Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation
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...So, when DNMT1 methylates the genome during DNA replication, it doesn’t methylate sites blocked by dCas9...disease: cancer (Feinberg & Vogelstein 1983). The floodgates, as they say, had opened.
In 2021, with over...these studies report correlations without clearly testing whether a certain methylation state causes a condition... we need tools to specifically edit methylation sites.
Step aside, transcriptionally active dioxygenase...independent of dCas9 targeting, including modifying other sites in the genome and directly interacting with transcription...