Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!
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Jan. 11, 2017, 8:47 p.m.
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...requested plasmid from 2016 is an expression vector for CRISPR nuclease, SpCas9 from the Zhang Lab. It's name,...that you can use to express both SpCas9 and your gRNA in a variety of mammalian cell types.
Purpose
SpCas9.... Cas9, of course, is the key component of most CRISPR systems and generates double strange breaks at ... 5' of the 5'NGG3' PAM sequence as directed by a gRNA.
2A-Puro
In this plasmid, SpCas9 is fused to the...