Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery
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Blog Post
Published
Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
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Fine EJ, Appleton CM, White DE, Brown MT, Deshmukh H, Kemp ML, Bao G (2015) Trans-spliced ...as potent and specific?
The two AAV strategies described above showed successful target modification, indicating...from Streptococcus thermophilus and a rationally-designed truncated Cas9. Unfortunately, certain drawbacks... approximately 1350 amino acids in size, which includes SpCas9, and shortern orthologs approximately 1000...Split inteins are a pair of naturally occuring polypeptides that, when at the ends of two proteins, mediates... proof-of-concept split intein SpCas9 which had modest editing rates in HEK-293T cells when compared to...capabilities of full-length SpCas9. This set of plasmids includes AAV-Cas9C-VPR for targeted gene activation. Split...