Cornerstones of CRISPR–Cas in drug discovery and therapy

C Fellmann, BG Gowen, PC Lin, JA Doudna… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2017 - nature.com
The recent development of CRISPR–Cas systems as easily accessible and programmable
tools for genome editing and regulation is spurring a revolution in biology. Paired with the …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of on-target and off-target mutations generated by CRISPR/Cas9 and other sequence-specific nucleases

J Zischewski, R Fischer, L Bortesi - Biotechnology advances, 2017 - Elsevier
The development of customizable sequence-specific nucleases such as TALENs, ZFNs and
the powerful CRISPR/Cas9 system has revolutionized the field of genome editing. The …

Rapid protein depletion in human cells by auxin-inducible degron tagging with short homology donors

T Natsume, T Kiyomitsu, Y Saga, MT Kanemaki - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Studying the role of essential proteins is dependent upon a method for rapid inactivation, in
order to study the immediate phenotypic consequences. Auxin-inducible degron (AID) …

The auxin-inducible degradation (AID) system enables versatile conditional protein depletion in C. elegans

L Zhang, JD Ward, Z Cheng, AF Dernburg - Development, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Experimental manipulation of protein abundance in living cells or organisms is an essential
strategy for investigation of biological regulatory mechanisms. Whereas powerful techniques …

High Efficiency, Homology-Directed Genome Editing in Caenorhabditis elegans Using CRISPR-Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Complexes

A Paix, A Folkmann, D Rasoloson, G Seydoux - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Homology-directed repair (HDR) of breaks induced by the RNA-programmed nuclease
Cas9 has become a popular method for genome editing in several organisms. Most HDR …

Streamlined genome engineering with a self-excising drug selection cassette

DJ Dickinson, AM Pani, JK Heppert, CD Higgins… - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A central goal in the development of genome engineering technology is to reduce the time
and labor required to produce custom genome modifications. Here we describe a new …

Melting dsDNA Donor Molecules Greatly Improves Precision Genome Editing in Caenorhabditis elegans

KS Ghanta, CC Mello - Genetics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Melting and fast cooling double stranded DNA donor molecules prior to injection
dramatically increases the frequency of homology-directed repair for edits such as insertions …

CRISPR-Based Methods for Caenorhabditis elegans Genome Engineering

DJ Dickinson, B Goldstein - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The advent of genome editing techniques based on the clustered regularly interspersed
short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–Cas9 system has revolutionized research in the …

An expanded auxin-inducible degron toolkit for Caenorhabditis elegans

GE Ashley, T Duong, MT Levenson, MAQ Martinez… - Genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The auxin-inducible degron (AID) system has emerged as a powerful tool to conditionally
deplete proteins in a range of organisms and cell types. Here, we describe a toolkit to …

[HTML][HTML] Improved genome editing efficiency and flexibility using modified oligonucleotides with TALEN and CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases

JB Renaud, C Boix, M Charpentier, A De Cian… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Genome editing has now been reported in many systems using TALEN and CRISPR-Cas9
nucleases. Precise mutations can be introduced during homology-directed repair with donor …