Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9
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Blog Post
...technology itself is constantly improving. Cas9 variants have been modified for genome editing, activating...specificity of the Cas9 nuclease with engineered variants: eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9.
The off-target...off-target effects” have included using a Cas9 nickase variant, lowering Cas9 expression, and truncating gRNA ...Berkeley recently added their own hyper accurate Cas9 variant (HypaCas9) to the pool of enhanced CRISPR tools...HypaCas9 (SpCas9 N692A/M694A/Q695A/H698A). This new variant displays comparable on-target activity and similar...