Gene drives gaining speed

E Bier - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Gene drives are selfish genetic elements that are transmitted to progeny at super-Mendelian
(> 50%) frequencies. Recently developed CRISPR–Cas9-based gene-drive systems are …

CRISPR-based genome editing through the lens of DNA repair

TS Nambiar, L Baudrier, P Billon, A Ciccia - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Genome editing technologies operate by inducing site-specific DNA perturbations that are
resolved by cellular DNA repair pathways. Products of genome editors include DNA breaks …

Bispecific antibodies targeting mutant RAS neoantigens

J Douglass, EHC Hsiue, BJ Mog, MS Hwang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Mutations in the RAS oncogenes occur in multiple cancers, and ways to target these
mutations has been the subject of intense research for decades. Most of these efforts are …

Interactions between nascent proteins translated by adjacent ribosomes drive homomer assembly

M Bertolini, K Fenzl, I Kats, F Wruck, F Tippmann… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Most newly synthesized proteins associate into macromolecular
complexes to become functional. Complex formation requires that subunits find each other …

Direct optical measurement of intramolecular distances with angstrom precision

SJ Sahl, J Matthias, K Inamdar, M Weber, TA Khan… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Optical investigations of nanometer distances between proteins, their subunits, or other
biomolecules have been the exclusive prerogative of Förster resonance energy transfer …

Preclinical studies show that Co-STARs combine the advantages of chimeric antigen and T cell receptors for the treatment of tumors with low antigen densities

BJ Mog, N Marcou, SR DiNapoli… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
Two types of engineered T cells have been successfully used to treat patients with cancer,
one with an antigen recognition domain derived from antibodies [chimeric antigen receptors …

Optimized design parameters for CRISPR Cas9 and Cas12a homology-directed repair

MS Schubert, B Thommandru, J Woodley, R Turk… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas proteins are RNA-guided nucleases used to introduce double-stranded
breaks (DSBs) at targeted genomic loci. DSBs are repaired by endogenous cellular …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated multi-allelic gene targeting in sugarcane confers herbicide tolerance

MT Oz, A Altpeter, R Karan, A Merotto… - Frontiers in genome …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sugarcane is the source of 80% of the sugar and 26% of the bioethanol produced globally.
However, its complex, highly polyploid genome (2 n= 100–120) impedes crop improvement …

Precise gene replacement in rice by RNA transcript-templated homologous recombination

S Li, J Li, Y He, M Xu, J Zhang, W Du, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
One of the main obstacles to gene replacement in plants is efficient delivery of a donor
repair template (DRT) into the nucleus for homology-directed DNA repair (HDR) of double …

An efficient CRISPR-based strategy to insert small and large fragments of DNA using short homology arms

O Kanca, J Zirin, J Garcia-Marques, SM Knight… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
We previously reported a CRISPR-mediated knock-in strategy into introns of Drosophila
genes, generating an attP-FRT-SA-T2A-GAL4-polyA-3XP3-EGFP-FRT-attP transgenic …