Nature Communications (May 2021)

Tissue-specific activation of gene expression by the Synergistic Activation Mediator (SAM) CRISPRa system in mice

  • Charleen Hunt,
  • Suzanne A. Hartford,
  • Derek White,
  • Evangelos Pefanis,
  • Timothy Hanna,
  • Clarissa Herman,
  • Jarrell Wiley,
  • Heather Brown,
  • Qi Su,
  • Yurong Xin,
  • Dennis Voronin,
  • Hien Nguyen,
  • Judith Altarejos,
  • Keith Crosby,
  • Jeffery Haines,
  • Sarah Cancelarich,
  • Meghan Drummond,
  • Sven Moller-Tank,
  • Ryan Malpass,
  • Jacqueline Buckley,
  • Maria del Pilar Molina-Portela,
  • Gustavo Droguett,
  • David Frendewey,
  • Eric Chiao,
  • Brian Zambrowicz,
  • Guochun Gong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22932-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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CRISPR-Cas9 is a gene editing tool that can be used to modulate gene expression. Here, the authors report the generation of a mouse model that express all components of the CRISPR-Cas9 guide directed Synergistic Activation Mediator (SAM), demonstrate that gene activation can be achieved with various delivery methods and include generation of a disease model of hypercholesterolemia