Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 18, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
...cells (Ma et al., 2015). To do so, they fused a different fluorescent protein to various Cas9 variants, ...either MS2, PP7, or boxB) that each recruits a different fluorescent protein (BFP, GFP, or RFP) to the ...green, or red readout. But gRNAs containing two different hairpins will produce a secondary color (yellow...allows for simultaneous visualization of sites on different chromosomes in living cells, the system requires...they chose an intergenic DNA region (IDR3) as a reference loci to measure inter-locus distances of loci ...sgRNA-Sirius-4X(MS2-PP7) showing recruitment of different fluorescent proteins. (B) CRISPR-Sirius used to...try.
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References
Ma, Hanhui et al. “Multicolor CRISPR labeling...