CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome
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...expression or silencing. To alter DNA modifications, researchers used blunt tools like histone deacetylases, but...epigenetic modifications at a user-specified locus.
Researchers showed that TALE-TET1 constructs, which fused...transcription at CpG regions of various promoters. Other researchers additionally fused a TAL effector to LSD1 histone...and dCas9-based epigenome editing. Nucleic Acids Research 47:e23–e23. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky1286...system for targeted DNA methylation. Nucleic Acids Research 44:5615–5628 . https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkw159...