Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Rapid and tunable method to temporally control gene editing based on conditional Cas9 stabilization

  • Serif Senturk,
  • Nitin H. Shirole,
  • Dawid G. Nowak,
  • Vincenzo Corbo,
  • Debjani Pal,
  • Alexander Vaughan,
  • David A. Tuveson,
  • Lloyd C. Trotman,
  • Justin B. Kinney,
  • Raffaella Sordella

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14370
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing enables specific deletion of target genes. Here, Senturket al. develop an inducible editing system by fusing a conditional destabilization domain to Cas9 and demonstrate temporal control of gene editing in response to a synthetic ligand.