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 …

Comprehensive review of CRISPR-based gene editing: mechanisms, challenges, and applications in cancer therapy

M Chehelgerdi, M Chehelgerdi… - Molecular cancer, 2024 - Springer
The CRISPR system is a revolutionary genome editing tool that has the potential to
revolutionize the field of cancer research and therapy. The ability to precisely target and edit …

Durable and efficient gene silencing in vivo by hit-and-run epigenome editing

MA Cappelluti, V Mollica Poeta, S Valsoni, P Quarato… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Permanent epigenetic silencing using programmable editors equipped with transcriptional
repressors holds great promise for the treatment of human diseases,–. However, to unlock …

Cell surface RNAs control neutrophil recruitment

N Zhang, W Tang, L Torres, X Wang, Y Ajaj, L Zhu… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
RNAs localizing to the outer cell surface have been recently identified in mammalian cells,
including RNAs with glycan modifications known as glycoRNAs. However, the functional …

Single-cell lineage tracing of metastatic cancer reveals selection of hybrid EMT states

KP Simeonov, CN Byrns, ML Clark, RJ Norgard… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The underpinnings of cancer metastasis remain poorly understood, in part due to a lack of
tools for probing their emergence at high resolution. Here we present macsGESTALT, an …

Autoregulatory control of mitochondrial glutathione homeostasis

Y Liu, S Liu, A Tomar, FS Yen, G Unlu, N Ropek… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Mitochondria must maintain adequate amounts of metabolites for protective and biosynthetic
functions. However, how mitochondria sense the abundance of metabolites and regulate …

[HTML][HTML] The genome editing revolution

AM Khalil - Journal of genetic engineering and biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Development of efficient strategies has always been one of the great
perspectives for biotechnologists. During the last decade, genome editing of different …

Genome editing: targeting susceptibility genes for plant disease resistance

SSA Zaidi, MS Mukhtar, S Mansoor - Trends in Biotechnology, 2018 - cell.com
Plant pathogens pose a major threat to crop productivity. Typically, phytopathogens exploit
plants' susceptibility (S) genes to facilitate their proliferation. Disrupting these S genes may …

CECR2 drives breast cancer metastasis by promoting NF-κB signaling and macrophage-mediated immune suppression

M Zhang, ZZ Liu, K Aoshima, WL Cai, H Sun… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Metastasis is the major cause of cancer-related deaths due to the lack of effective therapies.
Emerging evidence suggests that certain epigenetic and transcriptional regulators drive …

Plant genome engineering for targeted improvement of crop traits

KEM Sedeek, A Mahas, M Mahfouz - Frontiers in plant science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
To improve food security, plant biology research aims to improve crop yield and tolerance to
biotic and abiotic stress, as well as increasing the nutrient contents of food. Conventional …