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ArticleNature communications2022

PERSIST platform provides programmable RNA regulation using CRISPR endoRNases.

Breanna DiAndreth, Noreen Wauford, Eileen Hu, Sebastian Palacios, Ron Weiss

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Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Breanna DiAndrethDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0302-6834
Noreen WaufordDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Eileen Hu *Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Sebastian Palacios *Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Ron WeissDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. rweiss@mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0396-2443

Funding

RNA circuits for cell state determination in mammalian cells in vitro and in vivoR01CA207029 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WEISS, RON · 2016 to 2020
$3.0M
Synthetic biology-regulated RNA vaccinesR01EB025854 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI IRVINE, DARRELL J, WEISS, RON · 2018 to 2021
$2.8M
Reprogramming the tumor microenvironment via self-amplified RNA (SafeR) circuitsR01CA206218 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WEISS, RON · 2016 to 2020
$2.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA206218NCI NIH HHS R01 CA207029NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB025854
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulated transgene expression is an integral component of gene therapies, cell therapies and biomanufacturing. However, transcription factor-based regulation, upon which most applications are based, suffers from complications such as epigenetic silencing that limit expression longevity and reliability. Constitutive transgene transcription paired with post-transcriptional gene regulation could combat silencing, but few such RNA- or protein-level platforms exist. Here we develop an RNA-regulation platform we call "PERSIST" which consists of nine CRISPR-specific endoRNases as RNA-level activators and repressors as well as modular OFF- and ON-switch regulatory motifs. We show that PERSIST-regulated transgenes exhibit strong OFF and ON responses, resist silencing for at least two months, and can be readily layered to construct cascades, logic functions, switches and other sophisticated circuit topologies. The orthogonal, modular and composable nature of this platform as well as the ease in constructing robust and predictable gene circuits promises myriad applications in gene and cell therapies.

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsRNAGene Expression RegulationGene Regulatory NetworksReproducibility of ResultsTranscription FactorsTransgenesRNATranscription Factors

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PMID35562172
PMCPMC9095627

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