GE Journal Club (genome engineering/gene editing) at Harvard Medical School

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SUGGESTED PAPERS (reverse chronological order)

Song et al. AcrIIA5 Inhibits a Broad Range of Cas9 Orthologs by Preventing DNA Target Cleavage. Cell Rep. 2019 Nov 26;29(9):2579-2589.e4.

Cancellieri et al. CRISPRitz: rapid, high-throughput, and variant-aware in silico off-target site identification for CRISPR genome editing. Bioinformatics. 2019 Nov 25. pii: btz867.

Wells et al. Ranking of non-coding pathogenic variants and putative essential regions of the human genome. Nat Commun. 2019 Nov 20;10(1):5241.

Webber et al. Highly efficient multiplex human T cell engineering without double-strand breaks using Cas9 base editors. Nat Commun. 2019 Nov 19;10(1):5222.

Wierson et al. Expanding the CRISPR Toolbox with ErCas12a in Zebrafish and Human Cells. CRISPR J. 2019 Nov 19.

Alexander et al. Concurrent genome and epigenome editing by CRISPR-mediated sequence replacement. BMC Biol. 2019 Nov 18;17(1):90.

Askary et al. In situ readout of DNA barcodes and single base edits facilitated by in vitro transcription. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Nov 18.

Cermon et al. Harnessing type I CRISPR-Cas systems for genome engineering in human cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Nov 18.

Camsund et al. Time-resolved imaging-based CRISPRi screening. Nat Methods. 2019 Nov 18.

Paix et al. Rapid Tagging of Human Proteins with Fluorescent Reporters by Genome Engineering using Double-Stranded DNA Donors. Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 2019 Dec;129(1):e102.

Kulkarni et al. Programmable CRISPR interference for gene silencing using Cas13a in mosquitoes. bioRxiv. Nov. 18, 2019.

Fei et al. Deciphering essential cistromes using genome-wide CRISPR screens. PNAS 2019 Nov 14. pii: 201908155.

Wei et al. CRISPR-based modular assembly of a UAS-cDNA/ORF plasmid library for over 5,500 Drosophila genes conserved in humans. Genome Res. 2019 Nov 13. pii: gr.250811.119.

Canaj et al. Deep profiling reveals substantial heterogeneity of integration outcomes in CRISPR knock-in experiments. bioRxiv. Nov. 13, 2019.

Minev et al. Rapid in vitro production of single-stranded DNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Nov 12. pii: gkz998.

Garcia et al. Anti-CRISPR AcrIIA5 Potently Inhibits All Cas9 Homologs Used for Genome Editing. Cell Rep. 2019 Nov 12;29(7):1739-1746.e5.

Chiarella et al. Dose-dependent activation of gene expression is achieved using CRISPR and small molecules that recruit endogenous chromatin machinery. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Nov 11.

Hoshijima et al. Highly Efficient CRISPR-Cas9-Based Methods for Generating Deletion Mutations and F0 Embryos that Lack Gene Function in Zebrafish. Dev Cell. 2019 Nov 7.

Querques et al. A highly soluble Sleeping Beauty transposase improves control of gene insertion. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Nov 4.

Kanca et al. An efficient CRISPR-based strategy to insert small and large fragments of DNA using short homology arms. Elife. 2019 Nov 1;8. pii: e51539.

Wainberg et al. A genome-wide almanac of co-essential modules assigns function to uncharacterized genes. bioRxiv. Nov. 1, 2019.

Li et al. One-step efficient generation of dual-function conditional knockout and geno-tagging alleles in zebrafish. Elife. 2019 Oct 30;8. pii: e48081.

Schmidt et al. Nucleic acid cleavage with a hyperthermophilic Cas9 from an uncultured Ignavibacterium. PNAS. 2019 Oct 28. pii: 201904273.

Grajcarek et al. Genome-wide microhomologies enable precise template-free editing of biologically relevant deletion mutations. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 24;10(1):4856.

