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ReviewBiochemical pharmacology2021

Small nucleic acids and the path to the clinic for anti-CRISPR.

Christopher L Barkau, Daniel O'Reilly, Seth B Eddington, Masad J Damha, Keith T Gagnon

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Review in Biochemical pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. 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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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Christopher L BarkauDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA.
Daniel O'ReillyRNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
Seth B EddingtonDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA.
Masad J DamhaDepartment of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B8, Canada.
Keith T GagnonDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA. Electronic address: ktgagnon@siu.edu.

Funding

Nucleic Acid-Based Anti-CRISPR Inhibitors of Cas9R01GM135646 · NIGMS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI GAGNON, KEITH THOMAS · 2020 to 2023
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM135646
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CRISPR-based therapeutics have entered clinical trials but no methods to inhibit Cas enzymes have been demonstrated in a clinical setting. The ability to inhibit CRISPR-based gene editing or gene targeting drugs should be considered a critical step in establishing safety standards for many CRISPR-Cas therapeutics. Inhibitors can act as a failsafe or as an adjuvant to reduce off-target effects in patients. In this review we discuss the need for clinical inhibition of CRISPR-Cas systems and three existing inhibitor technologies: anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins, small molecule Cas inhibitors, and small nucleic acid-based CRISPR inhibitors, CRISPR SNuBs. Due to their unique properties and the recent successes of other nucleic acid-based therapeutics, CRISPR SNuBs appear poised for clinical application in the near-term.

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AnimalsCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingGene TargetingHumansNucleic AcidsNucleic Acids

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PMID33647260
PMCPMC8725204

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