CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
...including pcDNA-dCas9-p300 Core and pcDNA3.3-Nm-dCas9-p300 Core, as well as pLV-dCas9-p300-P2A-PuroR for lentiviral...Transcriptional activation
p300 acetyltransferase
dCas9 fused to the catalytic domain of p300 acetyltransferase...lentiviral expression.
Figure 1: dCas9-p300 adds H3K27ac marks to histones in promoter and enhancer...may work better than activators/repressors - dCas9-p300 increased transcriptional activation more than dCas9...