Feldman et al. Optical Pooled Screens in Human Cells. Cell. 2019 Oct 17;179(3):787-799.e17.

Wang et al. Multiplexed activation of endogenous genes by CRISPRa elicits potent antitumor immunity. Nat Immunol. 2019 Oct 14.

Watters et al. Potent CRISPR-Cas9 inhibitors from Staphylococcus genomes. bioRxiv. Oct. 9, 2019.

Reis et al. Simultaneous repression of multiple bacterial genes using nonrepetitive extra-long sgRNA arrays. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Oct 7.

Young et al. Genomic and phenotypic analyses of six offspring of a genome-edited hornless bull. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Oct 7.

He et al. De novo identification of essential protein domains from CRISPR-Cas9 tiling-sgRNA knockout screens. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 4;10(1):4541.

Hamilton et al. Efficient inter-species conjugative transfer of a CRISPR nuclease for targeted bacterial killing. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 4;10(1):4544.

Karageorgi et al. Genome editing retraces the evolution of toxin resistance in the monarch butterfly. Nature. 2019 Oct 2.

Acharya et al. Francisella novicida Cas9 interrogates genomic DNA with very high specificity and can be used for mammalian genome editing. PNAS. 2019 Sep 30. pii: 201818461.

Tan et al. Rationally engineered Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 nucleases with high genome-wide specificity. PNAS. 2019 Sep 30. pii: 201906843.

Kim et al. Adenine base editors catalyze cytosine conversions in human cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Sep 23.

Taghbalout et al. Enhanced CRISPR-based DNA demethylation by Casilio-ME-mediated RNA-guided coupling of methylcytosine oxidation and DNA repair pathways. Nat Commun. 2019 Sep 20;10(1):4296.

Molina et al. Structure of Csx1-cOA4 complex reveals the basis of RNA decay in Type III-B CRISPR-Cas. Nat Commun. 2019 Sep 20;10(1):4302.

Macias et al. Cas9-mediated gene-editing in the malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi by ReMOT Control. bioRxiv. Sept. 19, 2019.

Bhoobalan-Chitty et al. Inhibition of Type III CRISPR-Cas Immunity by an Archaeal Virus-Encoded Anti-CRISPR Protein. Cell. 2019 Sep 19. pii: S0092-8674(19)31009-8.

Wang et al. Optimized CRISPR guide RNA design for two high-fidelity Cas9 variants by deep learning. Nat Commun. 2019 Sep 19;10(1):4284.

Songailiene et al. Decision-Making in Cascade Complexes Harboring crRNAs of Altered Length. Cell Rep. 2019 Sep 17;28(12):3157-3166.e4.

Whinn et al. Nuclease dead Cas9 is a programmable roadblock for DNA replication. Sci Rep. 2019 Sep 16;9(1):13292.

Lin et al. Off-target toxicity is a common mechanism of action of cancer drugs undergoing clinical trials. Sci Transl Med. 2019 Sep 11;11(509). pii: eaaw8412.

Forsberg et al. Functional metagenomics-guided discovery of potent Cas9 inhibitors in the human microbiome. Elife. 2019 Sep 10;8. pii: e46540.

Chen et al. A biodegradable nanocapsule delivers a Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex for in vivo genome editing. Nat Nanotechnol. 2019 Sep 9.

Tycko et al. Mitigation of off-target toxicity in CRISPR-Cas9 screens for essential non-coding elements. Nat Commun. 2019 Sep 6;10(1):4063.

Tuladhar et al. CRISPR-Cas9-based mutagenesis frequently provokes on-target mRNA misregulation. Nat Commun. 2019 Sep 6;10(1):4056.

Gomez-Ospina et al. Human genome-edited hematopoietic stem cells phenotypically correct Mucopolysaccharidosis type I. Nat Commun. 2019 Sep 6;10(1):4045.

Grunewald et al. CRISPR DNA base editors with reduced RNA off-target and self-editing activities. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Sep;37(9):1041-1048.

