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CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALTERING EXPRESSION OF GENE PRODUCTS

  • US 20140227787A1
  • Filed: 04/18/2014
  • Published: 08/14/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of directing sequence-specific binding to one or more polynucleotide loci comprising a target sequence in a eukaryotic cell by introducing into the cell an engineered, non-naturally occurring Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR associated (Cas) system comprising one or more vectors comprising:

  • a) a first regulatory element operable in a eukaryotic cell operably linked to at least one nucleotide sequence encoding a CRISPR-Cas system guide RNA that hybridizes with the target sequence, andb) a second regulatory element operable in a eukaryotic cell operably linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a Type-II Cas9 protein,wherein components (a) and (b) are located on same or different vectors of the system,wherein the Cas9 protein is a mutated Cas9 protein substantially lacking all DNA cleavage activity,whereby the guide RNA targets and hybridizes with the target sequence and the CRISPR-Cas system specifically binds to the polynucleotide loci; and

    , wherein the Cas9 protein and the guide RNA do not naturally occur together.

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