Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria
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Figure 1: Mobile-CRISPRi's modular components. Image from Peters...on a non-selective plate. Most bacteria tested had 1 transfer in every ~100 to 1,000 colonies, but some...including E. faecalis and P. mirabilis, had only ~1 transfer per 1,000,000 colonies. Higher transfer rates...The vast majority of bacteria are undomesticated which limits the tools scientists can use to study them...the genome and is propagated during normal DNA replication and cell division. Mobile-CRISPRi does not disrupt...single-gene knockdown experiments.
Mobile-CRISPRi applications
Mobile-CRISPRi expands CRISPRi to non-model ...Elizabeth A., and Pamela A. Silver. "Harnessing undomesticated life." Nature microbiology 4.2 (2019): 212....