Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Biased genome editing using the local accumulation of DSB repair molecules system

  • Shota Nakade,
  • Keiji Mochida,
  • Atsushi Kunii,
  • Kazuki Nakamae,
  • Tomomi Aida,
  • Kohichi Tanaka,
  • Naoaki Sakamoto,
  • Tetsushi Sakuma,
  • Takashi Yamamoto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05773-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Genome editing using CRISPR can be enhanced by manipulating DNA double-strand break repair pathways. Here the authors demonstrate LoAD, local accumulation of repair molecules, which shifts repair to microhomology-mediated end-joining.