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Genome-Scale CRISPR-Mediated Control of Gene Repression and Activation
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While the catalog of mammalian transcripts and their expression levels in different cell types and disease states is rapidly expanding, our understanding of transcript function lags behind. We present a robust technology enabling systematic investigation of the cellular consequences of repressing or inducing individual transcripts. We identify rules for specific targeting of transcriptional repressors (CRISPRi), typically achieving 90%-99% knockdown with minimal off-target effects, and activators (CRISPRa) to endogenous genes via endonuclease-deficient Cas9. Together they enable modulation of gene expression over a ∼1,000-fold range. Using these rules, we construct genome-scale CRISPRi and CRISPRa libraries, each of which we validate with two pooled screens. Growth-based screens identify essential genes, tumor suppressors, and regulators of differentiation. Screens for sensitivity to a cholera-diphtheria toxin provide broad insights into the mechanisms of pathogen entry, retrotranslocation and toxicity. Our results establish CRISPRi and CRISPRa as powerful tools that provide rich and complementary information for mapping complex pathways.
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“Compared with gain-of-function perturbations, a higher proportion of loss-of-function perturbations yield phenotypes in growth and chemical-genetic screens, especially for members of protein complexes (Gilbert et al., 2014; Horlbeck et al., 2016).”
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“For example, CRISPRi (interference)23–25 and CRISPRa (activation)26–30 technologies utilize catalytically inactive Cas9 (dCas9) fused to either a transcriptional repressor (e.g., KRAB, Krüppel associated box) or a transcriptional activator (e.g., VPR, VP64-p65-Rta).”
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“Alternatives to DNA cleavage-induced editing include using CRISPR-Cas9 for direct chemical sequence alteration (base editing) 25,26 , providing RNA templates for gene alteration (prime editing) 27,28 , and for transcriptional control (CRISPR interference, CRISPRi; CRISPR activation, CRISPRa) 29,30 (Fig. 3).”
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“Pooling gene perturbations greatly improves scalability, but is not compatible with imaging of complex and dynamic cellular phenotypes.”
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“Striking examples are familial mutations causing neurodegenerative diseases, such as hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease), which can be caused by mutations in ubiquitously expressed trafficking factors (RAB7A, DNM2, DYNC1H1), or aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (AARS, GARS, HARS, MARS)2.”
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“In addition to gene expression, gene function can also be cell type-specific, as evidenced by the fact that mutations in broadly expressed or housekeeping genes can lead to cell-type specific defects and disease states.”
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“CRISPRa evaluates gain-of-function phenotypes and can provide complementary insight to CRISPR knockout or CRISPRi-based loss-of-function screens42.”
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“CRISPRi-based gene knockdown may result in weaker phenotypes than full gene knockout, however it is non-toxic in iPSCs and iPSC-derived cells76, inducible76 and reversible42, thereby enabling time-resolved analysis of gene function76.”
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“CRISPRi represents an important advance over RNAi, since it lacks the pervasive off-target effects (Gilbert et al., 2014) inherent to RNAi-based screening approaches (Adamson et al., 2012; Jackson et al., 2003; Kaelin, 2012).”
From CRISPR Interference-Based Platform for Multimodal Genetic Screens in Human iPSC-Derived Neurons (2019) · cites this paper as Gilbert et al., 2014
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“Second, it is inducible and reversible (Gilbert et al., 2014)”
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- Authors
- Gilbert, L. A., Horlbeck, M. A., Adamson, B., Villalta, J. E., Chen, Y., Whitehead, E. H., Guimaraes, C., Panning, B., Ploegh, H. L., Bassik, M. C., Qi, L. S., Kampmann, M., & Weissman, J. S.
- Affiliations
- QB3 (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kampmann, Martin
- Weissman, Jonathan S.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-10
- Volume
- 159
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 647-661
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4253859
- OpenAlex
- W2152505144
- Cited by
- 2,728
- References
- 60
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- 2026: 190 · 2025: 211 · 2024: 265 · 2023: 212 · 2022: 261 · 2021: 285 · 2020: 285 · 2019: 255 · 2018: 221 · 2017: 214 · 2016: 182 · 2015: 125 · 2014: 14
- FWCI
- 73.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- Cell (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- PMC
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institutes of Health (DP5OD017887, 1dp2hd084069-01)
- National Institute on Aging (P01AG010770)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA036858)
- National Cancer Institute (K99CA181494, U01CA168370)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM008284, P50GM081879, R01GM100341, P50GM102706, R01GM100518)
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (T32EB009383)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- Keywords
- CRISPR interference, CRISPR activation, transcriptional repression, transcriptional activation, gene essentiality, tumor suppressor, cholera toxin, diphtheria toxin, pathogen entry, retrotranslocation, off-target effects
- MeSH terms
- Cell Line, Cholera Toxin, Diphtheria Toxin, Genetic Techniques, Humans, Transcription, Genetic, Genome, Human, CRISPR-Cas Systems
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