Campa et al. Multiplexed genome engineering by Cas12a and CRISPR arrays encoded on single transcripts. Nat Methods. 2019 Sep;16(9):887-893.

Nihongaki et al. A split CRISPR-Cpf1 platform for inducible genome editing and gene activation. Nat Chem Biol. 2019 Sep;15(9):882-888.

Liu et al. Programmable RNA N6-methyladenosine editing by CRISPR-Cas9 conjugates. Nat Chem Biol. 2019 Sep;15(9):865-871.

Kweon et al. A CRISPR-based base-editing screen for the functional assessment of BRCA1 variants. Oncogene. 2019 Aug 29.

Fleiss et al. Reshuffling yeast chromosomes with CRISPR/Cas9. PLoS Genet. 2019 Aug 29;15(8):e1008332.

Sanson et al. Optimization of AsCas12a for combinatorial genetic screens in human cells. bioRxiv. Aug. 28, 2019.

Rasys et al. CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing in Lizards through Microinjection of Unfertilized Oocytes. Cell Rep. 2019 Aug 27;28(9):2288-2292.e3.

Liu et al. Engineered CRISPRa enables programmable eukaryote-like gene activation in bacteria. Nat Commun. 2019 Aug 26;10(1):3693.

Gurumurthy et al. Reproducibility of CRISPR-Cas9 methods for generation of conditional mouse alleles: a multi-center evaluation. Genome Biol. 2019 Aug 26;20(1):171.

English et al. Programmable CRISPR-responsive smart materials. Science. 2019 Aug 23;365(6455):780-785.

Norman et al. Exploring genetic interaction manifolds constructed from rich single-cell phenotypes. Science. 2019 Aug 23;365(6455):786-793.

Dong et al. Systematic Immunotherapy Target Discovery Using Genome-Scale In Vivo CRISPR Screens in CD8 T Cells. Cell. 2019 Aug 22;178(5):1189-1204.e23.

Yosef et al. A genetic system for biasing the sex ratio in mice. EMBO Rep. 2019 Aug;20(8):e48269.

Choi et al. Combinatorial mutagenesis en masse optimizes the genome editing activities of SpCas9. Nat Methods. 2019 Aug;16(8):722-730.

Keough et al. AlleleAnalyzer: a tool for personalized and allele-specific sgRNA design. Genome Biol. 2019 Aug 15;20(1):167.

Brown et al. CRISPR screens are feasible in TP53 wild‐type cells. Mol Syst Biol. 2019 Aug;15(8):e8679.

Josipovic et al. Antagonistic and synergistic epigenetic modulation using orthologous CRISPR/dCas9-based modular system. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Aug 14. pii: gkz709.

Bhatt et al. Targeted DNA transposition in vitro using a dCas9-transposase fusion protein. bioRxiv. April 12, 2019.

Lim et al. A conjugation platform for CRISPR-Cas9 allows efficient β-cell engineering. bioRxiv. August 12, 2019.

Lee et al. Cytosine but not adenine base editor generates mutations in mice. bioRxiv. August 12, 2019.

Knott et al. Structural basis for AcrVA4 inhibition of specific CRISPR-Cas12a. Elife. 2019 Aug 9;8. pii: e49110.

Ratner et al. Catalytically Active Cas9 Mediates Transcriptional Interference to Facilitate Bacterial Virulence. Mol Cell. 2019 Aug 8;75(3):498-510.e5.

Kim et al. CRISPR DNA elements controlling site-specific spacer integration and proper repeat length by a Type II CRISPR-Cas system. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Aug 8. pii: gkz677.

Sakata et al. A single CRISPR base editor to induce simultaneous C-to-T and A-to-G mutations. bioRxiv. August 8, 2019.

Riesenberg et al. Simultaneous precise editing of multiple genes in human cells. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Aug 8. pii: gkz669. d

Martens et al. Visualisation of dCas9 target search in vivo using an open-microscopy framework. Nat Commun. 2019 Aug 7;10(1):3552.

