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Controlling CRISPR-Cas9 with ligand-activated and ligand-deactivated sgRNAs
Kale Kundert, James E. Lucas, Kyle E. Watters…·Tanja Kortemme
Inserting theophylline aptamers into the sgRNA yields ligand-activated and ligand-deactivated guides that tune CRISPRi in E. coli over 11x to 13x dynamic ranges, enabling two-ligand multiplexing.