Nanoblades: Tiny CRISPR Ninjas for Genome Editing Difficult Cells
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 26, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
...delivery include plasmid transfection, RNP electroporation, and viral transduction; but these methods ...Gag protein fused to a Flag-tagged SpCas9 is incorporated into Nanoblades, just like the unmodified MLV...MLV Gag protein. After Gag-Cas9 is incorporated, the MLV protease, supplied as part of the MLV Gag-Pol...into Nanoblades by association with the the Cas9 portion of the Gag-Cas9 fusion protein. A single Nanoblade...gene, while editing was not detected in cells electroporated with RNPs using the same guide. Nanoblades ...influence the level of off-target effects, with electroporation of RNPs generally having lower off-target edits...