Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Multiplexed pancreatic genome engineering and cancer induction by transfection-based CRISPR/Cas9 delivery in mice

  • Roman Maresch,
  • Sebastian Mueller,
  • Christian Veltkamp,
  • Rupert Öllinger,
  • Mathias Friedrich,
  • Irina Heid,
  • Katja Steiger,
  • Julia Weber,
  • Thomas Engleitner,
  • Maxim Barenboim,
  • Sabine Klein,
  • Sandra Louzada,
  • Ruby Banerjee,
  • Alexander Strong,
  • Teresa Stauber,
  • Nina Gross,
  • Ulf Geumann,
  • Sebastian Lange,
  • Marc Ringelhan,
  • Ignacio Varela,
  • Kristian Unger,
  • Fengtang Yang,
  • Roland M. Schmid,
  • George S. Vassiliou,
  • Rickmer Braren,
  • Günter Schneider,
  • Mathias Heikenwalder,
  • Allan Bradley,
  • Dieter Saur,
  • Roland Rad

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10770
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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CRISPR/Cas9 technology has been used for genome engineering in vivo. Here, the authors use a transfection technique to deliver multiple guide RNAs to the pancreas of adult mice, allowing genetic screening and chromosome engineering in pancreatic cancer.