Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Orthogonal Cas9–Cas9 chimeras provide a versatile platform for genome editing

  • Mehmet Fatih Bolukbasi,
  • Pengpeng Liu,
  • Kevin Luk,
  • Samantha F. Kwok,
  • Ankit Gupta,
  • Nadia Amrani,
  • Erik J. Sontheimer,
  • Lihua Julie Zhu,
  • Scot A. Wolfe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07310-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Therapeutic genome engineering relies on the development of reliable, robust and versatile tools. Here the authors develop Cas9-Cas9 chimeras with high target site activity that generate predictable deletions.