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SP-dCas9-VPR Citations (106)

Originally described in: Highly efficient Cas9-mediated transcriptional programming.
Chavez A, Scheiman J, Vora S, Pruitt BW, Tuttle M, P R Iyer E, Lin S, Kiani S, Guzman CD, Wiegand DJ, Ter-Ovanesyan D, Braff JL, Davidsohn N, Housden BE, Perrimon N, Weiss R, Aach J, Collins JJ, Church GM Nat Methods. 2015 Mar 2. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3312.
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Articles Citing SP-dCas9-VPR

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Cas9 gRNA engineering for genome editing, activation and repression. Kiani S, Chavez A, Tuttle M, Hall RN, Chari R, Ter-Ovanesyan D, Qian J, Pruitt BW, Beal J, Vora S, Buchthal J, Kowal EJ, Ebrahimkhani MR, Collins JJ, Weiss R, Church G. Nat Methods. 2015 Sep 7. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3580. PubMed

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Potent and Targeted Activation of Latent HIV-1 Using the CRISPR/dCas9 Activator Complex. Saayman SM, Lazar DC, Scott TA, Hart JR, Takahashi M, Burnett JC, Planelles V, Morris KV, Weinberg MS. Mol Ther. 2015 Nov 19. doi: 10.1038/mt.2015.202. PubMed
Engineering Synthetic Gene Circuits in Living Cells with CRISPR Technology. Jusiak B, Cleto S, Perez-Pinera P, Lu TK. Trends Biotechnol. 2016 Jan 22. pii: S0167-7799(15)00274-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2015.12.014. PubMed
Comparison of Cas9 activators in multiple species. Chavez A, Tuttle M, Pruitt BW, Ewen-Campen B, Chari R, Ter-Ovanesyan D, Haque SJ, Cecchi RJ, Kowal EJ, Buchthal J, Housden BE, Perrimon N, Collins JJ, Church G. Nat Methods. 2016 May 23. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3871. PubMed

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Precision Modulation of Neurodegenerative Disease-Related Gene Expression in Human iPSC-Derived Neurons. Heman-Ackah SM, Bassett AR, Wood MJ. Sci Rep. 2016 Jun 24;6:28420. doi: 10.1038/srep28420. PubMed
Waking up dormant tumor suppressor genes with zinc fingers, TALEs and the CRISPR/dCas9 system. Garcia-Bloj B, Moses C, Sgro A, Plani-Lam J, Arooj M, Duffy C, Thiruvengadam S, Sorolla A, Rashwan R, Mancera RL, Leisewitz A, Swift-Scanlan T, Corvalan AH, Blancafort P. Oncotarget. 2016 Sep 13;7(37):60535-60554. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.11142. PubMed
Targeted Gene Activation Using RNA-Guided Nucleases. Brown A, Woods WS, Perez-Pinera P. Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1468:235-50. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-4035-6_16. PubMed
Metabolic gatekeeper function of B-lymphoid transcription factors. Chan LN, Chen Z, Braas D, Lee JW, Xiao G, Geng H, Cosgun KN, Hurtz C, Shojaee S, Cazzaniga V, Schjerven H, Ernst T, Hochhaus A, Kornblau SM, Konopleva M, Pufall MA, Cazzaniga G, Liu GJ, Milne TA, Koeffler HP, Ross TS, Sanchez-Garcia I, Borkhardt A, Yamamoto KR, Dickins RA, Graeber TG, Muschen M. Nature. 2017 Feb 23;542(7642):479-483. doi: 10.1038/nature21076. Epub 2017 Feb 13. PubMed
Evaluating Synthetic Activation and Repression of Neuropsychiatric-Related Genes in hiPSC-Derived NPCs, Neurons, and Astrocytes. Ho SM, Hartley BJ, Flaherty E, Rajarajan P, Abdelaal R, Obiorah I, Barretto N, Muhammad H, Phatnani HP, Akbarian S, Brennand KJ. Stem Cell Reports. 2017 Aug 8;9(2):615-628. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2017.06.012. Epub 2017 Jul 27. PubMed

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Effect of ELOVL3 expression on bovine skeletal muscle-derived satellite cell differentiation. Liu D, Xu JH, Tong HL, Li SF, Yan YQ. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2017 Dec 2;493(4):1457-1463. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.07.118. Epub 2017 Aug 3. PubMed
Multiplexed sgRNA Expression Allows Versatile Single Nonrepetitive DNA Labeling and Endogenous Gene Regulation. Shao S, Chang L, Sun Y, Hou Y, Fan X, Sun Y. ACS Synth Biol. 2017 Sep 7. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00268. PubMed

