Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing
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Blog Post
Published
Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
...light has limited applications in vivo. UV and blue light is readily absorbed and scattered by the skin, so...strategies
Publication
System nickname
Photoactivatable moiety
Cas9 variatn
CRISPR protein application
Split...improvements to CRISPR technology since its initial applications for genome engineering in 2012. Many of these...scientists to use light to externally control the location, timing, and reversibility of the genome editing...enzymatic activity.
Photoactivatable genome modifications by NHEJ and HDR using split systems
Later in...mutations via NHEJ (frequency of 20.5%) and induced modifications by HDR (frequency of 7.2%).
The authors additionally...light (730 nm). This nucleotide triggers the translocation of the protein BldD to the nucleus. To couple...