Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing
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Blog Post
... FAST system, Ye’s lab could edit a tdTomato fluorescent reporter gene in mice using Minicircle DNA vectors...of Cas9 and a photo-dissociable dimeric green fluorescent protein (pdDronpa) (Zhou et al., 2018). pdDronpa... flanking the DNA-binding cleft of Cas9, the fluorescent domains dimerize and prevent DNA binding in the...chromatin architecture (Hoffman et al., 2020). Fluorescent dCas9 proteins can be used to identify specific...gRNA and a dCas9 fusion protein with three red fluorescent tags in U2OS cells. Upon light activation, dCas9...figure below. Next, by using a dual reporter fluorescence assay, Hemphill et al. demonstrated that the...