Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9
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Blog Post
Published
Dec. 16, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
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Because off-target sequences have less complementarity to the gRNA, they have a higher propensity ...SpCas9-HF1 generated fewer off-target cuts when compared to WT SpCas9 across a variety of genomic sites...M694A/Q695A/H698A). This new variant displays comparable on-target activity and similar or decreased off-target...off-target activity across the sites tested when compared to eSpCas9(1.1) and SpCas9-HF1.
The HypaCas9 plasmids... Hiroshi, et al. "Crystal structure of Cas9 in complex with guide RNA and target DNA." Cell 156.5 (2014...