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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2022

Site-Specific and Enzymatic Cross-Linking of sgRNA Enables Wavelength-Selectable Photoactivated Control of CRISPR Gene Editing.

Dongyang Zhang, Luping Liu, Shuaijiang Jin, Ember Tota, Zijie Li, Xijun Piao, Xuan Zhang, Xiang-Dong Fu, Neal K Devaraj

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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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, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cryo-EM reveals thatProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. Dynamic Transcription Machineries in Protocells.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  13. Photocleavable Guide crRNAs for a Light-Controllable CRISPR/Cas9 System.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  15. RNA-TAG Mediated Protein-RNA Conjugation.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dongyang ZhangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2365-4763
Luping LiuDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Shuaijiang JinDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Ember TotaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Zijie LiDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Xijun PiaoDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Xuan ZhangDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Xiang-Dong FuDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Neal K DevarajDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8033-9973
University of California San Diego · US

Funding

Illuminating cellular dark matter through the development of novel chemical toolsR35GM141939 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI DEVARAJ, NEAL KRISHNA · 2021 to 2025
$2.2M
Enzymatic Site-Specific Labeling of RNA for Affinity IsolationR01GM123285 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI DEVARAJ, NEAL KRISHNA · 2017 to 2020
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123285NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM141939
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemical cross-linking enables rapid identification of RNA-protein and RNA-nucleic acid inter- and intramolecular interactions. However, no method exists to site-specifically and covalently cross-link two user-defined sites within an RNA. Here, we develop RNA-CLAMP, which enables site-specific and enzymatic cross-linking (clamping) of two selected guanine residues within an RNA. Intramolecular clamping can disrupt normal RNA function, whereas subsequent photocleavage of the cross-linker restores activity. We used RNA-CLAMP to clamp two stem loops within the single-guide RNA (sgRNA) of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system via a photocleavable cross-linker, completely inhibiting gene editing. Visible light irradiation cleaved the cross-linker and restored gene editing with high spatiotemporal resolution. Design of two photocleavable linkers responsive to different wavelengths of light allowed multiplexed photoactivation of gene editing in mammalian cells. This photoactivated CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing platform benefits from undetectable background activity, provides a choice of activation wavelengths, and has multiplexing capabilities.

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Gene EditingRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsAnimalsCRISPR-Cas SystemsMammalsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems

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PMID35257575
PMCPMC9469474
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