Multiplexed CRISPR technologies for gene editing and transcriptional regulation

NS McCarty, AE Graham, L Studená… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Multiplexed CRISPR technologies, in which numerous gRNAs or Cas enzymes are
expressed at once, have facilitated powerful biological engineering applications, vastly …

Recent advances in metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: new tools and their applications

J Lian, S Mishra, H Zhao - Metabolic engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Metabolic engineering aims to develop efficient cell factories by rewiring cellular
metabolism. As one of the most commonly used cell factories, Saccharomyces cerevisiae …

A yeast platform for high-level synthesis of tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids

ME Pyne, K Kevvai, PS Grewal, L Narcross… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The tetrahydroisoquinoline (THIQ) moiety is a privileged substructure of many bioactive
natural products and semi-synthetic analogs. Plants manufacture more than 3,000 THIQ …

Combinatorial metabolic engineering using an orthogonal tri-functional CRISPR system

J Lian, M HamediRad, S Hu, H Zhao - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Designing an optimal microbial cell factory often requires overexpression, knock-down, and
knock-out of multiple gene targets. Unfortunately, such rewiring of cellular metabolism is …

A Cas9-based toolkit to program gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

A Reider Apel, L d'Espaux, M Wehrs… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Despite the extensive use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a platform for synthetic biology,
strain engineering remains slow and laborious. Here, we employ CRISPR/Cas9 technology …

Advances in industrial biotechnology using CRISPR-Cas systems

PD Donohoue, R Barrangou, AP May - Trends in biotechnology, 2018 - cell.com
The term 'clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats'(CRISPR) has recently
become synonymous with the genome-editing revolution. The RNA-guided endonuclease …

Nucleosomes inhibit target cleavage by CRISPR-Cas9 in vivo

RM Yarrington, S Verma, S Schwartz… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Genome editing with CRISPR-Cas nucleases has been applied successfully to a wide range
of cells and organisms. There is, however, considerable variation in the efficiency of …

Nucleosome breathing and remodeling constrain CRISPR-Cas9 function

RS Isaac, F Jiang, JA Doudna, WA Lim, GJ Narlikar… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
The CRISPR-Cas9 bacterial surveillance system has become a versatile tool for genome
editing and gene regulation in eukaryotic cells, yet how CRISPR-Cas9 contends with the …

CRISPR/Cas system for yeast genome engineering: advances and applications

V Stovicek, C Holkenbrink, I Borodina - FEMS yeast research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The methods based on the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
(CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) system have quickly gained popularity for genome …

[HTML][HTML] Implementing CRISPR-Cas technologies in conventional and non-conventional yeasts: Current state and future prospects

H Raschmanová, A Weninger, A Glieder, K Kovar… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Within five years, the CRISPR-Cas system has emerged as the dominating tool for genome
engineering, while also changing the speed and efficiency of metabolic engineering in …