A genome-wide analysis of Cas9 binding specificity using ChIP-seq and targeted sequence capture

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3389-3404

  O'Geen, Henriette ^a   Henry, Isabelle M ^b   Bhakta, Mital S ^a   Meckler, Joshua F ^a   Segal, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 9; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GUIDE RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TARGETED SEQUENCE CAPTURE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INDEL MUTATION; MICE; RNA, GUIDE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 84938836171     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv137     Document Type: Article

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