Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Sleeping Beauty transposase structure allows rational design of hyperactive variants for genetic engineering

  • Franka Voigt,
  • Lisa Wiedemann,
  • Cecilia Zuliani,
  • Irma Querques,
  • Attila Sebe,
  • Lajos Mátés,
  • Zsuzsanna Izsvák,
  • Zoltán Ivics,
  • Orsolya Barabas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11126
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Sleeping Beauty is used as a genome engineering tool in a range of organisms. Here, the authors solve an atomic structure of Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposase and model the target DNA into the active site, elucidating details that may enable the rational design of novel transposases.