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  1. Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ... Brush Up on Your HDR Basics Learn How to Design Your gRNA Find the Ideal CRISPR Software for Your Needs...Plasmids for Your Research Check out Our List of gRNA Design Tools ... single or double stranded donor DNA with other design parameters. Example single stranded donor DNA and...research with a simple question: how do Cas9 and sgRNA interact with and dissociate from a DNA target? ..., requiring expressed Cas9 protein, transcribed sgRNA, and optional donor DNA. Chris Richardson is a...
  2. Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries Enable Genome-Scale, Knockout Screening

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    ...protein coding regions with 87,897 unique gRNAs. Their gRNA library is delivered via lentiviral infection...Sabatini and Eric Lander, comprise 73,171 guide RNAs (gRNAs) covering a total of 7,114 human genes. Unlike the...’s what our plasmids allow.” Wang’s library is designed to target a smaller set of genes and it includes...sequential infection first of Cas9, then with the sgRNAs, and can result in a higher titer due to the smaller...
  3. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...generate a knock-in.   General considerations for designing a repair template to create mutations HDR donors...that Cas enzymes can continue to cleave DNA if the gRNA/PAM site remains intact. In other words, Cas9 will...resulting mutations after an HDR event, ensure the gRNA or PAM site is disrupted in the donor. Choosing...increase the frequency of edits, researchers have designed self-cleaving plasmids that liberate the targeting...information on HDR and CRISPR. Our CRISPR 101 series was designed to help explain the basic principles driving CRISPRs...et al. PLoS ONE 9(8); (2014). PubMed. Making designer mutants in model organisms. Peng, Y. et al. Development...Addgene.org Browse All CRISPR Plasmids Find Validated gRNAs for Your Next Experiment Check out our CRISPR Guide...
  4. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    ...Addgene's CRISPR Resources Learn about gRNA design and gRNA optimization for your CRISPR experiment ...by CRISPR whether it be by improved gRNA or repair template design, delivery, screening, and more. Here...highlights from the past few years:  Repair template design The Meyer lab meticulously characterized several...of editing. First, they devised guidelines for designing single-stranded repair templates (Farboud et al...single plasmid targeting vectors that encode the gRNA transcript and the repair template of your choosing...Tools such as SapTrap Builder greatly simplifies design of these constructs, allowing novice researchers...depending on perspective – to work with inefficient sgRNAs in my initial direct screening efforts, which were...
  5. Zhang Lab's CRISPR Frequently Asked Questions

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    ...more. CRISPR Design FAQs Homologous Recombination (HR) FAQs At the Bench FAQs CRISPR Design FAQs Should...template vector design guidelines? A few notes below are considerations for designing HR donor. Generally... this ‘split RNA’ design is not as efficient in genome editing as the second design (in pX330 / PX335 ...consider that wildtype Cas9 with optimized chimeric gRNA has high efficiency but has been shown to have off-target...comparable efficiency to the optimized chimeric design but with better accuracy (in other words, lower... is that you can express two different chimeric gRNAs with the Cas9 nickase which will together introduce...with efficiency similar to using a single chimeric gRNA. At the same time, the off-target effects are reduced...
  6. CRISPR Plasmids - Base Edit

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    ... dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila...Resources CRISPR Guide Viral Preps Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts Two classes of base editors...Base editors are targeted to a specific locus by a gRNA, and they can convert cytidine to uridine within...protein (Mu- GAM). While many base editors are designed to work in a very narrow window proximal to the...
  7. Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...examine Cpf1 off-target editing. First, they designed gRNAs with single and double mismatches throughout...tolerate mismatches at gRNA positions 1, 8, 9, and 19-23. Accordingly, the 3’ end of the gRNA target sequence...Cas9 orthologs, Cpf1 efficiency varies widely with gRNA sequence. Both groups used multiple methods to examine...: Effects of (A) double and (B) single base pair gRNA-target mismatches on modification by AsCpf1 (red...not mediate detectable off-target cleavage. Most gRNAs directed low-frequency Cpf1 cleavage at 1-12 off-target...
  8. Plant Plasmids and Resources

