Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Massively parallel in vivo CRISPR screening identifies RNF20/40 as epigenetic regulators of cardiomyocyte maturation

  • Nathan J. VanDusen,
  • Julianna Y. Lee,
  • Weiliang Gu,
  • Catalina E. Butler,
  • Isha Sethi,
  • Yanjiang Zheng,
  • Justin S. King,
  • Pingzhu Zhou,
  • Shengbao Suo,
  • Yuxuan Guo,
  • Qing Ma,
  • Guo-Cheng Yuan,
  • William William Pu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24743-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Throughput of in vivo genetic screens is a barrier to efficient application. Here the authors use a high-throughput CRISPR-based in vivo forward genetic screen in mice to identify transcriptional regulators of cardiomyocyte maturation, including the epigenetic modifiers RNF20 and RNF40.