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  1. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...V, Najgebauer H, Allen F, Gonçalves E, Shepherd R, Doench JG, Yusa K, Vazquez F, Parts L, Boehm JS, Golub..., Tsherniak A, Iorio F (2019) Agreement between two large pan-cancer CRISPR-Cas9 gene dependency data ... capacity of a locus. When using S. pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9), potential target sites are both [5’-20nt-NGG... (inhibition) technologies – a nuclease-dead Cas9 (dCas9) is directed near the promoter of a target gene...with CRISPR technology is usually accomplished by Cas9-mediated dsDNA breaks: following a cut, the error-prone...even more exquisite for the so-called base editor Cas9, which makes DNA changes in the absence of dsDNA...Incidence of Off-Target Mutations in Individual CRISPR-Cas9 and TALEN Targeted Human Stem Cell Clones Detected...
  2. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    ..., Konermann S, Shehata SI, Dohmae N, Ishitani R, Zhang F, Nureki O. Cell. 2014 Feb 27;156(5):935-49. doi...Silvana Konermann, the first generation of CRISPR-Cas9 plasmids were not designed with gene activation ...question for her then was this: Can you engineer CRISPR-Cas9 activators that work well enough on any gene that...describe just such a system, which they call CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation Mediator or SAM. SAM is an... three components: 1. A nucleolytically inactive Cas9-VP64 fusion; 2. A sgRNA incorporating two MS2 RNA...system, Konermann explained, was new knowledge about Cas9’s crystal structure. “I thought maybe we could use...levels of control in the system. First of all, the Cas9s can be turned on and off, to reversibly activate...
  3. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    ...CRISPR-Cas9. Cell 167:1829-1838.e9 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.017 Shin J, Jiang F, Liu J-J...et al., 2016). While Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpyCas9) is the most used and well studied CRISPR system... study, the labs found that anti-CRISPR prevents Cas9 activity in HEK293 by reducing editing from ~30%...interact with CRISPR-Cas systems such as Cascade-Cas3, Cas9, Cas12, and Cas13 (Marino et al., 2020). Some Acr...ways: Inhibit DNA binding Example:  AcrIIA4 blocks Cas9’s interaction with the PAM site (Dong et al., 2017... crRNA loadingExample: AcrIIC2 interactions with Cas9 interferes and prevents the correct assembly of ... AcrIIC1 binds to the HNH endonuclease domain of Cas9 and prevents target DNA cleavage (Harrington et ...
  4. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    ...0022-1317-73-3-653. PMID 1372038. Randall, R. E., Young, D. F., Goswami, K. K., & Russell, W. C. (1987).... M., Wang, P., Li, H., Hall, R. N., Wang, B., Prakash, M., & Dunn, A. R. (2024). Split Luciferase Molecular...Overview of the dual-plasmid CRISPR/Cas9 workflow in M. abscessus. A) Sth1Cas9 mediates double strand break ...mScarlet-based tags for live imaging in C. elegans CRISPR/Cas9 for gene disruption in M. abscessus  Bioluminescent...Mycobacterium abscessus using a dual-plasmid CRISPR/Cas9 system By Aryana Khosravani Deborah Hung’s lab has... has developed a novel dual-plasmid CRISPR/Cas9 system for gene disruption in Mycobacterium abscessus,...resistance interfering with selection. Using an inducible Cas9 expression and removing the sgRNA plasmid after ...
  5. Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond

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    ...doi.org/10.3389/fgeed.2020.617910 Zou, R., Liu, Y., Wu, B., et al. Cas9 deactivation with photocleavable gRNAs...surprise then that stability of the RNA used in CRISPR-Cas9 experiments – the “gRNA” – suffers from the same...still effectively serving their function of guiding Cas9 to generate a targeted break. These advances in ...modifications The recognition sequence for CRISPR-Cas9 targeting is led by a ~20 bp gRNA which is part ...trans-activating crRNA (tracrRNA) which interacts with the Cas9 protein. These RNA molecules are vulnerable to attack...partially DNA gRNA is surprisingly well-tolerated by the Cas9 protein and can increase on-target efficiency. In...modifications listed above were developed before CRISPR-Cas9, for use in applications like siRNA and antisense...
