[HTML][HTML] Targeted DNA methylation in human cells using engineered dCas9-methyltransferases

T Xiong, GE Meister, RE Workman, NC Kato… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
… Our results indicate that off-target DNA methylation primarily occurs when the dCas9 … highest
level of DNA methylation are located within ~400 bp of the sgRNA’s protospacer, dCas9-MC…

Genome-wide determination of on-target and off-target characteristics for RNA-guided DNA methylation by dCas9 methyltransferases

L Lin, Y Liu, F Xu, J Huang, TF Daugaard… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… of targeted DNA methylation by CRISPR gRNA-guided dCas9 methyltransferases, we used
… the characteristics of dCas9 methyltransferase-mediated DNA methylation in human cells. …

Efficient targeted DNA methylation with chimeric dCas9–Dnmt3a–Dnmt3L methyltransferase

P Stepper, G Kungulovski, RZ Jurkowska… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… , dCas9 targeted DNA methylation was described by two other groups using dCas9 fused to
… Vojta and colleagues observed efficient targeted methylation occurring in a distance of ∼35 …

Harnessing targeted DNA methylation and demethylation using dCas9

C Pflueger, T Swain, R Lister - Essays in Biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
… /Cas9 (dCas9)-based targeted DNA methylation editing tools … and the role of aberrant
methylation in various diseases. … editing used direct fusion of the bacterial methyltransferase M…

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the functional role of DNA demethylation at specific promoters by targeted steric blockage of DNA methyltransferase with CRISPR/dCas9

DM Sapozhnikov, M Szyf - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
… that dCas9 specifically inhibits DNA methylation of targeted … on-target DNA methylation with
dCas9 without affecting the … DNA span that is protected from methylation by bound dCas9, …

[HTML][HTML] Reprogrammable CRISPR/dCas9-based recruitment of DNMT1 for site-specific DNA demethylation and gene regulation

A Lu, J Wang, W Sun, W Huang, Z Cai, G Zhao… - Cell Discovery, 2019 - nature.com
methyltransferases, which use S-Adenosyl methionine as the methyl donor to catalyze the
… CRISPR/dCas9-based system (CRISPR/dCas9-R2) to reduce the DNA methylation level by …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide tracking of dCas9-methyltransferase footprints

C Galonska, J Charlton, AL Mattei, J Donaghey… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
dCas9-methyltransferases in pluripotent cells. We observe widespread off-target activity of
dCas9-methyltransferases… of CGIs from the de novo DNA methylation machinery 23,24 , which …

Repurposing the CRISPR-Cas9 system for targeted DNA methylation

A Vojta, P Dobrinić, V Tadić, L Bočkor… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… of epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, has been … DNA methylation consisting
of deactivated Cas9 (dCas9) nuclease and catalytic domain of the DNA methyltransferase

[HTML][HTML] Protein engineering strategies for improving the selective methylation of target CpG sites by a dCas9-directed cytosine methyltransferase in bacteria

T Xiong, D Rohm, RE Workman, L Roundtree… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
methylation. Here, in E. coli, we show that shortening the dCas9-MC linker increases methylation
of … We speculate that shortening the linker may increase DNA methylation at the most …

DNA methylation editing by CRISPR-guided excision of 5-methylcytosine

I Devesa-Guerra, T Morales-Ruiz… - Journal of molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
DNA methyltransferase to achieve three different methylationdCas9-VP160 or dCas9-TET1,
but, surprisingly, we detected decreased DNA methylation in cells transfected with dCas9-…