Nature Communications (May 2017)

Hit and go CAS9 delivered through a lentiviral based self-limiting circuit

  • Gianluca Petris,
  • Antonio Casini,
  • Claudia Montagna,
  • Francesca Lorenzin,
  • Davide Prandi,
  • Alessandro Romanel,
  • Jacopo Zasso,
  • Luciano Conti,
  • Francesca Demichelis,
  • Anna Cereseto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15334
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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While CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful technology, it’sin vivoapplication can be limited by unwanted off-target editing events. Here the authors present SLiCES, a self-limiting Cas9 circuit to enhance editing by preventing residual nuclease activity.