[HTML][HTML] Emergent CRISPR–Cas-based technologies for engineering non-model bacteria

DC Volke, E Orsi, PI Nikel - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•CRISPR–Cas systems promoted the engineering of non-model bacteria.•Tools
include genome modifications and finely-tuned transcriptional regulation.•CRISPR–Cas …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterial genome engineering using CRISPR-associated transposases

DR Gelsinger, PLH Vo, SE Klompe, C Ronda… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated
transposases have the potential to transform the technology landscape for kilobase-scale …

An efficient in vivo-inducible CRISPR interference system for group A Streptococcus genetic analysis and pathogenesis studies

E Bjånes, A Stream, AB Janssen, PS Gibson, AM Bravo… - MBio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
While genome-wide transposon mutagenesis screens have identified numerous essential
genes in the significant human pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus …

Systems-Level Modeling for CRISPR-Based Metabolic Engineering

RAL Cardiff, JM Carothers, JG Zalatan… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The CRISPR-Cas system has enabled the development of sophisticated, multigene
metabolic engineering programs through the use of guide RNA-directed activation or …

Targeted Transcriptional Activation Using a CRISPR-Associated Transposon System

AM Garza Elizondo, J Chappell - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Synthetic perturbation of gene expression is central to our ability to reliably uncover
genotype–phenotype relationships in microbes. Here, we present a novel transcription …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-scale CRISPRi screening: a powerful tool in engineering microbiology

L Sun, P Zheng, J Sun, VF Wendisch, Y Wang - Engineering Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Deciphering gene function is fundamental to engineering of microbiology. The clustered
regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) system has been adapted for …

Guide RNA structure design enables combinatorial CRISPRa programs for biosynthetic profiling

J Fontana, D Sparkman-Yager, I Faulkner… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Engineering metabolism to efficiently produce chemicals from multi-step pathways requires
optimizing multi-gene expression programs to achieve enzyme balance. CRISPR-Cas …

CRISPR Tools for Engineering Prokaryotic Systems: Recent Advances and New Applications

DA Burbano, C Kiattisewee, AV Karanjia… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In the past decades, the broad selection of CRISPR-Cas systems has revolutionized
biotechnology by enabling multimodal genetic manipulation in diverse organisms. Rooted in …

The rise and future of CRISPR-based approaches for high-throughput genomics

S Vercauteren, S Fiesack, L Maroc… - FEMS microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) has revolutionized the
field of genome editing. To circumvent the permanent modifications made by traditional …

CRISPR-Cas tools for simultaneous transcription & translation control in bacteria

RAL Cardiff, ID Faulkner, JG Beall… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Robust control over gene translation at arbitrary mRNA targets is an outstanding challenge
in microbial synthetic biology. The development of tools that can regulate translation will …