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  1. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ... endogenous loci using validated gRNAs from Addgene and well designed homology directed repair templates...cell events Three years ago, Brian Kuhlman’s lab designed photoswitchable dimers by fusing the SsrA peptide...the authors recently used computational protein design, phage display and high throughput binding assays...gene is inserted. It is important that primers be designed to minimize the possibility of dimer formation...platform for imaging and flow cytometry applications Designing customized fluorescent reporters can be challenging...preposterous. Luckily, the Pierre Neveu laboratory designed a new iterative, chaining-based cloning method...the field of all-optical electrophysiology is designing the perfect voltage indicator and optogenetic ...
  2. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    ...first generation of CRISPR-Cas9 plasmids were not designed with gene activation in mind. “We had not managed...from the structure to guide and improve activator design,” she said. “Before it was a little like tapping...instead of at the protein’s C terminus. With that new design in place, Konermann immediately saw an order of... activator (CRISPRa) sgRNA library uses the sunCas9 system and contains 10 sgRNAs for each transcription...nucleolytically inactive Cas9-VP64 fusion; 2. A sgRNA incorporating two MS2 RNA aptamers at the tetraloop...gain-of-function screening when combined with a compact pooled sgRNA library. Our SAM-mediated screens exhibited a high...transcriptional repressor (CRISPRi) library contains 10 sgRNAs for each transcription start site in those 15,977...
  3. Addgene's eBook Collection

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    ... for planning your CRISPR experiment and designing your gRNA and how to use pooled libraries in genome-wide...
  4. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    ...promising tool for future structure-guided drug design and studies of protein ubiquitination and degradation...CRBNmidi plasmid here!   Kroupova, A. et al. (2024). Design of a Cereblon construct for crystallographic and...specifically for C. elegans (Cao et al., 2024). The team designed coding sequences for mScarlet3 and mScarlet-I3...recombination methods). By using mCherry for selection of sgRNA plasmid transformants, they avoid M. abscessus’ ...Using an inducible Cas9 expression and removing the sgRNA plasmid after identifying successful knockouts limits... KanR. This strain is then transformed with the sgRNA cassette on a plasmid expressing mCherry and resistance... of the target gene. Lastly, curing the mCherry-sgRNA plasmid leaves an edited strain carrying Cas9 to...
  5. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    ...without end-point sequencing assays.  This tool was designed by putting together the coding sequence of a mCherry...MYC-CRISPR library targets E-boxes genome-wide. It was designed based on MYC-ChIP-seq data from several MYC-dependent...Veening is now available with one sgRNA per operon or gene. The sgRNA pool can also target core operons... cell lines. The Turner Lab Human messenger-RBP sgRNA Library targets human mRNA binding proteins with...operons in other pneumococcal strains. The BARBEKO sgRNA library uses CRISPR cytosine base editors to disrupt...
  6. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    ...domain (FokI). Zinc finger nucleases were first designed in 2005. The DNA-binding domain can be engineered...editors, new amino acid recognition sites had to be designed each time we wanted to target new genomic sites...chasing an anti-villain geneticist named Zobrist who designs a virus that can potentially kill one-third of ... in genome editing is prime editing, which was designed in 2019. It’s based on a prime editor which is... Using an elongated template + guide RNA called pegRNA (prime editing RNA), the prime editor can install...
  7. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    ...nicking increases indel formation slightly. Designing the sgRNA with a spacer that only binds the edited ...different constraints and affect how you select and design your prime editing tools. Here, we’ll briefly cover...engineered pegRNA” or epegRNA. Although the addition of the RNA pseudoknot sometimes altered epegRNA expression...does just this by including an additional sgRNA. Using this sgRNA, the prime editor nicks the unedited strand...4.0 license. epegRNAs: Structured RNAs with improved stability Traditional sgRNAs are protected from...degraded, the truncated pegRNA can still guide Cas9 and compete with full pegRNAs for access to the target... compared to PEmax with normal pegRNAs, but combining PE7 with epegRNAs resulted in similar or reduced...
  8. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    ...Have you ever designed a CRISPR guide RNA and wondered why it is limited to only 20 bases, or why it’...understand the parameters of CRISPR experimental design. Let’s dive into some structural biology! Major...Once supplied with a guide RNA — whether it’s an sgRNA or a crRNA:tracrRNA duplex — Cas9’s two lobes move...yellow; REC lobe, light blue; bridge helix, purple; sgRNA, dark blue.   The REC lobe binds tightly to ...yellow; REC lobe, light blue; bridge helix, purple; sgRNA, dark blue.   DNA sequence recognition Once ...yellow; REC lobe, light blue; bridge helix, purple; sgRNA, dark blue; target DNA strand, light gray; non-target... and marks the transition back to a DNA duplex. sgRNA, dark blue; target DNA strand, light gray; non-target...
  9. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    ...one mistake can be enough. Reversal drives are designed to overwrite a previous gene drive and thereby...cassette encoding the cas9 gene and single guide RNAs (sgRNAs) with appropriate flanking homology into a germline...don't use a DNA vector that encodes both Cas9 and sgRNA. What if I want to work with gene drives? Then do...organisms but not wild organisms. For example, an sgRNA-only drive will spread exclusively through populations...express Cas9 from an unlinked locus, while a Cas9+sgRNA drive targeting a synthetic sequence will only spread...restore the wild-type sequence (save for the residual sgRNAs and possibly cas9 gene). An immunizing reversal...
  10. Hot Plasmids Spring 2024

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    ...elements. The team designed sgRNAs that include an internal barcode and separated multiple sgRNAs with tRNAs,...engineered pegRNAs (epegRNAs), which add a structural motif to stabilize the 3’ end of the pegRNA. As research...BFP2.     Figure 1: CROPseq-multi uses two sgRNAs with internal barcodes (iBARs), multiplexed using...lentiviral integration, producing a second copy of the sgRNAs. Image reused from Walton et al. 2024 under a CC-BY-NC-ND...occurs on the RNA polymerase III transcript, the sgRNAs were encoded on the lentiviral minus strand in ...of host cell proteins, and modifications to the pegRNA. The Britt Adamson Lab recently used a CRISPRi ...to La binding and stabilizing the 3’ end of the pegRNA, which is not well protected by Cas9. This is similar...
  11. Analyzing CRISPR Editing Results with ICE from Synthego

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    ..., which also includes our CRISPR knockout guide design tool, guide validation tool, and guaranteed editing...those generated by multiplexed delivery of multiple sgRNAs. Since multiplexing is commonly used to create ...helps the researcher see which of the multiplexed sgRNA was involved in a particular edit, and which type...
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