Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation
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Blog Post
Published
Dec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
...Selection for cells stably and highly expressing these constructs can be achieved by fluorescence-activated cell...sorting, and stable gRNA expression can be achieved using lentiviral backbones expressing blasticidin or puromycin...several great options: pLV hUbC-dCas9-T2A-GFP for removable dCas9 expression and pLM-CMV-R-Cre. Selection...and gene expression (Sapozhnikov and Szyf 2021).
Figure 3: A simpler approach - dCas9 blocks ...especially 3’ of PAM) might work too.
High dCas9 and gRNA expression are key for complete DNA demethylation...balance these needs is the lentiviral-based expression of floxed dCas9 so that it may later be excised by Cre...could be affected, leading to unpredicted gene expression changes (Sapozhnikov and Szyf 2021, Charlton ...