Liu et al. Establishment of knockout adult sea urchins by using a CRISPR-Cas9 system.  Dev Growth Differ. 2019 Aug;61(6):378-388.

Miller et al. Enhancing gene editing specificity by attenuating DNA cleavage kinetics. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Aug;37(8):945-952.

Garcia-Marques. Unlimited Genetic Switches for Cell-Type-Specific Manipulation. Neuron. 2019 Jul 31. pii: S0896-6273(19)30603-8.

Nambiar et al. Stimulation of CRISPR-mediated homology-directed repair by an engineered RAD18 variant. Nat Commun. 2019 Jul 30;10(1):3395.

Zuo et al. Structural and functional insights into the bona fide catalytic state of Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 HNH nuclease domain. Elife. 2019 Jul 30;8. pii: e46500.

Leenay et al. Large dataset enables prediction of repair after CRISPR-Cas9 editing in primary T cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Jul 29.

Jost et al. Titrating gene expression with series of systematically compromised CRISPR guide RNAs. bioRxiv. July 28, 2019.

Gyorgy et al. Allele-specific gene editing prevents deafness in a model of dominant progressive hearing loss. Nat Med. 2019 Jul;25(7):1123-1130.

Wang et al. The histone chaperone FACT induces Cas9 multi-turnover behavior and modifies genome manipulation in human cells. bioRxiv. July 23, 2019.

Andreazza et al. Mitochondrially-targeted APOBEC1 is a potent mtDNA mutator affecting mitochondrial function and organismal fitness in Drosophila. Nat Commun. 2019 Jul 23;10(1):3280.

Thuronyi et al. Continuous evolution of base editors with expanded target compatibility and improved activity. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Jul 22.

Liu et al. Pooled library screening with multiplexed Cpf1 library. Nat Commun. 2019 Jul 17;10(1):3144.

Qu et al. Programmable RNA editing by recruiting endogenous ADAR using engineered RNAs. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Jul 15.

Jones et al. Massively parallel kinetic profiling of natural and engineered CRISPR nucleases. bioRxiv. July 9, 2019.

Liao et al. Modular one-pot assembly of CRISPR arrays enables library generation and reveals factors influencing crRNA biogenesis. Nat Commun. 2019 Jul 3;10(1):2948.

Kim et al. An anionic human protein mediates cationic liposome delivery of genome editing proteins into mammalian cells. Nat Commun. 2019 Jul 2;10(1):2905.

Hew et al. RNA-guided piggyBac transposition in human cells. Synth Biol (Oxf). 2019;4(1):ysz018. Epub 2019 Jul 2.

Thavalingam et al. Inhibition of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex assembly by anti-CRISPR AcrIIC2. Nat Commun. 2019 Jun 26;10(1):2806.

Chen et al. CRISPR-READI: Efficient Generation of Knockin Mice by CRISPR RNP Electroporation and AAV Donor Infection. Cell Rep. 2019 Jun 25;27(13):3780-3789.e4.

DeWeirdt et al. Genetic screens in isogenic mammalian cell lines without single cell cloning. bioRxiv. June 23, 2019.

Roberts et al. Cas9+ conditionally-immortalized macrophages as a tool for bacterial pathogenesis and beyond. Elife. 2019 Jun 17;8. pii: e45957.

Lopez Del Amo et al. Small-molecule control of super-Mendelian inheritance in gene drives. bioRxiv. June 14, 2019.

Brunner et al. CRISPR-induced double-strand breaks trigger recombination between homologous chromosome arms. Life Sci Alliance. 2019 Jun 13;2(3). pii: e201800267.

Klompe et al. Transposon-encoded CRISPR–Cas systems direct RNA-guided DNA integration. Nature. 2019 Jun 12.

Phillip et al. Mos1 Element-Mediated CRISPR Integration of Transgenes in Caenorhabditis elegans. G3 (Bethesda). 2019 Jun 11.

