Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing
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...drive sequence replacement in cells. Targeting three dCas9 molecules to a precisely spaced region allowed...approach to improve the efficiency of sequence replacement by HDR.
Understanding Cas9 biophysics enhances...studies) to boost the efficiency of sequence replacement in vivo. We discovered that single stranded donor...Richardson et al., 2016.
dCas9 enables sequence replacement without cutting
Our in vitro results also demonstrated...allowed sequence replacement rates of approximately 1%. This is by no means a large number, but it was attained...to tackle genetic diseases in which sequence replacement holds some kind of fitness advantage but error-prone...this technique supports gene disruption or gene replacement frequencies that are an order of magnitude greater...