Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

ssODN-mediated knock-in with CRISPR-Cas for large genomic regions in zygotes

  • Kazuto Yoshimi,
  • Yayoi Kunihiro,
  • Takehito Kaneko,
  • Hitoshi Nagahora,
  • Birger Voigt,
  • Tomoji Mashimo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10431
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful genome engineering tool but gene knock-in is limited by fragment size and efficiency of recombination. Here the authors used a modified strategy employing single-strand oligonucleotides to efficiently knock-in large DNA fragments and humanise native rat loci.