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  1. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    Dec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...labs’ plasmids, including protocols, check out the plasmids at Addgene: pAdSh.PGK.Cas9 (expresses S. pyogenes...broader range of CRISPRs plasmid tools, find more plasmids, CRISPR technology guides, FAQs, and CRISPR resources...and U6 promoter-driven guide RNA constructs, pAdSh.U6.gRNAS1 and pAdSh.U6.gRNAGFP, and also Adeno Cas9 ...same chromosomal region. The CRISPR/Cas9-derived RNA-guided nuclease-induced gene disruption frequencies ... Nature Methods the same year that delivering RNA-guided nucleases or TALENs together with AdV donor DNA...Gonçalves MAFV (2014) Adenoviral vector delivery of RNA-guided CRISPR/Cas9 nuclease complexes induces targeted... large enough to carry the Cas9 gene and a gRNA expression cassette in one single viral particle. The ...
  2. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    March 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...genome and stable expression of the transgene   Transfer plasmids The transfer plasmid is the vector you...virus (MoMLV) and consisted of two plasmids: the packaging plasmid containing all the structural genes...crossover event between the vector plasmid and the packaging plasmid caused the Psi sequence to be placed... facilitates nuclear export) is expressed from a separate plasmid, and the promoter of the 5’LTR has been...(tTA, also expressed by your transfer vector) binds to the TRE and activates the expression of your gene...usually 293T cells, with your transfer plasmid and your packaging plasmids. For this, you can use the transfection...lentiviral vector guide to get more information and to get access to additional protocols and plasmids.  References...
  3. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    Nov. 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...the guide RNA that caps the 3’ end with a structured RNA motif. These engineered pegRNAs (epegRNAs) protect...CasMINI plasmids Efficient CRISPR editing with a hypercompact Cas12f1 and engineered guide RNAs Yong-Sam...Read our CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids by function Find recently deposited plasmids Topics: CRISPR...the AsCas12f1 plasmids   Selective endogenous encapsidation for cellular delivery of RNAs By Mike Lacy...Find the SEND plasmids    Figure 1: SEND combines an endogenous Gag homolog, cargo RNA, and fusogen...restoring expression in the liver.  Read the paper in Nature Biotechnology Find the PEDAR plasmids   Additional...secretion, and delivery of specific RNAs, such as Cre mRNA or Cas9 mRNA and sgRNA, in human and mouse cells. They...
  4. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    Sept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.
    ...Gersbach Lab multiplexing plasmids: This plasmid set allows you to express 2-4 gRNAs, with four being the ...Assembly Multiplexing Plasmids: These plasmids can be used to express up to 8 gRNAs after Golden Gate or...Gate Assembly Multiplex Plasmids: These plasmids allow expression of 2-5 gRNAs in zebrafish. Custom destination...Find plasmids from this paper at Addgene. 5. Tsai, Shengdar Q., et al. “Dimeric CRISPR RNA-guided FokI...   Why use multiplexed gRNAs? By expressing multiple gRNAs on the same plasmid, you’ll make sure that ...Drosophila, a two-gRNA expressing plasmid is available from the Bullock lab, and gRNAs can be inserted ...each gRNA target sequence into distinct expression vectors using the enzyme BbsI. These expression vectors...
  5. What's New in CRISPR - March 2020

