Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
...CRISPR-based gene editing (see table below). For example, the far-red light-activated split-Cas9 (FAST) ...translocation of the protein BldD to the nucleus. To couple this light-dependent activity to transcription,...proteins by fusing Cas9 to photoreceptors. One prime example was from the lab of Michael Lin, who developed ...