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Engineered miniature CRISPR-Cas system for mammalian genome regulation and editing

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Xu, Xiaoshu, Chemparathy, Augustine, Zeng, Leiping, Kempton, Hannah R., Shang, Stephen, Nakamura, Muneaki, Qi, Lei S.·2021·Molecular Cell

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Compact and versatile CRISPR-Cas systems will enable genome engineering applications through high-efficiency delivery in a wide variety of contexts. Here, we create an efficient miniature Cas system (CasMINI) engineered from the type V-F Cas12f (Cas14) system by guide RNA and protein engineering, which is less than half the size of currently used CRISPR systems (Cas9 or Cas12a). We demonstrate that CasMINI can drive high levels of gene activation (up to thousands-fold increases), while the natural Cas12f system fails to function in mammalian cells. We show that the CasMINI system has comparable activities to Cas12a for gene activation, is highly specific, and allows robust base editing and gene editing. We expect that CasMINI can be broadly useful for cell engineering and gene therapy applications ex vivo and in vivo.

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Authors
Xu, X., Chemparathy, A., Zeng, L., Kempton, H. R., Shang, S., Nakamura, M., & Qi, L. S.
Venue
Molecular Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-10
Volume
81
Issue
20
Pages
4333-4345.e4
ISSN
1097-2765 (ISSN-L)
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W3198740632
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17.51
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journal article
Language
en
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Xu, X., Chemparathy, A., Zeng, L., Kempton, H. R., Shang, S., Nakamura, M., & Qi, L. S. (2021). Engineered miniature CRISPR-Cas system for mammalian genome regulation and editing. Molecular Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2021.08.008

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