Latest developed strategies to minimize the off-target effects in CRISPR-Cas-mediated genome editing

M Naeem, S Majeed, MZ Hoque, I Ahmad - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gene editing that makes target gene modification in the genome by deletion or addition has
revolutionized the era of biomedicine. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

Therapeutic genome editing: prospects and challenges

DBT Cox, RJ Platt, F Zhang - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Recent advances in the development of genome editing technologies based on
programmable nucleases have substantially improved our ability to make precise changes …

A high-throughput platform to identify small-molecule inhibitors of CRISPR-Cas9

B Maji, SA Gangopadhyay, M Lee, M Shi, P Wu… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The precise control of CRISPR-Cas9 activity is required for a number of genome
engineering technologies. Here, we report a generalizable platform that provided the first …

A self-deleting AAV-CRISPR system for in vivo genome editing

A Li, CM Lee, AE Hurley, KE Jarrett, M De Giorgi… - … Therapy-Methods & …, 2019 - cell.com
Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors packaging the CRISPR-Cas9 system (AAV-CRISPR)
can efficiently modify disease-relevant genes in somatic tissues with high efficiency. AAV …

Overcoming gene-delivery hurdles: physiological considerations for nonviral vectors

AB Hill, M Chen, CK Chen, BA Pfeifer, CH Jones - Trends in biotechnology, 2016 - cell.com
With the use of contemporary tools and techniques, it has become possible to more
precisely tune the biochemical mechanisms associated with using nonviral vectors for gene …

Immunity to CRISPR Cas9 and Cas12a therapeutics

WL Chew - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐editing therapeutics are poised to treat human diseases. As we enter clinical trials
with the most promising CRISPR‐Cas9 and CRISPR‐Cas12a (Cpf1) modalities, the risks …

Genome engineering using adeno-associated virus: basic and clinical research applications

T Gaj, BE Epstein, DV Schaffer - Molecular Therapy, 2016 - cell.com
In addition to their broad potential for therapeutic gene delivery, adeno-associated virus
(AAV) vectors possess the innate ability to stimulate homologous recombination in …

Guide RNA engineering for versatile Cas9 functionality

CM Nowak, S Lawson, M Zerez… - Nucleic Acids Research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats system allows a
single guide RNA (sgRNA) to direct a protein with combined helicase and nuclease activity …

Hit and go CAS9 delivered through a lentiviral based self-limiting circuit

G Petris, A Casini, C Montagna, F Lorenzin… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
In vivo application of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology is still limited by unwanted Cas9
genomic cleavages. Long-term expression of Cas9 increases the number of genomic loci …

RISC-y business: Limitations of short hairpin RNA-mediated gene silencing in the brain and a discussion of CRISPR/Cas-based alternatives

K Goel, JE Ploski - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Manipulating gene expression within and outside the nervous system is useful for
interrogating gene function and developing therapeutic interventions for a variety of …