Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Cas9 exo-endonuclease eliminates chromosomal translocations during genome editing

  • Jianhang Yin,
  • Rusen Lu,
  • Changchang Xin,
  • Yuhong Wang,
  • Xinyu Ling,
  • Dong Li,
  • Weiwei Zhang,
  • Mengzhu Liu,
  • Wutao Xie,
  • Lingyun Kong,
  • Wen Si,
  • Ping Wei,
  • Bingbing Xiao,
  • Hsiang-Ying Lee,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Jiazhi Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28900-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Chromosomal structural variations induced by CRISPR/Cas hinder its application in clinics. Here, the authors fuse Cas9 with optimized TREX2 to generate Cas9TX, which can prevent perfect repair and inhibit repeated cleavage.