Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29449507›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2018

Rewritable multi-event analog recording in bacterial and mammalian cells.

Weixin Tang, David R Liu

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 132 papers.

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132citing papers in PubMed
11.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

132 citing papers in PubMed, 262 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Programming Next-Generation Synthetic Biosensors by Genetic Circuit Design.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Weixin TangMerkin Institute for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA, and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5739-5416
David R LiuMerkin Institute for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA, and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. drliu@fas.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9943-7557
Broad Institute · US

Funding

Center for Genomic Editing and Recording: Development and Application of Next-Generation Genome and Epigenome Editing Methods to Advance the Study and Treatment of Human DiseaseRM1HG009490 · NHGRI · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI Brittany S. Adamson, Martin Joseph Ankrah Aryee · 2017 to 2026
$22.7M
Integrating Chemistry and Evolution to Illuminate Biology and Enable Novel TherapeuticsR35GM118062 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, DAVID R · 2016 to 2025
$6.4M
Continuous Evolution of Proteins with Novel Therapeutic PotentialR01EB022376 · NIBIB · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, DAVID R · 2016 to 2019
$1.8M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHGRI NIH HHS RM1 HG009490NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB022376NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118062
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present two CRISPR-mediated analog multi-event recording apparatus (CAMERA) systems that use base editors and Cas9 nucleases to record cellular events in bacteria and mammalian cells. The devices record signal amplitude or duration as changes in the ratio of mutually exclusive DNA sequences (CAMERA 1) or as single-base modifications (CAMERA 2). We achieved recording of multiple stimuli in bacteria or mammalian cells, including exposure to antibiotics, nutrients, viruses, light, and changes in Wnt signaling. When recording to multicopy plasmids, reliable readout requires as few as 10 to 100 cells. The order of stimuli can be recorded through an overlapping guide RNA design, and memories can be erased and re-recorded over multiple cycles. CAMERA systems serve as "cell data recorders" that write a history of endogenous or exogenous signaling events into permanent DNA sequence modifications in living cells.

Indexed as

Analog-Digital ConversionBacterial ProteinsCRISPR-Cas SystemsEndonucleasesGene EditingCRISPR-Associated Protein 9DNA, BacterialEscherichia coliHEK293 CellsHumansPlasmidsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsBacterial ProteinsCas9 endonuclease Streptococcus pyogenesCRISPR-Associated Protein 9DNA, BacterialEndonucleasesRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems

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PMID29449507
PMCPMC5898985
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