CRISPR technologies for genome, epigenome and transcriptome editing

L Villiger, J Joung, L Koblan, J Weissman… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Our ability to edit genomes lags behind our capacity to sequence them, but the growing
understanding of CRISPR biology and its application to genome, epigenome and …

Synthetic transcription factor engineering for cell and gene therapy

B Bhatt, P García-Díaz, GW Foight - Trends in Biotechnology, 2024 - cell.com
Synthetic transcription factors (synTFs) that control beneficial transgene expression are an
important method to increase the safety and efficacy of cell and gene therapy. Reliance on …

Multiplex, single-cell CRISPRa screening for cell type specific regulatory elements

FM Chardon, TA McDiarmid, NF Page… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
CRISPR-based gene activation (CRISPRa) is a strategy for upregulating gene expression
by targeting promoters or enhancers in a tissue/cell-type specific manner. Here, we describe …

Synthetic macromolecular switches for precision control of therapeutic cell functions

AP Teixeira, M Fussenegger - Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2024 - nature.com
Cells rely on complex molecular networks to perceive and process external and internal
signals into tailored responses. These cellular abilities can be augmented and modified by …

A modular dCas9-based recruitment platform for combinatorial epigenome editing

T Swain, C Pflueger, S Freytag, D Poppe… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Targeted epigenome editing tools allow precise manipulation and investigation of genome
modifications, however they often display high context dependency and variable efficacy …

Using High-Throughput Measurements to Identify Principles of Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulators

N DelRosso, L Bintu - Epigenome Editing: Methods and Protocols, 2024 - Springer
To achieve exquisite control over the epigenome, we need a better predictive understanding
of how transcription factors, chromatin regulators, and their individual domain's function …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell chromatin state transitions during epigenetic memory formation

T Fujimori, C Rios-Martinez, AR Thurm, MM Hinks… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Repressive chromatin modifications are thought to compact chromatin to silence
transcription. However, it is unclear how chromatin structure changes during silencing and …

A combinatorial domain screening platform reveals epigenetic effector interactions for transcriptional perturbation

HC Moon, MH Herschl, A Pawluk, S Konermann… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Epigenetic regulation involves the coordinated interplay of diverse proteins. To
systematically explore these combinations, we present COMBINE (combinatorial interaction …

PreciCE: Precision engineering of cell fates via data-driven multi-gene control of transcriptional networks

JP Magnusson, Y Roohani, D Stauber, Y Situ… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The directed differentiation of stem cells into specific cell types is critical for regenerative
medicine and cell-based applications. However, current methods for cell fate control are …

Tunable, self-contained gene dosage control via proteolytic cleavage of CRISPR-Cas systems

N Katz, C An, YJ Lee, J Tycko, M Zhang, J Kang… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Gene therapy holds great therapeutic potential. Yet, controlling cargo expression in single
cells is limited due to the variability of delivery methods. We implement an incoherent …