CRISPR-U™ technology (CRISPR based), developed by Ubigene, is more efficient than general
CRISPR/Cas9 technology in double-strand breaking and homologous recombination. With CRISPR-U™, Ubigene has
successfully edited over 3000 genes on more than 200 types of cell lines.
Objective
To create a Human CASP8 Knockout
model in cell line by CRISPR-U™-mediated genome engineering.
Target gene info
Official symbol
CASP8
Gene id
841
Organism
Homo sapiens
Gene type
protein-coding
Official full symbol
caspase 8
Also known as
ALPS2B, CAP4, Casp-8, FLICE, MACH, MCH5
Genomic regions
Chromosome 2
Summary
This gene encodes a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes composed of a prodomain, a large protease subunit, and a small protease subunit. Activation of caspases requires proteolytic processing at conserved internal aspartic residues to generate a heterodimeric enzyme consisting of the large and small subunits. This protein is involved in the programmed cell death induced by Fas and various apoptotic stimuli. The N-terminal FADD-like death effector domain of this protein suggests that it may interact with Fas-interacting protein FADD. This protein was detected in the insoluble fraction of the affected brain region from Huntington disease patients but not in those from normal controls, which implicated the role in neurodegenerative diseases. Many alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described, although not all variants have had their full-length sequences determined.
Strategy Summary
This gene has 0 protein coding transcripts：
Frame-shift
Fragment A
Fragment B
gRNA Detail
Strategy
Project Comprehensive Difficulty Assessment
According to the Red Cotton database: the CRISPR gene-editing strategy design is Unknown. Knockout project comprehensive difficulty is thus assessed as Unknown.
Red Cotton™ Notes
Gene
CASP8
had been KO in hela cell line.
EZ-editor™ Gene Dependency
EZ-editor™ Gene Expression Level
EZ-editor™ Gene Copy Number
EZ-editor™ Gene Dependency
Result
The CASP8 gene you inquire is evaluated as high risk
in 0%
cell line.
Cell line is not selected, unable to assess the accurate risk level, for reference only.
In all cell lines, there is
2.6% cells with expression level below cutoff,
15.8% cells with low expression level,
81.7% cells with medium expression level
of CASP8 gene.
Cell line is not selected, unable to assess the accurate expression level, for reference only.
In all cell lines, there is
60.0% cells with low copy number,
36.7% cells with medium copy number,
3.2% cells with high copy number
of CASP8 gene.
Cell line is not selected, unable to assess the accurate copy number, for reference only.
Ubigene is an international high-technology enterprise focused on gene-editing cells. Our exclusive CRISPR-U™ technology has 10-20 times more efficient editing than traditional methods, easily achieving gene knockout, point mutation, and knock-in. Based on CRISPR-U™ technology, Ubigene has accumulated over 6000 successful gene-editing cases from more than 300 cell lines including iPSC and ESC, and has established a KO Cell Line Bank with 4500+ KO cell lines and Red Cotton™ gRNA Plasmid Bank with 10000+ gRNA plasmids available in stock.
Ubigene focuses on technological innovation and product development, of which EZ-editor™ series products that cover the whole workflow of gene-editing keep improving. Ubigene will move on toward our goal of "Make genome editing easier" and we won't stop!
EZ-editor™ Gene Dependency
EZ-editor™ Gene Expression Level 
EZ-editor™ Gene Copy Number 
