Back

Quantification of durable CRISPR-based gene silencing activity

Nakamura, M.; Ivec, A.; Gao, Y.; Qi, L. S.

2021-03-31 synthetic biology
10.1101/2021.03.31.436355 bioRxiv
Show abstract

Development of CRISPR-based technologies for regulating gene expression stands to provide novel methods for the study and engineering of biological behavior. New tools capable of inducing long-lasting changes in gene expression will increase the utility of these techniques, providing durable effects from one-time doses of reagents. We describe here a reporter system for quantifying the ability of CRISPR-based effectors to induce stable gene repression. We observe a continuous gradation of the ability of these effectors to silence gene expression, depending on the domain composition and configuration. We also report the creation of a single CRISPR protein capable of producing durable gene silencing. This assay should allow for the continued development of enhanced gene repression tools which will be useful in a wide array of biological research and engineering applications.

Matching journals

The top 2 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.

50% of probability mass above

"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.