Zhou et al. Off-target RNA mutation induced by DNA base editing and its elimination by mutagenesis. Nature. 2019 Jun 10.

Zhan et al. Multiplexed promoterless gene expression with CRISPReader. Genome Biol. 2019 Jun 3;20(1):113.

Park et al. Highly efficient editing of the β-globin gene in patient-derived hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to treat sickle cell disease. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 May 31.

Garcia-Marques et al. CLADES: a programmable sequence of reporters for lineage analysis. bioRxiv. May 30, 2019.

Shahbazi et al. Targeted homology-directed repair in blood stem and progenitor cells with CRISPR nanoformulations. Nat Mater. 2019 May 27.

Wesley et al. Expanding The CRISPR Toolbox With Mad7 In Zebrafish And Human Cells. bioRxiv. May 25, 2019.

Wierson et al. GeneWeld: a method for efficient targeted integration directed by short homology. bioRxiv. May 25, 2019.

Owens et al. Microhomologies are prevalent at Cas9-induced larger deletions. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 May 25.

Mann et al. The Gene Sculpt Suite: a set of tools for genome editing. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 May 25.

Li et al. Development of a Confinable Gene-Drive System in the Human Disease Vector, Aedes aegypti. bioRxiv. May 24, 2019.

Duan et al. Model-based understanding of single-cell CRISPR screening. Nat Commun. 2019 May 20;10(1):2233.

Huang et al. Circularly permuted and PAM-modified Cas9 variants broaden the targeting scope of base editors. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 May 20.

Rees et al. Development of hRad51-Cas9 nickase fusions that mediate HDR without double-stranded breaks. Nat Commun. 2019 May 17;10(1):2212.

Loveless, et al. Ordered insertional mutagenesis at a single genomic site enables lineage tracing and analog recording in mammalian cells. bioRxiv. May 16, 2019.

Chan, et al. Molecular recording of mammalian embryogenesis. Nature. 2019 May 13.

Kundert et al. Controlling CRISPR-Cas9 with ligand-activated and ligand-deactivated sgRNAs. Nat Commun. 2019 May 9;10(1):2127.

Garcia-Tunon et al. Splice donor site sgRNAs enhance CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout efficiency. PLoS One. 2019 May 9;14(5):e0216674.

Rees et al. Analysis and minimization of cellular RNA editing by DNA adenine base editors. Sci Adv, 5:5, eaax5717. 08 May 2019.

Oesinghaus et al. Switching the activity of Cas12a using guide RNA strand displacement circuits. Nat Commun. 2019 May 7;10(1):2092.

Shariati et al. Reversible Disruption of Specific Transcription Factor-DNA Interactions Using CRISPR/Cas9. Mol Cell. 2019 May 2;74(3):622-633.e4.

Manna et al. Fast and cloning-free CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genomic editing in mammalian cells. bioRxiv. Apr. 23, 2019.

Ferdosi et al. Multifunctional CRISPR-Cas9 with engineered immunosilenced human T cell epitopes. Nat Commun. 2019 Apr 23;10(1):1842.

Jeong et al. Beta-binomial modeling of CRISPR pooled screen data identifies target genes with greater sensitivity and fewer false negatives. Genome Res. 2019 Apr 23. pii: gr.245571.118.

Mimitou et al. Multiplexed detection of proteins, transcriptomes, clonotypes and CRISPR perturbations in single cells. Nat Methods. 2019 Apr 22.

He et al. Boosting activity of high-fidelity CRISPR/Cas9 variants using a tRNAGln-processing system in human cells. J Biol Chem. 2019 Apr 22. pii: jbc.RA119.007791.

Zuo et al. Cytosine base editor generates substantial off-target single-nucleotide variants in mouse embryos. Science. 2019 Apr 19;364(6437):289-292.

Jin et al. Cytosine, but not adenine, base editors induce genome-wide off-target mutations in rice. Science. 2019 Apr 19;364(6437):292-295.