  6. X-CHIME: Context Dependent Germline Knockout in Immune Cells

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    ... CHIME works through transduction of Cas9-expressing (Rosa26-Cas9) hematopoietic stem cells with a lentiviral...genes pXPR_219 Violet-excited GFP (vex) Rosa26-Cas9 I-CHIME Inducible knockout of a single gene...Violet-excited GFP (vex) Rosa26-FlpO-ERT2; H11-Cas9 L-CHIME Knocks out a single gene in defined... Violet-excited GFP (vex) Lineage-Cre; Rosa26-Cas9 S-CHIME Knocks out pairs of genes sequentially...Violet-excited GFP (vex) Rosa26-FlpO-ERT2; H11-Cas9 Table 1: X-CHIME systems Proof of Concept These...Haining, W. N., & Sharpe, A. H. (2019). A CRISPR-Cas9 delivery system for in vivo screening of genes in...Gillis, J.E., Sen, D.R., Gaudiano, E.F., Al Abosy, R., Freeman, G.J., Haining, W.N., & Sharpe, A.H. (2019...
  7. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...pCRISPomyces-1 includes Cas9, a tracrRNA, and a CRISPR array, while pCRISPomyces-2 contains Cas9 and a gRNA cassette...functions more similarly to CRISPR/Cas9 systems adapted for eukaryotes in that Cas9-mediated cleavage induces ...targeting either a catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) alone or a dCas9 fused to the omega subunit of RNA polymerase... from Addgene consists of two plasmids: pCas9: carries Cas9 and chloramphenicol resistance pCRISPR: carries.... They identified the Cas9 orthologue from Streptococcus thermophilus, Cas9sth1 as a robust and highly...when using a nickase version of Cas9, but were also successful using a dCas9 variant as well. Furthermore...unsuccessful and the wild-type sequence persists, Cas9 will cleave the gene of interest, inducing a lethal...
  8. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    ...Qualls, B. M. Lewis, E. Ke, C. T. Dargitz, R. Wright, A. Khanna, F. H. Gage, and I. M. Verma, “Functional ...the development of site-specific nucleases (CRISPR/Cas9, TALENs, and ZFNs). However, several challenges ...piggyBac™ transposon system can be combined with CRISPR/Cas9 to efficiently perform genetic manipulations in ...along with a site-specific nuclease (such as CRISPR/Cas9) to create a double-stranded DNA break. After DNA...technologies including Zinc Fingers, TALENs, and CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases. Mathew applies his specialized knowledge..., Apr. 2016. PubMed PMID: 27075976. 4.  X. Li, E. R. Burnight, A. L. Cooney, N. Malani, T. Brady, J. D...Staber, S. J. Wheelan, J. K. Joung, P. B. McCray, F. D. Bushman, P. L. Sinn, and N. L. Craig, “piggyBac...
  9. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ..., 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...6 Grünewald, J., Zhou, R., Lareau, C. A., Garcia, S. P., Iyer, S., Miller, B. R., Langner, L. M., Hsu,...Bhaumik, M., Shubina-Oleinik, O., Holt, J. R., & Liu, D. R. (2019). Continuous evolution of base editors...individual Cas9. They also mutagenized the cytidine deaminase portion of the base editor to create SpCas9 base...et al., 2020 SpRY Cas9, available fused to ABEmax(7.10) or to BE4max   Evolved SpCas9 with NRN or NYN PAM... 1.1%. These numbers are a vast improvement over Cas9-mediated HDR for the loci tested, where average ...
