CRISPRing the Elephant in the Room.

Cell Host Microbe

Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, SE-901 87, Sweden. Electronic address:

Published: December 2018

The importance of guanylyl-cyclases (GCs) in apicomplexa has remained elusive due to the large size of the genes. Two recent studies, including Brown and Sibley, 2018 in this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, make elegant use of genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9 to characterize roles of GCs in Toxoplasma and Plasmodium.

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Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, SE-901 87, Sweden. Electronic address:

The importance of guanylyl-cyclases (GCs) in apicomplexa has remained elusive due to the large size of the genes. Two recent studies, including Brown and Sibley, 2018 in this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, make elegant use of genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9 to characterize roles of GCs in Toxoplasma and Plasmodium.

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