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Study of the interplay between CRISPR interference and DNA repair pathways towards the development of novel CRISPR tools
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| Coordinator |
INSTITUT PASTEUR
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| Coordinator Country | France [FR] |
| Total cost | 1˙499˙763 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙499˙763 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2015-STG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-03-01 to 2021-11-30 |
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| 1 | INSTITUT PASTEUR | FR (PARIS CEDEX 15) | coordinator | 1˙499˙763.00 |
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Project objective
CRISPR-Cas loci are the adaptive immune system of archaea and bacteria. They can capture pieces of invading DNA and use this information to degrade target DNA through the action of RNA-guided nucleases. The consequences of DNA cleavage by Cas nucleases, i.e. how breaks are processed and whether they can be repaired, remains to be investigated. A better understanding of the interplay between DNA repair and CRISPR-Cas is critical both to shed light on the evolution and biology of these fascinating systems and for the development of biotechnological tools based on Cas nucleases. CRISPR systems have indeed become a popular tool to edit Eukaryotic genomes. The strategies employed take advantage of different DNA repair pathways to introduce mutations upon DNA cleavage. In bacteria however, the introduction of breaks by Cas nucleases in the chromosome has been described to kill the cell. Preliminary data indicates that this might not always be the case and that some DNA repair pathways could compete with CRISPR immunity allowing cells to survive. Using a combination of bioinformatics and genetics approaches we will investigate the interplay between CRISPR and DNA repair in bacteria with a particular focus on the widely used CRISPR-Cas9 system. The knowledge gained from this study will then help us develop novel tools for bacterial genome engineering. In particular we will introduce a NHEJ pathway in E.coli making it possible to perform CRISPR knockout screens. Finally using CRISPR libraries and multiplexed targeting, we will generate for the first time all combinations of pair-wise gene knockouts in an organism, a task that for now remains elusive, even for large consortiums and with the use of automation. This will enable to decipher genome-scale genetic interaction networks, an important step for our understanding of bacteria as a system.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 |
David Bikard, Rodolphe Barrangou Using CRISPR-Cas systems as antimicrobials published pages: 155-160, ISSN: 1369-5274, DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2017.08.005 |
Current Opinion in Microbiology 37 | 2020-01-21 |
| 2018 |
François Rousset, Lun Cui, Elise Siouve, Christophe Becavin, Florence Depardieu, David Bikard Genome-wide CRISPR-dCas9 screens in E. coli identify essential genes and phage host factors published pages: e1007749, ISSN: 1553-7404, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007749 |
PLOS Genetics 14/11 | 2020-01-21 |
| 2018 |
Lun Cui, Antoine Vigouroux, François Rousset, Hugo Varet, Varun Khanna, David Bikard A CRISPRi screen in E. coli reveals sequence-specific toxicity of dCas9 published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04209-5 |
Nature Communications 9/1 | 2020-01-21 |
| 2017 |
Aude Bernheim, Alicia Calvo-Villamañán, Clovis Basier, Lun Cui, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Marie Touchon, David Bikard Inhibition of NHEJ repair by type II-A CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02350-1 |
Nature Communications 8/1 | 2020-01-21 |
| 2018 |
Antoine Vigouroux, Enno Oldewurtel, Lun Cui, David Bikard, Sven van Teeffelen Tuning dCas9\'s ability to block transcription enables robust, noiseless knockdown of bacterial genes published pages: e7899, ISSN: 1744-4292, DOI: 10.15252/msb.20177899 |
Molecular Systems Biology 14/3 | 2020-01-21 |
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