CRISPR-Cas-mediated transcriptional modulation: The therapeutic promises of CRISPRa and CRISPRi

L Bendixen, TI Jensen, RO Bak - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
The CRISPR-Cas system is commonly known for its ability to cleave DNA in a
programmable manner, which has democratized gene editing and facilitated recent …

Chromatin context-dependent regulation and epigenetic manipulation of prime editing

X Li, W Chen, BK Martin, D Calderon, C Lee, J Choi… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
We set out to exhaustively characterize the impact of the cis-chromatin environment on
prime editing, a precise genome engineering tool. Using a highly sensitive method for …

Phase-separated DropCRISPRa platform for efficient gene activation in mammalian cells and mice

S Ma, K Liao, M Li, X Wang, J Lv, X Zhang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) plays a critical role in regulating gene transcription
via the formation of transcriptional condensates. However, LLPS has not been reported to be …

Advances in Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors for Neurodegenerative Diseases

L Li, L Vasan, B Kartono, K Clifford, A Attarpour… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors are gene therapy delivery tools that
offer a promising platform for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Keeping up with …

Scaffold RNA engineering in type V CRISPR-Cas systems: a potent way to enhance gene expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

L Yu, MA Marchisio - Nucleic Acids Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
New, orthogonal transcription factors in eukaryotic cells have been realized by engineering
nuclease-deficient CRISPR-associated proteins and/or their guide RNAs. In this work, we …

Cell-Free Translation Quantification via a Fluorescent Minihelix

JA Willi, AS Karim, MC Jewett - ACS synthetic biology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cell-free gene expression systems are used in numerous applications, including medicine
making, diagnostics, and educational kits. Accurate quantification of nonfluorescent proteins …

Split activator of CRISPR/Cas12a for direct and sensitive detection of microRNA

W He, X Li, X Li, M Guo, M Zhang, R Hu, M Li… - Analytica Chimica …, 2024 - Elsevier
CRISPR/Cas12a-based nucleic acid assays have been increasingly used for molecular
diagnostics. However, most current CRISPR/Cas12a-based RNA assays require the …

Tailoring a CRISPR/Cas-based Epigenome Editor for Programmable Chromatin Acylation and Decreased Cytotoxicity

J Goell, J Li, B Mahata, AJ Ma, S Kim, S Shah… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Engineering histone acylation states can inform mechanistic epigenetics and catalyze
therapeutic epigenome editing opportunities. Here, we developed engineered lysine …

Compact engineered human mechanosensitive transactivation modules enable potent and versatile synthetic transcriptional control

B Mahata, A Cabrera, DA Brenner… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Engineered transactivation domains (TADs) combined with programmable DNA binding
platforms have revolutionized synthetic transcriptional control. Despite recent progress in …

Optimizing Genome Editing in Bovine Cells: A Comparative Study of Cas9 Variants and CRISPR Delivery Methods

X Du, A Quinn, T Mahony, D Xia, L Porto-Neto - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
To assist in the establishment of an efficient CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing workflow in bovine
cells, we compared the efficiency of four Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) nuclease …