作者
Yung-Hsin Huang, Jianzhong Su, Yong Lei, Lorenzo Brunetti, Michael C Gundry, Xiaotian Zhang, Mira Jeong, Wei Li, Margaret A Goodell
发表日期
2017/12
期刊
Genome biology
卷号
18
页码范围
1-11
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
DNA methylation has widespread effects on gene expression during development. However, our ability to assign specific function to regions of DNA methylation is limited by the poor correlation between global patterns of DNA methylation and gene expression.
Results
Here, we utilize nuclease-deactivated Cas9 protein fused to repetitive peptide epitopes (SunTag) recruiting multiple copies of antibody-fused de novo DNA methyltransferase 3A (DNMT3A) (dCas9-SunTag-DNMT3A) to amplify the local DNMT3A concentration to methylate genomic sites of interest. We demonstrate that dCas9-SunTag-DNMT3A dramatically increases CpG methylation at the HOXA5 locus in human embryonic kidney (HEK293T) cells. Furthermore, using a single guide RNA, dCas9-SunTag-DNMT3A is able to methylate a 4.5-kb genomic region and repress …
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