Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR
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...nicking Cas9. A guide directs Cas9 to a site of interest, where it nicks its target DNA (left). Cas9 dissociates...error prone PolI3M that’s fused to a nicking Cas9 (nCas9). Similar to mutagenesis with error prone PCR... a user-defined genomic region. EvolvR, a CRISPR-Cas9 based targeted mutagenesis method developed by the...enhance nCas9 (enCas9) EvolvR with a targeted mutagenesis rate ~9-fold higher than the original nCas9, while...used to direct the PolI3M-nCas9 complex to a DNA site of interest, which nCas9 nicks and then dissociates...amino acid changes were introduced to nCas9. These changes promote nCas9’s dissociation from DNA after nicking...diversification by targeting a site of interest with dCas9 fused to the Activation Induced Cytidine Deaminase...