CRISPR-Cas9 system: A new-fangled dawn in gene editing

D Gupta, O Bhattacharjee, D Mandal, MK Sen, D Dey… - Life sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Till date, only three techniques namely Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN), Transcription-Activator
Like Effector Nucleases (TALEN) and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic …

Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: an ongoing challenge and a continuing need

MC Field, D Horn, AH Fairlamb… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The WHO recognizes human African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease and the
leishmaniases as neglected tropical diseases. These diseases are caused by parasitic …

[HTML][HTML] A genome-wide CRISPR screen in Toxoplasma identifies essential apicomplexan genes

SM Sidik, D Huet, SM Ganesan, MH Huynh, T Wang… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Apicomplexan parasites are leading causes of human and livestock diseases such as
malaria and toxoplasmosis, yet most of their genes remain uncharacterized. Here, we …

MMEJ-assisted gene knock-in using TALENs and CRISPR-Cas9 with the PITCh systems

T Sakuma, S Nakade, Y Sakane, KIT Suzuki… - Nature protocols, 2016 - nature.com
Programmable nucleases enable engineering of the genome by utilizing endogenous DNA
double-strand break (DSB) repair pathways. Although homologous recombination (HR) …

A CRISPR Cas9 high-throughput genome editing toolkit for kinetoplastids

T Beneke, R Madden, L Makin… - Royal Society …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), CRISPR-associated
gene 9 (Cas9) genome editing is set to revolutionize genetic manipulation of pathogens …

CRISPR/Cas9 targeting events cause complex deletions and insertions at 17 sites in the mouse genome

HY Shin, C Wang, HK Lee, KH Yoo, X Zeng… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Although CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing has provided numerous opportunities to interrogate
the functional significance of any given genomic site, there is a paucity of data on the extent …

Spontaneous dormancy protects Trypanosoma cruzi during extended drug exposure

FJ Sánchez-Valdéz, A Padilla, W Wang, D Orr… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
The ability of the Chagas disease agent Trypanosoma cruzi to resist extended in vivo
exposure to highly effective trypanocidal compounds prompted us to explore the potential for …

Efficient disruption and replacement of an effector gene in the oomycete Phytophthora sojae using CRISPR/Cas9

Y Fang, BM Tyler - Molecular plant pathology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
P hytophthora sojae is an oomycete pathogen of soybean. As a result of its economic
importance, P. sojae has become a model for the study of oomycete genetics, physiology …

EuPaGDT: a web tool tailored to design CRISPR guide RNAs for eukaryotic pathogens

D Peng, R Tarleton - Microbial genomics, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
Recent development of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing has enabled highly efficient and
versatile manipulation of a variety of organisms and adaptation of the CRISPR-Cas9 system …

Genome editing in Ustilago maydis using the CRISPR–Cas system

M Schuster, G Schweizer, S Reissmann… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
This communication describes the establishment of the type II bacterial CRISPR–Cas9
system to efficiently disrupt target genes in the fungal maize pathogen Ustilago maydis. A …