New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 2, 2019, 12:51 p.m.
...optimized vectors to highlight a key advantage of CRISPRa over traditional cDNA overexpression: isoform-specific...expressed genes between Bdnf I-overexpressing neurons and Bdnf IV-overexpressing neurons. Among the upregulated...including transgenic mice, neuron-optimized viral vectors, and high-throughput screening approaches. Here...largely precludes delivery by adeno-associated vectors (AAV). This issue was recently circumvented by ...by the Yang Lab with the development of a Suntag-p65-HSF1 (SPH) transgenic mouse (Zhou et al., 2018). This...activator that recruits up to twenty copies of the p65-HSF1 transcriptional activator to each genome-bound...sgRNAs can be found here.
Neuron-optimized viral vectors
Alternatively, Cas9 activators can be delivered...