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ArticleNature communications2021

Bioinformatic and cell-based tools for pooled CRISPR knockout screening in mosquitos.

Raghuvir Viswanatha, Enzo Mameli, Jonathan Rodiger, Pierre Merckaert, Fabiana Feitosa-Suntheimer, Tonya M Colpitts, Stephanie E Mohr, Yanhui Hu, Norbert Perrimon

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Raghuvir Viswanatha *Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. ram@genetics.med.harvard.edu.
Enzo Mameli *Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0172-8090
Jonathan RodigerDepartment of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Pierre MerckaertDepartment of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Fabiana Feitosa-SuntheimerDepartment of Microbiology, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University School of Medicine, 620 Albany Street, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
Tonya M ColpittsDepartment of Microbiology, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University School of Medicine, 620 Albany Street, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
Stephanie E MohrDepartment of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-7708
Yanhui HuDepartment of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1494-1402
Norbert PerrimonDepartment of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. perrimon@receptor.med.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-472X
Harvard University · USBoston University · US

Funding

Functional genomics resources for the Drosophila - TR&D3P41GM132087 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI PERRIMON, NORBERT · 2019 to 2023
$6.8M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM132087
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mosquito-borne diseases present a worldwide public health burden. Current efforts to understand and counteract them have been aided by the use of cultured mosquito cells. Moreover, application in mammalian cells of forward genetic approaches such as CRISPR screens have identified essential genes and genes required for host-pathogen interactions, and in general, aided in functional annotation of genes. An equivalent approach for genetic screening of mosquito cell lines has been lacking. To develop such an approach, we design a new bioinformatic portal for sgRNA library design in several mosquito genomes, engineer mosquito cell lines to express Cas9 and accept sgRNA at scale, and identify optimal promoters for sgRNA expression in several mosquito species. We then optimize a recombination-mediated cassette exchange system to deliver CRISPR sgRNA and perform pooled CRISPR screens in an Anopheles cell line. Altogether, we provide a platform for high-throughput genome-scale screening in cell lines from disease vector species.

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AnimalsAnophelesCell LineComputational BiologyCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene Knockout TechniquesGene LibraryGenes, EssentialHumansMosquito ControlMosquito VectorsPest Control, BiologicalRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsVector Borne DiseasesRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems

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PMID34819517
PMCPMC8613219
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