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CRISPR-Cas9-based photoactivatable transcription systems to induce neuronal differentiation. Nihongaki Y, Furuhata Y, Otabe T, Hasegawa S, Yoshimoto K, Sato M. Nat Methods. 2017 Oct;14(10):963-966. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4430. Epub 2017 Sep 11. PubMed
dCas9-mediated transcriptional activation of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases. Duellman T, Doll A, Chen X, Wakamiya R, Yang J. Metalloproteinases Med. 2017;4:63-73. doi: 10.2147/MNM.S146752. Epub 2017 Sep 19. PubMed
Inducible and multiplex gene regulation using CRISPR-Cpf1-based transcription factors. Tak YE, Kleinstiver BP, Nunez JK, Hsu JY, Horng JE, Gong J, Weissman JS, Joung JK. Nat Methods. 2017 Oct 30. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4483. PubMed

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Drug-tunable multidimensional synthetic gene control using inducible degron-tagged dCas9 effectors. Kleinjan DA, Wardrope C, Nga Sou S, Rosser SJ. Nat Commun. 2017 Oct 30;8(1):1191. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01222-y. PubMed
In Vivo Target Gene Activation via CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Trans-epigenetic Modulation. Liao HK, Hatanaka F, Araoka T, Reddy P, Wu MZ, Sui Y, Yamauchi T, Sakurai M, O'Keefe DD, Nunez-Delicado E, Guillen P, Campistol JM, Wu CJ, Lu LF, Esteban CR, Izpisua Belmonte JC. Cell. 2017 Dec 14;171(7):1495-1507.e15. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.10.025. Epub 2017 Dec 7. PubMed

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ciRS-7 exonic sequence is embedded in a long non-coding RNA locus. Barrett SP, Parker KR, Horn C, Mata M, Salzman J. PLoS Genet. 2017 Dec 13;13(12):e1007114. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007114. eCollection 2017 Dec. PubMed
Multimode drug inducible CRISPR/Cas9 devices for transcriptional activation and genome editing. Lu J, Zhao C, Zhao Y, Zhang J, Zhang Y, Chen L, Han Q, Ying Y, Peng S, Ai R, Wang Y. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Mar 16;46(5):e25. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1222. PubMed

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Mechanogenetics for the remote and noninvasive control of cancer immunotherapy. Pan Y, Yoon S, Sun J, Huang Z, Lee C, Allen M, Wu Y, Chang YJ, Sadelain M, Shung KK, Chien S, Wang Y. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jan 30;115(5):992-997. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1714900115. Epub 2018 Jan 17. PubMed
Next-generation CRISPR/Cas9 transcriptional activation in Drosophila using flySAM. Jia Y, Xu RG, Ren X, Ewen-Campen B, Rajakumar R, Zirin J, Yang-Zhou D, Zhu R, Wang F, Mao D, Peng P, Qiao HH, Wang X, Liu LP, Xu B, Ji JY, Liu Q, Sun J, Perrimon N, Ni JQ. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 May 1;115(18):4719-4724. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1800677115. Epub 2018 Apr 16. PubMed
CRISPR-Mediated Reactivation of DKK3 Expression Attenuates TGF-beta Signaling in Prostate Cancer. Kardooni H, Gonzalez-Gualda E, Stylianakis E, Saffaran S, Waxman J, Kypta RM. Cancers (Basel). 2018 May 28;10(6). pii: cancers10060165. doi: 10.3390/cancers10060165. PubMed
Targeted Reactivation of FMR1 Transcription in Fragile X Syndrome Embryonic Stem Cells. Haenfler JM, Skariah G, Rodriguez CM, Monteiro da Rocha A, Parent JM, Smith GD, Todd PK. Front Mol Neurosci. 2018 Aug 15;11:282. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00282. eCollection 2018. PubMed
Convergence of independent DISC1 mutations on impaired neurite growth via decreased UNC5D expression. Srikanth P, Lagomarsino VN, Pearse RV 2nd, Liao M, Ghosh S, Nehme R, Seyfried N, Eggan K, Young-Pearse TL. Transl Psychiatry. 2018 Nov 8;8(1):245. doi: 10.1038/s41398-018-0281-9. PubMed
Long Non-Coding RNA Modulation of VEGF-A during Hypoxia. Nieminen T, Scott TA, Lin FM, Chen Z, Yla-Herttuala S, Morris KV. Noncoding RNA. 2018 Nov 20;4(4). pii: ncrna4040034. doi: 10.3390/ncrna4040034. PubMed
A Simple Cloning-free Method to Efficiently Induce Gene Expression Using CRISPR/Cas9. Fang L, Hung SSC, Yek J, El Wazan L, Nguyen T, Khan S, Lim SY, Hewitt AW, Wong RCB. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2019 Mar 1;14:184-191. doi: 10.1016/j.omtn.2018.11.008. Epub 2018 Nov 20. PubMed
Genome editing in primary cells and in vivo using viral-derived Nanoblades loaded with Cas9-sgRNA ribonucleoproteins. Mangeot PE, Risson V, Fusil F, Marnef A, Laurent E, Blin J, Mournetas V, Massourides E, Sohier TJM, Corbin A, Aube F, Teixeira M, Pinset C, Schaeffer L, Legube G, Cosset FL, Verhoeyen E, Ohlmann T, Ricci EP. Nat Commun. 2019 Jan 3;10(1):45. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07845-z. PubMed