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    March 10, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Read our CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids by function Find recently deposited plasmids ...CRISPRa depended on continued expression of dCas9 and gRNAs whose expression varies depending on transgene...CRISPR plasmids available at Addgene. We will still periodically focus on specific CRISPR plasmid tools...editing tool from Albert Cheng’s lab that enhances RNA-guided methylcytosine editing by TET1 by co-delivering...regulator. The lab expressed both dCas9 and the ctrA sgRNA and saw that the levels of ctrA mRNA decreased after...Read the paper in mBio Find the CRISPRi plasmids A multiplexed gRNA piggyBac transposon system for human...vectors to deliver uniform and sustained expression of multiplexed gRNAs in human pluripotent stem cells. Previously...
  6. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    Feb. 16, 2023, 7:05 p.m.
    ...permanently induce expression? Check out our Retro expression vector and Lenti expression vector. Turn it... the Addgene website Promoter Guide CRISPR Guide Lentiviral Guide  ...ablate protein expression. If you need the ability to control when you turn off expression for good, the...inducible expression (more on this below) will both achieve temporary repression of protein expression. Addgene... a gene (cDNA) can be done by either plasmid or virus. A plasmid carrying your cDNA can be targeted for...appropriate promoter to express your cDNA, depending on the level of expression you would like. Check out.... Whether you want to express or repress, good luck on your protein expression journey! Resources and...
  7. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    May 3, 2018, 1:48 p.m.
    ...for which efficiency varies widely across guide RNAs, each guide tested with CasRx yielded >80% knockdown...Resources on Addgene.org: Find RNA Knockdown Plasmids Check out our CRISPR Guide Read our CRISPR History   ...independently process their own CRISPR arrays into guide RNAs. crRNA cleavage is retained in dCas13d and is thus...RNA-editing Cas13 enzymes have taken the CRISPR world by storm. Like RNA interference, these enzymes ...EsCas13d. Find the Yan et al. plasmids here Find the Konermann et al. Plasmids here How do Cas13d enzymes...any RNA sequence! In bacteria, Cas13d-mediated cleavage promotes collateral cleavage of other RNAs. As...similar cleavage products even when guides were tiled across a target RNA, indicating that this enzyme does...
  8. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    Feb. 24, 2015, 7:50 p.m.
    ...stem-loop 2; 3. The MS2-P65-HSF1 plasmid which expresses the activation helper protein. SAM can be combined...of interest. They also “showed that different guide RNAs have different abilities to turn genes on and...are turned on and off varies depending on which guide RNA we use. What we have to do now is learn more about...sam.genome-engineering.org/. Crystal structure of Cas9 in complex with guide RNA and target DNA. Nishimasu H, Ran FA, Hsu PD, Konermann...nucleolytically inactive Cas9-VP64 fusion; 2. A sgRNA incorporating two MS2 RNA aptamers at the tetraloop and stem-...are also developing sgRNAs that will enable even more fine-tuning of gene expression levels and on software...Konermann, the first generation of CRISPR-Cas9 plasmids were not designed with gene activation in mind...
  9. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... or inducible (CMV-TO) cDNA expression, sgRNA (U6) expression, shRNA/shRNA-miR30 constitutive (H1, U6,...locus. When fused to the sgRNA and co-expressed with dCas9 – the dCas9, sgRNA/RNA cargo complex localizes...machinery that brings the sgRNA/cargo RNA to the appropriate DNA locus. The sgRNA/RNA fusions retained their...large RNA cargos to specific DNA loci. In CRISPR-Display, your RNA of interest is fused to an sgRNA used...amazing plasmid technologies developed by our community of depositors. With over 40,000 plasmids avaliable...amazing new plasmid tools that have come through our doors in 2015. Do you have a favorite new plasmid tool ... mediated genome modification and gene expression. The plasmids associated with this article can be obtained...
  10. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    March 17, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...minigenome system Similar to other RNA viruses, EBOV brings its own RNA-dependent RNA polymerase into the infected...additional plasmid containing the T7 RNA polymerase gene or using cells that stably express T7 (e.g. BSR...Browse Our Viral Vector Plasmids Read Our Lentiviral Vector Guide Read Our AAV Guide  ...encoded on separate plasmids and are co-transfected into cells alongside a plasmid encoding the minigenome...four viral genes in the same plasmid (as opposed to four separate plasmids), there are a few reasons arguing...separate (and thus smaller) plasmids. Finally, having four separate plasmids allows researchers to partially... 2 μg minigenome plasmid per well (in a 6 well plate format). However, since plasmid quality and transfection...
  11. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    Aug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m.
    ...More Plasmid Resources from Addgene: Plasmids 101 blog series Addgene's Molecular Cloning Guide & Other...complete guide to empty backbones for additional details and guidance for choosing your perfect plasmid backbone...as close as possible to the basal expression level, induce expression at an opportune time or go all out... following the expression pattern of a defined promoter region, ectopically expressing YGOI in a pattern...for overexpressing YGOI in an isolated, controlled environment. In most cases bacterial expression vectors... in molecular biology to isolate, multiply, or express the insert they carry in the target cell. These...most important thing you need to know is your expression system or environment. The host organism will...
  12. What's New in CRISPR - December 2019

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    Dec. 17, 2019, 2:37 p.m.
    ...Read our CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids by function Find recently deposited plasmids ...Acids Research Find the gRNA and packaging plasmids   Cytosine deaminase for RNA editing Feng Zhang’s lab...CRISPR plasmids available at Addgene. We will still periodically focus on specific CRISPR plasmid tools...adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editor called REPAIR by fusing catalytically inactivated RNA-targeting Cas13 (dCas13... Cas9/gRNA ribonucleoproteins for transient expression. They replaced the tetraloop of the sgRNA scaffold...Lentiviral capsid-based Cas9/gRNA ribonucleoprotein delivery Cytosine deaminase for RNA editing CRISPRi toolkit...of bacteria that can cause disease in humans. Expression of this system is tunable via a rhamnose-inducible...
  13. CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!

