Beyond editing: Repurposing CRISPR-Cas9 for precision genome regulation and interrogation

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-15

  Dominguez, Antonia A ^a,b   Lim, Wendell A ^c,d,e   Qi, Lei S ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD71 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MYOD1 PROTEIN; NEUROGENIN 2; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN P53; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL FATE; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DISEASE COURSE; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; PROCEDURES; RNA EDITING;

ANIMALS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA EDITING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84952639685     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2015.2     Document Type: Review

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