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Podocan affects C2C12 myogenic differentiation by enhancing Wnt/beta-catenin signaling. Liu D, Li S, Cui Y, Tong H, Li S, Yan Y. J Cell Physiol. 2019 Jul;234(7):11130-11139. doi: 10.1002/jcp.27763. Epub 2019 Jan 16. PubMed
Activating PTEN Tumor Suppressor Expression with the CRISPR/dCas9 System. Moses C, Nugent F, Waryah CB, Garcia-Bloj B, Harvey AR, Blancafort P. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2019 Mar 1;14:287-300. doi: 10.1016/j.omtn.2018.12.003. Epub 2018 Dec 14. PubMed
Multiplexed and tunable transcriptional activation by promoter insertion using nuclease-assisted vector integration. Brown A, Winter J, Gapinske M, Tague N, Woods WS, Perez-Pinera P. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jul 9;47(12):e67. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz210. PubMed
Tailoring the CRISPR system to transactivate coagulation gene promoters in normal and mutated contexts. Pignani S, Zappaterra F, Barbon E, Follenzi A, Bovolenta M, Bernardi F, Branchini A, Pinotti M. Biochim Biophys Acta Gene Regul Mech. 2019 Jun;1862(6):619-624. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2019.04.002. Epub 2019 Apr 18. PubMed
Three-Component Repurposed Technology for Enhanced Expression: Highly Accumulable Transcriptional Activators via Branched Tag Arrays. Kunii A, Hara Y, Takenaga M, Hattori N, Fukazawa T, Ushijima T, Yamamoto T, Sakuma T. CRISPR J. 2018 Oct;1:337-347. doi: 10.1089/crispr.2018.0009. PubMed
GRP94 promotes muscle differentiation by inhibiting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway. Li S, Fu Y, Pang Y, Tong H, Li S, Yan Y. J Cell Physiol. 2019 Nov;234(11):21211-21223. doi: 10.1002/jcp.28727. Epub 2019 Apr 25. PubMed
Identification of on-target mutagenesis during correction of a beta-thalassemia splice mutation in iPS cells with optimised CRISPR/Cas9-double nickase reveals potential safety concerns. Alateeq S, Ovchinnikov D, Tracey T, Whitworth D, Al-Rubaish A, Al-Ali A, Wolvetang E. APL Bioeng. 2018 Dec 3;2(4):046103. doi: 10.1063/1.5048625. eCollection 2018 Dec. PubMed
Three-dimensional analysis of single molecule FISH in human colon organoids. Omerzu M, Fenderico N, de Barbanson B, Sprangers J, de Ridder J, Maurice MM. Biol Open. 2019 Aug 9;8(8). pii: bio.042812. doi: 10.1242/bio.042812. PubMed
Targeted Activation of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator. Villamizar O, Waters SA, Scott T, Saayman S, Grepo N, Urak R, Davis A, Jaffe A, Morris KV. Mol Ther. 2019 Oct 2;27(10):1737-1748. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2019.07.002. Epub 2019 Jul 15. PubMed
Coordinate regulation of ELF5 and EHF at the chr11p13 CF modifier region. Swahn H, Sabith Ebron J, Lamar KM, Yin S, Kerschner JL, NandyMazumdar M, Coppola C, Mendenhall EM, Leir SH, Harris A. J Cell Mol Med. 2019 Nov;23(11):7726-7740. doi: 10.1111/jcmm.14646. Epub 2019 Sep 26. PubMed
Cas9 Allosteric Inhibition by the Anti-CRISPR Protein AcrIIA6. Fuchsbauer O, Swuec P, Zimberger C, Amigues B, Levesque S, Agudelo D, Duringer A, Chaves-Sanjuan A, Spinelli S, Rousseau GM, Velimirovic M, Bolognesi M, Roussel A, Cambillau C, Moineau S, Doyon Y, Goulet A. Mol Cell. 2019 Dec 19;76(6):922-937.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.09.012. Epub 2019 Oct 8. PubMed
Induced cardiomyocyte maturation: Cardiac transcription factors are necessary but not sufficient. Dal-Pra S, Hodgkinson CP, Dzau VJ. PLoS One. 2019 Oct 17;14(10):e0223842. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223842. eCollection 2019. PubMed
Off-target effects of CRISPRa on interleukin-6 expression. Soubeyrand S, Lau P, Peters V, McPherson R. PLoS One. 2019 Oct 28;14(10):e0224113. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224113. eCollection 2019. PubMed
Hypoxia drives glucose transporter 3 expression through HIF-mediated induction of the long non-coding RNA NICI. Lauer V, Grampp S, Platt J, Lafleur V, Lombardi O, Choudhry H, Kranz F, Hartmann A, Wullich B, Yamamoto A, Coleman ML, Ratcliffe PJ, Mole DR, Schodel J. J Biol Chem. 2019 Nov 5. pii: RA119.009827. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.009827. PubMed
CRISPR-Mediated Activation of Endogenous Gene Expression in the Postnatal Heart. Schoger E, Carroll KJ, Iyer LM, McAnally JR, Tan W, Liu N, Noack C, Shomroni O, Salinas G, Gross J, Herzog N, Doroudgar S, Bassel-Duby R, Zimmermann WH, Zelarayan LC. Circ Res. 2020 Jan 3;126(1):6-24. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.314522. Epub 2019 Nov 15. PubMed
Targeted regulation of fibroblast state by CRISPR-mediated CEBPA expression. Liu W, Meridew JA, Aravamudhan A, Ligresti G, Tschumperlin DJ, Tan Q. Respir Res. 2019 Dec 11;20(1):281. doi: 10.1186/s12931-019-1253-1. PubMed
A functional variant near XCL1 gene improves breast cancer survival via promoting cancer immunity. Chou WC, Hsiung CN, Chen WT, Tseng LM, Wang HC, Chu HW, Hou MF, Yu JC, Shen CY. Int J Cancer. 2020 Apr 15;146(8):2182-2193. doi: 10.1002/ijc.32855. Epub 2020 Jan 25. PubMed
A multiplexed gRNA piggyBac transposon system facilitates efficient induction of CRISPRi and CRISPRa in human pluripotent stem cells. Hazelbaker DZ, Beccard A, Angelini G, Mazzucato P, Messana A, Lam D, Eggan K, Barrett LE. Sci Rep. 2020 Jan 20;10(1):635. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-57500-1. PubMed

