Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 30, 2015, 2 p.m.
...interest (blue) in a plasmid backbone. A separate plasmid contains the transposase gene (red) for expressing....12137. PubMed.
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Kowarz Lab plasmids
Izsvak Lab plasmids
...expressing the transposase enzyme.2.) The transposase enzyme is expressed (red stars) and binds the inverted...). The original plasmid is empty following the removal of the transposon; the plasmid is then degraded...insertion site.
The Sleeping Beauty transposon system
The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system is one...translocate within the genome. The Sleeping Beauty transposase gains its name from the fact that it was ...was recreated from a defective transposase found in fish. This transposase has been discovered in the genomes...