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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats"”.
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Analysis of the role of nuclear factor-kappa B in insulin resistance caused by antiretroviral drugs
… however led to insulin resistance amongst users. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) CRISPR-associated nuclease 9 (Cas) has been used to knockout NFκB to understand the pathway at which antiretroviral treatment causes insulin resistance. Heteroduplex mobility assay …
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Identification of genotype-specific dependencies in Keap1-deficient lung adenocarcinoma
… of somatic genome editing provided by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and the endonuclease, CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9) has accelerated our ability to functionally interrogate putative genetic drivers in the context of mammalian cells and …
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Decipher in situ signaling and complex genetics with cellular recording and combinatorial perturbations
… cellular behaviors. The recent discovery of the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-associated (Cas) system from prokaryotic adaptive immune system demonstrated unprecedented genome editing efficiency and programmability in sequence specific genome editing of …
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CRISPR3 Regulates Exopolysaccharide Production in Myxococcus xanthus
… and Type IV pili (T4P), harbors three Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) on its chromosome. CRISPR systems, which function as an adaptive immune system in prokaryotes, are classified into three types based on CRISPR-associated genes. Evidence suggests …
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Mechanisms of bacterial CRISPR immunity and a phage counter-defense
… of defense is the adaptive immune system CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats). Upon infection, the bacterial host uptakes a genetic memory from the bacteriophage to incorporate into its genome. This molecular memory is used to target CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins …
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Discovery and characterization of Cas13b, a differentially regulated RNA-targeting CRISPR system
… RNA in a simple, efficient manner. CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated proteins) systems, which confer adaptive immunity to prokaryotes, have revolutionized DNA targeting through the engineering of RNA-programmable Cas9-based tools. …
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An integrated CRISPR-Cas toolkit for engineering human cells
Natively functioning Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-associated (Cas) system is a prokaryotic adaptive immune system that confers resistance to foreign genetic elements including plasmids and phages. Very recently, a two-component CRISPR-Cas technology from …
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Investigating Hybrid Cyclic/Linear and Linear Peptides as Vehicles for Nucleic Acid Delivery
<p>Small interfering RNA (siRNA) and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated Protein 9 (Cas9) are advanced biotechnological approaches that have been able to temporarily downregulate gene expression through post-transcription RNA interference or …
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Investigating the transcriptional regulation of BCL11A in Triple-negative Breast Cancer
… a novel proteomic approach utilising the Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats – CRISPR associated 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) technology, to identify putative transcriptional regulators of BCL11A in TNBC. The first step of this project involves the identification of regulatory …
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Identification of novel genetic vulnerabilities and therapeutic targets in acute myeloid leukaemia using CRISPR dropout screens
… targets in AML, I have optimized a genome-wide clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) screening platform and use it to identify genetic vulnerabilities in AML cells. This work led to the identification of 492 AML-specific cell-essential genes, including several …
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Cell-free synthetic biology for affordable, on-demand diagnostics
… Finally, I present work to develop and use clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) enzyme-based diagnostics to achieve attomolar sensitivity and single-nucleotide mismatch specificity. Together, these projects demonstrate a set of advancements in cell-free …
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Prevention of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by CRISPR/Cas Therapeutic Genome Editing
… for this debilitating disease. The CRISPR/Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated proteins) was first discovered as an adaptive immune system in bacteria and archaea for defending against phage infection. Recently, the CRISPR/Cas system has been …
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Targeted destruction of intracellular DNA using a CRISPR-based genetic device that can be carried indefinitely in the host genome
… based on the organism's native type-IE CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) DNA interference (DNAi) pathway. The optimized DNAi device is comprised of two components: a chromosomally-integrated actuator element, which encodes the minimal set of CRISPR-associated …
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CRISPR AS A TOOL FOR TARGET DISCOVERY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION: HIGH-THROUGHPUT CBE SCREENING TO EVALUATE M6A MODIFICATION PATHWAY IN CANCER PROLIFERATION AND DRUG RESISTANCE, AND INNOVATIVE PRIME EDITING STRATEGIES FOR DISEASE MODELLING AND THERAPY
… to this treatment in AML. In this work, we used Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) Cytosine base editing (CBE) screening to perform saturating mutagenesis of m6A-pathway effectors. In details, we assessed the effect of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in CRC …
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Genomic diversity and genomic typing of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
… 15 repeat groups (RG) primarily determined by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) typing. Nine Australian strains previously sequenced and 57 strains from publicly available sequenced strains isolated from different countries were included in the analysis. …
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Development and application of a general method for somatic cell genetics
… however, prevailing screening methods fall short - leaving our understanding of human genes incomplete. Here, I describe the development of a general method for genetic screening in mammalian cells using the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 system. In …
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Development of an inducible transcriptional control system in plasmodium falciparum with applications to targeted genome editing
… able to use this expression system to adapt a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system in the parasite and use it to achieve genome editing at high efficiency at multiple loci. The data imply an adaptable system to readily edit the genome of the parasite …
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IDENTIFICATION OF FACTORS INVOLVED IN DOUBLE STRANDED RNA-INDUCED CELL DEATH THROUGH GENOME-WIDE CRISPR SCREENS
… strategies, we performed a Genome-wide clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) screening and integrative analysis to prioritize gene targets that favour/inhibit dsRNA-dependent cell death. The screen revealed that RNA surveillance, RNA Polymerase II …
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Exploring Non-transgenic CRISPR-Cas9 gRNA Delivery Using Transactivation in Nicotiana benthamiana
Gene editing via CRISPR-Cas9 (Clustered, Regularly Interspaced, Short Palindromic Repeats – CRISPR-associated protein 9) is a powerful tool in biotechnology. The method involves an endonuclease Cas9 forming a complex with a guide RNA (gRNA) that matches a distinct DNA target sequence, causing …
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Generation of a CRISPR-Cas9 mediated knock-in reporter for the GRIA3 candidate gene for schizophrenia
… project aimed to modify the cell line using a Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) - CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9) homology directed repair (HDR) approach so that a donor reporter vector containing the Gaussia secreted luciferase gene and linked green …
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