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TCP11L2 promotes bovine skeletal muscle-derived satellite cell migration and differentiation via FMNL2. Li S, Wang Z, Tong H, Li S, Yan Y. J Cell Physiol. 2020 Oct;235(10):7183-7193. doi: 10.1002/jcp.29617. Epub 2020 Feb 4. PubMed
Multiplexed Gene Expression Tuning with Orthogonal Synthetic Gene Circuits. Szenk M, Yim T, Balazsi G. ACS Synth Biol. 2020 Apr 17;9(4):930-939. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00534. Epub 2020 Mar 23. PubMed

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A Human Skeletal Muscle Atlas Identifies the Trajectories of Stem and Progenitor Cells across Development and from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Xi H, Langerman J, Sabri S, Chien P, Young CS, Younesi S, Hicks M, Gonzalez K, Fujiwara W, Marzi J, Liebscher S, Spencer M, Van Handel B, Evseenko D, Schenke-Layland K, Plath K, Pyle AD. Cell Stem Cell. 2020 Jul 2;27(1):158-176.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2020.04.017. Epub 2020 May 11. PubMed
Sense-antisense miRNA pairs constitute an elaborate reciprocal regulatory circuit. Song Y, Li L, Yang W, Fu Q, Chen W, Fang Z, Li W, Gu N, Zhang R. Genome Res. 2020 May;30(5):661-672. doi: 10.1101/gr.257121.119. Epub 2020 May 18. PubMed
CRISPR/dCas9-based Scn1a gene activation in inhibitory neurons ameliorates epileptic and behavioral phenotypes of Dravet syndrome model mice. Yamagata T, Raveau M, Kobayashi K, Miyamoto H, Tatsukawa T, Ogiwara I, Itohara S, Hensch TK, Yamakawa K. Neurobiol Dis. 2020 Jul;141:104954. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2020.104954. Epub 2020 May 21. PubMed
Deciphering the Ets-1/2-mediated transcriptional regulation of F8 gene identifies a minimal F8 promoter for hemophilia A gene therapy. Fama R, Borroni E, Merlin S, Airoldi C, Pignani S, Cucci A, Cora D, Bruscaggin V, Scardellato S, Faletti S, Pelicci G, Pinotti M, Walker GE, Follenzi A. Haematologica. 2020 May 28. pii: haematol.2019.239202. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2019.239202. PubMed
Localized delivery of CRISPR/dCas9 via layer-by-layer self-assembling peptide coating on nanofibers for neural tissue engineering. Zhang K, Chooi WH, Liu S, Chin JS, Murray A, Nizetic D, Cheng D, Chew SY. Biomaterials. 2020 Oct;256:120225. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2020.120225. Epub 2020 Jul 8. PubMed
A gene therapy for inherited blindness using dCas9-VPR-mediated transcriptional activation. Bohm S, Splith V, Riedmayr LM, Rotzer RD, Gasparoni G, Nordstrom KJV, Wagner JE, Hinrichsmeyer KS, Walter J, Wahl-Schott C, Fenske S, Biel M, Michalakis S, Becirovic E. Sci Adv. 2020 Aug 19;6(34):eaba5614. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba5614. eCollection 2020 Aug. PubMed

