Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Inactivation of Pol θ and C-NHEJ eliminates off-target integration of exogenous DNA

  • Alex N. Zelensky,
  • Joost Schimmel,
  • Hanneke Kool,
  • Roland Kanaar,
  • Marcel Tijsterman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00124-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Random off-target integration events can impair precise gene targeting and poses a safety risk for gene therapy. Here the authors show that repression of polymerase θ and classical non-homologous recombination eliminates random integration.