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ArticleACS central science2020

Photoswitchable gRNAs for Spatiotemporally Controlled CRISPR-Cas-Based Genomic Regulation.

Elena V Moroz-Omori, Dwiantari Satyapertiwi, Marie-Christine Ramel, Håkon Høgset, Ilona K Sunyovszki, Ziqian Liu, Jonathan P Wojciechowski, Yueyun Zhang, Christopher L Grigsby, Liliana Brito and 3 more

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Article in ACS central science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Elena V Moroz-OmoriDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Dwiantari SatyapertiwiDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Marie-Christine RamelDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Håkon HøgsetDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Ilona K SunyovszkiDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Ziqian LiuDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Jonathan P WojciechowskiDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Yueyun ZhangDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Christopher L GrigsbyDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden.
Liliana BritoDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Laurence BugeonDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Margaret J DallmanDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Molly M StevensDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre · GBImperial College London · GBKarolinska Institutet · SE

Funding

British Heart Foundation RE/18/4/34215Medical Research Council MR/R015651/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recently discovered CRISPR-Cas gene editing system and its derivatives have found numerous applications in fundamental biology research and pharmaceutical sciences. The need for precise external control over the gene editing and regulatory events has driven the development of inducible CRISPR-Cas systems. While most of the light-controllable CRISPR-Cas systems are based on protein engineering, we developed an alternative synthetic approach based on modification of crRNA/tracrRNA duplex (guide RNA or gRNA) with photocaging groups, preventing the gRNA from recognizing its genome target sequence until its deprotection is induced within seconds of illumination. This approach relies on a straightforward solid-phase synthesis of the photocaged gRNAs, with simpler purification and characterization processes in comparison to engineering a light-responsive protein. We have demonstrated the feasibility of photocaging of gRNAs and light-mediated DNA cleavage upon brief exposure to light

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PMID32490186
PMCPMC7256956
OpenAlexW3015042299

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