Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 23, 2015, 8:37 p.m.
...in which transient protein expression has a long-lasting effect, such as Cre- or Cas9-mediated recombination... mutations and gene expression changes elsewhere in the genome. Second, expression is by nature transient...control could enter cultured cells and activate expression of a luciferase reporter. CPP was not required...tested iTOP in a series of primary cell types using Cre and various loxP reporters. In both mouse and human...stem cells transduced with iTOP resulting in GFP expression. Image courtesy of Diego D'Astolfo.
CRISPR...potential application of iTOP
Having tested iTOP using Cre-lox recombination, D’Astolfo et al. were eager to...causes a cell to take up, and continued protein expression would require multiple transduction events. For...