Weinert et al. Unbiased detection of CRISPR off-targets in vivo using DISCOVER-Seq. Science. 2019 Apr 19;364(6437):286-289.

Kockak et al. Increasing the specificity of CRISPR systems with engineered RNA secondary structures. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Apr 15.

Zhang et al. Unified energetics analysis unravels SpCas9 cleavage activity for optimal gRNA design. PNAS 2019 Apr 15.

Gamboa et al. Heat-triggered remote control of CRISPR-dCas9 for tunable transcriptional modulation. bioRxiv. Apr. 12, 2019

Xu et al. Gene activation by a CRISPR-assisted trans enhancer. Elife. 2019 Apr 11;8. pii: e45973.

Behan et al. Prioritization of cancer therapeutic targets using CRISPR-Cas9 screens. Nature. 2019 Apr 10.

Chow et al. In vivo profiling of metastatic double knockouts through CRISPR-Cpf1 screens. Nat Methods. 2019 Apr 8.

Gisler et al. Multiplexed Cas9 targeting reveals genomic location effects and gRNA-based staggered breaks influencing mutation efficiency. Nat Commun. 2019 Apr 8;10(1):1598.

Dong et al. An anti-CRISPR protein disables type V Cas12a by acetylation. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2019 Apr;26(4):308-314.

Knott et al. Broad-spectrum enzymatic inhibition of CRISPR-Cas12a. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2019 Apr;26(4):315-321

Rose et al. Suppression of unwanted CRISPR/Cas9 editing by co-administration of catalytically inactivating truncated guide RNAs. bioRxiv. Apr. 3, 2019.

Almendros et al. Cas4-Cas1 fusions drive efficient PAM selection and control CRISPR adaptation. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Apr 2.

Knapp et al. Decoupling tRNA promoter and processing activities enables specific Pol-II Cas9 guide RNA expression. Nat Commun. 2019 Apr 2;10(1):1490.

Noble et al. Daisy-chain gene drives for the alteration of local populations. PNAS. 2019 Apr 2.

Harrison. Berkeley strikes back in CRISPR patent tussle. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Apr;37(4):338-339.

Champer et al. CRISPR Gene Drive Efficiency and Resistance Rate Is Highly Heritable with No Common Genetic Loci of Large Effect. Genetics. 2019 Mar 27. pii: genetics.302037.2019

Yin et al. Optimizing genome editing strategy by primer-extension-mediated sequencing. Cell Discov. 2019 Mar 26;5:18.

Slaymaker et al. High-Resolution Structure of Cas13b and Biochemical Characterization of RNA Targeting and Cleavage. Cell Rep. 2019 Mar 26;26(13):3741-3751.e5.

Toda et al. An efficient DNA- and selectable-marker-free genome-editing system using zygotes in rice. Nat Plants. 2019 Mar 25.

Liu et al. Enhanced Cas12a editing in mammalian cells and zebrafish. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Mar 20. pii: gkz184.

Sun et al. Development of drug-inducible CRISPR-Cas9 systems for large-scale functional screening. BMC Genomics. 2019 Mar 19;20(1):225.

Li et al. Precise gene replacement in rice by RNA transcript-templated homologous recombination. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Mar 18.

Hwang et al. Lineage tracing using a Cas9-deaminase barcoding system targeting endogenous L1 elements. Nat Commun. 2019 Mar 15;10(1):1234.

Bhattacharya et al. A simple genotyping method to detect small CRISPR-Cas9 induced indels by agarose gel electrophoresis. Sci Rep. 2019 Mar 14;9(1):4437.

Kelliher et al. One-step genome editing of elite crop germplasm during haploid induction. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Mar;37(3):287-292.

Labun et al. Accurate analysis of genuine CRISPR editing events with ampliCan. Genome Res. 2019 Mar 8. pii: gr.244293.118.

