Ligand-binding domains of nuclear receptors facilitate tight control of split CRISPR activity

oleh: Duy P. Nguyen, Yuichiro Miyaoka, Luke A. Gilbert, Steven J. Mayerl, Brian H. Lee, Jonathan S. Weissman, Bruce R. Conklin, James A. Wells

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-07-01

Deskripsi

CRISPR-Cas9 has been widely used to manipulate genomes, however control over activity is necessary to explore transcriptional or epigenetic regulation. Here the authors use a split Cas9 fused to nuclear receptor ligand-binding domains to achieve tuneable Cas9 activity.