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Cis-acting lnc-eRNA SEELA directly binds histone H4 to promote histone recognition and leukemia progression. Fang K, Huang W, Sun YM, Chen TQ, Zeng ZC, Yang QQ, Pan Q, Han C, Sun LY, Luo XQ, Wang WT, Chen YQ. Genome Biol. 2020 Nov 3;21(1):269. doi: 10.1186/s13059-020-02186-x. PubMed
Identification of Long Noncoding RNAs Involved in Differentiation and Survival of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells. Lim YH, Ryu J, Kook H, Kim YK. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2020 Aug 29;22:209-221. doi: 10.1016/j.omtn.2020.08.032. eCollection 2020 Dec 4. PubMed
Broadly active zinc finger protein-guided transcriptional activation of HIV-1. Scott TA, O'Meally D, Grepo NA, Soemardy C, Lazar DC, Zheng Y, Weinberg MS, Planelles V, Morris KV. Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. 2020 Oct 27;20:18-29. doi: 10.1016/j.omtm.2020.10.018. eCollection 2021 Mar 12. PubMed
Generation of PAX7 Reporter Cells to Investigate Skeletal Myogenesis from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Xi H, Young CS, Pyle AD. STAR Protoc. 2020 Nov 5;1(3):100158. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2020.100158. eCollection 2020 Dec 18. PubMed

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The BRCA1 Pseudogene Negatively Regulates Antitumor Responses through Inhibition of Innate Immune Defense Mechanisms. Han YJ, Zhang J, Lee JH, Mason JM, Karginova O, Yoshimatsu TF, Hao Q, Hurley I, Brunet LP, Prat A, Prasanth KV, Gack MU, Olopade OI. Cancer Res. 2021 Mar 15;81(6):1540-1551. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-20-1959. Epub 2021 Jan 20. PubMed
Model-guided design of mammalian genetic programs. Muldoon JJ, Kandula V, Hong M, Donahue PS, Boucher JD, Bagheri N, Leonard JN. Sci Adv. 2021 Feb 19;7(8). pii: 7/8/eabe9375. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe9375. Print 2021 Feb. PubMed

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Integrative analysis of liver-specific non-coding regulatory SNPs associated with the risk of coronary artery disease. Selvarajan I, Toropainen A, Garske KM, Lopez Rodriguez M, Ko A, Miao Z, Kaminska D, Ounap K, Ord T, Ravindran A, Liu OH, Moreau PR, Jawahar Deen A, Mannisto V, Pan C, Levonen AL, Lusis AJ, Heikkinen S, Romanoski CE, Pihlajamaki J, Pajukanta P, Kaikkonen MU. Am J Hum Genet. 2021 Mar 4;108(3):411-430. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.02.006. Epub 2021 Feb 23. PubMed
Structural variant evolution after telomere crisis. Dewhurst SM, Yao X, Rosiene J, Tian H, Behr J, Bosco N, Takai KK, de Lange T, Imielinski M. Nat Commun. 2021 Apr 7;12(1):2093. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21933-7. PubMed
Genome-wide programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing. Nuñez JK, Chen J, Pommier GC, Cogan JZ, Replogle JM, Adriaens C, Ramadoss GN, Shi Q, Hung KL, Samelson AJ, Pogson AN, Kim JYS, Chung A, Leonetti MD, Chang HY, Kampmann M, Bernstein BE, Hovestadt V, Gilbert LA, Weissman JS. Cell. 2021 Apr 7. pii: S0092-8674(21)00353-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.025. PubMed

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RNA transcripts stimulate homologous recombination by forming DR-loops. Ouyang J, Yadav T, Zhang JM, Yang H, Rheinbay E, Guo H, Haber DA, Lan L, Zou L. Nature. 2021 Jun;594(7862):283-288. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03538-8. Epub 2021 May 12. PubMed
Lupus susceptibility region containing CDKN1B rs34330 mechanistically influences expression and function of multiple target genes, also linked to proliferation and apoptosis. Singh B, Maiti GP, Zhou X, Fazel-Najafabadi M, Bae SC, Sun C, Terao C, Okada Y, Chua KH, Kochi Y, Guthridge JM, Zhang H, Weirauch M, James JA, Harley JB, Varshney GK, Looger LL, Nath SK. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2021 May 13. doi: 10.1002/art.41799. PubMed
Transcriptional Activation of Heterochromatin by Recruitment of dCas9 Activators. Frank L, Weinmann R, Erdel F, Trojanowski J, Rippe K. Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2351:307-320. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1597-3_17. PubMed
Transposable elements and their KZFP controllers are drivers of transcriptional innovation in the developing human brain. Playfoot CJ, Duc J, Sheppard S, Dind S, Coudray A, Planet E, Trono D. Genome Res. 2021 Sep;31(9):1531-1545. doi: 10.1101/gr.275133.120. Epub 2021 Aug 16. PubMed
Targeted regulation of transcription in primary cells using CRISPRa and CRISPRi. Jensen TI, Mikkelsen NS, Gao Z, Fosselteder J, Pabst G, Axelgaard E, Laustsen A, Konig S, Reinisch A, Bak RO. Genome Res. 2021 Nov;31(11):2120-2130. doi: 10.1101/gr.275607.121. Epub 2021 Aug 18. PubMed

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Find and cut-and-transfer (FiCAT) mammalian genome engineering. Pallares-Masmitja M, Ivancic D, Mir-Pedrol J, Jaraba-Wallace J, Tagliani T, Oliva B, Rahmeh A, Sanchez-Mejias A, Guell M. Nat Commun. 2021 Dec 3;12(1):7071. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27183-x. PubMed

