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A Retroviral CRISPR-Cas9 System for Cellular Autism-Associated Phenotype Discovery in Developing Neurons.
Scientific reports - 10 May 2016
Williams Michael R, Fricano-Kugler Catherine J, Getz Stephanie A, Skelton Patrick D, Lee Jeonghoon, Rizzuto Christian P, Geller Joseph S, Li Meijie, Luikart Bryan W
Abstract excerpt
Retroviruses expressing a fluorescent protein, Cas9, and a small guide RNA are used to mimic nonsense PTEN mutations from autism patients in developing mouse neurons. We compare the cellular phenotype elicited by CRISPR-Cas9 to those elicited using shRNA or Cre/Lox technologies and find that knockdown or knockout (KO) produced a corresponding moderate or severe neuronal hypertrophy in all cells. In contrast, the...
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