What's New in CRISPR - March 2020
Type
Blog Post
...fluorescently labeled piggyBac vectors to deliver uniform and sustained expression of multiplexed gRNAs in human...CRISPRa depended on continued expression of dCas9 and gRNAs whose expression varies depending on transgene...The lab expressed both dCas9 and the ctrA sgRNA and saw that the levels of ctrA mRNA decreased after 20...demethylation
Optogenetic repressors of gene expression in yeast
Megan McClean’s lab generated an optogenetic...optogenetic toolkit that controls repression of gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The system consists...the nucleus where dCas9-Mxi1 can repress gene expression. In the dark, the NLS is inaccessible and the... in Caulobacter cells for ctrA gene expression using various dCas9. Image adapted from Guzzo et al., 2020...