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Taurine stimulates protein synthesis and proliferation of C2C12 myoblast cells through the PI3K-ARID4B-mTOR pathway. Hao Q, Wang L, Zhang M, Wang Z, Li M, Gao X. Br J Nutr. 2021 Dec 9:1-12. doi: 10.1017/S0007114521004918. PubMed
Four-dimensional nuclear speckle phase separation dynamics regulate proteostasis. Dion W, Ballance H, Lee J, Pan Y, Irfan S, Edwards C, Sun M, Zhang J, Zhang X, Liu S, Zhu B. Sci Adv. 2022 Jan 7;8(1):eabl4150. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abl4150. Epub 2022 Jan 5. PubMed
Deciphering the Design Rules of Toehold-Gated sgRNA for Conditional Activation of Gene Expression and Protein Degradation in Mammalian Cells. Hunt VM, Chen W. ACS Synth Biol. 2022 Jan 21;11(1):397-405. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.1c00479. Epub 2022 Jan 7. PubMed
A Versatile Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats Toolbox to Study Neurological CaV3.2 Channelopathies by Promoter-Mediated Transcription Control. Tsortouktzidis D, Troscher AR, Schulz H, Opitz T, Schoch S, Becker AJ, van Loo KMJ. Front Mol Neurosci. 2022 Jan 6;14:667143. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2021.667143. eCollection 2021. PubMed
dCas9-VPR-mediated transcriptional activation of functionally equivalent genes for gene therapy. Riedmayr LM, Hinrichsmeyer KS, Karguth N, Bohm S, Splith V, Michalakis S, Becirovic E. Nat Protoc. 2022 Mar;17(3):781-818. doi: 10.1038/s41596-021-00666-3. Epub 2022 Feb 7. PubMed
Robust, Durable Gene Activation In Vivo via mRNA-Encoded Activators. Beyersdorf JP, Bawage S, Iglesias N, Peck HE, Hobbs RA, Wroe JA, Zurla C, Gersbach CA, Santangelo PJ. ACS Nano. 2022 Mar 31. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c10631. PubMed
Parkinson's disease motor symptoms rescue by CRISPRa-reprogramming astrocytes into GABAergic neurons. Giehrl-Schwab J, Giesert F, Rauser B, Lao CL, Hembach S, Lefort S, Ibarra IL, Koupourtidou C, Luecken MD, Truong DJ, Fischer-Sternjak J, Masserdotti G, Prakash N, Ninkovic J, Holter SM, Vogt Weisenhorn DM, Theis FJ, Gotz M, Wurst W. EMBO Mol Med. 2022 May 9;14(5):e14797. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202114797. Epub 2022 Apr 4. PubMed
Systematic HIV-1 promoter targeting with CRISPR/dCas9-VPR reveals optimal region for activation of the latent provirus. Klinnert S, Chemnitzer A, Rusert P, Metzner KJ. J Gen Virol. 2022 Jun;103(6). doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001754. PubMed
Control of CRK-RAC1 activity by the miR-1/206/133 miRNA family is essential for neuromuscular junction function. Klockner I, Schutt C, Gerhardt T, Boettger T, Braun T. Nat Commun. 2022 Jun 8;13(1):3180. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30778-7. PubMed
PAM-flexible dual base editor-mediated random mutagenesis and self-activation strategies to improve CRISPRa potency. Lau CH, Huang S, Lam RHW, Tin C. Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. 2022 May 29;26:26-37. doi: 10.1016/j.omtm.2022.05.005. eCollection 2022 Sep 8. PubMed
Systematic comparison of CRISPR-based transcriptional activators uncovers gene-regulatory features of enhancer-promoter interactions. Wang K, Escobar M, Li J, Mahata B, Goell J, Shah S, Cluck M, Hilton IB. Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Aug 12;50(14):7842-7855. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac582. PubMed
A translational genomics approach identifies IL10RB as the top candidate gene target for COVID-19 susceptibility. Voloudakis G, Vicari JM, Venkatesh S, Hoffman GE, Dobrindt K, Zhang W, Beckmann ND, Higgins CA, Argyriou S, Jiang S, Hoagland D, Gao L, Corvelo A, Cho K, Lee KM, Bian J, Lee JS, Iyengar SK, Luoh SW, Akbarian S, Striker R, Assimes TL, Schadt EE, Lynch JA, Merad M, tenOever BR, Charney AW, Brennand KJ, Fullard JF, Roussos P. NPJ Genom Med. 2022 Sep 5;7(1):52. doi: 10.1038/s41525-022-00324-x. PubMed
The oncogenic transcription factor FOXQ1 is a differential regulator of Wnt target genes. Pizzolato G, Moparthi L, Soderholm S, Cantu C, Koch S. J Cell Sci. 2022 Oct 1;135(19):jcs260082. doi: 10.1242/jcs.260082. Epub 2022 Oct 10. PubMed
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A synthetic transcription platform for programmable gene expression in mammalian cells. Chen WCW, Gaidukov L, Lai Y, Wu MR, Cao J, Gutbrod MJ, Choi GCG, Utomo RP, Chen YC, Wroblewska L, Kellis M, Zhang L, Weiss R, Lu TK. Nat Commun. 2022 Oct 18;13(1):6167. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-33287-9. PubMed
Species-agnostic polymeric formulations for inhalable messenger RNA delivery to the lung. Rotolo L, Vanover D, Bruno NC, Peck HE, Zurla C, Murray J, Noel RK, O'Farrell L, Arainga M, Orr-Burks N, Joo JY, Chaves LCS, Jung Y, Beyersdorf J, Gumber S, Guerrero-Ferreira R, Cornejo S, Thoresen M, Olivier AK, Kuo KM, Gumbart JC, Woolums AR, Villinger F, Lafontaine ER, Hogan RJ, Finn MG, Santangelo PJ. Nat Mater. 2023 Mar;22(3):369-379. doi: 10.1038/s41563-022-01404-0. Epub 2022 Nov 28. PubMed
Hyperactivation of p53 using CRISPRa kills human papillomavirus-driven cervical cancer cells. Idres YM, Lai AJ, McMillan NAJ, Idris A. Virus Genes. 2023 Apr;59(2):312-316. doi: 10.1007/s11262-022-01960-2. Epub 2022 Dec 6. PubMed
ARID1B blocks methionine-stimulated mTOR activation to inhibit milk fat and protein synthesis in and proliferation of mouse mammary epithelial cells. Lin G, Qi H, Guo X, Wang W, Zhang M, Gao X. J Nutr Biochem. 2023 Apr;114:109274. doi: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2023.109274. Epub 2023 Jan 18. PubMed
Cardiomyocyte apoptosis contributes to contractile dysfunction in stem cell model of MYH7 E848G hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Loiben AM, Chien WM, Friedman CE, Chao LS, Weber G, Goldstein A, Sniadecki N, Murry CE, Yang KC. bioRxiv. 2023 Jan 25:2023.01.24.525458. doi: 10.1101/2023.01.24.525458. Preprint. PubMed
ARID3A plays a key regulatory role in palmitic acid-stimulated milk fat synthesis in mouse mammary epithelial cells. Guo X, Qi H, Lin G, Yu J, Zhang M, Gao X. Cell Biol Int. 2023 Jun;47(6):1106-1117. doi: 10.1002/cbin.12003. Epub 2023 Feb 14. PubMed
Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis Is Associated with Contractile Dysfunction in Stem Cell Model of MYH7 E848G Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Loiben AM, Chien WM, Friedman CE, Chao LS, Weber G, Goldstein A, Sniadecki NJ, Murry CE, Yang KC. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Mar 3;24(5):4909. doi: 10.3390/ijms24054909. PubMed
Distinct roles of Bdnf I and Bdnf IV transcript variant expression in hippocampal neurons. Bach SV, Bauman AJ, Hosein D, Tuscher JJ, Ianov L, Greathouse KM, Henderson BW, Herskowitz JH, Martinowich K, Day JJ. bioRxiv. 2023 Apr 5:2023.04.05.535694. doi: 10.1101/2023.04.05.535694. Preprint. PubMed
Unexploited Performance of NLS in the dCas9-VPR-Mediated Transcriptional Activation. Zhou J, He M, Yin X, Yu Y, Yao D, Liang H. ACS Chem Biol. 2023 May 19;18(5):1246-1253. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.3c00195. Epub 2023 Apr 27. PubMed
Targeted Modulation of Chicken Genes In Vitro Using CRISPRa and CRISPRi Toolkit. Chapman B, Han JH, Lee HJ, Ruud I, Kim TH. Genes (Basel). 2023 Apr 13;14(4):906. doi: 10.3390/genes14040906. PubMed
Epigenetic reactivation of tumor suppressor genes with CRISPRa technologies as precision therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma. Sgro A, Cursons J, Waryah C, Woodward EA, Foroutan M, Lyu R, Yeoh GCT, Leedman PJ, Blancafort P. Clin Epigenetics. 2023 Apr 29;15(1):73. doi: 10.1186/s13148-023-01482-0. PubMed
p73 activates transcriptional signatures of basal lineage identity and ciliogenesis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Hur SK, Somerville TDD, Wu XS, Maia-Silva D, Demerdash OE, Tuveson DA, Notta F, Vakoc CR. bioRxiv. 2023 Apr 21:2023.04.20.537667. doi: 10.1101/2023.04.20.537667. Preprint. PubMed
KLF4-mediated upregulation of the NKG2D ligand MICA in acute myeloid leukemia: a novel therapeutic target identified by enChIP. Alkhayer R, Ponath V, Frech M, Adhikary T, Graumann J, Neubauer A, von Strandmann EP. Cell Commun Signal. 2023 May 4;21(1):94. doi: 10.1186/s12964-023-01118-z. PubMed
Nanoblades allow high-level genome editing in murine and human organoids. Tiroille V, Krug A, Bokobza E, Kahi M, Bulcaen M, Ensinck MM, Geurts MH, Hendriks D, Vermeulen F, Larbret F, Gutierrez-Guerrero A, Chen Y, Van Zundert I, Rocha S, Rios AC, Medaer L, Gijsbers R, Mangeot PE, Clevers H, Carlon MS, Bost F, Verhoeyen E. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2023 Jun 8;33:57-74. doi: 10.1016/j.omtn.2023.06.004. eCollection 2023 Sep 12. PubMed
Targeted shock-and-kill HIV-1 gene therapy approach combining CRISPR activation, suicide gene tBid and retargeted adenovirus delivery. Klinnert S, Schenkel CD, Freitag PC, Gunthard HF, Pluckthun A, Metzner KJ. Gene Ther. 2023 Aug 9. doi: 10.1038/s41434-023-00413-1. PubMed
Evaluation of the determinants for improved pluripotency induction and maintenance by engineered SOX17. Hu H, Ho DHH, Tan DS, MacCarthy CM, Yu CH, Weng M, Scholer HR, Jauch R. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Aug 23:gkad597. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad597. PubMed

