Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Rapid and reversible epigenome editing by endogenous chromatin regulators

  • Simon M. G. Braun,
  • Jacob G. Kirkland,
  • Emma J. Chory,
  • Dylan Husmann,
  • Joseph P. Calarco,
  • Gerald R. Crabtree

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00644-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Understanding the link between epigenetic marks and gene regulation requires the development of new tools to directly manipulate chromatin. Here the authors demonstrate a Cas9-based system to recruit chromatin remodelers to loci of interest, allowing rapid, reversible manipulation of epigenetic states.