Engineering the plastid and mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants

P Maliga - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Engineering the plastid genome based on homologous recombination is well developed in
a few model species. Homologous recombination is also the rule in mitochondria, but …

Engineering plant immunity: using CRISPR/Cas9 to generate virus resistance

SSA Zaidi, M Tashkandi, S Mansoor… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Plant viruses infect many economically important crops, including wheat, cotton, maize,
cassava, and other vegetables. These viruses pose a serious threat to agriculture …

Homology-Integrated CRISPR–Cas (HI-CRISPR) System for One-Step Multigene Disruption in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Z Bao, H Xiao, J Liang, L Zhang, X Xiong… - ACS synthetic …, 2015 - ACS Publications
One-step multiple gene disruption in the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a
highly useful tool for both basic and applied research, but it remains a challenge. Here, we …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated immunity to geminiviruses: differential interference and evasion

Z Ali, S Ali, M Tashkandi, SSA Zaidi, MM Mahfouz - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The CRISPR/Cas9 system has recently been used to confer molecular immunity against
several eukaryotic viruses, including plant DNA geminiviruses. Here, we provide a detailed …

Yeast synthetic biology for the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins

H Kim, SJ Yoo, HA Kang - FEMS yeast research, 2015 - scholarworks.bwise.kr
The production of recombinant therapeutic proteins is one of the fast-growing areas of
molecular medicine and currently plays an important role in treatment of several diseases …

Engineering gene therapy: advances and barriers

A Shahryari, I Burtscher, Z Nazari… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Currently, 33 gene‐therapy drugs/products have been approved in the clinic. Over
3000 completed and ongoing clinical gene therapy trials have been reported worldwide …

Targeted introduction of heritable point mutations into the plant mitochondrial genome

J Forner, D Kleinschmidt, EH Meyer, A Fischer… - Nature plants, 2022 - nature.com
The development of technologies for the genetic manipulation of mitochondrial genomes
remains a major challenge. Here we report a method for the targeted introduction of …

Genome engineering via TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9 systems: challenges and perspectives

MM Mahfouz, A Piatek… - Plant biotechnology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to precisely modify genome sequence and regulate gene expression patterns in
a site‐specific manner holds much promise in plant biotechnology. Genome‐engineering …

Genome editing: the road of CRISPR/Cas9 from bench to clinic

A Eid, MM Mahfouz - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Molecular scissors engineered for site-specific modification of the genome hold great
promise for effective functional analyses of genes, genomes and epigenomes and could …

Tweaking genome-editing approaches for virus interference in crop plants

M Mushtaq, S Mukhtar, A Sakina, AA Dar, R Bhat… - Plant Physiology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Plant viruses infect various economically important crops and cause a serious threat to
agriculture. As of now, conventional strategies employed are inadequate to circumvent the …