CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 16, 2015, 3:45 p.m.
...of interest, as it is prone to generating indel errors. Indel errors generated in the course of repair ...where mutations are introduced.
Repair of Cas9-induced breaks by NHEJ
As illustrated below, NHEJ-mediated...microhomologies”).
NHEJ doesn’t obligatorily introduce indels. Given the end structure of the Cas9 DSB (blunt... of accurate repair are easily re-cleaved while indel products aren’t, so repeated cycles will favor accumulation...constitutively expressing a targeted Cas9 should possess indels in the majority of their chromosomes within a day...