Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Highly efficient genome editing by CRISPR-Cpf1 using CRISPR RNA with a uridinylate-rich 3′-overhang

  • Su Bin Moon,
  • Jeong Mi Lee,
  • Jeong Gu Kang,
  • Nan-Ee Lee,
  • Dae-In Ha,
  • Do Yon Kim,
  • Sun Hee Kim,
  • Kwangsun Yoo,
  • Daesik Kim,
  • Jeong-Heon Ko,
  • Yong-Sam Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06129-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Cpf1 is a promising alternative to Cas9 though indel generation efficiency is target dependent. Here the authors show that the addition of a polyU 3′ overhang can improve the efficiency of low efficiency guide RNAs.