Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR
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...projects. Most researchers instead turn to so-called “mismatch nuclease” assays (e.g. Surveyor® or T7E1) for ...technology. Digital PCR has several advantages over mismatch nuclease assays that will be elaborated below....several major advantages over the commonly employed mismatch nuclease assays.
Sensitivity: Less than 20 ng...plate without prior quantification. Comparatively, mismatch assays require between 200 and 500 ng of purified...about 5% mutant targets have been reported for mismatch nuclease assays (2, 6, 7).
Ability to distinguish...complete functional knockout of your target gene. Mismatch nuclease assays are completely “blind” to this.... & Pollet, N. Comparison of T7E1 and surveyor mismatch cleavage assays to detect mutations triggered ...