...catalytically inactive form of Cas9 known as dCas9 (Jinek et al., 2012). Like Cas9, dCas9 can bind to a specific...targeting gRNA. But dCas9 does not cleave the DNA. Much of the research using dCas9 has focused on transcriptional...mammalian cells by expressing dCas9 with an N-terminal 3xFLAG tag (3xFLAG-dCas9) and a gRNA targeting their...editing, numerous discoveries have been made using the Cas9 nuclease in the absence of genomic alterations. ...activators (Qi et al., 2013). However, the fusion of dCas9 with a protein tag allows for the isolation of a...genomic region using the CRISPR system, consisting of dCas9 and targeting gRNA, to identify molecular interactions...3xFLAG tag, allowed these researchers to isolate dCas9 with the bound genomic locus, which they then confirmed...