Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Conditional control of RNA-guided nucleic acid cleavage and gene editing

  • Shao-Ru Wang,
  • Ling-Yu Wu,
  • Hai-Yan Huang,
  • Wei Xiong,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Lai Wei,
  • Ping Yin,
  • Tian Tian,
  • Xiang Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13765-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Constituitively active CRISPR systems have the risk of adverse off-target effects. Here the authors use chemical masking and activation of gRNA to control activity.