Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 24, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...which introduces functional Cas9 protein and the targeting guide RNA into cells by electroporation. Results...of the nuclease dissociates very slowly after introducing a cut, with residence times on DNA of approximately...free to anneal to complementary ssDNA molecules in vitro.
Figure 1: Cas9 binding to the cleaved DNA... if we could leverage this model (built from in vitro studies) to boost the efficiency of sequence replacement...enables sequence replacement without cutting
Our in vitro results also demonstrated that catalytically inactive...advantage but error-prone repair of the gene would be disastrous (i.e. if breaking the gene is worse than leaving...homology-directed human genome engineering by controlled timing of CRISPR/Cas9 delivery." Elife 3 (2015...