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    Oct. 6, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-Guided Platform for Sequence-Specific Control of Gene Expression. Cell 152:1173–1183...systems only require changing the programmable guide RNA. Gene activation by dCas9, also referred to as...specific sequences, CRISPR/Cas systems rely on a guide RNA complementary to the sequence of interest. Upon... F, Crawford GE, Reddy TE, Gersbach CA (2013) RNA-guided gene activation by CRISPR-Cas9–based transcription... on Addene.org Read Addgene's CRISPR Guide Find CRISPR plasmids for your research ...recruit transcription factors to increase gene expression. CRISPRa methods vary in their transcriptional...VP64, a strong transcriptional activation domain. Guided by dCas9, VP64 recruits transcriptional machinery...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    Aug. 11, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...with some plasmids. You just need three plasmids to start making AAV:  the packaging plasmid which contains... transfer plasmid an AAV transfer plasmid. ITR sequences are 145 bases each and AAV plasmids have two ...aids in the nuclear export of RNA and RNA translation, and promotes RNA transcript longevity. The polyA...of an AAV transfer plasmid. Parts shown in green are key elements of an AAV plasmid. Parts shown in grey... elements of an AAV plasmid First let’s talk about the key parts of an AAV plasmid. Inverted terminal ... of expression. For example, CAG is a strong promoter that drives very high, ubiquitous expression, while...transfer plasmids have a promoter, but this element isn’t required when the transfer plasmid harbors non-coding...
  15. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ... LITE Plasmids Resources on Addgene.org Check out Our CRISPR Guide Pages Find Validated gRNAs to Target... made targeting much easier! With the help of guide RNAs, fusions between Cas proteins and the epigenetic...CRISPR-based DNA demethylation by Casilio-ME-mediated RNA-guided coupling of methylcytosine oxidation and DNA ... Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. Liu XS, Wu H, Ji X, Stelzer Y, Wu X, Czauderna S, Shu... are an additional layer of control over gene expression that go beyond genomic sequence. Dysregulation...modifications are correlated with alterations in gene expression, but causality and mechanisms remain unclear....that help package DNA, were associated with gene expression or silencing. To alter DNA modifications, researchers...
  16. Fluorescent CRISPR Reporters: SRIRACCHA and GEmCherry2

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    May 26, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...control RFP expression plasmid.  With this set up, all successfully transfected cells will express RFP while...using the supplied donor plasmid will express GFP. If there’s GFP expression, presumably the endogenous...fluorescent protein for assessing CRISPR/Cas9 activity Guide RNA structure and the site in the genome you are trying...Resources on Addgene.org Read our CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids for your research Find resources and ... different gRNAs by simply changing the gRNA used when transfecting your cells.  A plasmid that contains...iSRIRACCHA) where Cas9 expression is activated using 4-OH-T and doxycycline. A gRNA that targets your desired...the N-terminus of mCherry can be targeted by a sgRNA guided Cas9 causing a DSB break. This DSB is repaired...
  17. Hot Plasmids June 2018 - Reverse transcriptase, nanobody, and protein-DNA interaction tools

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    June 27, 2018, 1:16 p.m.
    ...transcription of RNA such as long-read cDNA sequencing and RNA sequencing of complex heterogeneous RNA samples....a sequence of interest with an sgRNA expressed from a separate plasmid. When cells are treated with biotin–phenol...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...write about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here. Listen to the Hot Plasmids Podcast!  MarathonRT...at Yale University recently deposited a plasmid for expressing a novel reverse transcriptase (RT), MarathonRT...processivity. Please find the MarathonRT plasmid here! Zhao C, et al. RNA. 2018 PubMed PMID:29109157. Nanobody...
  18. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    Nov. 14, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...short ncRNAs, such as microRNAs that are around 20 base pairs long. Using a single guide RNA (sgRNA) to ...please… non-coding RNAs! You probably didn’t see that coming, right? Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are transcribed...Characterization of Long Non-Coding RNAs. Non-Coding RNA. 2021;7(4):79. doi:10.3390/ncrna7040079 Horlbeck MA, Liu SJ,...CRISPR/Cas13, which targets RNA instead of DNA and selectively degrades RNA molecules. This system is often...CRISPR Guide Addgene's CRISPR 101 eBook CRISPR resources More resources on the Addgene blog RNA Editing...Editing with Cas13 Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2) Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome...Doudna JA, Charpentier E. A Programmable Dual-RNAGuided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity...
  19. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    Aug. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...three or four guides directed towards that gene as there can be a large difference in guide potency. Thus...2018). cDNA libraries, which consist of plasmids that over-express coding sequences from a given cell type...2015) WU-CRISPR: characteristics of functional guide RNAs for the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Genome Biol 16: ....said, we generally pick guides by putting the promoter of the gene into a gRNA finder such as WU-CRISPR...or our lab’s sgRNA scorer 1.0 (Now 2.0) (Chari et al., 2015) and picking whichever guides are closest ...used in therapeutics, as it can increase gene expression at certain loci to create changes in phenotypes...: once the environmental trigger leaves, gene expression is no longer activated. However, there are several...
  20. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...impaired Cas protein (dCas or Cas nickase)  a guide RNA that targets the complex of TadA and dCas to the...Get the basics of CRISPR in our CRISPR guide Find all plasmids for base editing in our collection Sign...introduced into cells as a plasmid or as mRNA constructs. In primary human cells mRNA delivery of ABEs resulted...base changes in cellular DNA and RNA dependent or independent of the gRNA used (Gaudelli et al., 2017). ... et al., 2020) was able to reduce off-target RNA and gRNA-dependent DNA editing while maintaining on-target...and 𝛽-thalassemia, can be mitigated with the expression of fetal hemoglobin. Previous studies have shown...gamma hemoglobin (HGB1/2) leads to continuous expression of fetal hemoglobin even in adult patients. In...
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