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Tick hemocytes have pleiotropic roles in microbial infection and arthropod fitness. Rolandelli A, Laukaitis-Yousey HJ, Bogale HN, Singh N, Samaddar S, O'Neal AJ, Ferraz CR, Butnaru M, Mameli E, Xia B, Mendes MT, Butler LR, Marnin L, Cabrera Paz FE, Valencia LM, Rana VS, Skerry C, Pal U, Mohr SE, Perrimon N, Serre D, Pedra JHF. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Sep 3:2023.08.31.555785. doi: 10.1101/2023.08.31.555785. PubMed
YY1 is regulated by ALKBH5-mediated m6A modification and promotes autophagy and cancer progression through targeting ATG4B. Wang S, Nie J, Xu K, Liu Y, Tong W, Li A, Zuo W, Liu Z, Yang F. Aging (Albany NY). 2023 Sep 18;15(18):9590-9613. doi: 10.18632/aging.205037. Epub 2023 Sep 18. PubMed
Hypoxic regulation of hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha via antisense transcription. Downes N, Niskanen H, Tomas Bosch V, Taipale M, Godiwala M, Vaananen MA, Turunen TA, Aavik E, Laham-Karam N, Yla-Herttuala S, Kaikkonen MU. J Biol Chem. 2023 Nov;299(11):105291. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105291. Epub 2023 Sep 23. PubMed
mRNA trans-splicing dual AAV vectors for (epi)genome editing and gene therapy. Riedmayr LM, Hinrichsmeyer KS, Thalhammer SB, Mittas DM, Karguth N, Otify DY, Bohm S, Weber VJ, Bartoschek MD, Splith V, Brummer M, Ferreira R, Boon N, Wogenstein GM, Grimm C, Wijnholds J, Mehlfeld V, Michalakis S, Fenske S, Biel M, Becirovic E. Nat Commun. 2023 Oct 18;14(1):6578. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42386-0. PubMed

