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ArticlemBio2017

Rapid, Selection-Free, High-Efficiency Genome Editing in Protozoan Parasites Using CRISPR-Cas9 Ribonucleoproteins.

Lia Carolina Soares Medeiros, Lilith South, Duo Peng, Juan M Bustamante, Wei Wang, Molly Bunkofske, Natasha Perumal, Fernando Sanchez-Valdez, Rick L Tarleton

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Article in mBio, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 105 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Glycosomal Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase CRISPR/Cas9-Deletion and Its Role in Trypanosoma cruzi Metacyclogenesis and Infectivity in Mammalian Host.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  6. CRISPR-Cas9 precision editing of kinetochore protein phosphosite codons inFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  8. Mechanism of Cas9 inhibition by AcrIIA11.Nucleic acids research · 2025
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  20. CRISPR-Cas9: Taming protozoan parasites with bacterial scissor.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2022
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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lia Carolina Soares MedeirosCenter for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Lilith SouthCenter for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Duo PengCenter for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Juan M BustamanteCenter for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Wei WangCenter for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Molly BunkofskeCenter for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Natasha PerumalCenter for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Fernando Sanchez-ValdezCenter for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Rick L TarletonCenter for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA tarleton@uga.edu.
University of Georgia · US

Funding

Mechanisms of persistence in Trypanosoma cruzi infectionR01AI124692 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI TARLETON, RICK L · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
Enabling tools for protists pathogen glycobiologyR21AI123161 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI TARLETON, RICK L, WELLS, LANCE · 2015 to 2016
$745k
Development of CRISPR/Cas system for study of trans-sialidase family genes in T. cruziR21AI118733 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI TARLETON, RICK L · 2016 to 2017
$413k
Making benznidazole a better drug for Chagas diseaseR21AI108265 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI TARLETON, RICK L · 2014 to 2015
$411k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI124692NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI108265NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI118733NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI123161
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trypanosomatids (order Kinetoplastida), including the human pathogens

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingGene Knockout TechniquesGenes, ProtozoanLeishmania majorLife Cycle StagesRibonucleoproteinsStaphylococcus aureusTrypanosoma brucei bruceiTrypanosoma cruziTrypanosomatinaRibonucleoproteinsCas9CRISPRgenome editingLeishmaniaribonucleoproteinsSaCas9TrypanosomaTrypanosoma bruceiTrypanosoma cruzi

Identifiers

PMID29114029
PMCPMC5676044
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