesn’t require the expression of other endonucleases...Multiplexed Lentiviral Expression Cassettes lentiviral transduction One vector expresses Cas9, eGFP, and ...
  8. New CRISPR Web Resources and #12DaysofCRISPR Recap

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    ...- LwCas13a guide expression backbone with U6 promoter has already earned a blue flame. RNA Editing: Did...REPAIR (RNA Editing for Programmable A to I Replacement) system. Like RNA targeting systems, RNA editing...changes we’ve made: New CRISPR plasmid pages We’ve given our CRISPR Plasmids and Resources a fresh new design...design, sorting the plasmids we have available by category. Each plasmid page now has a helpful graphic...introduce you to the plasmid class covered on that page. To help you find popular plasmids, we’ve also added... new plasmid pages that cover some of the hottest CRISPR tools. Base Edit: Base editing plasmids allow...bacterial systems. Plasmids with wild-type Cas13a (formerly C2c2) can mediate targeted RNA knockdown, which...
  9. Virus Protocol - Generating Stable Cell Lines

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    ... the most desirable level of expression. Over time, transgene expression in a polyclonal population may...Protocol to generate stable cell lines expressing a gene of interest from an integrated lentiviral vector...with Lentivirus You may also like... Viral Vector Guides Virus Blog Posts Mol Bio Protocols Viral Service...protocol can be used to generate stable cell lines expressing a gene of interest from an integrated lentiviral...lentiviral vector. Unlike the short-term protein expression observed using transient transfection approaches... lentiviral vectors enables long-term protein expression studies. Moreover, repeating experiments in a...check the cells regularly to confirm transgene expression. As polyclonal populations of resistant cells...
  10. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    ...global RNA expression, cell stress, and RNA size distribution. When comparing LwaCas13a to shRNA, they ...al. "C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector." Science 353(6299...activities of CRISPR-C2c2 enable guide-RNA processing and RNA detection." Nature 538(7624) (2016):270-273...Enzymatic Domains Guide RNA Target PAM (PFS) Cleavage Mechanism Cas9 HNH, RuvC TracrRNA, crRNA DNA 5' ...multiplexing; expressing 5 gRNAs simultaneously produces comparable gene knockdown to single gRNA expression. Although...All CRISPR Plasmids Find Validated gRNAs for Your Next Experiment Check Out Our CRISPR Guide Pages ...is capable of binding target RNA but lacks the ability to cleave the RNA target.  Table 1: Comparison ...
  11. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    ...pronuclear injection of circular plasmid expressing Cas9 and single guided RNA." Scientific reports 3 (2013...pCAG-EGXXFP plasmid along with the individual gRNAs in their PX330 plasmids (or similar plasmids for gRNA expression...reconstituted the EGFP expression cassette. (b) pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid and pX330-sgRNA plasmid (Mashiko et al...fragments. The pX330 plasmid contains humanized Cas9 expression cassette and sgRNA expression cassette. The ... EGFP expression cassette reconstitution. When the target sequence was digested by sgRNA guided Cas9 endonuclease...will outline a simple method for selecting the guide RNA, validating its efficacy in vitro, and using it...effective (Mashiko et al., 2014). The plasmid is sturdier than the delicate RNA and therefore there has less chance...
  12. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    ... the envelope expressing plasmid pMD2.G. Find pMDLg/pRPE. scramble shRNA - This plasmid from David Sabatini...Tet-pLKO-puro. lentiGuide-Puro - This plasmid expresses the S. pyogenes CRISPR chimeric RNA element with...(PX461) expresses both a Cas9 protein and a gRNA. But instead of Cas9, this plasmid expresses Cas9n (a...vectors and an envelope expressing plasmid, such as our second most requested plasmid of all time, pMD2.G....This plasmid from the Zhang lab expresses Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes with an invariant sgRNA scaffold... This plasmid from the Zhang lab is a mammalian vector that expresses both SpCas9 and your gRNAs and was...generation lentiviral transfer plasmid for cloning and expressing new shRNA sequences. For more information...
  13. Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?

