CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More
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Blog Post
Published
Sept. 28, 2020, noon
...cytosine-to-thymine substitutions in target sequences (Banno et al., 2018). These substitutions were limited ...enable C-to-T and A-to-G base substitutions respectively. Substitutions seem most efficient when using...time needed for a single round of editing, and a subsequent curing protocol that requires only 2-3 hours ...days, and the pTargetF and pCas plasmids can be subsequently cured from the bacteria. Although developed ... the transcript. Different Cas orthologues and subtypes function somewhat differently and can be more ...Cas9 (dCas9) alone or a dCas9 fused to the omega subunit of RNA polymerase, the lab successfully repressed...such a purpose (Selle et al., 2020).
Targeting a subset of bacteria in a population
Work from the Lu lab...