Temperature-sensitive (TS) alleles create tunable thermoswitches to deplete essential cellular activities and are used to dissect gene function. In their recent study, Link and colleagues (Schramm et al 2023) use a CRISPR-based approach to systematically create TS alleles across essential genes in E. coli.
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