Programmable Sequence-Specific Transcriptional Regulation of Mammalian Genome Using Designer TAL Effectors
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Zhang, Feng
Cong, Le
Lodato, Simona
Kosuri, Sriram
Church, George M.
Arlotta, Paola
Date Issued
January 2011
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Nature Biotechnology
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Nature Publishing Group
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Zhang, Feng et al. “Efficient Construction of Sequence-specific TAL Effectors for Modulating Mammalian Transcription.” Nature Biotechnology 29.2 (2011): 149–153. Web.
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Abstract
The ability to direct functional proteins to specific DNA sequences is a long-sought goal in the study and engineering of biological processes. Transcription activator–like effectors (TALEs) from Xanthomonas sp. are site-specific DNA-binding proteins that can be readily designed to target new sequences. Because TALEs contain a large number of repeat domains, it can be difficult to synthesize new variants. Here we describe a method that overcomes this problem. We leverage codon degeneracy and type IIs restriction enzymes to generate orthogonal ligation linkers between individual repeat monomers, thus allowing full-length, customized, repeat domains to be constructed by hierarchical ligation. We synthesized 17 TALEs that are customized to recognize specific DNA-binding sites, and demonstrate that they can specifically modulate transcription of endogenous genes (SOX2 and KLF4) in human cells.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1775
