Live-cell CRISPR imaging in plants reveals dynamic telomere movements

Plant Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 565-573

  Dreissig, Steven ^a   Schiml, Simon ^b   Schindele, Patrick ^b   Weiss, Oda ^a   Rutten, Twan ^a   Schubert, Veit ^a   Gladilin, Evgeny ^a   Mette, Michael F ^a,c   Puchta, Holger ^b   Houben, Andreas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

chromatin dynamics; CRISPR dCas9; live cell imaging; Nicotiana benthamiana; nucleus; technical advance; telomeres

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; CHROMOSOMES; CYTOLOGY; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GENES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PROTEINS;

CRISPR-DCAS9; LIVE-CELL IMAGING; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NUCLEUS; TECHNICAL ADVANCES; TELOMERES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CELLS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANTS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAS9 ENDONUCLEASE STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; ENDONUCLEASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TELOMERE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOBACCO;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENETIC LOCI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TELOMERE; TOBACCO;

EID: 85023642711     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13601     Document Type: Article

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