Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
...deliver larger cargo such as base editors and prime editors. While using AAV to deliver large transgenes...Kenkel.
CRISPR genome editing has quickly become a popular system for in vitro and germline genome editing...in mammalian cells. SaCas9 produced indels at a similar efficiency to SpCas9, leading the group to focus... with split AAVs. In general split AAVs break a large transgene in two pieces and package each piece into...two proteins, mediates protein trans-splicing, similar to an intron in pre-mRNA splicing. In 2016, Fine...