Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
...light-dependent activity to transcription, they fused BldD to the transcriptional activators p65 and VP64 ...endogenous gene expression - demonstrating light-induced silencing of transferrin receptor CD71 in HeLa cells...readily found at Addgene.
Shining light on transcriptional activation using dCas9
Initial photoactivatable...early 2015 focused on using light to control transcription. Two separate labs, Moritoshi Sato’s lab at ...photolyase homology region (CRY2PHR) fused to a transcriptional activator domain (VP64 or p65). Upon expression...the activator into position to activate gene transcription. The researchers tested a variety of combinations...LACE) system, the Gersbach lab utilized a similar strategy to develop an optimized photoactivatable CRISPR...