CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
...methylation and activate transcription. A lentiviral vector with the same modifier, Fuw-dCas9-Tet1CD, is available...Jaenisch’s lab in plasmid form or as ready-to-use lentivirus.
Figure 2: dCas9-Tet1 demethylates cytosines...with the former also available as ready-to-use lentivirus.
Figure 3: dCas9-DNMT3A methylates cytosines... 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...