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    ...assembly of one or more gRNA expression cassettes - Qi-Jun Chen. Cas9 and gRNA backbone for use in rice...contains many plasmid tools that were specifically designed for use in plants. These resources include tools... different functional variants of Cas9 and empty gRNA backbones. A few examples of useful plant CRISPR...Plants includes CRISPR/Cas nucleases, base editors, gRNA backbones, and promoters for expression in monocots...Caixia Gao. Cloning The following collections are designed for creating plant expression vectors: A modular...MoChlo: Modular Cloning Chloroplast Toolbox for design of synthetic operons for chloroplast transformation...Silin Zhong. RNAi The following collections are designed for gene silencing in plants: microRNAs in Arabidopsis...
  9. Qi Lab CRISPR Page

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    ...may also like... CRISPR Guide CRISPR Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts We have recently repurposed...protein and a customized s ingle g uide RNA (sgRNA) designed with a 20-basepair complementary region to ...GN19 can be custom designed to target sequences in the genome. The pgRNA_humanized also contains a CMV-puro-t2A-mCherry... fusion expression plasmid 44248 pgRNA-humanized A customizable gRNA expression plasmid for use with either...use editing bacterial genomes 44251 pgRNA-bacteria A customizable gRNA expression plasmid for use with the...CRISPR CRISPRi Cas9 gRNA plasmids from the Qi lab CRISPR...ampicillin resistance, wherein the N20 can be custom designed to target arbitrary sequences in the genome. Co-expression...
  10. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    ...next-generation sequencing (NGS). For gRNA libraries, you’ll design primers to create 200-300 bp sequencing...re-amplified our distribution stock of the Brunello Human gRNA library, and we thought it would be a good time ... the plasmids are all very similar sizes, like a gRNA library, this is less of a concern, but Addgene ...
  11. CRISPR Plasmids - dCas9-FokI

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    ... dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila...Resources CRISPR Guide Viral Preps Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts A catalytically inactive... break (DSB) at a specific sequence. Two unique gRNAs, binding ~15-25 bp apart, are required for dCas9...
  12. CRISPR Plasmids - Single-Strand Break (Nick)

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    ... dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila...Preps Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts CRISPR/Cas nickase mutants introduce gRNA-targeted single-strand...enzymes. To use a nickase mutant, you will need two gRNAs that target opposite strands of your DNA in close...
  13. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

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    ...knock-in. Then choose which Cas enzyme to use and design a gRNA to where you would like to introduce the edit...harnessing the homology-directed repair pathway, designing the best donor DNA, and avoiding common mishaps...sequence to introduce, which is done through the design and use of a donor DNA molecule. Your donor molecule...strand break by homologous recombination.    Designing donors for HDR The basis of the HDR pathway relies...used as well. Below are some considerations for designing donor DNA for successful HDR events. CRISPR cut....org Browse All CRISPR Plasmids Find Validated gRNAs for Your Next Experiment Check out our CRISPR Guide... (Yu et al., Nat Chem Biol). Mutate the PAM or sgRNA sequences Cas9 likely goes through multiple rounds...
  14. CRISPR Plasmids - Empty gRNA Vectors

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    ... dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila...genome. gRNA Empty Vectors Many gRNA empty vectors have been deposited at Addgene. To find the gRNA vector...Plasmids for six gRNA module vectors, including three designed for dicots and three designed for monocots....Empty gRNA expression vectors for insertion of custom gRNA target sequences. CRISPR...Resources CRISPR Guide Viral Preps Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts CRISPR requires that ...target-specific gRNA in the same cell at the same time. Single plasmids containing both the gRNA and a Cas ...your gRNA sequence, such as BsbI or BsaI Cas9 (or other CRISPR) system that the vector was designed to ...
  15. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    ... PAM near your insertion site, the corresponding gRNA might be undesirable due to potential off-target...bacterial polymerase subunit ω. This construct is designed to activate transcription from the accessory plasmid...activity. Surprisingly, off-target effects across 5 gRNAs with NGG PAM sequences were actually lower for xCas9...3.6/3.7 than for SpCas9. For some non-promiscuous gRNAs, xCas9 3.7 displayed more than a 100 fold decrease...decrease in off-target editing; for known promiscuous gRNAs, xCas9 3.7 still showed a 4.2-9.4-fold improvement...
  16. CRISPR Plasmids - Cascade-Cas3

