Cell-free gene expression

D Garenne, MC Haines, EF Romantseva… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Cell-free gene expression (CFE) emerged as an alternative approach to living cells for
specific applications in protein synthesis and labelling for structural biology and proteomics …

CRISPR/Cas systems in genome editing: methodologies and tools for sgRNA design, off‐target evaluation, and strategies to mitigate off‐target effects

H Manghwar, B Li, X Ding, A Hussain… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Life sciences have been revolutionized by genome editing (GE) tools, including zinc finger
nucleases, transcription activator‐Like effector nucleases, and CRISPR (clustered regulatory …

How to measure and evaluate binding affinities

I Jarmoskaite, I AlSadhan, PP Vaidyanathan… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Quantitative measurements of biomolecule associations are central to biological
understanding and are needed to build and test predictive and mechanistic models. Given …

Genome-wide gene expression tuning reveals diverse vulnerabilities of M. tuberculosis

B Bosch, MA DeJesus, NC Poulton, W Zhang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Antibacterial agents target the products of essential genes but rarely achieve complete
target inhibition. Thus, the all-or-none definition of essentiality afforded by traditional genetic …

Unbiased detection of CRISPR off-targets in vivo using DISCOVER-Seq

B Wienert, SK Wyman, CD Richardson, CD Yeh… - Science, 2019 - science.org
CRISPR-Cas genome editing induces targeted DNA damage but can also affect off-target
sites. Current off-target discovery methods work using purified DNA or specific cellular …

Increasing the specificity of CRISPR systems with engineered RNA secondary structures

DD Kocak, EA Josephs, V Bhandarkar, SS Adkar… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat) systems have been
broadly adopted for basic science, biotechnology, and gene and cell therapy. In some …

Single-cell lineages reveal the rates, routes, and drivers of metastasis in cancer xenografts

JJ Quinn, MG Jones, RA Okimoto, S Nanjo, MM Chan… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cancer progression is fundamentally an evolutionary process, involving
multiple distinct steps from oncogenic transformation to metastatic dissemination to …

Kinetic basis for DNA target specificity of CRISPR-Cas12a

I Strohkendl, FA Saifuddin, JR Rybarski, IJ Finkelstein… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Class 2 CRISPR-Cas nucleases are programmable genome editing tools with promising
applications in human health and disease. However, DNA cleavage at off-target sites that …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis for Cas9 off-target activity

M Pacesa, CH Lin, A Cléry, A Saha, PR Arantes… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The target DNA specificity of the CRISPR-associated genome editor nuclease Cas9 is
determined by complementarity to a 20-nucleotide segment in its guide RNA. However …

Discrimination of single-point mutations in unamplified genomic DNA via Cas9 immobilized on a graphene field-effect transistor

S Balderston, JJ Taulbee, E Celaya, K Fung… - Nature Biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Simple and fast methods for the detection of target genes with single-nucleotide specificity
could open up genetic research and diagnostics beyond laboratory settings. We recently …