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Modulation of metabolic functions through Cas13d-mediated gene knockdown in liver

  • Bingbing He 1,3 ,
  • Wenbo Peng 2,3,5 ,
  • Jia Huang 1,3 ,
  • Hang Zhang 2 ,
  • Yingsi Zhou 1 ,
  • Xiali Yang 1 ,
  • Jing Liu 4 ,
  • Zhijie Li 2,3 ,
  • Chunlong Xu 1 ,
  • Mingxing Xue 1 ,
  • Hui Yang , 1 ,
  • Pengyu Huang , 2,5
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  • 1. Institute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Research Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
  • 2. School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
  • 3. College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4. Center for Animal Genomics, Agricultural Genome Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518124, China
  • 5. CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China

Published date: 15 Jul 2020

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Bingbing He , Wenbo Peng , Jia Huang , Hang Zhang , Yingsi Zhou , Xiali Yang , Jing Liu , Zhijie Li , Chunlong Xu , Mingxing Xue , Hui Yang , Pengyu Huang . Modulation of metabolic functions through Cas13d-mediated gene knockdown in liver[J]. Protein & Cell, 2020 , 11(7) : 518 -524 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-020-00700-2

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