Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Precise allele-specific genome editing by spatiotemporal control of CRISPR-Cas9 via pronuclear transplantation

  • Yanhe Li,
  • Yuteng Weng,
  • Dandan Bai,
  • Yanping Jia,
  • Yingdong Liu,
  • Yalin Zhang,
  • Xiaochen Kou,
  • Yanhong Zhao,
  • Jingling Ruan,
  • Jiayu Chen,
  • Jiqing Yin,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Xiaoming Teng,
  • Zuolin Wang,
  • Wenqiang Liu,
  • Shaorong Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18391-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Injecting Cas9 and gRNA into an animal zygote often produces mosaicism and random biallelic targeting. Here, the authors use pronuclear transfer to reduce mosaicism and selectively target parental alleles.