CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
...required, such as when a Cas9 fusion to a fluorescent protein is used to label nucleic acid targets. While...stability of the Cas9 protein in the host. Indeed, research has shown that a Cas9 protein from Geobacillus ...Cationic lipid-mediated delivery of proteins enables efficient protein-based genome editing in vitro and... to directly deliver a ribonucleoprotein (RNP), consisting of the Cas9 protein in complex with a targeting... cell via protein degradation pathways.
This makes Cas9 RNPs useful for CRISPR applications where limited... this method for in vivo applications. This technique utilizes Cas9 proteins harboring receptor ligands...delivery of, at minimum, two components: the Cas9 protein and a guide RNA (gRNA) targeting your genomic site...