CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
...pcDNA3.1-MS2-Tet1-CD to decrease methylation and activate transcription. A lentiviral vector with the same...created constitutive (pCMV-dCas9-D3A) and Tet-dependent (TetO-dCas9-D3A) constructs. For lentiviral expression... targeted enhancers. Although the lab used this vector in chick embryos, it also functions in mammalian...and this fusion allows for packaging into viral vectors and targeted delivery into hard-to-manipulate cell...targeting to a wider set of genomic targets. These two vectors are part of the larger pMVP/pMAGIC cloning system...Researchers showed that TALE-TET1 constructs, which fused a TALEN to the Tet1 demethylase catalytic domain...with BioRender.com.
Tet1 demethylase
Ronggui Hu’s lab has created pdCas9-Tet1-CD for targeted cytosine...