Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing
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Blog Post
...Postdoctoral Researcher in Jacob Corn’s lab.
CRISPR-Cas9 (Cas9) is an RNA-guided nuclease that targets and cuts...outcomes: Cas9 breaks repaired by the non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) pathway disrupt target gene sequences...replacement by HDR.
Understanding Cas9 biophysics enhances HDR
We first measured Cas9 dissociation rates and discovered...error-prone repair of the gene would be disastrous (i.e. if breaking the gene is worse than leaving the...(in our hands) this technique supports gene disruption or gene replacement frequencies that are an order...interaction with the Cas9-DNA duplex. Image from Richardson et al., 2016.
dCas9 enables sequence replacement...normally accompanies Cas9 cutting. We still don’t know the mechanism underlying dCas9 editing, but it could...