Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering
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Blog Post
...system which has been designed to perform gene transfer in vertebrates. The system is comprised of 2 components...transposase has been discovered in the genomes of many different fish species in a variety of non-functional forms...the lab showed that efficiencies of stable gene transfer using SB100x were comparable to stable transduction... vectors were developed into 16 variants with different selection markers (blasticidin, neomycin, puromycin... each contain two SfiI restriction sites with different overhangs depending upon whether they are on the...only likely to grow in the coming decades.
References
1. Kowarz E, et al. Optimized Sleeping Beauty... Beauty transposase enables robust stable gene transfer in vertebrates. Nat Genet. 2009 Jun;41(6):753-...