Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Suppression of unwanted CRISPR-Cas9 editing by co-administration of catalytically inactivating truncated guide RNAs

  • John C. Rose,
  • Nicholas A. Popp,
  • Christopher D. Richardson,
  • Jason J. Stephany,
  • Julie Mathieu,
  • Cindy T. Wei,
  • Jacob E. Corn,
  • Dustin J. Maly,
  • Douglas M. Fowler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16542-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Numerous strategies exist to limit the off-target activity of CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases. Here the authors co-administer truncated gRNAs that block both Cas9 and high-fidelity Cas9 variants from cleaving at off-target sites.