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  1. CrispyCrunch: High-throughput Design and Analysis of CRISPR+HDR Experiments

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    ...performed because weak gRNAs (CFD < 20) bind almost not at all, and strong gRNAs (CFD > 80) bind almost...almost as much as perfect gRNAs (CFD = 100). CFD scores (which range between 0 and 100) are then converted... Create a new experiment in the program Design gRNAs by inputting the target regions Design donor RNA... Learn about some considerations when designing gRNAs Find other CRISPR software Resources on Addgene.org...
  2. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    ...Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing by John Doench CRISPR-Cas9: Tips for Optimizing sgRNA Activity...Gonçalves; made with BioRender.   Delivering gRNA and Cas9 using adenoviral vectors As compared to...capacity is large enough to carry the Cas9 gene and a gRNA expression cassette in one single viral particle...to the targeted organs or tissues with Cas9 and a gRNA designed to target a mutated gene. In a Scientific...be realized via simple switching of the relevant gRNAs and donor DNA Adenoviral CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing...Addgene are: pAdSh.PGK.Cas9, pAdSh.U6.gRNAS1, and pAdSh.U6.gRNAGFP. Gonçalves says that advantages of AdVs...promoter-driven guide RNA constructs, pAdSh.U6.gRNAS1 and pAdSh.U6.gRNAGFP, and also Adeno Cas9 and Adeno EA. Or...
  3. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    ...HEK293FT cells expressing a single gRNA targeting a single gene. The gRNA expressing cells were then transfected...library” that contains ~90,000 gRNAs that target ~15,000 genes with 6 gRNAs per gene. The second is a "supplementary...contains an additional 6 gRNAs per gene generated using slightly relaxed gRNA design parameters. To demonstrate...as an interactive gRNA viewer. The Moffat lab has also deposited their Cas9 and gRNA backbone plasmids... Liu lab’s own pAc-sgRNA-Cas9 insect expression backbone, which expresses the gRNA from a Drosophila U6...The Wu lab library consists of 77,406 individual gRNAs targeting a total of 20,121 genes within the human...mutant” colonies were deep sequenced to identify the gRNAs that confer protection to WNV. From this screen ...
  4. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    ...from the Zhang lab is used to deliver Cas9 and your gRNA of interest into mammalian cells. This vector was...mammalian vector that expresses both SpCas9 and your gRNAs and was also the top requested plasmid from 2016...-GFP (PX461) expresses both a Cas9 protein and a gRNA. But instead of Cas9, this plasmid expresses Cas9n...mammalian expression vector encodes both SpCas9 and your gRNA. It’s the former version of our sixth most popular...Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes with an invariant sgRNA scaffold and cloning sites for inserting the guide...pyogenes CRISPR chimeric RNA element with customizable sgRNA from the U6 promoter and puromycin resistance from...
  5. CasPEDIA: A Functional Classification of Cas Enzymes

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    ...properties (CasID): Cis/trans activity, PAM requirement, gRNA, and multiplex ability Experimental guidelines ...Target requirements As we all know, a Cas guided by a gRNA is useless without an adjacent PAM or protospacer-flanking...etc.) as well as their orientation relative to the gRNA (5’ or 3’). In some cases, there is no requirement... your search (trans activity, multiplex ability, gRNA design, etc.). With this feature, you can compare...
  6. The Twelve Days of CRISPR

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    ...Addgene gave to me: tips and tricks for designing gRNAs for CRISPR editing. On the fourth day of CRISPR,... day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: multiplexed gRNAs.  We hope you’ve been enjoying our CRISPR blog series...
  7. 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...sequential infection first of Cas9, then with the sgRNAs, and can result in a higher titer due to the smaller...
  8. 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...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...
  9. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    ...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 ...confirmed using next-generation sequencing (NGS). For gRNA libraries, you’ll design primers to create 200-300...
  10. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    ...selecting a sgRNA Addgene may carry a validated sgRNA for your target gene.  Validated gRNAs are a great...of the many freely available sgRNA design programs. Find Validated gRNAs for Your Next CRISPR Experiment..., consists of a dCas9-VP64 fusion and a modified gRNA that is capable of interacting with an additional...background with our CRISPR Guide Find Software Tools for gRNA Design    ...new sgRNA for your experiment, select from a variety of empty sgRNA vectors and design your sgRNA targeting...other.  If having two sgRNAs isn’t feasible for your experiment, ensure your sgRNA sequence has little ...serve as the target for Cas9’s single guide RNA (sgRNA), provided it meets two conditions:  1) The sequence...
  11. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    ...the gene into a gRNA finder such as WU-CRISPR (Wong et al., 2015)) or our lab’s sgRNA scorer 1.0 (Now ...uses for Cas9 activators is in genetic screening. gRNAs targeting every gene in the human genome for example...targeted by the activator by simply providing a new gRNA rather than engineering an entirely new protein....difficult to construct and deliver when compared to gRNAs. Additionaly, cDNAs cannot be used to study in cis...
  12. 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...
  13. Choosing a CRISPR Nuclease: Site Accessibility, Specificity, and Sensitivity

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    ...site that is not a perfect match to the guide RNA (gRNA) used to target the genomic locus of interest. As...of Sniper-Cas9 to different Cas9 variants using gRNAs of different lengths (Lee et al., 2018) and found...and sensitivity across a large number of loci and gRNA lengths. Recent alternatives to Cas9 While Cas9 ...
  14. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    ... Cas9-Cas12a gRNAs under a single U6 promoter. The paralog and dual-targeting hybrid gRNA library can ...interactions between paralogs. The exon-deletion hybrid gRNA library deletes human alternative cassette exons...
  15. 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 ...A in any of the reading frames downstream of the gRNA target site so that transcripts undergo nonstop ...
  16. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ...In a subsequent study, they used CRISPR with two gRNAs to delete exon 51 or exons 45-55 in patient myoblasts...skipping strategies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. gRNAs can be designed to flank a single or multiple exons...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 ...
  17. 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...promoters, antibiotic resistance selection markers, gRNAs, and dCas9 proteins. Second, it can be introduced...
  18. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...loss (Ho et al. 2014). To overcome this, paired gRNAs can be used to target specific sizes of a DNA fragment..., removing large lncRNA fragments with multiple gRNAs poses the risk of disrupting adjacent genes, especially...Cas12a variant can cleave single-stranded RNA using gRNAs to specifically edit or degrade targeted lncRNAs...around 20 base pairs long. Using a single guide RNA (sgRNA) to create a double-strand break works well because...locus (Ho et al. 2012). For large-scale screening, sgRNA libraries are useful for targeting thousands of ...uses a nuclease-dead Cas9 protein (dCas9) and a sgRNA to temporarily block the transcription machinery...
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