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    ... dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila...Resources CRISPR Guide Viral Preps Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts Cas3 is a unique member...off-target alterations and require only a single gRNA. Cas3 must be paired with the Cascade ( C RISPR-...Cas11. Cascade is directed to target DNA using a gRNA and recruits Cas3. After nicking the non-targeted...
  17. Plasmids 101: Screening Strategies Used in Plasmid Cloning

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    ... a look at All_in_one_CRISPR/Cas9_LacZ, a CRISPR gRNA plasmid from Lynne Postovit’s lab. It contains an...it won’t tell you whether the vector contains the gRNA insert or not. A blue-white screen, however, can...and distinguish between plasmids that contain the gRNA (white) from those that do not (blue). Let’s take... of the information you need, so you'll want to design a custom primer. Because Sanger sequencing can ...
  18. CRISPR Guide

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    ... of unique gRNAs. gRNA design for CRISPR libraries is usually optimized to select for gRNAs with high ... guide RNA ( gRNA or sgRNA ) and a CRISPR-associated endonuclease (Cas enzyme). The gRNA is a short synthetic...commonly referred to as an sgRNA. gRNA scaffold sequence The sequence within the gRNA that is responsible for...amplify a specific sequence of DNA pegRNA P rime E dit gRNA; a specialized gRNA containing an additional primer...Cas enzyme and a gRNA specific to the gene of interest. The genomic target of the gRNA can be any ~20 nucleotide...interactions between the gRNA scaffold and surface-exposed positively-charged grooves on Cas9. gRNA binding induces...if the gRNA spacer sequence shares sufficient homology with the target DNA. Once the Cas9-gRNA complex...
  19. CRISPR Plasmids and Resources

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    ...Browse depositor protocols, find software for gRNA design and deep sequencing analysis, discover links ...methods can be used to visualize genomic loci. gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors Select an empty vector for your experiment...experiment based on a variety of factors. gRNAs gRNA plasmids to target specific genes....
  20. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    ...Cascade is brought to the target location using a gRNA and can then recruit Cas3, which carries out the...maximum efficiency of the process. Various labs have designed all-in-one Cascade plasmids — such as the Tomoji... To get large deletions using Cas9, two or more gRNAs must be used along the same chromosome. During DNA...will repair without the section between the two gRNAs, creating a deletion. However, there is the chance... the targeted portion of DNA using only a single gRNA. Cas3 appears to have fewer off-target alterations...
  21. CRISPR Plasmids - RNA Targeting

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    ... dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila...Resources CRISPR Guide Viral Preps Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts Type VI CRISPR systems...
  22. CRISPR Plasmids - CRISPR Transposases (CAST)

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    ... dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila...Resources CRISPR Guide Viral Preps Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts CRISPR-associated transposases...
  23. Jaenisch Lab CRISPR Plasmids

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    ...may also like... CRISPR Guide CRISPR Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts CRISPR-on is an RNA-guided...CRISPR Cas9 gRNA plasmids from Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch's lab. CRISPR...component provides the specificity and is designed to target promoters or enhancers of genes of interest. Different...guide RNA (sgRNA). While the dCas9 protein provides the transactivation activity, the sgRNA component ...activators and sgRNAs can be separately transfected (pmax dCas9 activators [48223~48227] + sgRNA expression...expression vector or the linear DNA containing the sgRNA expressing fragment produced by PCR), or expressed from... via the links below: Table 1. dCas9 Activators sgRNA Dual Expression ID Plasmid 48236 pAC2-dual-dCas9VP48...
  24. 10 Great Guest Posts We're Thankful For