  10. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    ...need from Cas9 are sequence specificity and the R-loop structure. In order to bind DNA, Cas9 requires ...non-target strand of DNA for Cas9 to bind.   R-loop The structure formed by Cas9 binding to DNA and separating...editors use either catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) or a Cas9 nickase (nCas9) to avoid introducing double-strand...finds a PAM, Cas9 unwinds the adjacent DNA to create a region of separate strands called an R-loop (Figure...10.1038/nbt.4172 Kurt, I. C., Zhou, R., Iyer, S., Garcia, S. P., Miller, B. R., Langner, L. M., Grünewald, J...single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) region, using enzymes fused to Cas9 to alter the exposed ssDNA bases. Thus, base editors...window restricted to the stretch of ssDNA created by Cas9 binding. Pro tip! In CRISPR, the non-target strand...
  11. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...types. They have also fused LSD1 to x-Cas9(3.7). x-Cas9(3.7) is a SpCas9 mutant that exhibits increased PAM...Fowler T, Rees R, Kramer A, Martens A, Edwards JR, Challen GA (2016) Reprogrammable CRISPR/Cas9-based system..., Gao X, Zhang L, Li X, Zou W, Ruan K, Wang F, Xu G, Hu R (2016) A CRISPR-based approach for targeted ...Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 (Sa-Cas) and deposited plasmid IF311: pMAGIC (R4-R3) NLS-Sa dCas9-NLS-LSD1. LSD1 ...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...
  12. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    ...cells stably expressing Cas9 via transduction with Cas9 lentiviral vector, lentiCas9-Blast (52962-LV, Figure... Figure 1: Cas9 expression in A549 cells transduced with lentiCas9-blast. Anti-Cas9 Western blotting... Cas9 delivery Overview: Before any editing can begin we need our A549 cells to express Cas9. In these...with too many Cas9 integrations per cell, and my stable cell pool had wildly variable Cas9 expression (... variable Cas9-expression was across the different cells (Figure 3).   Figure 2: Cas9 expression...to assay Cas9 activity in my stable A549 cell pools. Using this virus, it’s expected that Cas9 activity...gene. So, cells with no Cas9 should appear green and cells with functional Cas9 should appear less green...
  13. CRISPR Guide

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    ...S., Mojica, F. J. M., Terns, R. M., Terns, M. P., White, M. F., Yakunin, A. F., Garrett, R. A., Van Der... available with multiple Cas9 variants, including high fidelity Cas9s, Cas9s with various PAM requirements...H., Ran, F. A., Hsu, P. D., Konermann, S., Shehata, S. I., Dohmae, N., Ishitani, R., Zhang, F., & Nureki...e1007749. PMID: 30403660 Sanson, K. R., Hanna, R. E., Hegde, M., Donovan, K. F., Strand, C., Sullender, M. E...strand SpCas9-HF1 - disrupt Cas9’s interactions with DNA phosphate backbone HypaCas9 - increase Cas9 proofreading...new tools. Figure 3: Overview of Cas9n Nickase and dead Cas9 The two Cas9 nuclease domains, RuvC and HNH...enhanced specificity by engineering Cas9 into high fidelity Cas9s (hfCas9) . There is currently no defined...
  14. Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks

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    ..., Ha TL, Kühn R, Nguyen TL, Rajewsky K, Chu VT (2019) Efficient and Precise CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated MECP2...MECP2 protein, showing mutations corrected by CRISPR/Cas9 in wild-type human iPSCs. Image modified from Le...Le et al., 2019. Gene editing via CRISPR/Cas9 and RNA-mediated correction of MECP2 mutant alleles,... Klaus Rajewsky’s group recently used the CRISPR/Cas9 system to both precisely insert the MECP2-R270X ...Joung, PhD, and Feng Zhang, PhD, is pursuing CRISPR/Cas9 technology for precise correction of Rett syndrome...Dennys-Rivers C, Huffenberger A, Braun L, Rinaldi F, Wein N, Meyer KC, Solano S, Nguyen K , Lang E, Kaspar...https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtm.2017.04.006 Tillotson R, Selfridge J, Koerner MV, Gadalla KKE, Guy J, De Sousa...
