A CRISPRi screen in E. coli reveals sequence-specific toxicity of dCas9

CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) is a method for targeted silencing of transcription that requires the coexpression of protein dCas9 and a customized guide RNA. Here, Cui et al. show that certain guide RNAs induce toxicity in E. coli, and provide design rules to minimize off-target effects.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lun Cui, Antoine Vigouroux, François Rousset, Hugo Varet, Varun Khanna, David Bikard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04209-5