CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

The roles of arginases and arginine in immunity

S Canè, R Geiger, V Bronte - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Arginase activity and arginine metabolism in immune cells have important consequences for
health and disease. Their dysregulation is commonly observed in cancer, autoimmune …

In vivo screening characterizes chromatin factor functions during normal and malignant hematopoiesis

D Lara-Astiaso, A Goñi-Salaverri, J Mendieta-Esteban… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cellular differentiation requires extensive alterations in chromatin structure and function,
which is elicited by the coordinated action of chromatin and transcription factors. By contrast …

Simultaneous inhibition of DNA-PK and Polϴ improves integration efficiency and precision of genome editing

S Wimberger, N Akrap, M Firth, J Brengdahl… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome editing, specifically CRISPR/Cas9 technology, has revolutionized biomedical
research and offers potential cures for genetic diseases. Despite rapid progress, low …

X-CHIME enables combinatorial, inducible, lineage-specific and sequential knockout of genes in the immune system

MW LaFleur, AM Lemmen, ISL Streeter… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Annotation of immunologic gene function in vivo typically requires the generation of
knockout mice, which is time consuming and low throughput. We previously developed …

A TRIM21-based bioPROTAC highlights the therapeutic benefit of HuR degradation

A Fletcher, D Clift, E de Vries… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Human antigen R (HuR) is a ubiquitously expressed RNA-binding protein, which functions
as an RNA regulator. Overexpression of HuR correlates with high grade tumours and poor …

The ATR inhibitor ceralasertib potentiates cancer checkpoint immunotherapy by regulating the tumor microenvironment

EL Hardaker, E Sanseviero, A Karmokar… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) inhibitor ceralasertib in
combination with the PD-L1 antibody durvalumab demonstrated encouraging clinical benefit …

Ultrasound Control of Genomic Regulatory Toolboxes for Cancer Immunotherapy

Y Wu, Z Huang, Y Liu, P He, Y Wang, L Yan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
There remains a critical need for the precise control of CRISPR (clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats)-based technologies. Here, we engineer a set of …

CRISPR somatic genome engineering and cancer modeling in the mouse pancreas and liver

T Kaltenbacher, J Löprich, R Maresch, J Weber… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) transformed the study of organismal
disease phenotypes but are limited by their lengthy generation in embryonic stem cells …

Specificity and off-target effects of AAV8-TBG viral vectors for the manipulation of hepatocellular gene expression in mice

C Kiourtis, A Wilczynska, C Nixon, W Clark… - Biology …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Mice are a widely used pre-clinical model system in large part due to their potential for
genetic manipulation. The ability to manipulate gene expression in specific cells under …