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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

A Molecular Glue Approach to Control the Half-Life of CRISPR-Based Technologies.

Vedagopuram Sreekanth, Max Jan, Kevin T Zhao, Donghyun Lim, Surached Siriwongsup, Jessie R Davis, Marie McConkey, Veronica Kovalcik, Sam Barkal, Benjamin K Law and 10 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Anti-CRISPR-mediated continuous directed evolution of CRISPR-Cas9 in human cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  9. 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

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Vedagopuram SreekanthChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
Max JanBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
Kevin T ZhaoMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3440-2094
Donghyun LimChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6070-198X
Surached SiriwongsupChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
Jessie R DavisMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
Marie McConkeyDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
Veronica KovalcikDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
Sam BarkalDivision of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Benjamin K LawChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
James FifeDivision of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Ruilin TianDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.
Michael E VinyardDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
Basheer BecerraMolecular Pathology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, United States.
Martin KampmannDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3819-7019
Richard I SherwoodDivision of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Luca PinelloMolecular Pathology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, United States.
David R LiuMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9943-7557
Benjamin L EbertBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
Amit ChoudharyChemical Biology and Therapeutics Science Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8437-0150

Funding

Center for Genomic Editing and Recording: Development and Application of Next-Generation Genome and Epigenome Editing Methods to Advance the Study and Treatment of Human DiseaseRM1HG009490 · NHGRI · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI Brittany S. Adamson, Martin Joseph Ankrah Aryee · 2017 to 2026
$22.7M
Integrating Chemistry and Evolution to Illuminate Biology and Enable Novel TherapeuticsR35GM118062 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, DAVID R · 2016 to 2025
$6.4M
Development of platforms for sorting, production, editing of beta cellsR01DK132900 · NIDDK · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI Amit Choudhary, Neal Krishna Devaraj · 2023 to 2026
$2.6M
Multiscale exploration of the functional non-coding genomeR35HG010717 · NHGRI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PINELLO, LUCA · 2019 to 2023
$2.6M
Delivery Technologies for In Vivo Genome EditingUG3AI150551 · NIAID · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI CHAIKOF, ELLIOT · 2019 to 2021
$2.3M
Expanding the Scope of Base EditingU01AI142756 · NIAID · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI LIU, DAVID R · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
Chemical approaches for precision genome editingR01GM137606 · NIGMS · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI CHOUDHARY, AMIT · 2021 to 2024
$1.5M
Development of synthetic gene drives using small moleculesR01GM132825 · NIGMS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI AKBARI, OMAR SULTAN, CHOUDHARY, AMIT · 2019 to 2022
$1.4M
NHGRI NIH HHS R35 HG010717NHGRI NIH HHS RM1 HG009490NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI142756NIAID NIH HHS UG3 AI150551NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK132900NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM132825NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM137606NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118062
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cas9 is a programmable nuclease that has furnished transformative technologies, including base editors and transcription modulators (e.g., CRISPRi/a), but several applications of these technologies, including therapeutics, mandatorily require precision control of their half-life. For example, such control can help avert any potential immunological and adverse events in clinical trials. Current genome editing technologies to control the half-life of Cas9 are slow, have lower activity, involve fusion of large response elements (>230 amino acids), utilize expensive controllers with poor pharmacological attributes, and cannot be implemented

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingThalidomideHalf-LifeHumansUbiquitinationpomalidomideThalidomide

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PMID40586242
PMCPMC12380249

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