CRISPR technology: A decade of genome editing is only the beginning

JY Wang, JA Doudna - Science, 2023 - science.org
The advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) genome
editing, coupled with advances in computing and imaging capabilities, has initiated a new …

CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

NINJ1 mediates plasma membrane rupture during lytic cell death

N Kayagaki, OS Kornfeld, BL Lee, IB Stowe… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Plasma membrane rupture (PMR) is the final cataclysmic event in lytic cell death. PMR
releases intracellular molecules known as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) …

Strategies in the delivery of Cas9 ribonucleoprotein for CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing

S Zhang, J Shen, D Li, Y Cheng - Theranostics, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing has gained rapidly increasing attentions in recent years,
however, the translation of this biotechnology into therapy has been hindered by efficient …

Polymers for cytosolic protein delivery

J Lv, Q Fan, H Wang, Y Cheng - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Cytosolic protein delivery offers opportunities to develop protein-based therapeutics
specifically modulate intracellular processes, especially those linked to 'undruggable'targets …

A review of emerging physical transfection methods for CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing

AK Fajrial, QQ He, NI Wirusanti, JE Slansky… - Theranostics, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Gene editing is a versatile technique in biomedicine that promotes fundamental research as
well as clinical therapy. The development of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short …

From genotype to phenotype: genetics of mammalian long non-coding RNAs in vivo

D Andergassen, JL Rinn - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide sequencing has led to the discovery of thousands of long non-coding RNA
(lncRNA) loci in the human genome, but evidence of functional significance has remained …

Rett syndrome-causing mutations compromise MeCP2-mediated liquid–liquid phase separation of chromatin

L Wang, M Hu, MQ Zuo, J Zhao, D Wu, L Huang, Y Wen… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Rett syndrome (RTT), a severe postnatal neurodevelopmental disorder, is caused by
mutations in the X-linked gene encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2). MeCP2 is …

Astrocyte-secreted neurocan controls inhibitory synapse formation and function

D Irala, S Wang, K Sakers, L Nagendren, FPU Severino… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Astrocytes strongly promote the formation and maturation of synapses by secreted proteins.
Several astrocyte-secreted synaptogenic proteins controlling excitatory synapse …

A mouse-specific retrotransposon drives a conserved Cdk2ap1 isoform essential for development

AJ Modzelewski, W Shao, J Chen, A Lee, X Qi, M Noon… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Retrotransposons mediate gene regulation in important developmental and pathological
processes. Here, we characterized the transient retrotransposon induction during …