Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering
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...contains the transposase gene (red) for expressing the transposase enzyme.2.) The transposase enzyme is ...Beauty transposase gains its name from the fact that it was recreated from a defective transposase found...plasmid is then degraded by the cell.4.) The transposase creates a double strand break in the DNA and ...system is comprised of 2 components: 1) an SB transposase, the enzyme required for catalysis of transposition...found in fish. This transposase has been discovered in the genomes of many different fish species in a variety...synthesized by fusing and modifying various extinct transposases. Improvements have been made since then by increasing...Their efforts resulted in a new and improved SB transposase, SB100X, that is approximately 100-fold more ...