Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025
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...fused to a shortened R2Tocc transposon protein, and can "retarget" the transposon to new loci in the genome...Image courtesy of IPI.
Repurposing retrotransposons for DNA editing
By Emily P. Bentley
For RNA-guided...beyond Cas9 with STITCHR: a combined CRISPR / retrotransposon system with the pithy name "site-specific target-primed...this tool based on several new site-specific retrotransposon elements they identified and characterized ...characterized (Fell et al., 2025).
In retrotransposon insertion, a combined endonuclease-reverse transcriptase uses...genome. The modified transposon RNA has untranslated regions (U, blue) on the outside of the homology arms...(teal). The Cas9 gRNA targeting guide and the transposon RNA homology both help direct the fusion construct...