Polar mutagenesis of bacterial transcriptional units using Cas12a
A. Graffeuil, B. E. Uhlin, D. A. Cisneros
The paper demonstrates that Cas12a can efficiently engineer polar mutations in the fim operon of E. coli, disrupting gene expression and showing potential for transcriptional shutdown in metabolic engineering.
bioRxiv · Feb 21, 2020 · PreprintMicrobiology