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  1. X-CHIME: Context Dependent Germline Knockout in Immune Cells

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    Jan. 16, 2024, 6:13 p.m.
    ... 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...
  2. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    Sept. 28, 2020, noon
    ...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...
  3. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    May 31, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...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...
  4. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    Feb. 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ..., 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 ...
  5. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    March 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...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...
  6. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ...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...
  7. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    March 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...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...
  8. Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks

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    Nov. 19, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ..., 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...
  9. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    May 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...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...
  10. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    Jan. 26, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...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....
  11. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    Dec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...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...
  12. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    Jan. 26, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...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. ...
  13. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    May 3, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...proteins with split fluorescent protein tags. Tamura R, Jiang F, Xie J, Kamiyama D. Commun Biol. 2021 Daichi ...Split-horseradish peroxidase (Alice Ting Lab 2016)  Split-Cas9 for inducible genome editing (Feng Zhang Lab 2015...
  14. Analyzing CRISPR Editing Results with ICE from Synthego

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    May 8, 2018, 1 p.m.
    ...table. You can also use your browser’s Control+F or Command+F functionality to search for a particular sequence...from single or multiplex CRISPR-Cas9 double-strand DNA breaks using SpCas9. More features will be added ...Currently, ICE is configured for Cas9 fromStreptococcus pyogenes (SpCas9). ICE Score - The editing efficiency...the ICE Score, the Pearson correlation coefficient (r) is also computed and reported.  The higher the R2...Addgene Blog Browse our CRISPR featured topic page xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with Pam Flexibility...
  15. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    Feb. 25, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Agarwala V, Scott DA, Zhang F (2013) Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system. Nature Protocols 8... the genome. They fused a catalytically impaired Cas9 protein to a DNA-editing enzyme to generate the ...based on a prime editor which is a fusion between Cas9 and reverse transcriptase. Using an elongated template...The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9. Science 346:1258096 . https://doi.org/10.1126/science...https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0070-x Griffith F (1928) The Significance of Pneumococcal Types. Journal..., Zeitler B, Pickle CS, Ralston EJ, Lee AH, Amora R, Miller JC, Leung E, Meng X, Zhang L, Rebar EJ, Gregory...
  16. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    April 13, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Wang Q, Xu J, Dong F, Yang S, Yang J, Zhang Z, Qian Y, Chen J, Zhang J, Liu Y, Tao R, Jiang Y, Yang J, ...consists of one plasmid that expresses the S. pyogenes Cas9, a temperature-sensitive replicon for self-curing...), which we presume caused pTargetF to be cut by Cas9. This would result in the lack of recovered transformants...Editing in the Escherichia coli Genome via the CRISPR-Cas9 System. Appl Environ Microbiol 81:2506–2514 . https...2021) A modified pCas/pTargetF system for CRISPR-Cas9-assisted genome editing in Escherichia coli. Acta...edits. Once you have all the edits you want, cure pCas9 by growing the cells at 37 °C.     The new pEcCas...  The updates involved the following changes. In pCas9, we 1) replaced the promoter of gRNA-pMB1 with PrhaB...
  17. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    Oct. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    .../10.1038/nbt.3567 Nakaoka Y, Miki T, Fujioka R, Uehara R, Tomioka A, Obuse C, Kubo M, Hiwatashi Y, Goshima...Bassik MC (2016) Systematic comparison of CRISPR/Cas9 and RNAi screens for essential genes. Nat Biotechnol... selection of plants undergoing RNAi, and LIIbeta F 1-2 RNAi, which allows assembly of intron-spliced ...multicellular scale.     References Bezanilla M, Perroud P ‐F., Pan A, Klueh P, Quatrano RS (2005) An RNAi System...–257 . https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2005-837597 Li J-F, Chung HS, Niu Y, Bush J, McCormack M, Sheen J (2013.../doi.org/10.1105/tpc.112.098509 Smits AH, Ziebell F, Joberty G, Zinn N, Mueller WF, Clauder-Münster S,..., Chen SL, Gong B-Q, Guo Y, Xu L, Zhang X-N, Li J-F (2018) Engineering Artificial MicroRNAs for Multiplex...
  18. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    Feb. 8, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...blog CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 do I choose for my CRISPR experiment? CRISPR 101: Cas9 The Other Cas(s) CRISPR....2020.11.009  Guo C, Ma X, Gao F, Guo Y. Off-target effects in CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing. Front Bioeng Biotechnol...specific variants. HypaCas9, sSpCas9(1.1), SpCas9HF1, and evoCas9 are a few spCas9s which have been evolved... References and Resources   References Rabinowitz R, Offen D. Single-Base Resolution: Increasing the Specificity...of Maya Kostman. The most commonly used Cas, spCas9, has gone through multiple rounds of optimization...
  19. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    March 24, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Kremer L, Li D, Koch-Nolte F, Pascual N, Rodríguez-Barbosa J-I, Torensma R, Turley H, Pulford K, Banham...to knock-down expression of your target or CRISPR/Cas9 to create mutations that essentially eliminate expression...gene for your protein has been mutated using CRISPR/Cas9. You check the mutation and it causes a large deletion...
  20. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    Sept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...sequential homology directed repairs (HDR) with CRISPR/Cas9. Donor A contains: 400bp homology arms to the site...Carvalho LS, Turunen HT, Wassmer SJ, Luna-Velez MV, Xiao R, Bennett J, Vandenberghe LH (2017) Evaluating Efficiencies...-697 Hirsch ML, Agbandje-McKenna M, Jude Samulski R (2010) Little Vector, Big Gene Transduction: Fragmented...Rossi S, Giunti M, Palfi A, Farrar GJ, Polishchuk R, Auricchio A (2013) Effective delivery of large genes...Polishchuk EV, Sommella A, Colecchi L, Rossi S, Simonelli F, Giunti M, Bacci ML, Polishchuk RS, Auricchio A (2015...
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