Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional activation screening

J Joung, S Konermann, JS Gootenberg… - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
Forward genetic screens are powerful tools for the unbiased discovery and functional
characterization of specific genetic elements associated with a phenotype of interest …

CRISPR–Act3. 0 for highly efficient multiplexed gene activation in plants

C Pan, X Wu, K Markel, AA Malzahn, N Kundagrami… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
RNA-guided CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) systems have been developed in plants.
However, the simultaneous activation of multiple genes remains challenging. Here, we …

Increasing the specificity of CRISPR systems with engineered RNA secondary structures

DD Kocak, EA Josephs, V Bhandarkar, SS Adkar… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat) systems have been
broadly adopted for basic science, biotechnology, and gene and cell therapy. In some …

Compact and highly active next-generation libraries for CRISPR-mediated gene repression and activation

MA Horlbeck, LA Gilbert, JE Villalta, B Adamson… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
We recently found that nucleosomes directly block access of CRISPR/Cas9 to DNA. Here,
we build on this observation with a comprehensive algorithm that incorporates chromatin …

CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing for disease modeling and therapy: challenges and opportunities for nonviral delivery

HX Wang, M Li, CM Lee, S Chakraborty… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Genome editing offers promising solutions to genetic disorders by editing DNA sequences
or modulating gene expression. The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

Beyond editing: repurposing CRISPR–Cas9 for precision genome regulation and interrogation

AA Dominguez, WA Lim, LS Qi - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2016 - nature.com
The bacterial CRISPR–Cas9 system has emerged as a multifunctional platform for
sequence-specific regulation of gene expression. This Review describes the development of …

Repurposing the CRISPR-Cas9 system for targeted DNA methylation

A Vojta, P Dobrinić, V Tadić, L Bočkor… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetic studies relied so far on correlations between epigenetic marks and gene
expression pattern. Technologies developed for epigenome editing now enable direct study …

In vivo target gene activation via CRISPR/Cas9-mediated trans-epigenetic modulation

HK Liao, F Hatanaka, T Araoka, P Reddy, MZ Wu, Y Sui… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Current genome-editing systems generally rely on inducing DNA double-strand breaks
(DSBs). This may limit their utility in clinical therapies, as unwanted mutations caused by …

Highly specific epigenome editing by CRISPR-Cas9 repressors for silencing of distal regulatory elements

PI Thakore, AM D'ippolito, L Song, A Safi… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Epigenome editing with the CRISPR (clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic
repeats)-Cas9 platform is a promising technology for modulating gene expression to direct …

CRISPR/Cas9 in genome editing and beyond

H Wang, M La Russa, LS Qi - Annual review of biochemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The Cas9 protein (CRISPR-associated protein 9), derived from type II CRISPR (clustered
regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) bacterial immune systems, is emerging as a …