Prime editing with genuine Cas9 nickases minimizes unwanted indels

Autor: Jaesuk Lee, Kayeong Lim, Annie Kim, Young Geun Mok, Eugene Chung, Sung-Ik Cho, Ji Min Lee, Jin-Soo Kim
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37507-8
Popis: Cas9 nickases (nCas9s) produce nicks or single-strand breaks in the DNA. Here the authors analyse the on- and off-target nicks generated by these nickases, and show that nCas9 (H840A) but not nCas9 (D10A) can cleave both strands and produce unwanted DNA double-strand breaks.
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