Epigenome editing by CRISPR/Cas9 in clinical settings: possibilities and challenges

WD Pei, Y Zhang, TL Yin, Y Yu - Briefings in Functional …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… of gene regulation to … highly specific epigenetic silencing of endogenous genes. The SID
causes the recruitment of histone deacetylases via interaction with the transcriptional repressor

Interrogation of enhancer function by enhancer-targeting CRISPR epigenetic editing

K Li, Y Liu, H Cao, Y Zhang, Z Gu, X Liu, A Yu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… elements (CREs), yet functional analysis of gene-distal … -based epigenetic editing in
developmental gene regulation and… the combinations of independent repressors (LSD1 and KRAB …

Determinants of heritable gene silencing for KRAB-dCas9+ DNMT3 and Ezh2-dCas9+ DNMT3 hit-and-run epigenome editing

H O'Geen, M Tomkova, JA Combs… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… Here, we systematically interrogated the cis regulatory features that … repressors (KRAB-dCas9
or Ezh2-dCas9) and DNA methyltransferases (DNMT3A-dCas9 + DNMT3L) were very

CRISPR/Cas9 epigenome editing potential for rare imprinting diseases: a review

LA Syding, P Nickl, P Kasparek, R Sedlacek - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
… either silenced or overexpressed imprinted genes. Canonical … protein fused to a repressor
domain, silencing the target gene. … of epigenome regulation. Therefore, the current research of …

CRISPR/Cas9-based epigenome editing: An overview of dCas9-based tools with special emphasis on off-target activity

V Tadić, G Josipović, V Zoldoš, A Vojta - Methods, 2019 - Elsevier
… , used in gene regulation and epigenome editing, to the dCas9 … an improved dCas9-based
repressor consisting of two repression … The system demonstrated superior gene silencing in …

CRISPR/dCas9 tools: Epigenetic mechanism and application in gene transcriptional regulation

R Cai, R Lv, X Shi, G Yang, J Jin - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
… a gene editing innovation, CRISPR/Cas9 technology provides … Moreover, epigenetic silencing
of CRISPRoff is not limited to … [80] used CRISPR epigenome editing technology to regulate …

… /Cas9 gene editing uncovers the roles of CONSTITUTIVE TRIPLE RESPONSE 1 and REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 1 in melon fruit ripening and epigenetic regulation

A Giordano, M Santo Domingo… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… Generation of CRISPR/Cas9 knockout mutants for the candidate genes and inheritance of
the edits We used the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing system to investigate the roles in the melon …

Temporal and spatial epigenome editing allows precise gene regulation in mammalian cells

C Kuscu, R Mammadov, A Czikora, H Unlu… - Journal of molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
… –p300 complex to distal non-regulatory genomic regions … transcriptional activators and
repressors have been fused to … with imaging functionality of CRISPR/Cas9 will create a novel …

Transcriptional repression of PTEN in neural cells using CRISPR/dCas9 epigenetic editing

C Moses, SI Hodgetts, F Nugent, G Ben-Ary, KK Park… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… or edit epigenetic marks when directed to regulatory regions by the gRNA 32 . We employed
dCas9 to direct the transcriptional repressorsilenced in CNS neurons by epigenetic editing

Deciphering plant chromatin regulation via CRISPR/dCas9-based epigenome engineering

A Dubois, F Roudier - Epigenomes, 2021 - mdpi.com
… systems, we then discuss how epigenome editing could be implemented in combination …
repressor domain and the DNMT methyltransferase fused to the dCas9 ensured stable silencing