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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Phage-based delivery of CRISPR-associated transposases for targeted bacterial editing.

Avery Roberts, Benjamin A Adler, Brady F Cress, Jennifer A Doudna, Rodolphe Barrangou

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Occurrence and applications of CRISPR-Cas systems in bifidobacteria.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026
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  10. A fully synthetic Golden Gate assembly system for engineering aProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Avery RobertsDepartment of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.ORCID 0000-0002-1893-9599
Benjamin A AdlerInnovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.ORCID 0000-0002-7488-3040
Brady F CressInnovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.ORCID 0000-0002-2948-2846
Jennifer A DoudnaInnovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.ORCID 0000-0001-9161-999X
Rodolphe BarrangouDepartment of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.ORCID 0000-0002-0648-3504

Funding

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-05CH11231
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phage λ, a well-characterized temperate phage, has been recently leveraged for bacterial genome editing by selectively delivering base editors into targeted bacterial species. We extend this concept by engineering phage λ to deliver CRISPR-guided transposases, accomplishing large insertions and targeted gene disruptions. To achieve this, we engineered phage λ using homologous recombination paired with Cas13a-based counterselection for precise phage modifications. Initially, we established the utility of Cas13a in phage λ by conducting minimal recoding edits, deletions, and insertions. Subsequently, we scaled up the engineering to embed the comprehensive DNA-editing CRISPR-Cas transposase (DART) system within the phage genome, creating λ-DART phages. These modified λ-DART phages were then employed to infect

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Bacteriophage lambdaCRISPR-Cas SystemsEscherichia coliGene EditingTransposasesGenome, BacterialTransposasesCasCRISPRgenome editingphagetransposase

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PMID40711918
PMCPMC12318184

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