Harnessing CRISPR interference to resensitize laboratory strains and clinical isolates to last resort antibiotics by Angelica Frusteri Chiacchiera, Michela Casanova, Massimo Bellato, Aurora Piazza, Roberta Migliavacca, Gregory Batt, Paolo Magni, Lorenzo Pasotti

“…Here, we evaluated an antibiotic re-sensitization strategy based on CRISPR interference (CRISPRi), which inhibits gene expression without damaging target DNA. …”
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Enhancers and genome conformation provide complex transcriptional control of a herpesviral gene by David W Morgens, Leah Gulyas, Xiaowen Mao, Alejandro Rivera-Madera, Annabelle S Souza, Britt A Glaunsinger

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Targeted Inhibition of the miR-199a/214 Cluster by CRISPR Interference Augments the Tumor Tropism of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Stem Cells under Hypoxic Condition by Yumei Luo, Xuehu Xu, Xiuli An, Xiaofang Sun, Shu Wang, Detu Zhu

“…We first developed a baculovirus-delivered CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) system that sterically blocked the E-box element in the promoter of the miR-199a/214 cluster with an RNA-guided catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9). …”
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Targeting Transcriptional Regulators Affecting Acarbose Biosynthesis in <i>Actinoplanes</i> sp. SE50/110 Using CRISPRi Silencing by Saskia Dymek, Lucas Jacob, Alfred Pühler, Jörn Kalinowski

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Expanding the therapeutic horizon in acute myeloid leukemia: The role of phosphoinositide-3-kinase-γ inhibition by Soumyajit Das, Mahendra Pratap Singh, Nishant Rai, Sanjit Sah

“…Using genome-wide CRISPR interference screening, we identified PI3Kγ as a critical survival pathway in certain AML subsets. …”
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SLC25A38 is required for mitochondrial pyridoxal 5’-phosphate (PLP) accumulation by Izabella A. Pena, Jeffrey S. Shi, Sarah M. Chang, Jason Yang, Samuel Block, Charles H. Adelmann, Heather R. Keys, Preston Ge, Shveta Bathla, Isabella H. Witham, Grzegorz Sienski, Angus C. Nairn, David M. Sabatini, Caroline A. Lewis, Nora Kory, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Myriam Heiman

“…In this study, we used a genome-wide CRISPR interference screen in erythroleukemia cells and organellar metabolomics to identify the mitochondrial inner membrane protein SLC25A38 as a regulator of mitochondrial pyridoxal 5’-phosphate. …”
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Genetic coupling of enhancer activity and connectivity in gene expression control by Helen Ray-Jones, Chak Kei Sung, Lai Ting Chan, Alexander Haglund, Pavel Artemov, Monica Della Rosa, Luminita Ruje, Frances Burden, Roman Kreuzhuber, Anna Litovskikh, Eline Weyenbergh, Zoï Brusselaers, Vanessa Xue Hui Tan, Mattia Frontini, Chris Wallace, Valeriya Malysheva, Leonardo Bottolo, Elena Vigorito, Mikhail Spivakov

“…Causal mediation analysis and CRISPR interference reveal causal relationships between these three modalities. …”
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