Engineering of CRISPR-Cas12b for human genome editing

Autor: Jonathan Strecker, Sara Jones, Balwina Koopal, Jonathan Schmid-Burgk, Bernd Zetsche, Linyi Gao, Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin, Feng Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08224-4
Popis: The Cas12b family of CRISPR nucleases has been underutilized in mammalian cells due to the high temperature requirement of known members. Here the authors engineer BhCas12b to overcome this limitation for robust and specific genome editing applications in human cells.
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