Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Manipulation of nuclear architecture through CRISPR-mediated chromosomal looping

  • Stefanie L. Morgan,
  • Natasha C. Mariano,
  • Abel Bermudez,
  • Nicole L. Arruda,
  • Fangting Wu,
  • Yunhai Luo,
  • Gautam Shankar,
  • Lin Jia,
  • Huiling Chen,
  • Ji-Fan Hu,
  • Andrew R. Hoffman,
  • Chiao-Chain Huang,
  • Sharon J. Pitteri,
  • Kevin C. Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15993
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Chromatin looping plays an important role in gene regulation and the ability to manipulate loops would aid in understanding how this occurs. Here the authors present CLOuD9, a system that uses dimerized Cas9 complexes to selectively and reversibly establish chromatin loops.