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SUBMITTER: Dahlman JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4747789 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dahlman James E JE Abudayyeh Omar O OO Joung Julia J Gootenberg Jonathan S JS Zhang Feng F Konermann Silvana S
Nature biotechnology 20151101 11
We have developed a CRISPR-based method that uses catalytically active Cas9 and distinct single guide (sgRNA) constructs to knock out and activate different genes in the same cell. These sgRNAs, with 14- to 15-bp target sequences and MS2 binding loops, can activate gene expression using an active Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 nuclease, without inducing double-stranded breaks. We use these 'dead RNAs' to perform orthogonal gene knockout and transcriptional activation in human cells. ...[more]