Associated Plasmids

Mechanosensitive super-enhancers regulate genes linked to atherosclerosis in endothelial cells. Li J, Zhu J, Gray O, Sobreira DR, Wu D, Huang RT, Miao B, Sakabe NJ, Krause MD, Kaikkonen MU, Romanoski CE, Nobrega MA, Fang Y. J Cell Biol. 2024 Mar 4;223(3):e202211125. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202211125. Epub 2024 Jan 17. PubMed
The tumor suppressor p53 is a negative regulator of the carcinoma-associated transcription factor FOXQ1. Pizzolato G, Moparthi L, Pagella P, Cantu C, D'Arcy P, Koch S. J Biol Chem. 2024 Apr;300(4):107126. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107126. Epub 2024 Mar 1. PubMed
Tick hemocytes have a pleiotropic role in microbial infection and arthropod fitness. Rolandelli A, Laukaitis-Yousey HJ, Bogale HN, Singh N, Samaddar S, O'Neal AJ, Ferraz CR, Butnaru M, Mameli E, Xia B, Mendes MT, Butler LR, Marnin L, Cabrera Paz FE, Valencia LM, Rana VS, Skerry C, Pal U, Mohr SE, Perrimon N, Serre D, Pedra JHF. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 8;15(1):2117. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46494-3. PubMed
Enhancer-targeted CRISPR-Activation Rescues Haploinsufficient Autism Susceptibility Genes. Chen GT, Nair G, Osorio AJ, Holley SM, Ghassemzadeh K, Gonzalez J, Lu C, Sanjana NE, Cepeda C, Geschwind DH. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Mar 14:2024.03.13.584921. doi: 10.1101/2024.03.13.584921. PubMed
Protocol to target a promoter region in human embryonic kidney cells using the CRISPR-dCas9 system for single-locus proteomics. Alkhayer R, Ponath V, Pogge von Strandmann E. STAR Protoc. 2024 Jun 21;5(2):103045. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2024.103045. Epub 2024 Apr 30. PubMed

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