High-fidelity CRISPR/Cas9- based gene-specific hydroxymethylation rescues gene expression and attenuates renal fibrosis

Suppression of gene expression due to aberrant promoter methylation contributes to organ fibrosis. Here, the authors couple a deactivated Cas9 to the TET3 catalytic domain to induce expression of four antifibrotic genes, and show that lentiviral-mediated delivery is effective in reducing kidney fibr...

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Main Authors: Xingbo Xu, Xiaoying Tan, Björn Tampe, Tim Wilhelmi, Melanie S. Hulshoff, Shoji Saito, Tobias Moser, Raghu Kalluri, Gerd Hasenfuss, Elisabeth M. Zeisberg, Michael Zeisberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05766-5