PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 31, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
...the genome. When using piggyBac™, the cargo is inserted into the genome fully intact, while, with a standard...excision-only piggyBac™ transposase (PBx), which contains mutations making it competent for excision, but...specific point mutations by gene editing. First, instead of using piggyBac™, you could use recombinase technology...been suggested to cause cytotoxicity [5]. Second, instead of using a donor-plasmid, you could use a single-stranded...for the isolation and sequencing of retroviral insertion sites.,” Nat. Protoc., vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 789–...