Complex transcriptional modulation with orthogonal and inducible dCas9 regulators

Nature Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1043-1049

  Gao, Yuchen ^a,b   Xiong, Xin ^c,d   Wong, Spencer ^c   Charles, Emeric J ^a   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

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; CRISPR DCAS9 SYSTEM; DIMERIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84992405263     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4042     Document Type: Article

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