Multiplexed pancreatic genome engineering and cancer induction by transfection-based CRISPR/Cas9 delivery in mice

CRISPR/Cas9 technology has been used for genome engineering in vivo. Here, the authors use a transfection technique to deliver multiple guide RNAs to the pancreas of adult mice, allowing genetic screening and chromosome engineering in pancreatic cancer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Roman Maresch, Sebastian Mueller, Christian Veltkamp, Rupert Öllinger, Mathias Friedrich, Irina Heid, Katja Steiger, Julia Weber, Thomas Engleitner, Maxim Barenboim, Sabine Klein, Sandra Louzada, Ruby Banerjee, Alexander Strong, Teresa Stauber, Nina Gross, Ulf Geumann, Sebastian Lange, Marc Ringelhan, Ignacio Varela, Kristian Unger, Fengtang Yang, Roland M. Schmid, George S. Vassiliou, Rickmer Braren, Günter Schneider, Mathias Heikenwalder, Allan Bradley, Dieter Saur, Roland Rad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10770