Cullot et al. CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing induces megabase-scale chromosomal truncations. Nat Commun. 2019 Mar 8;10(1):1136.

Wegner et al. Circular synthesized CRISPR/Cas gRNAs for functional interrogations in the coding and noncoding genome. Elife. 2019 Mar 6;8. pii: e42549.

Zhang et al. A gRNA-tRNA array for CRISPR-Cas9 based rapid multiplexed genome editing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nat Commun. 2019 Mar 5;10(1):1053.

Zhu et al. Diverse Mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas9 Inhibition by Type IIC Anti-CRISPR Proteins. Mol Cell. 2019 Mar 5. pii: S1097-2765(19)30058-9.

Kim et al. Genome-wide target specificity of CRISPR RNA-guided adenine base editors. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Mar 4. 

Fu et al. Target-dependent nickase activities of the CRISPR-Cas nucleases Cpf1 and Cas9. Nat Microbiol. 2019 Mar 4. 

Tsui et al. Systematic identification of regulators of antibody-drug conjugate toxicity using CRISPR-Cas9 screens. bioRxiv. Mar. 3, 2019.

Zuo et al. Cytosine base editor generates substantial off-target single-nucleotide variants in mouse embryos. Science. 2019 Feb 28. pii: eaav9973.

Jin et al. Cytosine, but not adenine, base editors induce genome-wide off-target mutations in rice. Science. 2019 Feb 28. pii: eaaw7166.

O’Brien et al. Unlocking HDR-mediated nucleotide editing by identifying high-efficiency target sites using machine learning. Sci Rep. 2019 Feb 26;9(1):2788.

Newton et al. DNA stretching induces Cas9 off-target activity. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2019 Feb 25.

Edracki et al. A Compact, High-Accuracy Cas9 with a Dinucleotide PAM for In Vivo Genome Editing. Mol Cell. 2019 Feb 21;73(4):714-726.e4.

Wright et al. A Functional Mini-Integrase in a Two-Protein-type V-C CRISPR System. Mol Cell. 2019 Feb 21;73(4):727-737.e3.  

Vicente et al. A CyclinB2-Cas9 fusion promotes the homology-directed repair of double-strand breaks. bioRxiv. Feb. 20, 2019.

Schmidt et al. Nucleic Acid Cleavage with a Hyperthermophilic Cas9 from an Unculturable Ignavibacterium. bioRxiv. Feb. 20, 2019.

Michaels et al. Precise tuning of gene expression levels in mammalian cells. Nat Commun. 2019 Feb 18;10(1):818.

Prowse et al. A Y-chromosome shredding gene drive for controlling pest vertebrate populations. Elife. 2019 Feb 15;8. pii: e41873.

Oberhofer et al. Cleave and Rescue, a novel selfish genetic element and general strategy for gene drive. PNAS. 2019 Feb 13. pii: 201816928.

Papikian et al. Site-specific manipulation of Arabidopsis loci using CRISPR-Cas9 SunTag systems. Nat Commun. 2019 Feb 13;10(1):729.

Teng et al. Enhanced mammalian genome editing by new Cas12a orthologs with optimized crRNA scaffolds. Genome Biol. 2019 Feb 5;20(1):15.

Goncalves et al. Structural rearrangements generate cell-specific, gene-independent CRISPR-Cas9 loss of fitness effects. Genome Biol. 2019 Feb 5;20(1):27.  

Liu et al. CasX enzymes comprise a distinct family of RNA-guided genome editors. Nature. 2019 Feb 4.

Ma et al. Engineer chimeric Cas9 to expand PAM recognition based on evolutionary information. Nat Comm. 2019 Feb 4;10(1):560.

Graf et al. sgRNA Sequence Motifs Blocking Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing. Cell Rep. 2019 Jan 29;26(5):1098-1103.e3.

Merkle et al. Precise RNA editing by recruiting endogenous ADARs with antisense oligonucleotides. Nat Biotech. 2019 Jan 28.