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    ...use CombiGEM to barcode small libraries of CRISPR gRNAs to use for screening experiments. Get the full details... Jacob Corn’s lab, describes how you can better design your donor DNA template to achieve more efficient...modular RNA binding proteins, dCas9, and a modified gRNA to direct a variety of customizable functions to...
  25. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ...1143-8.  A new tool for CRISPR gRNA validation Selecting a gRNA sequence that effectively targets...DNA break. Next, the gRNA being tested is expressed along with Cas9. If the gRNA effectively cuts the ...years of distributing his Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADD) plasmids ... a rational protein engineering approach, they designed Opto-RTKs, which activate signaling cascades on...RNAi transgenic mice The Jackson-Grusby lab has designed two vectors for use in conditional and reversible...for scientists to validate the efficacy of their gRNAs. The first step is to clone the target sequence ...needed to insert new genes into bacteria. They designed the pOSIP (one-step integration plasmid) series...
  26. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    ... Encodes gRNA/shRNA A plasmid with one or more gRNA or shRNA sequences cloned into it. gRNAs are used...the shRNA sequence. Empty backbone A plasmid designed for cloning a gene/insert into it. Empty backbones...gene contained within your insert (or targeted by a gRNA/shRNA) and select the species that the gene or insert...intended to be used. For instance, if your plasmid is designed to allow you to produce large amounts of your ...
  27. Twelve Amazing Guest Blog Contributors!

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    ... An Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry, Designing Your First Flow Panel, and Beyond Surface Labeling...software that predicts efficiencies of prime editing gRNAs.   PRIDICT Harvinder Virk and Michael Biddle, ...
  28. The CRISPR Software Matchmaker: A New Tool for Choosing the Best CRISPR Software for Your Needs

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    ...single-target design”, “multi-target design”, “off-target aware”, “high mismatch limit”, “approximate design”, “... “empirical design”, “single-PAM design”, and “multi-PAM design”. Trends: By the end of 2014, tools began...with the post-design process such as primer and plasmid design. Examples:  “multiplex design”, “multi-method...what determines good sgRNA design. Incidentally, the first software for sgRNA design (by Hsu et al., 2013...results to the designs suggested by each tool. For those who are entering sgRNA design for the first time...multi-method design”, and “single-method design”. Trends: The most common utility functions are batch design...aiding in primer design are more and more common. User interaction: Software design elements that fall...
  29. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    ...treated with a folA gRNA were more sensitive to trimethoprim when compared to control gRNA treated or untreated...existing bacterial CRISPRi methods. First, its modular design allows for customization with strain-specific promoters...promoters, antibiotic resistance selection markers, gRNAs, and dCas9 proteins. Second, it can be introduced...
  30. Fujii Lab CRISPR Plasmids

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    ...interest 61079 gRNA-hIRF-1 #12 Expresses a guide RNA (gRNA) to target human IRF-1 promoter 61080 gRNA-hIRF-1 ...may also like... CRISPR Guide CRISPR Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts Originally developed ...regions of interest. 98134 hIRF-1 gRNA #409 (Sa) Expresses a guide RNA (gRNA) to target human IRF-1 promoter...Sa-Cas9 system. 105283 hIRF-1 gRNA #351 (Sa) Expresses a guide RNA (gRNA) to target human IRF-1 promoter...interest 85586 gRNA Cloning Vector Bbs I ver. 2 An empty sgRNA expression vector. sgRNA sequence can be...CRISPR Cas9 gRNA plasmids from Dr. Hodaka Fujii's lab. Genome...catalytically inactive form of Cas9 (dCas9) plus guide RNA (gRNA) for biochemical purification (Fig. 2). For additional...
  31. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    ... for integration, “part A” of the transgene, the gRNA target site that mediated the donor template’s integration...integration; and a sequence of stuffer DNA after the gRNA target site. Donor B contains: 400 bp homology ...if non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) disrupts the gRNA target site after the first HDR event, then the ...HDR event can’t occur. Lastly, depending on its design, donor A may be capable of expressing a truncated...A in any of the reading frames downstream of the gRNA target site so that transcripts undergo nonstop ...
  32. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ...strategies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. gRNAs can be designed to flank a single or multiple exons that...In a subsequent study, they used CRISPR with two gRNAs to delete exon 51 or exons 45-55 in patient myoblasts...NHEJ, will restore the dystrophin reading frame. gRNAs bind in intronic regions, so low-frequency indels...CRISPR Plasmids for Your Research Find Validated gRNAs for Your Research ...
  33. Validated gRNA Sequences

