Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Correction of a Factor VIII genomic inversion with designer-recombinases

  • Felix Lansing,
  • Liliya Mukhametzyanova,
  • Teresa Rojo-Romanos,
  • Kentaro Iwasawa,
  • Masaki Kimura,
  • Maciej Paszkowski-Rogacz,
  • Janet Karpinski,
  • Tobias Grass,
  • Jan Sonntag,
  • Paul Martin Schneider,
  • Ceren Günes,
  • Jenna Hoersten,
  • Lukas Theo Schmitt,
  • Natalia Rodriguez-Muela,
  • Ralf Knöfler,
  • Takanori Takebe,
  • Frank Buchholz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28080-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Correction of disease-causing large genomic inversions remains challenging. Here, the authors developed a dual designer-recombinase system (RecF8) that efficiently corrects a 140 kb inversion frequently found in patients with severe Hemophilia A.