  15. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    ...Caccavelli L, Sgarra R, Maouche-Chrétien L, Bernaudin F, Girot R, Dorazio R, Mulder GJ, Polack A, Bank A...Wang G, Hehir K, Fusil F, Down J, Denaro M, Brady T, Westerman K, Cavallesco R, Gillet-Legrand B, Caccavelli...Fischer A, Cornetta K, Galacteros F, Beuzard Y, Gluckman E, Bushman F, Hacein-Bey-Abina S, Leboulch P. ...Screening Read about Genome-Wide Screening Using CRISPR/Cas9 Additional Resources on Addgene.org Check out ...vector. Naldini L, Blömer U, Gallay P, Ory D, Mulligan R, Gage FH, Verma IM, Trono D. Science. 1996 Apr 12;... a conditional packaging system. Dull T, Zufferey R, Kelly M, Mandel RJ, Nguyen M, Trono D, Naldini L....for CRISPR screening. Sanjana NE, Shalem O, Zhang F. Nat Methods. 2014 Aug;11(8):783-4. PubMed PMID: 25075903...
  16. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ...Koonin EV, Sharp PA, Zhang F. In vivo genome editing using Staphylococcus aureus Cas9. Nature. 2015 Apr 9;520...Widrick JJ, Yan WX, Maesner C, Wu EY, Xiao R, Ran FA, Cong L, Zhang F, Vandenberghe LH, Church GM, Wagers AJ...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...Sanchez-Ortiz E, Bhattacharyya S, Shelton JM, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Postnatal genome editing partially restores...Madhavan S, Pan X, Ran FA, Yan WX, Asokan A, Zhang F, Duan D, Gersbach CA. In vivo genome editing improves...mutation in dystrophin exon 23. Long et al. used SpCas9 in conjunction with AAV9, whereas Nelson et al....
  17. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    ...great options: pLV hUbC-dCas9-T2A-GFP for removable dCas9 expression and pLM-CMV-R-Cre. Selection for cells...the Epigenome  Mapping the 4D Nucleome with CRISPR/Cas9 Resources at Addgene.org Read our CRISPR Guide...CRISPR/dCas9. Nat Commun 12, 5711. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25991-9. Spruijt CG, Gnerlich F, Smits...Enzymatic domains tethered to dCas9 often interact with DNA independently of dCas9 targeting (Galonska 2018...binding is crucial for dCas9 to interfere with DNMT1 even through replication. The dCas9 also needs to be removeable... Some enzymatic fusions are godsends. Tethering dCas9 to the histone acetyltransferase p300 or the DNA...absent before. But other enzymatic fusions, such as dCas9-TET, can, like the iron ball-and-chain that they...
  18. Plan Your Experiment

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    ...organism without a specific preferred mutation Cas9 (or Cas9 nickase) Single (or dual) gRNA targeting 5′ ...generating a point mutation or inserting a tag Cas9 (or Cas9 nickase); Base editor Single (or dual) gRNA ...concern, Cas9-gRNA ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes are advantageous due to the transient Cas9 expression... RNA delivery of Cas9 and gRNA In vitro transcription reactions generate mature Cas9 mRNA and gRNA, which...generate transgenic embryos Cas9-gRNA ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes Purified Cas9 protein and in vitro transcribed...and/or Cas9 expression or (2) a lack of efficient target cleavage in cells expressing both Cas9 and gRNA...Publications Cong, L., & Zhang, F. (2015). Genome engineering using CRISPR-CAS9 system. Methods in Molecular...
  19. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...Homology directed repair and genome engineering CRISPR-Cas9 has revolutionized the genome engineering world ...the gRNA/PAM site remains intact. In other words, Cas9 will keep cutting and repairing your target DNA ...References: Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system. Ran FA, et al. Nature Protocols Nov;8(11... 114.169771; (2014). PubMed. The Use of CRISPR/Cas9, ZFNs, and TALENs in Generating Site-Specific Genome...of Genome Engineering Approaches with the CRISPR/Cas9 System. Li, K et al. PLoS ONE 9(8); (2014). PubMed...editing by catalytically active and inactive CRISPR-Cas9 using asymmetric donor DNA. Richardson CD, et al...by Homologous Recombination. Jasin M and Rothstein R. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol (2013). PubMed. ...
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