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ReviewBiochemistry2019

Precision Control of CRISPR-Cas9 Using Small Molecules and Light.

Soumyashree A Gangopadhyay, Kurt J Cox, Debasish Manna, Donghyun Lim, Basudeb Maji, Qingxuan Zhou, Amit Choudhary

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Review in Biochemistry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.

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63citing papers in PubMed
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

63 citing papers in PubMed, 133 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Protective antigen-mediated delivery of an anti-CRISPR protein for precision genome editing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  9. Treating genetic blood disorders in the era of CRISPR-mediated genome editing.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Soumyashree A GangopadhyayChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science , Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02142 , United States.
Kurt J CoxChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science , Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02142 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8032-3103
Debasish MannaChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science , Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02142 , United States.
Donghyun LimChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science , Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02142 , United States.
Basudeb MajiChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science , Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02142 , United States.
Qingxuan ZhouChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science , Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02142 , United States.
Amit ChoudharyChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science , Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02142 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8437-0150
Broad Institute · US

Funding

Identification of potent small molecule inhibitors of Cas9R21AI126239 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI CHOUDHARY, AMIT · 2016 to 2017
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NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI126239
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)-Cas system is an adaptive immune system of bacteria that has furnished several RNA-guided DNA endonucleases (e.g., Cas9) that are revolutionizing the field of genome engineering. Cas9 is being used to effect genomic alterations as well as in gene drives, where a particular trait may be propagated through a targeted species population over several generations. The ease of targeting catalytically impaired Cas9 to any genomic loci has led to development of technologies for base editing, chromatin imaging and modeling, epigenetic editing, and gene regulation. Unsurprisingly, Cas9 is being developed for numerous applications in biotechnology and biomedical research and as a gene therapy agent for multiple pathologies. There is a need for precise control of Cas9 activity over several dimensions, including those of dose, time, and space in these applications. Such precision controls, which are required of therapeutic agents, are particularly important for Cas9 as off-target effects, chromosomal translocations, immunogenic response, genotoxicity, and embryonic mosaicism are observed at elevated levels and with prolonged activity of Cas9. Here, we provide a perspective on advances in the precision control of Cas9 over aforementioned dimensions using external stimuli (e.g., small molecules or light) for controlled activation, inhibition, or degradation of Cas9.

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsCRISPR-Associated Protein 9Gene Expression RegulationGenetic EngineeringLightRecombinant ProteinsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsSmall Molecule LibrariesTacrolimus Binding ProteinsCRISPR-Associated Protein 9Recombinant ProteinsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsSmall Molecule LibrariesTacrolimus Binding Proteins

Identifiers

PMID30640437
PMCPMC6586488
OpenAlexW2908904665

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