Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

In situ functional dissection of RNA cis-regulatory elements by multiplex CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering

  • Qianxin Wu,
  • Quentin R. V. Ferry,
  • Toni A. Baeumler,
  • Yale S. Michaels,
  • Dimitrios M. Vitsios,
  • Omer Habib,
  • Roland Arnold,
  • Xiaowei Jiang,
  • Stefano Maio,
  • Bruno R. Steinkraus,
  • Marta Tapia,
  • Paolo Piazza,
  • Ni Xu,
  • Georg A. Holländer,
  • Thomas A. Milne,
  • Jin-Soo Kim,
  • Anton J. Enright,
  • Andrew R. Bassett,
  • Tudor A. Fulga

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00686-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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RNA regulatory elements (RREs) are important post-transcriptional control features but studying them requires disrupting their activity without disturbing cellular homeostasis. Here the authors present GenERA, a CRISPR-Cas9 screening platform of in situ analysis of native RREs.