Engineering designer beta cells with a CRISPR-Cas9 conjugation platform

Autor: Donghyun Lim, Vedagopuram Sreekanth, Kurt J. Cox, Benjamin K. Law, Bridget K. Wagner, Jeffrey M. Karp, Amit Choudhary
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17725-0
Popis: Cas9 fusions partners are often limited to natural polypeptide chains at the Cas9 termni. Here the authors present a platform for site-specific and multiple-site conjugation to both termini and internal sites of Cas9, and they apply this platform to efficiently engineer insulin-producing β cells.
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