megaTALs: a rare-cleaving nuclease architecture for therapeutic genome engineering
| Autor: | Jay Shendure, David Baker, Andrew Adey, Sandrine Boissel, Andrew M. Scharenberg, Jordan Jarjour, Alexander Astrakhan, Philippe Duchateau, Michael T. Certo, Agnès Gouble, Barry L. Stoddard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins
Computational biology Biology Genome Genome engineering 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Endonuclease Gene Knockout Techniques 0302 clinical medicine Genetics Humans DNA Cleavage Endodeoxyribonucleases Gene Cells Cultured 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences Nuclease Nucleic Acid Enzymes Genomics Protein Structure Tertiary DNA-Binding Proteins HEK293 Cells chemistry Meganuclease biology.protein Genetic Engineering 030217 neurology & neurosurgery DNA Genes T-Cell Receptor alpha |
| Zdroj: | Nucleic Acids Research |
| ISSN: | 1362-4962 |
| Popis: | Rare-cleaving endonucleases have emerged as important tools for making targeted genome modifications. While multiple platforms are now available to generate reagents for research applications, each existing platform has significant limitations in one or more of three key properties necessary for therapeutic application: efficiency of cleavage at the desired target site, specificity of cleavage (i.e. rate of cleavage at ‘off-target’ sites), and efficient/facile means for delivery to desired target cells. Here, we describe the development of a single-chain rare-cleaving nuclease architecture, which we designate ‘megaTAL’, in which the DNA binding region of a transcription activator-like (TAL) effector is used to ‘address’ a site-specific meganuclease adjacent to a single desired genomic target site. This architecture allows the generation of extremely active and hyper-specific compact nucleases that are compatible with all current viral and nonviral cell delivery methods. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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