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    ...Guide CRISPR Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts The table below lists gRNA sequences that have...pyogenes, S. aureus etc.) was this gRNA sequence designed for? A given gRNA sequence may only be compatible...indicate the Cas9 application the gRNA was designed to accomplish. Validated gRNA Sequence Datatable Target Gene... Genome Engineering CRISPR Validated gRNA Sequence Datatable Validated gRNA Target...Does a given gRNA sequence exactly match your genomic target? Variation between a given gRNA sequence and...details and outcomes. Submit Validated gRNA Sequences Validated gRNA sequences can be added to this table...validated gRNA sequences. Genome...
  34. Pushing the Limits of DNA Assembly

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    ...multiple fragments of DNA to create a synthetically designed DNA sequence. There are multiple methods of DNA...purification steps and end-repair steps with well-designed fragment overlap sections, while still creating... guide you through both experimental and primer design based on fragment sequences and the polymerase ...enzymes are adjusted. Appropriate fragment and primer design results in covalently joined, scarless DNA – perfect...interest (search Addgene plasmids by gene here), designing primers with your desired mutation, performing...Addgene.org Browse Our CRISPR Resources Find Validated gRNAs Browse All Plasmids ...thousands of base pairs. Cloning sgRNAs Generating constructs to produce sgRNA for CRISPR experiments can be...
  35. CRISPR Pooled gRNA Libraries

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    ... dCas9-FokI Screen Pooled Libraries gRNAs Empty gRNA Vectors gRNAs By Species Mammalian Bacteria Drosophila...Resources CRISPR Guide Viral Preps Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts CRISPR is a useful tool...screening experiments, due to the relative ease of designing gRNAs and the ability to modify virtually any genetic...Type Species PI Lentiviral Generation gRNAs per gene Total gRNAs Adamson DNA Repair CRISPRi Libraries ...Reduced Double-gRNA Library 137999 Knockout Human Parts 3rd 3 59,576 Human Whole Genome sgRNA iBAR Library...thousands of plasmids, each containing multiple gRNAs for each target gene. In a CRISPR screening...libraries require the use of lentivirus to deliver the gRNA/Cas9 to target cells. Therefore, you must be equipped...
  36. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    ... packaging Streptococcus pyogenes (SpCas9) and a gRNA together (~4.2 kb) into an AAV vector is challenging...Zhang's group previously packaged Cas9 and multiple gRNAs into separate AAV vectors, increasing overall packaging...regulatory sequences while still fitting Cas9 and its gRNAs into one AAV, Cas9 must be made smaller. Previous...from Streptococcus thermophilus and a rationally-designed truncated Cas9. Unfortunately, certain drawbacks... the Zhang lab created an all-in-one SaCas9 and sgRNA construct using the liver-specific serotype AAV8... a control AAV-GFP. Not only did the AAV-SaCas9-sgRNA constructs mediate genome modification, but they...
  37. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    ...at 37 °C.     The new pEcCas/pEcgRNA system We speculated that the gRNA on pCas that is specific to the...system with the updated pEcCas/pEcgRNA system, and confirmed that indeed the gRNA-pMB1 had a slightly higher...changes. In pCas9, we 1) replaced the promoter of gRNA-pMB1 with PrhaB, 2) changed the replicon of pCas...mechanisms behind their distinct phenotypes and to design a new generation of engineered cells for green ...process begins with the addition of the sgRNA sequence in pEcgRNA. Next both plasmids are transformed in...generate pEcgRNA. The ccdB serves as a counterselection marker and will be replaced by the sgRNA targeting...the newly generated pEcCas/pEcgRNA system.   Advantages of the pEcCas/pEcgRNA system Compared with the ...
  38. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    ...human cells (Kim et al, 2016). The Waldman lab has designed their AAV tagging vectors (pAAV-SEPT-Acceptor ...vectors for your specific gene, the lab recommends designing homology arms with the modification of interest...use a dual vector system composed of SaCas9 and a gRNA in one AAV and a repair template in second a second...small Cas9 homologs like SaCas9 and their requisite gRNAs take up essentially all of an AAV’s ~4.5 kB packaging...
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