1. Multiple sgRNAs with overlapping sequences enhance CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-in efficiency
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Da Eun Jang, Jae Young Lee, Jae Hoon Lee, Ok Jae Koo, Hee Sook Bae, Min Hee Jung, Ji Hyun Bae, Woo Sung Hwang, Yoo Jin Chang, Yoon Hoo Lee, Han Woong Lee, and Su Cheong Yeom
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Medicine ,Biochemistry ,QD415-436 - Abstract
Genome editing: Improving efficiency by improving DNA repair A method to improve the efficiency of repairing double-stranded DNA breaks facilitates the production of animals with edited genomes. The CRISPR/Cas9 system has been revolutionising biomedical research as it allows the insertion or deletion of any DNA sequence at specific sites by making double-strand DNA breaks. However, the insertion of precise genetic changes is limited by the relatively low efficiency of the repair mechanism, which requires a template DNA molecule to promote error-free repair of the DNA strands. A team of South Korean scientists led by Su Cheong Yeom at Seoul National University and Han Woong Lee at Yonsei University show that delivering multiple overlapping single-guide RNAs (that share at least five base pairs of the target sequence) as a DNA template significantly improves the repair and thus the production of mice with a targeted gene insertion.
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- 2018
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