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    ... an important role in RNA interference, binding RNA guides to cleave foreign RNA. Argonaute proteins are...DNA guides NgAgo uses 5’ phosphorylated DNA guides (so called “gDNAs”) rather than the RNA guides employed...gDNA guides will also need to be transfected into the cells of interest. In contrast, RNA guides must ...must be expressed from a plasmid or in vitro transcribed, and changes in gRNA secondary structure can affect... tested if NgAgo preferred certain guide sequences - using 5 guides/gene for 10 genes, they did not observe...capacity viral vectors such as AAV. Base removal RNA-guided CRISPR enzymes cause double-stranded breaks, ... the DNA guide impaired NgAgo activity, with three mismatches abolishing activity. One-guide faithful...
  14. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ... longer RNAs (such as mRNAs for gene expression). Examples of commonly used RNA pol II promoters for Cas9...Cas9 expression is commonly driven by plant-derived RNA pol II promoters which regulate expression of longer...toolkits for creating plant expression plasmids, including plant CRISPR plasmids from the Yiping Qi lab and...stranded guide RNA (gRNA) is sufficient to modify the genome of plant cells. The structure of the gRNA (composed...drive gRNA expression is dependent upon the cell type in question. In plant cells, gRNA expression is achieved...to drive expression of small RNAs in their respective species. Addgene carries >30 “empty gRNA” backbones... Cas9 expression include the ubiquitously expressing cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (CaMV 35S) ...
  15. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    ...preassembled Cas9/gRNA complexes or with guide RNA- and Cas9-expression plasmids. Cas9 guide RNA delivery does...specificity is dictated by a DNA guide sequence rather than an RNA guide as with Cas9. Third, it can be ...company. However, unlike an RNA guide, it cannot be produced from a plasmid in cells. Additionally, in ...with an ssDNA guide. Therefore, researchers must co-transfect cells with 5’-P-ssDNA guides and an NgAgo...NgAgo expression plasmid to edit a gene in vivo. Try NgAgo for Yourself On the other hand, the widespread...sequencing on select regions of all distributed plasmids as part of quality control, but does not perform...sharing the stage with much-lauded CRISPR-Cas9 is DNA-guided endonuclease NgAgo! We'll discuss how NgAgo is ...
  16. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    .... The Cas9 nickase is guided to the DNA target site by the pegRNA — a guide RNA that also encodes the ...Addgene.org Read the CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids by function Browse our entire plasmid collection ... lab appended RNA pseudoknots, calling this longer RNA an “engineered pegRNA” or epegRNA. Although the...addition of the RNA pseudoknot sometimes altered epegRNA expression compared to pegRNAs, prime editing ... 3′ RNA pseudoknot (epegRNA) Improve pegRNA stability ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ✖ Fuse RNA-binding... work? First, an engineered prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA) that both specifies the target site and contains...contexts where expression was reduced (Nelson et al., 2022). PE7: An alternate approach to RNA stability This...
  17. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    ...comprehensive CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids and resources Find CRISPRa plasmids ...transcription at genomic sites targeted by specific sgRNAs. Its RNA-guided nature makes CRISPRa much simpler to implement...multiple plasmids/viruses are needed to deliver all the protein and RNA components, and several sgRNAs must...limits (i.e., how many sgRNA expression cassettes will fit). Cre-dependent expression of the SPH activator... ubiquitous expression of sgRNA(s) and mCherry (vector 1) with neuron-specific expression of dCas9-VPR...system with ubiquitous expression of sgRNA (top) and neuron-specific expression of dCas9-VPR (bottom).... for generating the SPH mouse. (B) AAV plasmids used to express CRE under neuron-specific promoters (aCaMKII...
  18. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    ...using a plasmid with multiple, individual expression cassettes, having the genes expressed from the same...create a one-stop reference guide for plasmids. We've combined our Plasmids 101 blog posts and additional...11.) PubMed.   Read more Plasmids 101 posts or browse Addgene's Plasmid Guide for more molecular biology...cells that are expressing your gene of interest at high levels. Unlike vectors that express screenable or...multicistronic plasmids ensure that any cells that are positive for your marker should also be expressing your ...want to express multiple genes in the same cell. Although it is possible to drive co-expression by using... a portion of the plasmid is packaged for viral delivery, or the relative expression levels between two...
  19. Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!

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    ... options to find plasmids matching your search terms with gene and guide RNA / shRNA inserts Resistance...search tool lets you access plasmids from journal articles. From paper to plasmid Authors regularly indicate... best plasmid for your research can be a daunting challenge. With over 80,000 deposited plasmids from ...resources: plasmid, pooled library, blog posts, protocols, and more. Selecting crispr in Guides will return...through to the plasmid search results: More than 200 different GCaMP containing plasmids are available... to include specific plasmid ID numbers. If you know the ID number for a plasmid, your straightforward...page to see the plasmids deposited by our own CSO. But what if you don’t have plasmid ID numbers, or you...
  20. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-Guided Platform for Sequence-Specific Control of Gene Expression. Cell 152:1173–1183.... citrea scarless editing plasmids Sheng Yang’s lab describes a two-plasmid system that combines recombineering...INTEGRATE (Insertion of Transposable Elements by Guide RNA-Assisted Targeting) and the Zhang lab's system...bacteria As RNA interference does not function in bacteria, most efforts to regulate gene expression were limited...targeted repression of gene expression. They successfully knock down expression of essential and non essential...Sequence-specific antimicrobials using efficiently delivered RNA-guided nucleases. Nat Biotechnol 32:1141–1145 . https...Bikard D, Cox D, Zhang F, Marraffini LA (2013) RNA-guided editing of bacterial genomes using CRISPR-Cas...
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