Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System
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...comprise a DNA binding domain and an endonuclease domain. What’s distinctive is that the DNA-binding domain is...could potentially sequence a large number of individuals and find several mutations in the same gene or in... is modifiable and can be programmed to bind to essentially any DNA sequence desired. This technology ...prefabricated pieces that allow you to build a DNA-binding domain to recognize any desired 15 base pair sequence...electroporation. All you do to create a protein that binds those 15 base pairs is take four plasmids out of...about the history. How had investigators done this kind of work before?
Musunuru: In the "olden days," not...expertise to create zinc finger nucleases that will bind desired sequences. TALENs are much more reliable...