The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens
Type
Blog Post
Published
Feb. 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
...stably express Cas effectors in specific tissues, eliminating the need to deliver the Cas protein altogether...from the comfort of Cas9, and opt for a completely different Cas effector, like Cas12a (Cpf1). Even more...of genes with minimal effort. The versatility of Cas effectors allows for a wide variety of screens, including... to use variants of Cas9, like split Cas9, or a smaller Cas9 ortholog like SaCas9. You could even venture...experiments, particularly in vivo ones. In those cases, AAV vector screens may be AAVantageous!
In...advantage of AAV vectors is how the cargo — in this case, the CRISPR components — are expressed. Unlike lentivirus...at double-stranded break points caused by CRISPR-Cas9 editing. The good news is that this integration ...