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ArticleNature communications2025

CRISPR-Hybrid: A CRISPR-Mediated Intracellular Directed Evolution Platform for RNA Aptamers.

Qiwen Su-Tobon, Jiayi Fan, Michael Goldstein, Kevin Feeney, Hongyuan Ren, Patrick Autissier, Peiyi Wang, Yingzi Huang, Udayan Mohanty, Jia Niu

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Qiwen Su-TobonDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Jiayi FanDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7953-6606
Michael GoldsteinDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Kevin FeeneyDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Hongyuan RenDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-6653-4031
Patrick AutissierDepartment of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Peiyi WangDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Yingzi HuangDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Udayan MohantyDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Jia NiuDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA. jia.niu@bc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5622-6362

Funding

Development of Compact CRISPR Editors for Multiplexed Editing of Complex Gene NetworksDP2HG011027 · NHGRI · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI NIU, JIA · 2019 to 2020
$2.5M
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research FellowshipNHGRI NIH HHS DP2 HG011027U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1DP2HG011027-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in gene editing and precise regulation of gene expression based on CRISPR technologies have provided powerful tools for the understanding and manipulation of gene functions. Fusing RNA aptamers to the sgRNA of CRISPR can recruit cognate RNA-binding protein (RBP) effectors to target genomic sites, and the expression of sgRNA containing different RNA aptamers permit simultaneous multiplexed and multifunctional gene regulations. Here, we report an intracellular directed evolution platform for RNA aptamers against intracellularly expressed RBPs. We optimize a bacterial CRISPR-hybrid system coupled with FACS, and identified high affinity RNA aptamers orthogonal to existing aptamer-RBP pairs. Application of orthogonal aptamer-RBP pairs in multiplexed CRISPR allows effective simultaneous transcriptional activation and repression of endogenous genes in mammalian cells.

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Aptamers, NucleotideClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsDirected Molecular EvolutionGene EditingHEK293 CellsHumansRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsAptamers, NucleotideRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems

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PMID39799111
PMCPMC11724954

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