Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

CRISPR-Cas3 induces broad and unidirectional genome editing in human cells

  • Hiroyuki Morisaka,
  • Kazuto Yoshimi,
  • Yuya Okuzaki,
  • Peter Gee,
  • Yayoi Kunihiro,
  • Ekasit Sonpho,
  • Huaigeng Xu,
  • Noriko Sasakawa,
  • Yuki Naito,
  • Shinichiro Nakada,
  • Takashi Yamamoto,
  • Shigetoshi Sano,
  • Akitsu Hotta,
  • Junji Takeda,
  • Tomoji Mashimo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13226-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Class 1 CRISPR systems are not as developed for genome editing as Class 2 systems are. Here the authors show that Cas3 can be used to generate functional knockouts and knock-ins, as well as Cas3-mediated exon-skipping in DMD cells.