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2016-05-15 new articles we read this week

Zebrafish

  1. Sotolongo-Lopez M, Alvarez-Delfin K, Saade CJ, Vera DL, Fadool JM. Genetic Dissection of Dual Roles for the Transcription Factor six7 in Photoreceptor Development and Patterning in Zebrafish. PLoS Genet. 2016 Apr 8;12(4):e1005968. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005968. eCollection 2016 Apr. PubMed PMID: 27058886.

Genome editing

  1. Nelles DA, Fang MY, O’Connell MR, Xu JL, Markmiller SJ, Doudna JA, Yeo GW. Programmable RNA Tracking in Live Cells with CRISPR/Cas9. Cell. 2016 Mar 16. pii: S0092-8674(16)30204-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.02.054. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26997482.
  2. Anders C, Bargsten K, Jinek M. Structural Plasticity of PAM Recognition by Engineered Variants of the RNA-Guided Endonuclease Cas9. Mol Cell. 2016 Mar 17;61(6):895-902. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.02.020. PubMed PMID: 26990992.
  3. Hirano S, Nishimasu H, Ishitani R, Nureki O. Structural Basis for the Altered PAM Specificities of Engineered CRISPR-Cas9. Mol Cell. 2016 Mar 17;61(6):886-94. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.02.018. PubMed PMID: 26990991.
  4. Kamiyama D, Sekine S, Barsi-Rhyne B, Hu J, Chen B, Gilbert LA, Ishikawa H, Leonetti MD, Marshall WF, Weissman JS, Huang B. Versatile protein tagging in cells with split fluorescent protein. Nat Commun. 2016 Mar 18;7:11046. doi: 10.1038/ncomms11046. PubMed PMID: 26988139; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4802074.
  5. Horlbeck MA, Witkowsky LB, Guglielmi B, Replogle JM, Gilbert LA, Villalta JE, Torigoe SE, Tijan R, Weissman JS. Nucleosomes impede Cas9 access to DNA in vivo and in vitro. Elife. 2016 Mar 17;5. pii: e12677. doi: 10.7554/eLife.12677. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26987018.
  6. Kang X, He W, Huang Y, Yu Q, Chen Y, Gao X, Sun X, Fan Y. Introducing precise genetic modifications into human 3PN embryos by CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2016 Apr 6. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27052831.
  7. Gao F, Shen XZ, Jiang F, Wu Y, Han C. DNA-guided genome editing using the Natronobacterium gregoryi Argonaute. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 May 2. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3547. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27136078.

Genetics

  1. Chen R, Shi L, Hakenberg J, Naughton B, Sklar P, Zhang J, Zhou H, Tian L, Prakash O, Lemire M, Sleiman P, Cheng WY, Chen W, Shah H, Shen Y, Fromer M, Omberg L, Deardorff MA, Zackai E, Bobe JR, Levin E, Hudson TJ, Groop L, Wang J, Hakonarson H, Wojcicki A, Diaz GA, Edelmann L, Schadt EE, Friend SH. Analysis of 589,306 genomes identifies individuals resilient to severe Mendelian childhood diseases. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Apr 11. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3514. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27065010.