Frankenstein Cas9: engineering improved gene editing systems.
CRISPR
designer Cas9
enzyme design
gene editing
protein engineering
synthetic biology
Journal
Biochemical Society transactions
ISSN: 1470-8752
Titre abrégé: Biochem Soc Trans
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7506897
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
31 10 2022
31 10 2022
Historique:
received:
20
09
2022
revised:
12
10
2022
accepted:
14
10
2022
pubmed:
29
10
2022
medline:
3
11
2022
entrez:
28
10
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 and its widespread use has revolutionised and propelled research in biological sciences. Although the ability to target Cas9's nuclease activity to specific sites via an easily designed guide RNA (gRNA) has made it an adaptable gene editing system, it has many characteristics that could be improved for use in biotechnology. Cas9 exhibits significant off-target activity and low on-target nuclease activity in certain contexts. Scientists have undertaken ambitious protein engineering campaigns to bypass these limitations, producing several promising variants of Cas9. Cas9 variants with improved and alternative activities provide exciting new tools to expand the scope and fidelity of future CRISPR applications.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36305591
pii: 231998
doi: 10.1042/BST20220873
doi:
Substances chimiques
RNA, Guide
0
Endonucleases
EC 3.1.-
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1505-1516Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society.