Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Diversifying the structure of zinc finger nucleases for high-precision genome editing

  • David E. Paschon,
  • Stephanie Lussier,
  • Tenzin Wangzor,
  • Danny F. Xia,
  • Patrick W. Li,
  • Sarah J. Hinkley,
  • Nicholas A. Scarlott,
  • Stephen C. Lam,
  • Adam J. Waite,
  • Lynn N. Truong,
  • Nimisha Gandhi,
  • Bhakti N. Kadam,
  • Deepak P. Patil,
  • David A. Shivak,
  • Gary K. Lee,
  • Michael C. Holmes,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Jeffrey C. Miller,
  • Edward J. Rebar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08867-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Genome editing often requires cleavage within a narrow sequence window. Here the authors develop an expanded set of zinc finger nuclease architectures that increase the available configurations by a factor of 64 and can target almost every base at loci of therapeutic significance.